An Explication of Howard Nemerov’s “The Vacuum” “The Vacuum” is about an old man grieving his deceased wife and what his life has become, messy and incomplete, as hinted by the poem’s title “The Vacuum”. The poet used many figurative speeches such as personification and alliteration in the poem. These speeches help readers relate to the old man’s feeling more easily. The title “The Vacuum”, makes readers think of the appliance, however, it has more than one meaning. It is a pun created by the poet.
In the beginning, when Achilles is the hero, there is a very angry and harsh, almost scary, tone when reading the poem. Now, with words like soft, pity, touched, and gently, the whole mood has changed to this sad, lonely and sort of soft feeling. The last thing I noticed about words having similar meaning is the words: together, one, universal, and they. These selected lines from the poem are the two completely different men coming together and mourning, surely out of understanding of what the other is feeling. These words throughout this passage just solidify that even
Also it contains excess word to express the meaning of the word. The ideas and thought of this poem are disorganizing. APT is about humanity´s hatred upon other people, and every sentence has whole meaning. Second is about rhyme, meter, scheme etc…ATP rhymes perfectly throughout, and each stanza has central purpose. For ATP, in the first couplet, the speaker is angry at his friend; in the second, at his foe.
Firstly, Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of images. The poem offers elaborate parallels between apparently dissimilar things, “Then as th’ earth’s inward narrow crooked lanes, Do purge sea water’s fretful salt away,” (Donne, Lines 6-7) Donne's poem expresses a wide variety of emotions and attitudes, as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry. Although, “The Triple Fool” gives a limited view of Donne’s attitude towards love, Donne treats the poem as a part of experience, giving insight into the complex range of experiences concerning love and grief, “I thought, if I could draw my pains through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay.” (Donne, Lines 8-9) Overall, the imagery in “The Triple Fool,” contributes to Donne’s sorrowful diction of love and grief. Moreover, Donne explains that poetry is for love and grief, and not for pleasing things, but songs make love and grief even worse. The first verse of the poem states that he is two times a fool, a fool for loving, and a fool for admitting it, “I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.” (Donne, Lines 1-3) Donne follows to say that he would still not be wise, even if “she” (Donne, Line 5) returned his love.
But in line 3, the author wrote that, “I take my curses back”(line4) and “I am sorry for that evil wish” (line 7). The author feels sorry of parents and wants to apologize to them, but his parents died. He never has the chance to talk to them any more. It shows the tone of regret in this poem. Besides, the tone of the other poem “Seed-Merchant’s Son” is also anger at the beginning.
The people look forward what they did or what they will do, no matter how it was or how it will be. In fact, this poem is talking about the boy who broke up with his love, and he felt sad. I said that because the first line told us “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” It makes the readers sorrowful and feels miserable. The speaker’s constant juxtaposition of past and present illustrate his inability to come to terms with his present isolated state. As in the rest of the poem, is simple and the point, suggesting the sincerity of the speaker’s emotions.
Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
As Francesco was dying Carlo describes how his eyes were ‘blinded with tears’. The word ‘blinded’ suggests a loss of control which could symbolise the deep passion Carlo had towards his lover. Although Francesco says ‘I felt good with you’ Carlo never receives a sense of closure as he never mentioned his sexuality. The mention of ‘incalculable grief’ in a previous chapter could have been an explanation of Francesco’s death and also his inability to completely get over it
Have you given up so quickly on Rosaline, whom you loved so much? Then young men love with their eyes, not with their hearts. Jesus and Mary, how many tears did you cry for Rosaline? How many salty tear-drops did you waste salting a love you never tasted? The sun hasn’t yet melted away the fog you made with all your sighs.
Whitman's poem is really long it has a lot of symbolism, imagery, descriptions and whatever else you can name. It’s easy to become distracted by the many details of the poem, but with reasonable attention you can infer the underlying message he is trying to get across. This has to do of course, with his whole philosophy of the "self". Although his poem is told from his point of view and uses and some references to his own life, this "self' is not referring to only Whitman. It is a general reference to humanity as a whole.