Lydia Davis's Heart

“One Art” is a villanelle filled with sad sentiments of encouragement towards accepting loss. Elizabeth Bishop uses her tone to pull emotions from the reader that could be confusion and disagreement. Her tone deeply impacts the reader in such a way that it causes him/her to seriously think of accepting her opinion and advice. The capturing way she uses her tone in her word choice shows the reader her natural inflexion when she speaks. The tone of her work even affects her characterization. In “One Art,” Elizabeth Bishop uses tone to convey a character of false casualty, while also using it to emphasize the very heavy impact of her diction.

Although the poem “Annabel Lee,” is a darker poem about losing someone, it still mentions the theme of love and how it can take over a person. To add on, the poem “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart),” was more of a warm poem about love and the happiness it brings. The theme of love is presented in both of the poems and Cummings wanted the reader to know that love can fill a person’s heart and heal it, but can also break it and leave a permanent scar on someone. Both of the poems have a sense of attachment towards the narrator’s loved one. This expresses the fact that they cannot live without them because they are their whole world. The two poems carry the theme of love in a person's heart and shows that love can bring both negative and positive feelings in one’s life. Clearly, the two poems “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe and “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)” by E E Cummings, share many similarities due to the theme of love, the emotions, and feelings it can convey to the

All times, the disappearance of cherishable beings brings people unbearable agony. Eventually, they cry, and then suffer more heartache, yet the attitudes when confronting a farewell vary dynamically within individuals. In Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”, both speakers experience a painful loss. However, while Thomas strongly opposes the undeniable fact of his father’s death process, Bishop reluctantly accepts the departure of her beloved. The two speakers react differently to recover from the ineluctable sadness, to regain inner peace. In the end, the poems’ comparison concludes losing valued relations is distressingly unavoidable, and that there is no ideal way to cope with losses. Therefore,

To some people, poetry may not seem to be very applicable or entertaining. Poetry is a way to express one’s feelings and ideas and to inspire its readers. To understand poetry and to get a sense of what the poet is trying to convey, one must analyze the poem to see why and how it is compelling to the reader. In her poem “Eagle Poem,” Joy Harjo appealingly writes about the spiritual connection to the circle of life and prayer. The poem “The Street” by Octavio Paz is about life and the choices one makes. In this poem, there is a deeper meaning presented through the theme of isolation, identity, and the choices one makes in life. The last poem to be analyzed is “Remember” by Joy Harjo which accentuates the importance of nature and where

Although the reality of the situation is brutal, “Head tells heart how it is, again” (line 3). The word “again” reveals the reoccurrence of the event. The poem is broken by line 4, “You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.” Davis breaks the flow of the poem to tell us the important message of this poem. The point of view switches from third person to second person in line 4, and the line begins with “you”, creating a personal connection between the poet and reader. It is as if Davis is speaking directly to the audience. This line is also longer than the others, revealing its importance. The use of “then” in the following line prepares the reader for a change. The heart quickly returns to a state of agony again: “But the words of the head do not remain long in the

Heartbreak can be defined as: overwhelming distress. When a person is heartbroken the deep emotions and stress they feel takes over their life to a point where, sometimes, you can’t function doing anything besides thinking of your own heartbreak. In the poem “Head, Heart,” written by Lydia Davis, it displays a very person conversation between the head and the heart during an emotional time. This poem is very universal, and very personal to almost all people. It is very unlikely that someone would read this poem and not relate to the emotions it conveys. This poem uses personification and menotomy for “head” and “heart” as if they are people. This poem means to show its readers what it’s like on the inside to be heartbroken by something.

Yet, on this occasion, they are to promote a message of total desolation following the departure of a companion in “eros”, or romantic desire. Since their exodus from the relationship, the persona’s lover has left an “emptiness [that] has hurt/ all thought” - which is a remarkable oxymoron that uncovers the powerful ability of the vacuum caused by someone’s absence cause such pain to another. Here, it is the absence of the “quiet sound” of the partner’s “flower tender voice”. Heaney effectively conveys the persona’s inability to love life whilst the person whom they love does not love them, which creates a sense of depression for the reader and is an idea which they might feel compelled to contend

Humans experience loss throughout their lives. In Bishop’s personal poem, it lays the foundation of how it feels to experience losing love. Years ago, Bishop’s lover committed suicide which led her to express her emotions in this poem. Through her ironic tone and diction the shift from denial to hurt to acceptance is shown in all its truth in this poem. “One Art” shows it’s audience the importance of mastering this inevitable human experience.

