The dreams and hopes she has are without parameter and she had been progressing in her life. The sun has different meanings in the story, when she has a good moment; she is happy or had passed a good thing that just happen when the sun is in the zenith.
The poem begins with the speaker looking at a photograph of herself on a beach where the “sun cuts the rippling Gulf in flashes with each tidal rush” (Trethewey l. 5-7). The beach is an area where two separate elements meet, earth and water, which can represent the separation of the different races that is described during the time that her grandmother was alive and it can also represent the two races that are able to live in harmony in the present day. The clothing that the two women wear not only represent how people dressed during the different time periods, but in both the photographs of the speaker and her grandmother, they are seen standing in a superman-like pose with their hands on “flowered hips” (Trethewey l. 3,16). The flowers on the “bright bikini” (Trethewey l. 4) are used to represent the death of segregation, similar to how one would put flowers on a loved one’s grave, and on the “cotton meal sack dress” (Trethewey l. 17) it is used to symbolize love and peace in a troubled society.
In Rita Dove’s “Daystar”, there are several phrases and words that lead the reader of the poem to a profound understanding of the struggles that the main character of this poem experiences. According to the context of the poem, the main character appears to be a mother and wife in distress. Throughout the poem, she is presented as having a dreary, lethargic, and disconnected outlook of her current situation. The main question that must be asked is what the narrator tried to convey by stating that “she was nothing, pure nothing, in the middle of the day” (21-22). There are many possible answers strung across the poem that suggest why this mother describes her state of being in this way, such as the words that were being used to express how
The poem, Dirge Without Music, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, is expressing that a loss of a loved one can be difficult to overcome. In this poem, the author tends to repeat the same phrase. “I am not resigned” (Millay 1.1). According to the google dictionary being resigned means “Having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about.”
In the second section, the narrator's description of the sun reflects her emotional state. She initially described her former sun as such a pale yellow that "everything curled around the edges, almost fell apart. " Then she turns to her current sun, her current emotional state, and her new position in a northern climate, and reflects that it is "yellow," as if she were "weakening it trying to shine." Finally, she uses the lack of sunlight to describe her future, and the gray seascape filled with rain reflects her bleak outlook. The past, present, and future progression give the reader a strong sense of the narrator's doubts about her transition to the new environment.
What does it mean to be an American? In the textbook, it says: “How one understands the Revolution often dictates how one defines what it means to be American.” (Pg 138-137 ywap ) I want to take this idea and relate it to all American history. It is understanding events such as the laws and events that built the idea of being an American. Especially today when topics such as these that our founding fathers built are constantly being contested and discussed.
Due to this she became hopeless, which is reflected in the line “stars at night turned deep to dust”. The second verse of the song touches
Women have been fighting for their rights for too long now. Even though this oppression has reduced over time, there is still a substantial number of breakthroughs women can achieve. In just two little, fourteen-line poems, one can learn about the patriarchy between men and women Gwen Harwood’s Petrarchan Sonnet, “In the Park,” forewarns the reader about the intense, genuine life of being a divorced, single mother in the 1960s. However, Elizabeth Browning’s Petrarchan Sonnet, “How Do I Love Thee?” displays the blind love that men would lure women into by implying this false act of love to be seen as flawless.
Edina St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Oh, Oh You Will Be Sorry for that Word” is a lyric poem in which a woman is arguing with a man that started when he said something derogatory about her reading such a large book when she is a delicate creature. The woman is obviously upset about the fact her supposed friend/lover/husband behaved badly towards her. It is a Shakespearian Sonnet because the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG with a meter that most likely resembles trochaic. The only line that does not fit into the meter is line three. The poem has Masculine Rhyme because the words that rhyme do so with the last syllable.
Nevertheless, the last two lines of the poem are the most blatant indicators of the speaker’s regret. Everything else in the poem has only been hinting at the speaker’s realization of his childish ignorance, but he explicitly states that he didn’t understand the more understated ways of expressing love in the last two lines. Repetition serves as a powerful tool for amplifying the pain and regret felt by the speaker, as he openly criticizes his past self for thinking he had his father figured out without searching deeper. The son knows he can’t go back in time and teach himself the “austere,” or harsh, and “lonely offices,” meaning roles, of love. A parent’s love is mostly subtle, and his lack of understanding that as a child is something he can never take back.
I think that this was her main goal with this poem as well. It is stating about how when they finally do get equal rights, will they jump at the opportunity, or shy away in fear of change? I think that it is really interesting how she could relate this to her own life along with ours, even though it would be many years into the future. Personification is a main literary device used in this poem. She often refers to the sun as a person.
Margot cared about the poem she wrote the most. Everyone else wrote poems that they didn’t really care for. The poem she wrote was in paragraph 14, and 15. “I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.” This proves how interested and focused Margot is on the sun, it also shows how she misses the sun since she only gets to see it for one hour every seven years.
The speaker in the poem figuratively hooks the reader in through the readers own predictable insights about love and intimacy. What was thought to be yet another poem about love and intimacy, manages to surprise and challenge traditional views. In only two stanzas there are many different Post-Modern literary techniques used to grab the reader’s attention. The atypical form underscores how traditional perceptions are meaningless in today’s world, and it makes the reader feel uncomfortable. Further drawing focus to its honest connotations.
Her eyes filled up with tears and she let out a sob. As the children stood there watching Margot cry, they didn’t know what to do. “Uh, look Margot, we’re sorry. We didn’t realize how much the sun meant to you,” one of them said sorrowfully. Even Margot knew that was a lie because the sun was all that she talked about during school and in her poems.
His work reflects his extraordinary intelligence. Browning’s poems bring the “light to the evils of human nature” (“Robert Browning”1980). He did not have a lot of fans because people found his work different and the imperfections are qualities we now admire. Some of the qualities we now admire are the irregular rhyme scheme, the opposing characters, and the unclearness of the motives. What was seen then as unpopular; is now seen as unique and is appreciated.
