As previously mentioned she uses the words ill formed and feeble to describe her unfinished writing’s fragility. In line 10, she continues by saying, “thy visage was so irksome in my sight,” to explain the shame and discomfort that she carries with her due to the fact that her “baby” was exposed to the public still so unpolished. She applies the words blemishes, flaw, and hobbling into her diction in order to express her piece as something that is not well put together, and no matter how much she attempts to polish it, she feels as if she has failed at improving it. Lastly, Bradstreet’s characterization of her work comes to life through the evident controlling metaphor of the poem, which is claiming that her writing is her “offspring”. Throughout the entire poem, the controlling metaphor becomes this idea that her writing is her child,
Later in the poem, Hughes accuses his wife of abandoning her family. The repetition of “you” in the lines “unravelled your marriage, left your children echoing like tunnels in labyrinth, left your mother a dead-end” emphasises the immensely accusatory tone of the poem. These accusations in The Minotaur show that Hughes puts all blame for their failed marriage onto his wife, and is not taking any of the responsibility. Hughes’s view of Plath is a conflicting perspective to society’s view of the couple’s relationship. How Hughes portrays his conflicting perspective
Her use of words in ‘Elm’ is also interesting. “Faults” could be emotional and/or physical and this shows the psychological states explored throughout Sylvia Plath’s work. “Malignity” symbolises evil and the intensity of how disturbed her life was.Another poem by Plath that I found to be personal on an intense and disturbing way was ‘Mirror’. It is clear as Plath looks into the mirror that she is unhappy, watching her age. A mirror never lies, but Plath cannot find solace in what she sees.
She knew this about herself and was highly criticized for it. This means that she failed to be objective in several instances.A few good poems to use to capture her struggle with relationships might be these: "Mirror","By Candlelight" ,"Mary's Song". "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath is by right considered a magnificent poem about daughter's relationship with a father. Also it can also be read as an allegory of female yielding and final revolt in a men's world who have been responsible for all the disasters and wars
In the last paragraph Janie has an epiphany. Finally, “parts of her heart” are used to react with Joe when she never has before. Janie uses her heart to see Jody's image “shattered” because he “never was” who she is looking for
A Lesson in Mastering Loss Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” is about loss. In it she mentions many of the small losses in life that we may experience but she is clearly talking about losing a love. Who she is speaking to in this poem is unclear but there is evidence to show that she and she alone is her own audience for this poem. She expresses denial, anger, blame, regret, humor and in the end she exclaims “Write it!”, which looks to be directed from the speaker to herself, either way it can be construed as acceptance. In the poem she goes through increasingly bigger losses that she quickly dismisses in a sarcastic manner until she reaches the loss of her lover.
The diction the Diction and structure 1 HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON Analyzing a Poem writer uses leaves the perpetrators nameless. Furthermore, Parker structures her subjects according to importance. She writes about a rose first, then a bird, and finally a deserted girl. Each time the idea of feeling toward the subject is more tragic Effect of devices on theme and more meaningful. The diction and structure used in “Solace” connect the theme in that without them, the poem would not have the impact that it sends out to the reader.
By saying that she will “never get you put together entirely” (1), the speaker immediately implies her hopelessness of completing her goal by saying “never”. The first line also tells us that her task is related to a specific person because she directly uses the poem to speak to someone by addressing them as “you”. The next line contains descriptive words, “Pierced, glued, and properly jointed.” (2), to create imagery for the idea of connection. We now can see that the speaker’s immense, or colossal task if you will, it to make sense and feel some kind of communication with the person that the speaker has a broken connection to. In the third line the nature imagery from “Mule-bray, pig grunt, and bawdy cackles” (3), which are chaotic, non-understandable animal noises, are used to compare the attempted and failed connection like that of speaking to farm animals.
“ He generalizes his own view of bad parenting and wants to convince you that this happens with every child. If that were true, our world would be a really sad place to live in. We all know this is definitely not the case with most of the parents we know. “They fill you with the faults they had and add some extra, just for you. “, are the last two lines of the first stanza which add to the pessimism of the first part of the poem.
Poem Analysis 2 – Modern Love George Meredith’s poem “Modern Love” illustrates the pain of a couple who do not love in poignant diction. The poem starts with an alliteration “he knew she wept with waking eyes” grasping the attention of the reader and also establishing curiosity in the vague yet dark and ominous language. The lines to follow “his hand's light quiver by her head,” suggested that he was trying to comfort the woman he was with. By now readers can infer that the woman is of close relation and his actions suggest a sexual innuendo. However, the poem begins to show objection amongst the female character indicating “strange low sobs that shook their common bed”.