An illusion of confusion is created by the structure of the tone of the poem that throws the reader off. To my understanding and evaluation, the speaker is somewhat sad about the woman dying, but it is evident that the speaker does not grieve over it too much because the woman is not of much importance to the speaker. One of the reasons the speaker might feel indifferent to the woman’s death is because the speaker does not have an emotional connection towards her. In the first line “The last Night that She lived, It was a Common Night” (line 1-2), it can be inferred that the speaker does not see the woman’s death as a big event. The speaker sees the woman’s death as a normal day.
The girl he liked had a boyfriend, but he didn't let that stop him from trying to win her over. With the advice of his English teacher he not only talked to her but he won her over. Transcendentalists don't believe in following the crowd, they believe in doing what you truly believe is the right thing to do. Even famous poets such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson both live transcendentalist lifestyles. They write about it in most of their poems such as Thoreau's Walden and Emerson's Self-Reliance.
“The world’s wife is all about relationships” Explore… Carol Ann Duffy’s work explores everyday experience and the rich fantasy life of herself and others. In dramatising scenes from childhood, adolescence, and adult life, she discovers moments of consolation through love, memory, and language. The poems we have studied in the world’s wife are all under the theme of relationships however if it is seen through a different perspective the word ‘relationship’ is so broad that it could mean more than just the bond between a man and a woman. The poems which demonstrate a tenacious connection between the characters is ‘Mrs Lazarus’ and ‘The Devil’s Wife’ whereas ‘Thetis’ and ‘Little Red-Cap’ displays an unhealthy and feeble connection between man and woman. The poems with a ‘Mrs’ in front evidently suggests that the relationship status between the two characters are husband and wife therefore there is or has apparently been some sort of marriage amidst them.
Some poems are shown from a male perspective, and some aren’t. “Anne Hathaway” is not shown from the male perspective but it in fact shown from the perspective of how she felt as a person when she was with William Shakespeare, this differs this poem from the rest of the poems as most are either a mockery of the love shared between a couple, and the others are about how the husbands didn’t compromise well enough – leading to change and unrequited love. An example of a poem not being the key/highlight of the collection is “Mrs Darwin”. This poem can be interpreted in however way possible – with the most obvious interpretation being a poem about the mockery of Darwin by Mrs Darwin. It doesn’t sum up the love Anne Hathaway showed in the poem that is reflected in all other poems, but just the humour of the relation Darwin had with his wife.
In other words, Mescudi is trying to explain how he is lonely, but that is ironic because you would expect him to have any girl he desires. He is saying how love is ignorant to him, but he still needs someone to love him. In addition, Mescudi uses connotation very well in his poem. He says, “An independent sister got me fly when she could, But they all didn’t see, the little bit of sadness in me, Scotty”, (13-14). Mescudi’s point is to show how his older sister bought him everything he needed when she could.
An autobiography often shows a great deal of the individual’s inner emotions and life motivations using various literary techniques. This is what entails the effortless empathy and compassion the reader feels towards the author whilst reading their autobiography. Without the author’s emotions the text would be mostly dull and non-personalised. This as I have been made aware by reading The Glass Castle in comparison to The Happiest Refugee is not always the case. American author Jeanette Wall’s autobiography The Glass Castle examines her surreal family story of extreme poverty and abuse in a detached non-resentful manner that invites the reader to feel emotional on her behalf, thereby creating a strong emotional connection on the part of the reader towards the author’s story.
The author also relates the theme of the forbidden pleasure of independence in her short story with her use of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something that the characters don’t. For instance, the reader knew in the last few chapters that Brently Mallard was alive and that Mrs. Mallard’s dreams of being free were nothing but dreams. Yet the characters didn’t know, they only knew the information given to them by Richards which was that Mr. Mallard had passed away in an accident at work. Another example Kate Chopin uses of dramatic irony is throughout the whole short story.
This may be a theme/genre that Browning enjoys and writes a lot of. He may also be talking about his love for his wife; Elizabeth Barrett Browning. When the two first met, Browning was “lower-class” than his wife; as she was a very good and well know poet and he was not, this may have had some input into the story behind Porphyria’s Lover. He may have been writing it to convey his love of his wife and how he doesn’t want to let her ever leave him, and he would do anything to make sure she did stay with him until they died. Furthermore, both poems betray women as bad people.
The imagery he uses has more than one meaning which creates more depth to the poem. Figures of speech and metaphors are used heavily to explain his daughter’s journey. He also uses alliteration and some other tools of sound to enhance the reading of this poem. This poem is not only about her journey, but it is also about his feeling toward her trip. This poem is a lyric.
The view of love Beth Gylys presents in her poem “Marriage Song” is exceptionally meaningful to me. Gylys did not hold back in showing the truth about married lovers and their tendency to show each other the exact opposite of love. “Marriage Song” is a poem in which Gylys writes of married couples having affairs. However, it also shows how love can make people not realize their lives are passing them by. It is about how love is often unreal and true love is rare.