David Wagoner's Poem, Their Bodies
“The Blood Stained Banders” is an African American spiritual sung by Blind Jimmie Strothers. Strothers was a banjo and guitar player who was blinded by an explosion at the mines that he worked at. After being convicted of murdering his wife with an axe, he was sent to the state penitentiary. There, he was found by Alan Lomax and Harold Spivacke who were working on finding field recordings for the Library of Congress. They recorded multiple songs sung by Strothers, among which is “The Blood Stained Banders”, an original composition.
"They left my hands like a printer’s or thieves before a police blotter" (line1-2), which begins the poem with an unforeseen dull meaning. This makes an unmistakable picture of his hands recolored purple, in each niche and wrinkle on his hand. The words in this poem influences it to appear that the boy considers himself nothing superior to a criminal. The boy fending for himself denies him of that sweet youth purity. However, "almost needful as forgiveness"(line 12-13), gives the feeling that the boy is waiting for pardoning.
After reading “Dothead” by Amit Majmudar I considered looking at the year in which the poem was written and right underneath the poem it marked 2011. Looking at the year I thought about the speaker's point of view, based off his writing it seemed to me as if he were going back in time and reviving his past memories. I pictured the scenario to be in a upper class school, that filled the cafeteria “Jesse sucked his chocolate milk,”(Majmudar 20) with pale faces and some seats with other skin colors. Just by picturing the scenario I became to imagine what that could do to a person who is different from everybody else. Majmudar poem gives us a glance of his past experience of being an indian in an all american white school.
1.“Oh, yes. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Someday you be walking down the road and you hear something or see something going on. So clear.
Christopher Hitchens, utilizes his media outlet as a coping/informing mechanism. He equates being diagnosed with cancer to transcending to a new land. He makes light of the situation by trying to reduce the tension. In addition, this ‘new land’ has its own language(medical terminology) and “unsettling gestures”(physical examination).
It takes the form of a series of lessons; the point of the lessons, according to the mother, is to teach her daughter to behave and act properly” (Wellesley, pars. 1-2) .The daughter realizes that the mother commands a lot of her. Starting at the very beginning of the poem, throughout and at the end of the poem the daughter is demanded by the mother to perform tasks. ”Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap” (Kincaid).
Title? Belonging is the pivotal axis around which human life revolves. Genuine poetry reflects directly or indirectly an awareness of the social problems of a country. Belonging and poetry, Miss Lawlor and my fellow students is one of the most curious combinations and this is what we see in the genre of poetry produced by the Australian poets in the 1960’s when……... Bruce Dawe was a vernacular poet known for his extraordinary empathy with people which characterises his poetry and gives a voice to the ordinary Australians.
Naomi Shihab Nye is a Poet, and a well known one at that, she has written many great pieces. The three that are the most life changing are Wedding Cake, Hidden and The Rider. Naomi has inspired so many women and people of other races that they can do anything they want, just like her. She is an amazing person who by defying all odds and being different than everyone else in her life and still doing what she wants to do.
The gentleness of these sounds emphasize the focus of the loving relationship between the father and the son, as the father is willing to make an ultimate sacrifice-- protecting his son, but at the same time being hit with all of the difficulties in life. As well as emphasizing that point, the letter “S” mimics the sound of rain falling, further intensifying the image and somber mood. However, in the latter stanzas, the sounds used are more harsh, such as the “d”, “g”, and “r” in “if we’re not willing to do what he’s doing/with one another”. The sounds emphasize the way the mood makes a sudden turn to the serious, connecting to the overall theme of being kind to others. Nye uses the harshness of those consonant sounds to draw a reader’s attention to the message of being kind, effectively conveying the seriousness the need for kindness is.
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.”
In “Anthem for a Doomed Youth” no love can be afforded, as evidenced by the treatment of the dead. All of these differing amounts of
An important message that is conveyed in the poem 'The Womb' by Apirana Taylor is 'The Impact of Colonisation on the Land' This message is emphasised throughout the poem by using effective language features. These techniques include narrative point of view, imagery and contrast. A persona is used throughout the poem to talk directly to the reader and make them feel responsible. Imagery creates a powerful picture in the reader's mind making them realise the impact on the land. Finally, there is an admirable sense of contrast in this poem going from anger to vengeance.
The poem consists of a monologue of one of the child’s parent who is explaining to his or her child about his or her childhood as the child is asking about the past trying to remember it. It seems as if the parent is denying what the child who talks about the cruel painful past the child had to suffer through over those years. Based on the poem it seems the child has been very badly treated with parts “nobody hurt you”,”nobody sent you away”... This the main topic of the poem the parent talks in a manner as if they were desperately trying cover up something the past presumably from the child now turned
Many persons struggle with internal and outward battles that may leave one wrecked with worry, doubt, and conflicting decisions. In the poem “Wrecked: A Poem About Surrender” by Jill Power, one sees the internal struggle of a woman or man as he/she tries to decide to go forth in full power because half effort will no longer suffice. In the following explication, one will see how this struggle is vocalized through the use of metaphor, Biblical allusion, and repetition. Power is an unusual poet since she is a simple woman, a wife, mother daughter and laundry doer. Power has no Nobel Prize or publishing contract, similar to most authors and poets read in academic works.
The poem, “Purity” shows a child approaching the speaker for her advice over the ducklings he is following. She gives him a brief instruction on how to help the mom duck and tells him not to touch the ducklings. The structure helps convey the detachment the speaker wants to have over the ducks as well as the disinterest the mom duck wants to have over her human touched ducklings. The structure of the poem affects the pace of it.
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