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I strongly agree that Sylvia Plath's poetry presents a vivid portrait of an individual who's life is tormented and anguished It is clear from the beginning of Plath's poem "poppies in July" that the poem presents a vivid portrait who's life is tormented and anguished. This can be seen in the first line "Little poppies , Little hell flames". It appears that the individual in the poem shows two different personalities one of a kind person and another of an angry person. "Little poppies " shows…

The first paper that I wrote for my Love Poetry class was a close reading essay for a poem called “True Love” by Wislawa Szymborska. In this essay, I emphasized on Wislawa’s intentions and point of view about love. I explained what “True Love” means to her based on her poem. True Love; Fictional or Real? Wislawa Szymborska’s method of describing love attracts my attention. In one part of her poem “True Love,” she talks about the myth of true love, and in other parts, she actually questions it:…

Making sure a reader can fully understand a poem can be a very difficult task for a poet. With the help of narrative techniques such as style, a poet is able to draw in a reader and keep him or her involved throughout the poem. Elements like metaphor are used to create a better understanding through a comparison. In addition to a metaphor, imagery is another element used to help the reader visualize what is going on in the poem as well as assonance being used to emphasizes different parts.…

An Echo Sonnet by Robert Pack, is written to an empty page. With the page itself as the audience, it makes for a very unique message. It is divided into two vocal sections; a voice, and an echo. Pack begins addressing the empty page and it’s emptiness. “How from emptiness can I make a start? Echo: Start. And starting, must I master joy or grief? Echo: Grief.” Pack is asking how he can start on an empty page, and to start, should he write about joy or grief? With each line, the repeated…

In the poems “Blackberry-Picking” by Seamus Heaney and “Blackberries for Amelia” by Richard Wilbur both authors center around the idea of Blackberries and what the blackberries symbolize in their lives. In “Blackberry-Picking”, Heaney focuses around the inevitability of time, and how though we may try to hold on to sweet moments of ripe berries, they pass. Wilbur takes a more optimistic viewpoint of life and shows how even though death is near for some, for others life and berry picking is just…

Reading Journal Number Seven Romanticism- Poems By Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner” and John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” both exemplify the new direction for the world and message that poets of the romanticism era were trying to covey to the reading public. Both poems encompass the turn toward the fusion of a number of aspects that romantic poets felt was needed to connect to the reader. In Coleridge’s “Rhyme Of The Ancient…

People have read hundreds of stories about the “damsel in distress”. Whether it is in “Cinderella” or “Sleeping Beauty”, it seems like society views women as weak and are always in the need of men to save them from their problems. However, Margaret Atwood takes a different spin on the trope in her poem Siren Song. Through the allusion to greek mythology, Atwood makes readers think twice about the strength of women, which can be seen through the analysis of the communicative situation, structure…

Poetry Analysis- We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal The poem ‘We Are Going’ by Oogeroo Noonuccal was published on 1964 and was the first book to be published by an Aboriginal woman. In this poem, the white people are the villains in this particular poem, and therefore the Aborigines are the innocent victims. In this point of view, I imagine that, the white people are destroying somebody’s land even though the Aborigines did nothing to stop the situation. This poem connects me with an imagery of…

In Letters to a Young Poet "Letter One" a young poet asks Rainer Maria Rilke for criticism on his work. Rilke commands the poet to look inside and uses certain words which sets the tone. These commands make Rilke sound like an educator. He creates meaning in the letter by focusing on the importance of the young poet. The tone is friendly. In the first paragraph of his letter Rilke says "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism" (Pg. 5) He sets the tone for the rest of the…

not a sign of beauty, so he states "If freckles were lovely" to show that in a perfect world freckles would be beautiful. In this last stanza, he uses an unfamiliar word to catch the readers attention. "If fear was plucky..." (line 13). "Plucky", sounds like a humorous word, but it…