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.