What is the central theme of the work? Answer: Instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her. At the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. So instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her. 3.
From this, it is clear to the reader that Blumenthal believes that being alone is painful and controlling towards you. In the following two stanza's, Blumenthal brings the change of marriage into a person’s life, describing "a man or a woman" who "holds their arms up to the ceiling beside you" which makes you finally to take a rest and feel the "relief of respite". This gives connotations to the reader that Blumenthal believes marriage is idyllic as it allows a person to share the weight of their problems with someone who truly appreciates them and will do everything possible to help them. This consequently accentuates that Blumenthal feels it is essential in finding a partner in life to ease the burden. The metaphor "the blood flowing" represents the heart which is a symbol for love implying that without marriage there is no love and you have to have love to survive.
If a word existed, but was never used, it would not have a “life” or a period of meaningful existence. "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" What kind of person is Death? How does the poet characterize him? The poet characterizes Death as a gentleman by referring to his "kindness" and "civility." What does the "house" in stanza # 5 symbolize?
This humanizes the charter for the reader so so readers feel sympathy for his death. Secondly, Cisneros uses short direct sentences and sentence fragments to make the story personal and realistic. For instance, when the story begins, the author explains how Marin meet Geraldo, “She meet him at a dance, pretty to, and …”. This demonstrates how the author use of simple direct sentences and sentence fragments creates a realistic personal story because the sentences mimic real life speech patterns. As a result, the author creates a realistic conversational story.
(Pericles 2008)” Hughes uses multiple tones throughout this poem to express the feelings of the speaker. Hughes uses a servant as the speaker. Tones of integration and anger are displayed throughout the poem. “I, Too” is a short poem and is written in free verse. The first stanza gives us the overall purpose of the poem.
wninLike many of Smith's poems, "Not Waving but Drowning" is short, consisting of only twelve lines, divided into three stanzas. The narratives take place from a third-person perspective and describes the circumstances surrounding the "dead man" described in line one. The poem deals both metaphorically and literally with a man, lost in the sea, who is crying out and waving for help, but is misinterpreted as a friendly wave. When one gets past the swimming metaphor of the poem, they'll find that the man has found himself in isolation, but seems to hide his true feelings. No one hears his cries for help or recognizes his struggle.
A poem which I have recently read is “Mid–term Break” by Seamus Heany. This poem told the story of someone’s death, which made the poem very sad to read. The poet showed the sadness using various techniques. The poem begins with the poet in the medical room of his boarding school, awaiting his neighbors to arrive to take him home. When he arrives home he sees his father is crying.There are also some friends and relatives in the house and he feels uncomfortable and a little embarrassed because grown men are shaking his hand.
Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickenson is a poem full of language devices and symbolism used to draw the reader’s attention towards the idea that death is attractive, comfortable, and that there is life after it. The first technique that strikes the reader is the capitalization and personification of “Death” (1). Throughout the poem, this personification gives us the image of death as a gentleman, a suitor. The speaker also seems to like him. She describes him as kind and civil, someone for which she would “put away” (6) her “labour” and “leisure” (7), just to go on a carriage ride with.
Life and death, two complete opposites. Not only theoretically, but also physically and emotionally. “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”, a poem written by William Wordsworth, is a prime example of the great distance between the ideas of life and death. This poem is only 2 stanzas long, condensing both life and death into a very short space. This however, does not reduce the meaning of either, but strengthens the meaning of both.
TONIGHT I CAN WRITE Lines 1–4 The theme of distance is introduced in the opening line. When the speaker informs the reader,"Tonight I can write the saddest lines," he suggests that he could not previously. We later learnthat his overwhelming sorrow over a lost lover has prevented him from writing about their relationship and its demise. The speaker's constant juxtaposition of past and present illustrate hisinability to come to terms with his present isolated state. Neruda's language here, as in the rest of the poem, is simple and to the point, suggesting the sincerity of the speaker's emotions.