“My Papa’s Waltz” is a magnificent short poem, with great tone and use of symbolism that also displays more than one example of theme. “My Papa’s Waltz” shows a young boy that either really loves or hates his father, depending on which theme you’re thinking of. As mentioned earlier there is more than just once theme in this poem, which makes this such an interesting poem. One way to look at this poem is where a hardworking father and his son are simply just horse playing, and wrestling around the house late one weekend night. Now this is the side of the story that I see, and the theme for this said would be the importance of family.
Horses In the poem "The Horses", the speaker descrives the horses as he sees them as anaadult ans compaeres his feelings with the ones he fet as a child. He achieves this by using figues of speech, imagery and a variety of adjetives to descrive the horses and his feelings towards them and the setting. In the first 2 lines of the first stanza, the poet describes ordinary horses that are working the land. But in the following lines he’s talks about the hosres as terrifying for him. He seemed afraid of them and he says that they are foreign to his normal life in the words “wild” and “strange”.
Book 2 Ch. 1 The chapter begins with Father Joseph Vaillant returning from a visit to Albuquerque. He contemplates the people of Santo Domingo, who will come to hear but will not allow their children to be baptized. The Spanish have mistreated them long ago, and they do not forget. Father Joseph rides a wind-broken horse, sold to him by a Yankee trader, which he believes is evidence of his own mistreatment.
The dust bowl is a piece of land with sharecroppers. In chapter two Tom Joad is now out of prison then he got a ride from a trucker, the trucker asked Tom questions but he told the least amount of detail. He just said that he was going to the land of a sharecropper his dad. The driver said that they were “going fast” because there has been some accidents with tractors and several dust storms. Then the trucker talks
So it is up to Jody and Bill Buck to try and help the helpless animal. Billy does whatever he can to help this animal survive, but one night Gabilan ran away from the ranch and ended up dead the next morning. Jody felt that he had let his father down tremendously and so he took it very hard on himself because the one responsibility he was given, he felt he failed himself and his father. This is where Jody’s internal conflicts began. For Jody having to take on a sense of responsibility was a new life skill he had never encountered before.
The first condition of being independent is to have a job, so narrator has found a job at a farm, and his job is “shoveling shit or hacking weeds out of drainage ditch” (P 176). As the narrator growing bigger and stronger, he become a “hand”, the workers who are bucking hay into a wagon. When he just become “hand”, the narrator is very exciting. Nevertheless, the hard work take all the energy out of this young man. When he drive his coworker to their home, he is not talking because he is to tired to talk (P 177).
‘Digging’ is very much like ‘Follower’, in the sense that it shows how the young Heaney looked up to his elders - in this case both father and grandfather. Seeing his father (now old) “straining” to dig “flowerbeds”, the poet recalls him in his prime, digging “potato drills”. And even earlier, he remembers his grandfather, digging peat. He cannot match “men like them” with a spade, but he sees that the pen is (for him) mightier, and with it he will dig into his past and celebrate them. Heaney challenges the stereotype of ‘Paddy with a spade.’ The stereotype contains some truth - Irishmen are justifiably well known for
In the beginning of “A Night Ride on a Prairie Schooner”, the author used figurative and descriptive language when describing the crying boy with a limp entering “The Big Prairie” with his family. The boy was described as dressing alike as his father, blue shirt and blue denim jeans, which made him appear like he wanted to look older. As the wagon the boy rode in was moving on he listened to things like crickets chirping, the clicking of the wheels, and he watched the sky go dark while he counted the stars as they appeared. When his family entered the woods he became very aware of his surroundings, listening to the hooting of owls and the sound of night birds flying around. As he fell asleep he was described as hearing “the creak of
Firstly, we can see the very ambiguous suggestion of the title ‘Follower’. This could show that now the young boy in this poem follows his father literally and metaphorically. The main story of this poem shows how Heaney was a young boy and was allowed to go with his father to work daily. The purpose of this was to mention when he was around his father as he just followed him around the farm with some desperation to learn and eventually take over the role of his father, with Heaney’s choice in the fifth stanza ; ‘I wanted to grow up and plough’. He believes that by imitating his father’s actions on the farm will enable him to soon take over the role, although he learns how skilled the work is.
Those winter Sundays By Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?