Compare the ways in which the poet presents people in night of the

Over 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 1.1 million were children and 6 million were Jewish. In the novel titled Night by Elie Wiesel, it tells about a kid name Elie Wiesel and his experience during the Holocaust. This novel will will also explain his thoughts/feelings during this tragic event. During the tragic event, Elie Wiesel lost his mother when the Holocaust started and lost his father at the end of the Holocaust. Three qualities that contributed to Wiesel’s survival was his intelligence, when he hid his left arm, his bravery, when he refused to separate from his father during the selection, and his determination, when he decided to not stop running during the flee.

“Steam rising from ovens and showers like mist across a swampland” has a double meaning, steam rises from ovens and showers, but also in summer, as it rains on a hot highway, steam rises. It is comparing the lives of the people living in these houses to the disorder of a swampland by using the simile “like mist across a swampland”. It may also be suggesting that as cities expand, more land is being stolen from nature. The last line of this stanza “The cricket sound of voices and cutlery” is appealing to the reader’s sense of sound, indicating that the people on the highway can hear the noise of the people in the houses. It is likening the noises of the people to noises made in nature by crickets. In the next stanza Foulcher has written, “Only the children remain outside”, which informs the reader of what it is now like, with all of the adults gone inside. He describes the children as, “bruised with dirt and school”, this gives the indication they are both covered in patches of dirt, and bruised, which are similar colours. Also informs that they are relaxing by play after a hard day at school.

Two poems that can be compared to each other are “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.” These poems both seem to share the theme of life coming to a close. In the poem “To the Virgins”, there is a line that reads “The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, the higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting”; this creates an image of a soul ascending to heaven. “Do Not Go Gentle” conveys a similar image in the fourth stanza; as the souls go to heaven, they are welcomed by the sun’s rays. However, the poems also seem to share different meanings. The overall message of “To the Virgins” is that people should make the most of life because it will not last long. This is evidenced

The two poems are similar in their corresponding feeling of dread for death. Using diction,

Moral values and meanings are portrayed through these two poems by expressing and clarifying the value of life and exploring humanity's relationship with animals.

poem it says, “…and looking down into…” as if to say that the Bin Men

In many parts of the story, it’s shown that the author is comparing the men and women of that time. Her structure however, is interesting. She would talk about the men first, give them a few points why they had lived miserable, and then bring up bigger points to the women and why they had struggled. By doing this it created an illusion of one clearly worse than the other. Her argument is built the most on these sections as she strives to show the clear differences of the suffering, and also society’s view of the different genders. By setting up these few points in the structure of the essay, the author succeeds in setting up what would persuade the crowd the

The other section where symbolism is evident is “Small Porch in the Woods.” It is divided into several poems. In the first one, there is the mention of “unshifting star” which represents a change that is undisturbed. It is the turning point of the society. Despite the challenges communities face in their life, their ambition leads them towards achieving their objectives in life. The second poem under this section is about a heavy rain that fell in the month of April. Heavy rain is the representation of unhappy moments. The description presented by the narrator shows that it is a sad moment where everything is carried away. Throughout the poem, the rain is seen, as a lesson

The meaning of a poem is not typically set in stone, so it is fairly common for there to be multiple ways to interpret a poem; this is especially true in the case of the poem “October” by Bobbi Katz. This poem describes the appearances, sounds, activities, and feelings that often occur during the month of October, and at first glance this poem appears to do so in a lighthearted manner. However, upon further analysis of the poem there seems to be an eerie undertone to it. By looking at each distinct image presented in the poem separately and analyzing different aspects, such as personification, word choice, and allusions, it becomes apparent that there are at least two rather distinct ways to look at and interpret this poem, which creates a tension in the overall meaning of the poem and what the poem is describing.

