Analyzing The Poem 'Weighing The Dog'

but she got up and went under the porch. She doesn 't like it when I 'm acting weird. I 'm failing as a dog when my own kind rejects me” (Harrison). From both poems we see how at the beginning of the poems our main characters have different views and actions towards their respective animals but in the end both have the same mindset as they both care about animals and how they are involved with them.

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.

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.

John Updike's "A Dog's Death" is a heart-wrenching poem in which a narrator remembers a puppy that he and his family rescued. In the poem, the puppy tragically dies due to unseen injuries that it had. In the poem, Updike illustrates how the puppy fought to live and did not give up despite the many obstacles that she faced. Through the use of imagery, Updike is able to describe the brief moments that the family had with the puppy and demonstrate how quickly circumstances changed for his family and the puppy.

In stanza four the pronoun “you” is introduce. We assume its Collin prior relationship, as its only stanza that doesn’t contains Collin pet analogy and first evidence contributing to the theme. The metaphor shift to abstract when Collin deny her worthiness and what she meant to his life. But, as he subtracted himself to the “combination”, he was able to discover her value rather measuring his spouse love and intimacy. Repetitions occur, such as “awkward and bewildering” to represent the time when his spouse was companion to him, but he couldn’t reciprocate those same nurturing feelings back to her. In addition, his spouse “held” him more than he ever did. He regrets it now when he is holding his dog but the dog is incapable to measure that same actions and words because of law of nature. The last stanza line, “..now we are both lost in strange and distant neighborhood.”, is another metaphor reference the way a lost dog might feel to his lost love that can’t ever be the same

When I look at this saying from the book, I automatically think of the mother and what she must be feeling. Ever since Sounder came back, she hasn’t been the same. She barely says her stories about Joseph and David, and she doesn’t sing like she usually does. When she sings, it means she’s happy, but when she hums, it means she’s sad or worried. It’s more of a sad, lonesome, and depressing hum. She just feels terrible for the dog and her son. In my opinion, ever since Sounder came back, I feel like the mother and the boy have gotten a lot. I don’t think the mother likes looking at Sound, because he looks so run down, abused, and hungry. All she saw was a skeleton of the dog. Down to the bone. Sounder hasn’t eaten in months and he lost his

Carrying the dog represents the relationship the speaker had with his ex-girlfriend before they separated. When the speaker awkwardly steps onto the scale with the dog and “subtracts [his] weight” (Collins 7), he is symbolically removing himself from the relationship and can now assess what remains. Just as it was easier to discover the dog’s weight after removing himself from their sum, he had not “figured out what [she] amounted to” (11) until after he had left. The last stanza indicates that with his new-found perspective, he begins to doubt the decision to leave. The symbolism of the the man awkwardly holding the dog allows the reader to easily conjure Collins’ mental state and transition from a general situation to one specific to Collins.

While I was reading the book I noticed there were a ton of metaphors comparing two things to make it seem easier to understand how heavy it was or puts it in an easier situation for us to comprehend.

Language And Style Through his use of language, Mark Haddon successfully conveys christopher's ways of thinking in the novel ‘the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime’. When evaluating Christopher's idea’s and approaches within the book along with language features,Christopher's character traits such as his logical and factual nature, as well as his ability to focus on specific detail allow readers to understand the narrator's way of thinking. The use of the novel structure, ordering each number in prime numbers helps readers to comprehend Christopher's factual and logical nature, seen in an extract from chapter 19 page 14 in which he saids “Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

Once again, I have come across a poem that I confidently thought I understood, and after class discussion, realized that I was interpreting the poem in a very different way. I initially believed that “Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger’s” was about the sadness of a widow wearing her husband’s wedding ring. However, the section where the Author writes “The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand” turns out to really be about the suppression of her marriage, more specifically man.

For my blog posts, I decide to write about Emily Dickinson's poem, “I Started Early- Took my Dog.” I love Emily Dickinson’s poems because her poems are simple. Even though they are easy to read, they still convey a heavy message. Her poems feel like she is just writing down about here observations of the world she lives in.

The Falling Out of Us Have you ever noticed? The way the sky bends, Before it all comes crashing down?

The Caterpillar is a poem which focuses on the previously overlooked actions some of us may partake in, that may not be thought much of, but have short and long lasting effects on a scale we might not be very familiar with. Do we feel remorse for living organisms on a small macroscopic level, or is it just an insignificant part of our complex lives? Is the appreciation of life developed through experiences? Do we feel more pity for a single being that has been through trauma than we do for thousands that have not? In this poem, the conflict between caterpillars and humans is discussed in a such a way that brings up questions about how valuable we perceive other life to be, and how different

Poetry is a reduced dialect that communicates complex emotions. To comprehend the numerous implications of a ballad, perusers must analyze its words and expressing from the points of view of beat, sound, pictures, clear importance, and suggested meaning. Perusers then need to sort out reactions to the verse into a consistent, point-by-point clarification. Poetry utilizes structures and traditions to propose differential translation to words, or to summon emotive reactions. Gadgets, for example, sound similarity, similar sounding word usage, likeness in sound and cadence are at times used to accomplish musical or incantatory impacts.

The Burden Of Attitude --- I take up the burden of attitude I secretly pour my tears I look sympathies as like loans I hide my sorrows in the smile I take care of your heart I bear every injury myself Can't see, the lies have no feet What we are making our life I am very simple, on each lie I situate in the heart of hope