Tyler+Morales

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself." -E. M. Forster

Analysis of my poetry:

To explain what my poems are mainly about is both easy and complicated. Two and a half of my poems are about tennis: I was Raised by Tennis, Loving Tennis, and half of Living My Life, are about tennis. I chose to do my Ode on the IQ Chair because Jesus and I were hiding Dylan’s chair upside down under the table we were sitting at and I saw that the chairs are named IQ Chair on the bottom so I chose that. For my I was Raised By poem I used tennis because most people don’t understand or know what exactly I do every day when I play tennis and what I have to do in my tennis training when I play. So I tried to show that my Grandpa, Cha-Cha, and Hyacinth all play a huge role in my tennis training. When I say “Forcing me to utilize the integration of our reflexes, mind, and body to the max” I mean Cha-Cha pushes me past my limits so that I have to combine my reflexes, mind, and body to win and succeed. To me that is one of the best and only ways to get better and I get better every time I have training. My training schedule consists of training for 4 hours on Saturday and/or Sunday and it goes like this: 30 minutes of Stretches and Warm-up exercise, 30 minutes of medicine ball and hand-eye coordination training, 1 hour of Footwork drills, 1 hour of dead ball and live ball drills, and finally 1 hour of matches. There are times where I play for 7 hours if Cha-Cha asks me to stay behind. But anyway most of my poems are about tennis. My memory poem is about my Saint Bernard, Duke, who we adopted in Pennsylvania when I was four and died when I was 12 in New Jersey. My sonnet is about Tennis also and in it I explain my training a little at the first half and then how I feel and what happens when I play recreational matches and tournament matches. In tournament matches I feel invigorated because i’m competing for first place and showing my opponent that I won’t just give up and let him win. I’ve won 1 out of the 3 tournaments I’ve entered since I became a USTA (Unites States Tennis Association) member. My riff poem is half about tennis and half about my school subjects and what I want to do in life. I chose that because a lot of people don’t realize even after finding out I have a brain disorder and a development disorder that having them terrify me especially my epilepsy because its scary and terrifying to witness and feel my mouth twitch uncontrollably and then not be able to talk for at the most 10-15 minutes after the seizure ended due to after effects. Its like imagine all of a sudden out of nowhere losing control of your motor skills and functions and losing control of your body for about 1-2 minutes and then not being able to communicate afterwards for about 10-15 minutes, its terrifying. Fortunately, because of my epilepsy and ADHD, I’ve basically become an expert on them because my parents did a huge study on it, my dad helped to launch the epilepsy drug, Neurontin and has saved over a million lives because of his work. My mom helped to create a huge and successful epilepsy program called HOPE, so I am fortunate to have parents that are experts on epilepsy. Also all the neurologists I’ve had since i was first diagnosed have filled my brain with information on ADHD and Epilepsy so I’m basically an expert on both disorders. I say this because having these disorders have made me want to go into the engineering and medical field when I grow up and have made me realize that I need to live my life to the fullest extent since life is short and I could die any day. That is the analysis of my poetry.

Detailed Study of Bin Ramke's Poetry:

Bin Ramke’s poems seem to revolve around describing life, the story of life, and the end of it. One of his sonnets, Trouble Deaf Heaven Sonnet 29, is different from others and is hard to understand at first. In it he describes the world as wilderness, then he goes saying that the beginning is happiness. One thing that is very interesting is one line from the sonnet: “What makes an ending? What does not.” He answers the question with “What does not” which intrigues me since before that he says this: “What makes happiness? Nothing.” He says that nothing makes happiness but to me when i interpreted these two lines it was like this: “What makes happiness? The unseen and unknown.” and “What makes an ending? The seen and known.” But from the poem overall it seems to be about enlightenment of and in the world. I say this because of two lines: “What is the beginning? A beginning is happiness.” and “What is a beginning? The beginning is light” To me this sounds like the enlightenment people look for all the time. Another one of his poems, Cinema Verité, seems to be about depression since it is talking about an artist who has no place to go, he thinks that all the right things he liked were for the wrong reasons. “The artist dead and all my life. I thought, I’ve liked right things for wrong reasons” In the poem he describes the depression this artist goes through as the artist tells the story of his life so far and how bad it is/was. I interpreted it as being about segregation, pain, sickness, and abuse. He said he was in poverty and other things too. In this poem he used a bunch of similes and imagery. In the Melting Pot poem he wrote its about a kid who was abused by his mom, uncle, and father. “..the savages where I was home and growing baffled day by day, raging through the night as if it were new music I made, growing.” In this poem, Bin uses figurative language, similes, and imagery to express the overall point of suffering. In Bin’s poem, Chivalric, It is about love and about a boy’s journey to the unknown. He uses lots of similes and metaphors in this poem along with imagery and figurative language. Bin’s poem, The Center for Atmospheric Research, is about a institute and the people that work inside it and other objects. He uses lots of similes and metaphors in this poem and imagery again also. “He tried his wife’s patience, it is true, and lived alone through the marriage, kept his own counsel. With such petty symbols as weather, he kept his own counsel. A butterfly like weather, the climate like laughter, the movement of small air.” Here are some of the similes that were in the poem. So overall, Bin uses many formats of poems to express the emotions in life, life itself, the story of life, and the end of life.

