Analysis
[I Am Poem]
[Acrostic]- Jack the Ripper
[I Am Poem]- Clementine
By following the template of the I Am Poem, the speaker in this poem demonstrates a sharp character of herself by using narration, imagery, and rhyme as AABBCA AADDCA AAEECA.
In general, words of “alone” and “satisfied” have slight opposite meanings for people always hold their sayings of they are satisfied because they own something, but “alone” is usually represented as the feeling of independent or sole.
According to “I hear a girl is sobbing in bed. I see her fist is holding as red. I want to cuddle her through the whole night” (stanza1, line 3,4,5), and “I pretend there is another me beside. I feel like I always make her pride” (stanza 2, line 1,2), although the speaker always feels unaided and unsupported from the outside, she accompanies and offers herself supports internally as a salvation. And that is also one of the reasons why she picks “alone” to describe herself instead of using “lonely”.
Thought the speaker realized that there are few people understand her since she is different or unique, she never loses her hope as “I cry for I will never find my knight”. In this poem, the speaker represents herself as a strong and independent girl who also has soft heart and holds her longing for her future life, according to “I say maybe there is someone who is waiting for me at my favorite seaside. I dream he eventually shows up on a future Valentine” (stanza 3, line 2,3).
[Acrostic]- Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is an acrostic that has the first letters that can be read downward to form the word “insanity”, which is also the theme of this poem. In this poem, the poet uses the rhyme as AABBCCDE.
The mood in this poem is horror because this poem illustrates the story of Jack the Ripper back to the 19th century in United Kingdom. As the most notorious serial murderer in London in1888, Jack the Ripper was famous of his extremely cruel modus operandi by cutting victims’ throats and removing their internal organs. His victims were all female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of London but when the murders happened, no one has ever said they heard anything. In Jack the Ripper, the speaker represents a scene of “Whitechapel Murder” by using the bloody, the neck, and the uterus as the references from the true record of the second crime of Jack the Ripper. After the identity of Jack the Ripper was confirmed, doctors diagnosed that the murderer had mental problems, as the phrase of “demon’s deal” is mentioned in the poem.
The poet uses Jack the Ripper as a typical mental to demonstrate her theme of insanity of this acrostic.
