Spenserian stanza

This poem elaborates on a boy’s first experience of being in love with girl. This poem has one speaker, who is unknown. One can assume that Gary Soto is referencing himself. The speaker is carefully remembering certain details like, "newly planted trees,” & "a few cars hissing past" because these memories must have impacted the. I am assuming the speaker is an older man, recollecting his youth. The poem has two conflicting settings, the first one is the place where the speaker is physically in,…

In Just- Poetry Explication E.E. Cummings major approach to unfoalding the theme would be the use of diction. While many words in the poem are made up such as, “mud-lucsious”, this emphasizes how the speaker is excited that he or she has to put together words to describe the feeling they are having. Because of this use of word, the speaker could be portrayed as a child because during the spring time children often play in mud and enjoy themselves. Also, one can assume the speaker is a child by…

“Snow” And the Impact of Love on Memory The style of a story is the director of attention, fixing the readers’ eyes on a central theme or idea. Ann Beattie uses style to portray the effects of memories influenced by love in her short story called “Snow”. The power, strength, and futility of love effects someone by touching their heart and marking on their memory. Now, the author’s voice in this story is spoken through the style; the primary message about love and memory in this work is…

Robert Frost’s stopping by the woods on a snowy evening and Amy Lowell’s The Taxi show many differences with no similarities. Robert Frost talks about a man on riding on a horse through the forests, stops by to watch the woodlands fill up with snow, and then tells himself that he has to go before it gets too late. In the Taxi, the woman tells us that she misses her lover, and that she wants to see them again. Frost’s poem has an iambic pentameter while Lowell’s does not have any rhythm and can…

readers to imagine such injustice and by having hope that one day the wrongs will be righted, Espada manages to effectively paint a world of darkness full of anger, compassion, vengeance, hopeful visions, reality, and dreams for the future. In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker tells us of the many abuses within the world and reverses…

The poem “Head, Heart” by Lydia Davis is short, but has a very powerful message. To me, the author is speaking of a broken heart story. An issue that a lot of people my age struggle with. The main thing that pointed this out to me was the name of the poem, “Head, Heart.” These two things are what people turn to when they struggle with decisions about a relationship. The struggle is that people do not know whether to turn to their heart or to use their head. To me, this poem was about the steps…

friendship by sending each other letters in the mail. The first two stanzas are dedicated to the narrator who describes him sending the letter. The narrator decides to place the letter in their mailbox on an ominous, wet night, creating a feeling of optimism and hopefulness. The poet uses the phrase, "I have walked coatless from the house"(2), as a symbol to illustrate the vulnerability and anxiety the narrator had. From the first to second stanza, the tone gently rises from melancholy to…

“Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)” has been a great poem of love. I am interested in this story to learn about how when two people are separated their love depart from one another. As I read this poem, it brought the thought to my mind of how certain people really have love to others and they don’t even know it. Something that also grasped my attention was how they use a honeysuckle to the two for their love. I think that was a perfect example to compare them with. I don’t think they should be set…

Howl by Allen Ginsberg, as I have researched it, is said to be one of the greatest poetic works in America. Upon reading the poem, however, I have felt the need to ask- why? Why is it that of all the poetry flying about, this one seemed to strike a chord with members of American society? Was it the controversy of the crude language used in this conservative 1950s era? Or perhaps the cold imagery of a dystopian wasteland? Was there something in the characters- the “who’s”- that the common person…

Funeral March From Funeral and Triumphal Symphony A. R.Binkley The Funeral and Triumphal Symphony was commissioned of Hector Berlioz by the French government in 1840 for the tenth anniversary of the July Revolution. It was originally written for a marching band, but parts were later written for strings and a choir. The symphony has three movements. The first, Funeral March, is played during the procession to the memorial. The second, Funeral Sermon, is played during the dedication and the third,…