Comparison Of Nothing Gold Can Stay And Abandoned Farmhouse

The overall theme of the poem is sacrifice, more specifically, for the people that you love. Throughout the poem color and personification are used to paint a picture in the reader's head. “Fog hanging like old Coats between the trees.” (46) This description is used to create a monochromatic, gloomy, and dismal environment where the poem takes

Language is where the two poems begin to be revealed as such different pieces. Money is written in a casual tone. Much of the poem is different terms for money. The rest of the poem is slang terms and common phrases for what money might do or what one might do with money such as “it greases the palm” or “chock it up, fork it over, shell it out” The repetitive use of names for money contributes to its showing the obsessive power money can have over us.

In the poem “The Changeling” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, I read it as she’s trying to get her father’s attention, she is acting to be someone else because she changes into her brother’s clothes, as a costume, until it’s dinner time and her mother asks her to take those clothes off, it’s then where everything is back to reality. In the poem “The Birthplace” by Cofer, she talks about her hometown and how it lacks features on the hills which will stop her from going places, she doesn’t go to churches that are full of the people who regret their wrongs, the roads just lead to other roads, and how towns are the same to other towns. In the poem “On the Island I Have Seen” by Cofer she talks about men who work hard in the sun while old men play dominoes in the shade, women in black dresses asking

These two poems use very similar language techniques. They both use multiple techniques such as repetition to show and inform the audience of the topic they are written about. In both poems, repetition is used in mass. Drifters uses the word ‘And’ as a way of showing that it will happen again ‘And’ again ‘And’ again.

In “Nothing Gold Can Stay” it states,” Nature’s first green is gold.” When someone hears this they might think of a nice place that has nice weather and is very peaceful. Also, in “Nothing Gold Can Stay” it is developing the idea of youth because you cannot be young forever. Eventually you will be old and not be be able to much and it won’t be as good and enjoyable as your younger days.

Dawe uses clever form, structure and mood to explore belonging, through the theme of sacrifice, which imposes a range of challenges on the mother and children. As we can see, the poem is written in free verse in the third person narrative with typical Australian jargon and imagery. The simple conversational form with the casual cadence and the spontaneity of telling an anecdote is highly appropriate as it makes the readers feel that the poem was written by the unsophisticated transient workers whose thought patterns drift from one observation to another. The unobtrusive vernacular language aptly depicts the hardship faced by the mother and children to have a sense of belonging to their family. The shrivelled fruit, the green tomatoes and the unpacked bottling set highlight the repeated upheaval caused by the house moves and make the readers feel as if they have witnessed a stark and melancholy moment.

The characters were sentimental, and mentioning things around town that reminded them about the Clutters: “Everywhere you looked, there was something to remind you” (Capote 94). People in the book kept mentioning things around town that would trace back to the Clutters. For example, the river by the banks wasn’t just a river anymore. It is now a river that is being searched for weapons that would help with the murder case. The characters in the novel did their mourning by seeing and recognizing certain things around town.

Night and darkness are often used interchangeably, usually carrying a negative connotation. Although one may assume that the idea of darkness means one thing: darkness, it is evident that some people stretch the meaning of this idea. For example, in We Grow Accustomed to the Dark, Dickinson uses the idea of darkness to showcase the uncertainty of life, while in another piece of literature, Acquainted with the Night, Frost has darkness symbolize depression. While these two poems have some similarities, they have even more differences, both of which are apparent from Dickinson’s and Frost’s use of imagery, point of view, and structure.

The motif is made evident multiple times through imagery, similes, internal monologue, repetition, and foreshadowing. People hate to see change because of its negative connotation. However, like in the poem, change is necessary for life. If the speaker would not have gone to school and undergone all the changes, he or she would have been doing the same old things that were being done before going to the North. Therefore, change is as important in everyone’s life as the theme of change is in “Snapping

Secondly I will explain the characters in the poem, and lastly I will explain the shifts in the poem. Some of the poetic symbols I found in the poem were diction and hyperboles. For diction, the author used the words, “nothing” and “everything” interchangeably. He started off the first stanza with the word

“Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold,” is most directly portrayed in Ponyboy. “Her early leaf’s a flower, but only so an hour,” is symbolic of Johnny’s personality. “Then leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief,” displays Dally’s shift of character towards the end of the novel. “So dawn goes down to day, nothing gold can stay,” is a comparison of the amount of innocence the three greasers possess within themselves.

In the poem by Sax, he uses anaphoras in the end of the poem by using “this is … this is…” (l. 9-11) in the beginning of each sentence to describe the likeliness of each object to his emotion. The setting of his poem is more ambiguous than Levine’s poem but it could be inferred that it’s at night during winter it could also be in the character’s house during that time as the character remembers the memories that cause him to grieve. Levine’s poem uses symbolism to describe the character’s time of revelations during his process of grieving which is mentioned as a dance but is really the time spent walking in the woods (l. 19). The setting of Levine’s poem is in the woods which can be inferred from the imagery of pinecones and mountain

When I read “Absence” first I saw that the poem talked about a salt shaker being used instead of a white knight in a chess game. The quote that stood out to me was: “about the saltshaker that was taking his place”, and what stood out was the salt shaker symbolized the people that are not as true as they seem to be, the knights symbolized the people we want in society, and the chess board represented society. When all the pieces are there, society functions properly, but when a salt shaker takes one of the pieces place, society becomes dysfunctional. Further research on a forum showed me that the salt shakers represented the heroes who we have, but we don’t want or need. Essentially, the theme of “Absence” was the dysfunctionality of society without a proper leader.

This is the theme of the poem because in the poem “Dump,” the author stated,

In the two poems Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, gave a comparison between the life of a caged bird and the life of a slave. There are similarities and differences in the two poems. The difference between the two poem is that Sympathy is more aggressive than the poem Caged Bird, and the similarities of the two poems is the theme and imagery. The poem Sympathy the poem