The poem ¨The Highwayman¨ is about a bandit called the Highwayman. He falls in love with a girl named Bess. The Highwayman tells her that he has a job to do and will bring her back gold. He promises that he will be back by moonlight. A man named Tim who loves Bess overhears their conversation. Tim decides to tell the authorities, who were British soldiers where the Highwayman was going to be. Tim does this because he is jealous of the highwayman and Bess’s affections for him. When the Redcoats come they capture Bess for bait. Bess shoots and kills herself to warn the highwayman that the redcoats are there to capture him. When the highwayman hears what has happened to Bess he tries to avenge her death. While riding to the redcoats he gets shot…
Brooklyn Cop, by Norman MacCaig is a poem about an American policeman and the daily dangers he faces. The cop appears to be a savage yet we are later made aware of his underlying vulnerability. New York’s reputation of violence and crime leads to our awareness of the cop’s fear of not returning home to his wife. ...…
The song “Poison” by Front Porch Step, describes how a lover can ruin someone mentally. In the first stanza, it states how he can never be with the person he wants and craves, because the heart only wants what it can not have. Also, how he would give her every ounce of his being. In the second stanza, it explains how she ruin his ambition and happiness in his life and does not want live his life anymore, because she killed all of his hope. In the third stanza, it explains how he is having flashbacks about his previous lover when they were together, and it is eating him alive. because they not together anymore. Also, can not understand why she does not love him. She is goes, but he thinks about her daily. In the fourth stanza, he thought something…
The poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein contains a deeper meaning than what shows on the surface. This poem tells a story about a better place that only the children know; a place different from all the hate and darkness shown in modern life. Shel Silverstein is mostly known for his touching children’s book, The Giving Tree, and poetry. In the poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” the author emphasizes the idea of how we must follow the children to create an exceeding world. Silverstein uses Hyperbole and Imagery, in this poem to convey a youth’s perspective. He continues to mention all the various benefits followed by having the mindset of a child.…
“The Journey,” a poem by Mary Oliver, shows many similarities to the themes and situations in the short stories “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, and Beryl Markham’s “Brothers are the Same.” In “The Journey”, Oliver states that “you finally knew what you had to do and began, though the voices kept shouting their bad advice” (1-5). This quote demonstrates that in order to reach a goal, one must push past negative voices in life. This is the same tug that Jerry feels in “Through the Tunnel”. When he asks his mom if he can leave the safe beach to swim in the “wild rocky bay”, she gives him permission. However, as she walked away, he…
We come to life changing trials in our life, some may be a path that we are glad we did while others wished that we can go back and choose the other because of a negative result. In the poem written by Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”, shows us that making a decision is not always easy. In the…
Many writers on their venture to becoming great, are faced with roadblocks. I too feel those stresses. When sitting down to begin a story, novel, or poem we all strive to be different. But as Baldwin explains, "there is no original thought, because we all humans think and feel has been thought and felt so many times before, by so many generations." This in itself makes starting writing a very daunting task. Not to mention the sea of fellow authors you are competing with for limited shelf space. A trip to a jam packed bookstore reiterates this feeling instantaneously. Really, what sets the writer apart is the original perspective and finding out what shape to give it to really hold the readers attention. This can all be achieved through the power in…
Throughout the story, At the Pitt-Rivers, the narrator analyses a “couple” in the museum. He observes the way the couple act around each other and how they communicate. When the narrator first spots the young woman, he observes her and her physical appearance: “The girl was definitely not attractive … she hadn’t got a nice figure; her legs were kind of dumpy and she didn’t have pretty hair or anything like that” (Lively 24). Right off the bat, the narrator judges the woman for not being attractive whatsoever. However, the narrator goes on for being misconstrued: “She still wasn’t pretty, but she had the most beautiful expression I’ve ever seen in my life” (Lively 25). The narrator is stating how, even though this woman may be unattractive, she has the most beautiful expression ever. Later on, the narrator realizes that the reason why she lights up so much and gives off this beautiful array of expression, is because of the man she is with. At this point, the narrator recognizes that the man may be in a relationship with the woman and eventually concludes that they are.…
The Poem “In the Park” by Gwen Hardwood represents the idea of changing identity because of certain circumstances as well as challenging common ideas, paradigms, values, and beliefs which is commonly held amongst mothers in today’s society. Harwood wrote the poem with relatively simple composition techniques but it provides a rather big impact which helps to give an insight into the life of a mother which bares the burdens of children.…
Both swallowed in their job, the janitor in “Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits” by Martin Espada and the secretary in “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy feel unappreciated and lost as employees. Jorge is “outside…of [Americans] understanding” and The Secretary is lost in her work and compares herself to objects such as her “hips are a desk.” The employees from these poems have become hidden behind their duties and are slowly sinking into the unknown.…
‘Drifters’ is a poem about one woman’s refusal to abandon hope, in spite of overwhelming hardship. The family has to move from place to place, as the father needs to move by the demand of his job. Despite Dawe’s use of causal language, if you read carefully you would be able to see the seriousness of what he is saying.…
I read a poetry book Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. 309 pages are in my book. According to a review on goodreads a customer said “This is officially one of my favorite children's books.”. This book is for fifth graders to adults because of the complex words and all the tough twisters in this book. The everyone in this are well foolish, mysterious, picky, silly, sneaky this is all I know about them there is no description or pictures of them.…
The works we studied within Creative Writing were all helpful in creating my own works to submit to the class. Throughout all of the reading, many of the works inspired me in different ways, whether it was short story plot ideas or word usage in the poems. While crafting my work for the final portfolio, I reviewed many of the poems from our poetry packet in an effort to find inspiration and to create new interesting images. I took the most inspiration for my formal poem, which I found most difficult to write. One of the poems that was most useful to me was Jilly Dybka’s “Memphis, 1976.” Dybka’s poem follows the sestina form; I also wrote my last poem in this form, so it helped to follow the form by looking at her poem as an example. Dybka’s…
The theme of Where the Sidewalk Ends is another world kind of like ours but with a bit of magic or with a bit of more strangeness to it. I know this since all of the poems are kind of out of this world wakey, strange, or a bit of magic in some of the poems. The setting of the book is in a different world with a bit of magic, is wakey, and is strange. There are poems all about these things in the book.…
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep," This line from the poem Stopping by woods, is saying that the woods are an opinionated place. The woods may be lovely to some, and scary to others. People may consider the woods to be lovely as they may have an interest for nature and it’s beauty. They may also like to see interesting animals, and escape from the reality of life. Some people might want to sit on a tree branch and enjoy the peace and quiet. To some people forests are a dark place, where they can escape to when they want to be alone. People may want to go to the woods to captivate their curious souls, and do something adventurous in the woodlands. Teenagers might want to play around and maybe even invite some friends to hang out with. The…