Poems Of My Favorite Poems

“’ But this is merely a negative definition of the value of education’” (23-24). Mark Halliday wrote “The Value of Education” from a first person standpoint. The introduction and the use of “I” demonstrates the poem is about the speaker. Likewise, the speaker uses imagery, self-recognition, and his own personal thoughts throughout the poem. He goes on throughout the poem stating external confrontations he is not doing because he is in the library receiving an education and reading books. With this in mind, the speaker goes on to convey images in your head to show a realization of things he could be doing if he were not in the library getting an education.

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Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on “the darkest evening of the year” stating the darkness of the mood.

In this essay I am going to compare and contrast ‘When we two parted’ a poem of George Gordon, Lord Byron’s written in 1815 and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s ‘Love’s last lesson’ written in c1838, both poets are British and of the romantic period.

B. Explanation of the allusion: Dover Beach was a poem by Matthew Arnold which was published in 1867. He wrote the poem while honeymooning with his wife at Dover Beach. Although it contained only 37 lines, it described the beauty of nature on a beach in Dover England as well as the worldly issues of the decline of religious faith. With metaphors and alliteration, Arnold effectively expressed his views and opinions making this most famous work ("Dover").

The poem I chose as my favorite was, Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt by David Bottoms. The poem is about a young boy who played baseball with his father being his coach. Constantly, his father with stress the importance of bunting; yet, the son never understood why. The son continued wanting to hit his home runs and scoring for the glory. As the boy grew into a man he finally understood why his father had stressed the bunt all those years. The father was trying to show the boy sacrifice. The person who bunts normally is thrown out. When the boy was younger he did not understand this, but as he grew older he understood the message his father was trying to show him. This poem is my favorite because I can see some of my own actions throughout

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

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.

Out of all the location poems we read, my favorite poem was, “San José: a poem,” by Cynthia Gomez. It is my favorite poem because of the voice that the poet gave the poem. From the voice of this poem I have concluded that the author created a character that feels resignation towards the change of his or her hometown. They see that the town is experiencing a lot of gratification, and this gratification is pushing the town towards a culture change. This could mean the loss of a way of life for many of the town’s residents, and these types of changes are never easy. In the beginning of the poem the author describes the culture of San José that the character is accustomed to. She states that the town is “a land of quinceañeras and taquierias and Our Lady of Sorrows Church.” From this phrase it can inferred that this town has a prominent Latin culture. Further into the poem, the poet states, “This land wants expresso to flow in its, veins, not blood, Wants to be made of foccacia dough instead of earth.” From this phrase it can be inferred that the new culture in the town is more hipster like. Her ending phrase is, “As a proud sign proclaims a new San José.” I find it impressive that poets can express their thoughts with a limited amount of words and they still make the poem engaging for their readers. This is exactly what Gomez did, she sought out to express an idea and she did this by putting words together in the most strategic way; creating an intriguing poem. For this

A dog is A Dog. : Now dogs pretend they like to fight; They often bark, more seldom bite; But yet a Dog is, on the whole, What you would call a simple soul. Of course I'm not including Pekes,

Dover Beach intrigued me as soon as I read the title. I have a great love of beaches, so I feel a connection with the speaker as he or she stands on the cliffs of Dover, looking out at the sea and reflecting on life. Arnold successfully captures the mystical beauty of the ocean as it echoes human existence and the struggles of life. The moods of the speaker throughout the poem change dramatically as do the moods of the sea. The irregular, unordered rhyme is representative of these inharmonious moods and struggles. In this case, the speaker seems to be struggling with the relationship with his or her partner.

The poem, Dover Beach, written by Matthew Arnold compares human faith to a sea’s roaring waves crashing against a shore. The speaker is someone living in a house among Dover Beach on the coast of New England’s northern sea. The speaker is talking with someone else in the house as Arnold writes, “Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!” (Line 6)! Also the person being spoken to can later be interpreted as a wife or husband as the speaker states, “Ah, love, let us be true” (Line 29). The first stanza has a positive beginning by describing the scenery of the beach, the full moon, the moon’s light glimmering onto the sea, and the sight of the French coast in the distance. The intense imagery puts the reader in a dynamic scene at the peaceful beach, watching the waves brush the pebbles back-and-forth onto the shore. The tone in the first stanza may seem peaceful; however, it depicts “stillness” for the reader. As the speaker watches the waves move back-and-forth, it is just a rinse and repeat process that is observed over again. The stanza may begin on a positive note, but ends on a negative note as the speaker states, “The eternal note of sadness in” (Line 14). Human misery begins to set into

My favorite lines come from the middle section of the poem I find there can be so taken just from these few lines:

Matthew Arnold’s “Dover beach” describe the way in which perceptions are mislead society. The use of metaphors, symbolisms, allusiveness, technical quantities, and imagery assist the speaker’s thought regards between what is seen and what is real. Dover beach was written during Victorian era. Which brought civilization based on industry, value and money. This is the time which people start questioning the existence of God. The speaker observed the plight of Victorian era. And he sought an answer to the problems which he and world faced with. Arnold express the dejection of lost civilization, anticipate its future, and try to acquire its solution

Arnold is creative and intelligent author that makes the reader feel emotionally connected with the story. He wrote “Dover Beach” to be argued about what was the correct theme of the poem its self. For critics and readers to clash heads about why things were said and what made Arnold come to that conclusion. Arnold though was not just interpreting his view on the loss of faith but the view of how nothing is consistent and how the world can change at any moment. “Dover Beach” is sincere and powerful work of literature that is important to understanding a persons everyday life. Matthew Arnold could not had made it any more