In this poem, Blake’s character becomes overcome with nostalgia when he sees that his longed-for garden is no longer present. William Blake’s sorrowful poem, “The Garden of Love,” depicts many intellectual metaphors about a love that was lost, and hoping to be found. “I went to the Garden of Love” lets us know the setting of poem. New flowers sprouting in the garden represent a metaphor for “The Garden of Love” because it resembles the sprouting of affection. From here, we can figure out that the Garden of love is a metaphor for a woman, or Blake’s character’s love.
Compare the methods that poets use to create an interesting character in “Singh Song!” and another poem from character and voice (“Checking out Me History”). Both poems are dramatic monologues and have a conversational tone. The poems are written in free verse and this has connotations to the way that the characters have confusion over their identity. The irregular stanza lengths show the various cultural differences between the poems. In the poem “Singh Song!”, the poet uses repetition to show the persona of Singh as being very personal and intimate when he spends the little time that he has with his “newly bride”.
Compare how feelings towards another person are presented in “Hour” and “To His Coy Mistress” “Hour” by Carol Ann Duffy and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvel, deal with feelings and emotions towards another person in different ways. In “Hour” the narrator describes an hour spent between her and her lover, and how the feeling of love they share between them is so strong it nearly manages to stop time. Whereas in “To His Coy Mistress” the narrator is telling the woman who he loves that she shouldn’t play hard to get because there isn’t enough time in the world. His feelings of physical passion grow throughout the poem as he tries to persuade her to have sex with him while they are still young and attractive. Form and structure are used effectively in both poems to show feelings and emotions to their lovers.
Cramer WardCollings 1/29/14 LIT2000 Poetry Analysis of “A Blessing” The poem “A Blessing” by James Wright paints a humbling picture of life for the reader using a deep metaphor. Wright uses metaphors throughout his poem to describe the finer moments of life. The first metaphor used in the poem is one of a highway. The use of a highway gives the readers a picture of a journey, of a direction, and of others going the same way. The highway is a metaphor for life and when wright stops on the side of it to enjoy the horses, he is appreciating life and “stopping to smell the roses”.
Trapped The story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck is written in the 1930’s, a time when men and women had specific male and female roles that were instilled by what society deemed suitable. Steinbeck is writing about a woman, Elisa Allen who is living a pretty “closed in” life. She wants more, is even longing for more out of life, but is being oppressed by the roles formed by society. Consequently, giving up on her self and accepting her role in the world and letting go of her hopes for a more fulfilling life. One way in which it seems that Elisa’s world is small and she is being oppressed, is with the opening description.
This evokes our emotion towards the ‘I’ as we can identify and engage by replacing this with our self. This strong sense of feeling, relationship and engagement to the poem emphasis’s our own emotions. ‘I kneel to pick frail melancholy flowers among ashes and loam,’ puts us in the same, dull, lifeless position as the narrator. We have this strong sense of empathy with and compassion towards her. At Mornington also makes use of first person used with an intimate use of personal pronoun “I” which enables reader to witness the changes in
The open window that Louise gazes from is a key symbol which represents the freedom and opportunity that is now possible now that her husband has died. When looking out of that window from her armchair she notices the beautiful nature outside of the window. "The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves."
Another sign of Miss Brill’s need for companionship is evident in her perception of the music which the band is playing at the Jardins Publiques: “It was like some one playing with only the family to listen.” Despite of her loneliness, she is considering herself a part of this family that the band is entertaining with its music. But in reality she is more of an observer, a voyeur, and not an active participant in life. Katherine Mansfield describes Miss Brill as an old lady, sitting in the park, listening to other people's conversations. To communicate
When she takes it out, she talks like it is an old friend: “What has been happening to me? said the sad little eyes”(86). Her assigning life-like qualities to inanimate objects shows how isolated she feels. Her descriptions of strangers in the park also give the reader a feeling of just how alone she feels. She fantasizes she has a relationship with them: “They weren’t only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting.
In "Miss Brill," by Katherine Mansfield, Sundays are a magical day for Miss Brill until she is forced to step out of her daydream and face reality. Every Sunday Miss Brill, a shy English school teacher, goes to the Public Gardens and takes her "special seat" to look forward to listening to the conversations of others.. This lonely older woman has become quite the expert on eavesdropping. Miss Brill starts to view everything she observes on Sundays in the form of a beautifully choreographed theatrical performance in which everything, herself included, plays a role. This is a place where she feels as though she"belongs."