ACTIVITY 2

 Activity 2 

“Not all Poems Sing”

By: Merlie Alunan

In the poem “Not all Poems Sing” author mentioned and compared many things just to express or tells what she wants us to gets and understand. In the poem she mentioned about the flowers, stone,sand,birds etc. In my own understanding all she wanted for us to understand the value of our life and love that being an introvert person would brings us at peace. The title of the poem “ Not all Poems Sing” implies that sometimes we can’t sing but we can express it in other way.

Structure

Form: figure of speech

Tercet

Narrative poetry simile 

Cinquain

Metaphor

Seplet

Symbolism

Sestet

Side question:

How do the author look at love and life?

Ans: 

As I’ve read the poem, in life we all have many thoughts and doubts that we can’t express but we van express it in other way. In love, just like the poem that doesn’t sing same as the feeling.

What symbol can you find in the poem, identify and explain?

Ans:

For me SING, it symbolizes as the voices that cannot be heard and thoughts that you can’t tell but be able to recognize and understand like the poem that can’t sing but there are voices that cant be heard even if you would voice it out.

The Snowman

 There was a woman who is loaded with a lot of responsibilities because her husband is suffering an illness known as Gastroesophagael Reflux Disease (GERD). When all the local doctors in their place could do nothing about it she doesn’t have a choice but to bring her husband in the United States and because her husband is sick she doesn’t have enough time for her 2 years old son. After a short stay in America they decided to go home. Two weeks after she found out that her son has a rare and serious blood disease called Idiophatic Thrombocytopenic Pupura that causes some bruises she noticed in her sons body recently and she suspected it as a leukemia. She felt relief that after some test and findings it is not. While she was still in the hospital for her son she receive a call that her mother was not feeling well and it is suffering a mild stroke. Grief ran through her as a bizarre illness gripped on her family. When the doctor declared that her son was free from the bleeding and bruising disorder, they decided to travel to United States. In arriving there she struggled because they have no place to stay bet there was a kind hearted couple offered their home for them. When her husbands surgery was set on early October another kind heartedness occurred. Past lunchtime she was told that the surgery went well and have nothing to worry although during the operation. They detected a scarring on the liver that may happened during the previous surgery. She hold her husbands hand and pray that she knows she will be losing him. Now during winter she builds snowman then embrace the three of her life.

CHARACTERS:

Dr. Salky- A doctor who had taken the wrap down perfectly

Dr. Solano- a friend Uncle Winnie- Who live in San Francisco

Dr. Sally- Gastro Specialist President Abraham Lincoln

Dr. J. Queteves- declared that her son was free from the bleeding and bruising disorder. M. And Dr. Catacutan- a kind-hearted couple who offered their home to us until the time we flew back to San Francisco.

Tita Perla- who picked up the three of us at the airport terminal. S

SETTINGS: 

Palm plaza in manila America 

San Francisco Nursing school 

San Francisco General Hospital

 New York Keanu La Guardia Cebu.