Critical Analysis Of The Poed By Kay Ryan

The mood of the speaker changes to guilt as the speaker and her mother realize they would "crawl" with "shame" and leave an "emptiness" in their father's heart and yard. The author negatively connotes "crawl," "shame," and "emptiness" to invoke a more serious and shameful tone. The beginning of the conveyed a more matter-of-fact and pragmatic tone, but changes into a more sentimental one by the end to convey family is more important than the money. The symbol of the tree represents the family, and connects it to their father's hard work and dedication to the family. If they were to cut it down, it would be symbolic of their betrayal. Imagery of the tree is used to describe the freedom and beauty of the tree as it "swings through another year of sun and leaping winds, of leaves and bounding fruit." The tree represents their family bond and how strong it is even through the "whip-crack of the mortgage."

Hirshfield writes this poem in second person to give life to the poem so that the poem speaks to the reader. The poem starts by accusing the reader of letting the redwood grow near the house. “It is foolish” (line 1) lets the reader know that nature should not be growing this close to your home. Hirshfield takes the liberty to talk straight to the reader through the speaker in telling them that it is nonsense to let nature be so close to a material object such as a house. The reader can visually see a “young redwood// grow next to a house” (line 2, 3). The tree starts to symbolize the beauty of nature growing against the materialistic world.

The diction in the excerpt is an essential component to the dramatization of the plot’s central incident. Jewett uses rich language to intensify the simple nature of the main character Sylvia’s journey up a “great pine-tree.” For example, in describing the tree, the narrator uses personification as he mentions the “huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight.” The use of personification harkens back to those universal moments in childhood in which everything alive had human feelings, and creates an emotional attachment between the reader and the tree. Jewett also uses other figurative language, like similes, to relate the grandeur of the tree to the audience. She writes, “It [the tree] was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth…” In comparing the tree to the great mast of a ship, the author invokes feelings of awe at its size.

The imagery of the outside and park area to help present the idea of what happened to other cultures during the Vietnam War. The tree in the Devon park is an old, creature but it’s fading away because of the abuse towards. To the regular person it just seemed to get older without reason or cause to it. When it says that “the tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry.” They make it seem like the tree just went up just appeared like this.

He also uses the visual element of “Shape and Mass.” The trees are 3D representation of actual trees. They are over 40 foot tall and very heavy; therefore they consume a large amount of volume and mass. The trees appear to be constructed from geometric shapes but also try to follow the form of nature in a more organic way.

In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, each character holds a special connection to trees and each places different meaning in them. The motif of trees and plants represent a calming force, escape from hardship, and circle of life that can heal the wounds of slavery. Paul D and Sethe are two characters in particular who place unique meaning in plants and use them as a way to escape their painful memories and the horrors of slavery.

In the second stanza, the author employs several metaphors that display the growing and nurturing of a tree which is compared to the feeding of hate and vanity. The lines “ And I watered it in fears […] And I sunned it with smiles” refers to a plant by using words like “watered” and “ sunned” (“Poison” 5-7). These lines demonstrate the reason why the trees keep growing because he takes care of it “night and morning”, which suggests that the “wrath” has taken over the speaker’s life completely, and it is not healthy for both of them.

Of the utmost importance to us was American identity, which was a deciding factor in eliminating some candidates such as David Baker and Alex Dang. We also assessed the efforts of the poet in promoting poetry, the thoughtfulness of the messages contained in their poems, whether or not they displayed a distinct writing style within their poetry, the recognition they have received for their work, and also finally their background. Even though many factors were considered, American identity is weaved into each and every one – for example, when providing background information on the poet, the presenters had to demonstrate how their background helped the poet to develop distinctly American characteristics, and then show how it was represented in their works. These expectations which we had set for a prospective poet laureate were easily surpassed by Komunyakaa. For reference, he surpassed the next highest score, Mary Karr’s, by an astonishing 3 points, scoring 21 out of a possible 24 points, and this well-rounded excellence proved him to be the ideal

They all hear the speaking of the Tree.” In this long-winded quote, the author is trying to show that people of all races and occupation hear the speaking of the Tree. This is important, because through the cultural diversity of the country, the author states that people of all backgrounds and countries hear the same “speaking of the tree.” The tree, river and rock from the poem are representative of peace, wisdom, and

Similes and metaphors provide a clear picture of the despondent world that the author lived in. In the poem the dead are “Bound with ropes like the tree’s ball of roots

This has an extraordinary effect on the readers because Hawthorn is giving them a mental picture of how scary the forest is which might be how Hawthorn imagined it when he wrote this story. As a result, he awakens his readers by making them fear the forest by using phrases such as “dreary” “creep” and “gloomiest” Moreover, using the setting as symbol makes it easier for the author to create the mood of the story, which are gloomy and dark. This shows Hawthorns influence on the reader’s interpretation of the story as a

In the poem “Tree Heartbeat” by Siobhan Anderson, the author conveys the theme there is beauty in every stage of life.The poem presents a speaker who is talking about a tree that s/he grew up with. Also the speaker remembers that was beautiful and special in each stage of its life. At the beginning of the second stanza Siobhan wrote “dressed in silver, she twirled her branches, dumping snow when least expected.” By using this specific metaphor, the author wanted to show that the tree’s life is beautiful at this stage.The author also used alliteration when she writes “Balloons, blossoms, and buds” This demonstrates that the speaker is referring to the different seasons and what is best in them. It also shows that there are different exciting

The fourth stanza talks about a shelterbelt of cedars and a visual image is used here to make the trees seem big and protected. An auditory image is used to describe the staring up of the engine of the pick up truck.

The second stanza continues the description of the setting and intensifies the extreme weather conditions. The trees are “giant,” which stresses their size but also perhaps personifies them and creates a sense of fear. Bronte uses alliteration once again in the phrase “bending / their bare boughs.” Snow is laying heavily on the boughs of the trees, so the wintery conditions are indeed severe. In line seven the speaker says that a storm is brewing, but the second stanza closes in a similar way to the first: “And yet I cannot

The line “hanging on the trees blood dreamed vaguely the dreams of trees,” suggests the connection between flora and fauna. This connection is a primary belief of the aborigines and by mentioning this in her poem Wright subtlety foregrounds the cultural identity of the aborigines and grants them respect.