Common mistakes in poetry:
- Incomplete sentences/fragments 
- lack of link between ideas and support (quotes)

Grateful and thankful due to the abilities that God endowed us with. (wide – think – love)	The tone is grateful and thankful as the poet thinks that Man is greater due to his abilities to love and think. He used words such as “wide-think- love” to convey the tone to the readers.
“ You are more than earth though you are such a dot You can love and think and the earth cannot” In terms of greatness, the world is bigger. Man has the abilities to love and think which God endowed us with.	At the end of the poem, the poet has come to realize that in terms of greatness, the world is surely bigger; however, Man is greater due to his abilities to love and think which are gifts that God endowed us with. The poet highlights this idea by writing: “You are more than earth though you are such a dot You can love and think and the earth cannot”
Sad and devastated because he thinks that we are destroying earth.	The tone is sad and devastated because he thinks that we are destroying earth.
“Hold fast to dreams” personification :as if dreams could run away, like a human. “For if dreams die”: personification: the poet imagines that dreams cold die like a person. “Life is a broken winged bird” metaphor: the poet describes life without dreams to a bird.	The poet used figures of speech such as personification and metaphor to stress on the importance of dreams. The poet used personification in “for if dreams die” and “for when dreams go”. Dreams are compared to people who can die or leave if you don’t hold on to them. This figure highlights how important it is for people not to give up on their dreams. Moreover,  a metaphor was used in “life is a broken winged bird” comparing a life without dreams to a bird with no wings. A bird can do nothing but fly, its life will be meaningless if it were not able to fly. Similarly, people, if they did not dream, will have a meaningless life if they did not dream. In the verse “life is a barren field” life with no dreams is compared to a field that is unproductive and fruitless, which indicates the value of dreams as life loses its purpose if one does not have a dream or a goal in life.