The topic of this poem is the abstract images of Mother Nature. I believe that the themes of this poem are loneliness, her experiences with nature and her art as a great writer. In her poem she refers to us as countrymen because we are living in Mother Nature’s land. The second poem I analyzed was “We Outgrow Love”. This is a short poem, but gives the reader a sense of how true it is the way we put important things away in life and we get them out when we are ready for them.
However, as the poem ends, and the flea’s death is meaningless as is the woman’s virginity, thus the speaker and the woman should make love. Also, Donne wrote of real love poems such as The Sun Rising in which he represents the love between the speaker and woman as the universe. “Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.” (Donne, The Sun Rising, lines 29-30). He gives significance to the woman as she is the states, and the speaker is the princes, and together they create their powerful
That Jose chooses to sing a song about a weary life, obviously something she is unacquainted with, has to be ironic: in the Sheridan family, weariness and sorrow are merely lyrics to be mocked. Mansfield's exquisite use of imagery is as telling as her irony. For example, the flower imagery throughout the story serves to keep the reader reminded of the delicacy of Laura's world. The flowers are splendid, beautiful, and—what is not stated—short-lived. Laura, too, is beautiful, radiant, flower-like.
Analysis of The Lady of Shalott The Lady of Shallott is a narrative poem that is by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The central idea of the poem is that it is better perhaps to live authentically for a brief time than for years in enslavement, without realizing ones aspirations. In this poem, the main character exists under a spell without knowing what its origin is or why it has been put on her and without thinking of how she can remove it. She seems to accept it as her fate: "And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care has she" (lines 43-44), the poem explains. The one stipulation of this mysterious curse is that she cannot look out her window at the panorama of nature and humanity that is outlined in the first stanza of the poem.
The muck symbolizes freedom and a relief from oppression that was experienced by Janie. The contrast of these two places reinforces the theme of a search for love and fulfillment. To see what an ideal situation for an independent woman, Hurston first show the reader what Janie cannot deal with. She has her character Janie go on a quest, one that was begun the day she was forced to marry Logan Killucks. Janie’s life with Joe fulfilled a need -- she had no financial worries and was set for life.
Her connection to William Shakespeare deepens with the passage of time. The rumor that Shakespeare’s Dark Lady is none other than Aemilia Lanyar does not lighten her reputation, as the sonnets that speak of said Lady are bawdy and sexual in nature. Lanyar begins an eventful life, being educated at Countesses homes. Of particular import is the Countess of Cumberland’s estate. This Countess exposes Aemilia to “learning, piety and poetry.” Aemilia repays this education with a poem, illustrating her thanks for religious conversion in the company of God, Nature,
The sound of the "w's" used supports the sense of the reader's lack of energy. It makes one feel the author's hopelessness and aloneness. Repetition is used in the poem to convey this theme. The name "Lenore" is used over and over again. From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore- For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore- And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"
Andrew Marvell's poem, ‘To His Coy Mistress’ (hereafter I shall refer to the poem as ‘Mistress’) is a beautifully provocative poem. ‘Mistress’ encompasses many literary techniques including tone, imagery, alliteration, metaphor, irony, enjambment and similes. It is written in iambic tetrameter as a three part proposition to his mistress, and Marvell employs alternative poetic styles (as mentioned previously) to enhance each of the three arguments in the poem. In essence, ‘Mistress’ examines the assertion that after death, morality is of no value. Marvell accentuates the triviality of his mistress being vain during her lifetime, emphasizing that she must do away with all trepidation when it comes to temptation.
This is shown in lines 1 and 2, "Because I could not stop for death, / He kindly stopped for me" (Dickinson). The poet gives death the character traits of being kind, seen in line two. It even seems that the woman is somewhat flattered in the kind nature of her suitor. In lines 3 and 4, "The carriage held but just ourselves / And Immortality" (Dickinson). These lines give us
It is clear appearance isn’t everything. In Sonnet 18 the speaker says that as long as the poem is still being read then the beauty of it still lives, which shows that poetry can preserve love and is immortal. Sonnet 147 is a poem that’s starts describing a beautiful person but ends but saying that she is basically the devil. This supports the poem’s theme: appearances isn’t everything. The speaker was deceived buy her beauty and soon came to realize that one doesn’t just judge someone by someone’s beauty and that person’s personality counts too.