The narrator is clearly miserable with her life and considers suicide to be the only solution. Killing herself would relieve the pain she feels on a daily basis. “Daddy” is another poem that demonstrates Plath’s common death by suicide theme. In the poem, she writes that “At twenty I tried to die / And get back, back, back to you. / I thought even the bones would do (Plath 58-60)”.
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.
Despite communicating only sporadically between 1959 and Plath's suicide, both women were definitively influenced by their brief friendship, showing in their respective works. I think personal feelings about things like death, trauma, suicide and relationships began to be dealt with in poems would be very difficult to write about. It really made me think as I read the poems the two women had written and to know how they both choice to end their lives. I know that my life is not perfect, and I get upset with others from time to time but I also know that God only give me as much as I can handle at a
The two poems are also different in that in Suicide Note, the young girl has time to think about and give reason as to why she is taking her life. The college girl feels that she has to achieve perfection in everything that she does, and feels a sense of inadequacy. In Out, Out, the boy’s death is sudden (Frost, 1393). In conclusion, there are some similarities and differences in both poems. The authors in both poems portray how short life is, and unpredictable life can be.
Neither of the characters have a voice in the historical books however Duffy gives both the women their own voice in the poems. These poems are very much alike however very different. Duffy uses an oxymoron in the first line of Havisham. `Beloved sweetheart bastard` show that the character has mixed emotions about her lover and gives an air of uncertainty about the characters emotions for her lover. She calls him a bastard because he walked out on her however Duffy uses beloved sweetheart to symbolise her unconditional love for him.
It portrays the poet's jealousy of the death Woman because she died peacefully while others has to live and face the ordeals of life. Her preoccupation with death is seen when she states that her jealousy for the death Woman is “nearly infinite”. The next stanza talks about how the Woman passed away without much trouble. It took place in a short time and the whole experience “Jostled “her. This had a disturbing influence on the poet.
Collins actually uses words in a way that makes the whole scene light-hearted, and not embarrassing. As it is well known that Dickinson intended to keep her poetry private. As I can recall, we know very little about the real Emily Dickinson other than that she was recluse who did not become famous for her works until after her lifetime. All we see of her is the thousands of stanzas she dressed herself with. I would say Collin’s is writing about stripping down Dickinson to her exposed self, without the poetry.
On our way back to the hotel my parents and grandmother struck up a very interesting conversation about life and death and my grandmother said that if she were to die before any of us to make sure that her wig and her makeup looked good. I thought It was odd but it was something that had stuck with me. Later on that night I woke up to paramedics escorting my grandmother’s lifeless body out of the room. I was angry and hurt and I need of someone to answer some questions for me. In the very personal collection of poems entitled Constance written by Jane Kenyon there is one particular poem that speaks to my life and that is The Argument.
Even more painful is the fact that she remembers very little about her previous life: “I [can] remember my name, my age, that I [am] a woman, but death swallowed the rest” (4). She attaches herself to different humans or “hosts”, her first being a lonely poet. Helen and this character have an unspoken bond. While the poet cannot see her ghost, they are learning from each other. This host’s life is similar to that of writer Emily Dickinson, in that they both are isolated poets who express darkness and death in a lot of their work.
It is a great power to be able to mold words that will affect one’s emotions and conscience. No poet, in my opinion, grabbed this power and used it to get across his feelings more than the Edgar Allan Poe. In his poetry, Poe seems to focus on one particular girl…“Poe Girl,” who he kills in most of his poems. This repeated death of the Poe Girl has grabbed the attention of many feminists. Though feminists are an intently focused group of people, advocating for women’s rights; that does not mean that all feminists interpret things the same way.