The narrator questions the need for a boundary between them, while the neighbor insists on its presence. This issue is even bigger in reality, it brings into question whether or not people should have such defensive boundaries around themselves both physically and mentally. The narrator points to nature even seemingly opposing the wall as it tears down boulders and nocks it over every year. This seems to represent nature’s own defiance to the making of boundaries and it may even reflect the belief that boundaries serve no good purpose to the world. However in the end, the wall is repaired and the men were together.
Ansley Rehorn March 1, 2010 Class: Tuesday/ Thursday @2 Poetry Explication Essay “The Peace of Wild Things” “The Peace of Wild Things” is a poem that uses a unique approach of words to explains a fathers worries about his family and life’s challenges, and how he gets peace at night. The Author, Wendell Berry, is an American Author who writes non fiction pieces that speak of lifes values. The speaker or narrator in this poem is a father who cares for her children but seeks to find peace. What I received from this poem is that the narrator is a man because of the words he uses and how he mentions that he protects his children. When I think of protection, I think of a man, such as my father, because a father is who many go to for
In the poem ‘Feliks Skrzynecki, the poet discusses how he forgot his first polish word and the determination his father showed to make sure he did not forget, ‘…I forgot my first Polish word./He repeated it so I never forgot.’ Here Skrzynecki displays interaction between his father and himself to make sure he did not let go of his Polish heritage which leads on to use a simile when he says, ‘After that, like a dumb prophet, /Watched me pegging my tents/Further and further south of Hadrian’s Wall.’ The simile that is used represents the strong bond between the father and Skrzynecki, letting him find his sense of belonging by moving away, on his own. In contrast, in the film ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ (2009), as Li, main character in the movie, arrives in America and is being driven to his new home by his co-worker, Li is bombarded by high-rise buildings and immense levels of traffic as he looks out the window, camera taking a low angle up-shot of the buildings from Li’s view. Li embodies a dumbfounded expression on his face and is lost for words, which creates a distance between him and his sense of integration and attachment to America. This example exemplifies the idea that Li’s interaction with the world around him in America limits his experience of belonging. When Li left China, he did not have any roots there except his family.
Consider the ways in which Heaney explores his memories in ‘Mid-term break’ and ‘Digging’. In the poems ‘Digging’ and ‘Mid-term break’, Heaney portrays his childhood memories through both negatives and positive feelings. In ‘Mid-term break’, the death of his brother expresses both peaceful and soothing moments, as well as feelings of loneliness and isolation. In ‘Digging’, we are connected with Heaney’s thoughts and taken back in time to explore his Irish past, and family connection to the rich soil and land. His choice to continue writing instead of carrying out the tradition of farming separates him from his family.
In this line he is speaking not only literally but metaphorically. He is unclear about the reason and necessity of his attendance and is questioning why he must attend a school outside his local area. This emphasises his absence of connection, a sense of alienation and also a feeling of displacement. On the other hand, a strong and positive connection made with places and an enriched experience of belonging is demonstrated in Peter Skrzynecki’s poem, 10 Mary Street. The order of the daily ritual of their lives is shown in the simile he uses to describe the family’s departure each morning where for ‘nineteen years’ they ‘Shut the house/Like a well-oiled lock.” This establishes a sense of security and connection to place and emphasises that the house and their routine was a significant part of their
The physical barrier being the wall itself and the emotional barrier of feeling shut off from each other. This shows how contradiction is part of the human way of life, in this poem it is that they want to work together to fix the wall because it is broken, yet the protagonist yearns to be accepted by his neighbour and wants to take the wall down so they can be together in companionship instead of just repairing a wall once a year together. However, by the protagonists pleas the neighbour simply says, and with repetition “Good fences make good neighbours” This repetition explores how a person’s tradition can make them stubborn and unwilling to accept new ideas, like taking down a wall to start a friendship. To humans, tradition is something that is not questioned or changed; this shows how some people follow their tradition faithfully while
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.
Within Emily Dickinson’s poetry, she expresses her own perceptions of what is within the package of an individual’s yearning to belong in society’s game. This positions us to shape our own notions and understanding of what belonging entails with Dickinson’s insights as an initial framework. In the area of belonging, being accepted or gaining a sense of affiliation by someone or a group of people may require you to alter something about you and what you are about. Similarly, where there is an opportunity of belonging or a sense of placement there is always the possibility of loss and neglect. Within Dickinson’s poem I died for beauty.. beauty and truth underpin the essence of her message of sacrificing yourself in the name you desire to be recognised as.
 Of Mice and Men By Tri Pham ____________________________________________________________ _______________________ The beautiful, timeless novel of Of Mice and Men speaks out for its creator, John Steinbeck for how marvelous a writer he is when he blends in one impression of all the qualified facets of a great writer according to Vladimir Nabokov's evaluation of a good writer. In Steinbeck's writing exists a fine presence of a flickering magic that unifies the entire aspect in any of his masterpieces. He enchanted all for every phrase we sip in. He has us going for from the development to the outcome of the story line. After the omnipotence of mastery in painting his story ,
Ericka Wagner; author, critic and former literary editor of The Times, who recently published a biography of Ted Huges; the British poet and ex-poet laureate who married Sylvia Plath. Craig Morgan Teicher; literary critic, author and poet, who currently serves as the poetry editor at The Literary Review. Tracy Smith, welcome back to ‘Poem Talk’, and The Writer’s House T: Thank you I’m so excited to be here! And Ericka, always good to see you. E: I’m really excited to be here!