ipl-logo

The Poem The Sloth Theodore Roethke

699 Words3 Pages

The sloth The poem the sloth by Theodore Roethke. Theodore Roethke was born and raised in Saginaw Huebner. The green house that his father owned “Was my symbol for the whole life, the womb.” Roethke was the first one in his family to attened collage. In 1963, Roethke suffered from a heart attack in his friends swimming pool. The swimming pool is now a public Zen rock Garden that can be viewed by the public.The tittle of the poem tells us that the poem is going to be about a animal. In moving slow he has no peer You ask him something in his Ear He thinks about it for a Year The speaker starts the poem by telling us that there isn’t another animal that can compete with the animal sloth slowness. In line three where the speaker said: “ He thinks about it for a year.” He is informing us that the animal is not only slow in movement, he is also slow in thinking, if you ask him something it takes him almost a year to realize that he had been asked. The speaker probably wants to tell us that sloths are dumb. …show more content…

The speaker tells us that bird sits on top of the branch and the sloth will hang upside down. The speaker describes the sloth as being quiet or of few words but he assumes that we know what he was going to say or what he was thinking about. A most Ex-as-per-at-ing Lug But should you call his manner Smug, He’ll sigh and give his Branch a

Show More
Related
111 Words | 1 Pages

The Lucinda Matlock poem was written by amazing author name Edgar Lee Masters. Edgar Lee Masters had a successful career as a lawyer in his Chicago firm. He wrote many of him poems, plays, and essays in his firm, but when one of his friends gave him a copy of Selected Epitaphs from the Greek Anthology, which is a collection of Epitaphs that captured the essence of people’s personal lives. Edgar Lee Masters used the advice from the Epitaph to disregard conventional rhyme and meter, to produce a series of poems about lives of people in rural southern Illinois. He used the advice he was given the poem of Lucinda

Read More
529 Words | 3 Pages

Secondly, another insight that I gained from this podcast is that sloth involves the resistance to the effort we need to make to be changed by love. This resistance is a consequence of the desire to stay in one’s comfort zone. Our relationship with God and our neighbors involves accepting a new identity that needs to be lived out daily for the rest of our life.

Read More
799 Words | 4 Pages

The imagery of the first poem greatly contrasts from the overall tone. In “A Barred Owl,” Richard Wilbur describes an owl frightening a child and waking her from her slumber. Wilbur sets the scene with dark imagery: “The warping night air brought the boom/ Of an owl’s voice into her darkened

Read More
700 Words | 3 Pages

What is the purpose of all the contrasting, descriptive imagery? What elements underlyingly stand for other items? The poem opens with the speaker reflecting on their past and relating to frogs asserting that they

Read More
355 Words | 2 Pages

The Raven: A Delusional State of Mind In the short story “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, the raven is very likely just a bird that flew into the window, but the narrator proves his delusional state of mind by quoting the raven nevermore. The narrator believes the raven is speaking to him because he is grieving over his lost wife Lenore, the bird is there and he describes it, and he demonstrates his delusional mind by suggesting that the bird has spoken to him. The narrator in this short story believes the raven is speaking to him because he is grieving over his lost Lenore.

Read More
372 Words | 2 Pages

The poem, “The Death of a Toad” by Richard Wilbur, ponders the appearance and reverie that a toad may have towards the end of its life. Wilbur uses careful structure, imagery and diction to gradually show that to the speaker, the death of the toad starts as just a simple cease of breathing; but it transforms into a mystical journey. Wilbur arranges events to follow the thoughts, and adjustments, that the speaker's attitude goes through. The poem bluntly starts with the rather insensitive perception “A toad the power mower caught.” The basic absence of sympathy is obvious in the description that follows in the next few lines about the toads wounds, and actions.

Read More
699 Words | 3 Pages

Mrs. Wright is the main character in Susan Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles. While Mrs. Wright is being held by the police for her husband’s murder, a few men go to investigate her home, and a few women go along to gather some of her things to bring to her in jail. As the ladies collect Mrs. Wright’s possessions, they begin to come across trifles. The trifles include: a messy kitchen, a poorly sewn quilt, and a broken bird cage with a missing bird. The women view these items as important clues, and withhold their findings from the men so that they could help Mrs. Wright out of her troubles.

Read More
920 Words | 4 Pages

Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven” is a narrative poem which addresses the themes of death and melancholy through the repeated line of the ominous visitor “the raven” saying, “Nevermore” and the bleak mood that prevails the poem. It consists of eighteen stanzas composed of six lines each. The repetition of the phrase “nevermore” at the end of each stanza emphasizes the narrator's despair. Also, this repetition is one of the reasons that drive him mad. Hearing this phrase, “nevermore” constantly, the narrator is finally on the brink of frenzy.

Read More
934 Words | 4 Pages

How would you feel if someone could control what you were thinking? In “The Feed” written by M.T Anderson, everyone living in the community had a feed in their brain that was controlled by one large organization. Violet, the main character, suffers through a malfunction in her feed that changes the way she sees her society. Most people’s opinions can be changed when they have experienced the benefits and the disadvantages of something. Since Violet is aware of how life is with and without the feed, she becomes hesitant to believing that her community is being run efficiently.

Read More
567 Words | 3 Pages

" Minnaloushe reflects the moon, for the light in his eyes is light reflected into them from the moon. As the moon changes, the cat's eyes are the personification of the moon's phases. This compare and contrast between poems can be perceived in many ways that are the same, and many ways that are different. Either way, these cats are quite a

Read More
506 Words | 3 Pages

a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a

Read More
575 Words | 3 Pages

Planned Parenthood has remained a controversial topic in government and in households throughout America. There are split views on whether it should be funded by government or not, not to mention the underlying moral dilemma when it comes to abortions. In essence, Planned Parenthood was funded $500,000 in 2014. Though they are not prohibited to use federal funding on abortions, but Planned Parenthood conducts around 300,000 abortions a year using other funding. Recently, an anti-abortion group conducted an undercover interview and discovered that Planned Parenthood uses fetal tissue for scientific research, which is against the law.

Read More
472 Words | 2 Pages

Throughout literature, an author's works always reflects their mood and character. Edgar Allen Poe is an American writer who's poem and short stories reflected on his ominous mood. In the poem, "The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe is about a raven that flies into a lonely and sad man's house, he is alone and weak, he is weary of trying to distract himself from his sorrow. It expresses Poe's sense of melancholy and gloominess. The speaker's tone changes throughout the poem dramatically changes as he realizes the true meaning of meeting with the Raven.

Read More
817 Words | 4 Pages

The Sloth The author of the Sloth is Theodore Roethke. The title shows that the whole poem will be based on the sloth and how it lives. In this poem the author uses figurative language such as personification, imagery and metaphors as well as sound devices like rhyme schemes, repetition and alliteration to emphasize and explain what the sloth does in the poem and how it lives.

Read More
873 Words | 4 Pages

“Lament” is written in 7 stanzas, with 3 lines per stanza. In the first stanza, Clarke laments for the pregnant green turtle, which lays “her eggs” in a “nest of sickness”. “Her” is used stimulating a more personal feeling of maternity. Clarke uses the term “nest” in an ironic way.

Read More

More about The Poem The Sloth Theodore Roethke

Related Topics

Open Document