If It's Not Too Much To Ask

So, I don't only do book reviews, when I find a good poem, I actually think straight away that I should do a blog post on it. So this poem that I've decided to analyse is If It's Not Too Much To Ask by Courtney Burgess. And no, it's not by me, just someone with the same name. I only found this poem because I was in English class the other day and our teacher told us to Google ourselves and this poem just popped up. I just copied and pasted it to a word document so I could remember to read it later, and eventually I did. And it came to mind to analyse it and pick out what I thought was great and post it on my blog. So that's the story of how I ended up finding a poem as great as this one.

In the poem If It's Not Too Much To Ask by Courtney Burgess there is great uses of Imagery and Repetition.

Repetition is used with the words "Of course I" it's written as if whoever she's talking to knows exactly how see feels and what she wants but is refusing to let her have it.

I very much commend Courtney on her use of Imagery in this poem. It's actually amazing how she portrays the picture in your mind, sparking emotions and thoughts in the reader. Letting the poem stay with the reader long after it has been read.

"Force tears down the cheeks. Of even the most stubborn of nonbelievers" Is a great example of imagery in this poem showing her determination to get her message and feelings across. In my mind when I read this line, I think about myself. How sometimes I get really determined to make people understand how I feel, no matter they believe my situation or not.

Another fantastic example of imagery in this poem is "Splash paint across the walls of every mind in the room."

This does make me think and picture colours, but it also makes me think of her want to make everyone remember her, and even her poem. It's very well written and the way she's used her words makes this one of the memorable and magical lines in the whole poem.

Not only does this poem use imagery and repetition it also, in a quirky way, uses rhetorical questions. But it only uses one and it carries itself throughout the whole poem. It isn't defined by a question mark, it's just the way the poem is written, it has an undertone of being a question that will never be answered. And if it ever was, she would never know the answer. She's asking this person to remember her, and when they think about her, they would feel something. She'll never know if the person does this or not.

That's one of the best points about the poem, away from poem techniques and stuff like that. It's relatable. When you read it, you remember something, or someone, you've always wanted to remember you. Take those memories with them wherever they go, and think about it, and feel something.

I personally think that a lot of people have felt that way about something or someone, that's what's best about this poem. It makes the reader feel, remember, want, wish, hope for something. It sparks emotions in the reader and that's why this poem, to me at least, is memorable.