In her poem “Mothers”, Nikki Giovanni talks about the relationship she have with her mother and the struggles her mother went through. The poet’s implied claim is the importance of mothers and how much they affect our lives today by the good and bad values they teach us. Nikki thought of her mother as a beautiful woman, but she put so much faith and trust in men. Part of her mother’s struggle was waiting for Nikki’s father to come home “she was very deliberately waiting perhaps for my father to come home from his night job “. This struggle Giovanni’s mother taught to her so being educated about that, Giovanni teaches the ethics of being a Good man to her son; so he will grow and become a good man and see the struggle being a bad one can cause women.
Importance of Friendship What would our lives be like without friendship? Friendship surrounds us everyday. Your favorite song or movie may symbolize friendship. In Sharon Creech’s realistic fiction novel, Walk Two Moons, Salamanca Tree Hiddle is trying to find the answers to her mother’s tragic death. Throughout the story many characters exemplify the importance of friendship, including Salamanca, her friend, Phoebe Winterbottom, and Sal’s Gramps.
Change Essay September 30, 2010 A Shiloh For Rose Change greets the main female characters in the short stories “Shiloh” and “A Rose For Emily” and it's indomitable presence results in a common theme. The two women find themselves reacting to the change in their lives with different approaches, but with a common sternness. The character of Emily Grierson in “A Rose For Emily” is a secluded denier to the change that has come to her small southern town. Her first encounter with change comes after the death of her dominating father. She resists giving up his dead body, frightened by the absence of his control that has kept change from entering her life.
Relationships in The Handmaid’s Tale and Ariel both share a huge importance. In The Handmaid’s Tale, we see many examples of relationships between Mothers and daughters but do not see the typical “father/ son” relationship. Atwood and Plath both portray parent and child relationships in some ways that are identical, but Plath drifts away from that with the poem “Daddy” which seems to be a very bitter poem about the lack of time she saw her dad Otto Plath. Both Poet and Author do however share the same ideology and belief that giving birth to a baby is somewhat something astronomical however achievable. Both the Handmaids Tale and the poem Nick and The Candlestick show the struggles of having a baby but do however show the everlasting pleasure which they get due to giving birth.
4) “Persona”, a movie by Ingmar Bergman, portrays the weakness and strengths of a person’s identity. Portrait is a poem written by Judith Wright which investigates the different aspects of identity. The poem regards the persona so excited and enthusiastic about her marriage and her new housewife duties because she was loved and needed. The persona in the second stanza then reveals that her passion for this life disappears as her heart is unsatisfied for she believes she is only loved by her family because she was needed to keep the house and keep their lives in order. The topics of identity she analyses are the effect of years and time, the transformation of identity, and that identity is an image; a portrait.
This is different to Praise song for my Mother, which is a poem all about the closeness the speaker has with their mum. ‘Go to your wide futures, you said’ this last line as its own stanza is the only part of the poem which she relates to what her mother said to her. When she says ‘wide futures’ he mother might have known how well she would have done in the future. Also when she uses the repetition of ‘ you were’ could suggest that her mother isn’t here anymore and that she is dead and she was describing what she was. ‘Unable to close the distance I’d set in motion’ this could suggest that the distance in relationship has grown further and further apart between the speaker and the brother, and also it uses imagery to make it more real like.
He always would tell me your mother thank God can fix everything. By me being young I thought this was a bad thing. So I would tell my momma the thing he would say and once again my mother would find a way to make me feel good about the situation. Now that I’m grown I’m a very strong minded and independent person, so I haven't had too many problems. Because I tend to blow people off pretty easily if they annoy me or rain on my parade.
“Marks” is a poem about a woman who is constantly being judged from multiple standards on her performances as a day to day mother. Her family takes care of setting these standards, differing from her husband, son, and daughter. Even though she receives fairly good marks from her family “[she’s] dropping out].”(12) The speaker is trying to show us that one who is constantly being judged by others may take a turn that shows they can defeat the system. The speaker makes it clear that she herself takes care of many of the family duties. She had to make “last night’s supper”(2), iron her family’s clothes, and satisfy her husband’s needs in bed.
“The Lanyard” Analysis “The Lanyard” by Billy Collins, is a poem about a grown man who flashbacks to the day he braided a lanyard for his mother at a camp thinking that making something for his mother will make her happy. Collins uses imagery and tone to illustrate that nothing in this world is enough to repay one’s mother for all that she’s done, but showing one’s love for her will bring joy and laughter into her life. A poetic device Collins utilizes in this poem is imagery. One very good example is when he was thinking about the day at camp. “The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from type write to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor” (lines 1-4).
Throughout the poem the child portrayed in the poem seems to be awkward and indifferent towards her mother. However, the child ends up fascinated with her mother even exclaiming the fact that her mother is actually hers and no one else’s. The mechanics of the poem are not very structured as Olds seems to almost always use a free verse style of writing. The poem “I Go Back to May 1937” is a poem of thirty lines that uses imagery to describe the scene of her parents as they depart into college together. The first nine lines beginning with an exploration of two adults signified by the terms "gates" and "colleges."