Cathy Song The Youngest Daughter

Firstly, imagery is an important device in the poem. It uses words to elicit various sensory experiences. From beginning to end, Randall uses “multiple images that are primarily visual and associated with the dialogue, the girl’s presentation for the church, and the explosion” (ENotes). Throughout the poem, it evokes images like of civil rights protesters marching throughout the streets, and guns and dogs which are to used to control the colored people. This makes the reader think about what happens to protesters who fight for what they believe in. Furthermore, at the end, there are images of a sad mother who lost her child. This poem uses imagery to create the illusion and sorrow to make the reader feel for what happened. Indeed, this poem also uses irony within the poem. The mother who wanted to keep her daughter safe, ironically sends

Deconstruction or poststructuralist is a type of literary criticism that took its roots in the 1960’s. Jacques Derrida gave birth to the theory when he set out to demonstrate that all language is associated with mental images that we produce due to previous experiences. This system of literary scrutiny interprets meaning as effects from variances between words rather than their indication to the things they represent. This philosophical theory strives to reveal subconscious inconsistencies in a composition by examining deeply beneath its apparent meaning. Derrida’s theory teaches that texts are unstable and queries about the beliefs of words to embody reality.

It is certainly true that one of the distinguishing features of poetic texts is the use of figurative or non-literal language – this essay highlights the fact that metaphors do contribute to the understanding of a poem. Ted Hughes’ poem, Sketching a Thatcher, is loaded with vivid imagery and ample metaphorical constructions which aids to validate this fact. In order to uncover the message behind this poem, one must take a closer look at the arguments, focus expressions and tenor/vehicle constructions of at least six local metaphorical constructions of the text

I will analyze how the authors use metaphors and rhythm. I will talk about how the sun acts like a cat’s behavior. I will also talk about how one author compared the cat’s pupils to the phases of the moon using a metaphor. I will talk about the author’s rhythm of their poems. When Mr. Herford is talking about the sun he is also comparing a cat to the sun. When Mr. Herford talks about the golden cat it does not sound like domestic. Mr. Herford said the golden cat cases a bird and that sounds like an outside thing. Mr. Herford talks about how he smiles at some hay so the cat would have to be outside. The sun is a symbol of the world not being dull.

Richard Wilbur’s “The Writer” as well as “High School Senior” by Sharon Olds, are two poems that focus on the growth of someone’s child as person. The narrator in “The Writer” speaks about watching his daughter explore the freedoms associated with growing up as she writes a story. In “High School Senior” the speaker describes her feelings as her daughter prepares to leave for college, and describes the eternal bond the two share. Both authors tackle a similar theme and portray their love for their daughter, as well as their ideas on growing up, using similar and distinctive literary devices and techniques from the other.

Poetry has been an form of lyrical expression for centuries. Poems have a way of invoking a multitude of emotions in readers. Generally, if a poem is well received by the reader/readers, it can give them a sense of intense importance or emotional attachment to the poem. However, bad poetry can have the opposite effect on a reader, and completely turn them away from poetry all together. Twenty century poet, Marianne Moore, challenges this response to poetry in her poem “Poetry”. Moore discusses the ideas of bad poetry and its conciscuses with distinctive word choice, and a descending stepped like structure to create a excellent poem herself.

I am writing this letter to inform you about a poem in Chapter Five of Perrine’s Sound and Sense. This chapter focuses on figurative languages, such as similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophes, synecdoches, and metonymies. Although I already knew what a simile, metaphor, and personification, I did not know what an apostrophe and metonymy was. An apostrophe addresses someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing is present and alive and could reply to what is being said. And a synecdoche is the use or the part for the whole and metonymy is the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant. In this chapter, I focused on the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath.

Throughout this poem metaphors are often used as well. In this poem the author compares the emotions she experiences to trembling houses, and roads covered in stones and rocks. These metaphors give our complicated ideas and emotions in our head a physical form. It allows us to visualize our struggles, and clears the murky water in our lives. Once we can visualize something troubling, it becomes easier to identify the problems we should change in our lives to become happier.

To further elaborate how the use of metaphors and symbolism can convey a much deeper meaning we are going to analyze the poems of one particular poet that utilizes the elements

Children growing up is one of parents biggest concerns. They are constantly pondering the future of their child and whether or not they will make good choices. In “My Prayer for My Daughter” by William Yeats and “Rite of Passage” by Sharon Olds, the narrators share that same concern of a child’s future. Though a parent wants to be stern and make sure their child grow ups to be the best they shouldn’t overrule the child’s life and live it out for them. They must take a step back and let the child make his/her own mistakes and learn from them themselves. In these two poems, rhyme scheme, comparisons, point of view, and syntax express the concept of children growing up in their parent’s eyes and the fear that comes from that, but there are difference and how exactly the parent’s see their child growing up.

Howe begins her book with the poem with Mother’s Jewellery Box. The poem acts as a gateway to the main topic discussed in her other poems: the relationship between her and her Chinese heritage. By providing context for the rest of the poetry book and through the use of stylistic features, Howe is able to enforce the idea of a spiritual journey.

Worthwhile poetry does make the audience think, it impacts the ways we think and how we interpret the hidden messages and morals taught throughout them. This essay aims to explore and discuss two of the following poems that make the audience think about poetry. The essays will also compare and contrast the subject matter, themes, rhyme, forms and the poetic devices and features. These poems to be analysed are On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (‘Chapman’s Homer’) and La Belle Dame Sans Merci (‘La Belle’) both written by John Keats.

“The relationship between the energies of the inquiring mind that an intelligent reader brings to the poem and the poem’s refusal to yield a single comprehensive interpretation enacts vividly the everlasting intercourse between the human mind, with its instinct to organise and harmonise, and the baffling powers of the universe about it.”

It is certainly true that one of the distinguishing features of poetic texts is the use of figurative or non-literal language – this essay highlights the fact that metaphors do contribute to the understanding of a poem. Ted Hughes’ poem, Sketching a Thatcher, is loaded with vivid imagery and ample metaphorical constructions which aids to validate this fact. In order to uncover the message behind this poem, one must take a closer look at the arguments, focus expressions and tenor/vehicle constructions of at least six local metaphorical constructions

poems literary history before directing this analysis to the most exceptional part of this satiric poem.