My Wicked Ways Analysis

In the poem Incident the tone changes from happy in the first stanza and once the event in the second stanza happened, the tone changed to crushing in the last stanza. This poem had a change in vocabulary as the mood changed, in the first stanza

It gives the poem an uneven feeling, as if the lines were incomplete, much like how the soldiers may not feel whole anymore after an over-exposure to the brutality of war. The last word in each line of stanza five: “to-day … move; … eye” and “cave” do not rhyme, showing how a dead man decaying in the open is unusual. This stanza differs from the others since this stanza is the only one to have no rhyming pattern at all. Though the lack of rhyming structure in the fifth stanza would most likely be overlooked, the lack of rhyming happens at the stanza about the soldier’s decaying body. The shift from semi-regular to irregular rhyming exemplifies how the sudden change from normality is meant to create the feeling

In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, temptations entice you and are sometimes irresistible as it’s brought on by the evil that lurks at the carnival which includes the man of many identities who tries to convince the most vulnerable characters to join the evil side and as a motif it  because it represents the interaction between the freaks of the carnival and everyone else being tempted or coerced to join the autumn people.     Mr. Dark who depicts darkness forces temptation on characters like charles Halloway with things they can’t have. Mr. Halloway dreaded the idea of not “being able to run any more” (Bradbury 131) like his son, Will. He just wants his youth back. Mr. Dark brings Mr. Halloway’s self esteem down by reminding him how old he is.

In the title Woman Among Lightning: Catawba County Fair, 1962 it provides the audience with a setting of a large rural looking fair. With the date included in the title, it shows that the time period is different than the current one the reader is in. After reading the poem the reader know that the woman spoken about in the title is one who is fleeing the life she is stuck in for a new and free future. Ron Rash’s tone in his poem portrays the dark feelings the woman has in the beging with words like dredging, darkness, and thundering as well as a phase like life leaks away like blood.

Sandra Cisneros does a great job of revealing the theme of the poem,”My Wicked,Wicked Ways” to the reader 's mind by using connotations and

This anger was the product of her “lost self”. The need to find her uniqueness caused such anger that she could not find happiness within lasting relationships. She also writes describing her relationship with her father. Her only connection with the man was the songs that she remembered singing with him when she was five years old. These songs were the memories that created the image of the father she thought she knew.

The sardonic modulation in the speaker’s voice indicates that this poem can be read as a gently ironic poem about Jennings’s own poetic procedures, about the indecision depicted in many poems between meekness and commitment. The persona she creates is a feasible source for the unusual utterances she makes about the inept Persephone irresolutely moving between the two worlds, waiting for the precise “moment” when the symbol will combine form and meaning. She “would certainly hibernate if she could.” She would withdraw into the symbol, into the world of extreme aestheticism, but she knows that in order to write poetry, she must remain committed to the world of experience, the subject matter of her poetry. The inept Persephone could be considered as an avatar of the poet who knows that if the mind

Many things come with 2 sides; good and bad. In the poem, it talks of the bad side where readers of poems want to “torture a confession” out of a poem rather than just enjoying a poem for what it is. The author wants readers to analyze poems positively rather than negatively like they are accustomed to do. This relates to my life in that everyone focuses on the bad things I do rather than looking at the good things I do in life. This poem also reminds me of how the education system works.

In subdued tones and candid messages, the usage of imagery, historical allusion, metaphors, similes, repetition, exclamation, irony, sarcasm, and personal experience within Sandra Cisneros poems assert her thoughts about the perception of woman, Chicano/ a’s culture, racism, social patriarchy standards, and most importantly love for one’s self. Firstly, Sandra Cisneros’ poems have different meanings some have similar themes. Cisneros writing often involves the creation of feminist Latina character.

Poetry is a work of art giving strength to those who have no way to explain how they feel. Edgar Allen Poe had a dreary pitter patter manner of writing poems which were depressive due to loss of his thirteen-year old wife. Another example is Anne Sexton who had a mental illness and used writing as a manner to escape. The grandiose praise of Icarus’s feat of flight struts gracefully through Anne Sexton’s “To a friend whose work has come to triumph”; Through her exquisite diction, Anne Sexton shed light on the fact success is success even if it ends dramatically.

She reminds her feelings of the “casual cruelties, the ultimate dismissal” or when he became, “bored with her devotion, ordered her to the kitchen, /Until he was ready to play.” She notices her forgetfulness towards his neglect during their relationship and simply reminds the “bitch” of her devotion was wasted on “small careless kindness”. While keeping the “bitch” in check, the speaker maintains an external equilibrium, fighting against anger and forgiveness, as she continues her conversation with her ex-lover. In the last lines of the poem she instructs the “bitch” that she wasn’t the right type of woman for the man, describing herself as “too demonstrative, too clumsy, /Not

In almost each of her poem Cisneros shows her energetic, crazy personality. One main topic her poems and personality brings light to the topic “Feminism.” For many years, women have been working hard in order to gain equality with man. Through her poems Cisneros 's has put a light to the things that women fear of saying based on the world 's ideology of a woman. She shows that women aren 't just emotional creatures and can be as wild and sexual as a man.

The style may seem very childish from the surface, but it is able to illustrate the theme of change and being stuck in between the innocence of childhood and the wiseness of adulthood in a very beautiful and poignant way. The poem “My Wicked Wicked Ways” had only three characters. The protagonist

When asked what she writes about and where she draws the tremendous amount of inspiration required to write on such a creative level, Cisneros says, "I would have to say I write about the ghosts inside that haunt me, that will not let me sleep, of that which even memory does not like to mention", showing a synonymous concern with the previous one of not being a able to speak up (Cisneros Quotes 1). This quote relates to inability to have taken a different path, to have fixed one's mistakes, and to have, most importantly in the case of Cisneros, spoken up for others, haunts the author. When it is stated that Cisneros' concerns involve not speaking up, this can be interpreted in a nonliteral form to symbolize the mistake of not branching off from one's supposed path due to "destiny" because of that individual's belief that they should "play it safe". Cisneros writes about this injustice in her literary masterpeices, most directly related to the struggles of those who chose or were given a path of poverty and do not possess anyone that is willing to speak up for the injustice that they are constantly facing. Sandra Cisneros personifies and beautifully expresses her concerns, which involve, in the most general form, an inability to cause change in one's own life or the lives of

Structurally, the poem is rather straightforward. An ABAB rhyme scheme is found throughout the entire poem, and the stanzas are all four lines each with a similar number of syllables. The rather uniform pattern reflects Yeats’ more sophisticated style that he perfected during his time with the Rhymers’ Club. Diction and sentence structure are not overly complex, but effective in describing the speaker’s emotions and the setting. The images are vividly descriptive, and their fluidity also hints that