In "Loneliness"‚ Laura Cortes describes the feelings of the old man that lives alone. The narrator takes the readers through the life of a man who has many hopes that he wishes to become fulfilled in the future. In the poem‚ it tells us how the old man reminisces over things that happened in his past and how he continues to have hope for his future. When the narrator describes the house‚ she says‚ "Inside a stone house in the mountains"(1) she is informing us that the home is secluded. The narrator
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Hope in old age In "Loneliness" by Laura Cortes‚ the author paints a picture of a man whose family has grown up and moved on. The poem shows that a man‚ older and alone in the world‚ can still hold on to hope for the future. Cortes establishes that the man has aged considerably since “he planted the trees forty summers ago” (line 6) and “time has gone by too soon” (13). Cortes appears to be describing the old man from when he began his family‚ perhaps when he may have married and began
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Poet Laura Cortes published a poem called “Loneliness.” What happens to someone once they become elderly? While youthful someone is full of joy and happiness from surrounding loved ones. Unfortunately‚ a time comes where bodies age‚ becoming ancient‚ a time that more and more loved ones depart from our lives for whatever reason. Even in our old age there is still a reason to get up and gratify life. As days drag by for the man in the poem whom lost his family‚ what is he to intrigue himself with
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Harvesting Life In the poem "Loneliness" by Laura Cortes there seems to exist a small hope and wish for the past. The poem has many lines that seem to show an echo for the similarities of harvesting the apples and the harvest of life itself. Through the course of the poem‚ the speaker uses the word ghosts to hint at the death of family members. The line "Now he and the trees are tired and old. " (14) Obviously hints to the speaker being of old age. The man in the poem seems to reiterate the
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is a poem by Robert Frost‚ published in 1916 in the collection Mountain Interval. It is the first poem in the volume and is printed in italics. The title is often mistakenly given as "The Road Less Traveled"‚ from the penultimate line: "I took the one less traveled by". "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem consisting of four stanzas of iambic tetrameter and is perhaps one of Frost’s most popular works. Interpretation The poem has at least two interpretations: a popular interpretation that
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Every culture has different way of thinking and interpretation of stories. The author‚ Laura Bohannan‚ had a dispute with her friends over understanding Shakespeare. Additionally she goes off to a remote village in Africa and happens to tell them the story of Hamlet‚ as it was easy to tell and to others thinking had only one interpretation. The author’s friend reported in which Shakespeare has been “a very English poet” and that people involving some other cultures could get her wrong in his literal
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In “Shakespeare in the Bush‚” by Laura Bohannan‚ the narrator of the story has an argument with a colleague on whether or not that the interpretation of Shakespeare could be understood the same way everywhere in the world because “human nature is more or less the same universally”. Her statement would then be proven invalid‚ because a person’s perception will always differ from someone else’s due to their cultural upbringing. While preparing to travel to Africa to study a tribe by the name‚ Tiv
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Where You were not That selfwere Hell to Me So We must meet apart You thereIhere With just the Door ajar That Oceans areand Prayer And that White Sustenance Despair "I cannot live with You"‚ by Emily Dickinson‚ is an emotional poem in which she shares her experiences and thoughts on death and love. Some critics believe that she has written about her struggle with death and her desire to have a relationship with a man whose vocation was ministerial‚ Reverend Charles Wadsworth
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INTERPRETATION OF: TO THE FILIPINO YOUTH Unfold‚ oh timid flower! Lift up your radiant brow‚ This day‚ Youth of my native strand! Your abounding talents show Resplendently and grand‚ Fair hope of my Motherland! Soar high‚ oh genius great‚ And with noble thoughts fill their mind; The honor’s glorious seat‚ May their virgin mind fly and find More rapidly than the wind. The first line‚ "unfold‚ oh timid flower‚" implies that the youth is silent and consequently has not yet gone
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Poems for essay: Neutral Tones‚ A Broken Appointment‚ The Moth-Signal. Interpretation is said to be an explanation or conceptualization of a work of literature or other art form by a critic. Hardy is known for integrating personal events from his life‚ into his poems that allow the reader to develop a fully rounded view of what he was trying to convey in his work. Love and its effects are one of his most famous themes that are the basis of many of his poems. Hardy tends to use references to many
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