When the poem first starts off it explains the magical being coming down and embodying an animal with antlers. It talks about the strength it gathers, but then starts running way; trembling even. It has to run away from the evil humans who are attacking the animal with bows and arrows. This is symbolic, because in that stanza it shows how even the strongest animal, or being can be broken down and frightened. It also shows the evil inside man to attack the animal.…
The speaker's tone changes as the poem goes on. The speaker starts off by saying “a ball will bounce, but less and less, its not a light hearted thing…”…
Wright uses embodiment to give the poem life and give the speaker in the story the ability to amplify his emotions of surprise, anger, and fear. In the beginning of the poem the speaker describes the scene as “guarded by scaly oaks and elms” as to say that nature guarded and preserved the scene. The speaker gives the woods life and creates an eerie feeling by saying the woods “guarded” the scene. Then he moves towards a discovery of white “slumbering” bones giving them human abilities of sleeping, which symbolize the eternal sleep of death. He uses this description early in the poem to say that someone has died here; this was their final place on this earth. Then as the speaker moves on in his story and horrifically shifts from the observer to the victim he portrays the dramatic changes in his surroundings “the ground gripped my feet; ... the sun died in the sky; a night wind muttered in the grass; … the darkness screamed with thirsty voices; and the witnesses rose and lived.” The speaker tells of his terror during his change using personification to give human properties to the woods as the ground immobilizes him, the light turns to darkness, the silence turns into chaotic screams, and the speaker relives the night of the crime.…
574). From this line is easy to identify that is at night time, in a road with a river on the side and that the narrator is aware of the risk other people can encounter if the dead body is left in the road. In addition to all the information given by Stafford, he also put in motion the connection between the human worlds, meaning the person who found the deer, and the natural world which is the deer. The similarity between the nature and the human world in the poem is the pregnancy of the deer, which is something humans have in their life. Which is when Stafford mentions, “My fingers touching her side brought me the reason – her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting, alive, still never to be born” (574). Also, a story of what happen to the deer can be perceived when Stafford mentions, “By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car and stood by the heap, a doe, a recent killing” (p. 574). Clearly a car, most likely, killed the…
The poem “Father and Child” by Gwen Harwood shows Harwood’s father teaching her the concepts of life and death, from when she is a young child in “Barn Owl” up to when she is around forty at the time of his death in “Nightfall”, coming to accept the idea that life is not never-ending. In part one called “Barn Owl”; she has learnt to accept death as a component of life. The persona of the poem experiences a loss of innocence with the discovery of the tragedy of death. Before shooting the owl, the child believes they are the “master of life and death,” with the noun, “master,” reflecting the power that the child feels and the ignorance that the child has about the nature of death. This description of the child is later contrasted in the fourth stanza, “I watched, afraid by the fallen gun, a lonely child who believed death clean and final, not this obscene bundle of stuff.” The emotive term, “afraid,” represents the change in the persona’s attitude after being exposed to the harsh reality that is mortality. However, the rhyme and last line “what sorrows in the end, no words, no tears can mend” releases an element of inexpressible sadness that she has towards the death of her father showing that although she accepts death, it still upsets her as it did in “Barn Owl”. Father and Child” Nightfall” is more metaphorical and symbolic suggesting a more mature persona like an adult. The poem represents a human’s journey over time of learning to mature and accept death.…
#8: “The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die, and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn’t make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me. Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that’s on its mind and can’t make itself understood, and so can’t rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. I got so down hearted and scared I did wish I had some company” (13).…
As the snake dies it “strikes passionately once more at the hoe” and “there is blood in his mouth and poison dripping from his fangs.” The imagery dramatizes the image of the snake’s power being drained. The reader can visualize the transition from a once fierce snake to a lifeless carcass. In response to the killing of the snake, the man feels regret for the necessity of the circumstance, as “it was all a nasty sight, pitiful…” and “he could see it as he might have let it go, sinuous and self respecting in departure over the twilit sands.” This is a reflection of what could have been, and reveals the man’s conflicting feelings on what was necessary. The pitiful scene of the snake’s death adds to the man’s regret. The imagery in the passage emphasizes the idea of “what could have been” and therefore the man’s internal…
