Both poems address the idea of seizing opportunity and living life to its fullest, but from different perspectives – one positive and optimistic, one negative through pessimism. The poems are similar because they both speak of love and seizing opportunity. Herrick’s first stanza begins by stating, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may/ Old-time is still a-flying” (lines 1-2). What these lines portray is we must seize opportunity as we can because time is always moving and doesn’t slow down for anyone. Through the visual imagery of “gathering rosebuds,” the rosebuds are a symbol for purity and innocence we can draw the conclusion that the speaker is telling the virgins they are innocent and pure, but soon they will bloom and that is when life should be lived to the fullest, for example by having sex, marrying and having a family.
From here, we can figure out that the Garden of love is a metaphor for a woman, or Blake’s character’s love. In the first stanza, Blake’s character demonstrates familiarity of the Garden when he says, “Where I used to play on the green.” The words “used to” and “play” explains that he probably knew the Garden in his younger years because many grown up men do not usually “play” anymore. The author wants readers to know this because this poem resembles how love hopes to be rediscovered. Blake’s character wants to believe that his love still holds a place for him, but in reality, everything that once was, has now vanished. Many problems prevent Blake’s character from reconnecting with his lover of the past.
Ansley Rehorn March 1, 2010 Class: Tuesday/ Thursday @2 Poetry Explication Essay “The Peace of Wild Things” “The Peace of Wild Things” is a poem that uses a unique approach of words to explains a fathers worries about his family and life’s challenges, and how he gets peace at night. The Author, Wendell Berry, is an American Author who writes non fiction pieces that speak of lifes values. The speaker or narrator in this poem is a father who cares for her children but seeks to find peace. What I received from this poem is that the narrator is a man because of the words he uses and how he mentions that he protects his children. When I think of protection, I think of a man, such as my father, because a father is who many go to for
Browning over-exaggerates the features and beauty of the nature of England almost making them come alive with her use of personification. The poem is very descriptive and also plays on all the five senses. She shows the sense of taste with the use of the word ‘sweeter’ in line 12, ‘ Made sweeter for the step upon the grass’ and also line 20, ‘Fed full of noises by invisible streams,’ the sense of hearing is shown using the word ‘noises.’ Browning also used the repetition to give the reader a sense of continuity. She shows that nature is evergreen and will be omnipresent in this world. This can be seen with the repetition of words like ‘the’ and ‘and’.
The effect of the long stanzas on responders reflects the passing of time and the flooding memories. Memories triggered by the meeting a childhood friend and the realisation that the person can transcend death because of memories, love, family and friendship. Love and friendships enshrined in memory will protect the persona against time and mortality. No change has occurred in the persona’s stubborn and determined nature — “I could walk on water” to “in airy defiance of nature”. However, she now realises that “no hand will save her”, but the poem ends in peace and acceptance, as death will be followed by eternity - “waters that bear me away forever”.
Taylor Maciulis Reynoso Advanced English November, 17th, 2013 Idolization kills When a person is looked up to day upon day, they begin to feel obligated to please those who are looking up at them. Taking a course of action to make others happy rather than yourself is a very noble course to take. Although it is very unselfish, it will not always be the most beneficial decision for the person to make in the end. The poem “Autumn Begins in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio” by James Wright exemplifies just how one’s devotion to please those who admire them, will restrain them of their own happiness. Poems consist of many different ideas and meanings for each person who reads them.
In the young and carefree, time has no affect on the mind of the child; however, at a certain age, one will realize that life is too short and that opportunities should be taken advantage of. A.E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees” teaches this life-changing lesson. With rhetorical devices, word choices, and end rhymes embedded in this poem, Housman is able to successfully communicate in his poem that life is short and a person should live his/her life full of his/her favorite sights. In the first stanza, the speaker describes a beautiful and serene scene that he is enjoying while taking a walk through the forest.
A Critical Analysis of The Sunlight on the Garden, by Louis MacNeice The Sunlight on the Garden is a very interesting poem because firstly it talks about freedom from a position that knows freedom is not limitless, even freedom has an end. The opposite of freedom is captivity, restraint or confinement. And secondly, the poem is interesting because of the way it’s written. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, freedom is the state or fact of being free from servitude, constraint, inhibition, etc. ; liberty.
“There is another sky” is an iambic tetrameter American sonnet written by Emily Dickinson late in the 80s and published in the 90s, which deals with the life of the writer. Dickinson create the poem in a sonnet and an ABCB rhyme scheme as a purpose of being able to work out on her thoughts/ feelings/ desires about her father’s death. Whereas the function of writing it an iambic tetrameter is to make a direct appeal to emotions. This poem describes about Dickinson’s life, whom have a mother, father, a younger sister named Lavinia and a younger brother named Austin. Her father always favored Emily, whereas her mother favored Lavinia.
This shows that the speaker is optimistic. The use of “pole-star” indicated that the loved one guides the lover through life like the North Star. “piercing the darkness of time” suggests that without the loved one, the speaker’s life (time) is dark and empty. But the loved one, ‘clad in the light of a pole-star’, pieces through this darkness to give the speaker hope. Again, “remembered forever” in line 5 bolsters the idea of eternal