In “Lee’s Eating Alone”, author Daniel Moeser argues that in the poem written by Li-Young Lee, the speaker has come to terms with his father passing away, and the end of the poem leaves the reader with a sense of fulfillment and hope. Moeser analyzes “Eating Alone” focusing on the tone, the pattern Lee creates, how the speaker talks about his father, and how the speaker has accepted the loss. The tone of the poem is overall “grief and loneliness” in stanza one and two (Moeser 118). In stanza one, the speaker is talking about how they pulled the last of the onions and how dead the ground looks (Lee 206). Stanza two continues with the grim feeling when the speaker begins remembering a time with his father out walking by the pears (Lee 206).
“Alzheimer’s” by Kelly Cherry is a rather depressing read focused on the tragedy of a man stricken with Alzheimer’s, her father no less. The man remembers that he was a musician, but mourns over the fact that he no longer has time for music as there are more pressing matters at hand now. Although he has this disease, he still can remember details of his life by thinking about his music, including clothing worn at the time. What will be discussed and examined is the context clues the poem provides about the what the man’s life used to be like, describe what the man’s life is like now, and the general function of the poem’s setting.
Her mother had gone slightly insane and repeated his name over and over again. Her brother was a big part of her life and she was devastated when she lost him. She feared for what happened to him. She imagined the ways he could have died and she was haunted by those thoughts. At the time she greatly felt like giving up and she would have saved herself a lot of suffering if she did.
This major detail gives the poem its more accepting and positive tone. In sharp contrast of this is “After the Burial,” in which Lowell proclaims, “Immortal? I feel it and know it,/Who doubts it of such as she?/But that is the pang’s very secret-/Immortal away from me.” Although Lowell also realizes that his daughter is in heaven, he derives no comfort in this fact unlike Longfellow. He misses her dearly, and while he realizes that the way he is feeling is not necessarily Christian, he cannot help but be upset.
The poem “Eating Together,” by Li-Young Lee shows that life can stay the same after a loved one passes away by emphasizing that death happens for a reason. People relate death to negative emotions, but there is more than just mourning and regret. A person’s death is a chance to reflect on their life and remember the positive parts. When I was younger I believed death creates unwelcome emotions.
This is a very simple yet emotional poem. The poet, Pat Mora, incorporates the motif of loss and stresses the inevitability of it. Through her narrative poem, she provides a sense of reality on how one may approach the loss of a spouse from old age. Although this poem is concise, it is greatly impactful, and I could visualize the grief.
The author has written this story to offer the reader’s an inside look into the grandmother’s self-centered and selfish mindset. Bluntly speaking, it is believed that the reader’s should have seen the outcome coming after realizing the grandmother’s mentality. O’ Conner’s skill as a short story writer enables her to express subtle use of foreshadowing helps depict the family and grandmother’s demise by evoking feeling of inevitability.
Right before she passed, Porter tells how Granny was surprised by her demise because of the lack of signals before it occurred. Porter states, “For the second time there was no sign… Again, there is nothing more cruel than this” (Porter). From this statement alone, one can gather that she is feeling a sense of abandonment once again, but this time by God. Porter’s tone in the last paragraph also adds to this emotional and deceiving scene.
In my visual, I have incorporated black silhouettes of the characters in the poem as they are unknown and we are only being told that a mother is being destroyed by the birth of her three children. “Someone she loved once passed by- too late” this quote says how she has changed to someone who only lives because of her children. Her ex- boyfriend has been lost amongst her role as a mother and she has become some different until she meets a past lover. The theme ‘loss of identity’ is explored in this stanza because this unknown woman doesn’t know who she is anymore or how to think about being a
Wilfred Owens “Disabled” and Kelly Cherry’s “Alzheimer’s poems both involve the theme of physical or mental disabilities of a man and his helplessness to overcome it. While both poems have similar themes, they differ in storylines. Wilfred Owens “Disabled” and Kelly Cherry’s “Alzheimer’s” both use imagery, mood, and setting to express the theme of helplessness in their poems.
I would never kill myself like in the poem. She did all this stuff to please her friends and family like get plastic surgery and wear makeup. In the poem it says in the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker’s cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie. Doesn’t she look pretty? Everyone said.
For example, when he says “Old Aunty Death Don't hide your bones,” she’s dead she can’t hide them. In the fifth and sixth stanza he explains how his father's death influenced him to write a poem. He considers death an art. Death taught him it’s apart of life.
If there is anything one can truly expect in life, it is that death can never be eluded. Through James McAuley and Gwen Harwood’s poems, “Pieta” and “Barn Owl” respectively, death is conveyed through the use of various techniques. McAuley’s “Pieta” explores how a father is overwhelmed by the grief he feels over the death of his child, whereas “Barn Owl” depicts the death of a child’s innocence due to a foolish decision. Within the first stanza of “Pieta” readers are introduced to a grieving father through McAuley’s explanation that his child came metaphorically “Early into the light” and “lived a day and night”, twelve months previous.
The Body of a Ballad The point of poetry is to make a point--the point of the ballad of the light-eyed little girl is to describe death as a childhood experience, and Gwendolyn Brooks utilized the ballad form to accentuate the purpose she intended for her poem. At some point children come into contact with the reality of death, and for many children like Sweet Sally, the benchmark is reached through the death of a pet. Sweet Sally experiences the reality of death as she simultaneously reaps painful consequences because “...she had starved [the pet] to death but not|For lack of love, be sure.” Sweet Sally, light-eyed, is innocent, though death is inevitable as she “sprinkled nail polish on dead dandelions.”
‘Blue lipped’ and ‘she lay for dead’ shows that the crowd assumes she is dead and keep watching instead of assisting the drowned child. This implies that society is selfish and there are only few who are good hearted. In this case it would be the narrator’s mother. The theme of childhood isn’t especially clear but the poem shows that the narrator takes great pride in knowing that his mother saved the child’s life. The poem also suggests the narrator’s mother was his role model and he is remembering his past and his heroine from his
