1. By Jessica Francis

2. I dedicate this to my Sister.
 I have decided to dedicate these poems to her. She is always there for me through everything. I
figured I would do something nice for her, and help her to stop and appreciate nature even more than
she already does. I hope this will help her to just stop and take a look around her, as well as to calm
down more and just relax. I want this to help tell her to live in the moment, and to just take things
one day at a time, as well as to take a chance and do things before it’s too late.

3. Poem Explication Number 1
When Stretch'd on One's Bed by Jane Austen
 This poem was written by Jane Austen. She is known for poems and books, as well as recognized by movies that
were made from her books. This poem has a total of 30 lines, with a rhyme scheme. For each stanza of the poem it goes
aabccb. For the first stanza it is aabccb, the next stanza would be ddfggf and so on down the line.
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 This poem talks about how, when you are sick at home and in bed, nothing else matters to you. Nothing else is
on your mind except for whatever is giving you trouble. You only think about your sickness or illness. When you are
sick and unable to go out and party or do things like that, you don't care if your friends do, you just care that you're sick
and can't do it. She is relating to anyone who is sick, and seeing through their eyes the feeling of not caring about
anything but your sickness. We need to appreciate everything that we have, and just live day by day because we never
know when we’re going to get sick with any kind of illness, whether it is a headache or a life threatening one. I feel that
this poem is saying just that.
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 Jane tells us that when you’re sick, that’s all you’re aware of, that’s all you know of. That tells me that we need
to do all we can to stay healthy, and to get things accomplished before we get sick and are unable to do anything, and
before we stop caring about doing things. You need to cherish your good health while you have it. Once it's gone all you
will think about is just that. You will lie in your bed and just think about your problem. That's pretty much the
summary of this free verse poem. Nothing affects us more than our own sickness.
 Title: When Stretch'd on One's Bed
 Dramatic Situation: Speaker Jane Austen, Addressee Everyone, Occasion having a headache
 Subject: Nothing matters compared to a sickness, or headache.
 Images, Figures of Speech, Literary Devices: (Provide at least 6 examples)
 Tone: Truthful, and in pain, serious.
 Structure: Free verse
 Rhyme Scheme: The first two lines rhyme, the third line rhymes with the sixth, and the forth and fifth lines rhyme
with each other.
 Title Symbolism: The title symbolizes someone being sick and in bed.
 Theme: The theme is that someone is home sick with a headache and nothing else matters to them but that.
 Diction: Older

4.  When stretch'd on one's bed
 With a fierce-throbbing head,
 Which preculdes alike thought or repose,
 How little one cares
 For the grandest affairs
 That may busy the world as it goes!
How little one feels
 For the waltzes and reels
 Of our Dance-loving friends at a Ball!
 How slight one's concern
 To conjecture or learn
 What their flounces or hearts may befall.
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How little one minds
 If a company dines
 On the best that the Season affords!
 How short is one's muse
 O'er the Sauces and Stews,
 Or the Guests, be they Beggars or Lords.
 How little the Bells,
 Ring they Peels, toll they Knells,
 Can attract our attention or Ears!
 The Bride may be married,
 The Corse may be carried
 And touch nor our hopes nor our fears.
Our own bodily pains
 Ev'ry faculty chains;
 We can feel on no subject besides.
 Tis in health and in ease
 We the power must seize
 For our friends and our souls to provide.
 ("http://www.poemhunter.com/")

