Perfect Two Poem

“Had we been as free from all sins as gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints, but our President would never have been admitted for engrossing to his private, oatmeal sack, oil, aqua vitae, beef, eggs or what not-” This is just a small description of what both Jamestown and Plymouth plantation endured. While the men on the boat headed to Jamestown were heading to their destination solely for money, the Plymouth plantation had people who were their because of religious reasons, such as the Puritan colonsits. Also, the men on the boat headed to Jamestown were uncooperative, while Puritan colonists from the Plymouth plantation worked together.

In “The Poem You Asked For” by Larry Levis, he is comparing writing a poem by comparing it to a plant, stubborn person, and toad. Larry Levis, a 20th-century writer is well known for his brevity and surprise approach in poetry. This poem magnifies the complications that authors may face while trying to write something of such importance. The speaker uses an abundant amount of figurative language to personify how writing is so difficult, and can lead to many difficulties and dead ends. The author uses figurative language to portray the theme of difficulties in the writing process such as: difficulties prewriting, writers block, and how hard it is to let go of writing as an author.

Life is pink, or so says Louis Armstrong’s version of Edith Piaf’s beautiful French song, La Vie En Rose. Plato is arguably the most famous philosopher from Ancient Greece. The Symposium, one of Plato’s most famous works, is a brilliant piece of literature centered on a group of men telling their own versions of what they believe to be Love. The Goddess of Love however, is the main focus of Plato’s work more so than the act of actually being in love. This becomes the men’s main focal point for the duration of their speeches. Both the story and the song, depict versions of love of Love that are relatively common. In the soft tones of La Vie En Rose, the perfection of what being in love can become is heard clearly. Believing that everything is wonderful and it could never change is a symptom of the rose coloured glasses Armstrong is singing about. Socrates in believes that Love can be both horrible and bad. There are people who believe that love is the solution to all of their problems, and those who believe that there are bad aspects that come with being in love. Hundreds of years apart, and these two men are trying to send different messages about the same subject—love.

You should have been dreaming each night of others.” Love is beautiful and sweet, as expressed in “giving to their furred beauty, your nectar loving tongue. In contrast, love can be cold and slippery, which is demonstrated in “but also your tongue should have been practicing the cold of a slippery, frog filled pond.” Love can also be said to be platonic, full of respect; there is a need for a zeal for love and a fear for love as illustrated in the lines “Go down on your elbows and knees, you’ll need a speleologist’s desire for rebirth and a miner’s paranoia of gases.” Self-love is key as portrayed in “try rodents, bats, owls, and hawks.

Hannah Senesh, author of the poem “One Two Three”, was a Israeli-Hungarian pilot who fought for the rebel cause during WWII. Senesh was captured by the Hungarian army while she was on a mission with the Israeli paratroopers to rescue Hungarian Jews being deported to Auschwitz. Though she was brutally tortured, Senesh never gave the Hungarians information about her mission in order to protect the locations of her fellow soldiers who were still rescuing Hungarian Jews. Found guilty of treason, Senesh was executed on November 7, 1944 by a German firing squad. While she was in prison, Senesh kept a diary, which was published in Hebrew in 1946. Her poem, “One Two Three”, was written in just days before her execution.

. The video “To this day” by Shane Koyczan, based on the poem by the same name, is a little boy with an unfortunate nickname of porkchop that led to bullying throughout his life. They have Koyczan the nickname porkchop when they heard his story that he used to call porkchops karate chops. Koyczan wrote the poem because he is noting how people get bullied and that he also got bullied also that bullying is still going on. What he also explains in his poem is that kids can break and nobody hears how nobody cares or knows.

Love comes in numerous ways and can be expressed in countless fashions. Love is powerful, has a meaning, and is capable of eclipsing time all due to the human psyche. One can love anything from a family member, to a fictional character in a TV show, or even an inanimate object. The fluidity of love is what makes it so difficult to understand if one is “in love” or has ever experienced love. Experiences often mold a person’s perspective on what love truly is. Love is not an emotion, but rather a condition of the mind that cause one to act in ways that are uncharacteristic. It can be blinding, obsessive, and pure, depending on the reciprocation of the love. Since love is an abstract concept, one simply cannot measure how much love they have received or given alike. Although the human brain can perceive and interpret other’s actions or words as signs of love and care, in which the mind processes this into the mental psyche that is love.

Many people in this world have love and lost people but that is not the worst feeling it is when you lose someone before you get the chance to love them. A man named Thomas Rhett explains this through his song “Marry Me,” produced in 2017. It is a song about two friends who have been in each others lives forever and thought they might have a connection but might not find out the truth. Throughout the song “Marry Me,” the author Thomas Rhett uses pathos to show you can’t sit and wait for good things to come, you have to go out and make it happen.

Sharon Olds in "True Love" wonders about a true meaning of love in her uniquely written poem about a married couple. She hints that true love is about belonging to one another. That belonging or self-possession is reflected via ties of marriage. She further says that children, which are a product of marriage, only tighten marital bonds even more. The speaker starts her poem by describing two people having sex and looking at each other in a “complete friendship”. However, as much as the poem at first seems to have a positive meaning, the message appears to be quite opposite. In fact, “after making love, we look at each other in complete friendship" (2-3) sounds odd if used when describing the love between friends with benefits or a married couple. Friends with benefits contribute to unhealthy relationships that they are in, which is built on lust and only physical desire. Her poem, perhaps is an ironic portrayal of true love. A true love, if it even exists, is very difficult to preserve and can take a different turn especially within the marriage.

Line 2. Her love is as real as the three dimensions of all physical things.

The narrator states, "Now he discovered that secret from which one never recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There

Both, the poem “Reluctance” by Robert Frost and “Time Does Not Bring Relief” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, revolved around the theme of lost love. Each poet used a similar array of poetic devices to express this theme. Visual imagery was one of the illustrative poetic devices used in the compositions. Another poetic device incorporated by both poets in order to convey the mood of the poems was personification. And by the same token, metaphors were also used to help express the gist of both poems. Ergo, similar poetic devices were used in both poems to communicate the theme of grieving the loss of a loved one.

A wise person once said, “If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.” If one moment could be held onto forever, captured on paper never to be changed, which one would be the chosen one? Ed Sheeran’s song Photograph, is both a product of past experiences and a serenade to times long past, carries the theme of love and memories providing support, and is rife with literary devices used to better convey his message. Born the 17th of February 1991 in Halifax, England, Edward Christopher “Ed” Sheeran is internationally renowned for his music. Starting off as a young boy given a guitar as a gift from his uncle, his musical prowess grew from self produced CD’s to playing in over 300 live shows in 2009 alone.

The poem “How Do I Love Thee”, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed”, by Edna Vincent Millay are both well-known poems that both have themes of love. (LIT, Kirszner & Mandell, Pg. 490). In both poems the poet helps the reader experience a lot of emotion with the use of certain words. There are speakers in both poems. In Mrs. Browning’s poem, the speaker is undefined, leaving open that the speaker could be a he or she. Millay’s poem which is written in first person, the speaker is more defined leading the reader to believe it is a she who is talking about love in the past tense. Both poems are sonnets written with fourteen lines, and written in Italian style. When comparing these poems we will be looking at the use of rhyme scheme and metaphors and how they were used to express emotions in these two sonnet poems.

Hearing the wind whisper through trees, I kneel down on bended knee, obeisance to thy memory near, an undertaking most austere.