The speaker of the poem declares that unlike other misguided souls who choose a disciplined life‚ he prefers to be a rowdy rebel. The unfortunate choice of comparing himself and others to plants demonstrates the poet’s lack of skill in poetry composition. The poem consists of five uneven verse paragraphs‚ which regarding the subject matter makes a perverse kind of sense. That it is pretending to be a poem at all then balances the sense in the negative. First Verse Paragraph The speaker begins
Premium Poetry Stanza The Speaker
I chose to write about this poem as a result of how I felt about the poem. I was able to identify with it more and was able to understand what the poet was trying to communicate. I was fond of what the poet was saying about life being valuable and how he is trying to tell us that life is not empty or all we do is just die‚ but that there is meaning to life and that we should try to leave a legacy that could help others through life. This relates to the world we live in for the reason that people
Premium Poetry Life Meaning of life
images‚ the poem would probably the individuals of war‚ the pressure to attend war‚ the circumstances on arriving home‚ the effect of war as a whole and war being against nature. Owen strongly increases the impact of his poems. By being persistent with his beliefs and finding new ways to get these points across he is effective in his writing. In the “Exposure” examines the sensations of soldiers slowly freezing to death in the trenches of World War I in a poem of war. The persona of the poem adopts the
Premium World War II Trench warfare 2004 albums
In the poem‚ Mexican is Not a Noun by Francisco X. Alarcon‚ my reaction to how Alarcon chose to structure his poem was that every line makes a huge statement. Each line has its own meaning making the reader think and imagine the life of a Mexican and how they view themselves. What they have to go through‚ the discrimination‚ throughout their lives. Being an outsider in a white man’s world. Never having anything of value in their life. Stating that a Mexican is a minority that is discriminated
Premium United States Spanish language Hispanic and Latino Americans
1. The exposition in a poem is the writer’s way for giving the setting of the poem. One of the expositions in this poem is that the character went down to the river and sat down on the bank. This is one of the expositions in the poem because it gives background information of the setting. The other exposition in this poem is that the main character went to an elevator sixteen floors above the ground. This is another exposition because it is a different setting in the poem. 2. I think that the
Premium Life Thought Human
Stallings poem "Ajar" is about two people who are not speaking to each other after a fight. The poem has a very calm almost passive tone even though the couple is fighting. To tell the story of the couple the speaker uses rhymes. Each line rhymes with the next such as " Whatever the gods forbid‚ it’s sure someone will do‚ And so Pandora did and made the worst come true." In these two lines‚ there are two rhymes‚ the poem maintains that same rhythm throughout the whole poem. In line one the poem begins
Premium Poetry Question Emotion
The Ecstasy : John Donne - Summary and Critical Analysis The poem "The Ecstasy" is one of John Donne’s most popular poems‚ which expresses his unique and unconventional ideas about love. It expounds the theme that pure‚ spiritual or real love can exist only in the bond of souls established by the bodies. For Donne‚ true love only exists when both bodies and souls are inextricably united. Donne criticizes the platonic lover who excludes the body and emphasizes the soul. The fusion of body
Premium Spirit Love Soul
1. The exposition of this poem is about a person who seems very unhappy in their life at the moment. Almost unsatisfied with their life and the way it is going. They are thinking about ending their life. The thoughts in their head at the beginning of the poem are more negative and sad. 2. I believe the speaker decided to sink because of the thoughts In their head. I think the speaker is severely depressed. They are thinking of ending their life in the river. The speaker tried to drown. The only
Premium Emotion Poetry Marriage
This poem is made up of four stanzas of five lines‚ each with a rhyme arrangement of ABAAB. In the first stanza‚ start of the poem‚ the two roads symbolize‚ the difficult choices that the narrator faces in life. He cannot take both‚ as much as he would want to‚ so he spends time in thoughts and observation. He can’t see far‚ not as far as necessary to make a confident choice as to the better nature of one over the other. The fact that it is a "yellow wood" possibly implies that‚ as fall is often
Premium Poetry The Road Stanza
The poem “Daddy” was written in 1962. Sylvia Plath discusses her love/hate for father and others using imagery from the Holocaust‚ Nazis‚ and vampires. The title of the poem suggests that it is loving and intimate‚ more so than if it were titled “Father”. That is where love is present. Hate and anger are present everywhere else in the poem. Sylvia Plath’s father died when she was eight years old due to complications of diabetes (Steinberg 2007). He is already dead; Sylvia Plath wrote this poem
Premium Sylvia Plath Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler