Poetry through song - Taylor Swift

I think using song and lyrics to create a poem is a really engaging and interesting way of captivating the reader. Many songwriters create poems through their music, one of these people being Taylor Swift – a very successful young songwriter and singer.

Many of her songs are almost like poetry and she uses different poetic techniques in her songs. One of the techniques she uses often is rhyme – one of the strongest poetic techniques. She also uses personification, assonance & alliteration through her songs.

E.g.

Corey's eyes are like a jungle

He smiles, it's like the radio

He whispers songs into my window, in words that nobody knows

There's pretty girls on every corner,that watch him as he's walking home

Saying, does he know.. Will you ever know?

You're beautiful, every little piece, love

Don't you know, you're really gonna be someone? Ask anyone

A Rose for the ANZAC Boys:

This is a really lovely and heartwarming story. It is another fantastic novel from Jackie French about a young 16 year old girl and her friends who start a free canteen in London to escape the boredom of boarding school, offering meat, hot drinks, breads and medical help. Midge, her nickname everyone calls her by, then starts to help drive the emergency vehicles and ambulance cars as she is one of the only women that can drive. Midge learnt to drive out on her old farmm named Glen Donal, a sheep farm in NZ.

While I am only half way through this book it is a wonderful novel, very detailed and well researched. The saddest part so far would have to be when Captain Harry dies.

You see, Midge meets this lovely young man at the bakery, a captain, who she falls in love with (and he falls in love with her too!). One day he plans to visit her on her birthday when he unexpectedly gets called in at the front and killed in action :( Midge is terribly upset but still she moves on, continues to work hard and I am up to the bit where she meets another lovely young man, a friend of Captain Harry, who also becomes her good friend and penpal!

The secret world of wombats

"Underneath your feet is a strange world... a world of wombats!"

The secret world of wombats is an interesting book from Jackie French giving you the low-down on wombats. Jackie French lived with wombats for many years and she quotes 'They are my muse'.