Alas it is a boring song but it works every time.
I think the two final lines give the ending that the song worked into tricking the person. The poem leads with the idea that this person is special and can hear the song, but in the end gets tricked and meets the fate of many before them.
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
The last line grabs my attention because it talks about a ship sailing by and seeing a boy falling out of the sky but the boat has to be somewhere so it ignores the boy. I think this refers to the bad problems happening in the world, but everyone just keeps moving on.
Once the world was perfect, and we were happy in that world. Then we took it for granted.
I think the main lesson of the poem is in the first two lines. I think Joy Harjo is trying to push the message that we shouldn't take our everyday lives for granted because we never know when it will end.
My work: to unsnare time’s warp (and woof!), retrieving, my haze-headed friend, you.
This piece of the poem shows the idea of dogs being a man's best friend and that dogs are a good way to take someone's mind off things. The text says that the golden retriever's work is to unsnare time's warp and to retrieve the owner.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish, Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
I think what Frost means is that when the boy swings in the tree he is free, and has relaxing fun. Frost wants to go back to being that little kid, getting away from life and having the relaxing joy that brings him back to old memories.
Students are more modest needing to leave only their splayed footprints along the shore of the page.
Collins writes about his experiences with readers leaving nasty and hurtful comments on other authors writings, but Collins says that students are modest. He talks about students leaving splayed footprints, and how they don't drown the whole writing about what they would change.
Deor was my name. For years I enjoyed my duties as minstrel and that lord’s favor, but now the freehold and land titles he bestowed upon me once he has vested in Heorrenda, master of verse-craft. That passed over, this can too.
The poet Deor was a story teller for a king, but he was let go for another story teller. At the end of the poem we understand why Deor made this poem in the tone of sorrow and grief. Deor adds "that passed over, this can too" to show how he is dealing with his job being taken away.
There was a common concern across senior school visual arts students that there would be no point going into career pathways in the creative industries because AI is “already better than them” at producing illustrations and digital artworks.
Many students said that since they are not going into the pathway that connects to a certain class, that they think AI is the better way to make creative work. These students think that AI is better or more creative than them because they don't want to take the path that the class is associationed with.
Trust the wolves, but do not tell them where you are going.
Gaiman's fantasy poem includes lots of creative writing, and some references too. I highlighted the part about the wolves because I think it is a reference to Little Red Riding Hood because she was deceived by the wolf that ate her grandmother. Gaiman says at the end of the poem that favors will be repaid and the wolf transports the character as a give back.
or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch.
The author Billy Collins wants students and young learners to explore poetry, not find a meaning and write it down. Collins writes "or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch." This statement means that readers should explore the poem and look around for meaning and understanding of what the poet wants the reader to do or understand.
The author Billy Collins wants students and young learners to explore poetry, not find a meaning and write it down. Collins writes "or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch." This statement means that readers should explore the poem and look around for meaning and understanding of what the poem wants the reader to do or understand.