Poets through the ages have been esteemed as possessing the ability to perceive the ordinary in extraordinary and innovative ways. Poetry captures the essences of human emotion and experience and imbues them with further significance by the literary techniques that typify poetry as the language of art. In her poetry, Gwen Harwood explores many thematic concerns that resonate with her readers regardless of their contexts. The universality of concepts such as memory, inspiration, childhood education and the cyclical, yet final nature of death are transformed by Harwood’s poetry to create fresh perceptions of the continuity of experience and provide permanence to these transient elements of humanity through language. The poetic techniques employed by Harwood effectively communicate distinctive aspects of her themes while allowing them to remain universal.
have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practiced so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?” The poem also asks the reader to look inwards and ask themselves these questions. These questions must be analysed by each reader individually and they must come to a conclusion on how it can help them lead a more fulfilling life. Moreover, the poems also ask the reader to find the good in their surroundings and within themselves and to appreciate it as much as possible.
The basic plot and relationships presented within the poem are universal, which allows for a deeper connection to the tension presented. It is through both the familiarity and the emotional facilitation existent within The Glass Jar that tension between and individual and life experience can create interest and engage a reader. The Glass Jar allows the reader to feel a range of emotions which vary according to the levels of tension within the poem. Long sentences combined with enjambment, within and across stanzas, create a slow calm atmosphere which a reader will experience; allowing them to believe that all is well. Religious imagery and allusion, such as “sun’s disciples”, “bless” and “holy commonplace” constructs reverent and sanctified thoughts within the reader’s mind which sets them at ease.
It almost makes me feel like Langston Hughes gains more confidence or reassurance towards the end of the poem. One sentence that stuck out to me was, “ I guess being colored doesn’t make me NOT like the same things…” This serves as a double negative, which ultimately is a positive statement being made. Hughes then goes on to comparing himself to the instructor with their different race but in reality there truly isn’t any other difference between them. The poem itself is a metaphor for a colored man trying to make his way in a white world and the ways they are both changed by it, considering the events taking place during this time
This is how this piece of poetry got its name, because it captures the audience’s attention from curiosity of how the title relates to the poem. As we look at these series of similes, we find out what those affects are because, with each question the speaker offers a possibility of each negative effect. The first one “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun”: a raisin is already dry, and as a raisin, it is a good thing, useful and nutritious, but if a raisin is left in the sun to dry up, it becomes hard and impossible to eat; its value sucked out, it no longer serves its useful, nutritional purpose. If the dream does not dry up, maybe it will “fester like a sore—And then run.” The dream that festers becomes infected with the disease of restlessness and dissatisfaction that may lead to criminal activity, striking back at those who are deferring the dream.
This has an effect on the poem of the repeated letter or sound dragging out, making the poem sound more dramatic. These examples position the reader to see nature as appreciative and sometimes
Dandelions are also known to be happy flowers so this sets the mood in a more soothing and calming place. The poet also uses imagery to lighten the mood up. “And a jumble of skirts spilled onto the ploughed grass,” could be portrayed in a mental image of the clothes scattering around from the laundry truck. It makes the mood less tense because instead of rather describing the horrible images of the accident, the poet decides to describe the little details of it. There was also an internal rhyme in that line which was “skirts and shirts”.
These poems are considered her greatest. Grimke wrote compellingly about blacks, but her preferred theme was love. In most of her poems, Grimke displays remarkable skills as an imagist. Aside from her poetry, Grimke wrote Rachel, a play sponsored by the NAACP in 1916. It is remembered as one of the first American plays written by and for blacks.
Harlem Renaissance Paper Langston Hughes is a well know black poet for many poems and short stories he has written. “I, too”, “The Negro speaks of Rivers”, “Harlem”, and “The Weary Blues” are just a few to name. Hughes was affiliated with the Harlem Renaissance movement. The Harlem Renaissance was collaborative of poems and short stories by African American writers. Its focus was about the experiences, desires, and communal needs of the Negros who migrated from the south to up north, where they hope for a change and a better life for their families.
"Negritude" a Post Colonial analysis of the poem 'Night of Sine' by Leopold Senghor Abstract This article is about finding the features of 'Negritude' in the poem "Nighr of Sine" by Leopold Senghor.Black writings has always been engaged with the historical circumstances that condition the conciousness of the black race.There is always been a focus on prose,fictional and dramatic genres,but no much work has been made on the preview of post-colonial treatement orientation in modern African poetry.This paper is a critical post-colonial treatment of the engagement of Leopold Senghor's poem'Night of Sine' as an invocation of the mystery, beauty and fragrance of the African night—the stars, the moon, the