Imagine a day where everything changes to something new. The daily routine is unrecognizable and suddenly everything becomes a blur. Remembering last christmas or even the day before seems impossible and all the information disappears. This represents the daily life of people with Alzheimer's disease. In the book, Last Night in the OR by Bud Shaw, the final chapter of the book is “Good Days and Bad.”
The speaker of this poem is the author, who is also the daughter of whom she writes about. Ideally, the writer narrates the poem in order to genuinely explain the turmoil loved ones face on a daily basis while dealing with this disease. The beginning of the poem creatively uses a simile to introduce us to “a crazy old man back
An example from the text is “For the past three days, I’ve been doing better: I’m taking all my supplements again and my shots, and it hasn’t felt quite as much as if I’m constantly swimming in a bubble of water that makes it hard to understand what people say or to focus on them.” This demonstrates that the author wants us to connect with the situation Jacob is in with one of our own because Jacob describes how he has been doing and connects it to being under water. Most people know that when you are underwater you can’t really hear or see what is going on around you. This simile makes it really easy to connect with the way Jacob is feeling and it helps the reader understand what life is like for him with Asperger's. While some people argue that this simile was not meant to help the reader connect with Jacob and his life with Aspergers but rather as a way to show how Jacob is feeling, but, clearly the author wants the reader to connect this situations to one of their own because otherwise Jodi Picoult wouldn’t of used a simile to connect Jacob’s current state to something that so many people have experienced and can connect with.
Through the use of literary devices like similes and imagery, Jane Kenyon accentuates her life experiences such as living with her husband and her incessant depression. She is capable of creating the peculiar effect of making the reader see a picture of the original subject and the object of comparison. For instance, Kenyon uses similes to compare emotions to vivid, captivating objects in order to display the theme she is communicating throughout the poem. In The Suitor, Kenyon states that “Suddenly I understand that I am happy / For months this feeling / has been coming closer, stopping / for short visits, like a timid suitor” (Kenyon, The Suitor, 9-11).
Countee Cullen uses many metaphors in her poem to convey the emotions that she’s wants her readers to feel. She, in the beginning, believed that “your grief and [hers] must intertwine like the sea and river”
The poem Alzheimer’s by Kelly Cherry, portrays a second person perspective of an old man suffering from a disease known as Alzheimer’s, an experience I can relate with to a degree. The reason I can relate to the poem Alzheimer’s through my personal experiences is caused by the fact my maternal grandmother currently suffers from Parkinson’s disease and my uncle’s mother who used to suffer a disease, that I believe to be Alzheimer’s or a disease similar to Alzheimer’s since the major symptom was memory loss. Parkinson’s disease, like Alzheimer’s, is a disease in which the nervous system is affected, but without memory loss and with more symptoms towards motor skills. I can relate to the speaker as he says “Roses and columbine slug it out for space, claw the mortar (A).” because the speaker
In her poem “My Father Calls Me Every Sunday Morning,” Jan Heller Levi’s bitter wording contrasts with her tranquil images to evoke an ambivalent tone towards her father. This juxtaposition mirrors the conflict in Levi’s relationship with her stern father; there is genuine love in it, but also frustration over its price. Levi’s brewing aggravation regarding her father’s selfish nature is captured by her acrimonious choice of diction. While waiting for her father’s phone call, Levi’s opinion of her dad is made clear. She can feel him “punch”(8) the numbers into his phone, each note “Pulsing;/ through 200 miles of tense wire”(10-11) hurling towards her.
Ode to Alzheimer Ever since the days of winter, spring, and fall I am finding it increasingly difficult to recall Summer may be here, but I’m definitely not Little by little, I’m losing all I’ve been taught Small pieces of me break away each day The mirror shows someone lost in a way I am unable to explain and cannot describe What I am feeling, doing, or thinking inside She and the doctor sit facing each other
Simile: Jane "had flown at (John Reed) like a mad cat" comparing Jane's behavior to that of a wild beast. Metaphor: Jane describes Mr. Brocklehurst as "a black pillar," a stack of stone blocks, because of his impressive figure and dark dress. Simile: Jane loves her doll; it is one of the few possessions she has, and it brings her comfort. She describes it as being "shabby as a miniature scarecrow," meaning that her doll is ragged. The similes and metaphors add to the overall meaning of the text by expressing examples of Jane's
He tries to forget about her by renewing his wardrobe, but nothing will replace the relationship he had with her. The poet wants us to feel sympathy for him, because he goes on about how sad he is and how bad he wants his girlfriend back.
Throughout the poem, Achebe uses free verse to represent the continuous flow of the crestfallen emotions and thoughts of the mother, due to the poverty she and her son have to suffer. The suffering of the single-parent family is explicitly highlighted when Achebe describes the mother’s, “ghost-smile between her teeth.” The juxtaposition “ghost-smile” suggests that the mother’s smile is forced, she purposely held the smile up in order to cover up her depressed and hopeless emotions. This amplifies the unconditional love a mother has for her son as she only wants to show the best side of her in front of her son. Love can also be portrayed in a depressed light when the mother used, “A broken comb and combed” her son.
When Amy was forty – seven she became a fiction writer. She had changed a lot from when she was a sixteen-year-old. She was writing a story about a girl and her mother. She received a phone call from her mother which was so unusual. Her mother had Alzheimer’s, that was the
An Analysis of “Those Winter Sundays” The title “Those Winter Sundays”has a double meaning to it. On one hand, the title can be taken literally, meaning the poem speaks of the days of the winter season that the author’s father would wake up early to make fires and warm the house. However, the title can also be taken another way. The word “winter” in the title could also refer to the cold, indifferent way the narrator treats his father and how empty and frigid the relationship between the narrator and his father seems to be.
Her journey to her father expresses how much love she has for him. From the momment she leaves her home packing in only five minutes and arrive to only discover that her phone departured in only ten minutes, she gave it her all and made it. Olds interprets of enjambent, allusion, and metaphors prepares the storyline of the poem. She chronoloiges her evenst well and allows the resder to fell a part of the story. To the point of feeling anxious along with the writer and desperate to
The poet compared the graves like a shipwreck that is the death will take the human go down and drowning to the underground like the dead bodies in the graves. The last line “as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul.” is like the rotting of the dead bodies. The second stanza there is one Simile in this
