How Does Billy Collins Use Allusion In The Larnard

Being this “goody two shoes” type of girl is tiring and boring. The middle/end of the poem talks about the mother's view of the “ charity children.”

However, to look at the poem more thoroughly, the use of nouns and grammar is also important. The first part of the poem contains a total of twelve nouns within four sentences. These twelve nouns only contain two actual persons, the narrators' mother and a referral to Saint Theresa; these two people have similar maternal qualities. The positioning of commas and full stops are equally important as they emphasis the importance to objects and also gives the poem tension. But because of all the commas and full stops, I found it hard to find a repetitive rhythm and will go along with the conclusion that there is not one. There are two very short anaphoric sentences which make those items placed into the bag appear important to the narrator in some way, as if they have more then a practical use to them and are symbolic. These two sentences were "Passport" (line7) and "A key" (line 8). However in the second part of the poem there are 6 sentences containing 10 nouns; these nouns are more spaced apart unlike those that appear as if listed in the first part of the poem. The proceeding lines are more

In Stevie Smith’s narrative poem To Carry the Child, he writes the experience of a resentful child towards his parent and their overprotective tendencies. The theme of this poem is the dependence a child can have toward others, and how others influence that reliance. The use of the word “carry” creates an image of a child being carried through life instead of learning to walk. With the child being held in someone’s arms, there is no opportunity to trip and fall, step into a puddle or make mistakes that can be learned from. To demonstrate, a simple task such as walking should be relatively safe, but when a parent insists on carrying the child instead of allowing them to learn to walk, their growth is stunted. Smith’s poem aggrandizes the results of children who do not have enough life experience as a result of overprotective parental behaviors.

In the poem by Billy Collins "The Lanyard", the speaker thought back to his childhood where he made a lanyard as a gift to his mother trying to appreciate what she had done for him. The poem presentes the center theme that having the thoughts of being grateful to one’s mother is important than the object that one’s give, through the mechanism of repetition and flashback. Repetition is used a lot in this poem to convey the central theme, "and here is your lanyard"(Collins 29). The repetition of this line appeared several times in the later half of the poem. One of its minor effect is to create a comedic effect which readers might get a sense of humor when reading the poem for it is compared with the gifts that his mother have given to him.

We have all had those memorable moments that send us back in time; a song on the radio, the smell of cookies baking, driving in the car. They make you think of good times passed. But Billy Collins’s poem, “The Lanyard”, is not only a recollection of the past, but a personal insight to about the things his mother has done for him and what he has done in return.

Throughout the novel, Jim Burden, the narrator, makes numerous references to various texts, plays, and other literary works. Such allusions help to bring understanding to the book and add a sense of detail to the overall meaning. In this passage, the literary device of allusion is employed again, this time to the text “Georgics” by Virgil. This text explores the lifestyle, practices, and meaning of rural life and agriculture. This connects primarily to Jim as he and Ántonia were raised on farms. By connecting the book to this reference allows the reader to gain a broader and more enlightened comprehension of the novel. Both of these texts are quite similar with copious parallels that all help to depict the life of growing up in the country.

In the second stanza, he says in the poem “you at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape” this creates a metaphor for the feelings when the mother and child are connected by the umbilical cord, creating the reader too see as another metaphor his feelings towards his mother. This affected the way I thought of the mother, as the bond is close and they start with a tight connection with one another. The mother has a connection with her child that no one else will be able to have, she just has to trust that he will come back to her when he needs her. This could also be a metaphor as the measuring tape is every centimetre through the years from the child being born too him turning into an adult, and the relationship that is built with his mother. Throughout the poem there are a lot of metaphors that give the whole poem the feeling that the child is becoming more independent and is exploring, with the reassurance that he is still connected to his mother, no matter what happens. I agree with this, as a child needs to know that they can go and develop and learn, but have that knowledge that they can go somewhere safe. Therefore, this metaphor effected my feelings towards the mother as it was a way of showing the connection and the support the son still needs. Armitage ends the third stanza finishing the poem off with “to fall or fly” this is a metaphor of the son stepping out of his comfort safe

