Analysis Of I Taught Myself To Live Simply By Anna Akhmatova

I choose this poem, because the author of this poem uses a lot of imagery that helps the reader create visuals in their mind. I also loved how the author uses darkness as a key emotion towards his poem. I love poetry, but my favorite type of poetry is poetry that uses darkness or death and this poem illustrates. This poem relates to a lot of people in this world, because most people are scared of death and are often traumatized by what comes after death.

Nowadays, it seems that we are too busy making a living that we tend to forget how to make a meaningful life. We are all dreaming of some magical things will happen instead of enjoying a beautiful little thing happens around us. The main thing is we don’t know if we will wake up tomorrow when we go to sleep tonight. Therefore, rather than hardly put off a living, reminds ourselves to enjoy every minute of our live as if it is the last minute. Denise Levertov, the author of the poem “Living”, illustrates the philosophy of living a simple life is to live entirely in the present without thinking about what will happen next in the future. The reason for that philosophy is because happiness is not what you have but how you feel toward what you have and how you accept it.

Aptly titled, “Dying” reflects on attitudes towards death. The speaker is reflecting on the way people tend to oppose the concept of death. The subject isn’t just dying, but the way people feel about dying, and the definite briefness of life. Line 12 states in reference to death, “The different pace makes the difference absolute,” which is a central idea of the poem. Even though humans are aware from a young age that life must come to an end, it is both difficult and impossible to avoid relating to people who are currently dying. The “someone” in line 10 and the pets in lines 3-4 remind both the speaker and the reader of their own mortality. A theme might be that even though it’s possible to relate to others dying, it’s more likely that people don’t actually confront their own imminent deaths because they perceive their lifespan to be so long and promising. In lines 10-11, “[…] But someone I know is dying- / And though one might say glibly ‘everyone is,’” Pinsky addresses the habit of depersonalizing death. Even though it is the one thing that unites all of humanity, people tend to distance themselves from the idea by brushing it off.

The theme death has always played a crucial role in literature. Death surrounds us and our everyday life, something that we must adapt and accept. Whether its on television or newpaper, you'll probobly hear about the death of an individual or even a group. Most people have their own ideas and attitude towards it, but many consider this to be a tragic event due to many reasons. For those who suffered greatly from despair, living their life miserably and hopelessly, it could actually be a relief to them. Death effects not only you, but also those around you, while some people may stay unaffected depending on how they perceive it.

In the final stanza, he makes the reader sad as he assumes the inevitable will happen and she will die. He expresses this through metaphors such as a “black figure in her white cave”, which is a reference to the bright white hospital rooms and although he is the black figure he thinks she just sees a shadow which could be the grim reaper or even death himself, coming to end her journey. No one wants to deal with the sorrow of losing a loved one for good, as

While the poem speaks of death, the tone is very subtle and joyful because of the multiple imageries of nature through diction such as “bird,” “garden,” and “water.”

Death is the major speaker of this poem, its persona shows how cruel and violent it can be, however she also speaks of getting everything out of life you can before death. Starting with line twenty three of the poem she begins talking about living a full life before death, "When it 's over, I want to say all my life/I was a bride married to amazement/I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms." (23-25). Being a bride married to amazement is a comparison to commitment, being with the same person every day. However in this case with a lifestyle instead. Doing amazing and memorable things every possible day you can, not letting life pass you by. This also fits perfectly with the next few lines

Personification is a type of figurative language one uses to give abstract ideas human-like characteristics. Dickinson uses personification in this poem because it allows the reader to understand death in a more intimate way. Death became so real to her and to her contemporaries because of the time in which she lived. Through her life experiences, the poet became intimate with death. Because of all the disease and epidemics in her lifetime, many of her loved ones passed away. These deaths were very "intense breaks in her life" (Murray). Some critics suggest that the death of her cousin was the inspiration for this poem (Semansky). In any event, death had a large impact on Dickinson's life. This impact explains why she writes so descriptively about it. In this poem, death is personified as a gentleman caller taking the lady out for a carriage ride. This personification gives the reader a better image of the writer's idea of the coming of death.

The Poem begins with a personification of death as "kindly" (3). By doing this, the speaker introduces a portrayal on death that might have conflictions. Most of the times, death has a negative connotation. Whether it is an inevitable or tragic view, it opposes to what is seen in the poem. The speaker accepts death as a friendly invitation when the time is right, rather than something that is bound to happen. The speaker then joins immortality, personified as a passenger in a carriage. Immortality simply cannot be a passenger as it is a non-living thing. The reasoning for this could be that immortality ties together the link between the speaker and death, ultimately introducing the voyage to come. The first stanza sets a precedent of a meter to follow throughout most of the poem. The first line contains eight

The author uses several types of poetic terms in this poem to develop the theme of a person accepting grief in their life. One poetic term she used was a metaphor. The metaphor is “Ah, grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog.” Although grief is not a type of dog, the author wants us to think of grief in the same way that we would think about a homeless dog. The same phrase can also be considered a simile. The author intends for us to think of grief as being like a homeless dog. Another way that the author expressed her theme was by using a specific kind of repetition like anaphora. Several words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines and sentences in the poem. These words are “you,” “your,” “my,” and “and.” There are also several phrases that are repeated throughout the poem. These phrases are “your own,” “I should,” and “you need.” She uses these repetitive words and phrases in the poem to describe a conversation that a person is having with grief.

One of the first complexities that "The Dead Woman," a poem written in the first person by Pablo Neruda, exhibits can be clearly seen in the first three lines: "If suddenly you do not exists, / if suddenly you no longer live, / I shall go on living" (Neruda, "The Dead Woman," YEAR, 1-3). Neruda talks about someone or something that is in existence right now in the moment but he speculates on the death of this thing. Because he writes, "I shall go on living," the reader immediately wonders about the kind of relationship that Neruda has with this thing that might die. Is this an ordinary love? The lines would seem to imply that it is not, that there is something, in fact, unordinary about it something beyond special. Why would this thing die suddenly as well? Wouldn't that be a bigger shock to someone to have something taken away from him suddenly? This poses a paradox from the beginning. The theme of the poem seems to be about giving up old things, people and ways. It also seems to have an element about dealing with the unconscious mind. Neruda is speculating on death and what life will be like for him after the fact of this thing's death. There is a spiritual element to this poem and an overall theme of getting on with life after a major loss. The poem carries this element throughout the entire poem, which adds unity and fluidity at the same time.

focuses of second half of the poem is concentrated on accident that takes place in which a boy

The first line of stanza four “Or rather-- He passed Us—“ (l. 13) demonstrates that the speaker is uncertain about her existence in the world. Now she feels that her life symbolized by the sun is passing by. She becomes chilled by the “dews” (l. 14). Lines three and four in this stanza illustrate the reason for her coldness. The speaker is attired in a light “Gown” (l. 15) and cape or “Tippet” made of “Tulle” (l. 16), which is a kind of thin, transparent, open meterial. When people die,

In this essay we will look into her life through three of her poems in

These feelings or abundance and well-being, according to Mark Bracher, make it quite simple for the reader to look at death calmly and accept their own mortality as consequence of a rich and fulfilling life (Bracher 1990, 634). Bracher accuses the poem of pretence