5. Poem Explication Number 2
Summer by Johannes Carl Andersen
 Title: Summer by Johannes Carl Andersen
 Dramatic Situation: Speaker, Addressee, Occasion: Johannes, Everyone, Talking about summer time
 Subject: Things found in the Summer time.
 Images, Figures of Speech, Literary Devices: Flowers, sleeps they heart , scent of flowers, flower awakes, flowers fall,
fruits ripen, corn being sheafed, November morn wakening, grey hawthorn.
 Tone: Affectionate
 Structure: Question
 Rhyme Scheme: abab
 Title Symbolism: Summer
 Theme: Summertime
 Diction: Descriptive, calm.
 Johannes Carl Andersen was born in 1873 and passed away in 1962. This poem describes to us the sweet
summertime that we all love and wait for. He describes main things that are seen in the summer, such as flowers and
the ripening of fruit. He also speaks about the return of winter, that some of us don't like to think about during the
summertime. The theme of this poem is the summer.
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 This poem structure of the poem I would say is questioning since it asks two questions in the very beginning. It
is either question or free verse I would say. He speaks about how flowers smell beautiful and are beautiful, but then
they freeze when it gets cold. He says about how spring time passes over us with chillness, which is like saying its cold
in the spring. When he says about the tree being leafed, I think that means that the leaves of the trees fall to the
ground. We can all remember times when we’ve seen leaves fall to the ground or change color, or harvest fruit. This
poem is helping us to take a moment and look, or remember just how beautiful nature is.
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 This is a pretty calm poem talking about the summer time, while also mentioning things of other seasons. He
speaks of springtime as well as winter in this poem, but is mainly settled on the summer time. He's trying to show
people how beautiful and wonderful summer time really is. His tone in the poem is affectionate, showing how much he
adores the summer time. I think this poem summarizes how school kids feel about the summer because it's a time to
be free and to enjoy life, and that's how this poem describes it as. I think the idea of summer time is what a lot of
people look forward to, and so does the author of this poem.

6. ("http://www.poemhunter.com/")
 AND sleeps thy heart when flower and tree
 Adorn the summer stillness?
 And did young Spring pass over thee
 In chillness?
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 Their scent delights and pleases, 5
 On petalled breezes blown,
 But in their beauty freezes
 Thine own.
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The flower awakes, the tree is leafed,
 Yet love in thee is dumb,— 10
 Flowers fall, fruits ripen, corn is sheafed,
 Ho! Winter’s cold will come.
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 When wakens some November morn
 Dew-soft, around thee brightly,
 And blossoms on the grey hawthorn 15
 Lie whitely,
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 Come thou, thy bosom beating,
 And learn, through new-found bliss,
 No time so joyous, fleeting,
 As this. 20
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Come thou, with shadows in thine eyes,
 And singing in thy heart,
 And learn, ’mid trees, with flowers and skies,
 How young and dear thou art.

7. Poem Explication Number 3
For a Girl in a Book by Ben Jonson
 Ben Jonson, author, he was alive from June 11th 1572 to August 6th 1637.
 1. Title: For a Girl in a Book
 2. Dramatic Situation: Ben Jonson, Kim, Telling her how he feels about her.
 3. Subject: The subject is Kim, and his feelings toward her.
 4. Images, Figures of Speech, Literary Devices: (Provide at least 6 examples)
 5. Tone: The tone is romantic, or loving.
 6. Structure: Free verse
 7. Rhyme Scheme: This poem doesn't seem to rhyme.
 8. Title Symbolism: The symbolism about this title is that it's written for some girl out of a book that Ben has read.
 9. Theme: The theme of this book is about Ben's passion for a girl.
 10. Diction: Romantic
 This poem was written by Ben Jonson. He was born on June 11th, 1572, and died on August 6th, 1637. The
title of the poem is For a Girl in a Book. This book is about the feelings Ben has towards a girl named Kim from a book.
This poem is showing us that at one time Ben read a book where he felt so into the book, that he developed feelings
towards one of the characters.
 When he says in the poem that she won't be unfaithful, he means that since she's from a book, she can't
possibly be unfaithful because she's not real. This poem was written for Kim, as well as anyone who could relate to what
Ben is talking about. This poem is a free verse because it doesn't rhyme at all. The whole occasion of this poem is for
Ben to let out his feelings towards Kim. When he says that "less real than most, more real than all" he's saying that
she's not as real as everyone else, because she's a character in a book, and yet she's more real than others in the way that
she acts and just is. This poem helps us to realize that it’s okay to be lost in a fantasy world, as long as we know it’s fake.
It’s okay to just relax and let ourselves be taken away into another world, for a little bit.
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 This poem shows us that it's okay to love, even if it's a character in a book. It shows us that it's okay to like a
book so much that you get drawn into the book itself. This poem lets us see the feelings of Ben. He lets us into his heart
and shows us what Kim is to him. When we read this poem, we realize that it describes the people who we love as well.