In her 220-page novel, first published in 1984, Boyd takes us on a journey and shows us how a young girl with a hard life must step it up to keep her family together, by any means necessary. On it we see at certain points young Mattie experiencing difficult times, both personal and financial. Under these pressures, she gives into her darker side and allows and is even pushed to steal. Mattie knows that mother’s day is coming up, and for mother’s day she wants to get her mom something really nice. So one day her and Toni go to the mall, then they walk into this jewelry store and there it was, so precious, a golden pin with a single moon pearl in the middle of it. She concluded that it would the perfect Mother’s Day gift, but only it she could afford it she didn’t have a dime. Later that night in her bed she thought to herself, “I need to get that pin, but how will I get it?” Then she figured that she would just have to take it. The next day before

On March 22, 194,1 in New York City, the world welcomed a literary genius into existence. William (Billy) James Collins found a love for words, spoken and written, through his mother’s encouragement for him to read both poetry and prose at a young age. Collins was determined throughout his life to be considered a “doctor of the English language,” and at the age of seventy-five, he has undeniably accomplished that goal. Taking a closer look at Collins’s writing style and sense of humor helps one to more accurately examine his poems, particularly, his famous work entitled “Litany.”

In “Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan, the tribulations and joys of life are exemplified in an extended metaphor of a mom watching her little girl learn to ride a bike.The free verse poem with no structured rhyme scheme enhances the theme of the poem by demonstrating how life just happens. There is no guide to life, no manual to go by where the end goal is shown and the path to get there is outlined. Like there is no guide to life, there is no guide to parenting. A parent is given a child to take care of and lead along a path they too are finding their way in. The shorts lines in the poem show the quick pace time flies by in parents’ eyes as they watch their kids grow up. Pastan writes , “ the hair flapping/ behind you like a/ handkerchief waving/ goodbye” (Arp 856). The fast paced rhythm demonstrates how in a such a quick moment the sense of a goodbye became too real for the parents. In a blink of an eye, the little girls rides away in the bike, no longer needing her mom to hold her steady. A sad departure, it illustrates the bitter love a parent holds for their kids for they know one day they will leave. The free verse poem and its fast paced rhythm evoked by the short lines, enhances the extended metaphor of life and the bitter love of parenting.

The last stanza goes into great detail about how even though the author’s father did so much for his son on a daily basis, the son was still an ungrateful person. In this poem the author does a good job of showing how a father’s love for his son can be a major driving force that would cause a dad to work so hard every day to provide for his son even if his son was unappreciative. Throughout the poem, the speaker’s remorseful tone is indicative of his feelings of regret and sadness towards his own apathy about his father’s will for him to have a good life. In the first stanza the author is sad because he feels like he never got the chance to tell his dad thanks for all the hard work he put in to provide for his family.

The last stanza f the narrator, speaks indifferently to the father who gets up early to work and warm the house for his family and also polishes the son shoes. The polished shoes symbolize the father's kindness towards his son while working ungratefully to make his life easier. His father works hard so that the child can have a more comfortable and privileged life.

Some say when a baby is born, a mother’s love is the strongest and most powerful thing in the world. As the baby grows, the mother’s love matures and never waivers. John McPhee demonstrates this concept of a mother’s love in his piece, Silk Parachute. In the passage, McPhee recalls some of the memories of his childhood and goes into the underlying concept of an unwavering love from his mother. In Silk Parachute, John McPhee uses the rhetorical devices of dialogue, parallel structure, and symbolism to prove that no matter what happens, a mother’s love never fails.

In the last stanza, Davies uses enjambment in lines 7 and 8 to keep the poem aesthetically pleasing, but also to follow the length of the other lines. The enjambment used between lines 7 and 8, lead the reader to reread both lines and to accumulate an idea between the two line. Overall, the author clearly shows her feelings of guilt, sorrow, and how she could have done more to help her friend. The poem is brief, but it conveys many feelings for the audience and it seems as if Davies wants the readers to reflect upon a similar situation to hers. Mary Carolyn Davies's poem shows that if she has a chance to go back in time, she would have helped her friend in every way, but if not, she knows that in the future, she will not make the same mistake of neglecting her friend

Knitting by Amy Olson-Binder is a short peom about the idea of the baby’s cells growing together when the mother has pregnant. The writer shows three things that people have to experience in life as the sadness, loss, and shatterer. In this poem, the author uses the simple language, structure, and symbolism but the images are strong. It provides the reader the depth of emotion, a deep sadness and sense of loss. The symbolism of the poem emerges into a knitting, it also represent the mother’s point of view that is literally knitting glittle garments in the winter season in the United State.