Each stanza also makes the readers question their opinions and their understanding of the poem and the street. While analyzing Kenneth’s poem we see his use of imagery , personification, metaphorical language and repetition. With the end of each stanza repeating the words “you find this ugly, I find this lovely” the use of repetition gives the audience the sense of how the poet is displaying his message with this literary technique. The repetition also gives insight in how he see’s something that everyone calls ugly as something beautiful. The readers are also always drawn back to processing their opinions with his use
As the “poor girl” from the Bronx, she struggled to fit in with her wealthier peers. She also struggled with the separation from what had become her responsibilities at home. One of which was her brother. Although he was the same age he did not have the same drive as her. Each time she returned home for a visit she was always met with what was destined to become of her if she didn’t succeed.
Have you ever thought about how the story of a pie is similar to the story of a person? In the poem “Perfect for any Occasion,” Alberto Ríos explores the idea that there are fortunate and unfortunate people in the world using an extended metaphor of good pies and bad pies. The fortunate people don 't need to work hard for luxuries and attention. However, there are the unfortunate people who had to put up a fight for what the fortunate people have, but no fortune or attention ever came of it. In his poem, Ríos discretely and creatively makes the argument that there are good and bad pies, like there are privileged and disadvantaged people who are placed in their respective situations.
Furthermore, as she questions her motives she asks herself why she set her hopes on such “moldering dust” (Bradstreet 39). Unlike God, material possessions decay over time. Bradstreet is frustrated that she put so much hope in the survival of her belongings despite knowing they would not last forever like God. McKay’s poem also writes about an internal conflict, however, he feels conflicted between New York and his homeland. Being away from where he once called home creates “a wave of longing” and desire to go back (McKay 10).
By pursuing the lives they desired separately they found happiness. Although their traditional family was broken apart into separate pieces they came together in the end and formed a new, unconventional, and healthier
In the midst of all of this he finds a balance by focusing on what really matters. At the same time this keeps him focused on his main goal which is education. Education will be his family's way out of poverty. Through seeing his younger brother that is unemployed and will be having a child soon he looks beyond this and is genuinely proud of where he comes from. He realizes how strong his family is when he seems them fighting through poverty and making things.
This is a metaphor for how people during the Great Depression felt about their situations. Most experienced poverty at the time, but had no way to speak out against everything they were going through because the whole nation was having the same issues as
Mary Oliver’s lyric poem, “The Journey”, is an engaging and uplifting depiction of the slow yet crucial and significant path to individuality. Written in succinct free-verse and strewn with images illustrating the obstacles and hardships that fill one’s life, along with images portraying the eventual surmount of these afflictions, “The Journey” provides readers with a sense of hope that one day they will find their voice, their identity. Through the use of compelling visual and metaphorical imagery, contradicting tones, repetition, and simple diction, Oliver leads the reader to conclude that the journey to individuality is both demanding and rewarding. Oliver begins the poem by immediately highlighting the eventual acknowledgement of the persona’s need to strive for individuality as well as the depth of the ongoing pressures and challenges that come with doing so, developing a dismal yet almost optimistic tone.
“The grass always looks greener on the other side” is a popular saying that means things may appear better than they really are. The poems I had been hungry all the years by Emily Dickinson and The Lighted Window by Sara Teasdale share the common theme that the things people desire in youth are no longer appealing when they grow up. Both poets convey the theme through keywords or phrases and figurative language. Dickson and Teasdale use keywords or phrases to show that the things people desire in youth are no longer appealing when they grow up.
(lines 9-10). This poem reflects on reality for many of the individuals who lived in poverty and the ones who are trying to get out of these types of situations. The speaker wonders what happens to a deferred dream. It is not entirely clear who the speaker is, perhaps the poet, or a professor, or an undefined black man or woman. In stanzas 2-11, the speaker wonders “if it dries up like a raisin in the sun? /
The author wants her reader to embrace the fact that some people choose to be lonely. The Box Man chooses to live his life freely. He may not want to have to live up to the expectations of society. On the other hand, some people do not choose solitude but it just happens to be that way with society. The author continues a story about a women who lives a pretty comfortable life.
The symbolic imagery “city lights lay out before us” determines that the narrator has reached her goal leaving poverty, they have finally escaped their old
In the end, the poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco talks about how it’s good to be unique, to be yourself. Julio Noboa Polanco uses the literary devices of alliteration, simile, and repetition. I think the message of the poem reflects certain things that happen in life. Like people can be someone but not
The repeating of “To” gives great significance to the succeeding words which are the detailed attributes he wants the reader to have a yearning desire for. By incorporating these writing methods into their poems, Guest and Larson produce a more memorable and understandable
As a first year university student away from home, we all start to feel nostalgic for the innocence and lack of responsibility of our years past. This poem shows the genius of Meehan, of how she can evoke such a response and make a statement with just a 4 line