Both Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Dirge Without Music” and Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” are poems that discuss the emotional repercussions of death and dying. Grieving the loss of a loved one can be an extremely excruciating experience. At times one may feel suffocated by the sorrow and are desperate for a way to find relief from these intense emotions that are apparent in the grieving process. This is where works of literature can be therapeutic when dealing with difficult emotions. Poetry can be extremely helpful in this sense as one of its purposes is to emphasize certain feelings, ones that we feel but are not sure how to process. It can bring to life what we wish we could do or say, but are not able to. By cross-referencing

Using a pensive and sorrowful tone, Bronte portrays her sadness for a love cut short by her death, and her regret that she is forgetting her memories of her lover. ‘Helena’ complements this with the emotional lyric My Chemical Romance’s singer, Gerard Way, wrote about the painful passing of his beloved grandmother whilst he was on tour, and how he felt he neglected her due to his travels. Obviously, as this song was written about his grandmothers passing, the theme is death. This is supported by the line where it says ‘and like a blade you stain, well I’ve been holding on tonight’, which is a metaphor for how the death of his grandmother has stained his heart, (possibly meaning he is ‘cut up’ about her death),he can’t forget her nor let go of his guilt for leaving her before she died. Both ‘Helena’ and ‘Remembrance’ complement each other due to the fact that they both speak of a lifetime terminated too early. The tone of ‘Helena’ is mournful but angry, perhaps at himself for not being there when he lost a love one, one could even say fervent and regretful, for example, when he says ‘you are the very hurt you sold’ which reflects his hurting and how he was angry towards others because he was angry with himself, ‘we are so far from you’ which depicts his realisation that he will never see his grandmother again, and ‘every star fall brought you to tears again’, which tells of how every little thing that reminded him of her brought him to grief. Both poems

Love, if it is healthy or not, is still one of the major feelings that make us excuse another person’s actions. That is because of the aching, longing, soul binding sum of experiences that keep us tethered to this other person. Robert Graves captures all of this nearly perfectly in this five-stanza poem. Symptoms of Love is exceedingly relatable for many, and it can be taken from many perspectives. Letting go of the illusion that we had control in the first place and seeing both sides of the road of love gives us a deeper appreciation for love.

In this literary analysis it is essential to compare and contrast Cathy Song’s poem “Heaven” and Bryan Thao Worra’s poem “Pen/Sword” to give the reader a better understanding of what the authors’ are conveying to their readers. The similarities in the style, word choice, and theme will be compared, along with the differences of style, word choice, and theme reflected throughout each poem. Furthermore, I will determine the meaning behind the broken up and/or the way the lines of each poem while describing why the lines are strategically placed throughout the pieces. This will allow me to identify the meaning that the authors’ are explaining to the reader. Each poet specifically writes to give the reader(s) a picture of what they are feeling and defining their emotion through their writing.

There are several lines within this poem referring to motifs that revolve around pain and emotional outlet. The lines “to thrust all that life under your tongue!— / that, all by itself, becomes a passion / death’s a

The astonishing level of agony presented in a person when losing a loved one is described in the poem, “Stop All of the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden. In this poem, the poet describes the pain of ending an intense sensation of love when one of the partners passes away. The inability to cope once one’s love has ended provokes the feeling that life has ended due to the thought of not being able to live alone. This is found in the poem when Auden states, “For nothing now can ever come to any good” (Auden, 16). The author’s use of figures of speech, imagery, and diction allow her audience to understand the speaker’s true emotions over its’ overwhelming grieving period.

Love is a strange emotion and can make a person feel ten feet high or a low as a snail. When most people write about love it is full of life and color; however, Thomas Hardy writes of death in his experience with love in his poem, “Neutral Tones.” It is a dramatic monologue poem written in the 1800s and is in first person. The title of the poem clearly points out the neutrality of a colorless failing love. In addition, the poem focuses on describing the events of how the couple ends the relationship and of how it is beyond repair. The lines of the poem gently explain what it is like for the author to experience such a dying love. It is effectively written in a way that the reader can feel the hurt and pain as Hardy explains the sorrow and bitterness as the lovers end the relationship. In “Neutral Tones,” Thomas Hardy uses setting, imagery, and symbolism to illustrate the death of love in his poem.