Analysis Of The Poem ' Swells '

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Education at Harvard University with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society. Smith Clint wrote a poem called “Something You should Know.” The poem is about an early job he had in a Petsmart. The poet allows the readers into his personal life, but before he had trouble opening up to people and his work. Moreover, Clint wrote an insight in the poem about relying in anything to feel safe and he says it is the most terrifying thing any person can do.

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.

Readers are aware of this ambiguity. Here the heaviest flashback thoughts and the short-lasting issue set up a continuing contrast throughout the poem, which enchants its effect.

The poem progresses from mourning of the deceased to praising of his achievements and fate to die before his glory withered. Therefore, the tone shifts from somber and quiet to upbeat and positive. Such shift of tone is achieved by Housman’s use of sounds. In first two stanzas, Housman describes the funeral procession as he remembers the time when the young athlete was proudly brought home after he won a race. Then, he solaces the mourners by reminding them it is better that the athlete “slip betimes away from fields where glory does not stay” (lines 9 and 10) because the laurel “withers quicker than the rose” (line 12). The soft “s” sound stands out especially in second and third stanza and it creates a sense of calm and quiet tone and evokes an image of townspeople mourning the death of their “hero”; Consonance of “s” sounds is present in words “shoulder, set, threshold, townsman, stiller, smart, slip, betimes, fields, does, stay, grows, withers, and rose.” In addition to consonance, soft sound alliteration in “road all runners” (line 5) helps to create a quiet tone. As the poem progresses into praising of the young athlete in stanzas four through seven, the consonance of hard “c”, “t”, and “f” sound become prominent. Readers can immediately detect

symbolic richness, but at the same time the poem supplies the reader with a wide

In the first poem, “This Hour and What Is Dead”, there is a structure of eight lines, two lines, one, eight, two, and one. This structure increases the effect made by the lines of two and one, which are both very important to the verse. Through this structure, “Someone should tell him he should sleep now.” (“This Hour and What is Dead) becomes one of the most important lines in the literature. In “Visions And Interpretations”, however, the lines continually get shorter, from four stanzas of four lines each, to four stanzas of three lines, to finally four stanzas, at two lines each.

Atwood uses simple, but effective imagery to engage the senses of the reader, for example: ‘[…] that is a fish, blue and flat’ (l. 4). These images grow more elaborate and it becomes clear that she uses metaphors and simile to convey more intricate ideas. As the speaker confesses that there is more to the world than they let on, the use of enjambment, repetition and punctuation directs the focus on certain words and gives the poem certain acuteness and urgency as the pace increases: ‘Once you have learned these words | you will learn that there are more |words than you can ever learn.’ (l. 21-23).

Cai Guo-Qiang compares his works as the poppy flower. He uses gun powder to make the explosion projects. Gun powder can be dangerous. Gun powder is uncontrollable. But he has been working with the materials for a very long time and he knows well how to manage it. The way he makes his arts are reliable, cool and can harmful. While he is making his arts, most of the times he doesn’t feel like to end until he sees everything is perfect. He also compares drawing as lovemaking meaning that he has to take his time slowly and gently to make everything faultless. His arts are beautiful, the lines, the shapes, the colors were all well made. According to Qiang “Artist is not about what you say but it is about what you don’t say.’’ In my opinion, I think he is trying to say that artist is about what you accomplish, the works that you made, the imagination you put into your arts. In addition, in the video he described the exhibition space and the first time he saw it. He has also showed an installation in Washington, D.C that expressed the power of destruction and the beauty of destruction.

Both of the couplets serve the purpose of introducing something new to the poem, while being careful not to go too in-depth in order to leave interpretation up to the reader. The margins are kept standard and unchanged throughout the poem, as to not distract from the content of the poem, which follows the poem’s no frills

acually its deeper if you look into this poem. You see more of what she is saying. This poem

The Fish is a narrative monologue composed for 76 free-verse lines. The poem is constructed as one long stanza. The author is the speaker narrating this poem. She narrates a fishing experience. The author is out in a rented boat on a body of water, presumably a lake. She tries to describe the fish to the fullest, which appears to be the purpose of the poem, without saying either the specie or an approximate age. The narration gives the impression that the fish is slightly old. There are a number of reasons as to why that fish got caught by the author, including time of day, the weeds weighing it down, fish’s age, and the fact that it has been previously caught five times.

1) Yes, the authors attitude changed throughout the poem. In the beginning the author wrote that the fish didn't have any fight " He hadn't fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and vulnerable" and towards the end she noticed that the fish was in fact a survivor "Like medals with their ribbons frayed and wavering, a five- haired beard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw."

Sea of insensibility, Elixir of oblivion, My vessel of escape. When I do not wish to live, Yet do not want to die, You are my sweet compromise

1. The poem "A Gentle Breeze" is about a breeze that starts off in the city and makes it way to the ocean where it meets its inevitable end. The poet was able to reflect this through its form because the poem follows the contour of how a breeze would be like. The poem starts off by "picking up a leaf", as it says in line 1: "It picked up leaves.". The poet is able to represent this by drawing a leaf around the word 'leaves'.