Monday, May 31, 2010

My understanding of the poem

My badge has a Latin motto,
Hope for the future,
The future is hope,
Or something.

At times black crows try to interrupt,
When we sing the National Anthem.

This stanza is actually personification. Which means that the crows were chirping during the National Anthem. It also shows that the writer does not like the crows.

It is difficult to maintain,
The whiteness of my shoes,
Especially on Wednesday.

This stanza is a free verse. From the above paragraph, we can tell that the writer might have some outdoor activity that would dirty his shoes, probably soccer.

I must admit there is something quite special,
About the bare thighs of hardworking scouts.

The thighs of the scouts could be very dark and muscular as they were very hard working. The writer can be a scout or he would not have specifically mentioned scouts in his poem.

The Malay chauffeurs,
Who wait for my schoolmates,
Sit on the car park kerb,
Telling jokes to one another.

This is a free verse. The writer could be envious of his schoolmates' rich families, having the ability to hire a chauffeur. He could also be envious of the chauffeurs telling jokes to one another and did not need to study so hard and could just be free.

Seven to the power of five is unreasonable.

The writer probably did not find mathematics to be an easy subject and thus finds it unreasonable.

On Chinese New Year,
Mrs Lee dressed up,
In a Sarong kebaya
And sang Bengawang Solo.

This is a free verse. She seemed to have mixed up the occasions and thus wore a Sarong Kebaya and sang Bengawang Solo. This could have been one of the writers memories.

The capital of Singapore is Singapore.

This stanza, in quite a creative and funny, depicted that Singapore is a small country.

My best friend did a heroic thing once,
shaded all A's,
For his Chinese Language Paper 2,
MCQ paper.

The writers friend, he was not afraid of getting into trouble with the teachers or his parents.
He was probably hated and was very bad at Chinese.

In our annual yearbook,
There is a photograph of me.

Pushing a wheelchair and smiling,
They caught me,
At the exact moment.

When my eyes were actually closed.

This three paragraph are free verses.

In this poem, the writer has expressed his thoughts and feeling of the memories of his school days.

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