`` Blown Away `` By Josh Kear And Chris Tompkins Use Symbolism And Imagery

As we get older we tend to reflect more on our life and get our priorities together. We tend to realize who and what is important, the people who mean the most to us and the ones we can’t live without. Who would those significant individuals be for us? For most people it would be their parents. In the poems “My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz, and “My Mother” by Ellen Bryant Voigt, both writers express their emotion towards a parent. The poems are similar in many ways simply because they share a parent child relationship, they are also vastly different. “My Fathers Song” is a poem about a son who lost his father and is grieving and referring back to old memories, reflecting on their past and the wonderful time he had with his father. “My Mother” on the other hand is a poem about a daughter who lost her mother and is having a difficult time coping as she reflects on the decisions she made as a child and how that affected her relationship with her mother. Despite their differences, the two poems share a true connection of love towards their parent. Most notably “My Fathers Song” and “My Mother” differ in the relationship with their parent, the settings in which the memories they hold of their parents take place, and who they are mourning over, yet the two have a strong emphasis on love.

Fathers are needed to be a good role model for their children. A vital relationship with a father is crucial as the influence of one can positively affect a person for their lifetime. In Khaled Hosseini’s Kite Runner, one can see that good father(s) have a positive impact on a person’s life. Although Baba does not spend time much time with Amir in Afghanistan, He is still a good father because he positively impacts Hassan and Amir’s respective lives. This stance will be demonstrated through the words and actions of Baba found in the novel.

Throughout time, fathers and daughters have had special relationships. Some, the best relationship a girl could ever hope for. For others, the relationship is not so great. Sylvia Plath and Lucille Clifton wrote poems describing the darker side of a father-daughter relationship. Their poems demonstrate them in different ways. The poets of “Forgiving my Father” and “Daddy” demonstrate the theme, unresolved anger leads to lifelong bitterness, because both narrators hate their fathers for lying, blame their fathers for ruining their lives, and, finally, learning to cut their fathers out of their lives.

When Kevin sees his father almost dying, he begins to think of the fatherless children in the world. He extends grace towards fathers in general by thinking how important a role they play in a child’s life, regardless of the mistakes that they might make. After thinking about fathers in general, he then thinks about his own father and as Bailey puts it, “ The caring-the carefulness-which was the belief in holding on to something worth preserving and passing on. Love. Kevin felt the tide of emotion that had been at its lowest ebb flowing back into him again. He looked to his Dad”. (259-260). Instead of remaining angry at his Dad for previous conflicts or for accidentally shooting his brother, Kevin extends grace to his Dad when he chooses instead to think and remember about all the love and caring his father has ever shown him. When he begins to feel that love for his father, his emotions pick up and that gives him the grace to keep on going without emotionally breaking down.

The song "Stressed Out" by Twenty-One Pilots is a story about a struggling singer which seems familiar to the audience on a personal level. While exploring such sensitive topics as stress, becoming an adult, and nostalgia, it also touches upon the issue of originality. The understanding between the lead singer, Tyler Joseph, and the listeners is reached with the help of the themes, the tone, and the narrative of the song.

The “Tornado Town, USA” article, published on May 26, 2016 by Maggie Koerth-Baker enlightens us about the menacing natural disaster known as tornado. The purpose of this piece, or how I viewed it, is to inform us about how tornadoes form and what their capabilities. Mrs. Baker, through her writing, pursues to better educate us on the terrifying and chaotic nature of a tornado. I believe Mrs. Baker exquisitely uses the logical and emotional appeal in order to hook and sedate readers into her writing.

Growing up as a teenage girl would have been hard enough for Dana without feeling like her father was embarrassed of her. As a secret daughter, she easily could feel unloved or abandoned. Dana has these feelings as she stays with her mother in a house her father would not dare be seen visiting. Chaurisse is oblivious to the bigamy of her father. She feels the love and attention that is normal for an “only child”. She is a typical girl for her age that has no idea how crazy her family is. Natasha Trethewey’s poem “A Daughter is a Colony” uses symbolism to represent Dana and Chaurisse’s quite different characters and situations.

“The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” by Flannery O’Connor, is a story of hope for humanity. To make way for hope O’Connor often uses tornado imagery in her writing as the cyclonic shape relating the smallness of humanity at the bottom of the shape to the grandness of Heaven represented by the wide top of the vortex. In “Break forth and wash the slime from this earth!” O’Connor’s Apocalyptic Tornadoes, Anne Elizabeth Carson, shows the recurrence of tornados in O’Connor’s work is more than coincidence. Carson states O’Connor checks the sins of pride, vanity, and cruelty with her tornadic version of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (19). The mighty cyclone imagery represents the reset of O’Connor’s characters allowing a second chance for

Upon hearing the word daddy, pleasant thoughts such as love, support, and dependence usually come to mind. Daddy is the person that little girls relate to, and count on to fix anything from boo-boos to a broken heart. In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” one would expect to read about the love and comfort that a daddy can bring to a child, but after reading the first stanza it becomes clear that “Daddy” is far from anything lovely and beautiful. The speaker in “Daddy” is a girl who is emotionally torn. She has mixed emotions towards her father— deep love and strong hate.

Relationships can be hard to manage, especially when it comes to family. The poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath is about a cynical father who died and left his daughter a wreck. Although the father was a bad man, his daughter thought the world of him. The speaker of the poem hates her father because she wants to be like him even though he was not a good man.

Carrie’s parents divorced when she was eight years old, and this was devastating news for her. Before and after the divorce, Carrie was her daddy’s little girl. After the divorce, both of her parents remained in Lubbock; but around the time she as eleven or twelve years old, her dad moved to Arizona. Carrie recalls being very sad about his leaving. For a time, she blamed her mother because it seemed, as Carrie says, “Like she was making my dad leave.” It was a difficult time for the family and for Carrie.

When the day comes for a father to let his daughter go is not easy, in the song the father says “I was enough for her not long ago I was her

I let us drown in the music as my seven year old brother shuddered in my arms. The screams from outside my bedroom was melting away as my voice pierced the tension in the air. The door violently swings open as my aunt Jo stumbles into my bedroom. The door swiftly comes to a halt as my mother on the other side loudly banged it so that the wood began to crack. “Get on your coats. I’m taking you,” my aunt’s tone had left no room for arguing. My mother’s screams were becoming persistent, more rage driven. Waiting for her sister to disappear, Jo rushes out of the bedroom. Staring into gloomy eyes, my mind searched for a song to bring him to earth. His eyes screamed in helplessness. My voice cracked as the words took over me. Those helpless eyes saw the eyes of a hurricane.

The word “daddy” generally refers to the notion of the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father. It is a quite positive term and a source of happiness and ultimate fountain of love for children. Here, the term is shown quite negatively and a father has become the cause of unhappiness and mental destruction for the poet. The poem opens with the negative tone and shows how the poet has suffered because of her father’s absence. The poet calls her father as God in the beginning and then as the poem goes the figure of Godly “daddy” turns into the devilish one. She wishes to come out of the memory of her father as she says,