Essay Never Give All the Heart Summary

The history of the Plains Indians and the American West is very interesting. The book Our Hearts Fell to the Ground by Colin G. Calloway really goes in depth on how life was for the Native American people, as well as the progression of the American West. I really felt that the book was a good source of information on the lives of the Native Americans and had an excellent outlook on how they lived their everyday lives. This book possesses many illustrations and documents that have their advantages and disadvantages. It also touches on the subject of how White soldiers really took over the Native American land and why this time was considered “a world in flux.”

The first stanza foregrounds the importance of love to the lyrical voice. Throughout the stanzas, the lyrical voice will express his/her particular feelings about something that occurred particularly to him/her. It shows the writing through experience. The poem begins by saying that this lover has no riches and, consequently, couldn’t share them with the lyrical voice “No riches from his scanty store/ My lover could impart”. Notice the alliteration on “scanty store”, which gives a soft feel to the first part of the stanza. Then, the lyrical voice states that this lover gave him/her something that he/she values more “He gave a boon I valued more-”: his heart “He gave me all his heart!”. Notice the great emphasis made on the last line and how the lyrical voice accentuates it by using a final dash and creating a pause at the end of the previous line.

While both Keats and Longfellow often reflect on their own unfulfilled dreams and impending deaths, the poems however contrast on their own dispositions towards death and the future. Here, Keats expresses a fear of not having enough time to accomplish all that he believes he is capable of doing, but as he recognizes the enormity of the world and his own limitations of life, he realizes that his own mortal goals are meaningless in the long run of things. On the other hand, Longfellow speaks of a regret towards his inaction for allowing time to slip away from him in his past and is at a crossroads for the ominous future that looms ahead of him. Through the use of light and dark imagery, and personification, Keats and Longfellow similarly yet also differently, reflect on their own ideas for death and the futures that lay ahead of them.

In conclusion, the poem points the inevitable cycle of natural and emotional events and the power that love has to go beyond that cycle. This is why the speaker assures that the way he has loved is something that

It is important to note that the first eight lines are a part of a single sentence. This is important because it means that if we remove the repeated poetic verse found within these lines, we discover that Millay is simply saying “Love is not all… / Yet many a man is making friends with death / Even as I speak, for lack of love alone” (1-8) . This is a justifiable conclusion because after the words “Love is not all” the author uses a colon, which means that the lines following are simply a definition for what she means by “Love is not all” (1) . When put in such simple terms, it’s easy to see how this is almost indistinguishable from saying, “Love is not all, but it would be better to be dead than not have it.”

The author persuades people to use their head before just using the words heart or love to give the word its true meaning. Carruth also displays what happens to words when they tend to be misused which is that they usually lose their value over time if they are not of great importance. Through his writing style in the poem, Carruth shows how people freely use the word “heart” and how it affects the meaning of the word. He opens and closes the poem with a question, refers to the heart as 'it' in the first stanza, and shows uncertainty of the importance of the heart in the first stanza as well.

As the poem goes on it gets deeper with meaning, sadder even. Lines four and five are the most crucial lines of the poem. Line three ends with the head giving the heart advice. “You will lose the ones you love. They will all go,” this isn’t the first thing someone wants to hear, especially not someone who is aware that they have just lost someone they love. But this is classic, logical advice that your emotions need to hear. What it means is that one day everyone you love will be gone, it is the sad truth of the world we live in. Nothing is forever. “But even the earth will go,

Facing death at any age is difficult, but for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and John Sullivan, it came early, resulting in two essays retelling their experience.  In their accounts of these situations, the author can see they both want to emphasise that death can come in very unexpected situations.  To My One Love, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, begins on page 17 of 50 Essays by Samuel Cohen.  In her essay, set in present day, she has flashbacks to her relationship with a boy “from the wrong side of town” named Nnamdi.  They were in a loving relationship against their peers’ wishes.  When it came time for them to separate due to education in separate locations, they had ended the relationship, but not before Nnamdi had promised that them

