Analysis Of Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town

Poetry can elicit various emotions from the reader, and not everyone will find the same meanings to the poems. For example The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, The Sky is low, The Clouds are Mean by Emily Dickinson, and Harlem Night Song by Langston Hughes all have different themes. Of the three my favorite is The Road Not Taken because it offers its audience a chance to make life choices.

You can tell that in the poem the season is fall because of the color of the wood. In the fall the color of the wood turns yellow which indicates that the poem takes place in the fall. The season’s representations of what time frame a person life is in. How spring represents how someone is at that kid stage of their lives and how they are getting ready to bloom into their personalities. Summer shows how people are at the fun stage of their lives. That teenage to adult hood part of life. Winter is that time of life when all the excitement has went away, kind of like the years a person is elderly. Here is a man that has had many outcomes from the decision he had made in life, so he understands how important it is to it is to make a choice and live with whatever comes after making the choices. In lines 11-12 the speakers says “And both that morning equally lay, “In leaves no step had trodden black”. When he says the leaves haven’t been trodden black indicates that the leaves haven’t been crushed from people stepping on them. So this means he was the only that have been on that

Born just over five pounds in Jacksonville's St Vincent's Hospital, Ronnie grew up in one of the toughest households in one of the toughest areas of Jacksonville, Florida's Westside "Shanty Town." This toughness permeated his entire being, almost from day one. Growing up on Mull Street, Ronnie was the undisputed king among the boys who would gather to play baseball or football -- games that usually degenerated into raucous free-for-alls because of a missed catch or disputed strike. These games introduced Ronnie with his first love -- baseball. He hoped that sports would rescue him from Shanty Town and recalled in 1975, "I went as far as playing American Legion ball. The next step would have been AA. I played center field. I had the highest

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of great Gatsby and E.E Cummings, author of  “Anyone lived in a pretty how town” convey similar themes of sadness, carelessness, and love. Mostly love & sadness. Both selections reveal that not everyone is there for you as they say they are through the use of imagery, symbolism, and diction.

Imagery is used throughout the poem to emphasize the finite time humans have on the earth, and how every second should be appreciated. Lines two and three are the speaker’s first use of imagery. Diction in line two illustrates the speaker’s recognition of the phenomena, which is snow in October. The phrase “But this morning” (line 2) highlights that the meaning is not a mundane morning. Most people would be agitated that winter came early, but the speaker seems to be grateful. Furthermore, the speaker describes the snow in a pleasant tone, seen in this line “pale muslin/ stretched across the grass” (line 2-3). This emphasizes that the speaker appricates the early

F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the novel The Great Gatsby, and E.E. Cummings, writer of the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, convey a similar theme in their works through the use of tone, imagery, and symbolism. Both selections are about love and reveal that death is real.

Examples of imagery that show the carelessness of the people in this poem are, “spring summer autumn winter”(Cummings ln 3) and, “sun moon stars rain”(Cummings ln 8). This imagery was repeated throughout the poem and shows the changelessness of time. No matter how much time changed, things never changed and people were still careless. The poem tells a love story and also a sad story using anyone and noone to symbolize, figuratively, a person and ,literally, everyone. The quote,“One day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face)” (Cummings ln 25,26) shows figuratively the love story of a person named anyone dying and his wife noone stopping to kiss his face. It also shows the sad and careless story of how literally when anyone died noone stopped to kiss his face because no one cared that he had

Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, dreamed of a nation of small farmers living off the land and believed large cities to be destructive “to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.” However, as the nation grew into the most powerful in the world, its cities followed suit. They became the social, economic, and political centers of their respective areas. Cities such as Boston, New York, and San Francisco became the industrial and marketing strongholds of the country. However, by the 1950s, the American landscape was transformed yet again with the arrival of the new frontier, Suburbia. Americans migrated from the dirty, crowded, and

While the beginning half of the poem feels joyous and lighthearted, it is masked by a thin facade. This is portrayed by the nighttime setting and the shakiness of the seemingly cheerful terms, such as the verses “while the stars, that oversprinkle / all the heavens, seem to twinkle” (6-7). In the latter half of the poem, the tone becomes openly dark. The speaker probably sees this poem and its four sections as stages in life, which quickly dive from a bright atmosphere to a downright distressing one. Together, they represent the idea that happiness is

“Anyone lived in a pretty how town” of E. E. Cummings is about an infamous man in a particular town. Writing the poem, Cummings’ purpose is to convey to the public a cruel fact, that people become less aware of each other in this society.

