Rhetorical Situations
Mrinalini Manektala
Writing and Reading
Hem Paudel
20 January 2016
Rhetorical
Situations
Relaxation
Sitting on the hammock
Listening to the
chattering of my friends
The bonfire’s burning
I don’t want this night
to end
Cuddling with soft
blankets
Sipping Arizona green tea
Eating Dove chocolate
That’s when I’m at peace
Soon the fire burns out
And the darkness of night
settles in
The house has gone silent
My snug bed upstairs
waits
I climb into the sheets
Turn off my light
With one last glance at
my phone
I fall asleep blissfully
into the night
This is a poem I wrote my senior year of high school
called “Relaxation”. It is an imagery poem I wrote about summer at the
beginning of the school year because I was sad about school starting since it
was my year of “lasts” and I did not want to go through the year knowing it
would be my last time doing everything I loved like cross country, track, and
other various clubs. But now that I am in college I am glad that those years
are past me. The audience I had in mind when I was writing this poem was other
students my age going through the same sad feeling about summer ending and
starting another year of high school. I chose this audience because I knew many
of them would feel the same way as I did. The reason I picked an imagery poem
is because I think it is what other people can relate to best, and it is the
most fun to write in my opinion. When I wrote this poem I wrote it in a way
that lots of people would be able to relate, but I also wanted to personalize
it. This can be seen in lines six and seven where it says “Sipping Arizona
green tea, Eating Dove chocolate”. These are a couple of my favorite foods and
they remind me instantly of summer which is why I wanted to include them in
this poem about summer. I think a way I could have improved this piece is by
using different rhyme schemes rather than using just one. I think it would have
added a lot more diversity to the poem and made it more interesting. I am
hoping to learn a lot more about expanding my knowledge of writing this
semester.