Poetry Journal #3

Cesar Sanchez

AP Lit.

February 8, 2007

Forgetfulness: Contemporary Poet

S- Many individuals who forget about incidents or moments in their lives.

O- The occasion could be at any setting or moment in someone’s life.

A- The audience would be people who are very forgetful and can relate to the poem.

P- So people can relate to being forgetful.

S- The subject of the poem is being forgetful and getting older.

Tone- Reflecting on incidents or moments that can be easily forgotten.

Letting Go by Cesar Sanchez

At birth, one comes into a world full of mysteries and secrets,

that are quickly forgotten when the path of life leads one into a certain direction.

Our first steps become the beginning of our new lives,

which suddenly distinguishes who we are and what we will become.

The interest one had for a toy car no longer is important,

Nor the kiss one’s mother gave before the first day of school.

Next thing you know you are receiving a diploma wondering how you got their,

And what will become of your life.

You give no importance to what you have been through,

And forget about everything you cared for.

Suddenly, you let go of what made you unique,

And let society corrupt the mind that set you apart from everyone else.

I decided to write a poem using the same style that Billy Collins used in, “Forgetfulness”. I liked the structure he chose, which made his poem convey its message in a manner that one understood everything he wanted to convey clearly. I tried to include a wide range of words that gave the poem a stronger meaning of forgetting about where one came from.