Germany Poem Analysis

My personal Germany poem incorporates a lot of ideas that we have learned in class. When analyzing it, we can clearly see that the text is about Germany's pros and con's. It talks about its size, technological advancements, taxation ideas, army, wealth status and its impacts on the citizens, and its geographical features. The 'voice' heard in this text is a narrators voice. The Poem is structured in a famous way, it’s a 'villanelle'. It could be spread into sections, basically each stanza is a topic for itself, and the last stanza sums it all up and reviews the pervious context. In addition, most of the lines have a direct connection to another line in the poem, so a diversity of lines could be plugged together and divided up into groups, ex. ‘It's as big as Shaquille O'Neill’, and ‘it doesn’t have a prominent basketball Hooper’. The main idea embedded below the surface of the text is to persuade. It may seem as a descriptive poem in the beginning but actually it is very persuasive and should convince the reader of Germany's greatness. I would describe the writers 'tone of voice' as pretty persuasive and patriotic. It evokes feeling of Germany being an absolutely great country but in an un-obvious way; it also includes not so great things, but the reader still keeps Germany in mind as a great country. He doesn’t think, oh what a biased and patriotic poem, he thinks: "what a nice analysis of Germany". The overall setting and description of the place creates this effect. A lot of imagery is presented in this poem. Starting in the first line a simile is used: 'Germany is as famous as the computer", draws the conclusion that the country Germany is extremely famous and nearly everyone in the world knows it just like the computer; it is a simile because it uses the work "as" to compare two things. The next line talks about it being as big as the famous basketball player Shaquille O'Neill in a simile again. Throughout the whole poem, the similes continue like this from line to line. They make the poem sound very much like a compare and contrast essay, which gives the reader a feeling of what Germany is like in all possible ways: size, geography, economy, etc. This poem could be given to a person that has never seen Germany before, and he would a pretty good sense of what it is like. It is a very descriptive poem; there are no lines that are only there to make the poem rhyme; every line is there for a meaning. The two lines: "Germany is as famous as the computer", and "It charges as many taxes as a stupor" recur all the time. The repeated lines stay in the head of the reader because they are heard over and over again. There are no words which seem unexpected or out of place because I didn’t think it would match the topic nor the theme of the poem. The poem follows a very precise rhyme scheme. It is a poem of nineteen lines. It has five stanzas, each three lines, with a final one of four lines. The first line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas. These two refrain lines follow each other to become the second-to-last and last lines of the poem. The rhyme scheme is ava. The rhymes are repeated according to the refrains. In addition, my lines have a variation in length and flow. It changes depending on what I am saying in a line or even stanza. Overall though, the poem flows very well. The effects of other sound effects or aural images through the use of devices like alliteration are betraying. The reader completely falls for the poem and has no chance to resist, if it is made in a very good way. The entire poem works very well. The reader gets influenced to think that Germany is the greatest country in the world, without him/her even recognizing. It rhymes very well, and seems harmonic. The images presented can be visualized very nicely so the reader gets a good feel of the country. It offers a way of making something positive, including negative things. I think it is very hard to make a poem persuasive, without making it very obvious; probably the only way to do this is my also mentioning negative things, but not too negative because else they overweigh the positive.

Germany Poem

Germany is as famous as the computer,

It's as big as Shaquille O'Neill,

It charges as many taxes as a stupor.

Its army consists of a famous state trooper,

Every citizen has this certain fashion feel,

Germany is as famous as the computer.

Not everyone in the country is super,

But still, no one is scared of not receiving a meal,

It charges as many taxes as a stupor.

In the water surrounding Germany the most famous fish is the grouper,

Because the ocean is close bye, the boats need a Kiel,

Germany is as famous as the computer.

It's been visited by people such as Marissa Cooper,

No one has eyes that Scheele,

It charges as many taxes as a stupor.

It doesn’t have a prominent basketball Hooper,

Still, no one in the nation has to squeal,

Germany is as famous as the computer,

It charges as many taxes as a stupor.

Pastoral by William Carlos Williams

When I was younger
it was plain to me
I must make something of myself.
Older now
I walk back streets
admiring the houses
of the very poor:
roof out of line with sides
the yards cluttered
with old chicken wire, ashes,
furniture gone wrong;
the fences and outhouses
built of barrel staves
and parts of boxes, all,
if I am fortunate,
smeared a bluish green
that properly weathered
pleases me best of all colors.
No one
will believe this
of vast import to the nation.


This poem deals with the authors life, and what he loves about his surrounding world. Things that people don’t care about, are very important to him. The life in the country-like neighborhood is what he really likes. He uses high quality words, which the reader appreciates because they deliver a real deep sense of what he is trying to say and how. Every simple, as well as detailed word, really helped to understand the context and message William Carlos Williams is trying to bring across. His life is different to those, of the vast majority of the population. I think that this really grabs the readers mind and reminds him/her to think about what really is important to them. Is it the prestige of driving a big car, wearing a big watch, or wearing a brand shirt? Or is it the environment which really makes us comfortable and we love to be in? Everyone should ask himself these questions at least once in a while. It really makes us realize what is important, and what isn't. No matter what it is, that is important to an individual, he should always think about it when complaining about anything; we have more privileges than we realize in the first second.

Funeral Blues

This poem is dealing with death once again. This time though, it deals with a couple and one of them has died. It is said that everyone else should show respect and sympathy towards this. It is very straight forward, and easy to understand. There are no phrases or words which could confuse a 10th grade student reader, and none of them are more important than the others. The lines in each stanza emphasize a topic by giving examples of what should happen because of the death. I think that it is really sad how life can end, and how thankful we should be for every day. We shouldn’t just take it as granted, we should appreciate and respect the opportunities we are offered. The days we are healthy and happy, count so much, and we should regard each and every one as being special.

Totally like whatever, you know?

I think that this is very ironic. He says that he doesn’t like all of these things, but actually speaks like it. I was wondering why someone would actually to this. There were no words or phrases which confused me in any form. The words which got repeated over and over again such as like, and the ?'s really helped to understand the text and the meaning of it. Those words also have very big importance which s shown by them being repeated over and over again. Those are important to show how useless and weird the modern slang is. The second time I read the poem, I realized that it really emphasizes the point it is trying to make. No areas were left, which confused me. This poem evokes the feeling that I really have to watch out how I speak and when I speak what. I think that this is exactly what the poem wants us to do.

Do Not Go Gentile Into That Good Night

I personally like this poem. In the beginning, I thought this poem was very confusing, but the third time I read it, I realized what it really was about and I could draw conclusions from it. It lets the reader interpret a lot if different things into the words presented. In my case, I think that this poem is about a son and father, where the father is dying and the son has to say good bye. He wants to keep him alive, and tries to convince him to survive. This is a very sad situation; the more I think about it, the more felling of frustration for the son get evoked in me. Every sentence in this poem really has a meaning, either to emphasize on something, or to inform the reader on what's happening. This poem is really worthwhile reading because it displays a tragic situation of life, which most of us will most probably have to realize once.