Charlene Hunter Poem Analysis

The protagonist of the poem is Rosa Parks, a seamstress and an active member in the local NAACP, who refused to give up her seat for a white man. Parks was arrested, which led to a boycott against Montgomery bus system. As a result of more than one year of boycott, the segregation law was announced unconstitutional.

Life is a gift, not lasting forever, where will you choose to end up? For worse or better? In this beautifully written poem by Linda Ellis she talks about how just one little dash represents our life from the day we are born until the day we die. A dash that means so much more than what it appears to be, representing a lifetime throughout that little dash. Sometimes in life we must look beyond just the writing, we must push ourselves to go deeper and find a hidden message.

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.

When I think of a poet, images of scowling, mustached men whose 19th century wardrobe could use an update spring to mind—a somber Edgar Allen Poe type whose ink strokes inquire of unrequited love interests and dreary days alone in the snow. I certainly do not imagine modern, multi-ethnic women who live in the same state as me. However, as soon as I read Natasha Trethewey’s poetry, I immediately admired the way her words so effortlessly danced on the page, my mind’s eye watching the elegant choreography with each syllable read. Moreover, when I learned of her tragic history, and the strength and resilience she possessed to carry on, I could not help but to respect the way she turned pain into beautiful art. The right words carry great power

Coda by Dorothy Parker has a negative connotation on the view of life. It is accurate to describe this as someone who is very pessimistic, or even a little bit depressed. Therefore I made the tone of my melody very dark and not inspiring to reflect the personality of the poem. In each subsequent bar I decrease the initial note down by a note to represent how the author believes that there is no reason or motivation for living life. It is seen in each bar that I begin an upward trend with each initial note but towards the end of each bar I placed a chord that sounds like it is disrupting the flow of progress and motivation. I see pessimism as a dangerous entity that can harm the happiness of others and I believe it is clearly seen with the scheme in which I have wrote my melody. In the beginning of the 5th bar I begin an upward trend of each subsequent initial note that emphasizes the author’s slight change in tone, form completely negative to only slightly negative, indicating that there might be a change in the author’s thoughts. But as the melody continues to build up it all comes crashing down once the author wrote “throwing the battle”, and “Would you kindly direct me to hell?”. The decreasing melody of sixteenth-notes emphasizes the throwing of the battle. A battle is something that is built up and the end of a battle a victor is decided, but instead of building up the author decides to throw the battle. Finally, the last note represent “hell”. It is the lowest note out

The song “Believer”, by Imagine Dragons, they sing about how the pain and depression, they were going through, has made him stronger than before. This song tells us that your greatest strengths come from your weaknesses. Imagine Dragons are trying too say that “Pain” and depression and sadness are only stepping stones to your strength, in this song. “Believer” is about that you don’t have to dwell on your troubles and can look on the bright side of things. This song also explains that you can become a “Believer” by embracing all of the problems going on in your life today. The theme of relationships in this song is highlighted through many various examples of similes, metaphors, and other literary devices throughout the song.

Poems can be both easy and hard to write, with fickle or complex meanings. The three poems chosen in this, are all different difficulties. First poem of this essay, is ‘First Fig’ by Edna St.Vincent Millay. ‘Love Is Not All’ is the second poem, also by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The final poem for this essay is ‘Apollo Tree’ by Miriam Waddington. These three poems are my ‘goldilocks’ poems, meaning one is too easy, too hard and then one is just right.

The Dead by Susan Mitchell was an interesting read but it left me wondering about a lot of things. Which leads me to wanting to answer the big picture question this poem brings up. Is the writer suffering from past trauma and now the lack of the chaos and her parents. Also while taking time to focus on all the details on the author's point of view on her parents and then not only her relationship with them but the parents relationship together.

The poem “Making sarah cry” and the passage “Don't give up the fight” both show the common theme of being different in the same way. These passages both show the theme by them involving someone being bullied for who they are and being different. Like how Sarah is bullied by the the boy. In “Don't give up the fight” Ava is bullied by Jake , the coach, and the track team. They show the theme differently in “Making Sarah cry” because the point of view is from the person who is bullying but, in “Don’t give up the fight” it is in the point of view of the person being bullied.

On the other hand, Lorde presents a unified front. Using pronouns such as we and our, she not only unifies the all women but includes herself as well. As opposed to the many yous, mes, and thems in Welty’s work, there is a distinct contrast formed between the two. Although all women are not represented by Lorde’s work, it can be expected that many women were in the same mindset during the socially transforming time after the 1960s when feminism became more widespread (Freedman). Lorde sets up an environment where women are free to express themselves and are accepted as equals, and in this the women are unified. In using poetry to engage the self and then create transformation, the women are to do this together. The language created by poetry

Edgar Lee Masters is best known for his book Spoon River Anthology. Spoon River Anthology is considered by some critics, like Ernest Earnest, to be one of the greatest poetry collections in American literature. One of the most popular poems in Spoon River Anthology is “Lucinda Matlock.” In “Lucinda Matlock,” Masters concocts a fictional character, who is based on his grandmother, that tells readers from beyond the grave about the beauty and the pain that she faced in her life. The paradox of having beauty and pain at the same time contributes to the theme of not letting your sorrows overcome you and loving life for what life is.

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.

Discuss any common themes you notice in Audre Lorde’s poetry (“Coal,” “The Woman Thing,” and “Harriet”).

The poem “A Certain Lady” is consisted of twelve stanzas with two lines in each stanza. Parker uses an iambic pentameter in this poem. I think that she uses this type of structure to create a rhythmic feel. Parker wants this rhythmic feel to display how the speaker was talking to her husband. The iambic pentameter is not relevant in lines twelve and twenty-four. These two lines do not follow the iambic pentameter due to the speaker thinking that her husband will never know how she feels or what she is doing. This poem consists of an end-rhyme and has a rhyme scheme of ABAB. An example of a rhyme that is used in the poem is in line one, which ends in “head” and line three which ends in “red”.

In his poem, he expresses the feeling when he speaks in front of people; “His hands reach out me and choke me.”