8.  Kim, composite of all my loves,
less real than most, more real than all;
of my making, all the good and
some of the bad, yet of yourself;
sole, unique, strong, alone,
whole, independent, one: yet mine
in that you cannot be unfaithful.
 ("http://www.poemhunter.com/")

9. Poem Explication Number 4
The Grass so little has to do – by Emily Dickinson
 This explication is on the poem The Grass so little has to do -- by Emily
Dickinson. The first volume of her poems were published in 1890. This poem speaks
about grass and what it does daily, and how it reacts to things like the wind. This poem
speaks out to anyone who enjoys nature, and sees it the way that Emily saw it. The main
subject of this poem is about grass. It seems to me that this is a pleasant poem.
 One that's full of peacefulness and dreaming of the grass. The poem really flows
along, and is nicely put together. The pauses are just right and the words go nicely with
each other. It paints a pretty picture in your mind, and you can imagine all of these
different occasions. The rhyme scheme is hard to pinpoint because some words rhyme
together, while some words don't, but some sound alike but don't totally rhyme.
 This poem creates images in your head of grass blowing in the wind, butterflies
around and on the grass, as well as the picture of how dew looks on grass in the
mornings. In this poem it appears that every other beat is stressed. In some of the lines
though, there seems to be a missing beat, but that was put there for a reason. It's how
Emily wanted it to sound, to make readers pay attention. The title of this poem just tells
us that the poem is about grass.
 It tells us that the grass is all around us, but it hardly does anything at all. We
never see it get up and walk around, or move from where it's originally at. All we see grass
do is sway with the find, be a sort of house for dew, and play with butterflies, bugs, and
bees. This poem teaches us to appreciate life, and the beauty of the world around us, and
nature itself. This is my findings and explication of The Grass so little has to do -- by
Emily Dickinson.

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 The Grass so little has to do –
 A Sphere of simple Green –
 With only Butterflies to brood
 And Bees to entertain –
 And stir all day to pretty Tunes
 The Breezes fetch along –
 And hold the Sunshine in its lap
 And bow to everything –
 And thread the Dews, all night, like Pearls –
 And make itself so fine
 A Duchess were too common
 For such a noticing –
 And even when it dies – to pass
 In Odors so divine –
 Like Lowly spices, lain to sleep –
 Or Spikenards, perishing –
 And then, in Sovereign Barns to dwell –
 And dream the Days away,
 The Grass so little has to do
 I wish I were a Hay –

11. Poem Explication Number 5
The Plain by Jean Arp
 Title: The Plain
 Dramatic Situation: Speaker Jean Arp , Addressee Anyone, Occasion Looking back on a day.
 Subject: Him, his chair, the plain.
 Images, Figures of Speech, Literary Devices: Empty horizon, flawlessly paved, forever blue, projected, abstruse
ghost, inscrutable, insensible light. (Provide at least 6 examples)
 Tone: Calm, looking back, lost.
 Structure: Free verse
 Rhyme Scheme: This poem doesn't really rhyme.
 Title Symbolism: The Plain meaning the land that he's on with his chair all alone.
 Theme: Being alone with a chair.
 Diction: Calm, original.
 This poem was written by Jean Arp. He was born on September 16th of 1886 and died June 7th
of 1966. This poem seems as if the speaker, Jean Arp, is looking back on a time when he was alone, or
remembering a dream that he had. In this poem he talks about being alone on a plain with only a
chair. This poem has no rhyming, and is a free verse.
 The subject of this poem is basically him and his chair. This poem creates a lot of pictures or
images in your mind. When he talks about how there an empty horizon and the sky is being forever
blue, you can easily imagine that in your head. This poem definitely seems like the writer is talking
about a time that he was alone. Maybe about some dream or fear that he has that time will stop and
he will be left alone with just a chair in a big open space, with no sun in the sky. This poem sort of tells
us that sometimes we feel all alone, like it’s just us and the world and it will never end, but then it
finally does. Sometimes it feels like the world is just completely messed up, but then we wake up and
realize that it’s over. To me this poem seems as if it’s a bad dream that’s happening to the author.
 I like how there is no sun in the sky, but there's still light from something. The plain goes on
forever and is lit up by some kind of insensible light in this poem. So the plain goes on as far as the eye
can see. It's not bad enough that he is alone with only a chair, but there's no sun, and the plain goes
on forever. This is my explication of this poem that looks back or forward to a day that I hope never
happens.

