Herot Hall: Poem Analysis

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

The lake itself plays a major role throughout the story, as it mirrors the characters almost exactly. For example, the lake is described as being “fetid and

Another literary element that offer meaning to the poem is imagery, by simply allowing the readers to envision the events of the story. In the first part of the story (129-134), Beowulf is described as coming over “seas beating at the sand” while “the ship foamed through the sea like a bird.” This scene truly guides the readers to admire the vivid description of how proud and tough the ship looks. This ship in this case, becomes a metonymy for Beowulf himself, who is certainly proud and strong, resulting in the readers’ admiration. Additional imagery is used describing the mere, or lake, discussed above, with “storms [an] waves splash[ing] towards the sky, as dark as the air as black as the rain that the heavens weep” (440-442). This clearly illustrates how dreadful Grendel and his mothers’ home is. It intensely aids us to picture how grotesquely unpleasant the lake actually is. Near the end of the tale (lines 651-653], Beowulf “[strides] with his shield at his side and a mail shirt of his breast….. Toward the tower, under the rocky cliffs.” While Beowulf awaits the battle, the description of his armor and the details of each entry help us to respect how ready he is for his concluding battle. Even as an elderly man, Beowulf is a hero beyond compare. In closing, the use of imagery greatly enriches the readers’ experience of this heroic epic.

The author symbolizes the water as transition and spirituality, the lake is symbolized as the elusive badness the boys want so badly. The narrator notices that none of them are as bad as they try to act. After that night the narrator realizes he cannot make it in that life, rather the narrator wants to go to the safety and security of his home and parents.

This passage is symbolic to the point that it relates to the boys. Life is like the lake as in life can bring clarity and peacefulness or it can be murky and destructive. To the Narrator the Lake is a crucial life changing moment when he realizes that he is just a child and not this bad ass who can take on the world. “I was nineteen, a mere child, an infant, and here in the space of five minutes I’d struck down one greasy character and blundered into the waterlogged carcass of a second” (125).

A. The basic elements of the piece interior of Tintern Abbey by J.M.W. Turner is

Dan my dearest Honey Pooh Bear, One day we meet thru our keyboards, we had made plans to meet this month but by beng a hero once again, you was taken away from me and never had the chance to finally meet you other then thru our keyboards. You became more then a friend to me, you gave me love, warmth, and you helped me get thru my lonely and dark days, never gave up on me but was always giving me your strength to carry me thru. Our love will be sealed in my heart until we can meet again. I miss you so much at the end of my keyboard, we had enjoyed all our private talks about feelings, our lives, our countries, our needs and most of all our fears. No one can take that from us. When you went into your

Donald Hall’s poetry career started at a young age when he focused on the way his poetry looked rather than what was being said. Then he shifted his focus to his and became in touch with his vatic voice. Donald Hall’s vatic voice influenced his poetry greatly this made his poetry is unique because of the extraordinarily metaphorical and philosophical things the vatic voice told him. Hall also wrote about events in his life such as his wife being diagnosed with cancer and her death. Hall’s writing process can be seen as a blessing and a curse, it can be seen as a blessing because he is able to hear what a higher power is telling him. It can be seen as a curse because when he was in a certain mood he would constantly hear voices and for

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” declared by an influential leader Martin Luther King Jr. As a soldier againsts unfairness, King strongly states that people should fight for freedom. Driven by human nature, humans are always chasing freedom. In “A Century Later,” the Pakistan-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker uses the poetic devices of symbolism, diction, and allusion to explore how perseverance drives freedom.

In the poems “Dulce et Decorum Est,” by Wilfred Owen and “The Soldier,” by Rupert Brooke the authors tend to use diction, figurative language, and voice to express their attitudes towards the war. While they both use similar characteristics towards the war they also have highly different ones. The first poem, “The soldier” uses diction, rhyme scheme, personification, and voice to show that he thinks it is great honor to die trying to fight for your country. In the poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est” the author uses voice, rhyme scheme, similes, imagery, and diction to express that while fighting for your country is great you truly don’t know the great horror men go through.

"Is there anybody there?  said the Traveller, knocking on the moonlit door; and his horse in the silence champed the grass of the forest's ferny floor" (De La Mare, 1-4) and in a dreamlike manner, the scene is set.  "The Listeners" by Walter Del La Mare is a dark and spooky poem with an unexpected ending.  It is about a "traveller" who rides through an eerie forest in the middle of the night in search of someone.  His travels lead him to a quiet house where no one answers his call. However, he feels the presence of someone in the house and calls out to them, but "the listeners" don't budge to answer him.  The poem is deep and dark, and leaves many

“Ballad of the Landlord” is a poem by Langston Hughes that shows the struggles of a black man in a white society. There are opposing forces that make this black man suffer and he gets no retribution or any justice for the things that the people accuse him of. Through each of these voices the poem is thoroughly explained and can be analysed in such a way. The forces in this poem is the tenant, landlord, police, and the press. Each one of these forces shows the racial struggles of an innocent black man.

Beowulf is one of the great heroic poems in English literature. The epic follows a courageous warrior named Beowulf throughout his young, adult life and into his old age. As a young man, Beowulf becomes a legendary hero when he saves the land of the Danes from the hellish creatures, Grendel and his mother. Later, after fifty years pass, Beowulf is an old man and a great king of the Geats. A monstrous dragon soon invades his peaceful kingdom and he defends his people courageously, dying in the process. His body is burned and his ashes are placed in a cave by the sea. By placing his ashes in the seaside cave, people passing by will always remember the legendary hero and king, Beowulf.

These are some of the chosen lines of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s from his poetic work; I will start my claim to peruse my viewpoint by above mention reference because it is relevant about the subject matter, in addition, these are from the poem of “The Lady of Shalott.” Then the second thing is, it’s about mythical LANDSCAPE - among Tennyson's finest achievements that symbolize states of human consciousness; the dreamlike quality of his vision, combined with his ability to see at close range with preternatural clarity and detail, rendered his dreams more vivid than our realities. Ultimately it will get me to explore the THEMES of REALITY and FANTASY from his poetic diction.