Courage- Corey Fauchon

Courage is what makes us
Courage is what divides us
Courage is what drives us
Courage is what stops us

Courage creates news
Courage demands more
Courage creates blame
Courage brings shame

Courage shows in school
Courage determines the cool
Courage divides the weak
Courage pours out like a leak

Courage puts us on a knee
Courage makes us free
Courage makes us plea
Courage helps us flee 


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
This poet is not very known so much, so there is no information about this person. But I hope he/she becomes famous in the future.

PERSONAL RESPONSE

This poem tells about how courage can be good for us, but also shows how too much courage can ruin us. It also tells about how courage can divide people, so everyone won’t feel equal. For a text-to-text connection, the poem relates to a movie I saw that shows how a fat girl didn’t have courage with herself, so she got a surgery and became pretty. But then her courageousness led her to become a completely different person, which made her lose all the people who were around her. For a text-to-self connection, the poem reminds me of a friend I had before he left to Ohio. He didn’t have courage for himself, but I helped him get the courage he needed, and then he went overboard with the courage. So I had a long talk with him to balance his level of courage and his level of good friend. For a text-to-world connection, the poem can pretty much tell about how people would think about the word ’courage’ from good and bad. One phrase that stood out the most in the poem is “Courage determines the cool courage divides the weak” because the phrase basically tells the truth about the division between the courageous people to the weak people. I like the part how the poem is full of the truth about courage. I would suggest the poem to have a better description about how people who got their courage start to become different from their former self, and to the moment how they slowly change back to their former self.

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TITLE
The title would tell that this poem would tell about courage, maybe the good things and the bad things about courage itself. This poem may have been written for people without big courage to start building courage.

PARAPHRASE
Courage is what creates us
Courage is what separates us
Courage is what guides us
Courage is what put an end to us

Courage creates new issues
Courage makes us want something more
Courage creates trouble
Courage builds up and causes shame

Courage shows in school
Courage determines the cool
Courage divides the weak
Courage pours out like a leak

Courage puts us on a knee
Courage makes us free
Courage makes us plea
Courage helps us flee 

CONNOTATION
1. Structure- 4 quatrain and end rhyme, internal rhyme, rhyme scheme- a-a-a-a-b-c-d-e-f-f-g-g-h-h-h-h
2. Speaker- a woman telling the advantage and disadvantage of courage, audience- the readers
3. Figurative language- simile (pours out like a leak)
4. imagery- sight(divides, shows, pours out, puts us in knee, makes, helps, creates, demands more), touch- none, taste- none, hear (trouble, leak), smell- none

ATTITUDE
powerful, teaching, dramatic. The tone varies on each stanzas. The first stanza tells how courage is great to have. Then the second stanza tells how courage can be bad. The third stanza tells how courage shows the division between the strong and the weak. And the fourth stanza tells what courage can do.  

SHIFT
1st quatrain (line 1-4)- the tone starts softly for it tells how to build courage
2nd quatrain (line 5-8)- the tone color changes for it tells how courage can change people
3rd quatrain (line 9-12)- the division between the people with and without courage is shown clearly, even in school 
4th quatrain (line 13-16)-  tells how courage can be bad and how it should be fixed.

TITLE
After reading the poem and thinking about the title for the second time, I was able to see that the title does not tell about what courage is, but the word 'courage' is like a lesson to us. The title is there to give us a thought about courage. This can help people how to control their courage to maintain a equal right with people

THEME
1. no one will always stay on the top forever
2. whether you are weak or not, we are still humans
3. We were created to be equal

REFERENCE
Fauchon, C. (2009). Courage. Retrieved from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/courage-50/