Throughout the many poems we have read this term, many relate to each other in some similar thematic or stylistic way. Three specific poems that have thematic similarities are: At the Last Watch by Rabindranath Tagore, The Black Walnut Tree by Mary Oliver, and When We Two Parted by Lord Byron. All three of these poems were intriguing reads which all shared a central idea and dramatic situation. These three poems are connected by the centralized dramatic situation that people leave and those who are departed from a love one are left alone. I believe that all three of these pieces have described a similar theme through a thorough analysis of each writing. The poems themselves were written by poets in different time periods (At the Last Watch …show more content…
(1) The poem was written in the early 1900s, and is told through the view of the persona, most likely a small child who is experiencing the unannounced absence of a parent, who they loved very much, who did not say goodbye. This story is told through the setting of the persona’s house which is even when the persona says, “I rushed out of bed… I say waiting near the door of the room.” The individual dramatic situation of this poem is at the end of the piece when the persona realizes that the missing loved one would come back for their “gold-mounted ivory walking stick” instead of saying goodbye to the persona, as seen in the lines, “You might come back from the station to look for it/But not because/You had not seen me before going away.” This poem describes the relationship of the central theme with the other poems by using many examples of symbols and smilies. The author uses the “gold-mounted ivory walking stick” which is the only thing the loved one would return to get, as a way to symbolize that the loved one would only return for his own necessities and objects that they loved more than the persona. The poet uses the poetic elements of smilies when saying the lines, “At my reclining body/Like a broken …show more content…
(2) The poem was written in 1979, and is told through the view of the persona, which is a young child, most likely Oliver herself who lost their father. This story is told through the setting of her own personal home in Ohio, and with the struggle of dealing with this “Black Walnut Tree” and the decision on whether to cut down and pay off their house mortgage or keep the tree because its symbolism towards their family history. The dramatic situation of this individual poem is found at the end of the poem where the persona is saying, “What my mother and I both know/is that we'd crawl with shame/in the emptiness we'd made/in our own and our fathers' backyard./So the black walnut tree/swings through another year/of sun and leaping winds/of leaves and bounding fruit/and, month after month, the whip-crack of the mortgage.” This is the persona’s way of describing the guilt and difficulties of deciding whether or not to cut this tree down because of the symbolism of the tree; the presence of their deceased father/husband. As the tone of the speaker becomes more passionate with the connection of the tree throughout the poem, it is evident that this poem shows the related emptiness in the heart but a mind filled with memories, of their loved and recently
Elements of poetry is a set of instruments used to create a poem. In this case, we used these elements to create productive songs. The song The End uses rhyme which is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words. An example is presented in the second stanza in lines four and six, “You were the sun,” “My hands were your guns.” Rhyme is applied in these lines to support why he admires the woman.
And his two good girls and his good little man Oakened as they grew. The first of dual implications of “oaken” initially delineates only the racial classification of Reed and his “dark” family, yet by stanza five a second concept is evident (376). The innate qualities of the oak tree--the strength, endurance, and perseverance in the face of adversity--characterized Reed, who announces that he will “fight” for his home when he finds it (377).
By doing so, the tree uses characteristics that are commonly relatable to human nature to invoke the reader to empathize for the tree without having the reader forget
An identity is a valuable possession. It is consistently enhancing as it represents the individual’s determination to achieve their goals. An identity is personal and true to that who embraces it. The apostrophe “Unwritten Letter”, compiled by Dorothy Livesay, explores the power of potential agonizing consequences suffered from the corruption of identity. The poem is structured through the use of a silent listener who is surrounded by a defaced garden and can be metaphorically contrasted to the magnitude of society’s voice on one’s identity.
Dearest nephew, I wish I could tell you that your life will be free of doubt, struggle, and pain; but that is not the case. No matter what road you may choose to travel I am certain that you will eventually encounter a segment shrouded in shadow where your own doubts lie in wait. Some people choose to stop their adventure when they encounter this more perilous ground; I sincerely hope you are one who decides to continue on to your final destination. To aid you in making your decision, sit on steady ground or venture into the unknown, I want to tell you the tale of a young warrior who once had to make such a decision.
