Pain And Pain In William Minor's I Cried Of Course

In her poem “Heart”, Lydia Davis, depicts the struggle between emotions and consciousness in an ordinary person life. This poem, “HEART”, has a way to show the audience in a simple way on how we feel after a losing someone through death or when we are feeling strong emotions such as love and hate. For example, in the first line “Heart Weeps” tells us that it’s the beginning of a broken heart after the loss of someone close whether because they died or ended a relationship. In the second line, “Head tries to help heart” tells the audience that the heart and head struggle as they confront each other and come into debate with emotions, trying to reason or feel for the current situation. In the fourth to sixth line, “Head tells heart how it is, again: You

As I watched my house crumbled into a million pieces, my legs started to quiver to the point where I could no longer stand on my own two feet. Everything… everything I’d ever loved was inside: my diary, my family photos, my childhood memories. I couldn’t take the pain any more so I began to thrash around the frozen, forlorn floor like a fish on a hook. As my pupils rolled back, flashbacks rolled in. The picture of a child lying in bed while her parents read her a bedtime story replayed in my mind. Images of a primary school girl showing her parents the pictures she drew of them, as a family, wouldn’t fade away. All those memories…now gone. Forever.

“Comparative Commentary of Poetry” In this essay I will compare the poems “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou. Both of these poems deal with the issues of the inhumanity of slavery and racism, despite being written at different times. In fact, Angelou’s “Caged Bird” was inspired by Dunbar’s “Sympathy. Neither of these poets experienced slavery themselves, but they experienced the aftermath of it, as well as the horrible racism that to this day is a major issue.

The essay “Rain of Fire” by Evan Thomas inspired me to write my essay on my uncle Andy who passed away from different types of cancers. Reading the essay I had different emotions and made me think of all the emotions I went through when my uncle passed away. I was very close to him and losing him really hurt me just like 9/11 hit everyone in America. I am a very emotional person and when I lost someone close to me it was hard and I feel that when people get emotional over 9/11 we look at ourselves and don’t give ourselves credit for being the strong ones. Were not weak because we cry we are just emotional and everyone is different in how they let those emotions show.

The theme of the poem, Complete Destruction by William Carlos Williams, is somber vengeance. The family mourns for the cat that died due to fleas. They show their love for the deceased pet by burying her on a day that was icy cold, devoid of any warmth, even though the ground would be extremely difficult to dig in. When they buried the cat, the fleas on her were buried, too, and would meet their deserved fate by the cold underground. Any fleas that dared to escape death were set afire in the backyard, leaving the family at peace with the knowledge that the fleas that took the life of their beloved pet have now been destroyed.

Poetry has the power to make someone remember positive, unhappy, excited, and angry moments in a prior time. Victor Hugo once said, "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." In the poems “Piano” by D. H. Lawrence and “Sonnet XLIII: What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay share similar characteristics of regret and loss in each of their themes, however, they portray their theme in different ways.

I experienced a devastating moment on December 21, 2013. Alex and I were childhood friends who grew up playing basketball and we were always writing poetry down. But it was a difficult environment where we lived because there always a fight going down, illegal substances, and even worse someone dying. Alex died from severe gunshot wounds. After I heard the news about him, I cried like a pouring waterfall. My tears dropped down to the ground and then the dirt turned soggy. Alex’s death was one of the most devastating times in my entire life.

In this well narrated poem readers feel just that as the poet uses pathos bringing the emotion and empathy out of the audience. The message of the poem is symbolized using personification, representing the

The death of a loved one is an event that all of us is likely to experience during our lifetimes, often on numerous occasions. For many human beings, the subject of death could be creepy, undeniable, frightening and something too dark to face. The reality is that when a human being is born death is also born. Since we left the womb of our mother 's, death is part of our journey through life and becomes a shadow forever. While such loss often transforms lives, it does not necessarily need to be for the worse in the long term. However, grieving it can be the most difficult aspect of life, also everyone grieving process is different, and the loss of a loved one can happen in a moment but it can last a lifetime. Many writers like Mary Rowlandson on her narrative of the captivity and restoration, Katharine Sedgwick’s on “Hope Leslie”, Edgar A. Poe’s on “Fall of the House of Usher” and Harriet Jacob’s on “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” have written about the loss of a loved one to death and how to carry on with their own lives. Dealing effectively and positively with grief caused by such a loss is central to your recovery process and your ability to continue with and fulfill your life for the better.

When people experience the loss of a loved one, they typically go through a mourning period where they grieve their loss. The duration of this mourning period is different fore everyone, but their grief can be classified by five stages according to Swiss psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. After Maybelle passes away, Elise is overwhelmed with a series of emotions, and can be seen going through all five stages of grieving in The Broken Circle Breakdown (Groeningen, 2012). The syuzhet depicts Elise’s grief by manipulating sound to emphasize her emotional pain. The acoustic qualities of loud noises and silence highlight the five stages of grief Elise go through as she copes with the tolls of losing their child.

Human life narrative is incomplete without talking about grief. Man goes through moments of mourning and grief when faced with terminal illnesses, death of a close relative or friend or animal. We respond differently when faced by challenging situations, some will outwardly, in tears when thoughts of the experience runs in their mind while others will hurt from the inside. Our role is not to judge how a person griefs (Axelrod, 2014, p. 1) but rather to offer support in these moments.

Kenji Miyazawa once said, “we must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”. This quote applies to loss in the fact that when we face a loss we must continue our lives and use the loss to make us stronger. The loss of a family member is always hard to deal with and it affects everyone differently. Some people are open about their feelings and others bottle them up. The loss of a family member does not always refer to a death, but can also refer to an emotional or physical distance put between two people. In “The Shawl” by Louise Erdrich, there is an example of a physical loss and its effects on the family, while in “Bone Black” by Bell Hooks the loss shown is of the emotional kind. It is interesting to view these stories side by

When a loved one is lost everyone must face with the challenge of saying goodbye. Some adults may think well they're teenagers they have no care in the world. All they do is waste their time listening to music. Well, losing a loved one is just the challenge but having to deal with the challenge is the hard part. Music is the way teenagers express their grief. Sometimes these teenagers listen to the music they do because what the song is saying is what they are feeling. When conducting an interview with Bronx Latin student Susana Henriquez she expresses her experience at losing a loved one. “That one song that I listened to just said everything, it said everything that I couldn’t say to that person. “I’m sorry I couldn’t get to you” (Christina

People have different ways of handling grief. Some people isolate themselves. Some surround themselves with friends, and others try to distract themselves. In the poem, “One Art,” the author, Elizabeth Bishop, handles her grief of loss through denial and bottling her emotions up inside as it builds up bigger and bigger like a wave. Bishop is struggling with the same emotions as everyone has encountered in some point of their life which is why I fell in love with this simplistic, yet emotional poem because it shows that you are not alone and that you must face your problems head on.

It was so devastating to get the news, that night my aunt had been in charge of caring for him overnight, she felt so guilty as if it were her fault. I’d been the first one up every morning and so I received a call from my aunt crying barely being able to speak, “Amy he’s gone, I’m sorry”. It was a Friday morning, that Friday morning that marked my life forever. As I informed my parents, it was difficult my mother shed to pieces and hurried to the hospital. Despite the loss, I went to school with no strength. Physically I was there, however but mentally I was not, all I thought about is our last words the night before and my promise to never give