After Burns Destroy The Mouse's Nest

Along with the death of a loved one or the loss of a significant piece in one’s life comes a time of mourning. How gradually one heals and recuperates from sorrow is personal and cannot be dictated by another’s schedule. In “Snowbanks North of the House,” one significant component is how Bly uses the natural world to represent the continuation of life after death. “And the sea lifts and falls all night, the moon goes on / through the unattached heavens alone” (Bly 19-20). Nature continues on despite someone’s personal anguish. This poem encourages people to relinquish their agony and to return to normal life because the universe pays no attention to you. Sometimes this is easier said than done, as Gonzalez writes in “1999.” The alleviation of despair is not immediate following loss. As shown in this poem, even years after a tragedy, there are lasting effects on people. The speaker tells of the years that have passed since the sibling’s death. “Then the year / my stomach hurt all year, & then / the year no one spoke of you” (Gonzalez 15-17). The speaker explains that as the years pass, people begin to accept the reality of the death and recover. However, the speaker has a sorrowful tone about him or her. After all the years that have gone by, the speaker continues to feel grief and is heartbroken over the death. The speaker is frustrated that no one else seems to reciprocate the

Another aspect to this poem that is very important would be the figurative language. The author uses a lot of similes and metaphors throughout further illustrate this father’s ridiculous ways. The speaker uses the simile “snaked like dragons” to describe the fire engines, this was a good choice in comparison because when you think of a dragon you automatically think of bright fires and then when you continue on the thought you think of their crouched down tiptoes

In this case, the fire could represent the intense anger, the cat feels towards the narrator for destroying their peaceful family life. The cat has also sensed the character change of the narrator, how the once innocent and kind man, who took care of a lonely cat, had turned into an alcoholic, mistreating his family, attempting to kill the cat and even taking the life of his wife. Example 2: '' The fury of a demon instantly possessed me.'' (ln. 51-52).

Children are often too juvenile and ignorant to comprehend all that is done for them. The narrator of this poem is now a grown man and is looking back on his childhood. He says that he would “[speak] indifferently to [his father], who had driven out the cold, and polished my good shoes as well.” (Hayden) After working hard all week to provide for his family, the narrator's father would wake early Sunday mornings to tend to his family. As a grown man, he sees how much effort his father put in to keep him content. Sometimes it was difficult to see this because he was overcome by fear: “...slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic anger of that house.” (Hayden). Though the narrator was intimidated by his father, he still loved and appreciated him. This father- son relationship is unique because the bond grows and develops as a strong connection throughout time, with the help of maturity. The narrator of this poem recognises the unappreciated family sacrifices that are made which only improves the bond between a boy and his

He also describes the conditions of the father's hands demonstrating that he was a hard worker and still woke up before everyone else to warm up the rooms. The father basically says love in the simple act he does. Like many people I can personally relate to this poem. My father was not always demonstrative and affectionate but during my childhood years he always made sure I had everything I needed. That showed me that my father cared.

The despondent mood at the beginning of the story, mirrors the loss of innocence of the narrator because he had to face the responsibility and guilt of Doodle’s death.

The first stanza of the poem offers us with descriptions of the temporal and spatial dimensions the boy was situated in through the use of figures of speech, namely metaphor and metonymy. “[S]ky began burning” is a metaphor for the bright explosions and burning debris viewed from above, perhaps as a result of the ongoing war. On the other hand, the house can be seen as a metonymy for the people inside it. By the comparing this “house” to the birds in the eaves, the boy speaks of the house as a shelter or refuge for the people affected by the war, just like how birds find protection in the lower border of a roof overhanging a wall. Also, the

In her poem “ Barn Owl”, Gwen Harwood uses many different techniques to create a poem based of life and death. By using symbolism and imagery she describes how a loss of innocents has occurred when the child rebels against their father but by doing this the child has gained maturity and undergone individual growth. In the first stanza we learn that this poem is taking place at daybreak, where a child of unknown gender and age, has crept out of the house with their fathers gun. We are unsure of why the child wants to go outside with a gun but we can assume that it was a planned event.

