How Poets Describe Their Attitude to Place in Several Works of Poetry

The four sections of Robert Frost’s poem “Acquainted with the Night” expresses the speaker’s personal effect from depression. It was inferred that Frost was in fact the speaker and he is alluding to his personal life though his writings as way to channel all his grief. It is also understood by the reader that the author is reminiscing his feelings and experiences with his struggle of depression in this poem. The poem begins with “I” and continues with that development in the beginning of each section.

At these points it is more up to the reader to imagine what the settings looked like instead of the author just stating what the places looked like. An example of this is when the author says Dally was waiting for Johnny and me under the street light at the corner of Pickett and Sutton.” Here the author says that there is a street light in a corner, this has some description, but it is up to the reader to figure out what the rest of the place looks like. The reader has to figure out whether there is a brick sidewalk or a cement one, this is good because then it will be more fun for the reader and it will keep them more entertained. The book also has really specific descriptions, such as this one, “One time there was a very specific description of the setting was when the author was describing the park. “The park was about two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming pool for the little kids. The pool was empty now in the fall, but the fountain was going merrily. Tall elm trees made the park shadowy and dark, and it would have been a good hangout, but we preferred our vacant lot, and the Shepherd outfit liked the alleys down by the tracks, so the park was left to lovers and little kids.” In this quote it shows how big the park is, that there is a pool and a fountain. The quote also says that the

Not only does this poem talk about the smells of the city and the tall skyscrapers and her crowds it also talks about its slums “Her shining towers, her avenues, her slums” (line 12). when you think of a city such as manhattan you normally think of its skyscrapers the biggest crowds of tourist that have no clue of where they are going. but you normally tend to overlook the slums and the bad parts of a large city. James Weldon Johnson expresses his love for his city even with all of its flaws by saying “ O God! the stark, unutterable pity, to be dead, and never again behold my city” (lines 13-14). He does not want to see the day that he can no longer see all the wonderful aspects of a large

When people move from one, place to another, over time that person changes. The way people act; the way the city is run changes the person, whether it would be how they talk how people act to other people. In Toni Morrison’s Jazz, the author shows the reader just how important geography is to a person’s thought process and actions. A character in Jazz named Violet Trace shows the reader just how important a change in geography can be for a person. Throughout the novel, Morrison shows the effect of migrating from the south to the north and how the city changes the way certain people think and what it could lead them to do. The concept of geography and what it does psychologically shows the reader how or why a certain person did something. The settings used by Morrison show the reader what the effect is when moving from place to another and more specifically how Violet moving from the south to the north affected her psychologically.

Good afternoon and welcome to Poetry Week. Today I will be talking to you about the topic of urban life in Australian poetry. During this presentation, I will discuss the poem Tree in the City by Thomas Shapcott and its representation of urban life. This will then be followed by how the poetic devices of metaphor and imagery are used in the poem and finally, I will compare it to the taught poem Phasing Out the Mangroves.

Through the process of writing two of his poems in River Hymns, “Dirt Cakes” and “Southern Silence,” he has reflected upon the struggle that his family had with work and using alcohol and drugs, and the way that place can change a person. He uses many descriptions and symbols to add to the relationship he has with the town. Also, Daye uses religious elements to add to the location and the unity it can bring to a group or community. Place is what the author knows best, and this is why many writers incorporate place into their stories or

Poetry is an abstract art form that gives us insight into the past, present and future, allow us to reflect on our lives and provokes thoughts and emotions. * We are Belinda and Katarina and today we will be discussing the theme of city vs bush in the poems Clancy of the Overflow by Banjo Patterson and The Call of the Bush by Dora Wilcox. *The theme of city versus bush interested us as the general opinion of the preferred lifestyle is constantly changing as time progresses, for example, we prefer today 's city lifestyle compared to the bush. These two specific poems provide information on past opinions and experiences dealing with the treatment of city versus bush.

In the poem “Chicago” I liked the line that goes as follows, “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning” This line makes the poem change perspectives. As the reader I felt as if he was going to bash the bad things that happen in such a large city. The writer is talking about violence, and poverty in the beginning. Then with this line he shows that he knows about all of this. He is not blind in thinking his city is without faults. To me the speaker sees that there are bad things about the city; he knows of the poverty and violence. He goes on to say that he is proud of his city, he has people sneer at him for loving his city but he stands his ground. He loves his city for all

     The theme of "Chicago" is how life in the city really is. The Acadamy of American Poets states that "Chicago is written so that the average working man can read it and think about his surroundings rather than to become a robot from the repetitious stress consuming him"(47-48). The Carl Sandburg page says that, Oliver Wendle Holmes, a skilled rhymester, told a young poet:

It is worth to consider that the setting plays an important role in the poem and contributes to its main theme. As we can see, the action of the poem takes place in the evening, and in the dirty place of the city that

One famous regionalist poet was Robert Frost. Frost’s work has many example of regionalist writing. Within his poetry, you get a sense of where Frost is from and you can see how he relates that to the story lines of all of his poems.

In the middle of Missouri you’d think you would probably find lots of farmland, fields of corn or wheat, cows; Old MacDonald pretty much living down the road, but that is no longer the case. Anywhere you are lucky enough to find land, the grass is shriveled up, dead and crunchy beneath your feet. Now all of the barns are filled with families rather than farm animals; more and more people are traveling to live here since the coasts are shrinking and they’ve got no place to go. I imagine they miss their old lives by the beach, I bet the coasts have a much sweeter smell than the dryness of the land here. Sometimes I see people at the edges of the river, probably reminiscing about the place they used to call home, but none dare to touch the murky

Walt Whitman was a renowned American poet and essayist whose literary works were extremely controversial in his lifetime. One of his most famous literary works is the collection of poetry titled Leaves of Grass. In the preface to the 1855 edition of leaves of grass, Whitman greatly shows his admiration of America. This first becomes apparent with the statement “The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem” (Whitman para. 2). By this Whitman is referring that America is the central poem and the individuals whom inhabit America as the poets. This almost seems to be a metaphor for the fact that each individual living in America,

“I began to like New York,” Nick Carraway explains, “the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye” (Fitzgerald 56-57). It is that “flicker” described in The Great Gatsby that attracts “restless” men and women eager to be free from the scrutiny of the country and lose themselves in the city. Reinforcing Fitzgerald’s suggestions, Iris Marion Young, in City Life and Difference, wrote that the metropolis fosters “an attraction to the other, the pleasure and excitement of being drawn out of one's secure routine to encounter the novel, strange, and surprising” (Young 266). Unlike a life lived in the country, urban culture, structure, and crowds promote and even values instinct, and hence, a general sense of freedom. Becoming one in a crowd creates the opportunity of anonymity, allowing an escape from the boundaries of established social expectations. Two short stories separated in time by merely a half-century, Henry James’s 1899 “‘Europe’’ and John Cheever’s 1954 “The Country Husband,” are both set in the “suburbs,” yet both incorporate the city. Their authors are keen on establishing the suburban landscape as one of constricted emotional living. The protagonists’ experience is framed by tradition and scrutinized by others, and they are not free to express themselves. With the influence of the “city”-- New York as well as any other imagined European locations, past and present

Margaret Atwood uses language to display how she dislikes uniformity to create a monotony atmosphere towards city life in her poem The City Planners. She does this by using interesting diction, imagery, similes and metaphors and grammatical techniques to develop the mood.