Ode To My Socks Poem Analysis

Ode To My Socks/The Waking In the poem “Ode To My Socks”, is devoting his feelings about the socks Maru Mori gave to him as a present. The author, Pablo Neruda explains in many metaphors how the socks appeal to the one who received them with such admiration. This poem is a free verse, since it does not have a rhyme, nor tone to it. Although in the end, the narrator ends up happily wearing the socks, and gives a moral in the end. According to the beginning of the poem, it can see that the setting has to deal with a farmer type environment, since Maru Mori is described to have “sheepherder” hands by Neruda. After debating on it for so long, it must have gotten really cold for Neruda to put the socks on quickly to try them. Although, he did he started to feel the need to store the socks somewhere safe. …show more content…
During times of winter many people may not have socks, so socks like these should be wonderful for the winter time indeed. Now, for the poem of “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke, it kind of compares of sharing a message to the audience. The message that flows out of this poet is what is going through his mind. With this, he discusses how life is, and how to live it too. Even though this literature is a poem, it is actually sounding like a song type of meter known as a villanelle. Notably, Theodore Roethke uses the first stanza of the poem twice. The metaphor he is trying to imply in, “I wake to sleep” is that it means life and death, which is the beginning to end of a human soul. The fate he is mentioning is how also to accept what is coming or “I learn by going where I have to go”, and not worry about what could have been. Instead, learn what you have face for