Poem Analysis: Our Room

The theme of land is evident in the poems, This Land is Mine by Kev Carmody, Paul Kelly and Gail Kay wrote My Sitting Down Place. The poems I chose represent the relationship between Aboriginals and their land. This connection had an effect on how I presented my collage. Both poems advised that the importance of the land to the Aboriginal people is because of what the land provides and does for the Aboriginals. In my poster I have used the earthy colours Red, yellow, black and green to show the significant connection between Aboriginals and their land. I have used the Aboriginal Flag for This Land is Mine because the flag represents how passionate the person saying the poem. For My Sitting Down Place I have used real leaves to represent the

Take a minute to imagine “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals,” “never/ ending blasted field of corpses,” and “throats half gone, /eyes bleeding, raw meat heaped/ in piles.” These are the vividly, grotesque images Edward Mayes describes to readers in his poem, “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976.” Before even reading the poem, the title gave me a preconceived idea of what the poem might be about. “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976” describes what an extreme version of what I expected the poem to be about. The images I

Many students said their goodbyes to family and friends as the summer came to an end. Amongst the planning, packing and crying, students like myself couldn’t help but picture their new beginning as it slowly approached. Much of what ran through my mind, personally, was the alcohol and party scenes I will be encountering. These thoughts undoubtedly ran through the minds of my parents, and the families of many young adults also approaching this stage of life. Husson University recognized that thoughts about alcohol can be unsettling for both the parents and students. So, with the intention of addressing this very common, controversial subject, “Shot of Reality” was presented in the Gracie Theater to educate incoming freshmen on alcohol consumption,

“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, the fifty-six line lyric poem gives off a sarcastic tone that expresses impatience with his neighbor and the “wall.” The poem focuses on a theme of separation, the necessity of boundaries and the illusory arguments used to annihilate them.

The poem Dream By Nikki Giovanni is about Nikki's childhood dream. On the surface, this poem is about a dream about being a singer in a band, but eventually maturing and growing up became a sweet inspiration. Looking deeper one can see that the poem is really about black people being equal and being able to accomplish big things.

The Veldt is about a boy and girl who get spoiled by a house. Soon the mom feels displaced and tells the dad that the house should be shut down for some time. The son disagrees about shutting down the house a lot. When they are about to leave the son and daughter convince the parents to play in the nursery for a while longer. When they are playing the call for the parents and lock them in the nursery with a pride of lions.

“I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal. I cannot be comprehended except by permission.”. (Giovanni,1). Nikki Giovanni is an infamous poet who expressed African American excellence in her writing. In 1972, Giovanni issued a collection of poems called My House, which aimed its attention to children. In the collection was a poem named in Ego Tripping illustrating African ancestry and excellence. The poems title figuratively suggests Giovanni tripping over her own extremely large ego. However, the title of the poem does not relate to the poem itself. Moreover, the poem was published in a time where racial tensions inclined after the civil rights movement.

Concentration takes its form in the little beads of sweat collecting on my upper lip. My mom’s finger dances along the words in one of those colorful children’s books for beginning readers. The turquoise sleeve of her blouse puddles across the page as if it were melting under the morning rays.​ I know this word. ​It pounds inside my head, but I continue to struggle with the blankness, silence resting on the tip of my tongue where the word should be.

She goes and wakes Lend up for a minute she thought that he saw the fire to when she realized he could not she told him he thought that she should tell Raquel but she denied and wanted to figure it out herself. He tells her the full poem which is “Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.” She knew that this described her. She gets called down with Jacques. They got assigned to go find a hag.

"A gentle shaking has come and what did you notice? A greater quaking is to come, consider how you will respond. This shift is about your heart, as a line drawn across your life, the truth you know and the evidence of your actions, which side of the line will you choose to stand on?

In addition, Waniek goes on to hint the diversity in the family by using colours to lay out the numerous cultures in the family. For instance, she describes the quilt in line 15-17 as “ Six Van Dyke brown squares, two white ones, and one square the yellow-brown of Mama’s cheeks”. Waniek does that to allow the readers to understand how the family is multicultural, opened to any race, and lovable, which ultimately provides comfort to the reader whilst reading and continues to remind them that the quilt is focusing on ancestry and secures family connections. To continue, repetition of words are added close to the end of the poem, “ of my childhood of miracles, of my father’s burnt umber pride”. The repetition is being used by the author to persuade

Poetry can often reveal someone’s true feelings about a subject, and is a way to release one’s deepest emotions. It commonly describes important messages and universal themes through a variety of figurative poetic devices. One such theme is the idea of panic taking over ordinary everyday life. For example, Margaret Atwood in The City Planners, Richard Silken in Wishbone, and Sylvia Plath in Lesbos all convey this unifying idea. Although Plath describes an inner turmoil, Siken a panicked and conflicted relationship, and Atwood a hysteria arising from oppressive control, all of the pieces can be related back to this common thread. Authors such as Atwood, Plath, and Silken can use a variety of techniques including

Faiz Ahmed Faiz writes: “At night my lost memory of you returned / I was like the dying patient who, for no reason, smiles.” Of course, the night has been the time when people become vulnerable of their thoughts and their painful past experiences. In the mid-1900s, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, delves into these painful nights, where he reminisces about his beloved and longs for it, usually shown in his poetry. Consequently, Faiz Ahmed Faiz uses three literary devices in many ways to portray the true subject of poetry, based on him, which is the loss of the beloved. Specifically, Faiz uses emotional language, hyperbole, and allegory to illustrate the theme of the loss of the beloved.

“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop creates a vivid yet relatable spin on the outlook of losing things. Through describing everyday items and situations the speaker will show the reader how to discover that loss is not something to fear.

The first short story under analysis is titled “Childʼs Play.” The story is told by a first person narrator, which is at the same time the protagonist, Marlene. Through a series of flashbacks, she recalls and reflects upon one of her childhood memories, which seems to have been unconsciously hiding a secret: the terrible crime committed at a summer camp.