Poem to a painting

                                                   Starry Night

The moon lies high in the sky
It's crescent shape pierce the night
The wind swirls near the stars
Round and round the spirals go
Never ending
Gazing over
Watching

Yellow stars shining above
Night sky dark and blue
The tree towers over
In control
All is calm in the Starry Night

Poetry Response: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

I chose this poem because it was one of the poems Robert Frost wrote that I found interesting. Like his other poems it can be viewed differently by different people. He uses a regular rhyme scheme that gives it a rhythm. I've observed many things. I like how it had a meaning every line of the poem and that it was interesting that he keeps rhyming the words with the word sleep in the last stanza. I think his meaning was to say that even though the view of the woods are nice, he still has miles to go because he had promises to keep. In the first paragraph it is a bit confusing since it saids that " he will not see me stopping here " when we don't know who " he " is.

This poem saids that you should not stop and give up like he did to stare at the woods because he had promises but a long way to go. There is a deep meaning to the last 2 lines in the last stanza. I think it means that his sleep is his final sleep so he should do it before his time has gone.

Promises are easy to make but hard to keep. This poem has taught me that no matter what is standing in your way to keeping that promise, you must tried to keep on moving forward. I also think the little horse is  symbolic telling the person that it isn't time to stop yet and has to finish what he started even in the darkest evening of the year. 

Mockingjay: Do you trust? ( Spoiler Alert )

I am currently reading Mockingjay the final book of

the Hunger Games series. It is about how Katniss and 

the rebels are trying to overthrow the Capitol which is 

basically the powerful government in the city. Her home 

has been burned to the ground and that was when she 

knew she had to be the " Mockingjay " a symbol of 

rebellion to unite all of the 13 districts to fight. Everything

was going to plan until Peeta her lover was kidnapped 

by the Capitol and brainwashed to think that Katniss was 

the enemy and destroyed everything.

I think that the book's theme is loyalty. In the book Katniss

must deal with betrayal and violence against enemies, 

friends, and people who you would never think of 

doing betrayal. Even though violence, war, and surviving

is the main theme of Mockingjay, the real focus is on the

effects war has on the characters and their relationships

with one another. That could be cause of betrayal because

they know that they won't get it easy if the rebels lost.

I can connected to both sides but more to Katniss since I

have felt how it is to be betrayed by someone you care 

about. In some cases I have betrayed someone and it does

not feel good especially when you regret it.