FREE ESSAY ON JEWEL KILCHER

JEWEL KILCHER

Jewel Kilcher
Folk singer and writer Jewel Kilcher was born on May 23, 1974, in Homer, Alaska, to Nedra
and Atz Kilcher. Her parents were folk singers who incorporated Jewel into their act at
age 6. Jewel and her family lived in a very small-populated town and had no running
water, toilets or television. 
For her last two years of high school, Jewel traveled to Michigan and
the Interlochen Arts Academy where she took arts and music classes.
In 1994, Jewel was signed as a signer. Jewel was not immediately a star but in 1996 on of
her songs became a breakout hit, she also won many Grammy Nominations. Jewel was not only
a signer but she also acted and played a role in the movie Ang Lee's Ride With the Devil,
a Civil War drama. 
Around 1999 Jewel released a book and audiotape of her poems, A Night Without Armor. Many
Fans appreciate her earnestness and strong singing voice. 
One of the poems I choose to write about is called I Say to You Idols this poem is very
inspiring to those who have trouble moving on. I found a few poetic devices in this poem.
In line six of the poem I found fallen things which I think is a metaphor. In line seven
I found consonance with the two words greatest and Grace. In line eleven I found walk and
with which is alliteration. In line thirteen I found two words that could have two poetic
devices, screaming blood which could be both a metaphor and personification. 
Another poem I did by jewel was  All the words. In line one I found alliteration with
fingers could feel. In line four I found more alliteration, silent sorrow. In lines five,
six, and seven I found a simile. I found hyperbule in lines eight, nine, ten, and eleven.
In lines thirteen and fourteen I found another simile. In line fifteen I found
personification. And in lines seventeen and eighteen I found consonance. I think what
Jewel is trying to be in this poem is a pregnant women trying to talk to the father of
the child and telling him what it felt like to be abused by him.
The poem Lost is another one I choose to talk about. I found in lines four, five, six,
and seven two simile's. In lines fifteen and sixteen I found  bird and believes which is
alliteration. In line twenty I found antithesis. I think this poem is saying what the
words we all fear the most really mean and what some words that we need mean. 
After Divorce was another one of Jewel's poems. In lines seven, eight, and nine I found a
simile. In line eleven I found coat closet which is alliteration. In line thirteen I
found more alliteration with four feet. In line twenty-seven I found consonance with 
ourselves out. Also in line thirty-two I found another simile. This poem is talking about
what a kid's life is like after their parent's divorce and how much their life has
changed. I like this poem the most because it relates to real life and what really can
happen in this world. It also is very graphic and I can just picture what is happening in
this poem.
The fifth poem I choose by Jewel is called Infatuation. In line eight I found
personification with humid couch. I also found personification in line ten, fleshy
carpets. In line twelve I found consonance with conquering is complete . In line thirteen
I found alliteration in  leaves its limbs. In line seventeen there is a simile who sits
then like a hollow trunk. In line twenty I found seed relieved which is assonance. Also
in line twenty-one I found a metaphor. I think Jewel is talking about how people want to
be beautiful. How they strive to look like models, as skinny as models. But after all
that work there is no more beauty, just bones showing through their skin which is not
pretty at all.
I think these poems by Jewel Kilcher are very good and give advice to all of us. I like
it because it talks about lessons that we all learn while growing up. I think what I just
said is the theme of all her poems. The theme is good because it deals with real life
tragedies and lessons that we should all learn from. In the beginning of her book she
talks about how a poem is supposed to make us understand things that can't be explained
with just one or two words, she says that poetry is a voice for everything that doesn't
have it's own voice. I like those things that she says because I think they are true and
they help me understand life so much more then what we are taught in school or by our
parents.
I Say to You Idols
I say to you idols
Of carefully studied
disillusionment
And you worshipers
Who find beauty
In only fallen things
that the greatest
Grace
We can aspire to
Is the strength
to see the wounded
walk with forgotten
and pull ourselves
from the screaming
blood of our losses
to fight on
undaunted
all the more
All the Words
All the words I wish your fingers could feel
all the time I've wished 
you could know
the silent sorrow
lying stiff in my throat
like cold
and broken teeth
I wish you could hear
The child that cries
in my flesh and makes 
my bones ache
I wish you could speak to my fear
I wish you could hold me
in your arms like oceans
and soothe what my muscles remember
all the bruises, all the sour hope
all the screams and scraped knees
the cloudy days so dark 
i wondered if my eyes
were even open
The days that I felt
like August, and that I, too
would soon turn 
to Fall
Lost
Lost
is a puzzle
of stars
that breathes
like water
and chews
like stone
Alone
is a reminder
of how far
acceptance
is from
understanding
Fear
is a bird
that believes itself
into extinction
Desperation
the honest recognition
of a false truth
Hope
Seeing who you really are 
at your highest
is who you will become
Grace
the refinement of a
Soul through time
After Divorce
After the divorce
we moved to Homer
to live in a one bedroom apartment
behind Uncle Otto's machine shop.
My brothers slept in the water closet
after my dad painted it any color
they wanted. The pipes looked like
silver trees sprouting up through 
the frames of their bunk beds.
For me, we took the door
off the coat closet
and built a narrow bed
four feet off the ground
with a ladder of rough wood
to climb up that hurt my bare feet.
My dad tried hard 
to keep us all together
and work at the same time,
but things just weren't the same.
He pulled my hair when he brushed it
and didn't sing to us at night
before we went to sleep.
I was eight and started cooking.
Shane grocery shopped
and Atz, well, he was a kid.
By 7 A.M. every morning 
we walked ourselves out to the road
and waited for the school bus
with all the other kids.
Looking for signs 
of when life might strike random again
and scatter us like seeds
on the unknowable winds
of chance. 
Infatuation
infatuation is a strange thing
a bony creature thin
with feeding on itself
it is addicted not to its subject
but to its own vain hunger
and needs but a pretty face
to fuel its rampant imagination
humid couch
and sweaty palms
fleshy carpets
ablaze with conquest
but when conquering is complete
the blood leaves its limbs
and it becomes disenchanted
(to the point of disgust)
with its subject
who sits then like a hollow trunk
emptied of its precious cargo
and left to fade 
a seed relieved
of its transparent husk
to dissolve, finally
on a rough and impatient
tongue
Bibliography
I wrote this for my english class, during our section on poetry, my grade was a 93%. My
teahcer said very nice job.