"Grape Sherbet"- Graphic Organizer 2011

"Grape Sherbet" Blog post 2011

I can relate to the "Grape Sherbet" poem because I can remember my favorite dessert when I was 8 years old, it was chocolate covered poppers. They were the best. The phrase that help me imagine this poem is "Each dollop of sherbet is like salt on a melon that makes it sweeter." Imagery helps the reader to visualize the story or poem in their head and understand it clearly.

“A Storm in the Mountains” One with Nature

It was during summer break, I went camping up in Julian. I had a whole week to clear my mind out. I needed the time to myself. There I was sitting on a log just thinking about all of the things that were stressing me out. I heard the howling of the wind brushing against the leaves of the trees. I can see the slow process of how a plant grows. I was taking deep breathes of fresh air and I smelt the different fragrances of the flowers in the air. I got up and went to an empty grass place and laid down. The feeling of that was like laying down on cotton-like pillow. This experience changed the way I was by relaxing and changing my set of mind into a mellow mood.

Imagery in a Selected Poem Paragraph

In "Cadillac Moon" by Kevin Young, the mood it sets off is very anticipating. The way that it is said and described. For example, "Joy ride. Hot wired. O the rush before the wreck— each Cadillac, a Titanic, an iceberg that's met its match"; It uses the sense of sight because it wants you to visualize how bad the accident was and by comparing it to the Titanic heating the iceberg. Another example would be "playing stickball, a car stole his spleen. Blind sided"; This part of the poem appeals to the sense of touching because it is telling us how the collisionof the automobile felt like. Another example, "Red Cross—the pill-pale ambulance, inside out, he hitched to the hospital"; this appeals to the sense of sight because it is describing the ambulance. The use of imagery expresses feelings by giving descriptive words that we can visualize in our heads and know what is going on.