Summary Of The Poem 'My Papa's Waltz'
1. The word “not” is very frequently used in “white paper #24” to separate the “whiteness” of the speaker from the “others” (17, 28). The frequency of the word “not” is there to reinforce that separation. The word group “like children playing at being/ something, we made, we keep / making our whiteness up” is significant because it states that whiteness is something that was created by the group the speaker belongs to; it is something the speaker’s group did. The others that are “not” are described that way because whiteness was created. These word and words contribute to the poem’s meaning because they exemplify the separation of people due to a standard “whiteness”.
2. In “My Papa’s Waltz”, there is a significance in the syntax of the line …show more content…
In “Dulce et Decorum Est”, the tired soldiers were compared to beggars using a simile in the following line “Bent doubled, like old beggars under sacks” (1). This simile stresses the exhaustion of the soldiers as they march. Yet another simile was used in “Dulce et Decorum Est” to describe the vices of war here: “Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” (22-23). This particular simile was used to describe the morbid death of a soldier that the men witnessed. A personification of leaves, “When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang”, in “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” adds to the overall sense of aging (2). The hanging leaves exemplifies that as someone ages, it gets harder to hold onto life and that life itself fades as the yellow leaves had. The poem “Because I could not stop for Death” frequently personifies death in such lines like “He kindly stopped for me” and “He knew no haste” (2, 5) There are many metaphors in “That time of year” that allude to aging of the speaker such as “In thou see’st the glow of such fire, / That on the ashes of his youth doth lie” (8-9). The “waltzing” in “My Papa’s Waltz” is a metaphor the relationship between the father and the speaker. The undertones of the poem point to the “waltzing” or father-son relationship may be
2. In “My Papa’s Waltz”, there is a significance in the syntax of the line …show more content…
In “Dulce et Decorum Est”, the tired soldiers were compared to beggars using a simile in the following line “Bent doubled, like old beggars under sacks” (1). This simile stresses the exhaustion of the soldiers as they march. Yet another simile was used in “Dulce et Decorum Est” to describe the vices of war here: “Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” (22-23). This particular simile was used to describe the morbid death of a soldier that the men witnessed. A personification of leaves, “When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang”, in “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” adds to the overall sense of aging (2). The hanging leaves exemplifies that as someone ages, it gets harder to hold onto life and that life itself fades as the yellow leaves had. The poem “Because I could not stop for Death” frequently personifies death in such lines like “He kindly stopped for me” and “He knew no haste” (2, 5) There are many metaphors in “That time of year” that allude to aging of the speaker such as “In thou see’st the glow of such fire, / That on the ashes of his youth doth lie” (8-9). The “waltzing” in “My Papa’s Waltz” is a metaphor the relationship between the father and the speaker. The undertones of the poem point to the “waltzing” or father-son relationship may be