In What Ways do the Poets Studied Write about Childhood Experiences?

Poems consist of a variation of different techniques in order to convey a message or idea to readers. Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, Adrienne Rich, Bruce Dawe and Robert Browning are great poets who explore these issues, conveying their emotions, which influences a perception of an issue. In each of their poems they express the hidden message of hope, along with their main message. They use similar techniques to express their ideas, which illustrates their purpose to the reader.

In order to appreciate a poem properly, care must be taken to analyze and understand many different facets of the work. Poems are often very complex and require a great deal of thought in order to arrive at the intended meaning. At the very least, three particular items of information must be uncovered during the reading of poetry. An experienced reader of poetry will always determine the identity of the speaker, the occasion of the speech, and the central idea of the poem.

Prompt: Write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the poem's organization, diction, and figurative language prepare the reader for the speaker's concluding response.

Poetry, what first comes to mind? If your anything like me, poetry can seem somewhat monotonous, rather like a locked door exclusive, complicated, and hard to understand. I think poetry tends to be a big game of “Guess what I’m thinking!” and I hate that game. I’m not a mind-reader. I think a lot of people who get excited about poetry are really pretentious. This possibly comes from believing that they actually can guess what other people are thinking. When we think poetry, we tend to know poetry by it’s traditional forms of having sonnets, ballads, often rhyming (but not always) and they tend to have a specific and symmetrical structure (APA). Throughout this essay I wanted to consider poetry through different explorations and how subverting the traditional conventions of poetry might be an effective way of engagement or in an opposing way of demotivating the reader.

I wanted to write a poem with an extreme shift in tone and mood that would possibly result in the enhancing of the deeper parts of the poem. To test this I took the same topic/theme of two of the poems from this set and attempted to portray it in a different light. This theme/topic being exploring the feelings and emotions tied to unrequited love.

A father can be a son’s highest goal or lowest point, and it is all about how the father treats the son. In Li-Young Lee’s “Mnemonic,” Lee acknowledges his shortcomings that his father would not have been approved of. In Langston Hughes’s “Mulatto,” the father neglects his son and ignores his abuse of the mother. In James Masao Mitsui’s poem “Because of My Father’s Job,” the father has influenced the author’s life and how he sees himself. In these principle poems, each father takes a different approach to being a father. One of them holds himself highly. Another one neglects his responsibilities. The final one impacts the son’s entire life. A father is a son’s first role model, and the template in which the son is built after, but sometimes that template is not to the son’s liking.

Dillard, Rose and Cisneros all wrote about childhood. Dillard and Cisneros wrote short stories that occurred when they were a child, while Rose wrote described her life from childhood to life in high school. Common themes in all three readings were childhood, learning and exploring and expanding limits and knowledge. In all three readings, they were lessons about life. The children were learning things about life.

symbolic richness, but at the same time the poem supplies the reader with a wide

symbolic richness, but at the same time the poem supplies the reader with a wide

The story, ¨Girl¨ by Jamaica Kincaid, and the poem, ¨It¨ by Rudyard Kipling, are both similar and different. Both stories are about children learning how to become an adult. The stories have different tones, harsh and gentle, but they have similar themes. The theme of both texts is to listen to your parents because they are trying to help you. Both texts, ¨Girl¨ and ¨If¨, have two similarities and one difference.

​​Audre Lorde is Caribbean-American who lived a rough life. Her poetry explains what she is dealing with, and how she feels with the things she is facing. The two text that will be covered throughout this paper are “Zami: A new spelling of my name” and “Cancer journal.” During the time period of her life she have writing her syntax and structure in her writing, by what was happening in the time era of her life. I will show the time period of her two novels, and her three poems on how Lorde wrote them similar and different from one another. Also will look at, how she changed in her writing. During the close reading of both the text I will bring up the queer theory: gay and lesbian criticism, and a historical survey of literary criticism.

poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and

The poet uses a lot of emotive language in this poem to try and make

The reader must participate in the making of the poem or story by digging the structure out and create coherence out of the seeming incoherence. Therefore, the search for meaning, even if it does not succeed, becomes meaningful itself.

Q: In some poems what is described is given a meaning beyond the immediately obvious. Explore any one of the poems where this feature is most memorable.