On my second interview with my grandmother I had the honor of reading her a poem Nurse and Peron (Touhy, Jett, 2010, p.350). While reading to my 97 year old grandmother I happened to look over at her. I felt and saw a sense of sadness. Even though my grandmother never personally experienced Alzheimer's disease, she had close friends that had succumb to the illness. Growing up I remember my grandfather passing away at the young age of 60, although he did not pass from Alzheimer's disease, he did battle with a chronic illness that left him debilitated.
Alexandria Edwards LIT 295-V1 Oct 14, 2011 Major Paper 2 The set of poems by Edna St.Vincent Millay are from an essay she wrote called Fatal Interview. These poems discuss the journey of a relationship between Millay and her previous love. The poems start out with a description of a brand new relationship. They are completely in love and it’s the type of love you only hear of in the old literature. The second poem goes into describing how their love is still there.
Mary Tallmountain Mary Tallmountain is considered one of the greatest writers amongst the Native American community. Although she really didn’t gain much recognition nationally until the early 1980’s when she won the Pushcart Prize. She is mostly known as a spiritual and cultural writer for instance the poem, “There Is No Word for Goodbye.�� In this poem she shows the conversation between an Athabaskan girl and her aunt. The girl is trying to find out how to say goodbye in Athabaskan. The aunt in the poem seems to be very old and wise.
To her the only solution was a failed suicide attempt (Carver, 2004). Nevertheless, what made the wife so keenly aware of the bleakness of her life was her initial association with Robert as her employer. On that final day of employment, the day that Robert asked to touch her face, a sensation befell her, one perhaps that made her feel beautiful, important, things that her fiancée never made her feel. Moreover, she never forgot what that moment meant to her. As the narrator points out, “She even tried to write a poem about it.
She showed her great love for her husband in another well-known poem she wrote called “To My Dear and Loving Husband.†The first lines of this poem -“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee,â€- make it clear that Bradstreet and her husband had a very loving marriage and that she was extremely happy (www.library.utoronto.ca). She wrote a similarly themed work about her children in poem called “In Reference to My Children†(www.ask.com). Anne’s life in the colony also affected her poetry. This can be seen in her poem “Upon a Fit of Sickness,†in which she wrote about a time in which she came close to death when struck by a plague.
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.
Statements The novel, Kelroy, by Rebecca Rush was a story about love written during a time period in which a woman’s livelihood depended on it. The word “love” is used very loosely in this context. The novel, “Kelroy exposes a social system that limits the physical, educational, professional, and economic aspirations of women” (Kelroy xxi). According to Dana Nelson, it can be speculated that the tensions in various characters might come from Rush’s personal, “frustrations in her own ambitions” (xxi). Rebecca Rush was thirty-three years of age and single when her novel was published.
This is different to Praise song for my Mother, which is a poem all about the closeness the speaker has with their mum. ‘Go to your wide futures, you said’ this last line as its own stanza is the only part of the poem which she relates to what her mother said to her. When she says ‘wide futures’ he mother might have known how well she would have done in the future. Also when she uses the repetition of ‘ you were’ could suggest that her mother isn’t here anymore and that she is dead and she was describing what she was. ‘Unable to close the distance I’d set in motion’ this could suggest that the distance in relationship has grown further and further apart between the speaker and the brother, and also it uses imagery to make it more real like.
Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality. 5. She lived in a bashful and reclusive life when she was young People begin to aware of Dickinson’s writing after her death in 1886. In the old days, traditional poet criticizes her modern poetry. But during the late 19th and early 20th century, most poets now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet.
Newspaper Article Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was the only novel Emily Brontë published, and she died the year after it came out. The author, Emily Brontë, published the book under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell” just like her sister Charlotte Brontë who went by the name of “Currer Bell” and published the famous novel Jane Eyre. Wuthering Heights is a story of Heathcliff a dark outsider who falls in love with the young Catherine and rages and avenges against every obstacle that prevents him from being with her. The story unfolds in the Yorkshire moors (1771-1801) where the main focus starts from the never ending love between Catherine Earnshaw and her father’s adopted son, Heathcliff and how this love eventually destroys their lives and the lives of those around them. Many people consider Wuthering Heights to be a classic straightforward love story, a Romeo and Juliet scenario in Yorkshire moors but this is not true.