Sara Holbrook most commonly writes poetry about childhood experiences and the emotions that are likely to be results from them. Some of her poems are based on her own familiarity of growing up. "I write about two things mostly- what I know and what I wonder about. But mostly I write about things that happen in my own life.".
She began writing poetry for her daughters Kelly and Katie when they were young. She would write the poems down in a book and have the girls illustrate them. The inspiration for her poems also comes from the problems that she has witnessed the girls go through. Now that her daughters are adults, she continues to write to help her to understand her life, and the world better. .
A great majority of Sara's poems contain feelings of insecurity, helplessness, and loneliness. In the poem A Different Fit, the speaker expresses how miserable it is to not be part of the "in crowd", and how one can feel as if they stick out like a sore thumb or in Sara's example "like an alien standing out in neon socks." The speaker in Blueprints conveys the uncertainty they feel as to what they will be like when they become adults. On the Rise also suggests the apprehension of not being able to make the transgression from the early stages of life to adulthood. .
Sara uses many forms of figurative language in writing her poems. They often contain metaphors, similes, hyperboles, alliteration, imagery, rhetorical questions, irony, and what could be classified as slang. When writing poetry for children, about children, the poet has to be careful in choosing the vocabulary. In order for the poem to be successful they have to develop a language that kids can relate to. In Appearances to the Contrary, Sara uses the phrase boo-boo lip to describe the pouty faces that children are so well acquainted with. She abbreviates the words "come on", and "is not" to "c"mon", and "ain't" in the poem Two By Two.
Volunteer child advocates must take training courses through an advocacy agency. ... I had to go through training just like each of you. I learned how to deal with the worst possible situations that children may go through. ... Gracie looked up at me with tears in her eyes and said, "I am ready to go now.... She looked up and me and asked, "Why do you care so much about to what happens to me?...
The second I looked out side, a vast Mysterious Black cloud hovered in the clear blue sky. ... The tears of remorse started to fall from my eyes, wiping them away I thought about all the innocent people that had died as well. ... Then I see a fireman running up to me with a child in his arms. The child had minor injuries, but the fireman's arm was completely broken. ... As a young child growing up in New York life was as good as it gets. ...
Jane Eyre as a child is scrawny and different from the other children. ... While reading this novel, I was able to look directly into the heart of Jane Eyre through the eyes of Charlotte Bronte. ... She is never looked at as a child. She is never innocent and is looked at as something to be aware of. ... However, in this school she has finally found acceptance in the eyes of a few, her dear friend Helen and her kind schoolmistress Miss Temple. ...
He wades through the swarm of parents picking up their children at the end of the school day. ... Some cry out for help through disruptive behavior while others become depressed and withdrawn. ... His eyes twitch and he fidgets around for no apparent reason. ... Rose looked beyond these misconceptions and found Harold to be a competent, smart, young child, eager to learn, if just given the right opportunities chances. ... He looked beyond the twitching and detachment as a sign of neurological damage and instead, interpreted it as a cry for approval from those around him. ...
The report is very informative, but it is very cold and professional, without bearing much light into the emotional trauma that someone like this would go through. ... If we dig deeper into the subject, we can understand the pain that they're going through. ... "Looking back,"" Mary continues, "I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God and self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth. ... I know you planned it that way to spare any of us who loved you from finding you ourselves I am so sorry...
The Madonna and Child eyes look right at the viewer and coyly engage the viewer's attention. ... When you focus on Cima da Conegliano's Madonna and Child in a Landscape, you see a graceful and humble woman supporting her child. The Madonna's eyes are down cast and the child stares adoringly at its mother. ... In person the picture is light and is a treat to the eyes. ... The eyes of the Madonna are slightly downcast, but her eyes are engaging and her lips are formed into a smile. ...
Child Abuse From my study of the topic area family I have learnt that Child Abuse can have a devastating effect on Children. ... This was illustrated through our class novel Goodnight Mr Tom through the characters of William Beach and the Night children. ... Child Abuse has also been illustrated through the case of the Amirault Family. ... My skin turns pale; the tears cover my eyes, should I just yell out? ... Tom through Will and the Night Children and through supplementary material of the Amirault case and through the poem entitled ABUSE by Ashleigh Mc Gibbon. ...
I had been riding my bike through massive puddles, in pouring rain, with two of my friends. ... Our hands brushed and for a moment all seem suspended in time as we looked into each others eyes only inches away. ... I looked at him, I smiled, and then I said, "Okay." ... I also try to hold on to the love of a child. For it's a child's love that " never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." ...
First I am going to look at Heaney's use of the senses, which he does with great effect making you feel as if you are in the poem. ... Heaney uses the sense of sight in all three poems quite a lot to create an image in our minds of how these things looked. ... Heaney uses the colours to describe how things looked in "Churning Day". ... "Raindrop eye, old snout" (Line 26) Heaney is looking very closely at the rat. ... He is looking back to a happier time with his family and a sense of regret over how the pace of life has changed. ...
