Even before one reads this book they cannot understand what it truly means to break away from hardship and into love without reading and comprehending the passion and love in each and every line of this poetry. Thus, I will explain to you why exactly I feel this form of poetry is good if not the best way to express ones experience with falling in love! For instance, the very first page of Street Love says it all. It explains where Junice comes from, where she has grown up, and how this life has made her who she is today! Page one (1), line thirteen, states “Harlem is not an easy place to grow old” – and this is very much backed up throughout the story in her case.
I love animals and everything, but I don’t think they have the mental capacity to plot an actual attack, or even get in such mass amounts like the birds did in the book. c. I think that the message is that people need to be more sensitive about the natural world. In the beginning, it seems like Nat is the only one concerned about the bird in terms of why they are behaving like so. The people who disregarded the birds and stayed outside ended up getting killed. This shows that we should pay more attention to the ways we are affecting nature.
She is trying to give the idea of the bird doing another human activity. This is also another representation of humans becoming more sophisticated and moving away from nature, we no longer drink from the leaves and grass but from actual glasses. Dickinson shows the bird doing another human activity in this stanza. “And then hopped sideways to the Wall/ To let a Beetle pass” (lines 7&8) The bird is moving out of its way to let a beetle go by, but you would normally think that the bird would not even notice a beetle unless it was hungry. This also gives the bird a human trait, politeness.
Her poetry very much reflects this, and she advises the audience subtly in her writing that it is not society’s fault that she cannot live in the regular social world, but she just needs something that society doesn’t give her. She also wishes acceptance or tolerance from the world, wanting to ‘belong’ to a small degree, even though she cannot. Dickinson’s poem “this is my letter to the world” is her main body of work, being one of the only two poems that were published in her lifetime, and is one of the strongest poems that shows her connection with nature and her lack of belonging to the human world. The form of a letter to convey her message functions as a strong metaphor to show her separation already from society. Dickinson states that her ‘letter’ to the world was a one sided attempt at communication ahead of her.
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee, 90). Miss Maudie explains to the children why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s garden, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee,
“The Lesson of the Moth” In society today there are two main different types of people, the free spirited individuals and the conservative individuals. The free spirits believe to live in the moment and die doing something that makes them happy while the conservatives believe to live in routine and stick to “playing it safe”. In Don Marquis’s poem, “The Lesson of the Moth”, Don uses a moth and a cockroach, named Archy, to portray those two personalities. The poem dives deep into how people go about their lives, a touchy subject for some, and how they view each other. The poem starts off with Archy giving the reader the setting and an idea that the moth is suicidal, but the next stanza explains that the moth and the cockroach do not understand each other’s lives.
Poe’s words themselves give the poem its mood. In the beginning, the narrator has hope because he believed that the raven was the one he loved but that hope has turned into anger when the raven kept repeating “Nevermore.” Poe was a master of choosing words that created mood. The scary and weird feeling of this poem makes Poe look like a cheaper! This mysterious poem is among the best-known poems in the national literature. The setting, the symbols of the incredible flow of art and the auditory imagery of the melancholy ideas all make up a different level than classical poetry.
“They saw a bird, an ordinary rather sad-looking bird, with big eyes, pointed beak and long, straggling tail.” Then adds a shift in the mood inquiringness by one of the children passing by. “But the black boy was obviously enthralled; he signaled them to be quiet, so they knelt close to the wattle bushes motionless, expectant.” The tone of the passage then elevates into a merriment diversion of enjoyment. Elucidating the alternations the lyre bird endures. “In an instant all his drabness was sloughed away, for his song was beautiful beyond compare: stream of limpid melodious notes flowing and mingling, trilling and soaring: bush music, magic as the pipes of pan.” James Vance Marshall shows endless detail about the performance the lyre bird undergoes. “On and on it went, wave after wave of perfect harmony that held the children spell-bound.” Then we encounter a double shift when the music stops but the performance.
Notice all the “I’s” in plastic, pink, raincoat and with. This did not affect my response on the poem at all considering I hardly noticed any of the assonances. The symbolism in this poem I believe could be referring to that sometimes certain people only want certain things from you. The pigeons only wanted the bread from the women, nothing else. But the women thought it was much more
The establishment’s slightly confused liking for Smith can be reflected in Beer’s tribute in The Estuary: “A heroine is someone who does what you cannot do/ For yourself and so is the poet. She discovered/ Marvels; a cat that sings, a corpse that comes in/ Out of the rain. She struck compassion/In strange places”(Beer 114).Smith becomes a professional and personal inspiration for Jeni Couzyn as she describes: “Whenever I doubt my own identity as a poet and as a human being , I am able to find in her work , in all its nakedness and pain, the humor and courage that reaffirms for me the validity of poetry. Although in a sense she is dead, Stevie Smith is for me the most accurate, relevant and poignant woman alive” (Couzyn