Deriving Meaning from William Carlos Williams', The Young Housewife

Whenever I read a poem and begin to examine it, it seems most poems remind me of the simple quote, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” All I mean by this is everyone always seems to look at a poem a little different. I believe this to be no less true than when I read “Onions” by William Matthews.

In the husband’s first couple of lines and his last one, his attitude toward his wife seems insensitive. First he tells her "he wants to know" why she keeps looking at through the window; then he tells her she "must tell" him. Even though he ends the last part with "dear", doesn’t make it feel any less of a demand to the wife and at the end of the poem, he ask, "Where do you mean to go? First tell me that. / I’ll follow and bring you back by force. I will!" (115). In between his words he seems to attempt to learn how to talk with his wife, and he ask her to help him, but she has resentment in her way.

Poems are built with tradition, but in his case, the speaker wants to end tradition just as he wants to end racism. In line two and three, they both end with the same word which is called symploce. Symploce is a combination of anaphora and epistrophe which implies that these two lines are an important point of the figure of speech. The poem was written by stating a cause and effect. The line beginng with by is the cause and I being the effect. Its an explination of how he will fight social injustice. It also helps readers to use and understand the most effective way to fight social

“Wife-Wooing” is written by John Updike and was published in the New Yorker in 1960. In this short story, John Updike portrays the life of an ordinary family, which he portrays through marriage. Throughout the story, Updike uses vocabulary that makes him extremely different from society. Another aspect that makes this story different are no Character names are mentioned in the short story. Although, no characters’ names are mentioned in the story Updike describes the husband and wife so well that readers will be able to relate and understand each character. A wide variety of love is displayed in “Wife-Wooing”. Misogyny also takes place in the short story.

n the introduction of the poem the writer mentions that the poem is meant to relate to the speakers experience with encountering nature. With much thought into this idea, could you not say that you could relate this poem to the experience of the way society is changing today. In our lives we get use to certain people that we could never "unnoticed" them, but there are a couple of others that we may not even bother with or notice they are there. In the first stanza they question the appearance of the fellow and in reality that may be them questioning the appearance of some people in their lives.

In the poem “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins, the major theme the author chooses to cover is that poetry is meant to be experienced and that you should not over think it. More often than not a reader will go through a poem and try to figure out the underlying meaning after only reading it once. Metaphors and imagery are used side by side throughout the poem to prove this point.

This poem connects to themes from King Lear, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Great Gatsby, Things Fall Apart, and The Heart of Darkness. The theme it connects to in King Lear is the what for power. In the poem, the character has a choice to choose power and therefore better himself and his circumstances. The theme it connects to in A Streetcar Named Desire is vanity. In the poem, the character doesn't want to give up his vanity much like Blanche in the play. The theme it connect to in The Great Gatsby is the hollowness of the upper social class. In the poem, the character has to choose between being in the upper social class or being happy. In other words, being apart of the upper class brings no happiness to the character. The theme it connects

The theme of this poem covers up in a deep discrimination in the land which is supposed to be for all no matter where you come

Williams’ poem The Young Housewife not only grants the reader visual stimulus, but also leaves one wondering the truth behind the work. The poem begins with the speaker seeing the housewife in her nightgown through the window, at ten A.M., and within that moment she walked outside her house still dressed in her negligee. This suggests that the young housewife saw the speaker of the poem driving past her house through the window. When the speaker mentions the housewife was uncorseted, it indicates the lust the speaker has imagined when her body was seen since being “uncorseted” has to do with the noticing and looking the upper body of a woman. The speaker describes the young housewife tucking in the strands of her hair showing that the speaker of the poem was able to get a look at the young housewife’s appearance. The entire poem emits the sensation of a brief moment of lust between the speaker and housewife as they drive by slowly listening only to the sound of leaves crackling in that instant of

The poetic elements reveal the melancholy tone that the speaker is using to tell the poem. The poem relates to history, because African Americans were treated unfairly, and were hanged for a lot of things. For example, the story that the poem was based on, was about three African American teens who were accused of murdering a white young man. Even without evidence, they angry mob of Americans took the boys out of jail, beat them, and then hanged them, but they only managed to lynch two of them. “..."Just then the sheriff, and he was sweating like somebody had throwed a bucket of water in his face. He told the mob leader: 'Get the hell out of here, you already hung two of 'em so that ought to satisfy ya.'...” (Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching). The Sheriff managed to convince the mob to leave the boy alone and go

After reading this poem several times, I didn’t even know where to begin with analyzing it, so I went to Google and found that it originates from an actual New York Times article from 1968. The poem stems directly from the second half of the article, word-for-word. There were a few more details from there that we did not get

At the beginning of the poem I believe it opens with someone’s opinion against others. It is a possibility he could be talking literally, but I believe he is explaining the power that human beings have to harm one another. Line 3-4 says “From what I’ve tasted of desire

The narrator was comparing his easy way of living because of the color of his skin and the other kid’s life was not like his because he was black. The white kid, the narrator, depicted that the black kid could've had the same things he had, but since he was a different color he wasn't allowed. What stands out about this poem is that it's from the perspective of a little kid. So, this little white child had more knowledge than other adults because they were ignorant of the problem, while he analyzed it. In this poem he compares how he lived in a world where equality did not exist.

Though the majority of the poem is about the constraints of the poet and his mistress’s outlandish relationship, it also

One of imagism famous poets was Ezra Pound. He was one of the founders of imagism. He had three rules for writing an imagist poem. First of all, “the direct treatment of the "thing," whether subjective or objective.” The second one is “to use absolutely no word that did not contribute to the presentation.” Finally, the third one was regarding rhythm: “to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome” (Ezra Pound A Retrospect). These are important rules worth thinking about to see some of what controls