The first poem from Fatal Interview talks about how much Millay is in love with this man. The first and second line of the poem she says “Women have loved before as I love now; At least, in lively chronicles of the past,” (530). She is comparing this relationship and the love she has for him to the old literature which contains the greatest loves. I believe that this is a great comparison. The classic novels talk about a love that is everlasting and true.
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. He was the love of my grandmother’s life and to see him struggle everyday was very difficult for her. Reading this poem to her brought back extremely powerful memories that she thought she buried away many many years
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.
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.
For her prose work she used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. The poet Richard Wilbur addressed her to write some best sonnets of that century. “Love Is Not All” starts with the description of things that love fails to do including its failure to heal. Millay said that many people die because of lack of love. She said that she would continue trading love in the autumn of life (moments of suffering) to keep the individual alive peacefully.
Homer uses many themes by not telling us what they are, but by showing us and leaving us in suspense. Love is one of the most important and influential themes in the book. Often times in life we search for a companion, someone to share our love and life with. Odysseus and Penelope’s lasting relationship is an obvious representation of love in The Odyssey. Although Odysseus is gone for twenty years he never forgets his faithful wife back home in Ithaca.
Diane Burns: Background Assignment Briefly describe Burn’s life. Discuss how being a Native American influenced her, how she got into writing poetry, what happened to her in Nicaragua, and what brought about her death. Diane burns is a Native American poet who is much celebrated and who died from drugs and alcohol at the age of 50. Her Native background shows in her work. I believe the fact that her parents were teachers had lot to do with the fact that she became a poet.
These are easily relatable feelings, because most people have felt this way at least one time in their lives. However, Sexton felt that even though we all may feel completely alone at times, we would always have God and the stars to listen to our innermost thoughts. Like much of Sexton’s work, “Young” deals with the issues of parent-child relationships, female identity, and religious ideas. These themes also appear in many of her other poems, such as “Her Kind” and “The Truth the Dead Know.” Born on November 9, 1928 in Newton, Massachusetts, Sexton, apparently suffering from depression, attempted to commit suicide many times. After giving birth to her second child, she was diagnosed with postpartum depression and was subsequently hospitalized (Empire Zine).
Shonaya Murray English 1101-04 Professor Campbell 9 April 2012 The Touch of Love in Love Medicine In Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Lipsha is the source of making sure that his Grandma Kashpaw gets exactly what she has been yearning for the past years; her husband, Grandpa Kashpaw, back. Grandpa Kashpaw past is revealed and the love that Grandma Kashpaw has for him is unconditional. She never gives up on her husband, despite his infidelity; she knows that one day she will have him exclusively. In the article Love Medicine Voices and Margins, the author Kathleen Sands clarifies the meaning of love: “Love is so powerful that it creates in dissoluble ties that even outlast life, and ultimately it allows forgiveness…Love is tenuous; love is dangerous, and love potions risky.” In “Love Medicine” Grandma Kashpaw is blind by love and does not understand Grandpa Kashpaw’s true intentions. Lipsha decides to put his touch to the test to rekindle the covered flame.
In his acceptance speech of the Nobel Prize, William Faulkner asserts that it’s the writer’s duty to remind people of the of human soul, “a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” Joan Didion, in her novel The Year of Magical Thinking, epitomizes this spirit of endurance as she recounts the year following the death of her husband, writer John Dunne, who suffered a massive heart attack as a result of a prolonged disease. John’s death marked the end of the couple’s forty-year marriage, spurring Didion into a state of what she calls “magical thinking.” In this state, Didion convinces herself that her perpetual yearning for John might have the power to bring him back, refusing to give away his clothes and shoes under the belief he will need them upon his return. She also becomes obsessed with the chronological events leading up to John’s death, believing there must have been some portent she missed. By the end of the book, however, Didion is able to recognize that this “magical thinking” was her method to keep John’s memory alive, and no matter what she did or could have done, his death was inevitable. In choosing to recognize and then reject her false, but comforting, reality, Didion creates “out of the materials of the human spirit” a moving portrait of the human soul as it struggles to accept loss and grief.