Throughout the poem, animal imagery is used to show the atmosphere and the mood. For example “Where shadows prowled the alleys.” The word prowled makes us think of a predatory animal and shows the atmosphere to be quite sinister and dark.…
The poem created vivid images for me, I seen a person drowning in sorrow. I felt the heart break that followed throughout this poem.…
The passage evokes feelings of sympathy by providing details about the man's feelings and thoughts. A scene in which the passage evokes feeling is when the man is out for a walk and he unexpectedly comes upon the snake in middle of the path. The speaker's first instinct "was to let him [the snake] go on his way," and he would go his. This scene serves to vindicate the man from the notion that he went looking for a snake to kill as a hunter would. The passage goes on describe the indecision of the man about whether he should let the snake go or kill it. The man finally decides that "there were children, ...men and women lightly shod at the ranch ...[and his duty] was to kill the snake." Description of the man's indecision coaxes the reader to look upon the man with more sympathy because he had made the decision only because he felt it was his duty; if it weren't for his sense of duty, he might have let the snake go. The passage also arouses sympathy for the man by describing his regrets after he kills the snake. The man buries "him near the close guardianship of the bush. Then for a moment [he] could see him as [he] might have let him go." The man's regret arouses pity in the reader's heart since his genuine regret questions his decision by demanding whether a precious life or one's duty is more important.…
Warren sets the speaker of the poem in a foreboding scene that reminds him of the terrible and inevitable passage of time, and the great powers that govern it. He uses the Evening Hawk as a symbol of death and of these greater powers to do so. His use of simile also facilitates the communication of this foreboding…
While reading this poem I had to reread several lines over and over again simply because I liked them so much. A few lines that stood out to me were, “The skeleton of a calf's been wrapped around a pipe”, “A yolk slides down the drain”, and “You drive into the Wyoming part of you where it's obvious there have been some sacrifices” – all of these lines throughout this poem are vivid and give off a sense of loss. A dead baby animal represents something nipped in the bud, a yolk sliding down a drain is a fast and hopeless loss that can’t be recovered (without being messy anyway), and seeing sacrifices on a drive represents the loss of something important during the course of life. All of the images throughout this poem pulled on my heartstrings and were pieced together into a relatable format with pictures of food, animals, and rustic imagery, i.e. a plastic jug of milk, an egg yolk, flamingos, white dogs, horses, Wyoming, missile silos, tornados, bottoms of lakes, etc. And my favorite part of this poem that really caught me off guard, sealed the deal, and made me want to write this response, was the way the poem ended. The lines, “Everyone who ever knew you gently roams the town at the bottom of a lake - They flash to the surface,…
At the beginning of the poem, there is a use of cacophonic sounds of “branching vines.” “Burred faintly belching bogs” are used to describe the ugly sounds of the swamp as the character takes a step forward; which only add more to the misery and struggle of the speaker. The repetition of the word “Here” is also very unique because it is emphasizing the location of where the character is being tortured by having to walk into this swamp of misery and struggle. There is another sound the speaker describes “that sink silently on to the black slack earthsoup” (lines 20-22). This diction considered as imagery, because it is making a comparison between the swamp and earthsoup.…
The second stanza adds a new layer to the poem, expressing his ideas on how life should be lived. Thomas writes, “Though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning.” This passage instructs people to make an impact before they die and criticizes those who do not accomplish this. Using the personification of ‘words,’ he says some people deserve to die because they have not said or done anything meaningful in their life. He also makes the reader fear that they have not ‘forked lightning’ with their words, which creates a desire in the reader to have a meaningful life and make an impact on the world.…
This is shown in the first stanza ‘if they have lived in a wood, It is a wood’ this shows that the speaker’s idea of an animal’s heaven is its natural habitat, something it will remain in even after death. This portrays a connection between an animal and its home, as it is more than somewhere it stays; it is tied to the animal and has become a part of its being.…