Rhyme

Emily Dickinson has lost several of her friends and her family members so that made the main themes of this poem is about death. Death inform the most of her poetry because she feel frustrated for her lost. ‘’I could not not for death is not exclusive domain of poet or writer. ‘’Because I could not stop for death’’ is very common and standard imaged about death because we commonly refer to differently aspect of our life as a journey. Emily Dickinson compared our life with a journey said that…

In the poem, “In Just,” it talks about a balloonman and how he whistles far and wee. It also mentions how it is spring time and there are children playing. In addition, the author uses words that are not words at all, but are simply made up words. Additionally, the structure of the poem is unusual. The spacing changes as the poem goes; however, the author never breaks four lines then a one-line stanza, even when it goes to one word a line. Therefore, the author maybe going for a light, fun poem,…

“Personism” by Frank O’Hara and “The Poet” by Ralph Waldo Emerson are two texts that convey a theme surrounding poetry and its importance. O’Hara’s text mainly targets those that question poetry whereas Emerson’s text points out that poetry expresses nature and its not the reader but the person who is writing that is able to express what they truly feel. The question that I have for these two texts is during the time period of when O’Hara and Emerson wrote poetry, was there a lot of criticism…

Why did Dudley Randall chose “Ballad of Birmingham”to captivate in poetic form? Well Dudley Randall wrote a poem over “Ballad of Birmingham” instead of story so we can understand what happened on that days, to make us feel emotional while reading this poem, and to make it easier and shorter. Firstly, Dudley Randall wrote this poem so people can understand what/when happen on that day. This poem describe about how this one girl wanted to go see street marching but her mother didn't let…

Throughout this unit I read several poems that portrayed freedom in various different ways. These poems all showed aspects of freedom in one way or another. To be more specific, the poems that I really thought depicted freedom are “Dream variations” and “I too” by Langston Hughes. In addition to those is the poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem “Dream Variations” written by the poet Langston Hughes shows many examples of the desire for freedom. For instance, this poem mainly is…

Synopsis: A journey through the narrators St. Louis. Response: The stream of conscious like flow of this poem works so well with the form in creating movement. I felt as though I was following along as the narrator recanted their memories of the streets. One of my favorite stanzas is; “ cars loaded wit families / fellas from the factory / one or two practical nurses / black / become our trenches / some dig into cement wit elbows / under engines / do not be seen / in yr hometown / after sunset we…

Vincent’s Bedroom The Dutch artist known as Vincent Van Gogh painted the Bedroom in Arles in 1889. The painting is of Van Gogh's own bedroom, where he had eventually died after attempting to commit suicide. He is thought to have painted it to show his sadness and even reflect his suicide in 1890. In Don Mclean's tribute song known as 'Vincent', the lyrics points out the work of art as the following: “Now I understand what you tried to say to me, how you suffered for your sanity.” The bedroom…

1. Why does the narrator bring up memories of when he was a child? There are several objects in the poem that reminded him of his childlike ways. For example, the blue river was highly admirable to him and the fields is where he would play with butterflies. “These are the same, but I am not the same, But wiser than I was, and wise enough (Emerson 1).” 2. What in this poem could you also compare to with the values of the Native Americans? In this poem, the narrator continual speaks on how sacred…

Cather personally adheres Naturalism in her book O Pioneers! because how She wrote about her and Oscar and Luis’ fight and Emil and Marie’s relationship. Although, Cather prefers Naturalism in her book, the title has a sense of Naturalism. To sum it up I believe Cather uses Naturalism as her life philosophy in her book O’ Pioneers!. However, O’ Pioneers! has the Naturalistic view the title of the book has a romantic view. The Title of the book has the same title as a romantic poem that talks…

uan Ramon Jimenez was an inspiring short and intense personal poet. They were a great inspiration to a generation of spanish writers in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Born in Spain, he went to college, but quit to devote himself to the love and joy of writing. His poems began appearing when he was just 17. He was a master of the new generation of poets. In “I Am Not I”, Juan Ramon Jimenez writes about how there is a real self as well as an illusory self. Juan Ramon Jimenez writes about the self who he…