Sheers writes of ordinary everyday happenings such as digging a field in preparation for planting and in so doing bones of dead soldiers are found. Mametz Wood is about these wasted lives but Sheers puts them into a context of nature that rolls over these events and in effect ignores them. The actual falling leaves in this poem symbolise the falling solidiers who are dying in the battlefield. The poet uses what we call in poetry an extended metaphor. The leaves are the soldiers.
The author, John McCrae composed this poem while by the side of a dead comrade’s grave. The poem in itself presents an emotional message of what men of the battle were feeling, “We are the Dead...In Flanders fields,” (Lines 6-9); the men fighting were giving up living. McCrae demonstrates juxtaposition in these lines by contrasting life and death the lines symbolize how truly dead they are,
Kaitlin Villaverde Mrs. Bradford English 11 30 September 2014 Poetry Explication Mending Wall This poem is about a soaring wall which parts one thing from another leaving the on of the neighbors inside wondering about the possibilities of freedom if the wall was to be absent yet, and the benefits there of. “And on that day we meet to walk the line”(13).The wall is ironic because, even though it separates the speaker from his neighbor, it also brings them together every year. “And set the wall between us once again” (14). This quote reflects the feeling of how are protagonists is sighing in frustration from having this division between him and his neighbor. As stated,there is an ironic twist at hand.
Robert Frost uses rhyming scheme and imagery to help the reader feel the poem. The narrator describes his unending tedious labor saying “load and unload again and again…what have I then? “ He creates the argument that people work day in and day out doing the same humdrum labor and to what end? He then says, “ who’s to say where the harvest shall stop” Frost is implying that humans will continue to work and gather to do a whole lot of nothing. “Between Walls”, by William Carlos Williams, interacts with the reader by allowing the reader to create a back-story for the hospital.
Ricky choses the hardest books imaginable. He believes in reading up on what others have to say about a difficult book, and then making up his own mind about it. He says that part of the reason he feels this way is because of his teacher, Mr. Buxton, who taught him Shakespeare in 10th grade. Ricky shares how Mr. Buxton met him one night to go over the text line by line, but he didn’t share the conclusion with Moody, he left that for him to figure out on his own. Reading Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader” in college, Ricky states that, “The reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.” Although there are critics who believe there is a right and a wrong way to ready books, Moody says, “I believe there is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.” Part 2.
Every line that I read brought in waves of memories from the time I spent on the Appalachian Trail (AT) and backpacking trips out west. He starts the poem with the line, “The plains ignore us but the mountains listen”. Back packing through plains or flat grass lands is unlike anything you'll ever experience. To feel the vast openness of the earth is so incredibly energizing. But it is also extremely terrifying because if you did a complete 360 degree turn, you'd see nothing but maybe a mountain range a few dozen miles out and you feel so vulnerable out there.
Unable to join the Confederate army, he yearned to help the South’s war effort in some significant way. One evening, Farquhar and his wife were sitting on a bench out in front of their house soldier rode up and asked for a drink a drink of water. The soldier appeared to be from the Confederate army. While his wife was fetching the water, Farquhar asked for news of the front and was informed that Northern forces had repaired the railroads in anticipation of launching another advance, having already reached the Owl Creek bridge. The soldier told Farquhar any civilian caught interfering with the North’s efforts in the area would be hanged.
Guilty about Rowena's death Robert is seen with a horse and dog in the prologue, after the 'war', and when we come across Taffler we see that he is accompanied with a horse and dog. Page 16 “The melting snow began to turn to mist...platform.” This is the moment of decision for him, whether he will choose the path of purity or the path of destruction. In the end, he chooses to go to war and leave behind everything. Page 29 Gives an intensely vivid picture of vivid. Family -Rabbit's are a symbol, Rowena died before the rabbit's- the animal's are meant to have a very short life span.
I hoped in my heart that was were alive and well. I returned to Marias village for her burial and in search of my two children. The first night Maria was in the grave, the villagers heard the sound of crying down by the river, I heard it as well. Since I stayed the night in what used to be a home of once and happy family, the only house closest to the river. It was not the wind making the noise, it was La Llorona crying, "Where are my children?"
When I first came to the school in my freshman year, I recollect seeing people wearing strange, exotic letters across their chests. Not only did I wonder what they were doing wearing these ridiculous letters, but I also wanted to know what the letters meant. Once I was introduced to this Scarlet Letter project I was completely mortified. I am extremely shy and don’t enjoy drawing too much attention to myself. Now Mrs. Murphy-Tick expected me to wear a letter representing my character flaw for a whole two days?