The poem I will be analyzing will be “Uncoiling” by Pat Mora. The theme the author is portraying is the personification of a tornado . It has a dark/fearful/grim tone as she describes the storm that is accruing. The author is using similes, and personification to convey the theme. The very first figurative language used in the poem is personification.
I have always been and forever will be in love with reading. I realized this when I was in fourth grade with my teacher Mrs. Gokey. She had light brown curly hair with a few blonde strands here or there up to her shoulders, stood almost 6 feet tall, and had the gentlest hazel eyes a person could have. Mrs. Gokey would read us books every Friday as a sort of treat for getting through the week. One of her first reads was the book "Mick Harte Was Here".
Tyler Lingmann Mrs. Weimers English 8 Period 5 20 December 2022 Poem Analysis: “Storm What do you do when the ref makes a bad call? Well, this analysis shows what Chuck bell did. Josh Bell and Jordan Bell, Chuck’s kids, both play basketball for their junior high. Josh is really tall and can dunk.
The second tape is addressed to Alex Standall, who during their freshmen year, made a list saying that Hannah had the “best ass” in her freshman class. By being labeled with the “best ass” it leads to Hannah being assaulted numerous times. The third tape was addressed to Jessica Davis, a girl that was also new to the school. Jessica started to date Alex and then was later mad at him for choosing Hannah over her in the list which ended the friendship between Jessica and Hannah, and the ended relationship of Alex and Jessica.
In the poem “Ego-Tripping” by Nikki Giovanni, she normalizes her worth by continuing to royalist herself as a black woman who is essential to mankind. Giovanni creates a vision throughout the poem, which leaves a thought in mind of how woman should look at themselves with much confidence as Giovanni does. “Ego Tripping” was written by Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni, Jr. who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 7, 1943. G9iovanni is a writer, poet, activist, and educator whose work was influenced during the Black Power Movements and the Civil Rights Movement. The poem was released in 2002.
“Then he lay down / to sleep like a snow-covered road / winding through pines older than him, / without any travelers, and lonely for no one” (Lee, lines 9-12). The road to death is one that unifies all living beings. Life and death are two concepts that every individual shares- everyone lives and everyone dies. Despite these ideas being so universally experienced, death is still a concept that many fear. Life after loss is still a difficult road to manage no matter how prepared someone believes they are for it.
The title already gives insight into the contrasting themes in the poem. It is not clear what the poem is about, but the title tells us that it will be about two contrasting ideas, circles and squares. The speaker seems to be a very intelligent, optimistic young aboriginal girl, who speaks with a knowledgeable voice, and this makes the poem seem like she has understood why everything has happened to her and how it will benefit her in the future. The structure of the poem also relates to the two contrasting themes between the aboriginal people and the white people.
In the poem, “Juggler”, the main character seems to be just a talented person entertaining a crowd of both children and adults as they become mesmerized by his skills. However, the poem really is about the struggle the world is in and how the juggler is the only one who can seem to “shake our gravity up” (line 7). As the speaker shifts between the simple narrative of a crowd being entertained to the tension the the world is in, he reveals his own negative worldview. The speaker starts off the poem by explaining the motion of the balls by stating that “A ball will bounce; but less and less” (line 1).
How would you feel if someone could control what you were thinking? In “The Feed” written by M.T Anderson, everyone living in the community had a feed in their brain that was controlled by one large organization. Violet, the main character, suffers through a malfunction in her feed that changes the way she sees her society. Most people’s opinions can be changed when they have experienced the benefits and the disadvantages of something. Since Violet is aware of how life is with and without the feed, she becomes hesitant to believing that her community is being run efficiently.
In both ‘The Horse Whisperer’ and ‘The Clown Punk’ the focal characters are no longer part of the community and have become outsiders due to the development of social perceptions of the activity they participate in. In Armitage’s poem the character is described as out of fashion and outcast, shown in the quote ‘the sad tattoos of high punk’. The poems voice comes from a narrator describing this character which clearly shows he has no voice and has been excluded from society because someone is having to give their voice for him. The use of the adjective ‘sad’ in the quote makes the phrase seem quite melancholy, particularly because tattoos are often associated as something that you get done to remember a good moment, while ‘high punk’ clearly
Treatment This poem, “Silent Treatment”, is all about the apathy that individuals possess when dealing with the urban poor or suffering in general and I like it because it successfully managed to convey the theme without many mistakes. Although there are mistakes they do not really take the reader away from the mood, tone and setting created by the poem. I will be going into what, for me, makes the poem good, as well as the mistakes that I noticed and lastly the overall effect it had on me.
Blue Velvet may seem to be a film about love or good and evil yet it is more complex because of the relationship between characters. The presence of contrast between characters and colors is the key elements in the film, Blue Velvet. Blue Velvet is a mystery-suspense film directed by David Lynch. The film begins with a discovery of a severed human ear found in a field. The accidental case leads a young man, Jeffrey, on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer, Dorothy, and a group of sociopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child and husband.
The poem A Step Away From Them by Frank O’Hara has five stanzas written in a free verse format with no distinguishable rhyme scheme or meter. The poem uses the following asymmetrical line structure “14-10-9-13-3” while using poetic devices such as enjambment, imagery, and allusion to create each stanza. A Step Away From Them occurs in one place, New York City. We know this because of the lines, “On/ to Times Square, / where the sign/blows smoke over my head” (13-14) and “the Manhattan Storage Warehouse.”
1. Scansion and Analysis The Harlem Renaissance was a period of revolutionary styles of music, dance, and literature that presented the hardships and culture of African Americans. The “Trumpet Player,” by Langston Hughes portrays the theme of the therapeutic effects of music through the development of an African American trumpeter’s music. The free verse poem “Trumpet Player” epitomizes the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz through the unique use of inconsistent rhymed and unrhymed lines mixed with the use of colloquialisms.
While both sex and sibling behavioral issues aren’t often related to cooking, both Elaine Magarrell and Sally Croft are able to integrate these themes into their poems. In both of the poems “The Joy of Cooking”, by Elaine Magarrell, and “Home Baked Bread”, by Sally Croft, the authors use different types of imagery and figurative language in order to convey a completely different idea through the art of cooking. Both authors use rather explicit ideas and themes in their writing, and use remarkable figurative language and imagery in order to convey their themes. The poem “Home-Baked Bread” is an obvious play on words.
