It reminded me of myself in my youth when my first love gave me a hand drawn picture of on oriole that he drew for me for Valentine’s Day. It was beautiful and it conveyed to me that he felt I was as special as I thought this young man was. This poem really touched my heart and brought back wonderful memories and that is exactly what poems should do. They should bring out the emotions that people feel when they read the poem. I will probably read more of Gary Soto’s work based on this poem and the style that Mr. Soto uses to express his
“The Lanyard” Analysis “The Lanyard” by Billy Collins, is a poem about a grown man who flashbacks to the day he braided a lanyard for his mother at a camp thinking that making something for his mother will make her happy. Collins uses imagery and tone to illustrate that nothing in this world is enough to repay one’s mother for all that she’s done, but showing one’s love for her will bring joy and laughter into her life. A poetic device Collins utilizes in this poem is imagery. One very good example is when he was thinking about the day at camp. “The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from type write to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor” (lines 1-4).
Again using Adler’s theory a strength that Antwone has is the sense of community feeling that he develops early on as he becomes fried with a local boy of similar age. Then again while n therapy with Dr. Davenport, he is seen expressing more that the sense of belonging to a community. He begins to date and his relationship with his shipmates improves. He then visit his family which further strengthened this idea as the paternal family reaches out to him and welcome s him with open arms. Part two: Brief description of what therapy would look like with the character using this theory.
Feliks Skrzynecki- Peter Skrzynecki Peter Skrzynecki's poem "Feliks Skrzynecki" explores the complex idea about belonging. The poem suggests that belonging comes from a connection to place and people, people can choose to belong and that belonging can be modified over time. Feliks in the poem feels a close connection to places and people. He is described at the beginning of the poem with the use of a simile, as loving "his garden like an only child", and the hyperbole sweeping "its paths ten times around the world." The simile and hyperbole evoke a sense of his dedication to his garden and his paternal feelings towards it, connecting to this place like a father connects to an only child.
Comment on the poem’s diction. How does diction relate to tone? Li-Young Lee uses common language. His tone is very reflective. He describes in thorough detail his memory of his father, and notices that the tenderness he is using with his wife was a result of his father.
How do the poems ’10 Mary Street’ and ‘Feliks Scrzynecki’ explore the impact of home and family on belonging? Reflecting back on his past, poet Peter Skrzynecki explores the positive impacts of home and family on belonging. In his poems ‘10 Mary Street’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, Skrzynecki retells the story of the persona’s childhood through the perspective of an adult. This allows for the responder to understand the persona’s feelings and emotions about his past and about what it means to belong. While ’10 Mary Street’ explores the importance of the family and the family home on belonging, ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ portrays family and culture as important aspects of belonging.
The character is described to have a “heart filled with glee” (Cullen, 2) at the thought of discovering a new place. The poem has an ABCB rhyme scheme adding a melody to the piece. The melody is then thought of as sweet and even has a childish tune to it, setting the stage of the passage to a happy and even hopeful tone. Maybe the author intended to project a feeling of happiness and curiosity onto the audience since the character of this poem is a child. By adding this quote, it allows the author to describe the child.
For instance, the swans made of bread that Marjane's uncle gives her stands for several important aspects that are natural in human nature: memories, love, and hope. Satrapi again illustrates valued human characteristics that when all else is gone, a person will hang on to hope. Thus, making another tie with readers and making her story more believable. A second example, are the small keys that promise paradise in the afterlife. Once more, hope is stressed to express the humanity of Iran as the people search and hang on to even a sliver of light in their dark times.
Hence enabling them opportunities to conform to others around them and opening up themselves and expressing their own views. The poem “10 Mary Street” from “Immigrant Chronicles” by Peter Skrynecki clearly demonstrates this through the use of imagery and accumulation in the second last stanza, “Kielbasas, salt herrings, rye bread and raw vodka”. Through this Skrzynecki encapsulates contentment a fecundate atmosphere and memorable experiences shared by Peter and his family, sharing and enjoying the wonders that their cultural traditions bring. At the same time it also illustrates Peter’s acceptance to his cultural identity. This is further reinforced through the poet’s description of the family as being “naturalised”, through the fact that they’ve allowed themselves to be opened up to the greater world beyond 10 Mary
However in this poem she cannot find a happier memory and recalls a dream instead, “I dreamed once long ago, that we walked among day-bright flowers.” Her use of positive imagery such as the “day-bright flowers” lightens the mood and achieves the same effect of the memories in The Violets, as she stops thinking of death and causes the reader to forget the unhappy nature of the initial memory and be emotionally moved by the warmth of the following memory where she is “secure in my father’s arms.” In her poems The Violets, Father and Child and At Mornington Gwen Harwood demonstrates through her use of memories, her loss of innocence, the love for her parents and how quickly time moves. Her memories also serve to engage the reader and make us feel her sense of happiness, sorrow and