In the poem “Death Over Water” by Elizabeth Rhett Woods, juxtaposition between the beauty and grace of ice dancing and the savage fighting between two enemy birds is shown as an eagle is compared to “the male of a pair of ice dancers” (line 9), a gull to the female ice dancer and “a clamour of crows” (line 1) to the crowd watching them. The eagle is the dominant force in the fight that is in control of the movements of the birds maintaining “every advantage of size and speed” (line 17), comparable to the lead dancer of a pair. In ice dancing, the male is often guiding the female through the moves remaining “above and behind” (line 8) the female dancer at all times. The gull is at the mercy of “the enemy” (line 16) eagle and is forced to move
{I can’t think of a dang introduction sentence for the life of me. Good thing this is a rough draft]. Together with four classmates in my English class, I created an anthology of five poems on the theme of death. The authors within the anthology include Bill Knott, Dusan “Charles” Simic, Donald Justice, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Kathleen Ossip. My favorite poem in the anthology is “Eyes Fastened With Pins” by Dusan “Charles” Simic, as it is well written, with the use of rhetorical devices and personal experience, to ultimately convey his belief that death is inevitable, no more or less special for anyone in particular.
The poem “Deer Hit” had many themes, but there was only one central theme. The central theme is that you make your own decisions. An example is in line one where the narrator says “You’re seventeen and tunnel vison drunk, swerving you father’s Fairland wagon home.” This represents the theme because the narrator made his own decision to get drunk and to drive, now whatever consequences happen to him is solely his own fault. Another example is in line 9, “Glitter and crunch of broken glass in your lap, deer hair drifting like dust.”
If you had to explain death and your perspective as an author how would you do it? Well each writer has their own style, in which some like to use descriptive figurative language and mood-setting tone to set a scene in their writing. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Sylvia Plath's “ I am Vertical” both demonstrate three types of writing that reveal the concept of death. The poem and the novel consist of, mood-setting tone, as well as descriptive figurative language, and lastly expressive first-person point of view. First, both sources, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and “I am Vertical”, use first-person point of view instead of third-person to express the topic of death.
Poetry Analysis Once the poem “History Lesson” was written numerous poetry foundations celebrated it for many reasons. “History Lesson” not only makes an impact on literature today it has also impacted people also. This poem inspires people and moves them to the point to where they can find a personal connection to the poem itself and to the writer. Not only does it hold emotional value for those who were victimized and those whose family were victimized by the laws of segregation, but the poem is also celebrated for its complexity. The poem uses many techniques to appeal to the reader.
Elizabeth Reicher p4 Miles Halter, a junior in high school, had one friend at best in his hometown in Florida. His favorite activity is to memorize the last words of famous people, his favorite of them all was “I go to seek a great perhaps”, stated by the poet Francois Rebalais. Miles feels that his life now in Florida is not up to par with what he wishes it was. The prospect of boarding school excites Miles and is a family legacy on his dad’s side. Mrs. Halter, Miles’s mom, is nervous for him and doesn’t want him to leave but his dad thinks Culver Creek will be good for him.
“Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, which narrates her experience with woodchucks and how she lost her humanity trying to protect her garden from the pesky creatures. She uses such a simple past experience to symbolize something more profound. Throughout the poem she is at war with the woodchucks and as the story progresses, her means of extermination do as well. In the end, she uses a rifle to kill them all she is left saddened as she watches the last woodchuck die. The simplicity of the title is perfect for this poem because it leads the reader into thinking the poem is going to be a happy story about an encounter with a woodchuck, when in reality it is the retelling of the author killing woodchucks..
The poem fully develops the idea of the limited of privileges that some might have according to the their races and the racial division. The “borderlands” is the division of a place, but in the eyes of Gloria she makes the character grow up in a place where there is a racial division. The character is in the middle of how of her race is important as her cultural ways get in the way of trying to practice each one of them. The poet writes in both english and spanish to explain how she speaks to the different races she carries. As you read the poem you can feel how the tone changes as the author is speaking of the different events that she goes through in her life.
In the poem Winter Fear, Kay Ryan depicts nature as “cruel” and “unforgiving”. She uses realism to convey the theme, “ self reflection can lead you to discoveries about yourself”. Kay Ryan also uses synecdoches and symbolism as tools to support the theme and translate the real connotation of the poem. In the beginning of “ Winter Fear”, the speaker begins to question the unraveling of her life with questions, “ Is this winter or is it worse/
Drifters by Bruce Dawe “Why have hope?”, is the question raised in the poem “Drifters” by Bruce Dawe. Bruce Dawe’s poem explores how change can damage a family 's relationship and cause them to drift apart. This poem has underlying and straight forward themes depicted about change. Straight forward depiction is the physical movement of the family from place to place and not everyone is in favour of this change. The very first line of the poem, “One day soon he’ll tell her it’s time to start packing”, supports the inevitable change that no one else has a say in except the man.
Many people go through horrors in their life. However, most don’t record them in the way Poe did. From a young age Poe experienced death in his family. As Poe lived his life, he started using his feelings and life experiences in his work. He based his feelings in his poems such as Annabel Lee and Alone.
While such transformations of people behind bars can leave a permanent mark such events and daily invasion of privacy contribute to these permanent changes as described in his poem, Its Going To Be A Cold Winter, “They enter my cell: a legal pillow fight begins with my books and papers. Stir crazy madmen, papers sidling down to the cement floor, my mattress turned over, sheets torn away like a mask hiding tons of heroin; but nothing, only cotton, cheap sweaty moldy-smelling cotton, picked by slaves, sewed up by slaves, slaves of the Greater State, that come in all colors.” (Baca, p.6) He amply provides the reader a clear understanding of this loss of privacy and the random acts of invasion, as he is left unable to say anything about these activities by the guards. Baca continues to distinguish the role of forced slavery in its modern form in prisons while subtly indicating the role of racialized discrimination.
The poem, At Mornington was written by Australian poet, Gwen Harwood. It was published in 1975 under her own name. At Mornington is about a woman reminiscing about her past when she is with her friend. There are many themes explored in this poem including memory, death and time passing.
In many poems, poets use nature as a metaphor for human life. In "Storm Warnings" by Adrienne Rich, she uses an approaching storm as a metaphor for an emotional storm inside herself. Although, there is a literal meaning of the poem. There really is an incoming storm. Rich uses structure, specific detail, and imagery to convey the literal and metaphorical meanings of the poem.
The attitudes to grief over the loss of a loved one are presented in two thoroughly different ways in the two poems of ‘Funeral Blues’ and ‘Remember’. Some differences include the tone towards death as ‘Funeral Blues’ was written with a more mocking, sarcastic tone towards death and grieving the loss of a loved one, (even though it was later interpreted as a genuine expression of grief after the movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral” in 1994), whereas ‘Remember’ has a more sincere and heartfelt tone towards death. In addition, ‘Funeral Blues’ is entirely negative towards death not only forbidding themselves from moving on but also forbidding the world from moving on after the tragic passing of the loved one, whilst ‘Remember’ gives the griever
