Journal+5-Poem

A Winter's Night By: DaniWill Current

Tires slide on the icy road While breaks squeal Breaking the empty, safe silence The car swerves and skids, stopping just in time

While breaks squeal Passengers yell and the horn blares The car swerves and skids, stopping just in time As the driver battles for control

Passengers yell and the horn blares Breaking the empty, safe silence As the driver battles for control Tires slide on the icy road

1. The person speaking is a passenger in the car or a bystander on the side of the road. 2. The time period is now and it really doesn't affect the poem unless it is back then when they didn't have cars. 3. The authors tone is scared with relief at the last second. 4. I feel that if I was in the car I would be scared because I have been a car where this has happened before and it was not fun. 5. My favorite part was the part where the passengers scream because you can feel the fear from reading that. 6. I can connect to the feeling of having no control with limited ability to control the situation that you are in. 7. The author wrote this because of an experience maybe and His/Her wrote this because they needed to tell someone what they went to because they couldn't get it off their mind. 8. I think that the intended audience is generally everyone. I don't think that this poem is intended for just a certain person or type of people but it is for everyone to show that no one has complete control of our lives because just like the ice the car slid on sometimes life slips us up and we either regain control or crash. 9. My thoughts on this poem are that it was a good poem but it could be a little better. She could have used more imagery and made it longer. She also could have add some other details to it. 10. The poem could represent life. It could represent life because of the way that our life is like the car, and at some points in life we lose control of what is happening. But then eventually we either get back on track and regain control of our lives or we crash.