Language Arts Online Lesson 2

Task 1:

Poem

The Son is in Secondary School by Affian Sa’at

My badge has a Latin motto
Hope for the future
The future is hope
Or something

At times black crows try to interrupt
When we sing the National Anthem

It is difficult to maintain
The whiteness of my shoes
Especially on Wednesdays

I must admit there is something quite special
About the bare thighs of hardworking scouts

The Malay chauffeurs
Who wait for my schoolmates
Sit on the car park kerb
Telling jokes to one another

Seven to the power of five is unreasonable

On Chinese New Year
Mrs Lee dressed up
In a sarong kebaya
And sang Bengawan Solo

The capital of Singapore is Singapore

My best friend did a heroic thing once
Shaded all A’s
For his Chinese Language
Multiple-choice paper

In our annual yearbook
There is a photograph of me

Pushing a wheelchair and smiling
They caught me
At the exact moment

When my eyes were actually closed

Analysis:

This poem is basically a free verse, mood and imagery poem with 12 stanzas.
It is a free verse poem because it does not have a regular rhythm or rhyme and sounds like a daily conversation.
It is a mood poem as it creates a feeling when the reader reads it, like when the poem says "When my eyes were actually closed", "Seven to the power of five is unreasonable" and many more. It allows the readers to laugh at what the poet have written as it sounds sarcastic.
It is a imagery poem as the poem at some parts appeal to our senses such as, "At times black crows try to interrupt", "The whiteness of my shoes" and many more. This allows the reader to imagine what the poem is saying using his 5 senses.

Task 2:

Memories of my class by Phoe Chuan Bin

Time is like birds
following the wind
Time is like lightning
zooming past all things
Why can't time stop for a minute?

Looking back at memories
the life of a kid
the life of a
primary school-er

I can remember
our form teacher
Mrs Janet Ng

She was our lamplight
guiding us through the dark
when we were lost
giving us advices
when we did wrong

I still can remember
the heat at the field when we played
the effort we put in at work and
the hardship we went through

But there is something
that still makes me happy

That is
The smile on our faces
the unity of our class

We worked as one
played as one
train as one and
rest as one

We were like
brothers and sisters

Though not blood related
we helped each other
we encouraged each other
in our road to the exam

The final exam

Now we are still together as a class
going on outings
having precious convesations

All of us
doing things together

Brothers and sisters
rest assured
We will be connected forever
since we were once part of
being a SIXJAY-ER

P.s. 6J is my previous class in primary school