It illuminates the usually troubled relationship between a child and a father. It involves various contrasting themes such as love and admiration of a child towards the father and equally miscommunication or misunderstanding between the two individuals of different generations. Equally significant is the scenario of positive family relations. A father who deeply loves his son and is so committed to the family’s wellbeing, comfort, and possible happiness. The persona in the poem, in this case, the young son narrates about, “Sundays too my father got up early/…/then with cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze’’ (1, 2-3).…
Margarita Engle’s poem, “The Life of a Digger,” and Erica Funkhouser’s poem, “My Father’s Lunch,” reveal how life as manual laborers are filled with hard and strenuous work. Additionally, both poems concern specific people to show the differences in the repercussions of their work. In Engle’s poem, Henry the digger, finds his job leaves him feeling undignified, whereas in Funkhouser’s poem, the speakers father is rewarded with a good meal and his children’s appreciation. In both poems, the authors’ themes are representational of the lives of manual laborers. By comparing these two poems, we gain a glimpse of the reality between the differences of immigrant and non-immigrant laborers, and how those differences affect them.…
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe and Remember by Christina Rossetti share many similarities and differences. More specifically, the structure of these two poems can be compared and contrasted when looking at the rhyme scheme, word choice, and repetition. By doing so, the meaning of each poem is enhanced. To start off, both poems have a rhyme scheme, but each poem’s is unique. For example, Annabel Lee has the rhyme scheme: A,B,A,B,C,B, for the first stanza.…
The poem is a description of James Merrill’s account of his childhood experience through his parents’ divorce. His words, while brief, provided thorough descriptions of his experiences. He describes his parents by taking the reader through specific details that tell of their activities. His dad seemed to enjoy the party life and women in the personal setting and professionally attempting to make history and a lot of money. His mother is described as a person who enjoys the party lifestyle but become weary of it.…
wisdom, between the daughter and the mother, the reader should be able to easily connect to at least one aspect of bravery, fear, innocence, or wisdom. This should solidify the reader’s relatability to the characters and then enhance the aspect of individual trauma experienced throughout the poem, as previously mentioned. Dudley Randall’s executive use of speakers, their diction, and symbolism continues in the fourth stanza. In attempt to keep her daughter safe, the mother tells her daughter that she may not go downtown, but she that she can go to church instead: No, baby, no, you may not go,…
Black Boy is an account of a young African-American boy’s thoughts and obstacles growing up in the South, whose family lives in poverty and experience constant hunger. The main character in the story is Richard Wright, who is born in 1908. Richard opens the book with a description of himself as a four-year-old boy in Natchez Mississippi, and his family’s later move to Memphis. It describes his rebellious attitude against his parents and his days spent on the streets while his mother is at work. Richard is struggling to survive a racist community in the South.…
As such a legendary poet, there is no better way to, not only, show the outstanding work of Robert Frost, but also to analyze how his poetry personally connects to me. The first time that I herd this poem was when I was twelve, watching The Outsiders. The use…
Fredrich Smock in “So Close to the Bone” mentions “Most of his poems are about family… But you don't find much of that [small details] in these poems. What you do find--what the poet is searching for…” (Smock). Smock recognizes the importance of family to Lee, but also understands how his anecdotes are a tool that aids Lee in reaching a broader more universal topic.…
The author brilliantly used the syntax to make the poem more compelling to the readers. The repetition of the line “Watercress grows here and there” in the second, fourth, and the fifth stanza gave the poem an overall melodic rhythm. Moreover, the exact repetition of “Gentle maiden, pure and fair” in line 3,7,15, and 19 emphasized the young man’s desire for the fair lady. While exact line repetition occurred, repetition with small variations was also embedded in the poem as signals for plot…
A Stranger Me Smoking barrels, running forward, never thought what’s to be. Another rolling nightmare with no end in sight. Another day with this war has come for me, raising my rifle is hell that won’t let me be. The thought of violence helps to get this right. Molding me out of flesh, forged in the fire.…
1. Write a one paragraph response to # 5 on 345. The poet Robert Hayden expressed his love towards his father through his poem “Those Winter Sundays”. Even in the weekend day also his father work hard with his cracked hands occurred during his labour work.…
Elizabeth Bishop is one of the world’s most well known poets that has survived the ages with her excellent use of imagery and words to paint her poem as a picture. It is common in Bishop 's poems for her to use a certain style of writing out of habit as it is common in more than one piece, but sometimes that habit seems to creep toward an obsession. With some of Bishop’s poems, it is nice to use these words as a paintbrush on an easel, but for most of her work, it becomes more of a hindrance than a helpful tool. If Bishop had the power to keep her thoughts in control and not let her painting flow free by using words that told her tale instead of using underlying meanings, it might have had a stronger sense of understanding to the reader. Instead,…
Listening to poetry being read by the poet offers a new interpretation on how the poem is supposed to be perceived and responded to by the linguistic details the reader adds to the poem. Each reader offers their own way of reading each poem. Especially while reading the poem, “Sleepless,” Vona Groarke would slow down at the end of the stanzas with especial attention to an emphasis on the last words of the poem, accenting each one deliberately. By her placing a stress on these words, she made me pay attention more closely to the words of the poem which put a special importance that I did not notice before her reading. She was often not too loud with her readings, but loud enough to captivate the room.…
Another experience that the "Parents Poem" brings to mind is listening to my mother talk on the phone in her professional voice and her normal voice. The narrator talks about how his or her mom worked as a receptionist and she had her work voice and normal mother voice. When I call my mother at work she always answers her phone with her professional, proper phone voice. Once she realizes it me my mother goes back to her normal southern everyday voice. This made me smile and chuckle just a little after reading this part of the poem.…
London, England is a popular and desirable location for every new traveler – it creates a posh and illustrious ambience for itself and holds much history. However, there is a dark side to “The Old Smoke” revealed by reading the poem London, by William Blake. Blake’s speaker uses repetition and visual imagery to illustrate the “woe”-filled (4) and unhappy chaos hiding behind London, England’s structured and genteel exterior. Repetition is a strong presence within the poem, and undoubtedly draws attention to most of the main ideas the speaker attempts to convey. When reading the first two stanzas, the expectation is that the last two stanzas will follow the same structure – a cycle of the same misery-inducing words coupled with new characters and locations.…