Critical Analysis Of Wallace Stevens's 'The Inhabitants'

In one’s everyday life, we are surrounded with environmental factors that could potentially shape the aspects of our lives. These types of factors range anywhere from negative to positive on a broad spectrum. For instance in Eugenia Collier’s short story “Marigolds”, The main character Lizabeth, is surrounded by an abundance of environmental factors, as she struggles with own internal conflict of coming to terms that her reign of innocence is slowly fading away. As the story continues, Lizabeth’s environmental factors are exposed, and as a result of these factors, she commits certain actions, in which she faces consequences for. The particular theme that is emitted from this short narrative, is “symbolic experiences that one may experience in life, have a probability of changing aspects in our lives”. This is tied in with main emphasize of exploring in the text how this particular theme is exposed by the characters, setting, and the plot of the story.

In Ishmael Reed’s 1070 poem, Beware: Do Not Read This Poem, lines one to four represents the backbone upon which the entire of the poem rest. Great writers and storytellers have been known to build a complex body of work, based on a small sample of the work itself. This trend in common even in other forms of art like music, where simple lines composed as the chorus of the song, describe the purpose and intent of the entire song. This is also true in poetry, as well as in prose and in most plays. In a play, a scene in an act can define the structure of the play and a paragraph in an essay can serve as the soul of the essay. The same is true in Ishmael Reed’s 1070 classic poem, Beware: Do Not Read This Poem; a complex body of work whose soul can be understood in the first stanza, which describes the personality of the subject (the reader) and the poem itself. The purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth analysis about how the beginning four lines help us understand the rest of the poem.

To some people, poetry may not seem to be very applicable or entertaining. Poetry is a way to express one’s feelings and ideas and to inspire its readers. To understand poetry and to get a sense of what the poet is trying to convey, one must analyze the poem to see why and how it is compelling to the reader. In her poem “Eagle Poem,” Joy Harjo appealingly writes about the spiritual connection to the circle of life and prayer. The poem “The Street” by Octavio Paz is about life and the choices one makes. In this poem, there is a deeper meaning presented through the theme of isolation, identity, and the choices one makes in life. The last poem to be analyzed is “Remember” by Joy Harjo which accentuates the importance of nature and where

One of the things that is so fascinating about poetry is that it allows readers to discover and sometimes challenge and channel their emotions as well as their understanding. A poem’s words as well as its structure can reveal many things to its intended audience. In “Myth” by Natasha Trethewey, the poems form is just as important as the words she writes, becoming a map for the journey Trethewey takes, using transitions to take us from one place to another. The nature of the poem therefor becomes multifaceted, as it encourages the reader to think about the speaker’s words and use of form and structure she uses to craft this epic story. Using form as a tool, Trethewey is able to use structure as a way to guide us as readers and the speaker across the conscious and unconscious thoughts and dreams the speaker faces in this story.

-Concrete subjects are used to convey abstract feelings. The bounded feet with “marks and callouses” and the “asymmetrical cropped hair” are representatives of two different cultures. This literature device makes the essay more vivid and encourages readers to think.

of literary and poetic devices, and combined with the social context, form the changed voice of the

Structure is a defining device in poetry; however, readers often overlook its importance. The structure of the poem emphasizes certain aspects of a poem and reveals clues regarding the overall meaning of a piece. In Tony Hoagland’s poem, Special Problems

Form is an essential component of any poem; it can make certain words stand out, and can convey the author’s meaning even more. In Claude McKay’s “Subway Wind”, his repetition of assonance and consonance throughout the poem brings about a word flow that makes the poem read much more smoothly. In addition to using these devices, McKay’s careful use of ten syllables per line brings about a distinct structure and form to the piece.

During this course, the ideas that were discussed were ideas that were influenced by either a historical, social political or economic conditions. Some other ideas that were discussed were influenced by many other beliefs, changes, or movements. Three examples that were influenced by literature or have an effect on “The Lottery”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “Mexican Almuerzo in New England”. Many different stories and poems were influenced by many different aspects of the literature world. In literature to have a story or poem be good, the writer must have wanted to have their work influenced by or have their work affect people.

The poet in her writing used the language tools of symbolism, images, metaphor and nature to illustrate her poetic ideas. This poem ‘’The Woman thing’’ seeks to view the men as unemployed in search for survival of livelihood thereby getting involved in various kind of hands on work. The poet called these men ‘’Hunters’’ which is a language tool of imagery. Poet used the language of imagery to communicate her words to her readers by saying in line 4 of the poem ‘’The hunters are back from beating the winter’s face in search of a challenge or task in search of food making fresh tracks for their children’s hunger. The hunters are treading heavily homeward through snow that is marked with their own bloody footprints, empty handed, the hunters return snow-maddened, sustained by their rages.

By reading closely with structuralism, we can find this poem is more so about the fight between what we want and what we have. Deconstruction shows the reader that this poem’s meaning is how words and speech or unable to truly express how we feel in certain situations.

The guest’s isolation gave them a life of false security and their superficial pleasures distracted them from the contemplation of death. By focusing on their own need for entertainment, they were able to ignore the devastation occurring outside of their walls.

“The Bells,” written by Edgar Allan Poe, is a poem about the sounds that bells produce, and the emotions evoked from the sounds and their connection to life, which can be developed using the theme and mood of the poem. First of all, the poem asserts, “they are neither man nor woman-- They are neither brute nor human-- They are Ghouls:--” (84-86). This corresponds with the theme, which is the events in life, because life is not balanced.

Before being used by human beings as scientific symbols, the numbers played a symbolic and mythological role in human life. The connection between the life of the primitive man with the numbers has certainly been more, if not less, than today. In the current study, the number 7 has been considered as one of the most efficient mythological symbols and archetypes in the contemporary poetry to investigate into the role of this mythological number in the perspective of contemporary poets.

“The relationship between the energies of the inquiring mind that an intelligent reader brings to the poem and the poem’s refusal to yield a single comprehensive interpretation enacts vividly the everlasting intercourse between the human mind, with its instinct to organise and harmonise, and the baffling powers of the universe about it.”