Mr. Nick Essay

Second in the second paragraph there is use of personification. The writer use personification though out the entire poem. He says that the poem can find when it can’t. The writer also says that poem live in the bottom of shoes

The poem talks about a man- an anonymous “he”- a perfectionist whose poetry was understandable and who, himself, understood “human folly” and the human psyche like “the back of his hand”. He was

without warning”. Then in the third stanza, where he illuminates the allure of letting go of

In “September, 1918”, Amy Lowell shows her readers an interesting and illuminating poem. That war can be an ugly time and the people that experience it often seems to live in a “broken world” (19). To fight an evil, sometimes war is needed, nonetheless it is still costly to the people living through the war. Some in a literal sense, like soldiers fighting in a war, while some in a physical sense by the world that they now see and live in. I find the poem truly interesting though, in how the author shows that even in war we can still hold onto hope for more promising days. Lowell portrays a melancholy mood throughout her poem that makes her readers thinking about war but also the hope of it being over.

Since it does, when reading each line, there is a resilient connection that allows the reader to put together and feel for what the narrator is speaking of. As each line is metrically linked, the words are further recited in a durable voice and the poem is virtually put together, musically. In the first and second lines of the third stanza, an apostrophe, a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent person or entity, is presented, “We smile, but O great Christ, our cries to thee from tortured souls arise.”

He gets right to the point of the poem in the very first sentence, maybe because the sun has woken him up, and he wants his readers to think that this was the very first thing on his mind.

The first stanza is addressed to ‘old men’ and how they should not simply slip away and die quietly, they should fight death until the end. Poetic techniques

The poem’s author, Robert Frost, focuses on the theme and the mood by representing the choices and decisions that have to be made.

     There are several poetic elements within the context of this song. Most notably is the most common poetic element

In this poem, the speaker faces isolation of the self. We can see this isolation start to develop in the first stanza because the speaker is watching the way people hide their emotions from each other. The speaker thinks that most people hide their inner selves from the world because they are afraid that, if they revealed themselves, they would be ignored or made fun of “be met / With blank indifference, or with blame reproved”(Arnold 1375). This reflects on the way people are made to hide who they are from one another; hiding the same thoughts and feelings that those around them feel but, are also unable to

Perhaps it’s only well to believe strangers form languages in their gazes. It is a language born with sentences we never learned how to speak and a history written with the curves of laughter lines and coffee-stained teeth that forget to form a passing grin. However, it isn’t just the work of a poet to turn to those that only kick up dust on the streets about us and assume a life for them. We all create a story all with the building blocks of the light in another's eyes and their tight-lipped grin they give us as we share for one moment a passing gaze. All we shall truly know of them, but that does little to cease the character of our creation that follows in their path. There is little we can do for this, for it is human nature to judge and,

The relevance of this poem is the same or even more so in today’s society in-comparison to when the poem was written. This is due to today’s society having so many more opportunities which in-turn creates many more challenges. Peer pressure is a big part of today’s society, and as humans we often follow the path of other, for fear of failure. This poem shows the point of being different and that makes all the difference to one life. (show pictures of the relevant lines)

The poem with enduring value. The fragmented structure and irregular rhyme scheme describes the fractured reality of metropolitan life. The opening images, personification of ‘winter evening settl[ing] down’ presents an impersonal city, as the melancholic connotation of ‘winter’ reveal the alienation and vacancy of its residents. This is reinforced through the use of enjambment ‘gusty showers/grimy craps/lonely cab-horse,’ illustrating the confused and tangled city that the persona inhabits. The ‘newspapers from vacant lots’ symbolically reflect upon the vacancy of the society to which Critic Jon Hanrahan adds Eliot’s protagnists struggle with spiritual insufficiency and a failure to make authentic connections with others’ An absence of affection and love bonds between humans is shown through the use of heavy sexual imagery and connoatations of a courtesan awating her clents as she laid upon her back and waited,’ reflecting on the ‘thosand sordid imges/of which her sol is constituted,’ the hyperbole reducing her soul into n entity of lust, sybollicallt manifesting her loneliness. As the pem concludes the revolving warth is compared to ‘ancient women’ metaphorically’ gathering fuel in cacant lots’, the paradoxical statement conveying the persuit for human warmth. Therefore my personal perception and

Mark Tadourian explains the notion of time standing still stating “time exist only in mind, and if time exist only subjectively than the person is not objective of being one does not experience eternal values as reality becomes an argument of the minds as Eliot elaborates the individuals hangs in a state of indecisiveness and hesitancy.” Eliot as “the voice of generation” declares that they are strained to move forward, stuck because of their own indecisiveness confining themselves to their routine dull lifestyles where there is a complete loss of hope. As in Part II of Preludes Eliot writes “With the other masquerades That time resumes” Eliot uses the poetic form of irony, as times resumes only for the masquerades but not the individuals who are still paralysed dealing in their routine drudgerous life inflicted by the outbreak of WW1. Similar to “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” as the ‘etherised patient’ represents metaphorically social paralysis and lifelessness, Eliot again raises this questions in Part IV of Preludes “His soul stretched tight across the skies That fade behind a city block” Like Mark suggest ‘time exist in mind’ as the individuals of the modernist era are socially paralysed, frozen in time as the imagery expresses the significance of inner self which is diminished into the same state of the ‘etherised patient’ as the ‘city block’ becomes symbolic of the oppression of industrialisation showing the degradation of self worth and hope as individuals are confined to their dull routine lifestyles. Eliot uses the poetic forms of irony and imagery to express the helplessness that dominantes the people of the modernist world, transpiring as ‘the voice of a generation’ by describing the continuing effects of their context that led to

The third stanza is when the narrator has something physical. He mentions how he has an apple and his enemy knew that the apple was his. The