Andrei Voznesenski First Ice Poem

Analyse (tell me how the poet creates this image - choice of words, literary devices, implication etc)The idea of a freezing, harsh climate is emphasized with "winter's city" and "winter's leaves". The poet uses words like "death" and "terrible" to highlight the freezing, barren winter.

Her behavior had become odd and her attitude was unusual. The once timid, soft-spoken girl was now, to be blunt—a b*tch. The start of this tumultuous path was a relationship she had ended a few months prior to date. The guy was a complete control freak. He was manipulative, conniving, and downright degrading.

Childhood is portrayed as a time of safety that is often looked back upon with nostalgia from an adult perspective. Monosyllabic words are used to show the simplicity of childhood life, for example in the line “the thing I could not grasp or name”. The ‘spring violets’ are ‘in their loamy bed’ and are no longer frail and melancholy, and the memory takes place on a ‘hot afternoon’ in contrast to the ‘cold dusk’ that represents the present. Childhood is represented as a joyful, vivacious time in one’s life, and the value of a stable family life is conveyed. The unexpected integration of Australian vernacular in the line ‘it will soon be night, you goose’, adds a sense of freedom and relaxation to the otherwise formal discourse and more rigid structure of the poem, once again reflects the simplicity and innocence that is associated with childhood. The use of

While reviewing “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, it should be noted that the key is the rhythm of the language. The first, second, and fourth sentence rime while the third sentence of each rimes with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd sentence of the next stanza. In relation with the cryptic language draws the question, there is a more sinister back drop of loneliness and depression in this poem much deeper than the level of nature orated by the Narator.

In the poem First Ice the author Andrei Voznesensky elucidates the seriousness of heartaches and the melancholy that is felt in breakups. An abridged form of the poem would be that a young girl was crying in a telephone booth, devastated and grieving at the fact that she had gone through an estrangement. This caused tears to stream down her face and smudged her makeup which in turn left a distorted set of facial features. Ashamed at the fact that she was crying in public she explicitly tried to hide herself in the overcoat described as “draughty”. Keeping in mind that the poem took place in a setting where it was freezing cold outside it certainly added emphasis to the descriptiveness and the theme of the poem, for specific aspects to

The poem starts with a description of the setting of a summer day, Levertov writes: “The fire in leaf and grass/ so green it seems/ each summer the last summer”. The green leaf and grass refers to a fresh new day, which emphasizes a good day to start in the summer. The author goes on with her describing the beautiful sunshine of the summer by giving the images of the wind, the leaf and the sun. She writes: “The wind blowing, the leaves/ shivering in the sun, / each day the last day”. The poet uses the words “fire, blowing, and shivering” to gives us how urgent and immediate we feel in our lives. It is also a reminder the poet wants to send us that these beautiful natural things won’t last forever, as well as we

I started to believe that the narrator has the mind of a man; perhaps she yearns for the chase. She searches for boys who are more than willing to be a quickie and she uses them for a good time. When she gets what she wants it's to late and the emotional damage has already been done. Our narrator reverts back to her female role and relies on emotions rather than logic; it is apparent that in having these quick relationships she is only hurting herself.

The article “Man-Made Misery” by Thomas M. Colicino, discusses how some love stories aren’t meant to last. Thomas describes the day he first met a girl named Katherine during his sophomore year of High School. By senior year of High School the author writes how he decides to make a move on Katherine. Thomas confesses his true feelings to her however she ends up telling him she has a boyfriend and pretends he knew the whole time.

The composer continues to describe the Winter, again using descriptive language to create a cold harsh environment, and allow the reader to sympathise for the duckling. With the life-threatening act of being ‘frozen fast in the ice’, comes the only act of real kindness that is present in the story as a farmer rescues

Hayden uses the juxtaposition of the cold of the outdoors to the warmth of the home that the writer creates to present the father’s love for his child. Although the father did not demonstrate conventional love for the narrator but proved his unconditional love by putting a roof over the child’s head. The winter night is metaphor for the absence of love. Though the child did not comprehend the love the father had for them, they reminiscence upon how the would be left in the cold if the father did not meet the provisions. So the father’s love was not evident in displays of affection but meeting the needs of the child. Most fathers demonstrate their love in what seems like a harsh manner, working most of the time and not spending quality time to fulfil their first role as a father - the provider. Nevertheless as a transformation take place the role of the father or parent become replicated in the adult child. Through understanding the contribution of the caregiver; once empathic response to the parent increases. Hence it closes the gap of differences that exist within the child parent

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pushed the narrator to an extent. She became sick of their relationship, growing numbness to the pain that he makes her face.

First, when children grow, up they love to wake up hearing the high pitch ring of the home phone, waiting excitingly for one’s parents to walk in the room telling them the news. The warm feeling inside of one’s self when one’s parents tell them, “get ready to go to grandmothers house you do not have school.” Bundling up in warm fleece jackets and putting on the best snow pants knowing up arriving at grandmothers one can go out

Although this poem also is connected with nature, the theme is more universal in that it could be related to Armageddon, or the end of the world. Even though this theme may seem simple, it is really complex because we do not know how Frost could possibly

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