Former President Lincoln once said,“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Sophie Cabot Black also shared this idea, in her poem, constantly emphasizing the idea that the future is discovered by working into it. In Private Equity, Black uses tone and rhythm to establish a theme that even though the future is out of anyone's hands, people still have the power to make choices in present time, which can affect possibilities for the future. Throughout the poem, the speaker sets moving tones, shifting them towards the end. The speaker uses a tone of confidence to describe diving into the unknown saying,“Even without enough information./ We work into it, the chosen.…
Brotherhood is an eight lines long poem. In this short poem, much is expressed. It was specially dedicated to Claudius Ptolemy, a greek astrologist. At that time the astrologists believed that Earth was the center of the universe, and that the stars were the souls of the death. This poem symbolizes the hope of an after life, and the belief in destiny.…
This poem has a very deep meaning and can be used by any individual as a spiritual encouragement or reference while he or she is undergoing a certain situation in his or her…
Poems are the hidden reality of the everyday life. Thousands of people do not value the power and potential a poem can have. Poems can actually change the perspective and the way of living for many people. Many find poems to be difficult and extremely confusing. However, they are meant to be closely interpreted and annotated until the deeper meaning is…
Poets use different techniques of writing to convey their main idea to the reader. May Swenson and Wanda B. Goines’ poems are different in structure and motif, yet the deeper meaning that the poems possess are quite similar. The speaker of How to be old is the author as the poem is not written in second or third person. The poem centres around ageing and the importance of one living their life to the fullest.…
Referring to ‘Metaphors we live by’, ontological metaphors are similar to orientational metaphors, as they also can be used for small amount of purposes, but at the same time ontological metaphors can be further specified in our life. Orientational metaphors mostly deal with orientation, and same as ontological metaphors do not provide structural…
When first reading Facing West from California’s Shores by Walt Whitman it may seem confusing as to who the narrator is. Walt Whitman uses various metaphors and personification in his poetry making it tricky to pick up what he is talking about. By looking at context clues it is assumable that the narrator is not Walt Whitman himself but another person or thing. By rereading and using context clues such as: personifications and metaphors it is inferable that the narrator is not Walt Whitman or another human being but America itself as it was back in the time Facing West from California’s Shores was written.…
Analyze the imagery in this poem. Imagery is all about what the reader thinks they would sense if they were present in a situation. If I were to put myself in the shoes of the narrator, I must…
Stanza one talks about how the speaker, a boy, who is young and carefree at one point and describes all of these beautiful things that could relate to happiness. Line one explains to the audience that the speaker was a young and carefree boy. Line two talks about a lilting…
Metaphors are used as a means of drawing images into people’s minds in order to justify war. It is important to be aware of the rational of politics so that one is not affected. A Nation is a Person is a metaphor used, to treat a whole country as one person. Many are harmed on behalf of a single person because of the generalization of such metaphor. This metaphor is part of an International Community and behind it lays many meanings.…
The form of the poem emphasizes the shift in the mood. In the first three stanzas of the poem the speaker stretches out individual sentences into whole stanzas. The sentence, “When I was a child / I played by myself in a / corner of the schoolyard / all alone” forms the first stanza of the poem (1-4). This drawn-out style of writing elongates the speaker’s uncomfortable and painful childhood, evoking sympathy from the reader. On the other hand, while describing his life now, the speaker changes his style of writing and instead uses short and concise sentences.…
Lakoff and Johnson explicate that “The most fundamental values in a culture will be coherent with the metaphorical structure of the most fundamental concepts in the culture” and “our values are not independent but must form a coherent system with the metaphorical concepts we live by.” Metaphors are then not just expressions used to paint picturesque descriptions; they also reveal a given culture’s values and, perhaps even more importantly, they also “play a central role in the construction of social and political reality.” The authors also state that “Most of our metaphors have evolved in our culture over a long period, but many are imposed upon us by people in power.” The question of who holds the power in a given society is of course…
The poem represent feelings the speaker about dying young athlete and the speaker’s dramatically monologue. The poem set in a town in England and the poem composed seven stanzas. In the first stanza, this stanza is the happy part of the poem. The speaker represent that, after the won race of young athlete for his town, townspeople carried him on their shoulders to his home.…
In medieval times, religion was at the center of daily life of all individuals. The Christian Church formulated a purpose of life and death and preached these ideas. God was at the top in a place known as paradise or heaven, in between lie Earth, and beneath a fearful place of existence known as hell. In contrast, the modern worldview is shaped by human intellect and nature.…
The struggle is that people do not know whether to turn to their heart or to use their head. To me, this poem was about the steps taken after a break up. When these types of things happen out of where, people usually do not know where to begin to handle it. Some people think should turn to crying about all of the negatives, or if they should rather think about the positives that came from the relationship and from the break up.…