In the poem, “ Let America be America again”, Langston Hughes asserts that America does not live up to what it actually should be. Hughes’ tone seems to be angry and [exasperated]. He implicates the perspective of one particular group, but many people. The poem represents that many people come here with high hopes and big dreams but they are let down. He states that [prosperity] is one of the reasons that there is an economic inconsistency where the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer.
This passage captures the details and vivid colors that will be alluring to children and creates a wonderful imagery. Such as the "moths" and "sweet voiced threshers" this young girl is experiencing nature in its full glory. Furthermore, as children everything seems bigger and the description of the old Pinetree being a “landmark for the sea” shows and creates an image that glorifies this symbol of initiation.
In the Lake of the Woods Analysis In chapter one of the poem, Tim O’Brien begins by introducing two unnamed characters who, indeed after the aftermath of a primary election, the audience learn that they decide to rent a cottage in what the author refers to as Lake of the Woods. The area surrounding the cottage has no people or towns. However, the same cottage has a beautiful view in terms of a lake facing to the north of Canada. The two unnamed characters came to the place in sought of solitude and togetherness. From this perspective, O’Brien develops his fiction story from a point of uncertainty.
The “Boy at the Window” written by Richard Wilbur is a tender poem that examines the anxieties of early life but is created by the author into two poems in one. Richard Wilbur utilizes two different points of view of the two main characters in his poem. This technique makes the reader think of the terrible truth of winter in a whole new light. Wilbur uses the word “boy” to not depict an individual person but a universal one of the gender in general. Starting in stanza 1 the boy is looking out of the window at the snowman who is “standing all alone,” a remark that creates a lonely mood of the poem from the beginning.
In “Oranges”, Gary Soto puts the reader in a romantic scene where a boy is on a date with a girl. The boy’s affection is shown by what he does with two oranges. He is not particularly wealthy so he uses one orange as payment for a chocolate bar. While the girl eats the chocolate he eats his other orange. Instead of having the chocolate or even sharing it, he is selfless and gives the whole bar to her.
He reads, talks, prays, and even laughs to himself as he enters the solitude and blackness of the forest. It is clear that he loves himself, which is the key message. He prefers being alone over anything else. It seems as though a reconnection with God is in attempt here as
Life just wasn't fair! Thought the once famous detective of east as he slowly followed the procession making it's way though endless rows and past countless more. It felt like an eternity had gone by before they came to a stop at their destination. He cast his gaze beyond the procession and watched with eyes that had once shone a cerulean blue as deep as the sea and endless as the sky. Now cold, lifeless, empty as if they'd been replaced with glass, as they placed the grave marker in the ground.
This poem takes place in what seems to be a forest, filled with animals. This is supported in the first line of the poem when Jeffers describes, “The deer were bounding like blown leaves”. Blown leaves are usually moving in the same direction very closely. The deer is moving live blown leaves in order to escape the fire that was behind them. “I thought of the smaller lives that were caught” is what Jeffers says as he or the narrator describes what is transcribing in front of them.
Paragraph one tells you how the woods serves as a place of shelter; The second paragraph explains how the woods becomes a enemy; paragraph three serves as a shelter and enemy/fear; and paragraph four argues is the woods more a shelter or a place of horror. There is often a duality (two) sides to all that we encounter "nothing is all good or all bad, but thinking makes it so. ""The mind is its own place, and can make a hell of heaven, a heaven of hell. "- John
In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”, the subject matter is touching on the loneliness of being a loving father or parent. It is about a child realizing how hard their father works and labors to keep them cared for and warm, and how little that father is acknowledged, appreciated, and thanked for his work. The language used by Robert Hayden in his poem is appropriate to the subject matter. It is appropriate because it conveys the tone of loneliness. Some of the poetic devices used in “Those Winter Sundays” are alliteration, assonance, and metaphors.
When explaining "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, the core relationship between the two different genres becomes evident. Through meaningful analysis and research, considering both stories' chosen themes and literary devices is crucial to connect them similarly. The main difference being the way both genres use similar literary terms for their own unique purpose to convey two different adventures with fiction and poetry. Analyzing both journeys through a fictional and poetic setting creates a memorable and unexpected comparison. Robert Frost and Eudora both present captivating journeys with similar literary devices and overall motivating themes of the two works.
However, the poem also hints at a deeper sloth, a sloth that tempts the narrator into death and despair. The narrator of this poem seems to show slight, though not overwhelming, guilt for indulging in this shallow form of sloth, watching the woods rather than continuing home, when he says “My little horse must think it queer/ to stop without a farmhouse near…He gives his harness bells a shake/ to ask if there is some mistake” (Frost 5-6, 9-10). These lines hint that the narrator knows that he has work to do and should be continuing home, but does not feel too guilty for indulging in this virtuous sloth. However, he shows slightly more guilt for being tempted by the deeper despair of sloth saying, “But I have promises to keep/ and miles to go before I sleep/ and miles to go before I sleep” (Frost14-16).
The themes in “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost” and “Live Like You Were Dying” are very similar. The theme in the poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, is that no matter what opportunity you are provided to take the easy way out of life, always finish your duties and honor your promises. Just because you can end your life now doesn't mean that life is done with you quite yet. If you promised your neighbor that you’d give him a horse, themn give him a horse.
Both these show that there is a calm mood in the passage because it describes all the plants around like time is slow and he is taking in as much detail as he can around him. Farther down in the same paragraph he mentions some animals,such as “Rabbits come out of the brush and sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of ‘coons,and with the split-wedge tracks of deer that come to
Frost utilizes analogous imagery throughout his poems; specifically in this poem, he uses natural imagery like the woods and roads to signify these themes. The woods represent indecision and instinct. Everywhere in literature, the plots of novels and poems alike contain characters lost in the woods. Similarly, in “The Road Not Taken”, the woods represent indecision while an adrift traveler wanders lost in the woods (Rukhaya). Frost repeatedly uses this symbol, and “the image...has represented indecision in Frost’s other poems…
