Thomas Stokes Assignment 2

1)
I Still Don't Know how to Write a Poem

Freshman year now, I don't know
New halls, teachers, friends
Who knows, how it'll go
Are the hallways always like this?

Mr. Lentz, does his job,
But we don't write poems
So I simply learn about the rest
And I think I know 'em

Freshman year, closing in
Now that final rolls along
I take that test, feeling zen
Get my A, and continue on.

A bit older, come sophomore year
Same halls, teachers, friends,
I'm here now, so best not worry
It feels like an eternity, before the end

Mr. Behler, our English teacher,
Doesn't teach us, poems
Just another class, with more procedure
The hallways are still like that.

Finally, the year's almost over
Finals go by, no thought required
Got decent grades, not to bad
I keep on going, climbing the spire.

Junior year, here at last
With familiar halls, teachers, and friends
Waiting for it to come to pass,
It's almost there, past half way

Mr. Logsdon, our new teacher
He's pretty rad, but his class is cold
But we don't learn how to write poems
The test is what we learn, and that's how we rolled

End of the year, and I'm ready
The AP Test, is here now
I get a decent score, moving steady
Junior year went by pretty fast.

At the end, it's senior year
Same halls, teachers, friends
Counting the days, for it to be over
It's been forever, I can't comprehend

Mr. Spalding, a familiar face
asked us to write these poems
so I'm trying my best to stay on pace
and that's my high school experience so far.

2)
So I tried to achieve a confused tone. The imagery that I used was mainly of the teachers, and this helps to convey confusion because it doesn't show any physicality to my problem, and only provides a partially related thought. The use of syntax also helps convey confusion. I tried to use varying sentence lengths, and frequent comma's in order to throw the reader off, to make them feel as if they couldn't quite grasp how to read it. I tried to make my diction both repetitive and familiar, as this can convey confusion because, to the reader, it might seem as if they are rereading a passage, or even having the same thoughts over and over, as I do when I try to write a poem.