Intro to Poetry

Everything is Going to be Alright
by Derek Mahon

1.  The title foreshadows what's going to happen in the poem and after you read the poem you realize that the title is the theme of the poem.
2. The tone of the poem is hopeful, inspiring, and encouraging.
3. the poem made me feel hopeful, motivated, and assured.
4.  There is 3 shifts I believe it begins calm and joyful then shifts to the dark or sad moments of life, but then goes back to saying that it shouldn't prevent you form continuing because everything is going to be alright in the end. My group also looked in deeper on a certain line which was," I lie here in a riot of sunlight", because we felt that there was a shift within that sentence because it used the word riot (usually used for bad or chaotic occasions) and used it the context to explain a great amount rather than chaos, so then adding sunlight to it, it shifted it from negative to positive, so I thought it was very clever of the author to use those words.
5. The theme of the poem was that no matter how bad things may be things will always turn out okay in the end, so just continue and try to focus on the beauty of life rather than the bad.