This is a Free Verse Poem
Conceptual Project Poem
Intendtion Statment
In “Tantrum”, I am exploring the feeling of hope through the experience of surviving a fire. The speaker of the poem is a person saw the whole event in process from beginning to end and the aftermath of the whole situation and live through it. The speaker wants to provide some comfort for the people who also lived through this situation even though terrible things happened beforehand. The speaker describe the terrible situation and how much damage has the flame dealt, then he/she transition to how everyone can be hopeful despite the disaster. The speaker is somehow able to see hope in the the flames and wanted to spread the message. I use several devices to bring the scenery that I envisioned to life. I use personification to describe how wild the flame is in the beginning and use specific lines to bring more details to the poem like “As the flame leaves with blood in hand,” this furthers enhance the image that I am aiming for.At the beginning of the poem, I wanted to express how big the flame is and how the flame is able to char bricks.Throughout the poem, I uses line breaks and endstops in the poem to focus on the imagery. This poem is an response to the artwork and I wanted the reader to imagine what the painting look like. The lines breaks also serves to slow down the reader’s pace at reading this poem. There is several time where I uses the consonance method to further slow down the reader and the consance method makes the poem sound more smooth during lines like “ scorched church” and “a grim dark arch remains”. At the middle of the poem, I wrote lines like “A scorched church, charred with oil seeping from between the bricks,” to emphasize how grime the situation is to the survivor of the incident. At the end of the poem, I wrote the line: “At the end of the hallway, eager embers shine as bright as hope” because I want to tell the reader even after looking at this grim situation, there is still hope.