Linda Pastan’s poem‚ “To a Daughter Leaving Home‚” begins as if a mother was telling a story from long‚ long ago‚ which adds a nostalgic tone. She uses a simple metaphor of a mother teaching her daughter to ride a bike that is very identifiable and relatable. Just as most people have been taught to ride a bike‚ they have also followed someone down the path of life in order to find their way. The reader is transported back to a time when they have either experienced being the child or the parent in
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including film‚ poetry‚ novels‚ short fiction and more. Two works studied this semester present two very different mothers that‚ despite their differences‚ share many motherly qualities. The mothers in question are from “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan and “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan. While Tan’s depiction of the mother is more strict‚ stern and disciplining‚ Pastan’s motherly figure is concerned‚ in a loving manner‚ and open to the hard changes that lie ahead. By comparing and contrasting
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A Reading of Linda Pastan’s “Pass/Fail” Often poems can be hard to read and confusing. Linda Pastan’s poem “Pass/Fail” is pretty easy to understand but it also has deep meaning. This poem can be seen as representing test anxiety and also other anxiety you have as you go through life making decisions. The effect the writer is trying to achieve is that overcoming anxieties can be hard but if you do not accept reality you will never succeed. It seems as if the writer is saying
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Linda Pastan questions ethics in her poem "Ethics" Linda Pastan questions ethics in her poem "Ethics" In Linda Pastan’s poem "Ethics‚" the speaker recounts a moral dilemma that her teacher would ask every fall‚ which has been haunting her for a long time. The question was "if there were a fire in a museum / which would you save‚ a Rembrandt painting / or an old woman who hadn’t many / years left anyhow?" and the speaker tells us through the theme that ethics and moral values can be only learned
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express how the roles of men and women are being reversed. Linda Pastan’s poem‚ Mark‚ is a reflection of the expectations that families did‚ and still currently have of mothers and wives. The more our world changes‚ the more we have to accommodate to what is going on. In the poem‚ it talks about the scores she received from her husband. “My husband gives me an A / for last night’s supper‚ / an incomplete for my ironing‚ / a B plus in bed (Pastan).” It is unclear what the woman’s occupation is‚ but it
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Love Poem: Linda Pastan Have you ever been in love? Do you even know what love is? Love is a feeling that at times can feel indescribable. It makes you do crazy things. Love makes you blind and no matter your circumstances with that person‚ if you love them you will go that extra mile for them. In this essay I will talk about the “Love Poem” by Linda Pastan. In the following paragraphs I will go in depth and break down the
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The poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan is an emotional poem about a daughter growing older and leaving her parents. The narrator of the poem portrays how there are special moments with the daughter and that there are “gone before you know it”. The author uses the analogy of the daughter riding her bicycle to portray a story about the maturing of the child from a parental point of view. In this poem‚ the narrator uses poetic devices to translate the deeper meaning in this story. The
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Your Poems So Dark" by Linda Pastan exposes that no matter who you are‚ darkness will always be prevalent in your life. She does this by using an evident contrast between light and dark throughout the entire poem. Of major note in this contrast are the speaker’s point of view‚ Biblical allusion‚ and rhetorical questions. One of the biggest contributors to the overall theme of the poem is the author’s use of point of view. The point of view in the poem is second person. Pastan uses this point of view
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own memories. The poets purpose to get the reader to feels the emotions they feel while writing the poem‚ and allow the reader to connect with their poem. In this poem‚ Pastan explores the feelings of a parent’s passion and happiness but also sadness of one’s child growing up. The poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home”‚ by Linda Pastan is a very emotional poem‚ you can assume that the poem is about their child leaving home. You can assume that the voice in this poem is a parent that is seeking to share
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progress in her life “where she was nothing‚ pure nothing‚ in the middle of the day.” While the auditor within the poem “Daystar” is the reader‚ as she sheds a bit of light on motherhood. Within the poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” written by Linda Pastan‚ the speaker is a mother who is speaking to her daughter.
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