Relationships in Long Distance by Tony Harrison and My Grandmother by Elizabeth Jennings

Both the poet and the author convey a central message through a protagonist in their work. In “the lesson of the moth” a poem by Don Marquis there is a theme introduced in the poem. Directly from the poem, the moth, voiced that some things are worth dying for and that risk should

Death is part of the human life cycle, approximately 151,600 people die each day. Everyone wonders how they will die, if they suffer, if it’s tragic or if it’s just simply peaceful. In each of the three poems the main focus is death. Each poem shows a different feeling about death. “Thanatopsis” by William Bryant, “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult and “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas, all have different meanings of death.

The themes and issues in the poem. Is the theme of death and dying and the issue that people are faced with when losing a loved one and how they don't want to see them give up and pass away. The poem challenges the idea of what people have about death and that it is a part of life and cannot be prevented but it is telling people not to fear death but to challenge it and not let it win. The poem also uses the metaphor of death being a good night to show that death isn't good or evil and that it is just a part of life but its telling people to keep on living and not to give up.

"Death, Be Not Proud" by John Donne, "Because I could not stop for Death" and "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died" by Emily Dickinson all have one theme in common: death. Typically, death is associated with negative connotations, but "Death, Be Not Proud" is a more cheerful tale of how death lost its sting. "Because I could not stop for Death" also has a similar theme because. Like the other two poems, "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died" talks about an interruption of a person's death by a fly. "Death. Be Not Proud," "Because I could not stop for Death," and "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died" are all poems revolving around the theme of death.

Most relationships between parents and child are not always great. Parents or kids sometimes don’t see or appreciate the way they show love towards one another. Parents would do anything for their child to protect them by setting up rules or by sacrificing themselves to see their child happy. However, in return parents sometime don’t get the love they deserve. A parent continues to stick by their child because they love them. Also, a child stick by their parents because they can’t see their flaws. The poems “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz” both talked about a son who were unable to understand the full picture of their parents. As year pass by a child point of view on their parents can change as they get older because they can understand now that they no longer have their parents with them or they have become parents.

The poem discovers that the death of a close friend or family member affects an individual mentally, physically, and emotionally. At first, the narrator acknowledges that the death cause change when he/she says, “Except the Dying - this to Us / Made Nature different.” When the narrator says, “Except the Dying,” she is singling out the woman’s death as the source of change. Capitalization of the words, “Except” and “Dying,” emphasizes that the death is the cause of change; it changes the people’s nature. “Nature” is representing the regular mental state that these people maintain. This means that the death removed the people from a comfortable mental state and placed them in a traumatic state of mind.

My Sister's Marriage written by Cynthia Marshall Rich is a unique short story about a family with just two daughters and their father. The two sisters names are Olive and Sarah Ann, their father controls, favorites, and takes advantage of them. As told in the story their father just wants to protect his daughters, but at them same time he also controls them. The daughters feel this way because he doesn't want them to get married, go anywhere unless they're with him, and he even controls what they read about. The father makes his children change their mind and think everything is ok.

Meditation of death, reflection of the intense love of life and a negative view of death were all themes of the four poems.

She uses these literary devices to convey her attitude towards loss of important things to her such as the loss of her lover. In this poem she is trying to express loss in a deeper form and meaning.

The poem conveys a powerful message that when the death approaches, people need to know what has made his or her life meaningful, and should never fear death. Everyday in life people can use it for encouragement. For example, when your mother or father is sick, then their children can give them strength by using this phrase. It serves the same function such as if someone is going to commit suicide, but is saved by a family member. The title emphasizes his rage against his father’s death and he repeats the saying after every stanza. People reach a point in their lives where they feel it is useless to fight against a force that is

Every poem has a specific theme or mood. Longfellow creates the mood of inspiration and excitement, his themes in “A Psalm of life” are live for today, and live a productive life. In the poem “Because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson she created moods of calmness, acceptance of death, being carefree her themes that she used in “Because I could not stop for death” are cycle of life, and the inevitability of death.

The theme is that many people only realize the value of their loved ones after they are no longer alive. This makes people want to cherish the memories of lost loved ones through the possessions they left behind. The speaker of this poem seems to have lost at least two people that they were very close to, a woman and a man. Now, the narrator is coming to see importance of even the smallest things they shared with each of the persons they have lost. Even through all of the sadness the speaker is experiencing, they are discovering meaning in what seem to be minor details. The overall message of “Death sets a Thing significant” is that although death can be difficult to experience, it does not take away all joy, but also gives value to a person’s life.

This poem dramatizes the conflicts between life and death, and explores the conflict through the context of death on a small scale and whether the design of death has an influence on such a seemingly insignificant event. In the first stanza the speaker tells of their encounter with “assorted characters of death and blight,” a white spider, a white flower, and a dead white moth. The speaker then reflects on this encounter in the second stanza, asking questions regarding what circumstances and what element of fate brought the three together. The speaker seems to address no one in particular throughout the poem, which is styled similarly to a letter or story and written in past tense; the audience could be one particular person, many people,

The main themes throughout the poem are faith, or perhaps unfaithfulness, and love. Faith is an obvious theme because the speaker is talking to God and asking for salvation and

Literature is never original. In one way or another, one text alludes to a previous text which in turn alludes to a previous. Common reoccurring allusions are to the Bible, Greek mythology, Shakespeare, or other writers. Themes such as; faith, childhood, love, and loneliness, are repeated and expanded upon in a wide variety of ways in all genres of literature but none as unique as poetry. Poetry is often regarded as one of the more difficult forms of literature, it employs an array of techniques which allows each poem to express a theme or idea, although reoccurring or cliché, in its own particular light that brings a new perspective to the subject matter. The subject of death is as old as time itself. Throughout the years people have expressed many different emotions through poetry regarding death. In Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night”, John Donne’ “Death be not proud”, and Emily Dickenson’s “Because I could not stop for Death,” it can be observed the different and similar techniques used to portray like or contrasting ideas of death. Techniques such as; literary devices, form, and diction, are used to evoke like and different ideas surrounding the topic of death.