Question

Choose five words from five separate lines in the poem, "One Today" by Richard Blanco that you would have changed if you had been the original writer of this poem.
Write to explain what changes you would have made with these five word choices and why you would change them in this way.
Also explain how the use of the online dictionary and/or thesaurus assists you in making these choices.

Answer 1

ignite, expressions, upsurge, nightmare, harmony

Explanation:

• One sun rose on us today and ignited over our shores,

a story  told by our silent expressions moving behind windows.

each one yawning to life, upsurging into our day:

“I have a nightmare” we keep dreaming,

the harmony of footsteps, guitars, and screeching subways,

• The thesaurus makes us identify the simpler words and make the poem look easy or the intensity of the words can also be changed to make it high sounding.

Answer 2

Truth-Fortune

Charging-Whelming

Windows-Souls

Geometry-Lessons

Slide-Play

Explanation:

1. Poet has mentioned Truth to describe the world facts and wisdom, replacing fortune will make it more refreshing.

2. Chatrging onto the rocks or say mountains hits us hard in a away that  describe stumbling all around.Whelming refers to taking a hurdle with all smiles on and on.

3. Silent gestures played behind resembles silect actions for love and out of fondness. For this, windows can be inferred as souls..

4. Lerning geometries of life is essential which can be further inferred to be life lessons one should be aware of in order to deal with situations with humbleness, respect and regards.

5. Slide over here refers to a mopther seeing her children growing day by day beautifully as they slide off.The word alternative for this can be Play as well.