Learning to Love America

Learning to Love America is a very interesting poem. It describes how a man learns to love his country and talks about what it means to him. Every line starts with "Because" which shows he is answering the question of the poem. The line i thought was important was "because countries are in our blood and we bleed them." I thought the author was trying to say that people show pride and loyalty to their country. They respect the country and are happy to live in it. The author wrote this poem to show how much he cares for his country.
Another line I chose was " because it has no pure products" I thought this was interesting because it shows that America gets their products from other countries around the world. I thought that line was true.
The tone for the poem was full of pride and loyalty. The author wrote this to express his pride to our country and he is glad he lives in America.

Found poems ii.

This poem was very interesting. It talked about how God is the only just judge and critic. The author wrote this poem to show that God is the only one who can judge us and no one else has the right to.

"The only just judge,the only just literary critic, is Christ" This line of the poem tells what it is about. God is the only one to judge. Being a literary critic means that only you have the right to comment on what someone is doing, whether it is wrong or right. "And admires, more than any man." This line states that God admires all of us because he is our creator. He watches out for us whatever we do.

The tone of the poem is joyful. The author tells us that only God can judge us. He wrote the poem to remind us that we do not have the right to judge people, only he can. The author wants us to just live our lives and not to worry about judging others in a negative way.

Jet

The poem Jet was very interesting and confusing. He used a lot of metaphors that were hard to understand. One metaphor he used was "drinking jet fuel with the boys, getting louder and louder," which meant that he missed the old days when he use to drink with his friends. Getting louder and louder meant that they would drink until they were drunk. When he says "On Earth, men celebrate their hairiness, i thought that meant that men celebrate different than others and it is good to be yourself.
"We gaze into the night as if remembering the bright unbroken planet we once came from, to which we will neverbe permitted to return" shows that the men remember all the good times they had together and would not trade it for anything.
The authour Tony Hoagland wrote this poem to reflect on all the good times he had with his buddies. He wrote the poem to share memories he had in his life.