Armitage Street by David Hernandez is a short poem that is about a narrator whose’ waiting on a train to leave Armitage Street their favorite childhood street. Both of these authors shows there's no need to have it all just make the best of what you have. Gary shows this through Metaphor and Character actions and David did this through First Person and Description. Both of these text proves life has struggles and things is not always perfect. In the text “Mother and Daughter” Yollie and her mom are both trying to make ends meet they are poor and it’s hard for her mother to get her everything she wants.
Personally, I would describe the narrator of the song as hardworking and dedicated to the quality of his work, but also tired and disheartened. Those who listen to the song can tell that the narrator is a hardworking individual when he described, “I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine / I loaded sixteen tons of number 9 coal” (Ford), for collecting sixteen tons of coal is no easy feat but he continues to do so day after day. Additionally, the narrator can also be physically described as well-built and strong due to the impact of his labor on his body, as seen by the lines, “A poor man's made outta' muscle and blood / Muscle and blood and skin and bones / A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong” (Ford).
In the poem “To be of Use” Marge Piercy uses figurative language to show the readers how she feels about hardworks. The figurative language helps compare the water buffalo to the hard workers. In line 9 and 10, Piercy uses a simile when she says “Who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience/ who strain in the mud and muck to move things forward.” By comparing the water buffalo to hard workers it shows that when hard workers have to push through tough obstacles or things that might prevent them from getting the job done, they still find a way to overcome the problem and finish the job. In addition, Piercy uses metaphors to explain how hard they work.
Some jobs that deem one as eminent are simply too tough to accomplish. Fort displays the idea that the father in the poem works at a horrendous job where he, “left the factory floor with oil and sawdust inside his mouth” (line 21); this supports the idea that decent paying jobs are far too arduous to acquire, thus making it nearly unmanageable to meet society’s standard of success. In this example, the father will not meet modern-day requirements that define success because of the strains of his job that make him want to relax without the stress of work. Furthermore, in “The Mill,” Edwin Arlington Robinson illustrates a figurative interpretation of the brutality under certain work related circumstances. Robinson, through the lens of Psychoanalytic Criticism, explains that, “what was hanging from a beam” (line 15), was a tempered man who committed suicide because he was unable to meet society’s ideals of being successful.
Author’s lives inspire their writing in many ways. An illustrious writer, Edgar Allan Poe, experienced continuous sufferings throughout his life. The heartaches he faced transferred into his writing. Poe’s works are dark and traumatic, such as “The Pit and the Pendulum.” He uses the unthinkable and shapes short stories out of them.
Poetry is an important part of literature which conveys an author 's ideas across to the reader through the use of descriptive language. Poetry helps an author to express their inner emotions and often incorporates various poetic devices which enriches the text. Poetry gives the reader a different perspective and when read closely, can give the audience a look into the authors imagination. Likewise, poetic devices enhance the writing and can drastically change the mood of the poem, as well as, how the reader interprets the poem. Poetic devices are important in literature because they help to convey a message, add spontaneity to a poem, and give the reader a strong visual.
This poem uses alliteration,imagery,figurative language,assonance,rhyme and rhythm to capture you all the way to the
Egg Horror poem Laurel Winter What is life worth if all a egg is doing is sitting jostled in the cold and dark egg carton that is lying in the refrigerator waiting to be eaten. Watching one by one as your peers vanish into the kitchen. Laurel Winter uses personification, metaphor, figurative language, point of view and descriptive imagery. First the poem is told from the eggs point of view.
In Laurie Ann Guerrero’s “Ode To My Boots” it is clear that the poet is addressing how she relates to her boots. The poet details how her boots give her a sense of courage, power, strength, and the ability to be acknowledged. Throughout the poem, the author praises the boots that she wears because it makes her feel empowered. Almost to the point as if she is having a conversation with them. Hence, this unique quality distinguishes and enables the poets’ ability to be able to compare herself to the power of boots.
Poetry plays with your mind and feelings at the same time. I identified myself with these two poems and clearly I will say the reason of that. I am Latina and English is my second language. In order for have a brief summary of these poems I would say that “Biligual/Bilingue” by Rhina Espaillat tells us the consequences of blending languages. The author explains the difficulties of have a father that did not allow her to speak both English and Spanish in their house.
By nature, shorter poems are more densely packed with cues and devices because authors cannot express their intended message over the sweeping length of a poem but rather they must be more concise and creative. A poet may write a shorter poem to juxtapose a simple surface message to a more meaningful deeper message. Thus, complexity and artistic value are unrelated to length, but rather, they are developed through masterful writing. “Good Times” by Lucille Clifton embodies the double-edged sword of complex storytelling within a short poem, as she identifies the speaker 's occasional good memories to develop an image of the speaker’s typical abject life. The short poem is crafted with patterns of repetition, for there are so few lines to fit meaningful insight into.
Some poems may have a strict structural form while others may not. The writer can incorporate one of many poetic devices into his work to relay his message to the reader. Examples analyzed today include poetic sound, onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme, meter, and verse. An example of poetic sound, onomatopoeia, and alliteration can be found in Helen Chasin’s short poem “The Word Plum”.
Walt Whitman captures his audience’s attention with his realism poetry and free verse poetry throughout much of his life as a poet. Whitman was a man of the civil war era and in his poem “The Wound-Dresser” shows his life experiences in the war come full force in the way he conveys his contribution in the civil war. His view of the war as a wound-dresser and he describes some of the most horrendous scenes imaginable from the eyes of an everyday man. His poem “The Wound-Dresser” doesn’t show the war from a distance, but from right on the battlefield in its unedited version as written by Whitman. The way Whitman conveys his poems of the everyday man’s life in his time-period is presented by utilizing his realism style to connect to the audience and his gruesomely descriptive vocabulary.
There is such a bigger meaning to these poems on overcoming hardships in life that everyone has to go through. To not give up and to fight for what is
The poem that did a better job describing the subject was The Concrete
