Relationship essay

    Relationships, there are so many different relationships you can have, not just a love relationship.  In class we looked at three poems from different authors and times. They are all to do with relationships, but each poem has a different way of showing the different relationships.

  Charles Bukowski the author of the poem "How is Your Heart" never had a normal relationship and never knew what one was. He had a very bad childhood. He was beat with a razor by his dad, so he never knew how a father and son relationship should be. He never knew what a normal relationship with girls was because no girl liked him. In the second poem Walt Whitman was a bisexual in the 1800's. He was the author of "To a Stranger".  I think the poem was about him imagining having a perfect relationship with someone he loves because he couldn't have one. The third poem we read was "Unentitled" by Jennifer L'hirondelle .  She is a Canadian native Metis.   This poem is about the relationship between her and the land. At first I thought it was just about a normal relationship, but reading through everyone's comments on wikispaces and talking about it in class, it changed my opinion.

   There are some things that the three poems, "How is our heart", "To a Stranger" and "Unentitled" have in common.  They are all to do with relationships, either with people or land. They also talk about certain relationships for themselves because everyone has different relationships or views them differently from others. All three authors had or have different lives, They all had different childhoods, and all were raised differently and so had different backgrounds.  For each of them their lives were shaped by how they were raised and the childhoods they had. People don't know what a normal relationship is if they don't see that for example with family, or if they haven't had one themselves.  Each of the pieces are very different from the other. They all have different messages, but they are all on relationships.

      The poems "How is Your Heart", "To a Stranger", and "Unentitled", all have similarities with teenagers and their relationships that they have today. Wether it's with their family, friends, or people they like. There are some similarities with all of the poems.  "How is Your Heart" by Charles Bukowski can relate to relationships with teenagers today.  Maybe not to the extent that his life was, but teenagers can relate to the struggles that he had and wrote about in his poem. Some teenagers don't have any homes and may have to sleep on park benches. Some teenagers  can get into trouble and end up in jail. Teenagers can also have  troubles with relationships they have. This is how that the poem "How is Your Heart" can relate to relationships with teenagers today.the poem "To a Stranger" by Walt Whitman can relate to relationships with teenagers today because mostly everyone imagines or dreams about having a relationship with someone they like or love.  The poem "Unentitled" by Jennifer L'hirondelle can relate to relationships with teenagers because teenagers need a place of peace, somewhere that's quiet or that they feel that they have a connection with.  Lots of teenagers can relate to this for example by going to the ocean, or hiking in the wilderness.  This is how all three if the poems we did in class can be connected to relationships with teenagers today.

   These poems fit into our Relationship theme because even though the three poems are all very different from one another, they have very different messages, and talk about different things, but they are all about relationships. So even though they are completely different they all talk about different relationships people and teenagers can have. Our theme is relationships not just about love relationships, but each and every type of relationship you can have.  That's how the there poems fit into our theme about Relationships.