Dying Poem Analysis

Have you ever felt like you were born to do something? Since I was born I felt like I was born to play baseball, but after that I would love to be a broadcaster. That is why I have chosen to analyze “The Broadcaster’s Poem” by Alden Nowlan. Analyzing a poem is not an easy thing to accomplish for me. As I very rarely analyze anything I read, but you should try everything once.

Life. Death. Time. The poem “Life” is about how everyone birthed and lives their lives, and then everyone dies one day no matter what. Times runs out for every person on the Earth. This poem reminds me of when my great-grandmother died. She was in her nineties and my family and I thought that she would live longer than she did. It was very sudden and I was shocked at the funeral. I think it was just time for her to let go. It’s hard losing someone who is close with one. The author’s tone is light- hearted and simple. The mood of the poem can make someone feel more comfortable with the thought of death. This essay will show how the author’s tone and the reader’s mood can affect how the poem, “Life” is read.

Wislawa Szymborska portrays death as an escape. In her poem “I’m Working on the World”, the writer views death as a way out for those whom lived wholesome lives. The writer suggests, “Only a death like that. A rose / could prick you harder, I suppose; / you’d feel more terror at the sound / of petals falling to the ground” (Szymborska 7). The writer magnifies the idea that death should

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Early October 2016 to January 2017, was the hardest time ever in my life. In October we found out that my Grandpa had a very aggressive form of stage four brain cancer. We knew that there was something wrong but we never thought it would be that bad. For the next month, the doctors ran tests, decided on a game plan, and gave results. My grandpa was in severe pain and confusions. We got the results that he would need to go through surgery on his brain to remove the tumor. This was around November 15. That was probably the scariest day of my life. His surgery and I will never forget, was at 12:10 pm. I remember sitting at the kitchen counter and I just prayed for half an hour. After that, I remember going on my computer and searching on Google

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Death consumes the world, there has been almost three million deaths so far with only three weeks into the year. There are people all over the world who come face to face with death daily. It seems as if death roams the world. Some deaths are more tragic than others. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, several people die but the death of Curley’s wife was the most tragic of all. She was unjustly murdered and she didn’t even have an identity. When she died, she left the world in loneliness, in the end no one ever got to know her or mourn her death. She died alone. Innocent people die every minute, she was one of those innocent people. One minute, a person can be full of life and the next they’re gone.

She turns the point of view of the poem and asks the reader some questions. These questions have a tone of negativity and she has a sense of unfulfillment by asking “what else should I have done” and asking the question that “if everything dies at last and too soon”. This line has a connotative meaning which can conclude that the animal she connected with the most likely died or that she is afraid of death and is depressed. This is supported later on in the poem where she writes a question of what the reader “should do with their wild and precious life”. This level of unfulfillment comes back as she wishes to motivate the reader to go out and follow their dreams because death creeps up on you. The death theme at the end brings in the aspects of nature as whole and that everything

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Influential view of Death All humans must endure death, but the ways to which they endure it vary substantially. We fear death because it is mysterious, because it is perplexing, because it is something we have almost entirely no knowledge of. William Cullen Bryant scrutinizes the controversial concepts of death through the poem “Thanatopsis”. The poem exposes a different aspect of nature that is surprisingly comforting. The reader is left thinking that he or she needs to come to accept death and he or she is left thinking this way through Bryant’s development of the setting.

Chris wakes up to the sound of children screaming and crying. It was 3 o’clock in the morning when he heard the terrible sounds coming from outside his house. Before Chris gets up from his bed to see where the screams were coming he suddenly struggles for air, his head gets light headed, and his vision starts getting all cloudy. Chris quickly realizes that a shadowy figure was sitting on top of him, and choking him to death. Unaware of what's going on he starts panicking, clutching his throat with both hands he starts feeling more tightness in his throat, and before he can think of anything else he passes out.

Since the beginning of time, people have many different ways of going about the idea of death and what the afterlife may hold for them, whether they’ll be reunited with family and friends or if they’ll be reincarnated or, maybe nothing at all. This is true for writers, poets and artists. William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”, Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind” and Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” they all center their idea death, but approach it differently and conveys their points differently. One glorifies death, one says life is meaningless and the other glorifies life.

We often see ourselves reflecting on the enormity of life and the wide range of possibilities that comes with it. As if from a distant, we are strangers to our own selves, silently, patiently waiting for something to happen. We could never predict what storms lies ahead and what rainbows glistens on the horizon because we are mere wanderers to our own body, mind, and soul. We are always on a quest of a new pinnacle, and a new mountain to climb.

McCrea and Cheng have differing views on the role of identity within Joyce’s “The Dead.” McCrea argues that identity is incomplete because of the limitations of language whereas Cheng argues that the cultural atmosphere shapes identity. I, however, agree with certain aspects of both arguments. Firstly, I believe that McCrea’s focus on failed communication is needed to understand the nature of identity within “The Dead;” however, McCrea incorrectly blames everything on the failure of language, when the individual and society is also partly responsible. Therefore, I believe that Cheng’s argument, that the environment partly forms identity, is valid; however, he needlessly restricts the Conroys’ identities by directly comparing them to Britain and Ireland. I will use Cheng’s focus on a culturally formed identity in tandem with McCrea’s thematic focus on failed communication within “The Dead” to answer the question of why Gabriel Conroy’s identity fades at the end of “The Dead” (248). To answer this question, I will consider Gabriel’s personal thoughts about himself, others, and how he responds to each challenge he receives to his personhood.

I chose this poem because at one point in my life I was afraid of Death. Death was something terrifying to me that I would have dared not speak about. This poem attacks death for the coward and fraud that it is. John informs the readers that they should not be afraid of Death; death is not the end. I also have this belief. My belief is that Death is the beginning of something better and an end to the suffering of mortal life. Therefore, I really connected to this poem as it added to my personal beliefs. (This sonnet follows a Petrarchan Sonnet Structure).