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As I watched my daughter sleep in her crib not having a care in the world, my heart filled with despair. Not being able to provide for my daughter Ava hurt me so bad I cried myself to sleep that night. I stood in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children for almost three hours the day before the government shutdown. I watched my mother rely on the government to take care of us and I followed in her footsteps. I wish I would have been paying attention to the…

“One art” by Elizabeth Bishop is a form of a villanelle, a repetitive poem that consists of nineteen lines that usual consists of two repeating rhymes and two refrains. In the poem the speaker is ranting in a letter to a loved one about how losing is easy and compares it as a skillful art. It is not apparent that the conversation is going on but at the end of the poem it is obvious that there is some sort of communication happening. The speaker of the poem repeats:” the art of losing isn’t hard…

“Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay deals with multiple views about love and its importance. The poem is written in the Petrarchan format, which consists of an octave and a sestet. The rhyme scheme does lead away from the traditional sonnet form, whereas Millay uses the Shakespearian rhyming scheme instead of the Petrarchan. The speaker of the poem speaks of their feelings of love, however shows an ambivalent attitude towards the topic. The first 6 lines are spent dismissing the idea of…

In this poem, the speaker takes a walk in the evening and observes a crowd of people and hears a lover singing to his beloved that his love will never cease to exist. The crowd of people are referred to as fields of harvest wheat, the speaker utilizes it as a metaphor that conveys that soon the crowd will die for the reaping will soon arrive. The primary speaker realizes that the clocks respond to the lover's song with rebuttal and contradiction towards the lover's point of view on life. The…

into a person’s identity; it is not always neat and organized in a person’s brain. There are pictures that circle around a girl who is smiling with brown hair; the brown haired girl represents myself, and the pictures symbolize characteristics that form my identity. To further this, the arrows point towards me to express that those factors are a part of me, and make me who I am. Although there are a lot more adjectives that help to create my identity, I chose the most important ones because…

As its name suggests, spoken word poetry is the art form of reciting poems of any kind. Performances tend to focus on key visual and audio techniques such as movement, tone, emotion, rhyme and improvisation to name a few. Many spoken word poetry performances are very personal and revolve around a particular theme or message that the poet is attempting to convey to an audience. Two performances, To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter, performed by Jesse Parent and Pretty by Katie Makkai in…

The poem that D.H. Lawrence wrote, titled “Piano”, is an example of involuntary memory, he didn’t selectively choose to remember those things. As soon as the poem starts, his first stance is, “softly, in the dusk, a women is singing to me;” (1). Then he stated that memory he mentioned was long ago therefore he is reminiscing. Additionally, the speaker’s lyrics follow by “And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings” (4), this exhibits that he is brought back to his…

The entire sequence is framed between sun - rise and sun - set, the sun appearing in the poem from time to time as a significant central symbol. The other important theme is the very existence of life and the variety of forms it has. Jejuri celebrates life in all its varieties and the reverent openness to life in its livingness is one of the most endearing qualities of the poem. The poet presents through a special kind of consciousness of microcosm reflecting in some significant…

“If you do not love me, I shall not be loved. If I do not love you, I shall not love” was said in the poem called, “Cascando” by Samuel Beckett. He wrote this about a girl, who didn’t love him like he loved her. Teenage true love doesn’t exist. However, Shakespeare wrote a play called, “Romeo and Juliet” that is about a pair of two “star-crossed lovers”. Romeo and Juliet aren't in love because they’re strangers, they’re violent, and their families hate each other. One reason Romeo and Juliet…

Andrew Marvell and Description of Garden of Earthy Delights in his Poems Andrew Marvell is a British poet who lived in 17th century. His poems cover a wide variety of themes: from the love to politics and nature’s role in people’s lives. Marvell often used exalted topics/ However, he chooses different approaches compared to other famous poets like William Wordsworth who was born and worked hundred years after Marvell’s death. The last author often covered metaphysical motifs like his experience…