poems. And it’s no different with the poem “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” by Galway Kinnell‚ can be interpreted in many different ways. First‚ when reading just the title it may seem like forbidden love‚ after consummating their love for one another‚ with making love‚ they soon start to panic over the footsteps they hear in fear of getting caught and being restrained from ever seeing each other‚ similar to “Romeo and Juliet”‚ with forbidden love. But then as you actually read the actual poem
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Device Paper In the poem “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps”‚ Galway Kinnell creates the speaker in a way to really portray what he believes true love to be once “long-married”. The author gives great sensory details‚ engulfing you into the night that he produced from these fickle meters. The speaker in the poem puts family high on this list of priorities as the author shows a significant amount of importance to them from using a few clever poetic devices. Although Kinnell could have put a little
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Galway Kinnell wrote this poem in such a way that certain musical qualities are very prevalent. These techniques he employs give the poem rhythm and connect it in a special way. Through Galway’s use of consonance‚ rhythm of syllables‚ and lines without conjunctions make this poem come alive‚ giving it an attractive and appealing musical quality. As the poem begins‚ Kinnell begins by using consonance‚ a technique that is found in music as well as literature. This is found in the first line by his
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Blackberry Eating Analysis Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell is a descriptive poem that shows readers an enjoyment the poet has with two things that a dear to him. In a setting that can be felt with your eyes closed while someone reads it aloud‚ Galway Kinnell uses deep thought to express his sincere feelings to the reader. The use of spontaneous descriptions of blackberries on the vine and his use of vocabulary allows the reader to value the transition from berries to vocabulary using distinct
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Life is a pilgrimage. We wander like the clouds that move across the skies. Each road we take offers a variety of horizons to call a home. Each quickstep walking is an act of faith for its two-beat movement‚ its iambic drifting on the ground holds a journey towards the pursuit of an idea‚ a figment of imagination‚ or perhaps a great story to unfold. To walk with a great cause opens a world of discoveries. Sometimes‚ each step we toddle into different adventures of life lets us trace the pathways
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English 1B Word Count: 1623 “The Stranger Who Was Your Self.” “Feast on your life.” Every time I hear that phrase it sends goose bumps all over my body and chills down my spine. “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott sends strong messages through his multi-cultural upbringing. Walcott was raised in Castries‚ St. Lucia‚ an ex-British colony‚ that reflects a lot through his Caribbean culture in his poems. Mr. Housden believes this poem is about “alienation and belonging” and “homecoming and exile”
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Blackberry Memories Galway Kinnell’s poem “Blackberry Eating” (rpt. in Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth‚ 2015] 890-891) makes me think of my childhood with blackberries. Blackberries are my favorite berries and love the time of the year for them. As the poem says “I love to go out in late September among fat‚ overripe‚ icy‚ black blackberries…” (890)‚ this is the best time of the year. Blackberries bring many memories
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poems I chose‚ “Havisham” and "Love After Love"‚ are comparable‚ with their common subject of how a person responds to the end of a relationship‚ but they are very contrasting in the paths they take. The persona in “Love After Love” talks about returning to yourself and loving who you are: without the need for someone else‚ “You will love again the stranger who was yourself” as if you lose yourself in a relationship so much that you need to learn how to look after yourself again. Whereas “Havisham”
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Metaphor in Galway Kinnell’s Blackberry Eating Written in 1980‚ Galway Kinnell’s Blackberry Eating is a poem which creates a strong metaphoric relationship between the tangible objects of blackberries‚ and the intangible objects of words. The speaker of the poem feels a strong attraction to the sensory characteristics (the touch‚ taste‚ and look) of blackberries. The attraction he feels at the beginning of the poem exclusively for blackberries is paralleled in the end by his appetite and
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Eiman Yousaf Footsteps for the Soul ??? Another typical day -- school day‚ 2:17 rolls around‚ I go home‚ and usually I end up out the house by 4:00; not a rare occurrence. What gets me out the house is usually noise of any type -- yelling (at each other)‚ lecturing (at me) -- and ironically‚ silence. I never talk about my problems and neither does Eshana; I have always felt that if I openly spoke about my issues‚ my life would turn into a sob story. One walk happened to be different. As the two of
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