Analysis Of The White Porch By Cathy Song

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

Imagery is shown in many parts of the poem but particularly when he is describing the barber.

The use of symbolism and imagery is beautifully orchestrated in a magnificent dance of emotion that is resonated throughout the poem. The two main ideas that are keen to resurface are that of personal growth and freedom. Furthermore, at first glimpse this can be seen as a simple poem about a women’s struggle with her counterpart. However, this meaning can be interpreted more profoundly than just the causality of a bad relationship.

Harwood revolves this poem around change, through the use of a motherly character she is able to construct a life style that has dramatically changed from free to a fairly constricted. Harwood uses the conversations of two people to get this message across, with the conversation discussing life’s progression with an old lover. “But for the grace of God…” suggests that the ex-lover is somewhat thankful for not ending up as a father figure to these children, as he can see the effect it has taken on her from when he used to know her. “Her clothes are out of date” shows her appearance has altered in the bid to live as a mother, her children are now her identity and that is what she will live to be. This poem is revolved around the negativity of losing yourself through mother-hood and the factors that slowly show that it.

With the awareness of substance abuse as an illness, attention has also been directed to the families and loved ones of those who suffer. Why do families and loved ones stay with someone who is so obviously ill? Why do they tolerate being taken advantage of? One of the first books to address this issue is Codependent No More. According to the author, the issue at hand is codependency, where the individual in the relationship with the addict suffers from an illness as well. This paper is an analysis of the book compared with similar research on the topic.

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In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.

To start off the analysis, the setting of the entire poem is significant. Though the poem takes place in a house, the atmosphere the house is set in is also important. The month is September which is a month of fall which can be seen as a symbol for decline. It definitely insinuates that the poem is leading towards death. Line 1 has “September rain falls on the house” which gives the feeling of a dark and cold night with a storm on top of that. To further develop that, Bishop gives us the failing light in line 2 to also give us an idea of the grandmother’s struggle. Bishop uses the cyclical theme of changing seasons to show the unending nature of what is transpiring within the

The combination of the physical world with the metaphysical allows the audience to experience the deeper meaning hidden within the poem. The young girl, we presume is a younger, more innocent version of Dobson. “Lift your hand to the window latch: Sighing, turn and move away.” From the get go, Dobson introduces the opportunity for discovery via the metaphor of the window but symbolises, by the imperative command, that the girl is, to an extent, not in control of her actions. There are expressions within the poem which allude to the fact that the plot may be about growing up and taking responsibility after the poet’s father demise, whom died when she was just five.

Room by Emma Donoghue tells the story of how five-year-old Jack learns of the existence of the world beyond the four walls of the room in which he had spent his entire life and how he and his mother eventually escape. Several aspects of this story fit the suggested interpretations of literature given in Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Donoghue uses various rhetorical devices as well as mythological and Biblical parallels in order to demonstrate themes of death, life, and rebirth. Her purpose in writing Room was to explore the bond between mother and child by depicting a mother’s desire for her son to have the best life he could have and a son’s willingness to help his mother. They both ultimately want a better life

It is evident that "The Young Housewife" is a very sexually charged poem. Through its subject matter, its language, its imagery, and even its use of phrasing, Williams accentuates the young housewife's seductive and almost unrestrained nature. For instance, He describes her moving about behind closed doors, dressed in negligee, or going to the curb un-corseted to call ice-man, or allowing her hair to hang freely, only periodically tucking it in. All of these images suggest strongly that the young housewife is a natural and unrestrained character. She is free any imposed social constraints that has the power to squelch her pristine and almost wild nature.

Because the poem is long, it won’t be quoted extensively here, but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead, the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work, stanza by stanza. First, because the poem is being read on-line, it’s not possible to say for certain that each stanza is a particular number of lines long. Each of several versions looks different on the screen; that is, there is no pattern to the number of lines in each stanza. However, the stanzas are more like paragraphs in a letter than

Toomer’s placement and choice of imagery is crucial in establishing what he wants the audience to see; if he had used different imagery, his poem would not be interpreted in the same way. For example, the first line of his poem states, “Hair -- braided chestnut” (Toomer 1). By describing hair as “braided chestnut”, rather than simply saying “brown”, the

The atmosphere of this exposition is clearly foreboding: "the dark clouds, broken chimneys, unused street, solitary cat, and dead air" all prove ominous and reflect the sordid ruling mood. Failed culture and solitary of aimless women ("a cat moved itself in and out of railing") not knowing exactly what to do about their predicaments in which

Lacuna strung her fingers through the tangled tags of her hair, winding up the frayed end of a braid and tucking it behind one ear like an undone thread, poorly mended. She had picked up a knack for twining braids from Stockholm of all creatures; he had a penchant for taming anything that grew wild and her hair was the frequent target of his nit-picky touch. At ungodly hours of the morning he would wring her out of bed like a drooling puddle of dreams. His beetle-browed face would blot out the cold morning light as he crowded over her and barked his daily dose of discouragement, "Woman, your hair is a tragedy!" And, utterly uncaring, she would toss herself back to the mercy of her sheets and with a rebellious groan curdling in the back of