Living in the modern world as a deaf and blind person would be hard enough but imagine back in the 1800s when living life as a woman was difficult enough with men superiority diffused throughout the world. Helen Keller, in her speech, describes the beauty of speech, and focused less on her disabilities. Throughout the speech, Keller engages readers with her rhetoric pathos. Such as, in the beginning she expressed her joy in being able to speak as being "unspeakable happiness", even though others could not fully understand her. The use of irony in the statement, besides being literally ironic, further emphasized the amount of emotion encompassed in the basic task of speech.
Those lines are talking about the woman as she praises her lord, praising him with a mouth of obedience to his word. She is singing her song which is her story to her lord and savior. But as the stanza continues it starts to take a turn in the message. The last few lines “til some loved objects strikes her wandering eyes’ whose silken fetters all the senses bind, and soft captivity involves the mind.” (Wheatley 1767). It goes from her rejoicing because it seems like life is good then her drowning in her sorrows.
They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain.
Why or why not? When Cofer ends by quoting one of her poems, she ends it in a very effective way. This is for several reasons, one being the relationship to god. She states that it is a poem “for respect” and that she wants to achieve “universal respect” (207). When she connects her words to god she is creating a connection to god which not only appeals to the audience but also uses allusion to create tone to her text.
Nichols uses a essential of life "water" to introduce what the poem will be like: her describing how much Nichols needed her. Next Larkin says "Not the usual stuff about being beautiful" He does this as if to say that he is not going to say anything about being perfect "the usual stuff" (informal tone suggests he intends it to make the poem quite plain.). However he does wish that if one of these exceptional qualities shine through, she should have a happy life like that "And should it prove possible, well, you're a lucky girl." (once again the use of the informal "well" furthers the sense of plainness.) Nichols however uses a very different tone, she uses words such as "pull", "mantling", "warm" and "replenishing" to say that her mother was essential to how she is now.
She feels love is supposed to make you feel safe in the way religion can bring security and bring happiness to people. In this next line she also explains her idea of love in an almost cliché manner, “When love lights the way, there is joy in the day/And all troubles are lighter to bear/Love is gentle and kind (like a lamb), and through love you will find/There’s an answer to your every prayer!”. I compare this poem to Blake’s “The Lamb” because she speaks of love in such an innocent, almost “too good to be true” and naïve type of way that you almost want to tell her that it doesn’t work that way all the time. There aren’t any “hidden messages” or underlying hints that she wants her readers to figure out. She wants us to feel it and I know this in the end of her poem when she writes “In the wonderful MAGIC OF LOVE” and because of this line I have no doubt in my mind that she was madly in love when she wrote this poem.
The allusion to God and religion adds to the statement that love is precious and important because religion is a subject that many people hold dear to their hearts. The next stanza’s tone starts off sounding scornful and harsh then changes to sounding almost mocking in the sense that he is saying that he would have loved her more than anything else would but since she was not faithful, he was not hers anymore. He then starts to flashback to what made them break apart, citing that it was her that wanted to leave and “be free” and ends the stanza with another rhetorical question that seems to be directed at both the reader and the
What is the central theme of the work? Answer: Instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her. At the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. So instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her. 3.
A simple poem, and seemingly short compared to the other two, it simply tells of the narrator’s views of the young lady he is admiring. Also unlike the other two, Poe uses positive words and rhythms to create an ending mental vision that illustrates Helen to be that of graceful beauty, with her placed in a window with a glowing lamp that signifies to him of the “Holy Land” or Heaven, for which he sees Helen to be the Angel of in representation. However, a poem such as “Lenore” is told in a much more saddening, although not completely depressing element. This poem exemplifies Poe’s more frequent theme of death combined with beauty is presented. Guy De Vere, however, is not completely saddened by the deathly occurrence; but he is rather outraged because he believes that everyone had “wished her dead” due to loving the wealth that she had carried but rather hating the pride that she carried along with it.
She views her earthly love as one of a spiritual union through salvation as she gratefully acknowledges the love from her husband. She prays his rewards are in such a way where others will admire and remember throughout eternity (l.10). This is an extraordinary way of professing a wife’s love, appreciation and affection for her husband; this poem demonstrates her earthly physical passion in this world and the competing tensions between “the flesh” and “the spirit.” Another prominent aspect of this literary piece is the use of metaphors and similes throughout the poem. The beginning words, “I Prize” (l.5) describe their love as sexy in that she gleefully rewards him with her unconditional love. In addition, these