The point of view offers a limited perspective on the events that occur in the mother’s life, but the information given about her relationships is valuable in that it offers insight into the reasons for her later actions. From the first lines of the poem, the vulnerability of the mother is stressed. She is only “21 years old” (1) at the birth of the narrator; the significance of her youth is emphasized by referring to her as a child in the second sentence. Therefore she was impressionable, young and also lacked parental guidance. The mother’s “father left [her] like…
Although her mother does not express any emotions throughout her journal, she logs her everyday activities, this is another way of expressing herself as she can look back and reflect on the things she has done throughout her life, which relates to the next topic and where it comes…
State: The misfortune of child’s life due to sort of illness would all end badly, so better not to have a child. Explain: In other words, this poem made me realize and question how difficult it was for a parent to take care of a child who is either sick or dying.…
Marionettists are secret masters of manipulation-- they control their precious puppets from above the stage, rarely being seen themselves. They have mastered the art of (cant think of the exact word rn) personifying behaviors onto their puppets. Through the use of symbolic images, and colors, the speaker of “While Chopping Red Peppers” conveys the message that she loathes her father’s controlling nature with how other people will perceive her. The imagery of the poem creates a connection between the food and the father and the daughter.…
This poem is highly fragmented, this may be a symptom of a traumatic experience a representation of a fragmented fate of his subjectivity or could even be portraying the fragmented state of his mothers mind and also creates a flat emotional tone . In this instance the fragmented language reflects Ginsberg’s emotions and the stilted distance of his relationship with his mother as things between them are cold this demonstrates the awkwardness of their reunion as things are not the same as they once were. Overall this original desire for the mother which fills a void of for fulfilment and connectedness can never officially be erased even though the child may be encouraged to transfer their desire towards more socially acceptable devices.…
Similar to ‘Half-Past Two’ the poem ‘My Papa’s Waltz’ includes an authority figure of whom abuses their power over the child; in ‘Half-Past Two’ the teacher forgets about the child then when she remembers she attempts to blame the child for his own lateness, while in ‘My Papa’s Waltz’ the child and father are in a possibly physical and corporal relationship yet the child loves his father nonetheless. The strong feeling I will discuss in ‘My Papa’s Waltz’ is the fondness the child has of the father even though the child could be in a corporal relationship. The father is so intoxicated that the sheer smell of his breath could make the child ‘dizzy’ yet the child still waltzed as he ‘hung on like death’. This reinstates that the father is so intoxicated that the child must cling on to survive and to avoid…
In the poem, The Thing Is, Bass tells about life falling apart right in front of you, “like burnt paper in your hands”. From that single line, I can tell something has happened to her where she felt like it was the end of everything. She watched as her world slipped right through her fingers and couldn’t put them together fast enough. Grief is almost talked about as a being, “When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air”. Do you ever feel so overwhelmingly sad that you can’t seem to swallow or catch your breathe?…
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility” (Augustine, ND). It is difficult to let go of the human pride.…
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…
Alison Bechdel’s “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” illustrates the hardships that Bechdel faces in both writing the memoir and her everyday life revolving around writing. As we see her writing this memoir, we also see the things that impact her such as her interest in psychoanalysis and dreams. As Bechdel puts it, “You can’t live and write at the same time” (79). This quote is very important as the reader follows along Bechdel’s story and see’s the hardships she faces when writing. The beginning of the work gives the reader some outline to Bechdel’s life.…
Within the traditional form of a sestina there is six stanzas, all of which, contain six of the same words, but in separate patterns. Although Elizabeth Bishop effectively follows the traditional form, some lines can be considered out of place and the ideas presented in the latter of the poem separates itself from reality. Additionally, Bishop seems to write further outside of the set lines of a traditional sestina. However, Bishop’s form allows for each stanza to build upon her themes presented in the poem with further detail and imagery.…
For a poem that is about mother and child there seems to be no maternal feelings or tone to the poem. Instead, there is a strange feeling of separation and emotional estrangement. From the opening line, “Love set you going like a fat gold watch”, Plath compares the baby, animate, to an inanimate watch; from this simile we get a separation between the act of love and the actual baby. It takes something we see as natural and turns it into something unsettling and new, giving a disorienting effect to motherhood. The separation between mother and child is furthered in the third stanza “I’m no more your mother/ Than the cloud that distils a mirror to reflect its own slow/ Effacement as the wind’s hand” these lines seem emotionless and detached.…
Nowhere in the poem, can we see any trace of the father. Nothing specific is said about the mother. The little girl seems to be very lonely and on her own. The trauma of losing two siblings, implies that her family whether deliberately or not left her to be on her own to make sense out of the world. Her statement, ‘we are seven’, suggests her crave for unity, which she has made possible through discourse of language.…
Chapter 17 Mother’s Love: Death without Weeping Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. " Mother 's Love: Death without Weeping. " Conformity and Conflict Readings in Cultural Anthropology.…
Ezra Pound achieves his purpose of the narrator dealing how with her innocences and loneliness through diction, syntax, tone, mood, and figurative language. In “The river merchant 's wife; a letter” Ezra Pound 's uses his own interpretation of the original poem to determine what diction was poetic. That’s why the this poem is considered an objective correlative, meaning that Ezra pound is trying to make his pound understandable to anyone that reads it. His main objective of the poem is that he wanted to show his audience through nature and the narrator 's commentary in order to show how the main character feels.…