The poem tells the story of a young black girl exploring and experiencing what it is to become a black woman in her changing social circle. “it’s dropping food coloring in your eyes to make them blue and suffering their burn in silence. It’s popping a bleached white mophead over the kinks of your hair and primping in front of the mirrors that deny your reflection.” (Smith,9) The food coloring in her eyes, and the bleaching of her hair can only symbolize her need to grow into the more “accepted” form of society, the white skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired men…
This poem is a poem that describes the life of a retired miner, how he faced the close encounter of death and lived through that experience to have a long fulfilling life. In my opinion this poem is a poem of a young aussie man who was born poor and wanted better for his family in the future, he wanted his grand kids to be wealthy and not fight for survival day by day as he did.…
The entire poem is written with a tone of sadness or depression. This evokes the senses of the reader by being able to sense how the girl is feeling and see how the words of others affect her. It can be pictured, this little girl who plays with the Barbie doll and it is just a toy, but to others it is the appearance that society wants and she soon realizes that when a fellow classmate hurts her with mean words. She can not go on with the fear that everyone sees her as imperfect or flawed, so in the end she gives up on trying and eventually gives up on herself. A simile in the poem, “Her good nature wore out/like a fan belt,” the message here is that she has given up on everything.…
Literature often teaches us important moral lessons. From the simplest children's books to Shakespeare, important, lifelong lessons are taught. Romeo and Juliet shows that even the best intentions can turn out harmful. Several characters in the book carried out well intentioned deceptions and kept secrets that all turned out harmful in the end. Even well intended deceptions and secrets can be destructive.…
We are reminded of the egotistical nature of the persona that Duffy has created when the phrase, ‘I am a genius’ is repeated. This contradicts what was said about how the character didn’t understand Shakespeare and we see how the character is self-loving and very confident about their intelligence. Throughout the poem we see how the character has been cast out from society. This is shown in the phrase ‘I could be anything at all, with half the chance’, this shows how the character feels they have been let down by the rest of society and they haven’t been given the opportunity to show that they could be a big part of society. This also links into the idea that this character has some sort of hatred towards the education system. In the last stanza it says, ‘he cuts me off’. Although this refers to a telephone call, this is a metaphor for how everyone ‘cuts the character off’. This line comes straight after the phrase ‘he’s talking to a superstar’ which again shows the egotistical nature of this character. We see that the character may have a psychopathic nature in the final phrase, ‘I touch your arm’, this makes the poem very personal as if it could affect you. This sends out a message to the reader that we as a society need to make sure nobody is an outcast because when somebody feels like they are not wanted then they can turn to crime which could affect you. This is also shown in Pugh’s poem where it send out a message that anyone who feels like they are low down in society will get a thrill out of being in power no matter what they are told to do, they will do it.…
In the context of this passage the author is telling that time he got sent to Nepal to write about a guided ascent of the famous Mount Everest. In the passage he is speaking to the reader.…
The poem starts with a morose tone and imagery suggestive of a break-up. The speaker starts with the negative imperative 'don't talk to me about love' which immediately tells the reader that love is a difficult subject for the speaker. The speaker goes on to explain how they get tearful when they have had a drink, punning the phrase 'walking wounded' which is a military phrase referring to…
One reason why, is because, in the beginning of the poem, it starts off by giving negative messages. Once you read it backwards it gives you strong positive messages. In my opinion, I believe that this poem gives you the idea that a part of the world is crooked and bad, while another part of the world has a lot of good and happiness. Although, many people disagree and have only seen the bad in the world, this does not mean that bad could not turn good. Today, our generation has many different types of people:Quiet, angry, unhappy and finally happy people. Seeing different personalities although sounds a little bit crazy, helps make us who we are and allows us to know who and where we belong. This poem is also showing that if we did what it said backwards, we would be happier and do better in life. My favorite part about the poem was how it explains that if we switch any negative things from life back to good, it would allow us to have an effect on the world allowing us to possibly be able to change somebody's life for the better. Lastly, I believe that this poem can help other people change positively and see the world…
The entirety of the poem is a metaphor of a man's crisis in life. The first part of the poem, or until "into the black, slack," is dark. This portion depicts the darkness's of life, such as death and the hard ships. The third stanza mentions " here/ is struggle, / closure --/ pathless, seamless / peerless mud "which is a reference to life. Life is full of struggles like the struggles one would have trying to cross a swamp. There is no clear path or a person aiding you while you cross the mode, as there is no one to help you through the "hipholes, hammocks" in life. The mans' " bones / knock together at the pale / joints " which shows that the man's struggles in life have been long and tedious. The struggle has been so lengthy that it has even begun to wear on the bones and joints in his body. Imagery is used to give the readers feeling of disgust and sorrow. Words such as "mud," "dark blurred / faintly belching bogs" give a negative connotation and make people think of darkness, specifically, the darkness's in life.…
Although when it comes to the death or the upcoming death of his father, you see this whole demeanor change, the way he writes shows a more frantic and fragile state. It is almost as if he is begging and pleading for his father to fight death, not to give up, and to continue living, not just for himself but for him as well because he is on the verge of tears. When I look at how other people look at the poem's theme and read how others have analyzed it, they pick up on the same thing but have slightly different reactions. The way Andrew Walker wrote his analysis seemed to have the same analysis when discovering the theme. However, he interpreted it differently, where the theme was somber and aggressive to me, but to Walker, it was more aggressive rather than a good mix of both.…
pretty easy to understand but it also has deep meaning. This poem can be seen as representing…
Li Bo collection consists of eleven written poetry works. The eleven written poetry are; "The sun rises and sets": Tells of things without thanks and real loss., "South of the Walls We Fought": Tells of a battle never thought to end., "Bring in the Wine": Tells of drinking away pain., Question and Answers in the "Mountains": tells of the happiness of him living in the mountains., "Summer Day in the mountains":…
2.1 People communicate to let other people know their needs and wishes. They also need to tell others if they are in pain and how they are feeling, and to put their anxieties at ease.…
"Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway In his summary of "Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway, Paul Rankin comes to a few conclusions about the a young girl in the story. Using both Carl Jung and Karen Horney’s application of human behavior to buttress his opinion, Rankin comes to the conclusion that Jig was the superior actor and the unnamed American is the inferior actor in the play. The evidence Rankin uses to prove Jung’s theory is that the nature of the mans feelings of inadequacy and inferiority in the face of Jigs imminent transformation from the girl into motherhood (Rankin 234). And his conclusions using Horney’s school of thought is mans fundamental lack of a life-creating power with which woman is imbued, has motivated the creation of such historically masculine enterprises as state, religion, art, and science, in mans attempt to compensate for that insurmountable deficiencies .a (Rankin 235) There is further evidence that Rankin’s take on the American in White Elephants is one of an inferior player by using the banter between Jig and the unnamed American male to show she was in control, We encounter further evidence of the mans inferiority complex in his severe response to Jigs playful banter about the similarity between hills and elephants. Having already admitted that he has never seen white elephants, the man angrily berates Jig, saying, Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything (Rankin 236). Paul Rankin’s over all view of "Hills Like White…
Edgar Allan Poe was a famous writer born in 1809. As a young boy, he had an extremely arduous life. His father deserted the family shortly before his mother died, forcing Poe into the foster care system. His foster parents sent Poe to a boarding school and later he attended the University of Virginia. After just one year, however, he had left the university due to a gambling addiction. At 18, Poe's first collection of poetry was published. Poe enlisted in the Army and then attended West Point, an army academy. He wasn't there long before deciding it wasn't something he wanted for his life.…