My Explication of the poem Fear by Gabriela Mistral I am going to explain to you the poem “Fear” by Gabriela Mistral. Her poem is about her fear of society changing the ways of her daughter‚ turning her into an independent adult. She fears that her daughter will change from the innocent young girl that she is‚ into a not so innocent‚ careless adult who doesn’t need her mother’s love. As the speaker’s daughter grows up she wants her to stay the same‚ always be good and careful in life‚ staying
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Laura Tong 8A Poem Appreciation Essay‚ Growing Up by Michelle Williams Growing up by Michelle Williams is a poem about the hard years of teenage life. Her poems covers the types of both physical and emotional pain teenagers have to go through. I personally enjoyed this poem because it describes many problems that I am going through as a teenager and that makes me feel like the poet understands me well. Pain is a constant theme in the poem. Williams used effective
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The theme of Poem 508 Im ceded Ive stopped being Theirs- is the exploration of the narrators growth from childhood to adulthood‚ through the development of spiritual consciousness. The reader is immediately made aware that the narrator has undergone a dramatic change. With the use of the word ceded‚ there is the sense that something has been given away. It is usually territory that is the object of this verb and so its unusual application to a person captures the readers attention. Furthermore
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poems NEUTRAL TONES by: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) E stood by a pond that winter day‚ And the sun was white‚ as though chidden of God‚ And a few leaves lay on the starving sod‚ --They had fallen from an ash‚ and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles solved years ago; And some words played between us to and fro-- On which lost the more by our love. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die; And a grin of
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Poems of Literature The poem “Lonely Hearts” by Wendy Cope is a little too dramatic in my opinion. In the poem‚ she writes about a man who is seeking for someone to love and that will love him back because he is lonely. In the poem the lines “Executive in search of something new—Perhaps bisexual woman‚ arty‚ young‚ Do you live North London? Is it you?” (7-9) informed me that this guy is so desperate to find somebody that he would settle with pretty much anyone that came along. I believe that no
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Beauty Poems‚ like stories and novels‚ often have themes and ideas that are expressed. In the two poems I read‚ de los Santos’ “Perfect Dress” and Hoagland’s “Beauty”‚ it is apparent that great thought was put into themes of beauty and into the ideas and opinions behind it. Through analyzation of these two poems I will collectively share the opinions and uncover perhaps previously unrealized perspectives that perhaps is not originally apparent In “Perfect Dress” the tone is immediately set with
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Two poems that explore the change from this life to whatever follows are May Swenson’s “Question” and Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--”. The former depicts a someone questioning the fate of her body and soul upon death’s separation while the latter constitutes of a speaker retelling‚ from the grave‚ the moments surrounding her last breath. While both poems are written in first person‚ making the prospect of death personal‚ they differ in tense. “Question” is written in present
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Analysis of Sympathy The metal cage holds in those who are turned away from society and hurts them in the process. The poem Sympathy was written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. It explores the racism that imprisons his soul. Dunbar uses the caged bird as a symbol of racism. The entrapped bird is hurt and injured while great things are happening around it. The tone is pleading and anguish over the racism that is expressed toward the black community. It explains the wonderful sun and beautiful weather
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Longfellow‚ he uses a central metaphor to juxtapose loss and grief to friendship. In his first two stanzas‚ he utters about how he shoots off an arrow and soon after he loses it‚ and how he is not confident where it is going‚ and he misplaces it and he is sad‚ but he does not know what to do. He is perplexed‚ and he does not know figuratively where to look for it. But thereupon in the second stanza he talks about how he sang a song and it was lost‚ and he was said‚ but he says "For who has sight
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In the poem‚ "Storm Warnings" the organization is very important to the fluency of the poem. In the very first line the reader starts to get a feeling of the literal meaning of the work. In saying‚ "The glass has been falling all the afternoon" one learns that a barometer is falling‚ hence bad weather is on its way. The allegory‚ symbolic representation‚ that "glass" is a barometer is because later in the poem‚ the words "instruments and weatherglasses" are used. The poets tone‚ the general atmosphere
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