Analysis Of The Weight Of Sweetness By Li-Young Lee

The speaker’s attitude here of gratification is further demonstrated through imagery. Once again, the imagery, like the diction, is sensory. In the sentence, “I gave him persimmons, swelled, heavy as sadness, and sweet as love,” the reader can imagine, by the use of a simile, exactly what the speaker is trying to make us see. Other images that can be easily captured are the last lines, “the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.” The speaker also provides the reader with the color of the persimmon by comparing it to the sun. When he says, “my mother said every persimmon has a sun inside, something golden, glowing warm as my face,” he is trying to help us visualize exactly what this specific fruit looks and feels like. All of the information the speaker provides further proves his complete understanding of his past misconceptions, which thus show his attitude of contentment through recognition.

The title of the poem itself, which is quite literal, shows the simple emotions of a child; Heaney had been happy as the blackberries started to ripen, and frustrated as they started to rot. The ironical emotions of his past can also be seen through the change of his tone and the length of the two stanzas. In the first stanza, Heaney had been positive, excited, and full of anticipation. There is a more detailed description of the process of waiting, as the memory had still been vivid. In contrast, the second part of the poem is spoken in a disappointing and depressing tone, and it is also much shorter. Such methods are used to describe successfully the paradoxical emotions of Heaney’s

The reflection of each poet's childhood is displayed within these lines helping to build a tone for the memories of each narrator.

James and the Giant Peach is a classic story that I was told as a child all the time. I was really excited to be able to do this project, because it is and will always be a good story. In all four of these productions of James and the Giant Peach, each production had very similar ideas overall, and the peach in some productions also seemed to glow. Getting the peach to glow really awesome idea to me because it gives the giant peach a certain look so others know that the peach is not just a piece of fruit on stage its more than that. When I say certain look I mean it makes the peach look glamorous. Seattle and the Bay Area productions had different ideas about what a peach looked like. They still made the peach the center, but it just wasn’t as bold or colorful.

ntroduction/Thesis: The story of the forbidden fruit is one of the oldest known stories in western culture. Similar to the story of The Monkey and the Monk--in Chinese culture, it is a story passed on through generations. In western culture and religion, the highly symbolic fruit is the apple. In chinese culture, the peach is the significant fruit in which holds strong symbolic associations. In the story of The Monkey and the Monk, the peach fruit is used to depict immortality and is a consistent symbolic representation of human error.

Love and Loss John Green once wrote, “you can love someone so much...but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” The poems “Annabelle Lee,” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “Do not go gentle into that good night,” by Dylan Thomas, both expose the overall theme of the negative effects of love and loss. Thomas and Poe illustrate the effects of how a love binding relationship, broken by loss, leaves a tragic mark on the human experience. The effects of the loss of a loved one cause the characters in these poems to feel extraordinary grief, a sense of loneliness, and a powerful feeling of anger. The experience of loss in a relationship bound by love causes the characters in the poems to feel an extraordinary amount of grief, leaving

This author's poem represent to feeling of son derided himself a little about his father. I think the meaning of this poem is his father work hard and may strict with him, but he is a good father. His father does everything to him and wake early to build a fire to banish the cold in room. When he awoke to get warm in the room. Even father polish shoes to him. He never say “thank you” with him father and speaking indifferently to his father. At the end of poem, he feels guilty later that he never pay attention to his father. It makes him feel sad for bad action of him. And this poem shows father's love for

By incorporating the element of imagery, the concept of wilting and dying and rotting becomes more relatable since more individuals have experienced being around ripening fruit. The way that the descriptions turn delicious fruit into something that is almost perfect for worm food further expresses the disgust and uncertainty which the populous was feeling for life and about their

Poetry has the power to make someone remember positive, unhappy, excited, and angry moments in a prior time. Victor Hugo once said, "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." In the poems “Piano” by D. H. Lawrence and “Sonnet XLIII: What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay share similar characteristics of regret and loss in each of their themes, however, they portray their theme in different ways.

This poem shows how nature changes your mood from sadness to a more relaxed and happy mood. There is a linde full of personification in the poem that shows this, “the sun gives me a much needed hug”. This line shows how when the narrator goes outside she starts feeling better because of the warm sun. The rhyme scheme in this poem helps bring out happiness, the lines “my worries melt away as the sun hits my face/I stayed outside and enjoyed the

First, Heaney uses first person plural pronouns for most of the poem, implying that there was another person picking berries with the narrator. “We trekked…”, “...our boots.”, “Our hands…”, he uses these pronouns a lot, so it is obvious the narrator wasn’t alone. This may be an important, easily overlooked clue to the theme of the poem. The lesson of the poem is, stated loosely, the best things in life don't last forever, and this second character may have to do something with that. Almost all references to this second character appear in the first stanza. The second stanza has only one brief mention of another person right at the beginning of the line with “We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.” This is the last time Heaney mentions this second person. Immediately after this line, the mood of the poem shifts to a more melancholy, sad tone. One possibility is could be that the narrator loved this second person (the happy, playful tone in the first

The poem “Wild Peaches,” talks about how the speaker is an winter and is eating for the summer kind of like right know the winter is here and the days are short, but when summer gets here the sun is out longer and the days of spring will come. Then the speaker talks about how April will come and at this time new life begins in the most wild places. If you find a wild peach tree you can know the journey it had to wait to could come to be baring fruit and being wild it can be more

From a literal view, the lines describe how nectar will drain away if you put it a sieve, or a sifter. Metaphorically, it touches the issue of the beauty of life draining away when it makes contact with suffering and hardships, which perfectly reflects the misery that Ruku and her family have to endure throughout the story. The main question of the poem, which is the same of the novel, is whether the “nectar of life” or “sieve of destruction” holds more power over us. Things get very desperate in the story, and Ruku’s family works endlessly wherever they go in order to survive, but at many times they lose all hope for a happier life, and by being overwhelmed by their struggles, they don’t get enough nectar in their life as much as they could. It is up to us to decide throughout the story whether or not Ruku and her family have lost hope, after each failure and disappointment.

When you next go shopping for peaches at your local grocery outlet, there are some characteristics which you have to keep in mind to make the best possible selection. The general appearance of the fruit is one important factor to consider. Analyze the gentleness of the fruit in regard to touch and also the presence of any external characteristics like cuts and bruises. Ripe peach varieties are sensitive even to small pressures and have a distinct

“Popular Street,” uses a playful and humorous tone. In contrast with, “Second Thoughts on Winter Afternoon” which is full of depth and sad emotions. “Popular Street” entertains the stranger with a playful tone by saying “Oh. Sorry. Hello. Are you on your way to work, too?”(line, 1-2) The author’s tone is playful and humorous while conversing with the stranger. The second poem “Second Thoughts on a Winter Afternoon” has an opposite tone of “Popular Street.” The tone of “Second Thoughts on a Winter Afternoon” is expressing to his partner an emotional experience that he’s facing. In the poem, it states, “Mommy, though of course, this woman is the mom, mommy to you” (line, 9-10). Chen uses his partner to highlight how he is disconnected from his mother with his tone. He is conveying an emotional and a serious tone in the poems to express the same themes to the reader. By using the first-person perspective by the use of “I” and “you,” to converse with the person he’s talking to about his emotional experience. Chen mirrors the same theme in both of the poems but conveys the tone differently which has different aspects of his emotional conflict with his