First Ice

A girl freezes in a telephone booth
in her draughty overcoat hides
a face all smeared
in tears and lipstick 
she breathes on her thin palms.
Her fingers are icy. She wears earrings.

She'll have to go home, alone.
Along the icy street.

First ice. It is the first time.
The first ice of telephone phrases.

Frozen tears glitter on her cheeks-
the first ice of human hurt. 

                By Andrei Voznesenski


Gaby's opinion:
The poem is about uncertainty and anguish that the girl feels because she was calling her boyfriend for first time in an icy night.

Faith is a fine invention

"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. 

                By Emily Dickinson


Gaby's opinion: 

This poem compares the man of faith with the man of science. Although faith comes in handy for leadership and guidance, it is necessary to be practical and rely on physical senses as well. 

Fire and Ice




Gaby's opinion:
The poem is about the opposition between the fire and ice, the poet asks of what manner would end the world and he believes that the world will end in fire.

Metaphor

Morning is
A new sheet of paper
For you to write on.

Whatever you want to say,
All day,
Until night
Folds it up
And files it away.

The bright words and the dark words
Are gone
Until dawn
And a new day
To write on.

                                By Eve Merriam

Gaby's opinion: 
The poem represents each day as a new start. This poem is about how the life is a sheet of paper that a person can write on and start each day for forget his or her mistakes and begin a new day. 

The Eagle


He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.


The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls. 

                     By Alfred Lord Tennyson


Gaby's opinion:
The poet feels alone and for this reason he expresses the loneliness in this poem and he compares with the lone eagle .

Long Distance

That phone call, the one that you wait for 
but never expect to come 
was phoned today. And 
that voice, the voice you ache for,
but seldom expect to hear
speak today. And that
loneliness, the loneliness you hurt from
but always held inside,
flies out like thin stones across water. 
           
                              By Carole Gregory 

Gaby's opinion: 
The poem is about inside loneliness,because the poet expresses the ache of an inside loneliness and it finishes with a phone call that she waited.

 

Nothing Gold Can Stay

By Robert Frost

Gaby's opinion:
The poem refers that nothing is forever because in the beginning all things are beautiful but with the time it changes.

The Choice

He'd have given me rolling lands,

 Houses of marble, and billowing farms,

Pearls, to trickle between my hands,

 Smoldering rubies, to circle my arms.

You- you'd only a lilting song,

 Only a melody, happy and high,

You were sudden and swift and strong-

 Never a thought for another had I.

He'd have given me laces rare,

 Dresses that glimmered with frosty sheen,

Shining ribbons to wrap my hair,

 Horses to draw me, as fine as a queen.

You- you'd only to whistle low,

 Gayly I followed wherever you led.

I took you, and I let him go-

 Somebody ought to examine my head!

                                        

                                          By Dorothy Parker

Gaby's opinion:
The poem is about the bad choice that the poet made, because she made this choice thinking in the love and not in the money.