Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns bacon” described her writing style the best. The poems talks about the lynching of the late Emmitt Till. The poem was based mainly on regret, guilt, and hatred. Gwendolyn uses code names like “HE” and “HAND” and also “Fine Prince” to describe the men in the poem. The turning point in this poem was when Gwendolyn said “She heard no hoof-beat of the horse and saw no flash of the shining steel.” This line describes how Carolyn realized that Roy was not the man he appeared to be and she grows to be angry and disgusted with him and “her hatred for him bursts into glorious flowers”.
Edgar Allen Poe wrote The Raven because his wife, Virginia, was dying of tuberculosis. To me I think the poem is about self torture and about being consumed by the past. The raven symbolizes the protagonist’s subconscious, trying to send him a message that pain and misery in which he has deluded himself into will never go away. It isn’t until nearly at the end of the poem that the
In Lying in the Hammock, numerous interpretations believe the author is representing that he has wasted his life. According to Franz Wright of the Constant Critic, the meaning that Wright was trying to convey is, “You must change your life as I have wasted my life” (Wright, Franz). A popular interpretation of Robert Frosts’ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is that the author was contemplating death or suicide. According to Jeffery Meyers of Modern American Poetry the poem is implying a “subconscious desire for death in the dark, snowy, woods” (Meyers). In On His Blindness, many interpretations focus on the negative mood and resentful tone of the poem surrounding the author’s blindness.
Sombre non-diegetic music sets the mood, while an extreme close-up focuses on her fumbling hands. Voice over is used while Plath is recites her poem, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, which metaphorically captures her search for freedom, and the director’s perspective that Plath’s suicide freed her from the trappings of her unfaithful lover. The picture book The Emperors New Clothes shows how perspectives which conflict are often changed to conform. Hughes’ Red conveys conflicting perspectives through the personification of colour into personalities of Plath. The Minotaur shows Hughes’ subjective view and conflicts with Plath’s view portrayed in
Also the use off an oxymoron "restless silence" foreshadows the tragedy that is to come. Larkin presents loss off time with the adverbs "never", "all day", "domesday", "past", "lasting" and "leaving" these adverbs represent the negative impact of war and how time passed so fast. Larkin places capitals at the beginning off line, this reinforces authorities power at he beginning of the war, and how they had such a massive impact on people's loss of lives. Larkin uses both poetic devices and language devices technically through out his poem, all of these devices highlight the impact off war and the extreme losses people had
Dark Romanticism Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre. Darkness and death are two elements that are explored through the two dark romantic texts of the poem raven and short story the black cat both written by Edgar Allen Poe. In the raven, Poe successfully portrays death by reuniting his physiological and aesthetic ideas. In this psychological poem the young narrator is mourning over the untimely death by his beloved Lenore. Poe chose a raven as the central symbol in the poem because the creature is "non-reasoning" and capable of speech.
‘Not waving but drowning’ by Stevie Smith is about the difficulties some individuals experience in communications and the fundamental isolation of the individual modern society. The poet creates an extension of isolation from her audience, as a result of misapprehension, which is a lack of understanding of the poets intended message. Stevie Smith (Florence Margret Smith) was born in 1902 in Hull, England and moved to London at the tender age of three and lived there until her death in 1971. Smith wrote in a variety of different styles ranging from ballads to the stream of consciousness. She is well known for her poetry and novels.
The effect of the free verse can create continuity, as this is all about one particular event, as well as emphasizing the anguish and pain of the boy. The title ‘Out, Out–’ has a violent tone as “Out” is a short and harsh sound. “Out” is repeated twice, separated with a comma which creates a pause. The dash at the end highlights the shortness and suddenness of life. The title is an allusion to the soliloquy in “Macbeth”, where Macbeth soliloquizes about the insignificant, bitter, fragile, and futility of life after he finds that his wife had committed suicide.
In William Shakespeare’s play, Henry VIII, a bitter tone, structured figurative language, and biblical allusions are employed by the author in the process of conveying Cardinal Wolsey’s complex response to his dismissal from court. Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusions brings emphasis to the extent of Cardinal Wolsey’s downfall to that of Lucifer’s, the author reflects Wolsey’s lack of hope. This allusion serves as a tool to help establish the idea that Cardinal Wolsey has fallen from a grace he shall never return from. He expects himself to live in a life full of shame and misery after his dismissal. Through the use of figurative language a powerful understanding of Wolsey’s despair is established.
Larkin`s pessimistic view of the world is so deep, that it is almost impossible to find a single positive line in his dreary poems. Pessimistic poems usually have a ray of hope in the end. This is clearly not the case when it comes to Philip Larkin. In his poem, “This be the Verse”, he starts with one of the most depressing lines I have ever read: “They fuck you up, your mum and dad. “ He generalizes his own view of bad parenting and wants to convince you that this happens with every child.