Analysis Of The Poem 'Bridget Sproul'

The opening stanza brings us to a thoughtful, yet sad tone, in which the speakers lets us know what’s on their mind on a sleepless night. The use of assonance contributes to the tone, where she uses long o’s throughout the poem, but primarily in the first stanza, “my soul a home,” “loaf is not stone,” and “alone.” This brings out a more mellow, sad tone towards the poem which relates to how she feels at that moment, about finding their community. The speaker also applies personification on the fourth line, “where water is not thirsty” giving human characteristics to water. This generally can mean that wherever she finds her community or companion she hopes for water to be abundant. Yet, this can also mean that being lonely causes hunger and thirst. In addition to the assonance and personification, the poem also rhymes in the stanzas. Although, there’s no precise form or

Jane Hirshfield connects to nature at her home in Marin County, California this is where she gets her inspiration for her poems. Hirshfield published “Tree” in 2000 as a free verse poem, divided into 4 stanzas and 4 sentences to convey the nature world. The poem represents a “young redwood” (line 2) growing near a house, near a kitchen window. The redwood is already scraping against the window frame of the house, reminding the reader of the “foolish” (line 1) idea of letting it grow there. Humans were created to be one with nature, but as they evolved as a species, they were obligated to choose between the materialistic world or the world of nature.

Secondly, the speaker of the poem can be described as underprivileged, and this is shown throughout the entire poem. For example, line 1 of the poem it states "some are teethed on a silver spoon” and line 5 it states "some are swaddled in silk and down”. This shows that the speaker is not the same as the person who is teethed on a silver spoon or cared for very carefully. This inclusion also shows that the speaker was not born into a wealthy family and so the speaker must fight for what they need pertaining to themselves and the family.

Humanity is but a facet of the sublime macrocosm that is the world’s landscapes. In the relationship between man and landscape, nature is perpetually authoritarian. In her free-verse poems, The Hawthorn Hedge, (1945) and Flame-Tree in a Quarry (1949), Judith Wright illustrates the how refusal to engage with this environment is detrimental to one’s sense of self, and the relentless endurance of the Australian landscape. This overwhelming force of nature is mirrored in JMW Turner’s Romantic artwork, Fishermen at Sea (1796). Both Wright and Turner utilise their respective texts to allegorise the unequal relationship between people and the unforgiving landscape.

“Once upon a time there was a wife and mother one too many times” (Godwin 39). This short story begins with the famous opening, once upon a time, which foreshadows that the story line will be similar to a fairy tale. It raises expectations for the story that all will be magical and end happily. A typical modern-day fairy tale is that of a distressed character who overcomes an obstacle, falls in love with prince charming, and they ride off into the sunset; living happily ever after never to be heard from again. Godwin however, puts an unexpected twist on “A Sorrowful Woman”. This short story is a tale about what can happen when everyday roles take over our identity. Ultimately, this short story challenges societal expectations of marriage

Cullen uses auditory imagery to draw his readers in to hear what he hears. The meaning of this poem is to take the reader on a journey of what the negro felt about

In "Snapping Beans" by Lisa Parker, she strategically utilizes figure of speech such as tone, imagery, and symbolism. She expresses the poem in the first-person view while including diction which helps enhance the overall mood and attitude that Lisa 's poem initially conveys in her piece. Including the title "Snapping Beans" itself, Lisa marvelously showcase the poem 's concentration on two individuals’ in correlation to the connection amongst two individuals '. She presents the adaptation of human nature between the main character and her grandmother with the inclusion of symbolic imagery, and the fluctuation of tone that is easily depicted throughout the piece.

The poem, ‘Warren Pryor’ by Alden Nowlan, introduces a boy, freed from the hard-labor on a farm because of the sacrifices made by his parents. However, it evokes a sense of him feeling trapped, not freed. In the poem, ‘Barbie Doll’, by Marge Piercy, a girl modifies her appearance because she is compelled to do so; in the end, it costs her, her life. Perceived as ‘successful’, isn’t the same as being successful. Both these poems educe change made for someone else's advantage, suggest an important message to their audience, and contain characters in which appear successful to others, not to themselves.

Initially, Collins demonstrates how one can weigh a dog’s weight with his method. Concrete diction in the first stanza, such as, “ small bathroom”, “ balancing”, and “shaky” suggest the uncomfortable nature of his intimate relationship with his pet. Although Collin is unappreciated for the gritty toil determination, he praise himself to applauded that “this is the way” and raising his self-esteem by comparing how easier it is than to train his dog obesity. In addition, the negative diction used to describe Collin holding his dog to be “awkward” for him and “bewildering” for his pet. This establish he rather force love rather willing show patience. When holding a pet on scale, there is less hustle because he secures the dog’s position by carrying it. Where as when he orders the dog to stay on the weighing scale with a cookie, his dog only followed him because of the expected reward.

Dylan Thomas's poem "Fern Hill" represents the passage of one mans life from boyhood to adulthood and the realization of his mortality. The speaker in this poem uses expressive language and imagery to depict a tale of growing up. The use of colour adds life and character to people and abstract ideas. He looks up to

The poem “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a lengthy poem describing society and the social structure in the early 50’s from what it sounds. The short story “Girl,” deals with the experience of being young and female in a poor country. This poem describes a time when stereotypical gender roles where a huge part of society women had duties that only women could do such as clean, cook, wash clothing, watch the children and ect. And the men were head of the house hold and preserved as high and mighty, the untouchables by women and children. “This is how you iron your father 's khaki shirt so that it doesn 't have a crease; this is how you iron your father 's khaki pants so that they don 't have a crease;”(Kincaid) is an example of how the poem spells out how the women are supposed to cater to men, how to act in public settings and a variety of other things women were “meant to do” or as ordered by men.

ady mary wroth portrays despairing love through the use of personification,suggesting that love is a man who brakes promises. she draws a reality that love does not offer anything. "he vows nothing but false matter" with this,the poet compares live to a hopeless man. Also he is the one who is expected to "gain the hand"; however the poet suggest that love betrays: " he'll leave you". thus implying that love cannot build up a relationship, forexample, marriage. But all it can do is to trap someone into endless sorrow amd pain.

Introduction: Katherine Mansfield was a well acclaimed author born in 1888. Her literature was in the form of short stories spanning no more than several passages long. Many dub her as an innovator in literature for her distinctive use of realism and symbolism which at the time was foreign to short stories and writing in general. Most authors at the time fabricated fictional worlds with fantastic characters in their stories but Mansfield was more interested in writing and emerging her audience into stories about realistic people in everyday environments facing internal struggle,which gained her much attention. Many of her pieces are also autobiographical as they subtly reference many moments and mixed emotions that Katherine had

Vanessa loves the woods.She goes there every day, after doing her chores, and comes back at sundown, when the sun seeks under into its bed and while the moon rises up awake. One pleasant day Vanessa was walking in the woods with her puppy. She came upon a bridge that never seemed to be there, but Vanessa had taken this path a hundred times but she 's never seen a bridge, since it was getting late Vanessa left to go home.

Mark Strand once said, "For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better."(Strand). In this he might have been referring to his poems. He wrote straightforward surrealistic poems about the nature of life with ambiguous speakers. It is common to see in his poems a story being told without actually telling one. In this way there is a sense of who the speaker is, who the poet is, and a peculiar train of thought expressed with very precise words.