An Analysis Of 'Sure' By Arlene Tribbia

I thought the poem is about the death of his wife. It is about a painful memory of his loved one who had died. He knew Annabel Lee since she was a kid, but even since then they knew that they

It shows how sad and full of sorrow he was and how he was crushed by her death. It says he could not endure the loneliness anymore, this is when he starts hallucinating over her death. She was the love of his life and he could not bare to lose her

Secondly, the author uses word choice to show the speakers overall sorrow. Throughout the whole poem there are word scattered everywhere that describe the general emotion of sorrow, some of those word being “restless” (19), “torment”, and “troubled” (4). These words instantly give the connotation of feelings like despair and sadness. The speaker also uses literary elements such as simile to express sorrow, like when she says “These troubles of the heart/ are like unwashed clothes” (27, 28). Everyday people usually do not pay much mind to unwashed clothes, and usually look at it as something unimportant or irrelevant. When the speaker compares her internal troubles to something that holds little importance to everyday life and is also seen as unpleasant, the readers really get a look into the sorrow and sadness that the speaker is truly feeling. The speaker also uses word choice to help show the readers the true intensity of what she is going through.

The brother is the person who has the most information about the family. His knowledge of his uncle’s account and conversation with his mother contribute to the overall completeness of the story that would have been missing otherwise.

Although, she loves herself, her family means more to her than her own life does, so she goes to see her brother no matter what the

The last line in the poem “and since they were not the ones dead, turned to their own affairs” lacks the emotions the reader would expect a person to feel after a death of a close family member. But instead, it carries a neutral tone which implies that death doesn’t even matter anymore because it happened too often that the value of life became really low, these people are too poor so in order to survive, they must move on so that their lives can continue. A horrible sensory image was presented in the poem when the “saw leaped out at the boy’s hand” and is continued throughout the poem when “the boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh…the hand was gone already…and that ended it”, this shows emphasis to the numbness the child felt. The poem continues with the same cold tone without any expression of emotion or feelings included except for pain, which emphasizes the lack of sympathy given. Not only did the death of this child placed no effect on anyone in the society but he was also immediately forgotten as he has left nothing special enough behind for people to remember him, so “since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”. This proves that life still carries on the same way whether he is present or not, as he is insignificant and that his death

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

Two distinct points of views can be seen in this poem, one is that of the father and then the son. The father's point of view is more common and used more than that of the son but both displays and add to the complexity of their relationship. From the father’s point of view, he shows his concern for disappointing his son by not coming up with great stories and losing his son as five years old matures which increases his anxiety as he sees the future approaching. The father fears of a fallout in the relationship with his son “...he thinks the boy will give up on his father”(9). The sons point of view

The old man's response to his niece is similar to Sonny's response to his elder brother in that they detach themselves from them. The protagonists are misunderstood by their own family members and interestingly react the same way to this conflict.

It is clear that the speaker is feeling threatened by the boy facing her. In lines 13 through 17, it is very obvious that she is fearful “I look at his raw face, he looks at my fur coat, and I don’t know if i am in his power- he could take my coat so easily, my briefcase, my life-”. Yet the speaker's tone shifts to sympathetic at line 18 of the poem when she realizes the color of their skin dictates their lives; “the way i am living off his life, eating the steak he does not eat, as if i am taking the food from his mouth”. This is where her thoughts become less about impressions and more inward

The use of language from the author is great for all audiences. He uses the right amount of intellectual words and the right of plain text words. The author used the rhetoric of his poem to draw our attention to the singer and to feel for her. His rhetoric makes us feel like she could be someone that we know, someone who is very dramatic and someone that a lot of people would automatically judge. Then the author very smartly drops the fact that she is only telling experiences of hardship.

has the themes of crime and family these themes are easily relatable to the reader, which engages and entertains the audience. By the story being relatable it helps connect the reader to personal experiences and events that take place. The author achieves this by the theme of family being easily related to the reader and confirms with the reader that nobody has a perfect family. The audience knows that in this story the family is not a perfect one because of the constant conflict and tension that takes place between the brothers throughout the story. The tension that builds between the brothers continue to engage the reader, the author achieves this with tension creating suspense.

The mood which covers the whole poem is really sad. It is the feeling when he feels desperate for being unable to cure his mother. Each word from his mom is liked a knife stabbing at him because cancer is known as incurable. “I was frozen/ It never crossed my mind that this angel would have a departure flight/ With tattoos on her passport from a son who took her existence for granted/ I bit my tongue and bled my regret into the cracks of my silence/ Something inside of me broke/ and whatever it was, I knew I deserved it.” Deep inside him, Stokes loves his mother a lot and it is really exploded as he gets the new.

In the first half- line of the poem, the Wife sets the elegiac tone with three simple, clear words, “Full of sorrow” (The Wife’s Lament, line 1). In three words, the wife plainly describes how she feels. As the poem continues she tells her story and the explanation for her

As educated College adults we can correct our negative behaviors by observing relationships demonstrated in songs and poems such as “ I’m Watching you” by Atkins, “Cats in the Cradle” by Harry Chapins, “ Daughters” by John Mayer, “If” by Rudyard Kiplings, and “My Papa's Waltz” by Theodore Roethkes . The relationships one has molds them into the person they are and the person they will become. For this reason, it is important to observe relationships and analyze them to correct our own and improve the relationships around us.