On My First Daughter and on My First Son - Ben Jonson's Poems on the Death of His Children

In the book “The Memory Keeper's Daughter” by Kim Edwards a doctor and his wife have twins and the first child is a healthy boy but then the second child that comes out is a little girl with the signs of down syndrome and he asks his Nurse to take the baby away to an institution while he tells his wife the baby girl died. Through out the entire book it is a struggle for Dr. Henry's wife Norah to have closure with the fact that her baby girl is said to be dead and she never saw her, held her, or cared for her. Kim Edwards shows through the whole book that we are only human, the themes that life is beyond our control and through the connection between suffering and joy.

This excerpt from lines seventeen and eighteen conveys the physical death of the girl. Once the girl has died in a literal sense and she is being displayed for her funeral, she has been given a happy ending, this is ironic as she was only happy once she had died and had become a beautified version of herself from the cosmetics applied by the mortician. Line twenty-four simply says “Consummation at last.” This line is ironic as the girl was finally perfect and complete only after her death. She finally had what she wanted in life that was taken from her by the expectations of others.

Compare this to Dannie Abse’s “Imitations”. The poem centres on Abse’s thoughts about his son and how he has become an adolescent. Although the poem is rather negative, describing his son as a “chameleon” therefore suggesting his son is changing. However unlike in “Whitsun Weddings” is less pessimistic, saying that although he will die like his son his family name will be passed down the generations and expresses some affection for his offspring, whereas Larkin has no such optimism, he focuses on the fact that he has no son and probably never will, much like in Larkin’s “Dockery and Son” where he contemplates his lack of contribution to his species existence of how his life when he dies will cease to have meaning.

At the age of thirteen, Wheatley wrote her first poem. The work, a story about two men

I guess you could say my whole life has revolved around writing. Long before I was born, a boy- now known in North Carolina for his contribution to the arts- named Ira David Wood III, wrote a poem for my grandmother. It was for a baby shower, and the poem was ‘The Birth of Casey Draughon’, a humorous story about how my grandparents were so excited to have their assumed son, and find in the end that had a daughter instead (the best part is, that baby was my mother). So, already having a poem as a namesake, it’s fair to assume that by some far-fetched correlation I was predisposed to enjoy writing.

“Before she died many years later, the woman asked to be buried without a coffin so that she could connect with the earth. Now, when anyone wants to connect with her, all they have to do is lay face down on the ground, and

Her entire world crumbles, so much; she feels the world mourning with her. The actions of mourners resonate with those of her mind, she thinks that she is about to die, but then she is the dead in the event. The woman is the body beneath the casket lid (Dickinson 2-2). Her life is as miserable as death and the worst part her entire brain is dysfunctional from the numbness of thought. The beating of drums is hammering her head down. This setting is her new world; she describes it as a desolate place with solace. The woman in this poem breaks with every attempt to move on with her life until she finally breaks out of her situation. In this case, it means that she attempts to make peace with her plight. After a long time alienating herself from the public, she somehow finds a way to move on. This poem is much complicated than the former, a characteristic that renders it unfriendly to a number of users as it leaves the reader in

In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.

Instead, she was made up to perfection, her nose was now “a turned-up putty nose” (Piercy, 604), and she had mountains of makeup caked onto her face. It was only now that society accepted the girl, she had met their standards at last. The girl represents the death of everyone as well, with her death, everyone now supported her. The casket, girl, and her death all symbolize the events that unfold with most female death. A female is glorified on her death

“No one was with her when she died”, but she was content and peaceful. Whites Skillful and wisely illustrated the inevitability of the cycle of life in nature, including foreshadowing without destroying the suspense. It is inspiring and enjoyable to different levels of readers.

In “Jim”, a poem about a son caring for his mother, Jim nurtures his mother while she is ill. He brings her cocoa, food, and he missed his baseball game for her. In “Father William”, a poem about a son being worried about his father’s wellbeing, the adolescent son is concerned about his father’s healthiness.

The funeral service has ended in stanza 3 as the mourners lift the “box” and take it to be buried. The creaking sound of the casket moves across her soul as they carry it. After they have walked across the speaker's soul, "Space" begins to "toll" like a bell. Church bells often toll at the end of a service, so we're still in religious territory here. She imagines that her mind or soul is like an entire universe containing a vast empty space. She mentions “those same Boots of Lead, again.” like she had recognized the boots from

"Poet Ape" signifies "Somebody who aped artists"; at the end of the day a terrible would-be artist. Along these lines Sir Philip Sidney said in his The Defense of Poesy "The cause why it is not regarded in England is the blame of writer ape, not of artists". Jonson in his plays twice utilized the term of performers who sought to compose verse, yet an artist primate could be anybody. So it isn't right to expect, as some have, that the writer primate of Jonson's saying was fundamentally a performer. He has regularly been thought to be Shake-Speare. I question this since Shake-Speare did not purchase the inversion of old plays, aside from potentially to king John and Hamlet, and did not appropriate to the degree the saying charges. Some have proposed

Three benefits of reading childhood poetry, is that it helps children practice their pitch, voice inflection, and volume. Pitch is all about the rise and fall of someone’s voice and reading poetry can help the pitch their voice and to speak clearly. When it comes to voice inflection, inflection most often refers to the pitch and tone patterns in a person's speech: where the voice rises and falls (“Vocabulary.com”, 2017). When reading poetry, a child’s speech can expand very well too, and that’s when voice inflection comes in because reading poetry will help the pitch and tome patterns in a person’s speech. Now when it comes to volume, the volume of reading helps students build important world knowledge and acquire additional vocabulary, both

One April 21, 1816 Patrick Bronte’s third child and Maria Branswell’s sixth child was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in England. Shortly after her birth, the Bronte-Branswell family moved to another part of Yorkshire known as Haworth so her father had been given the opportunity of being perpetual curate to the S., Michael and All Angels Church. However while in Haworth, a deep tragedy stroke the family on September 15, 1821 when their loving mother had died of cancer. The family wasn’t fully abandoned for the sister of Maria, Elizabeth Branwell, had greatly helped Patrick on raising his five daughters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. Along with their only son Patrick Branwell.