Throughout the poem, the speaker discusses things about nature and death that gives off a depressing or gloomy mood to the poem. The speaker begins to set the mood and says, “Her early leaf’s a flower./But only so an hour (3-4). Frost’s poem is in no way a happy poem. It has a strong message but it leaves people feeling depressed and fearing death. Making the mood of the poem depressing, Frost is able to get his point across that eventually everything will die.
In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner uses a subtle and discreet narrative manner to bring forth important pieces of information that adds to the story, and ... As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying. William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is a novel about how the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart. Every ... As I Lay Dying
The poem seems to always start in one place only to startle us into a completely different direction towards the end. Such as in his poem, “Statues in the park”, in which he begins telling us about an equestrian statue and what the different stances of a horse mean and how they reflect how their rider died, only to end up on a much more sincere and thought provoking note. And there was I, /up on a rosy-gray block of granite/near a cluster of shade trees in the local park, /my name and dates pressed into a plaque, /down on my knees, eyes lifted, /praying to the passing clouds, /forever begging for just one more day. (9) Billy Collins’ seems to subtly theme many of his poems with death in some fashion. In the poem “House” he speaks of laying in a house built during the civil war and how the man and wife who used to live there are long dead.
Sheers writes of ordinary everyday happenings such as digging a field in preparation for planting and in so doing bones of dead soldiers are found. Mametz Wood is about these wasted lives but Sheers puts them into a context of nature that rolls over these events and in effect ignores them. The actual falling leaves in this poem symbolise the falling solidiers who are dying in the battlefield. The poet uses what we call in poetry an extended metaphor. The leaves are the soldiers.
The word ‘pluck’ is animal imagery and shows the unemotional side to war. Alliteration is also used with the words ‘bury…burrows.’ The last word of the second stanza ‘nakedness’ shows how vulnerable the soldiers and the loss of dignity they are getting when they die and their bodies are lying upon the beach unclothed. The religious imagery and biblical illusions of the third stanza, ‘And each cross, the driven stake of tide-wood,’ shows how Jesus died to save us and the soldiers are doing the same. The ‘cross’ bares acknowledgement of a person but no identity. The words, ‘bewildered
What is the poem saying about old age and peoples attitudes towards it? How does the poet put this across? In this piece of poetry R.S Thomas depicts the story of a person going to visit an elderly woman, perhaps a mother or grandmother as they reach across the abyss of time to pay their homage to each other. In the poem ‘Ninetieth Birthday’ it depicts a tale of a long journey thorough a remote area to visit an elderly woman who seems lonely, isolated and remote from the society and the modern world, physically as she dwells deep in the countryside and mentally due to her lack of communication with others, as she seems left behind and forgotten about. The underlying theme of this poem is the difference between the elderly women and
How he lays after some time motionless like a stone and dies. The imagery of the poem in the second half of the poem paint a vivid picture of the toad lying there in the lawn facing his slow death, but in an odd way its “monotone” as one of the words use to describe the setting, where the toad had like a beacon of light thats shining on him and its like nothing exist but the use to be life of this toad that has some kind of true significance in his life. At the end of the poem its like a ceremony of nature has been used to bury the toad in the nature of the earth. The toad has some importance if the death is being describe in such an intriguing, sanctified way. I picture this dead toad that has taken on a death so dangerous yet pure in the sense that it hold great measures in that particular time and setting.
In Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante incorporates Virgil's portrayal of Hades from The Aeneid into his poem, and similarities between the Inferno and Hades can be drawn. Virgil's underworld is largely undifferentiated, and Aeneas walks through it without taking any particular notice of the landscape or the quality of suffering that takes place among the dead. Virgil's dead are condemned to the same hopeless fate, and it is only the memory of life which torments them. Virgil is the guiding character and teacher to Dante the pilgrim, in both the Purgatorio and the Inferno. Dante borrowed from Vergil the poet much of his language, style, and content.
The melting represents the tragic slow loss of the land and chief himself. The imagery here reflects the chief’s feelings, who is very connected with his roots and his land, but as the land dies, the chief is slowly dying inside with it. Secondly, Pauline Johnson uses a lyric format which is appropriate to fulfill the purpose of this poem. As tune and feelings are absolutely necessary characteristics in a poem,
A deceased soldier is moved out into the sun in a desperate vain hope that the warmth of the sun will revive him. The futility of this act depicts the desperation of his companions turning from grief to despairing rage. Death is final. Nothing can bring back the dead, not even the life giving sun. The structure of the poem also takes us through the poet's responses to death.