Analysis Of Howard Nemerov's Poem 'The Vacuum'

The protagonist of the poem is Rosa Parks, a seamstress and an active member in the local NAACP, who refused to give up her seat for a white man. Parks was arrested, which led to a boycott against Montgomery bus system. As a result of more than one year of boycott, the segregation law was announced unconstitutional.

The Halo That Would Not Light by Lucie Brock-Broido is a simple poem about how everyone loses their childhood. In the beginning it says, “The raptor beak,” which refers to a bird carrying a baby into a “scarab-colored hollow.” So far into this poem, imagery is used to have the audience and readers imagine a large black bird carrying a baby by its beak to into a yellow colored crib. Afterwards, the poem transitions to,“in a child’s cardboard box. ”which is typically a baby playing with an empty box.

end of the poem his character flaws and downsides are revealed entirely. He is so

The poem “To This Day” written by Shane Koyczan, the symbolism is the black things grabbing the kid. This is showing that words do hurt and it stays with you this is shown through the whole story of the pain and suffering of the kid. This is said " who used to say that rhyme sticks and stones as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called" this is showing word do hurt and the black things grabbing him is showing that like a broken bone it still hurts over time just like words do. With this evidence it shows that if you don't want to be called that don't say it at all.

The Poem “Introduction to Poetry” is by Billy Collins, an English poet, and it is about how teachers often force students to over-analyze poetry and to try decipher every possible meaning portrayed throughout the poem rather than allowing the students to form their own interpretation of the poem based on their own experiences.

As we move onto the fourth and final stanza, we understand more about the lover, who sits quietly on the other end of the line without saying a

As the poem progresses, the narrator continues to use certain terms that overall portray what he went through.

In the first stanza, the writer uses many techniques to convey the feeling of loss, when he says,

that of what is inside a vacuum. This image produces a feeling of filth for the reader,

The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife, and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker, after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey, by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification, metaphor, simile, and alliteration), fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the poem.

She distastefully compares the kitchen to bodily organs, stating that “the kitchen is a cavern, a stomach leading to the lower intestine that is the garbage and dishwashing area” (179). When she makes this comparison, Ehrenreich gets the reader to associate the kitchen with foul organs such as the lower intestine. As the reader makes the association between the familiar, repulsive organs and the unfamiliar behind-the-scenes Jerry’s kitchen, Ehrenreich can more deeply convey the dirty nature of the kitchen. Along with metaphors, Ehrenreich uses evocative diction; she remarks that “the garbage and dishwashing area . . . issue bizarre smells combining the edible and the offal: creamy carrion, pizza barf, and that unique and enigmatic Jerry's scent - citrus fart” (179). Words like “carrion”, “barf” and “fart” connote feelings of disgust, repugnance, and revulsion. By evoking these strong feelings in the reader, Ehrenreich gives her audience a taste of the unattractive nature of the blue collar

The second half of the poem begins with the speaker confessing that she spent all those nights in her

¨You who crept into our lives with tongues like knives stabbing your words into our skin.¨ The creepy words about evil from the poem ¨Troll¨ by Shane Koyczan. The poem ¨Troll¨ shows that there is evil in the world, different forms of evil, and that we can do something about it.

In 1955, an English poet named Howard Nemerov published a lyrical poem that contains three stanzas, titled The Vacuum. The title of the poem symbolizes the speaker’s wife, who is usually performing house cleaning. The speaker of the poem is an old widower who misses his wife and cannot bear to use the vacuum because it reminds him of her. And the tone of the speaker is angry; angry with the life that he is now living in which is the house is “quiet . . . [and] filth” (lines 1-11), without his wife.

I want you to stop and think about tone in day to day conversations. It mostly depends on the body language, volume of voice, and pitch of the person speaking. Written poems, on the other hand, develop their tone through imagery, language use, and form. To show this, I will be using the poem “Tonight I can write” by analyzing how Pablo Neruda works with distant imagery, nostalgic past tense, and repetitive form to develop a grief-filled tone. Through my analysis, I will be mentioning that the author generates loneliness in the persona. I expect the reader to agree that solitude is a state naturally feared and unwanted by humankind because of our undeniable biological drive to reproduce and survive, which requires the company of others. With that being said, I hope that we can assume loneliness is essentially connected to grief.