12.  I was alone with a chair on a plain
 Which lost itself in an empty horizon.
 The plain was flawlessly paved.
 Nothing, absolutely nothing but the chair and I
 were there.
 The sky was forever blue,
 No sun gave life to it.
 An inscrutable, insensible light
 illuminated the infinite plain.
 To me this eternal day seemed to be projected --
 artificially-- from a different sphere.
 I was never sleepy nor hungry nor thirsty,
 never hot nor cold.
 Time was only an abstruse ghost
 since nothing happened or changed.
 In me Time still lived a little
 This, mainly, thanks to the chair.
 Because of my occupation with it
 I did not completely
 lose my sense of the past.
 Now and then I'd hitch myself, as if I were a horse, to the chair
 and trot around with it,
 sometimes in circles,
 and sometimes straight ahead.
 I assume that I succeeded.
 Whether I really succeeded I do not know
 Since there was nothing in space
 By which I could have checked my movements.
 As I sat on the chair I pondered sadly, but not desperately,
 Why the core of the world exuded such black light.
 ("http://www.poemhunter.com/")

13. My Five Poems
all by Jessica Francis
 Poem One
Open air, open water
 waiting on the day's demise
 will it be today-tomorrow
 take a look unto the sky's
 open up your mind to wonder
 reach up with your arms outstretched
 put a smile upon your face
 let the world, take its toll,
 upon your soul.
 Poem Two
 My church is a temple,
 a steeple,
 a pew,
 But what it doesn't have,
 inside it,
 is you,
 It's open on Sundays
 just come and,
 begin.
 Just take the first step and,
 enter in.

14.  Poem Three
 Through wind and rain
 the sky's still blue
 No matter what
 it shines for you
 It's always there
 to see you through
 And in the end
 it wont say adieu

15.  Poem Four
 A drive in the car.
 A drive in the car
 is both fun and enjoyable
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 It sooths the soul
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 It creates a sense of peace within
 Creates an appreciation of life
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 It fills us with wonder
 Fills us with hope
 of more days like this to come.

16.  Poem Five
 Music
 It hits like a big round rock
 we love it day and night
 without it we are lost alone
 we fade away to grey
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 we come alive when we hear the sound
 we move and sing and shout
 without it there would be no life
 no rhythm of the soul
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 it brings us to our happy place
 it makes us feel all right
 we wouldn't be the same without it
 the music of our lives.

17. Poem Essay
by Jessica Francis
I picked these poems because I like them the most out of the
poems that I created. I am a big fan of nature, and about relaxing and
enjoying the earth and world surrounding you, as well as things that
make this world great. Some of the poems rhyme while some of them
just don't. They are all about different things. Some things we all go
through, while some are just random things that came to my mind.
The first poem is basically about life in general. Everyday there's
water and air, and everyday the day has to end. Its also about being free
and just taking a moment to enjoy your surroundings, opening up your
arms and being free. Poem two is about my church, and that anyone is
welcome, all they have to do is take that first big step and walk in the
door. Poem three is about how the sky will always be there and will
never leave, so take a moment to enjoy it and appreciate it.
Poem four is about how fun and enjoyable it is sometimes to just
take a drive in your car and enjoy the world, to just relax and drive.
Poem five is about how music is the rhythm of this world, and how
without it, things wouldn't be the same. How music is what helps to fill
us with happiness and life itself. Without music things would definitely
not be the same. I picked these poems because they all tell a different
story, and all are different in their own ways and I personally liked
them the most.

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 This is the end to my Poetry Dedication Project. The poems that I wrote, and the
poems that I picked to do an explication of are slightly random, but also go towards my
main thoughts. I want to influence people to take life one day at a time, and to appreciate
the world around them. I want them to appreciate their ability to do everything that they
can, and to be thankful for it as well. I hope this helps people to try and calm down more,
to be less stressed, and to just take a walk or a drive around, and just see all that the world
has to offer everyone of us.