It feels as if this middle-aged poet did have a sorrow for something important that he might have lost. He seems like someone who cares deeply for certain things, and loved ones. His sadness makes the reader feel the same but in a different situation. He uses a poetic technique in the ninth line by comparing his life to a hill in which he is only half way up. Then, he goes on the say how his past was a city with lights, sounds, and sights.
In the beginning of the novel Cather use weather to describe that calmness that Burden was feeling after being in Nebraska for a little while. For example, Sitting in his grandmother's garden, Jim observes: "There in the sheltered draw-bottom the wind did not blow very hard, but I could hear it singing its humming tune up on the level, and I could see the tall grasses wave. The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers" (Cather 42). Cather uses very relaxing,
When the speaker says, “Fifty springs are little too room”, (8) the writing gives a tone and a sense of hurriedness to the reader. “About the woodlands I go/To see the cherry hung with snow” (7-8). These two lines are parallel to the first stanza. The speaker is declaring that he will go both in the spring and in the winter. The fact that the speaker is seeing the cherry trees more often helps Housman’s idea that a person should see his/her favorite items more than once in the short amount of time left.
In ‘In Memorium (Easter 1916)’ and ‘The Cherry Trees’ the absence of lovers is a terrible loss; in ‘As the Team’s Head Brass’ their fleeting presence is a cause for optimism and hope. “I sat… and watched”: the peaceful watching of the narrator as time passes by gives this poem a thoughtful, ponderous tone. “the fallen elm / That strewed the angle of a fallow”: the narrator sits on a fallen tree that lies on unploughed (“fallow”) land. The narrator views the farmer working the field just as he views the war in this poem; from the side, at an angle to events. “Watched the plough narrowing a yellow square of charlock”: charlock, or wild mustard, is
Jim Perrin uses a variety of descriptive and informative language in his article when talking about the differences between the Welsh hills in the summer and winter months. In the opening few paragraphs use of adjectives and creates a stunning picture of the fells in the readers head. He describes the hills as the “shapeliest” of British hills and says that only musical notation can describe their stature. Musical notation is believed by some to be the most graceful and elegant creations at the best of times which is how Perrin is portraying the mountains. Jim Perrin uses a strong contrast of positive and negative description to persuade the reader that the winter seasons bring more out of Snowdonia than the summer months.
Robert Frost’s poem “Acquainted with the Night” sets a theme of loneliness and depression throughout the poem. The tone of the poem has a a kind of somber and sad quality. Frost, who is also the speaker of the poem, expresses the feeling of solitude, isolation and provides a clear imagery of one being alienated and not knowing where to belong, by presenting a story where the speaker finds acquaintance in the night. These qualities fit with the symbolic meaning of "night” which is a symbol used to suggest darkness of the mind or soul. So, on a deeper level, the speaker is saying that he is acquainted with an internal darkness of some kind.
The poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud deals with the speaker’s state of mind. The poem is divided into 4 stanzas each containing 6 verses, and has a riming scheme which sounds; ABABCC. The speaker in the poem is William Wordsworth himself, which is already emphasized in the first verse; “I wandered lonely as a cloud…” The poem is written in past tense, as Wordsworth talks about something he has experienced on a certain day in his life. This is also shown in the first verse; “I wandered lonely as a cloud…” In the first stanza he describes how he one day wandered over vales and hills feeling lonely as a cloud, when he suddenly came across a host of golden daffodils. This stanza first of all tells us how the speaker is felling; “lonely as a cloud”.
The First Snowfall The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell is a short poem that tells of this man who watches the snowfall and is thinking about his dead child. He is watching by the window and is grasping meaning from the snow with every snowflake that fell. He then realizes that everything is not forever like how snow wil melt away at some point. In the poem The First Snowfall , James Russell Lowell gives meaning to the snowfall by using similies to make comparasins, and he used symbolism and vivid imagery to convey emotions. The meaning of the story and its relation to the snowfall are brought out with Lowell's use of similies to make comparasins to snow.
Allen Ginsber’s affinities in “Howl” with “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg are two poets that have comparable poetic tendencies despite living almost a century apart from one another. Walt Whitman can claim many literary descendants including writers of prose as well as poetry. He is considered a midwife of modern poetry and poets between two wars in 20th century. One of the most known poems in of his book “Leaves of Grass” is Song of myself.
He also twists in some tricky order of word use to make it difficult to read through without having to stop and re-read a line. To me, his imagery portrays the perfect procession into the woods on a beautiful autumn day. The use of the adjective yellow really makes the entire poem for me. There are many interpretations of what the poem actually means. Some feel that the sigh near the end is a sigh of relief because choosing the path less taken made all the difference in a positive way.