Tom is a college senior - English major at Virginia Tech. He expects to continue on to graduate school and eventually pursue a career in education. Leo Shelton's "D'liberate Ramblings" is a book of poetry that enriches the soul, and the title of his book tightly meshes with the poems within his book. The deliberate ramblings in Shelton's book are referring to different issues and events, which occur in our everyday lives as humans. Sometimes in life the only way some people know how to deal with their problems are constantly ranting about them, but Leo Shelton expresses the different problems and questions in life through imagery, repetition, and rhyme.
Reading the poems aloud is essential to the purpose of the poems and the meaning of the words in some of the poems. Also, the ramblings can be seen on the pages of "D'liberate Ramblings" because there is minimal punctuation in majority of the poems in this book. Shelton's book of poetry is a reflection of some the different circumstances and events that are presented to us in life. Two of my favorite poems in "D'liberate Ramblings" are Me and Moms and Mature Breaths. |
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Leo Shelton's "D'liberate Ramblings" is a book of poetry that enriches the soul, and the title of his book tightly meshes with the poems within his book. The deliberate ramblings in Shelton's book are referring to different issues and events, which occur in our everyday lives as humans. Sometimes in life the only way some people know how to deal with their problems are constantly ranting about them, but Leo Shelton expresses the different problems and questions in life through imagery, repetition, and rhyme.
Reading the poems aloud is essential to the purpose of the poems and the meaning of the words in some of the poems. Also, the ramblings can be seen on the pages of "D'liberate Ramblings" because there is minimal punctuation in majority of the poems in this book. Shelton's book of poetry is a reflection of some the different circumstances and events that are presented to us in life. Two of my favorite poems in "D'liberate Ramblings" are Me and Moms and Mature Breaths. | ||
| Therefore, it displays the stability of things in nature being the same, but there is an acceptance of things changing. Although, things change in life, the speaker makes it clear that he is connected to his mother in stanza two by stating: "Connected/ Through virtues and values/ Invisible umbilical cords." The stability of the speaker's relationship with his mother is unharmed, and he makes it known that his mother is an importance of his growth in life: "Phenomenally pronounced/ Even when unannounced/ But all love/ All wonderful/ All the time…/ Me and moms!" This poem made me really think about my mother and it definitely characterizes the relationship that I have with my own mother. At the end of day, the speaker relishes his relationship with his mother. Mature Breaths is a poem that presents the development and maturation of the speaker. Identity is a key component in this poem, and almost everyone has grappled with it their lives. Leo Shelton's poem is filled the repetition of asking "Who I am?" He makes it clear that his writing shapes his life: "I am/ Who I want to be/ Who I am/ Because I write." Through writing he is able to "create new moments/ new outcomes/ and the new participate." The moments, outcomes, and people in his life can help him grow as a person in life. The events that occur in life can either help people grow in life or hinder them depending upon how they're able to respond to them. Writing is filled with from all different types of resources. Shelton states that that "I write/ Motivations/ Inspirations/ And observations/ With exclamation," and he keeps on writing because he is on quest and is constantly shaping himself as individual through writing.
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