Analysis Of The Poem ' The ' I Love ! Free As The Mountain Wind ! '

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

I chose the poem “There is no word for goodbye” by Mary Tall Mountain because it interests me for the fact that it is different and includes different meanings than I hear in everyday people. The first literary element I noticed is imagery “looking through the net of wrinkles into wise black pools of her eyes.” The second literary element I noticed is also imagery “She touched me light as a bluebell.”

William Stafford does not deliberately come out and talk about nature death or violence. It slightly hides behind the significance of William using a different form of life. William tends to deceive you as the reader to make you perceive nature death and violence in a different way.

He playfully raises his golden arrow up to Happiness’s left breast, almost as if he were to prick it, innocently unknowingly that doing so would cause her harm. Cupid, of course, has become synonymous with love; even in mythology, the deity was described as the winged child-god of that emotion (Kleiner 107). Clearly then, love and happiness go hand-in-hand, though, Bronzino often infused multiple ways of perceiving his work, and Allegory is no exception. Thus far in the analysis, it’s clear Bronzino paid great homage to classicism, and Cupid’s gesture recalls ancient references. Specifically, his gesture recalls a narrative from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Smith 392). “For while the boy, Cupid, with quiver on shoulder, was kissing his mother, he innocently scratched her breast with a loose arrow.”4 However, as is clearly ascertained from the excerpt, Bronzino did not draw directly from Ovid’s play. In Allegory, Cupid is neither kissing nor inappropriately fondling Happiness. That being said, this reference holds significance in that Happiness was not only modeled on Felicitas, but also on the goddess Venus (La France 348). Cupid was the son of Venus, and the aforementioned mother-son tenderness of Cupid and Happiness solidifies this comparison. Further strengthening this proposition is Bronzino’s fascination with Venus, as seen in many of his earlier works of art [see Figs.

"Night Wind" is a poem about two different kinds of wind that aren't actually wind at all. The speaker is a man who is influenced by the wind, joins it, and is eventually outpaced by it. The purpose of the poem is to convey the nature of freedom through the different aspects of the wind, and it utilizes lit devices such as diction, imagery, metaphor, and structure to do so. The main way author conveys the nature of freedom is through wind related motifs.

He describes love as a Hawthorn tree. Hawthorn trees are quite beautiful trees from the outside with beautiful flowers that bloom in the spring, but on the branches underneath all the luscious leaves and flowers where you cannot see, there are thorns. Love is represented as this tree because it seems like it is remarkable and beautiful, but there are always problems in love, the thorns, which are not always seen from the outside but are always there. In the story of this poem the characters’ thorns is the fact that their love is looked down upon and possibly forbidden by others. “Trembling in the night, a prey to hoar- frost and the showers.” (15-16) Since their love is seen as improper to others, the only time they can be together is at night. So when they can be together, at night, they are afraid they are going to be discovered, like prey to a predator. “Till the next morning when the sun enfolds the leaves and the boughs.” (17-18) This quote displays how the next day they hide and cover up their love just as the sun covers the tree. In the third stanza it explains how one morning, when they usually hide their love, they did not. It states that they “put an end to skirmishing,” which shows how they must usually argue in the morning about having to hide their love. So they put an end to their arguing and she gave him her body. He then asks God to keep him alive until he can

Until this line, the reader has been told a great deal about what is not as bad as thing being described, and it is here that the reader is clearly told what is worse than the physical pain described as “wilder wring” is the woes of the mind. The speaker says “O the mind, mind has mountains” as a rhyme and alliteration of “m” in mind, mind and mountains. Additionally, in the context of what is said it the phrase can be read as O my mind, mine has mountains, as in the speaker is admitting to the mind is where the obstacles of woe reside. The line pauses for a semi-colon and then continues to describe the mountains cliffs as being easy to fall from, and the effect this has on the reader is that it gets the imagination going on what these mountain cliffs look like and what the metaphor at hand means. The line ends in fall, so the second stanzas does not use the same rhyme scheme as the first.

I have chosen a poem by E. E. Cummings that’s called “I Carry Your Heart”.

One of my favorite portions of the text in section 6 is “the disturbance of the soul cannot be ended nor true joy created either by the possession of the greatest wealth or by honor and respect in the eyes of the mob or

For example, the first stanza has an extremely loving and doting nature to it. The narrator is telling the woman how he would love her, if only he wasn’t constrained by time. He begins by complimenting her forehead and eventually making his way down to her heart: “An hundred years should go to praise/Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze/…An age at least to every part,/And the last age should show your heart” (13-18). The heart here acts as a metaphor for both sex and love, a double entendre of sorts. Moreover, while one reads the line, it may seem as though this is a romantic gesture but when considering the line in the context of the rest of the poem, it becomes clear that to the narrator, the heart and sex are interrelated. One can also infer that this is an exaggeration of her beauty and his love for her especially when looking at the poem as a whole, but in the moment, it seems as though he is truly in love with her. This point is further emphasized in the last few lines of the poem, discussing each part of her body: “An hundred years should go to praise…/But thirty thousand to the rest” (13-16). Of course, this is a ridiculous statement as even 100 years is an unrealistic time frame. But this once again emphasizes his theme of time and needing to seize the moment (carpe diem). Since they don’t have 100 years or 30,000 years

Traditionally, poets write love poems to express their deep affection with smooth, pleasing, songlike words, which flow in harmony. John Frederick Nims’ poem “Love Poem” is not traditional. Although the title seems generic and conventional, Nims uses a very different approach to express the love for his wife. He uses a series of hyperboles and metaphors to present his conflicting emotions. Rather than directly indicating his true love, Nims seems to challenge his own feelings by finding faults on his “dear” and indicating he still loves her despite all her mishaps. This unique twist gives Nims’ poem an unconventional effect that combines humor, frankness, and a touch of solemnity.

For this cause, I choose to analyze and discuss the poem “Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper”. The poet, Frances Harper was an African American who participated in a movement to abolish the slave trade. A key reason for the choice is that the poem is indulging. The poet portrays her message in a vivid manner; expressing her inner thoughts and feelings clearly.

Wild man is a three-dimensional sculpture created by Ron Mueck in 2005. Created from mixed media, Wild Man stands at 2850 x 1619 x 1080 mm tall and weighs 1311 kilograms. He is currently held in the Tate – National Galleries of Scotland collections.

Beloved Renegade. The title itself seems contradictory; one has a hard time fathoming that a person so treacherous as a renegade could earn the affections denoted by beloved. Such is the title, however, of a certain work first presented by the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 2008. Beloved Renegade depicts the death of poet Walt Whitman. It tastefully transfigures the power of his poetry into movement. As its title foreshadows, the performance teems with contrasts. Dark and light. Fast and slow. Body and soul. Throughout the piece, pale costumes glide prominently against black backdrops. Movement fluctuates between vivacious and dreamlike. Lighting dips from bright, to shadowed, and back again. The music, Francis Poulenc’s Gloria, dips along with it. Such devices contrast the peace of death with the anguish of leaving our world. Taylor communicates this central idea through two universal human experiences: love, and suffering.

Have you ever travelled in the hills by bus when it was raining heavily? How do you think the hills when it rains?