--- Doggies by Tyler J. Morales:

Saint Bernard Adorable and cute Lovable while puppies.

Plans for Revision: -Don't use -ing A LOT -Express emotions with 5 senses -Don't use CLICHÉS TYLER

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was raised by Cha Cha <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Working hard for hours <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not stopping for hours <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Push ups, sprints, suicides, Front lean and rest, and planks <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Medicine ball training, dead ball drills, live ball drills, matches <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Bring up the intensity, T-Mobile!!” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kind of Coach

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teaching the stances <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Correcting any mistakes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Forcing me to utilize the integration of our reflexes, mind and body to the max <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Come on, bring up the intensity, Mo!!” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kind of Teacher

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was raised by my Grandpa Morales <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To love and play tennis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Taking me to the court to teach and rally with me 2 hours a day <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cross court rallies, Down-the-line rallies, Full-court rallies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drop shots, Angle sideline ball, Deep ball, Difficult ball, Lobs, All types of incoming balls <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Try adding more topspin to the ball” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Type of father figure

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learning the shots <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bettering my game <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Increasing my ball tolerance <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Drop the racket head from 12 o’clock to 5 o’clock to 3 o’clock for your forehand” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kind of Incredible Man

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was raised by Hyacinth <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Acting like a second mom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Expert on health, food-wise and exercise-wise, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rallying with me during water breaks when I ask <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Giving me both great tennis and life in general advice <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Lunge down to create the power needed for a forehand like that” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kind of Mother Figure

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinforcing the lessons taught by Cha Cha <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Giving me grip tape if I don’t have any, giving me medical tape for my fingers and hands <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Telling me what to do when I feel sick and wishing me Happy Holidays on Holidays <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“If your fingers still hurt while you play after twenty minutes, try loosening your grip on the racket” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Type of Woman

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was raised by Tennis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eliminating my boredom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keeping me in shape <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bringing out the true me <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quelling my anger <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Giving me courage and confidence to do anything I set out to do <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Types of Workouts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WAS <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">RAISED <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY TENNIS

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<span style="color: #fa3f29; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Ode to the IQ Chair by Tyler J. Morales:

Ode to the IQ Chair, Let us sit on you all the time, Crimson colored and curved for big butts I guess. Without you we would be sitting on the floor.

Your curved shape try to help the back, though your very stiff and that hurts people's backs and butts. But we can't sit up high without you there So I can't complain that your an awesome CHAIR.

Loving Tennis by Tyler J. Morales:



I love to play tennis throughout the week, Working out intensely for hours a day. Pushing myself until i'm at my peek. Quelling and keeping my anger at bay, Calming me down by swinging my racket, Allowing me to return with clean shots, Helping me progress through all the brackets. Allowing the integration of thoughts, Into my tennis game and how I play, Causing me to win most of my matches. Even through the heat and the UV ray, My calls and opponent's always clashes. But in the end I win most of the points, And after the match there's pain in my joints.

Living My Life by Tyler J. Morales: To live as if you were to die tomorrow (from Redemption by Gackt translated)

To live as if you were to die tomorrow , I learned this from playing tennis all the time, I only get one life and I could die any time, So I live my life to the fullest each and every day, So that I don't have to regret a lot when I die.

Every day I try to make the best of it and learn a lot. To focus in class and excel in Engineering, Biochem, and Physics, My three favorite subjects and also excel in tennis, Since in college I want to major in Athletics, Engineering, Biochem, and/or Physics.

Engineering intrigues me since its the use of Math and physics to solve the world's problems, Biochem is the study of life really, Physics is the study of Astronomy and other things, Athletics is tennis which I love.

So I live as if I was going to die tomorrow so that I can learn everything I can to help the world.