With a close reading of Emily Dickinson’s poem 764, ‘My Life Had Stood – A Loaded Gun’ and poem 320, ‘There’s a certain Slant of Light’ I will be comparing and contrasting both poem in terms of the metre, language and themes that can be seen in both and others that are opposite to one another. The main aspects of Emily Dickinson’s poetry is the varying length of each poem, unusual capitalism throughout each, the variant of word choices and the slant or approximate rhyme. I choose poem 320 to compare to poem 764 because while it has similar aspects and themes it is in Dickinson’s ‘Death’ category rather than the ‘Poetic-Self’ category that poem 764 belongs too. ‘My Life Stood Still – A loaded Gun’ is written in common metre, which is popular
Light, Fragile, and Easily Influenced A young college student’s mind is easily influenced, partially due to a lack of resistance toward outside forces. In the poem “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker, the same can be said for the hickory leaf when influenced by the wind. The leaf is the most prevalent symbol in the story. It is an integral piece to the theme of change as one transitions from childhood to the responsibilities of being an adult.
However, throughout the poem, a cherry tree is told to been seen just outside the fence. The cherry tree is symbolic of hope for the Jews to persevere through the discrimination as nature continues to bloom even in the darkest hour. The Jews strive for survival to show the world of their struggles and mistreatment as “mass graves [cannot] bury hope” they have in equality for all
Discover the Deeper Meaning Poetry is a very complex thing, hoping to understand it is out of the question; it is left up for interpretation. Along these lines, poetry has some very different and similar thoughts with other poems. The poems “‘Hope” is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, are two poems which on the surface are very different, but once you get deeper into the meaning, you can discover many similarities.
The tone of being unburdened blossoms in the poem, but perhaps with a slight feeling of forlornness. Stating that the tree didn’t bear flowers could imply that it had the ability to, but didn’t. It could be that Chiyojo was comparing herself to a tree, the flowers symbolizing anchored possessions, pets, or children. Flowers bloom and are put on display, making me think of a physical responsibility, not an internal burden. The tree that yielded no flowers was compared to the willow tree, a tree that naturally doesn’t have flowers.
What she is inferring to us is that she just admired the beauty of the tree, and didn’t admire the plant that gave that certain tree life. During the whole poem, the speaker uses a lot of metaphors to describe her gratitude towards
Over the course of reading the novel Beloved, I came across a fascinating tendency of the utilization of trees to serve as a representation of beauty, hope, and comfort. I found it interesting the author described something that would be associated with pain and violence, and transformed it into a way that was beautiful.
Life, is full of uncontrollable, unexplainable, and perplexing emotions that have the potential to cause a human being to fear or love itself. In “The Ecchoing Green” and “ A Poison Tree” from Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake, there are contrasting perspectives present. “ Sing louder around, To the bells’ chearful sound.” (Blake 119) is a quote that demonstrates the happiness emanating from this poem of elders reminiscing about when they were once young and playful. Within “The Ecchoing Green”, there is a sense of peace, merriment, and security throughout the people as they play, laugh, and return to their homes.
In your life, there is one person… you may know them, you may not, but there is someone out there in this world that would do anything for you. They are happy when you're happy, they are sad when you're sad, and that says a lot about a person who cares more about others than themselves. In this poem, the caring, kind, and non-self absorbed character is not a person, it is actually a tree. “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein pursues the topic/theme of sacrifice and love, by showing how the tree gave so much to the boy as he grew up, to make sure he was happy… because if the boy is happy, then the tree is happy.
In this poem is about two black people who have been lynched and how their mouths are all twisted from being beat and their eyes are popping out. And they are just left there to be eaten by the crows and they make an awful smell like burning flesh. The point of view in this poem is more than likely a first person view of someone in the crowd. The strange fruit that hang in the tree are the black teenagers who got hanged, although “The lyrics never mention lynching, the metaphor is painfully clear” (Blair).