It portrays the poet's jealousy of the death Woman because she died peacefully while others has to live and face the ordeals of life. Her preoccupation with death is seen when she states that her jealousy for the death Woman is “nearly infinite”. The next stanza talks about how the Woman passed away without much trouble. It took place in a short time and the whole experience “Jostled “her. This had a disturbing influence on the poet.
Monica Gaber English 102 Poetry Analyst “Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden W.H.Auden’s focuses on death as an irreversible phenomenon though people die, this analysis of "Funeral Blues" that the relationships with those loved one don't. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” is an elegy, a poem of mourning, in this case for a recently deceased friend. Its title has multiple meanings. It alludes perhaps to the music played at New Orleans funerals, it reflects the “blues” that the speaker himself is experiencing over this sudden and painful loss, and it references the poem itself, the expression of sadness through words, meter and rhyme.
T: Theme: That you should not centered on what you have because you will eventually lose it when you die, and only God is with you. S: Speaker: The point of view in this poem is first person, the reader can assume that the speaker is the author because the poem describe her as the person who lose her possessions and uses I, and me. Therefore, Anne Bradstreet is the speaker. Paragraph: In her poem, “ Upon the Burning of Our House”, Anne Bradstreet uses metaphor depict the God is the architect, that he gave her houses, things that she need. She also uses symbolism to describe that her house got burned down which represents the God’s will and she accepting the God’s will in any case, whether it’s good or bad.
Sylvia Plath’s Mad Girl’s Love Song: An Analysis of the Poem Plath’s poem Mad Girl’s Love Song is about a girl who has lost what seems to be the love her life, though it is ambiguous as to why he is not there with her. Was he killed in some war? Did he leave her for another? Or is there some untold circumstance that would call for his absence without return? At any rate, the fact that he is not with her has driven her to insanity and forced her to keep him alive in her mind to escape the pain of unfulfilled desire.
The poem infuses images of death to show the extent of her bitterness, along with enjambment. The enjambment proves that her bitterness cannot be contained throughout the poem because the follow through on to the next line instead of stopping. In contrast, Duffy presents the main character Salome
The journey she takes is her remembering the first time she knew she was dead. Jean Rhys recurring theme of death can be referred to as a motif. Jean Rhys makes creative use of each of these elements in illustrating the speaker’s efforts to identify with her past life, an important motif in “Used to Live Here Once” (Clugston, 2010). Jean Rhys’s work is a reflection of her pain and her battles with the world. A writer of Tremendous originality and wit, she explores her melancholy subjects with heartbreaking grace (Castro, 2000).
The narrator is clearly miserable with her life and considers suicide to be the only solution. Killing herself would relieve the pain she feels on a daily basis. “Daddy” is another poem that demonstrates Plath’s common death by suicide theme. In the poem, she writes that “At twenty I tried to die / And get back, back, back to you. / I thought even the bones would do (Plath 58-60)”.
Female Feeling in Emily Dickinson’s Poem under the Theme of Death --Because I could not stop for death Because I could not stop for death written by Emily Dickinson is regarded as a masterpiece of Death in public. This poem described Death as a lovely and even a respectable image in a euphemistic way instead of as a terror and trembling impression as usual. Also it shows everyone a different view of death in Emily’s mind. What’s more, under general image, there also exist a more tactful but vague personal female feelings. I would like to analyze the poem from a point of view as a female.
"Mad Girl's Love Song"? Critical Analysis The poem, "Mad Girl's Love Song"?, was written by Sylvia Plath. This poem has a theme of suicide as an escape. The author, Sylvia Plath, is writing this song from her own personal view. There are many places where the theme of suicide appears in the poem.
Paper Summary: In W. H. Auden's poem, "Funeral Blues," the speaker uses well-constructed poetic language and form to convey her attitude toward the subject of death. It explains how Auden manifests an extremely bitter interpretation of hopelessness and eternal sadness on the part of the speaker as a result of losing a loved one. The speaker in the poem is deeply saddened about the loss of her loved one and the fact that it was a force beyond her control. This person has been taken from her life in haste at a most inopportune time, and she feels as though her life has become pointless. It shows how, through Auden's use of tone, language, and structure, he portrays a very well-defined image of death and its effects on the individual, which is by no means desirable.