Yeats also uses the word dumb, which in context likely means unable to speak, but also carries a connotation of being incapable of intelligent thought. Entering a heart into the game of love will damage the heart’s owner on multiple levels. Yeats then references himself, as he who has already given his heart up to the game and lost miserably. He knows the pain and the loss that giving up one’s heart to someone who does not want the whole heart brings. In fact, he was later quoted as saying, “[about his first marriage proposal] that was when the troubling in my life began.” He gave his whole heart to this woman and she didn’t want it. Now, to his credit, Yeats isn’t saying giving any heart is terrible. He is simply stating that giving the entirety of one’s heart is more likely to come off as overeager and overbearing than romantic. Towards the end of the poem, he isn’t blaming the woman as much, he is accepting the gamble that love is.

The author uses metaphors in the poem to uncover truth behind the work to describe the women, as well as himself that have broken his heart. The speaker uses the term “trustless

The reader begins to wonder if it is actually just the man she is afraid to be in love with rather than the idea of love itself. According to her, the man sees her simply as a problem that he can solve with his wits and charm, suggesting that he would not be interested in her once she has dissolved in the heat of his charm. Perhaps she is aware that this man might not be a good choice for her, yet she cannot control her feelings for him. However, in the following lines, she expresses her own incapacity to survive and be happy, bringing the reader back to the theme she started the poem with. Despite being blown away by his acts of kindness time after time, she finds herself beyond recovery and asks the man to reconsider his intentions since she is a problem he might never be able to solve. Therefore, the second stanza shows the grave nature of the poet's

I absolutely agree with your point of view of this poem, since you nicely described what the author was trying to convey being, you shouldn’t give up so easily. This message emphasized greatly especially after working so hard to reach the position you worked so hard to get to in life. I would also sympathize with you since all through my life I’ve let things go past me since I felt that there was no point in continuing certain things in life because of a lack of courage to fulfill my dreams or work harder to make those hopes and dreams a

The poem is about the speaker saying he doesn’t have much, but offers the power/love poetry has to his special one. The speaker compares his/her poem to materialistic things and says how important his/her poem is. I really liked the poem since it shows how we always want materialistic things, but sometimes the best things in life are the experiences we have with our loved ones. I usually focus a lot on making sure I have money to get the things I want but the poem made me realize that sometimes I have to care more about the people I love. Although the poem didn’t have difficult vocabulary, it was somewhat hard to understand. It was hard to understand because the poem said to use it for physical comfort and as a focus for your life. After every stanza the poem has the line “I love you” which shows how the speaker has a continuous and immense love for his/her beloved one. The poem made me really happy since it showed me that even a small thing like a poem can hold so much value and love (Kelly

In the poem, “A Broken Appointment” written by Thomas Hardy says “You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb, --- Yet less for your loss of your dear presence…”. Hardy is stating that his ex significant other left him and it affected him more than her. He is grieving for his loss when she is just fine. Also in the poem “A Broken Appointment” Hardy says also “You love me not?”. This shows that he loved his significant other, but she didn’t feel the same. This also shows that there is no point in “loving” someone if you’re going to break their heart. Another time when I got heartbroken, I was thinking on why that person didn’t feel the same. That person was loving someone else while I was loving them. To me it’s honestly one of the worst pains ever, you think you have a chance with someone, they lead you on, and then you find out the truth and you’re heartbroken. To have never loved at all is better also because you will not go through a heartbreak, but you won’t experience love or learn about going through a

Was 3unearthly. This romance he speaks of is something that does not exist. He wants a type of love that is of the highest caliber, which sounds like he will never find. Love is out of his reach, like the clouds are. Keats’ uses powerful imagery of love being “the magic hand of chance;” (8). He paints the picture of love being based on pure luck and the rolling of the dice is not always in one’s favor. Some people will find their soulmates, while others may never find the one they are meant to be with. It is all about risk and nothing is certain. In the third quatrain, the poet brings about the subject of love. He does this by using a metaphor to compare love to a “fair creature of an hour”(9). Keats makes a point that love is not something that stays. If one is lucky enough to find love, she better grasp it because her time willbe a mere sixty minutes with that person she does find. Love can come and go that quickly, and someone can fall out of love in that amount of time as