Loneliness In James Wright's A Blessing

I think that this poem mostly portraits death. I feel like this poem is really dark. Towards the end though, the girl in the poem showed some signs of hope. My butterfly will be black to represent the darkness in the poem. Also I will add a black Star of David to represent hatred Nazis had for Jews and the hatred Jews had for Nazis. I will also include a grey skull just as a representation of death. Then I will have surrounding pictures of poor Jewish kids that had to suffer during the Holocaust in the background. It wasn’t until the very end she actually show signs of hope. Most of my butterfly will be black because I need to the main of focus to be that in this poem there was no bright side. It is death, fear, and sickness wrapped in a little

Two ordinary farmers, neighbors, mending the fence that divides their property. The narrator establishes the idea of separation early and maintains it consistently throughout the poem. The neighbors always mend while keeping the fence between them, careful not to deviate. Although the point of contention is not controversial per say, it demonstrates the social outlook on separation and inexorability of social boundaries. When the narrator questions the need for a fence where only trees grow, the neighbors only reply, “good fences make good neighbors” was a strong metaphor for the rigidity of modern society at that time. The narrator questions the neighbor on his reasoning while subtly suggesting that maybe such seclusion could be to one’s own detriment. Unwavering in his viewpoint, the neighbor succumbs to pride and hand-me-down morals regardless of their overt

The author brings ideas that I related to the word loneliness. Sometimes I feel loneliness, but this poem is no about me but it relate in what happened to me.

She expresses that although she did not physically endure the war, she had carried the suffering throughout her entire life. This poem influences the readers by making them appreciate the life we have been given, the loving families we have and how blessed we are as humans of the 21st century to live in a time of being exposed to very minimal conflict. It makes all of our problems seem extremely insignificant. Not only does ‘Cast Out’ have a great influence on us now, the impact that this poem would have had during the time of the war would have been a major eye opener to the public to fully comprehend the full extent of the damage that was being done by the Nazis. Unfortunately, this was a devastating reality for thousands of other young children all across Germany at the time, therefore meaning “Cast Out” would have been an amazing piece of literature that young children could have related their own personal experiences

We can reach this conclusion based off of specific lines from the poem. Some examples include, the “deported” date of 1942, and the use of the word “Zyklon,” a poisonous gas used by Nazis in concentration camps. Besides these two clues, the rest of the poem can be connected to the Holocaust by those who have a knowledge of it, or those who can add history to the words. With general knowledge of the Holocaust we can go back and see references like the words “undesirables,” “untouchable,” and “pass over.” We can also reference the line “As estimated, you died.

So this poem reminds me of the story the ugly duckling because the duck is by its self and it has no friends or real home to go to thats what the poem is really trying to say. "How deary to be somebody how public like a frog" when everyone sees a frog in public they usually run or really dosent

Also, I do not think the “black milk” in the poem really means chocolate milk or milk of some sort, because the Nazi concentration camps are best known for inhumane treatment, maybe the color “black” instead of normal milk color “white” is to show the horrible life in the

Loneliness is an emotion that stems from its opposite, a relationship. The strongest emotions can be found when one feels wronged, such is the how a relationship and loneliness can be. Steinbeck creates a complex emotion with loneliness in the way he applies it to his characters. Steinbeck’s character’s loneliness is associated with a relationship they are in, or were in previously, and is an underlying emotions in their decisions.

    Another effective literary device used in the poem is the first person narrative in which the narrator identifies with those victims which he describes. This is seen in the case where the narrator says "I am Dreyfus", or "Anne Frank, I am she." The narrator does not claim to understand what the feelings and thoughts of these  people are, but rather, he is acknowledging the fact that they are feeling, "detested and denounced" and that unlike the rest of the world who turned its head, or the Russians who actually abetted such heinous crimes, this gentile narrator can not empathize, but does sympathize with his Jewish "brethren."

In this poem, the main characters, the neighbors, are in a constant battle with the narrator. They try explaining to the narrator how this wall has brought them together. It allows them to stay up in each others lives and keep their friendship stable. The neighbors share with the narrator that this wall is not pointless. This wall keeps them together but the narrator is still unable to see the point in this, “He is

Krystyna's story and Pavel Friedmann are alike and different in many ways. I think the poem was referring to the jews as the butterflies. Krystyna was one of those butterflies. The Jews were normal people that were killed just for what they believe in. Adolf Hitler is a monster for doing this. “The Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, But it was a human tragedy.” - Simon Wiesenthal - Holocaust survivor “ It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be

This allows the reader to in a way see inside Plath’s mind and see the anger and dark thoughts that she has. The vivid imagery allows the reader to relate to her and to her poem. For example, someone who has had a near death experience, or if they have failed an attempted suicide, or maybe that they have similar dark thoughts like Plath does. Even if a reader does not have these kind of thoughts, they can still enjoy Plath’s poem because it is interesting to see into the mind of somebody who has different thoughts than them. The allusions used are very broad and well known topics like the holocaust, so even if someone does not have many dark thoughts like Plath, they will still know about the holocaust.

This poem is about Bishop in the waiting room waiting for her aunt at the dentist. Bishop was a little girl and was looking at pictures. She discovered an article on a volcano and read of disaster, and death. She looked in the picture and saw people covered in ash. She became afraid of the volcano, thinking she could become one of the people covered underneath that volcano ash. She felt no different then the others. Bishop was having flashbacks, “Then I was back in it. The War was on. Outside, in Worcester, Massachusetts, were night and slush and cold, and it was still the fifth of February, 1918” (In the waiting room). Bishop was comparing the heavy snowfall outside to the volcanic ash that covered all the people inside the magazine. She felt that there could be so much snow fall that everyone including herself would become trapped underneath this blanket of snow and nobody would be able to save

I really enjoyed reading this poem because it challenged me to think about why are the Jewish people the chosen people but then yet again they still suffered. This question was brought up throughout the story especially at the beginning when she says “God of Mercy” in satirical way but it reminded me when I would see all of the violence broke out in my home country where people would break into synagogues and just begging to shoot anyone or they would break into people homes, it reminded me how angry I was with god and I would ask similar questions like Molodowsky, of why does my country have to face these crimes? Even though this reading was enjoyable to read I found it a bit challenging as I read because I had many feelings that I had suppressed for a while with the current situation in my country. I could really sympathies with Modolodowsky because I was in the same position in which I was extremely angry which lead me to stop believing in a hire power because we are told that god will fix things and help make everything better, but where is he when we have innocent people being

.The hypothetical speaker, a German Jew, is concerned about Jews' conditions, regarding in particular homeless people, social differences .Those make the song no less ominous. Death is present throughout and the poem ends with the image of the soldiers looking for the