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time”(Victor Hugo). F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the novel The Great Gatsby, and E.E Cummings, writer of the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town,”, convey a similar theme in their works through the use of tone, imagery, diction, symbolism, and motifs.The novel was about how Jay Gatsby had love for a girl named Daisy and Gatsby threw these random parties in which no one was invited to. The poem was about how the years were passing slowly over a period of time and it was the beginning or ending of someone’s life. The main characters were Anyone and Noone and people really did not even care about death. Both selections are about love and reveal that it is wonderful and hurtful at times. Although love is careless in many ways.

. . should burn and rave at the close of day”(2). This means that old men should fight when they are dying and their age should not prevent them from resisting death. Another example of personification in the poem is “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”(8). This line personifies the men’s frail deeds by saying that they could have danced. This means that the potential actions of the men could have flourished and contributed greatly to their lives. The metaphor “. . . words had forked no lightning. . .”(5) is about how the men had done nothing significant with their lives. They had not achieved anything great or caused a major change. The simile “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay” is about how even grave and serious men will fight against death for as long as they can. Another notable example of figurative language within the poem is “. . . blinding sight”(13). This oxymoron details how the men can see very well and it is very obvious to them that they will die soon, but they know that they can control how they will leave this world. There is an abundance of imagery within this poem, a few examples of which are “. . . danced in a green bay”(8), and “. . . caught and sang the sun in flight”(10) . These examples of imagery are both appealing to the sense of sight by using descriptive words such as “Green” and “danced” in the first example and words such as “caught” and “flight” among others. The second example also appeals to the sense of sound by

This poem does not follow the formal pattern of meter or rhyme. It consist of one long stanza and enjambment lines that goes from one line to the next without capitalization or punctuation. A prime example would be in lines 7-9, “a new desire to travel building up, an itch to see fresh worlds.” Hudgins uses a long flowing lines broken into short sentences: “He thinks that when I follow him / he’ll wrap me in his arms and laugh, / the way he did when I arrived / on earth. I do not think he’s right. /

In his poem “Acquainted with the Night,” Robert Frost describes a character who spends his nights wandering the city streets. The reader can infer from both Frost’s tone, and the time of day in which the speaker chooses to walk, that the character is in a world of isolation. This is especially evident in the lines, “When far away an interrupted cry/ Came over houses from another street,/ But not to call me back or say good-by” (Frost 898). From this line, the reader understands that the poem’s speaker feels as if he is completely isolated in the world. In a similar way, E. E. Cummings poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” expresses the loneliness felt by people of this era. Cummings creative use of pronouns gives the poem a double entendre. The characters, anyone and noone, can represent their literal meanings, or a single man and woman. Therefore, when Cummings writes that “noone loves him more by more,” he could mean that anyone is being loved greatly, or not at all. This loneliness is expressed yet again when Cummings informs the reader, “Women and men (both little and small)/ cared for anyone not at all” (Cummings 922). The works of both Frost and Cummings both portray the hardship that accompanied the feeling of loneliness during the modern

The speaker of the poem is unidentified a nameless stranger who speaks to no one in particular, but rather appears to be addressing the empty air around him. His words may be like leaves caught upon the wind and carried to us by chance, or like a message slipped into a bottle and tossed into the waves to be delivered willy-nilly to another. The repetition of the "Comes not the [season] here" phrase at the first line of each stanza, and in fact the repetition of each stanza's structure gives the poem an almost hymnal quality. The speaker appears to be chanting a kind of hymn from a place of eternity, a hymn that (ironically) like nature has its own rhythm.