To remember your first Christmas tree and putting it together is amazing‚ wonderful and precious all rolled into one. This poem is like reliving a very happy time in your life and a memory to cherish all in one. The author starts out with a happy tone‚ smiling as she writes about a wonderful‚ happy memory from her childhood. The memory of her mother brings back happy thoughts. Putting the silver Christmas tree together‚ watching her mother walk across
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We Wear The Mask My reaction to the poem “ We Wear the Mask” is a feeling of truthfulness. It tells about what people see and what others hide. People that I have met don’t really act like themselves. Like when it says “We smile‚ but‚ O great Christ‚ our cries to thee from tortured souls arise” those are the people who have hid themselves from others. They are people we wouldn’t know that are at home cutting themselves are even attempt to do suicide that only the lord knows. They can talk like
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Death of Grandfather Clock‚ Lin Lane depicts the nagging effect that time tends to have by utilizing symbolism. In the first stanza‚ the poem expressly states‚ “I am quite annoyed by the ticking... By the ever-present clicking”. The poet explicates how the constant ticking stresses the limited time one has to fulfil one’s responsibilities and aspirations. In the second stanza‚ Lane expands on her point by wondering‚ “Must Grandfather Time command my life?” The poem uses the “Grandfather Time” as
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mentions fears that a human at any age can relate to such as the fear of getting sick‚ dying‚ parents getting divorced and wars breaking out. The speaker in this poem is a child‚ so it is something any child (also a teenager) and identify with. The tone of the poem is anxious to reflect how being afraid can shake us. Many people might think that this poem is purely for entertainment and fun. However‚ there is more to it
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bachelor that was traveling in the same carriage as them starts to tell the offspring’s a story‚ the children‚ with hesitation at first‚ start to listen to him with excitement. The bachelor seemed to know what story the children will like and what type of tone and language the story had to be told to get the children’s attention. In the first part of the story‚ the author presents a scene in which 3 children‚ their aunt and a bachelor were traveling all in the same carriage on a train. The children don’t
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On a beach on the coast of the United States‚ during the summer of 2016‚ Charlie and the Grandfather from Steinbeck’s “The leader of the People” come together on the beach while the Grandfather has a couple beers and Charlie has his one drink for the day and discuss how the United States has changed and what they think about the direction the “American Dream” is headed. The sun is starting to set‚ the sky changing colors as the two men look on and think to themselves was it worth doing what they
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The words “Death‚ be not proud” open John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 10‚ setting the tone‚ as the narrator addresses death himself. Donne‚ inspired by his experiences with religion‚ wrote a collection of poems known as “The Divine poems‚” in which he establishes a connection between the narrator‚ and God. Holy Sonnet 10 is unique in that‚ the narrator addresses not God‚ but Death. As explored by both Joanne Woolway and Roberta J. Albrecht‚ Donne employs masterful use of apostrophe to address death‚ stylized
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consequences‚ every circumstance provides both positive and negative repercussions. In Siegfried Sassoon’s Absolution‚ the speaker attempts to depict both the positive and negative outcomes of World War I. Sassoon uses metaphors to convey the speaker’s tone of acknowledgment‚ matured perspective‚ and wisdom. As previously mentioned‚ war always brings about destruction and negatives of some kind. In Absolution‚ the speaker does not avoid such topics‚ stating‚ “War is our scourge” (line 3) and‚ “Horror
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A Comparative Analysis The Whipping by Robert Hayden‚ unlike My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke‚ effectively encourages feelings of empathy in the reader through its explicit theme‚ diction and shifts. The Whipping has an explicit theme of abuse. This is recognized immediately because of the title itself. The reader can infer that this poem is a negative piece with abusive actions. However‚ My Papa’s Waltz does not have an obvious theme. The title may sound pleasant to the reader for it does
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The speaker’s tone seems to shift to one of saddened longing: Not only does he love God‚ but he has would be “loved fain” if God would love him back(“Batter” 9). This shows the desire that the speaker has been expressing since the very first quatrain‚ and why he has
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