“For That He Looked Not upon Her” written by sixteenth-century poet George Gascoigne emphasizes his form, diction, and imagery to express his feelings towards this woman he loves. He organizes his sonnet to express his complex feelings for why he cannot look into his lovers face. “To see me hold my louring head so low…” describes how the speaker feels when he sees her happy face. He lowers his head so he won’t have to look at her and see her happiness even after all the pain she caused him. Through Gascoigne diction, the speaker expresses that he does not want to increase his range of sight or knowledge of her because of her face radiating happiness.

She thinks of it that God himself burned her stuff. “That laid my goods now in the dust.” She no longer had a table to eat at or a roof over her head. Everything has been taken away by the flames and smoke. All she can think about is god and how he took away the things she had. She is praying to God to give some things back and to not leave her with nothing at all. Bradstreet's attitude changes from the beginning of the poem to end. She goes from feeling depressed and sad to being optimistic on her house burning down. She believes that god has control over her house and everything in it,

In the poem, I get a sense that there is no bond, like my father and I have which leads to confusion in the narrator's life. For instance, in line eight when he says, "I would slowly rise and dress,/ fearing the chronic angers of the house"(8-9), this gives me a strong sense of sadness, for him because I feel that he is greatly deprived of what every child should have a good role model as a father, and someone to look up to. “Speaking Indifferently to him, / who had driven out the cold”(10-11) is saying that they really did not know how to communicate with each other. I feel that the boy will regret not having and knowing what it is that makes you who you are, and may never get a chance to have and hold a special bond with his father and having a relationship with a person that can not be held with anyone else. This would bring an enormous amount of sadness to my life had I not had my Dad there to guide and protect me, when I could have used tremendous support and security.

This arising tone of regret and distance is also formed by the speaker’s depiction of his father having “cracked hands that ached,” (1. 3) which further signifies the father’s struggle with the severe coldness. The concept of self-sacrifice is apparent in this portrayal of his father’s disregard to his own pain in order to provide warmth and light for his family’s home. The stirring of “banked fires blaze” (1. 5) within the house,

Robert Burns had a friend who had moved or grown distant with which is something that happens to just about everyone. His message was that we should honor that friend and the good timed that we had with them. In the poem, the two buddies go out for a drink to reminisce the good old times that they once shared. This can be seen in line 7, “ We’ll take a cup o’ kindness”(Burns). So, they

This is a good pre-setting for this poem. The reader is told right away that the two had a good relationship and love. At the same time, it gives the reader a feeling of something not very real but of some other world. Though grandparents love their grandchildren, they do not usually prefer their company to the society. Nevertheless, Lowell considered his grandfather his dad. Even his family members, when they said "your Father" (Line 9), meant his grandfather. The reason is that his real dad was a navy officer and was always away from home: "Daddy was still on sea-duty in the Pacific" (Line 5). In the beginning of the second paragraph, he says: "He was my father. I was his son" (Line 10). This shows that the love was mutual between the grandson to the grandfather and vice-versa. By mentioning both relationships, he puts extra focus on that fact. The seventh and the last paragraphs of the poem talk about the author's feelings: "paramour" (Line 58). In those paragraphs, he shows the reader that in some way, he was intimidated by his grandfather. Lowell describes his grandfather's crutch as "...more a weapon than a crutch" (Line 49). There are names and altitudes of all the mountains the grandfather had climbed. The author, of course, respects his grandfather but also feels insignificant compared to him. It also shows when he says that he liked to cuddle with the grandfather: "In the mornings I

In both “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “forgiving my father” by Lucille Clifton, the speakers have deep discontent with their fathers. They both describe issues they had with their father when they were a child, which resulted in lack of respect. In contrast, both poems show a different healing outcome of the child, that is now an adult, and their lasting opinions of their father. Both poems represent a way a child can deal with a childhood issue with a parent and what it is like to either overcome it or still have it festering inside.