Also, in line 3-4 “Smirking at me because I have lost everything”. These lines are personifying the walls, and how he feels being locked away. Lines 15-16 say “it smiles at me when I’m thrown around.” The narrator finds comfort in his picture even though he’s going through this. The poetic form conveys hope, showing that even though you are imprisoned and can’t see your family you can still find comfort in your family. Baggy Pants describes how a child and their family are forced to leave their home.
March 28th, 2012 English 163- Study of Literature “Tonight I Can Write…” Pablo Neruda’s poem “Tonight I Can Write…” caught my attention because it had to do with love and past relationships. I felt like it would be a good poem to analyze and write about since I do have past relationships and can relate to him. This poem will be broken down into six different pieces which will be explained and analyzed. The first piece consists of the first four lines. “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
In Hope Dickinson metaphorically uses a bird to depict the word hope. Dickinson says, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers – that perches in the soul – and sings that tune without the words.” [ (Meyer) ]. When reading these first few lines of the poem you imagine one of God’s majestic creations: the beautiful blue bird. This blue bird is specifically placed outside your window singing that happy tune to put energy in your step during the morning. In this poem Dickinson did not choice to only portray the blissful elements of hope, but also the poignant elements.
WB Yeat’s explores the immense impact love can have on an individual in one of his earliest poems, ‘when you are old.’ ‘When you are old’ is a lyrical expression of Yeat’s unrequited love for Maude Gonne. Yeat’s was madly in love with her, and had been rejected by her on several occasions. The first stanza acts as a monologue for Yeat’s as he soothingly puts his subject- Maude Gonne to sleep, ‘old and grey and full of sleep.’ Yeat’s exudes a peaceful tone in the first stanza through his deliberate use of phrases such as ‘old and grey’ and ‘slowly reading.’ Yeat’s is creating a comfortable atmosphere, forcing the reader to feel similar emotions to Maude. Yeat’s positions us to be his beloved as he writes the opening line ‘When you are old and grey and full of sleep.’ The inclusive language, of ‘you,’ immediately engages the reader as the subject of the poem. Yeat’s does not intend on his audience to be the subject but instead wants us to feel and experience
(And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.) The Starry Night is one of my favorite paintings. It feels as if Van Gogh wants the viewer to see the movement and lighting in what he is painting. The swirls of the clouds and the glow of the stars Van Gogh was truly a master of color and texture. There are aspects
The speaker uses the imagery of being "forever pillowed upon his fair loves breast" to portray his desire for an eternity with her. Robert Frost’s poem also addresses a star in the first fifteen lines, but the diction is informal. In plain, ordinary kinds of words, the speaker asks the star to “Say something to us that we can learn/By heart.” The speaker of this poem wants the star to tell the secret of its steadfastness or staunchness, instead of just wishing to be like the star. Then in the last ten lines, this poem adds a lesson. Although the star seems to give “little aid,” it teaches the talker “something in the end.” The speaker feels that just thinking of the
Symbolism of the Road Not Taken Angeline Barnish ENG 125 Instructor Wiltz 11 June 12 Symbolism of the Road Not Taken In this paper, I chose a short poem that was of interest to me with literacy work of metaphor and symbol. I have chosen the reader-response approach since it is the most common approach that I use. The literary work that captured my interest in our weekly reading was in Chapter 2, Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken.” The short poem itself is self-explanatory. This piece of work caught my eye, not only because it is a short poem, but because of the meaning of the poem. Also, growing up, a lot of my musician friends often referred to Robert Frost.
He continually juxtaposes images of the passion he felt for the woman he loved with the loneliness he experiences in the present. He is now at some distance from the relationship and so acknowledges, “tonight I can write the saddest lines,” suggesting that the pain he suffered after losing his lover had previously prevented any reminiscences or descriptions of it. While the pain he experienced had blocked his creative energies in the past, he is now able to write about their relationship and find some comfort in “the verse [that] falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.” Love and Passion Throughout the poem, the speaker expresses his great love for a woman with whom he had a passionate romance. He remembers physical details: “her great still eyes,” “her voice, her bright body,” “her infinite eyes.” He also remembers kissing her “again and again under the endless sky” admitting “how I loved her.” His love for her is still evident even though he states twice “I no longer love her, that’s certain.” The remembrance of their love is still too painful to allow
Poetry allows flexibility to the author because it does not have a specific topic. All of the genres are incorporated into poetry, because it can be fiction, historical, drama, or non-fiction. Often, a more figurative form of speech is involved in writing poems. There is greater symbolism and the meaning requires the reader to think. Robert Frost once said, “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” By this he means poems don’t have to make sense to be beautiful.
When “Though” is used it is almost like it is natural that the “night was made for loving” and that Byron is going against the will of nature itself if he does not love. Finally, the word “Yet” acts as a final sending off for the wants of Byron, when it is used in the penultimate line of the poem. It carries with it an idea that the good times will never return and it is possibly this word which is burdened with the greatest amount of lamentation in the entire poem. Thus, Byron’s word choice suggests an idea of grief to the reader. Lord Byron has also used cataloguing in the second stanza, by using “And” in three consecutive lines.