“Walking Point”, is a poem published in the Iowa Review written by Terry Hertzler. While flipping through the journal, the poem did not seem interesting at all but I decided to read it anyway. The poem is a free verse poem that consists of seven tercets. The whole first stanza focuses on describing a young child.…
This poem could be about a woman who is starting to go against these ‘rules’ and defies convention. The poem is written in first person and the narrator appears to take the form of a young child up until the final stanza, where the reader questions whether or not the narrator is an adult looking back…
“The Gift” – Poem Essay Li-Young Lee, an Indonesian-American author, uses phenomenal diction and literary devices to represent the passionate adoration and affection that a father will show his son. The prying of the thorn out of the son’s hand is not only a physical occurrence to explain to his son how to live a fulfilling life, but is the main theme of the poem. The theme is the key for one to realize how they are living, which is not likely to be in accord with what they strive to be. With metaphors pertaining to the “thorn” that is an untaught child within the boy, he learns about the wisdom and knowledge of the world. “Had you entered that afternoon, you would have thought you saw a man planting something in a boy’s palm……
I like this poem because of the existential themes that Edward Hirsch tackles, such as: mortality, divinity, temporality, and individuality. I can see all the images that the author describes, and feel that I am a part of the poem, too. Even though it is a short poem, it can transmit so many emotions. I think that this poem is about an old man in a wheelchair (“Wheel me down to the shore”), who feels that he is about to die.…
The poem expresses Thankfulness and gratitude for everything you have because some of the things you have others might not less fortunate than you.…
In the poem wishes the author Georgia Douglas Johnson uses figurative language to influence her tedious life with artistic dreams for future. In fact, when straggling in life becomes endless, often giving up seems easier, but some strong minded and determined souls never quit. According to Douglas’s poem, she illustrates three characteristics, life gets boring, never give up, and have faith in future. As a matter of fact, we’re robots in everyday life, using the same route to go to work, and meeting the regular co-workers you’ve known for ages, all this effects our social life and it becomes so monotonic that we cannot ignore the fact that our life became a circus ring as a result we seek refuge on cellphones and make it our world, yet…
In the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, there are a lot of themes that can be found and applied to the real world, even though this book is a fantasy book. These themes can help you deal with hardships in your life. An example of one theme would be the theme of love. The theme I will be talking about is that you have to go through the times where there’s sadness and the times where there’s happiness, because where there is sadness, there is happiness. Or in another term, when there is bad, there is good, or in vice versa.…
Life is a beautiful thing. This is further reinforced by “The Century Quilt” as it uses its tone, structure, and imagery to achieve this to be its message to the reader. Warnicke’s use of literacy elements throughout the poem also does this. The poem is about an old man or woman reflecting on the long life they had lived.…
This poem starts with a mother telling the readers how her relationship with daughter became complicated after going to a barbershop and cutting her hair on her own choice. She started to think that it is a war that her daughter started and the first weapon that her daughter used was the haircut. The mother was jealous that one day her daughter was a possession of her which is no longer exist. She started to believe her daughter has grown and began to become more of herself, which means her daughter is about to change the way her mother raised her. And the mother is broken apart from inside because of the first change her daughter made which was going to barbershop and choosing own haircut.…
I’ve read hundreds of novels, plays, and vignettes in my life, yet the story that taught me the most about being human was one about a porcelain rabbit. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo tells the story of a china doll named Edward, who begins the story as an arrogant and vain doll loved by one young girl. Through a series of accidents, Edward is moved from family to family, and his little heart begins to feel the love he has always received. I believe The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a book all students in the Honors Program should read because of its multi-faceted, accessible story, and its uncanny ability to stick with the reader long after the pages are closed. Reading this book as a child, I was enraptured…
Sherman Alexie was one of the most gifted poetics that talk mostly about the poverty. His poetry collections The Business of Fancydancing and First Indian on the Moon published in 1993. Expose the “fraudulent illusions that tempt us all in America today”. I chose that interesting piece of the poem because it states a relevant fact that happens in today’s world.…
The poem that relate to me is the poem “ My ruin” by Jim Carroll. The poem talks about love/ trusted relationship that turned into breakup and the speaker not wanting the ended relationship to ruin him instead he is moving forward. The poem relate to me in the sense that I have also being in a very secured relationship at a young age that I gave it my all but ended up in heartbreak which made me at first hate women after this happened but at the end I didn’t let that ruin me and I found inner peace within myself.…
Carl Sandburg’s Chicago may be widely interpreted as one man’s visualization of his city. The author’s use of a sort of ordered free verse reflects the controlled chaos within the city itself. One must be well familiarized with Chicago and all of its parts and citizens to truly understand the order of the city’s work, play, and crime. Sandburg also uses numerous adjectives and similes, which applies a sort of personal, human-like aura to this city.…
He goes further, not only expressing that her death would affect him, but “all the toys of the world would break”. This final line is the most profound part of the poem. It signifies that her life is greatly valued. Toys are objects that bring happiness to people especially children. Toys represent joy, hope, and laughter.…
The World Is Too Much with Us In William Wordsworth’s poem, The World Is Too Much with Us, the speaker expresses his frustration with the materialistic, greed-driven world the earth has become. The speaker insists that nature has more to offer us than what we are seeing, and desires a change of heart from mankind. The speaker uses metaphors to illustrate the divinity of the earth and idioms to describe our lack of noticing the beauty around us. The poem continues to portray the speaker’s weariness as the structure of the poem takes a shift half way through, losing its focus on society as a whole and becoming more refined to the speaker alone.…