Cut Poem Annotated

Improved Essays
The poem Cut
The central idea of this poem is the girl committed suicide because her dad abused her and her mom was always yelling at her she wanted the abuse and the yelling to stop and the mean kids at school to leave her alone. Suicide is an irrational desire to die. There's two ways you can look at suicide you can look at is as a good thing and you could also look at is a terrible thing. The terrible thing about suicide is kids are so mean that they will make you do things that you think you are ready to do, but you're really not. On the other hand of suicide it can be a good thing, because when it comes to elderly people then they want to end it so they aren't in any pain. The poem that I read was called Cuts the poem talks about all the things that this girl has encountered in her life and how she is dealing with it. In part of the poem she is using sensory details “scars all over her arm” letting you know that is is the outcome of what will happen. Which would have referred to the title, because that's how she is dealing with what is going on. In this poem the author is speaking to her reflection. there would be no relationship between them
…show more content…
She didn’t even spell no right she used know because she wants people to understand . The diction that she uses is “dying was my soul”,”getting weaker When her parents found her body they didn't care that their daughter had just killed herself that were actually glad she did. It says in the poem “when her parents found her body they didn’t care a bit they dug a hole in the backyard and threw her body inside it”. When someone goes missing people usually ask questions and how they answered the questions by they told them that she ran away. It is proven in this poem by saying “ they told people I ran

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Rita Dove “Sonnet in Primary Colors” is a poem I found a lot of imagery in it. For starters, the woman that is being described in the painting is very beautiful. She is known as the lovely Frida who painted herself. I can imagine her wearing a fitting colorful dress that has many flowers on it. Although, the portrait does not show an hat on Frida head.…

    • 217 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Robert Wesley English 1302 October 12, 2015 Hanging Fire Audre Lorde’s “Hanging Fire” is a short poem of thirty five lines of free verse, without a regular rhyme scheme or meter. The persona, a fourteen-year-old female, uses simple vocabulary, declarative sentences, and speaks directly to her audience, making readers aware of her anxieties, isolation, and loneliness. Like a typical teenager, she complains of things that seem minor to adults, but are a big deal to a fourteen year old. For one, being in love with a boy who is immature and still sucks his thumb in private.…

    • 722 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    1. I would like to work with Harjo's "The Woman Hanging from the 13th floor window" because it is the most interesting poem. I really enjoy the analysis of a woman who deciding between life and death on the unlucky number 13. 2. I believe the theme is about a broke woman who is thinking whether to die or live on an unlucky floor number.…

    • 268 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    At the beginning the speaker's attitude toward death appear to be happy, but as you go further into the poem it changes to an angry and bitter tone. In the first tercet the speaker gives off an ironic sense of triumph for accomplishing an unknown act every ten years. Then she goes on to give us a glimpse of what she is talking about by describing herself as ''a sort of walking miracle''(line 4) drawing a parallel to the biblical story of Lazarus who was resurrected by Jesus after 4 days in the tomb. The imagery of her ''skin as bright as a Nazi lampshade''(line 5) her ''face a featureless fine Jew linen''(line 6) explore the historical experience of the holocaust victims who's dead skin were use to make lampshade after world war II. '' Peel…

    • 247 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    In the poem Iphigenia by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord and the painting "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia" by Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista They explain the idea the with all of your actions come consequences and Agamemnon's consequence was the sacrifice of his daughter. They took this story and created how they saw it because told an important lesson that needs to be taught to common day people. Iphigenia was a young girl whose father upset the goddess Artemis during the Trojan war and had to be sacrificed to make the goddess happy. She was put into poems and paintings because her is relevant to common day in the aspect that with your actions come consequences.…

    • 1694 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Tri 3 Final Poem Analysis Overall the poem was really good and had a great meaning behind it. It tells the story of a journey we all go on. A journey that is tough for some people and easy for others.…

    • 333 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This poem was all about her dark life and how she had to fight to live everyday. How she is going to put on a smile, but about to cry. I read this as she is covering up her true feelings about life. Life is hard and has only been a struggle and view life so dark. She is hiding behind the world so they don't know the true her.…

    • 605 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The author of,”Who understands me but me” by Jimmy Santiago Baca is about how he's in prison with other people going through the same problems. The poem goes into detail about his depression, he doesn't show that he's in prison, he gives details and shows he's not in a good state of happiness right now. The man writing the message sounds like he's done life, he is depressed and you can tell that because on line 4 of the poem he tells,”They lock my cage, so i live without going anywhere.” He shows that he's in this state of depression, which he cannot escape because people don't accept as by line 14,”They separate me from my brothers”...…

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Later in the poem she is reminded by her friend that she was a wanted child and not just a helpless mistake from the writing on the cardboard. The animosity towards her mother is still very much alive but the comfort that she was wanted made the fat that she was planned less painful in olds eyes. In both…

    • 1964 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Linda Pastan Marks

    • 608 Words
    • 3 Pages

    “To Be Or Not Be; Poetry Is The Question” Does anyone ever like getting a bad mark or grade during their time in school? That uncomfortable feeling when getting a bad mark is the same emotion Linda Pastan portrays with her main character, a woman is both a mother and a housewife. Pastan’s character is not pleased with this grading system that her family has thrust upon her. Grades define her worth and as Pastan writes, she is disappointed and threatens to “quit” being a mother.…

    • 608 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The topic of suicide is, and always has been, a grim subject to discuss or write about; however, this did not stop Gwendolyn Brooks from writing a poem about suicide titled, “To the Young Who Want to Die.” In this poem, the speaker of this poem seems to be Gwendolyn Brooks but is not specified. This method of writing is useful because of the way the poem is formatted, combined with the words used in the poem, lets the reader see that the speaker is talking directly to them, or to anyone who wants to commit suicide. What makes this so useful is the uniqueness of how it is used throughout the poem and how it does not stray from the title of the poem. The reasons to not commit suicide in her poem are interesting because of how they are worded,…

    • 371 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Editing the Prairies 1. According to the speaker, the prairies have many problems, such as its fences, skies, and flat landscape. The speaking states the land is “too long”, hinting to its flat landscape, that gives the impression that the fields go on forever. As well, the speaker said how the fences are disruptive to the flow of nature. This insinuates that the land looks untouched and natural, until the fences break the facade and show sign of human contamination.…

    • 1879 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    out of five teens who attempt suicide have given clear warning signs. They often write poems about death. Age and experience…

    • 821 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I wasn’t even considered a teenager when I was diagnosed with clinical depression. I hadn’t even understood the concept of mental disability when I began physically harming myself. All I knew was that cutting provided temporary relief from my anxieties, anxieties that I was hardly able to comprehend. A twelve-year-old is not supposed to hate themselves or be crippled by their own sadness, and yet at that time I was unscrewing the blades off pencil sharpeners anyways. For a large portion of my life I was not sure what had happened to me and why I was the way I was so early in my adolescence.…

    • 817 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    "Wife" is a poem written by Marra PL. Lanot and was published in 1998. The film of Director Jun Robles Lana "Barber's Tales (Mga Kuwentong Barbero)" is an entry for the 2013 Tokyo International Film Festival where Eugene Domingo won the Best Actress Award. The two literary works are both set in a society dominated by men, where women are confined and marginalized. Also, their main characters are both women who are pressured by the society's expectations of a wife.…

    • 1590 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays