Carol Ann Duffy Poems Analysis

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.

This poem shows that all immigrants move to the United States to look for the “American Dream”. They risk their lives to obtain a better life for themselves and their families. When the author says:

Enjambment in the poem sets the mood. The mood is that as of a snowfall, quiet cold, settled and slow. The poem does not need to rush its thoughts into a sentence or a stanza. By separating the thoughts into different lines and stanzas forces the reader to read slowly as that of a snowfall. The reader reads the poem peacefully, which depicts the images of a peaceful snow, covered forest.

Initially, Collins demonstrates how one can weigh a dog’s weight with his method. Concrete diction in the first stanza, such as, “ small bathroom”, “ balancing”, and “shaky” suggest the uncomfortable nature of his intimate relationship with his pet. Although Collin is unappreciated for the gritty toil determination, he praise himself to applauded that “this is the way” and raising his self-esteem by comparing how easier it is than to train his dog obesity. In addition, the negative diction used to describe Collin holding his dog to be “awkward” for him and “bewildering” for his pet. This establish he rather force love rather willing show patience. When holding a pet on scale, there is less hustle because he secures the dog’s position by carrying it. Where as when he orders the dog to stay on the weighing scale with a cookie, his dog only followed him because of the expected reward.

Snow here could represent dullness or loneliness. Frost feels that everything or everyone around him are filled with loneliness, no excitement and everything seems to be the same. Line four in the poem says that “But a few weeds and stubble showing last.” Here it tells us that although dullness, emptiness, or loneliness covered almost everything around him, he could still see some life or excitement somewhere in between. Yet this small bits of life and excitement were nothing compared to the overwhelming emptiness. In the next couple of lines, Frost seems to have forgotten all about the weeds and stubble he saw and put his attention back to the empty, snow covered surroundings. He then looks at the woods near the field and that too have been covered in snow. He also mentioned that all the animals are covered in snow in their lairs. These two lines again emphasize how Frost feels. He knows that there are live around him, yet those life are also filled with emptiness. Soon he even realized that not only the surroundings that were filled with loneliness, but Frost himself are also in it as line eight says, “The loneliness includes me unawares.”

The poems ‘Before you were mine’ by Carol Anne Duffy and ‘Mother any distance greater than a single span’ by Simon Armitage, reflect on what it means to raise a child in the world. In ‘before you were mine’, Anne Duffy shows how things change when you have child where as in ‘mother any distance greater than a single span’ Simon Armitage shows how hard it is to let go of your child.

Danielle Amanda Murray. I just wanted to let you know that i am madly in love with you.

is saying, and Frosts personal pain that he is suffering from that he ingrains into this poem. The

Josh Ritter’s song, Kathleen, consists of several writing techniques that Forsyth defined as rhetorical figures. Some of the devices that stood out amongst the rest of the lyrics include anaphora and epistrophe. All songwriters’ dilemmas consist of putting together lyrics that serve as a direct link from their brain to the listeners’ brain. Not only does the song have to be meaningful and contain the general idea of the composer’s purpose, but it also has to be orchestrated in such a way that demonstrates some sort of rhyme in order to be classified as a good song; this piece by Ritter is not an exception. Apart from the many end rhymes found throughout this song, the assonances, such as the sound of “ee” in “we meet’s” (21) and “ay” in “way

These words paint a picture in your mind, while also bringing in the physical feelings of hot and cold. The temperatures of the poem also represent the sacrifice of the father. As Hayden’s father battles the harsh wintery weather of Michigan, his family is able to sit comfortably indoors due to his unnoticed sacrifice. The past tense in this stanza also demonstrates

In the poem “Passed On” by Carole Satymurti, the speaker tells a story almost as in a novel of their mother and how she left them a box of index cards with advice on life when she died. The speaker’s gender seems to be female. In the poem, the poet presents the theme of growing up and becoming one’s own person through the maturation and acceptance process. She personifies the index cards themselves, comparing them to her mother. They also characterize the speaker and her mother and create a mood of sadness and longing, implying that perhaps the mother has been dead for some time, but the speaker has never truly accepted this.

The poem Medusa explores the theme of jealousy and anger; the poet illustrates this using the extended metaphor of a Greek mythological creature Medusa, whose story describes her as a beautiful maiden that is turned into a hideous creature after being raped by Poseidon. The poet furthermore links this metaphor to the theme of feminism when she describes the women in the poem overpowering the man that hurt her.

I wanted to write a piece that dealt with the political drama I have seen going on around me for the last two years. I now live in Boston, Massachusetts, but am originally from a small town in Pennsylvania and when I made visits home in the past few years, I was struck and curious about the Trump campaign signs in the rural area. More so, I was interested in the people who were ashamed of these signs, who wanted them gone, but were either silenced by all the loudness, or chose not to speak. I hope this story gives a voice to those frustrated, quiet people, even if its a strange one.

First of all, the overall experience of what it feels like to be an emigrant needs to be examined. To begin with, the poem’s imagery ostensibly describes what it is like to be an emigrant, albeit from the third party viewpoint of the reader, which initially suggests that emigrants are viewed as outsiders, set apart from the rest, and that they are also not quite settled in their new country. For example, the narrator notes, “So you have seen them / with their cardboard grips, / felt hats, rain- /cloaks,”

The setting for this poem is a father and his small son are outside on a sunny winter’s day watching the melting icicles that are attached to an exterior railing. When I read this I could picture standing outside on an early spring day