While he is not seen as a saint within the poem (he remarks in a sarcastic matter to Plath in the poem), he positions the reader to empathise with him, painting the image that he is the placid one in the relationship, and the one who encourages her to embark on her creative pursuits “Get that shoulder under your stanzas/ And we’ll be away.”. The repeated use of the pronoun “your” creates an accusatory tone, suggesting that they were living Plath’s life, rather than their life. The poem also hints that Plath’s father was a monster. He describes her father as a goblin that influenced and controlled the mind of Plath’s. He even goes one step further
The speaker in the poem by John Keats does not believe in legacy, nor does he believe that lives are significant. Finally, the poem by Housman expresses his belief in legacy, and that he thinks the way to insure the best possible legacy is to die in one’s prime. Further analysis demonstrates the differences between these equally important perspectives. “There is a strange charm in the hope of a good legacy that wonderfully reduces the sorrow people otherwise may feel for the death of their relatives and friends.” This quote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra falls under the Leaving a Legacy sub-theme. It expresses a positive view of leaving a legacy.
Interpreting "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" seems to speak of a person making decisions in life based on following their own desires rather than following the path that most commonly taken. It is about taking risks in life and not being afraid to go in directions that others would not normally go. However, in reviewing the analysis of others, I find that my interpretation of the meaning of this poem is very different from what the speaker may have intended. In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker talks of two roads that he has come upon in the woods and his regret that he must chose one. Alone, he stands looking down the one path that seems to be the one taken by those who came before him.
5. Coleridge doesn’t have the mariner tell his tale straight through because he wants to assure the readers that the mariner is alive and not a ghost. 6. To my understanding of the poem, the glosses are some what important because it helped me to understand the poem. This mean Coleridge wasn’t successful.
It just seems to unethical to me even though I can see how they would be useful. This novel made me think about many aspects of human life. Not only did I ponder how we as a people treat each other and people that are different than us, but I pondered our future and how realistic this novel’s plot can be. I am incredibly glad that I decided to read this book again because I missed out on so much the first time I read
It has been said that we often fail to recognize the significant moments in our lives while they are happening to us. We overlook these moments, dismissing them as simple events or rituals, only to discover their true worth after they have passed. In Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" the poet combines the literal with the metaphorical in order to present two contrasting views on the presence of a wall. Although one might say that the narrator understands, by the end of the poem, the necessity of this wall as it provides security and protection, it makes for "good neighbors", Frost is actually alluding to the idea that it is not the fence itself, but rather the ritual of mending this face that makes for “good neighbors.” Frost carefully crafts the form of the poem into a visible representation of his central theme. Written in blank verse, the poem flows from start to finish in a story unbroken by stanzas or rhyme.
The perspective, simile and tense show a literary strategy and, regardless of whether the event is true, such a traumatic account tells a more meaningful story of an emotionally true event. My account above is fabricated, like the autobiography entitled Fragments by Benjamin Wilkomirski. The only difference between them is the intent with which they are written. Upon realizing that the above passage is a fictional account, the feelings associated with it may become less significant. Having a flexible perspective on genre, interpreting emotional truth and reading for literary worth will challenge the obscurity that Fragments would otherwise fall into.
When the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes about the bond between Daisy and Jay you feel as though you are apart of the couple feeling the emotions they are. He does this by including figurative language and imagery. It is important for the author to create a scenario when Gatsby is I love with someone so that his character can relate to the other characters. In example, if there was no love between Daisy and Jay, then Nick would not have to rekindle the love, thus throwing off the whole series of events for the book. Also if the character Jay Gatsby did not have a talent for self-invention he would not have his quality of “greatness”, which is why the novel is call ‘The Great Gatsby’.
I didn’t intend for the audience to feel anything, but just to realize that most things are fake, and there’s nothing you can really do about it even when people say that they want to make a change in the world, etc. I believe the strengths of my poem were the techniques I used, and that I didn’t have many issues responding to my chosen image. My weaknesses were that I don’t think I used enough language features. Even though it seems like another clichéd poem and it seems really negative, I believe it captures reality and that’s basically why I wrote
The author uses a metaphor by comparing waving to drowning. This is a device because the action of waving to a person, compared to drowning is completely different. This shows the author was trying to show society is not very concerned about what others are doing, and are just concerned about them. One can be in need of help miserably, but one will not give one the help needed to fix a situation. This poem shows that point very well through such a metaphor.