Analysis Of Matthew Olson's Contradictions In The Design

The imagery prompts the reader to feel uncertainty about the likeliness of another day, but at the same time wishing very badly for more time. Collins uses imagery to illustrate the fragility of existence and humanity’s quiet desperation to keep going. The poem

However, the poem has fluidity despite its apparent scarcity of rhyme. After examining the alteration of syllables in each line, a pattern is revealed in this poem concerning darkness. The first nine lines alternate between 8 and 6 syllables. These lines are concerned, as any narrative is, with exposition. These lines set up darkness as an internal conflict to come. The conflict intensifies in lines 10 and 11 as we are bombarded by an explosion of 8 syllables in each line. These lines present the conflict within one's own mind at its most desperate. After this climax, the syllables in the last nine lines resolve the conflict presented. In these lines, Dickinson presents us with an archetypal figure that is faced with a conflict: the “bravest” hero. These lines present the resolution in lines that alternate between 6 and 7 syllables. Just as the syllables decrease, the falling action presents us with a final insight. This insight discusses how darkness is an insurmountable entity that, like the hero, we must face to continue “straight” through “Life” (line 20).

The poem uses connotation within images to help drive home the emotion of the experience. Images such as the lighthouse give you a feeling of strength and security but as pointed out the inside is hollow. This emptiness gives the pervious feelings an air of false-ness and frailty. Thus how the characters own strength feels frail and their security false. The speaker also uses the image of bolting doors to show how she creates an image of an unbreakable seal.

Throughout the poem the speaker mentions things that relate to consumerism in America. An example in the poem that speaks about consumerism comes from lines 1-4

A few people may wonder why the homeless man seems to be the only sign of human life in the poem. The last stanza can be interpreted by the audience in many different ways. “Sunglasses! the man softly exclaims.”

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

Before reading this poem one doesn't completely realize the details and stories behind an object as basic as a shirt. I had no idea that so much detail could be found in such a simple object, much less an entire poem. This poem presents a very good example of how we can easily overlook terrible things which happen, but choose to ignore. Even though we know bad working conditions exist in small countries which produce products we need, we choose to buy these products and support the inhumane working conditions. The poem does a good job of making us aware of the hardships people when through in the past years and opens of eyes in part of history for example, the Triangle shirtwaist fire.

In the first part of the poem it describes different events happening on the television. From a child’s point of view he describes it in a very innocent way. Saying paratroopers who were falling into war were just “gray toy soldiers” and that “toy airplanes droned over quilted fields.” The author obviously didn’t understand the severity of what he is watching. He

During the beginning of Bruce Olson’s life he grew up in a Lutheran church. Bruce began questioning who God was in his life, he understood God as frightening, who cast out judgment upon His creation. To help him better understand he began studying the Bible with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Later he learns that Jesus saves His children from their own sin after this He accepts Christ to be his Lord and Savior that he cannot keep to himself. Afterward, his friend Kent shares with Bruce that he accepted Christ as his Savior. As a result, Kent invites him to his Interdenominational church where Bruce stays until he learns that God has called him into the mission field.

The imagery shows that since the character is young and responsible, he works to support him and his family. We are first introduced to the image of the young boy working as a young adult. Then, in the first 9 lines, the author describes the setting of the poem using imagery such as, “sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it,” “Five mountain ranges one behind the other,” “under the sunset far into

T.S Eliot’s poem, “The winter evening settles down” is a short, simple to read poem with several different examples of imagery. Eliot uses descriptive words, for instance, “withered leaves”, “broken blinds”, and “lonely cab-horse” (lines 7-10). He paints an extremely bleak image of a town that seems to be deserted of people. The tone of the poem plays hand-in-hand with the imagery used. This town is an unpleasant place where it has seemed to be neglected for some years now. Eliot’s use of imagery takes the reader to this deserted, torpid place; however, at the same time, his goal is to bring the life back into this grim town.

It reveals how, under the transformative power of imagination, household items can act as a catalyst for exploring possibilities around us. Additionally, the quote reveals how the kingdom within the poem symbolizes possibilities, that the “Kingdom” is the hidden potential within the everyday objects around

Imagery techniques in this poem consist of key words, an example is “They’re rolling them out of the deep-freeze locker on the tarmac” this gives the readers an image of dead bodies being rolled out of an aeroplane onto the runway. By using a visual approach in the poem, the poet can better express his feelings on war to the reader(s).

The poem "Design" explores whether the events in nature are simply random occurrences or part of a larger plan by God, and if there's a force that dominates and controls our very existence. On that point both Jere K Huzzard and Everett Carter aggress on. They differ in their interpretations of the poem's ending and what they think Frost wanted to convey with his vague ending. Both agree that the last line of the poem was written in an undefined way with purpose on Frost's side. But each critic poses his own ideas regarding what is the meaning of that line. While Carter examines the whole poem in order to answer this question, Huzzard chose to focus only on the last two lines.

All words, phrases and sentences (or just simply images) which make up this poem seem to, in Levi-Strauss’ words, “be a valeur symbolique zero [and the signifier] can take on any value required ”, meaning that the images Eliot uses do not have one fixed signification and consequently conjure up thought-provoking ideas that need to be studied (qtd. in