Villanelle

Margaret Atwood’s “Flowers” and Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” are similar in which both themes revolve around the death of a father. Both authors use symbols to strength what they are trying to say. For example, in Atwood’s poem, she compares the dying of her father to dying flowers. When she talks about cutting the dead stems of the flowers, she writes, “... [I] put them in a jar I brought from home, because they don’t have vases in this hotel for the ill.” She uses…

The speaker further highlights the eagerness and positivity of his father towards death, "I think he wants to go,/ a little bit – a new desire/ to travel building up, an itch/ to see fresh worlds" (Hudgins 6-9). In addition, the speaker knows that his father has a positive outlook on death because of what heaven promises. Further evidence supports, as the speaker uses yet another euphemism for heaven, "to travel building up" (Hudgins 8), we can see how far he distances himself from his father 's…

Sylvia Plath, knowledgeable beyond her years, had many complications with her mental health as she grew up. This poem in particular was introduced to the public through a biographical introduction of her novel “The Bell Jar”. Through the villanelle structure, Mad Girl’s Love Song uses seemingly endless repetition, dark personification, and references to mythological creatures to touch base with the complications of the human mind, the toxicity of mental illnesses and disorders, and beyond…

In Response to One Art The poem that I have chosen for review is “One Art” (Strand and Boland, pg.11-12), written by Elizabeth Bishop. This particular poem focuses on the simplicity of loss. Specifically, on how easy it is to lose and then move on. Despite the unimportant losses presented in some of the items mentioned, I felt as though the core message of the poem was that it’s easy to lose those around you despite your caution, and eventually, one must learn to move on. A particular line in…

Death is a huge part of life. Everyone experiences it at least once in their lives. It can affect different people in various ways, some may choose to ignore it, some may get vigorously torn apart by it and others chose to fight it with the utmost of powers. This is shown in the key poems ‘War Photographer’, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘A mother in a refugee camp’. All of these poems show particular differences in their attitudes towards death; which is also seen in the further…

Negradas, Rouvinn Uy BA Communications Arts 4 2010-67914 Lit21B An Analysis on the Collection of Poems by Keith Douglas Most of Douglas’ poems are confessional and direct. While reading his poem it seems that he is taking my imagination to the precise moment when he was writing it. This precision leads the reader to examine his personal experiences and memories but at the same time it is not ever expressive of intense emotions. One of the many evidences in which he takes his…

This poem is a villanelle, a traditional form of repetition. Speaks on “losing” or the loss of something as an “art”. This poem is 19 lines with five stanzas with an ABA rhyming scheme. Then one stanza with four lines of a quatrain. Both poems themes are focus on lost and…

rhyming words, “night,” “light,” “right,” and “flight” (Madden 1182). Also, the middle line of each stanza rhymes with all the other middle lines throughout the poem, “day,” “they,” “bay,” “way,” and so on (1182). This strict form, also known as villanelles, creates an easy sound to follow and gives the poem a very controlled yet urgent feel. Both types of rhyming schemes, even though completely different, deliver to the reader the emotion that the narrators are trying to…

The thought-provoking essay “Poetry as a Way of Saying” by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren provides an educational direction for a reader’s comprehension and understanding of the “naturalness” of poetry. They claim in this critical text that “mere immersion does little good unless the reader is making, however unconsciously, some discriminations, comparisons, and judgements” (16). As illustrated in “Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night,” by Dylan Thomas, the raw power and emotion that…

All people define death in different forms. For some individuals death is described whether the person goes to heaven or hell, some others believe that death is the beginning of a new life and for others it is just the simple act of stop living, etc. Regardless the meaning, the question to be asked is if they are ready to die. Of course, the answer will be no. No one is ready to die; no even the most psychologically prepared person is ready to die or to let someone special go. However, death is…