Poetic Analysis ‘Magpies’ ‘Magpies’ by Judith Wright is a captivating and fun poem, which explains the two completely different personalities of magpies. In this poem, the poet positions the reader to see nature as mature, prim and proper, but also extremely greedy and selfish. It successfully uses imagery, movement and sound devices to do this. The poetic devices similes, personification, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and assonance will be examined in this essay. This poem is about magpies, animals that are mature and relaxed, but when food appears they lose these attributes and adopt a greedy and selfish behavior.
The poem is a response to the offering the shepherd made to the nymph is she agreed to be his lover. The shepherd offered to give the nymph beautiful blankets of flowers in the spring and gowns made from the wool of sheep he sheared and wove with his own hands. All items offered to the nymph are used to entice her to become his mistress of love and asks her to accept his gifts and live with him as his love. The first four lines of the poem describe the desire of the nymph to be with the shepherd in a new and exciting love affair. The next four lines of the poem describe the love as changing to cold or unyielding care for the nymph and the shepherd.
Spring Hail Analysis Spring Hail is a poem written by Les Murray. A literal interpretation of the poem tells the story of young boy and his pony and their journey through the aftermath of a storm. The repeated refrain “this is for spring and hail, that you may remember: for a boy long ago and a pony that could fly” allows a hint of nostalgia to seep into the consciousness of the audience while reading the poem and allows the audience to understand that the poem is a recollection of past events. The lilting voice of the poem and lack of rhyming scheme also means the poem can be easily taken as simply a vividly written narrative. But further contemplation reveals the poem to be a lyrical analogy.
Frost’s point of view towards nature is very respectful and he appreciates it greatly. In the poem “The Pasture” Robert Frost is doing chores in his farm, but he is with a loved one and is inviting him/her to come along and enjoy nature with him. I believe that this poem has a message, life is too short, and nature’s beauty so fleeting, that we should make an excuse to see it as much as we can. In the poem Frost wants to intrigue the character, to come and watch nature with him. He uses phrases like “I’m going out to fetch the little calf, That’s standing by the mother.
Big Boy, Bobo, Buck and Lester skipped school and were wondering the woods singing songs and horse playing. One of the boys passed gas and they blaming one another. This shows the boys innocence and immaturity. Big Boy said “The hen whut cackles is the hen whut laid the egg” (page 20). Richard Wright uses animal imagery here by comparing the boys to a hen.
Dr. Gerrit Kimsma also tells us about euthanasia fulfilling dreams Gerrit believes, “They can also focus on the things they really want to do, like taking a last trip, or making up a fight with someone in the family, or saying goodbye” (The Right to Die). I agree with Dr. Kimsma because when someone has a dream, it makes life easier for them. It puts them at ease if they accomplish that goal or dream before they die. In the novel, Lennie has a dream to tend the rabbits on their farm. Before George performs euthanasia he talks to Lennie by the Salinas River about how their life is going to be on their dream farm.
Moreover, the poems also ask the reader to find the good in their surroundings and within themselves and to appreciate it as much as possible. In Song of Myself, Walt Whitman is regularly seen in nature where he thinks deeply and truly about the things he knows are usually taken for granted. “The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-colored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn, The sound of the belched words of my voice loos'd to the eddies
When the girls start to sing the song “I’m the Sheik of Araby. Your love belongs to me. At night when your’re asleep Into your tent I’ll creep” this shows how Gatsby has the power to take back the love that Daisy has given to once and knows that it can happen once again like when they last met. When Gatsby is talking to Nick on page 152, Gatsby mentions how Tom never loved Daisy as much as he did to her. Gatsby enforces that he and Daisy should be together even thought that Daisy has moved on and let go of the past and got married and with a child.
Circe lured the men in with her singing and her beautiful work on her loom. “’Dear friends, no need for stealth: here’s a young weaver singing a pretty song to set the air atingle on these lawns and paven courts. Goddess she is, or lady. Shall we greet her?’” (673). When Circe took control of the men by feeding them and giving them wine but “adding her own vile pinch, to make them lose desire or thought of our dear fatherland,” (674).
Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale and a part of Keat’s Greatest Odes of 1819. This paper will attempt a close reading first of Ode to a Nightingale and then a close reading of Ode on a Grecian Urn. A comparison of the two will follow the close readings. Keat’s Ode to a Nightingale opens with a declaration of the heartache and “drowsy numbness pains” that the speaker feels. He speaks to an unseen “light-winged Dryad of the trees,” a nightingale, of feeling a “drowsy numbness” from sharing in the nightingales happiness because it is singing of summer while sitting hidden in a plot of trees and shadows.