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When it comes to literature, many students have difficulty trying to understand the main reason the author wrote it. This is very evident in poems. Poems are verbal compositions designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a specific and creative way. They are characterized by the use of the way they are formatted and use literary techniques such as metaphors, similes, rhyme, and personification. With the many rules and forms that poems can have, a lot of them are hard to interpret. In this essay, I want to breakdown two poems’ meaning by comparing their similar underlying message by the authors’ similar styles and experiences. The two poems are The Shoelace by Charles Bukowski and Walking in the Blue by Robert Lowell.

The poem describes the weather and its effect on cotton flower by pointing out the dying branches and vanishing cotton. The image of insufficiency, struggle and death parallel the oppression of African American race. The beginning of the poem illustrates the struggle and suffering of the cotton flower; which represent the misery of African Americans and also gives an idea that there is no hope for them. But at the end the speaker says “brown eyes that loves without a trace of fear/ Beauty so sudden for that time of year” (lines 13-14). This shows the rise of the African American race, and their fight against racism. The author used mood, tone and

The speaker is established as male - neurotic, then confident, and cheerful. Free verse is exhibited through this poem as well as x-lined stanzas. Enjambments also extend the speaker’s phrases creating a conversational tone and simple diction. The speaker expressions of sentimental and nostalgic attitude supports the theme as he reconciles his love and hope at that moment in his life. Early on, oranges are introduced into the poem as the speaker is “Cold, and weighted down / With two oranges in [his] jacket,” and used as a symbol of warmth in the cold of December(3-4). Specifically, Soto uses auditory imagery as “Frost cracking / Beneath [his] steps,” to further juxtapose the

Throughout the poems, the author creates a powerful theme while explaining the characters experience of racial interactions. In “Tableau” the theme is friendship in more important than stereotypes. In the early 1900s, a black and white boy linking arms isn’t acceptable by society, but the boys show their friendship means more to them than a stereotype. In “Incident” the author creates a theme-revealing that they smallest things will hurt the most. In the poem, the boy faces a discouraging incident that ultimately affects his entire experience.

Although the poems “Those Winter Sundays,” “Catch,” and “Blackberry Eating” all have different themes and elicit different emotions, all three use visually dense words to impact the reader.

My grandmother, Katherine Phillips-Crance, was born in 1957. The town was a small one located in upstate New York by the name of Elmira. It was also in this town that she was raised. Throughout her childhood and into adulthood, her mother, Opal Phillips, was a strict parent. Aside from this, Katherine had no complaints about her childhood. She also does have an older sister, Sandy, who is married with children and grandchildren of her own. By the time Katherine was born though, Sandy was already out of the house paving her own way.

A Memoir of Grace is a biography/autobiography hybrid about the life and ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith. The book is written in the first person as told by Chuck Smith to his son Chuck Smith Jr. Most people might find it a quick and easy read, and this makes the book accessible to readers. I read it as a mental break from heavier texts. Nevertheless, the truth and the message of this book is rich and does not seem too oversimplified. On the other hand, the only trade-off is a lack of depth. One can only skim the surface in a book of this style.

         The first poem seems to be an idyillic one,  and spends a lot of time going into

The early abolitionist movement demonstrated great opposition towards slavery through various forms of literature, such as poems and books. Both black and white writers utilized the written word to spread the anti-slavery and anti-racism message. While many white authors became popular writing from a slave’s perspective, there were also countless slave narratives that became widely distinguished. Some of the most notable poems came from writers like William Blake and Phillis Wheatley. In Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” and Wheatley’s “On Imagination”, the two poets create speakers that produce lovely visions and imagery within their minds. Because the speakers in their respective poems suffer from the inequities of slavery and racism, they utilize those visions and their imaginations to ameliorate their unfavorable situations. Both Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” and Wheatley’s “On

This poem included many similes that allowed the reader to have sequential images which eased the understanding of the poem. For example, " I like to imagine love can pull your essence like red thread through the cold needle of my life now without you." In this example, the simile that was used help in transcribing feelings into images by comparing essence to red thread. Additionally, the use of imagery such as "each an ego of forced air, heavy with the smells of onions, mushrooms, sage and rain.", helped in connecting the readers with poet's thoughts by using the sense of smell. Thus, the images of grief and memories installed upon us as readers allowed the theme sent from the poet to be explicitly understood.

I got a completely didn't vibe form Patricia Grace. I found her to be very passionate and grateful to have grownup surround by her family. I know she says her parents "were not role models as far as actual writing" but she goes on that talk about how their stories or one liners sparked her imagination.

The poems range from somewhat comical “At the edge of never I gasped for breath, and laughed at the spawn of Satan.”, and “Summertime is morbid.” To deep and insightful, “Pain and honest language meld together to illuminate the weakness of words.”, “Imagine never learning to feel.”,

These poems are an intense

I’ve found the right woman who’ll fill the emptiness deep inside of me, the hole that’s lurked there for years. I can’t get her out of my head. Funny thing is, I don’t even know her name. I never asked.

for the whole poem which he compares his love as a summer’s day. In lines 5-6 we see another