Almost understanding his point living in an ideal world, he completely seals it by saying, “Yet they’d all despair,” indicating that humans would find destruction in a perfectly built world no matter how amazing it may seem (16). By finishing the poem with the line “We wouldn’t be we,” he says that all of us would not appreciate true happiness if problems or wrong didn’t exist (18). That’s the main point, we want what we don’t have, but if we had that luxury of perfection, we wouldn’t be who we are nor be able to appreciate and love ourselves and what we are are blessed…
The poem expresses Thankfulness and gratitude for everything you have because some of the things you have others might not less fortunate than you.…
The message of this song, that you need to appreciate what you have before you lose it, is easily interpreted from the refrain which says “Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you've got , Till it's gone, They paved paradise And put up a parking lot. ”(Joni Mitchell). Thus, you had a beautiful something, you destroyed it because you were looking for something better, and only after it is gone do you realize how beautiful it was. This can easily be fitted into the transcendentalist character, which loves nature and seeks to repel the material world which can only bring unhappiness.…
This poem struck me as a battle to remain himself in a world or people who all resemble one another, not on appearance, but on a cellular structure and spiritual level, but he also wants to unite spiritually with the universe. From his opening stanza, it feels as though he…
She wants the theme to be evident without having to analyze the poem for hours. As a poet, she puts the same belief into use. In “Leah: in Freedom,” the simplified message is about Leah’s continual attempt at freedom, so the theme would be to never give…
The World Is Too Much with Us is his response to the diminished belief in faith and spirituality. The second line in the poem addresses this “Getting and spending,” (Wordsworth, line 2) brings light to how people were preoccupied with working long hours and the benefits of industry. Wordsworth believes that people have lost touch with nature and God, “We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” (Wordsworth, line 4), their hearts once filled with faith for God now filled with an appetite for wealth and industry. People were lost and “out of tune;”…
Neverthless, it was also times where the govermnet found ways around to stop the Blacks from being able to vote. The poem talks about how cruel and abusive the White people were especially during these times of hatred and racism. Their lost of resources such as their culture made them even more furious and thirsty for equality. On line 37, stanza 5 it quotes “The screaming of your Eagle” this is Personification because Eagles can not scream because they are not human, this gives out a deeper meaning to equality since an eagle symbolizes Freedom. By giving it human qualities it makes the idea of Freedom more powerful since the human kind is the leader of all living organisms.…
to depict the intimidation and silencing of those marginalized in America (Rampersad and Roesell 190). Clearly, this statement tries to capture the greedy rich people who are in the forefront in silencing the speaker who expresses his desire for equality and opportunity. Moreover, the speaker in the poem suggests that America has become a country which does not glorify values anymore. In particular, the speaker notes that the “humble, hungry, and mean” citizens do not partake of the cup of plenty, although they work hard. Although the speaker toils and makes everything possible to achieve success, he remains a servant to…
In addition to this, the form of the poem makes it accessible for many people to read, further stressing the ideas of equality and freedom as it has no…
What gives the speaker the authority is the fact he is writing a controversial essay and then critical remarks of the teacher but in a non-disrespectful way is a sign of strength of source and the pride that the student has for himself. Although both of these poems make notice of first-person voices, they each display the voice to different ends. Neither less, have both poems drawn attention to African-American people, crying out for civil rights and equality within a time area were neither happen. Were African-Americans were not respected nor given the same opportunities, were we had to fight for rights along with…
We do not know why we think of them. We do not know why, when we think of them, we feel of a sudden that the earth is good and it is not a burden to live.” (41) This is the beginnings of Equality’s undying love for Liberty, which is something that is constant through the entire novel. “We are one… alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only.”…
In each stanza he explains similar things everyone does throughout the day,and how we share things we didn’t know we shared. In stanza four he says,”One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane so my brother and I could have books and shoes.” In these lines he’s telling the audience that no one is more superior than the next person.…
This poem became popular for it told human beings to not pursue their dreams and goals on Earth for they will all be taken away upon death. Instead of focusing their efforts on the world around them they should focus on the world to come. This is a different view than the modern worldview which would tell individuals to appreciate their time on Earth and constantly strive to become everything they can. The poet writes, “Call not your own what one day ye may lose; The world will take back all it give you to use. Let your hearts be in heaven, your thoughts in the skies; Happy is he who the world can despise.”…
This insinuates that the speaker’s mind has gone away from the scene before him and has traveled elsewhere. He has lost his focus, so much so that he is unable to take anything around him into account. However, there is a dual meaning behind this line, as the speaker also cannot find that he counts at all among the natural world he is currently occupying. The only thing that seems to matter now is the sensation of pure “loneliness” he feels in response to the surrounding landscape. Both the second and third stanza are intertwined on this spiritual plane which the speaker suddenly finds himself in.…
Iambic pentameter, couplet and imagery are used to clearly emphasize the sound, theme, and moral of the poem. The descriptive words and placement of them really brings on the sense of pride and honor. Using words like “vain” and deathblow” gave insight into the way that they resented the white population. The poem specifically addresses the social injustices of the time period including racism. During this time lynching and hate crimes were still going on.…