Therefore, most of the Stanza and the 10th line focus on introducing the reader into the problem and the perpetrators of the violence. The use of religion is not only symbolic to the inevitable suffering of the Latin Americans at the Poets country but also is ironical to the end times which marks massive violence acts against humanity. The aspect is brought to form by the last two lines which liken the treatment of the Indian bodies being killed as rotten fruits, thrown in a pile of garbage. The words rotten and garbage bring out the ugly scene of dead bodies surrounded by flies that feed on the decomposed material, an immense feeling of empathy towards the dead.

More baby rabbits hopping out of their mothers to the dewy grass". The allusions that are emphasized between the lines attracts the audience attention, questioning in "introduction to poetry" about who is torturing poetry and being tied to a chair. It can be looked through as many different ways whether the torture is being done physically, or ,mentally by the audience in a way that the audience does not take the poem to its beauty but instead they would break it down for analyzing. The idea of torturing represents such a dull tone that conveys violence and the pain caused as if the poem was a real human being. The poem is being butchered by the ignorance and the urge to know more about what is behind the poem and what it means. Alike of what is emphasized in "The trouble with poetry", there is a sense of dullness and sadness that explains the passion, the admiration and the emotional connectivity an

. . should burn and rave at the close of day”(2). This means that old men should fight when they are dying and their age should not prevent them from resisting death. Another example of personification in the poem is “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”(8). This line personifies the men’s frail deeds by saying that they could have danced. This means that the potential actions of the men could have flourished and contributed greatly to their lives. The metaphor “. . . words had forked no lightning. . .”(5) is about how the men had done nothing significant with their lives. They had not achieved anything great or caused a major change. The simile “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay” is about how even grave and serious men will fight against death for as long as they can. Another notable example of figurative language within the poem is “. . . blinding sight”(13). This oxymoron details how the men can see very well and it is very obvious to them that they will die soon, but they know that they can control how they will leave this world. There is an abundance of imagery within this poem, a few examples of which are “. . . danced in a green bay”(8), and “. . . caught and sang the sun in flight”(10) . These examples of imagery are both appealing to the sense of sight by using descriptive words such as “Green” and “danced” in the first example and words such as “caught” and “flight” among others. The second example also appeals to the sense of sound by

The first poem “Curandera” by Pat Mora talks about a woman who lives in her house by herself, presumed by the rest of the town, after her husband was killed from being caught in the bed of another woman. She is described to be an amazing healer since “the townspeople come, hoping to be touched by her ointments”. It can also be implied that she is good person since “She listens to their stories”. She obviously cares about the people of the town since she gets up so early to get everything ready for the day and always ends the day exhausted, but sometimes her day doesn’t end since “At night she cooks chopped cactus and brew more tea.”. This poem is free verse and is organized in stanzas of varying length. There is a repetition of the desert, she uses it as a comparison and then as a presence as well. Mora compares the house to the desert saying “The curandera and the house have aged together to the rhythm of the desert.” and then again “she listens to the desert, always the desert”. She also uses imagery to help the reader see the woman. (Mora)

Because the poem is long, it won’t be quoted extensively here, but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead, the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work, stanza by stanza. First, because the poem is being read on-line, it’s not possible to say for certain that each stanza is a particular number of lines long. Each of several versions looks different on the screen; that is, there is no pattern to the number of lines in each stanza. However, the stanzas are more like paragraphs in a letter than

The children are the ‘we’ of the first half of the poem. They “loved it” (5) when the mother kicked out their father and were “glad” (1) at the result of divorce. When their father lost his job they “grinned” (4) and were “tickled” (line 7) with pleasure as they watched their father’s world crash down around him. The sympathy conveyed through the narrative sits with the mother and children during the first half of the poem. As the daughter begins to speak in present terms, and the “you” (1,3) suddenly is now “father” (17), the poem undertakes a dramatic shift. Sympathy begins to surface, from the reader, for the “bums in doorways” (18) who begin to take on a victimized persona with their hands depicted as useless “flippers” (21) attached to their “slug” (19) bodies. It is not to say that the speaker has forgotten the cruel insensitive man that she recalls in the first part of the poem, but the father is now not the only villain and the mother and children are not the only sufferers.