In the two short stories it seems as if the sons’ relationships with their father were quite different, but they also had their similarities because both of them cared for their son. In the story “Powder” the father took good care of his son for he continually tried to give his son what he thought was best. He fought for the privilege to see his son after he already snuck him into a jazz club to see Thelonious Monk (Wolff 1). He was a good dad, for as his son says “He wouldn’t give up. He promised, hand on heart, to take good care of me and have me home for dinner on Christmas Eve” (Wolff 1).
In the poem A Father to his Son by Carl Sandburg, a father advises his son, leading him through a set of guidelines and values to assist him untie the knot of inextricable uncertainties, problems, pain, and complexities of life. Based on his experience, he knows that there is no perfect formula for living. As a result, father suggests values that will help his son lead a purposeful, satisfying life. Markedly, out of his different suggestions, being true and honest stand out. Although limited in poetic devices, personification, rhetoric question, and an enthusiastic one are evident.
The use of iambic pentameter also stresses key ideas and words whilst the poem can still flow. In contrast, Quickdraw is written in free form, restricting the poem from flowing smoothly. It has been suggested that this poem could be a concrete poem as many people think it resembles the shape of a gun. The irregular form of Duffy’s poem, allows emphasis on certain words. By separating lines and starting new stanzas during mid-flow, she is able to portray a hesitance in the person’s voice.
Poem Review: Week 4 Assignment Jenni Janssen ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Alex Vuilleumier January 16, 2012 Poem Review: Week Four Assignment The most enticing poems use rhythm, rhyme, symbolism, which help many readers enjoy them. These three literary elements of a poem make it easier to personalize and help the reader to visualize the picture that is being “painted”. A poem written in first person narration, which also contained persona, rhythm, rhyme and symbolism, is “My Papa’s Waltz”. This poem was written by Theodore Roethke in 1942. “My Papa’s Waltz” was composed about a young boy and his father and written in a very rhythmic form.
Stories have themes, plots, and character development with them. To where poems have rhyme and, rhythm and, lyrics. Poems express how a person feels to where a story does not also poems have meanings as well. Short stories are made up of the writer’s imagination. Stories have middle, end, and beginning poem does not consist of any of those things.
A Father’s Love The poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden is a result of the speaker’s reflection on his past experiences with his father. Hayden shows all the little things the father did for his family and how the speaker took them for granted. Looking back, the speaker now realizes and understands what the father had really gone through for him. The descriptions Hayden uses express both directly and indirectly the idea of unseen love. Hayden goes into detailed explanations of examples of the father’s devoted love.
By interspersing ballad poems throughout the text yet leaving them unaddressed by the characters, Munro creates silences between the reader and the world in her story. Since the poems give clues to Heather Bell’s disappearance, the silence created forces the reader to delve into what is not written in order to makes sense of the story. The intertextuality is also jarring to the reader as the poems interwoven throughout use a whimsical rhyme scheme and light-hearted tone, all while dealing with an ominous and dark subject. This ironic juxtaposition causes the verse to be accentuated, emphasizing the deconstruction of a linear narrative. This demonstrates Munro’s ability to use interspersed styles to comment upon content through form.
It has no meter due to the way it is a story telling poem. In the second stanza Edward Thomas uses the repetition of still to represent winter in contrast with a few lines down, using words such and ‘warmth’ and ‘tenderness’ which are connotations with springtime. In the last stanza groups of three are
There are also broken chord accompaniments, and a falling motif in bar 1 which help convey the mood. Also the aforementioned rubato is used, towards the end of the B section and in the codetta. Chopin also uses virtuosic display in bars 79-80, bar 17 and bar 4 to make the piece more ornamented and impressive. Ranges of dynamics are used, particularly in bar 35, and bars 27-28. Sostenuto and sotto voce are also used to convey the poetic mood.
But looking closer it becomes very clear that it is the complete opposite. The boy is not holding on for his life like it is first assumed, but rather he is holding on like “death” so that this moment with his dad will never end because this is the first time he has ever had this kind of affection from his father. This is clearly a poem of the love that the boy and his father share.