stay afloat in their heads. Sharon Olds’ happened to be one of these poets‚ who expressed her upsetting past relationship with her father and current relationships with her children through these works of art. In Olds’ first poems‚ she
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Whitman and Olds – Controversial Poets of Their Centuries Both Walt Whitman and Sharon Olds are great and controversial poets of their time. Walt Whitman’s poetry mainly takes place in the 1800’s during the American Civil War Era and Sharon Olds’ poems take place in the mid 1900’s. Walt Whitman and Sharon Olds are both known to be free verse writers since their poems don’t rhyme and don’t follow a real traditional stanza. They are also known to be very controversial during their time periods because
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Feminist criticism “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds : “On the Subway” is a poem about the inferiority and weakness of women which results them to be ambitious and belief in their ability to overcome patriarchy. The poem effectively describes the bitterness and anger of females .In particular ‚it displays the idea that a weak man in the society is superior than a powerful woman in the society. Thus ‚ the poem effectively depicts the way less powerful females are in the society . There are several
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In the poem “On the Subway‚” Sharon Olds uses poetic devices‚ tone‚ and imagery to identify the contrasts between a woman and young man who are on the opposite sides of the subway and who live opposite lives due to the color of their social classes in order to give insights on the result of the experience. Olds use of simile shows how she judges the boy instantly. Olds states “His feet …‚ in black sneakers laced with white in a complex pattern like a set of intentional scars.” She compares
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Rites of Passage A poem by Sharon Olds Minor Generals - By Henning Thiel Sharon Olds’ "Rites of Passage" is about the hidden adults in the children that come to her son’s birthday party. All the children are boys and display male adult personality traits that remind the speaker of small mighty Generals of war. The tone comes across sad‚ ironic and disillusioned about the future of the children‚ like they are doomed to follow in the war mongering footsteps of their forefathers. The imagery used
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In the unique poem “on the subway”‚ Sharon Olds develops in both portraits in her pottery. The result of this is reader receive an insight of the narrator mind‚ when it came to that experience. Olds used imagery‚ tone and to do this. In poem the imagery job was to put reader in the shoe of the young white narrator. Imagery allowed reader to come to a conclusion of why would narrator think like she did. An example of this were in line nine through ten‚ where narrator claimed that IQ the African
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In On The Subway by Sharon Olds the narrator contrasts two worlds to develop both portraits by comparing a white wealthy woman to a African American young man. By doing that she uses imagery by describing the appearance of both characters. Also she uses tone to explain the fear the white woman had because she felt threatened by the black man. He also uses organization to reveal how the white woman changed her mind from the beginning of the poem to the end. Olds uses imagery for the readers to imagine
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Alex Upton “1954” by Sharon Olds is a poem displaying the horrors of an instance of rape and murder of a young girl by a man named Burton Abbott in 1954. Olds uses a frantic and horrified tone highlighted by a careful choice of diction to express her messages that any ordinary-looking person can disguise evil and the current justice system has a hypocritical eye-for-an-eye mindset that only ends up destroying human life. The structure of “1954” is built on enjambment and broken sentences. This
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Devon Sahid Humanities 101 September 26‚ 2011 October 24‚ 2011 Olds Poem In Sharon Olds The Summer-Camp Bus Pulls Away from the Curb she states “With a pencil and two Hardy Boys and a peanut butter sandwich and grapes he is on his way‚ there is nothing more we can do for him” the narrator is sending her son off with what she thinks he will need not only for summer camp but for life. She sends him away with two Hardy Boys books. This is relevant because the Hardy Boy characters are
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Week 1: “The Last Night that She Lived…” (Emily Dickinson) Emily Dickinson was a phenomenal writer in her time‚ with an array of different literature pieces. In “The Last Night that She lived” Dickinson writes about the death of a girl‚ we are unknown of who this girl is to her. The girl dying may be perceived as Emily Dickinson herself‚ looking into the future of what her death may be like. The theme of this poem is clearly death. Dickinson handles the situation much better than most. Dickinson
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