Literary Analysis Of Tuesday 9 : 00 AM By Denver Butson

In this poem there is a lot of figurative language. One of the biggest types of figurative language used in this poem is irony. The irony in this poem is how the mother wouldn't let her child go to march because she feared her child would get hurt. Instead she sent her child to church because she believed it was a safe and sacred place but ironically the church ended up being bombed. Another piece of figurative language that is very effective in this poem is imagery. The way the poem is written helps me create images in my head for example, "She raced through the streets of Birmingham." I can imagine her running around desperately, looking for her child. The metaphors and hyperboles in this poem also help with the imagery, for example, "...night dark hair," and "…rose-petal sweet." These metaphors make me think of the girls smoothly combed black hair and her fresh and beautiful rosy smell. A hyperbole that had a huge effect on the tone was, "But that smile was the last smile to ever come upon her face." This hyperbole really helps me understand the effect of a tragic moment like this and how it can completely ruin

Secondly, the author uses word choice to show the speakers overall sorrow. Throughout the whole poem there are word scattered everywhere that describe the general emotion of sorrow, some of those word being “restless” (19), “torment”, and “troubled” (4). These words instantly give the connotation of feelings like despair and sadness. The speaker also uses literary elements such as simile to express sorrow, like when she says “These troubles of the heart/ are like unwashed clothes” (27, 28). Everyday people usually do not pay much mind to unwashed clothes, and usually look at it as something unimportant or irrelevant. When the speaker compares her internal troubles to something that holds little importance to everyday life and is also seen as unpleasant, the readers really get a look into the sorrow and sadness that the speaker is truly feeling. The speaker also uses word choice to help show the readers the true intensity of what she is going through.

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

Secondly, the speaker of the poem can be described as underprivileged, and this is shown throughout the entire poem. For example, line 1 of the poem it states "some are teethed on a silver spoon” and line 5 it states "some are swaddled in silk and down”. This shows that the speaker is not the same as the person who is teethed on a silver spoon or cared for very carefully. This inclusion also shows that the speaker was not born into a wealthy family and so the speaker must fight for what they need pertaining to themselves and the family.

Construct a close reading of this poem that demonstrates your awareness of the poet’s body of work.

The poem suddenly becomes much darker in the last stanza and a Billy Collins explains how teachers, students or general readers of poetry ‘torture’ a poem by being what he believes is cruelly analytical. He says, “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it”. Here, the poem is being personified yet again and this brings about an almost human connection between the reader and the poem. This use of personification is effective as it makes the

Throughout the poem, the author creates different tones using different types of figurative language and diction. The poet starts off the poem with the metaphor, “Although she feeds me

Prompt: Write a unified essay in which you relate the imagery of the last stanza to the speaker’s view of himself earlier in the poem and to his view of how others see poets.

Readers are aware of this ambiguity. Here the heaviest flashback thoughts and the short-lasting issue set up a continuing contrast throughout the poem, which enchants its effect.

The poem also touches on many struggles that life has in general. In the poem’s narrative, challenge is constant and death always waits. Although somewhat exaggerated, this is quite similar to our daily lives. True, there are many victories in life; such as when Beowulf killed Grendel and his mother, but in the end even a hero’s life is claimed by old

The form of this poem separates each perspective into single stanzas, and each stanza represents a story of the suffering people experienced. In the same way, the Hurricane Katrina crisis is just one of the many circumstances which serve as an apparent reminder of racisms hold on American society, and how the media ineffectively engages in issues concerning black people. In America, black people have been placed at the very bottom of society, and the rest of society fears to put attention on their afflictions because it may very well reflect how broken the American system is. One person states in their interview how they were afraid to use a flashlight and see all the damages because “it was all black” and they “didn’t want to shine a light

The common theme is that the narrator of both the story and the poem is that they give a helping hand. They want to make sure that everyone has what they need to work or get to where they need to be. The narrator in the story clears the sidewalk for the kids to walk on, to get to school or just to walk. The narrator in the poem wants to help the people in the town with their jobs. He wants to be able to say he contributed to making the town better. Both narrators dedicate their lives to lending a hand. They do it even when no one else will help them out. They get joy out of helping the others in the town. They don’t care if they don’t get help back.

Science fiction movies often depict the consequences of failing to slow the damage to the environment in the science fiction movie, The Day After Tomorrow, the weather on earth begins to do strange things. The ice caps start to melt and break, tornados rip through Hollywood, and tsunamis flood the coast. Jack Hall, a climatologist, explains global warming and the melting of the ice caps is to blame for this weather. He predicts the North Atlantic current will shut down, and the northern states will see the next ice age. The vice president dismisses his claims until his predictions come true in the following days. Eventually, the air in the north gets so cold that people seem to freeze within seconds resulting in a nearly unsurvivable ice age where people in the north must stay inside near a fire to survive. The dystopian future depicted in the movie The Day After Tomorrow reflect societal anxieties about earth’s changing climate.

So it all comes together that the guy telling the story is not really the nicest he is demanding and hash and more but the people that are working are calm and just want to get the harvest done with no colomcations but one other thing it not just factory workers it's more then that there is packing workers,hog buyers,factory worker and i bet there is more but i feel like this poem is harsh calm and forceful. There happy a well bc there alive not dead.What i get out of the poem is that there is the happy people and i feel like the other half is not to happy because there working and working non stop and the others are happy that there alive that they have a family that loves them instead of not working and get in truble of not making enough

The short stanzas containing powerful imagery overwhelm the readers forcing them to imagine the oppression that the speaker went through in