Feliks Skrzynecki is a paean poem detailing my views on my father as a stoic, hard-working man who scarcely complained. ‘My gentle father’ and ‘I never once heard him complain of work’ show his stoicism and character. Despite his hard-working nature, my father faced hardships or barriers to belonging due to his lack of knowledge of the English language. A scene I vividly remember – which is expressed in the poem – is when a ‘department clerk, who asked me in dancing-bear grunts: “did your father ever attempt to learn English?”’. The direct speech in the poem emphasises this barrier to belonging, the barrier being a combination of the lack of English my father spoke and understood, as well as the impatience and negative attitude towards migrants by some Australians at that time period.
To Waken an Old Lady is a poem that was authored by William Carlos Williams. The poem essentially focuses on the aspect of old age. Therefore, the writer utilizes numerous bookish tools so as to construct the poem. In my experience of reading the poem I got attracted to the manner in which the author presented the poem the use of literary devices actually affected my experience. The use aspects of content, language and form were of greatest significance in the entire poem.
The author uses the poetic device of rhyme at the end of every line. If you start at the beginning the ending to the first line rhymes to the next consecutive line. For example, “gold and hold “, “flower and hour “, and “leaf and grief “are all rhyming pairs. In the second line of the poem the author uses alliteration when repeating to initial consonant sound “ H “ when saying “ her hardest hue “. The rhyme and alliteration in the poem help to set the rhyme scheme of the poem.
He was self built from the ground up. Whitman was self educated, independent, intelligent, and unique in many ways. Although most of his life he was alone, he left a mark on American by his writs of poetry which were influenced by Emerson himself. He struggled through life, desperately looking for an alternative to becoming a farm boy. This in turn, led to a failure in teaching, personal failure of his newspaper, and going through a fictional writing phase.
Lets dig deeper into those little things that make her one of the most profound poets in American Literature. Emotion is used very often in Nikki Giovanni's poems. Three poems stood out the most in terms of emotions. They were "Blacksburg under siege: 21 August 2006"(1), "I am the Ocean"(55), and "We are Virginia"(107). The first and last poems evoked sad but happy emotions towards the end of the poem.
People need connections with others, but these connections are not always what brings them to their absolute highest level of happiness. Chris proceeded to record his personal thoughts in his journal, further proving to the reader the point that personal connections are not essential to happiness. “I now walk out and live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you.” (69), Chris wrote on a card sent to two generous people, Jan and Bob Burres. How briefly this sentence was written and how easily the “good-bye” was said to the couple that took him in and gave him supplies, Chris had displayed that his desire to be on his own was greater than his desire for theirs or anyone’s, friendship.
We see the poem starts and finishes with a two-line stanza, with the middle stanzas containing three lines. The poem seems to be free-verse, with no apparent rhyming pattern. In the first stanza, we are aware of the sunset; four colours are listed as they touch the narrator’s mind. Rather than simply stating the colours as blue and red, the sky is striped with ‘azure’ and ‘crimson’. The colours are extremely lush and vibrant.
Sentence three is written over three lines, with the first two of those lines demarcated by a comma. Thereafter, run-on lines are progressively used towards the end of the poem. This creates an increasingly meandering cadence, and particularly contrasts to the parallel phrasing of the opening three lines: “The women’s bodies … / The men … / The seawater …” (lines 1-3). In contrast, Frost uses a concise form of four iambic trimeter quatrains. The occasional, but very deliberate, use of two unstressed syllables within some lines quicken the pace, emphasizing the message to the reader.
Necessities of life became a daily struggle. What is a depression? It’s a period during which businesses, employment and stock-market values severely decline. Americans have grown to know the depression we faced as the Great Depression. It is named due to its long duration, as it began in 1929 and didn’t end until mid-1941—the start of WWII.
The structure of the poem is one of the main features that Housman uses to make his poem effective, in which he splits the poem into seven different stanzas. The importance of splitting the poem into seven different stanzas is that each stanza is a different point in the athlete’s life, and all the points put together makes a story with a bit of commentary from the speaker. The poem does this by first talking about the athlete’s greatness in the first stanza, and then his death in the second stanza. At this point, the poem shifts to a commentary by the speaker, where he claims in the third stanza that it was wise of the runner to kill himself, but then proceeds to say in the fourth stanza that it is sad that the athlete will never be able to see the records he set being broken. In the fifth stanza, the speaker then claims that this athlete is different from the athletes before him, because unlike the rest, he will not wear the honor out, so in the sixth stanza he says that they should bury the athlete quickly so that his greatness does not fade away.