Response To The Concrete Woman

To continue, the poem “ Mother to Son” uses figurative language and conflict to develop the theme of rising above challenges. To begin, the author uses figurative language to develop the theme by using Metaphor. In the text it said, ““I’m still climbin’, And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” Figurative language develops the theme of rising above challenges in this text because the author is comparing her life and the stairs to show that there are going to be hard things that are going to come into your life. Second of all, to develop the theme of rising above challenges the author also used conflict. In the text it says, “ “Don’t you set down on the steps ’Cause you find it’s very hard. Don’t you fall now— For I’m still going, honey, I’m still climbin,”. The conflict of this poem is the person on the stairs is starting to give up. The conflict develops the theme of rising above challenges in this text because in the poem it shows that the mother is trying to convince the son to keep going and to overcome his challenges. In conclusion, to develop the theme of rising above challenges the author of the poem, “Mother to Son” used figurative language and conflict. The author used these to show how the metaphor is showing us how life is at times and how the conflict help show the theme of the poem.

The poem makes one feel very depressing and sad. The event that took place starts out when one is a psyche looking around at the people who are still alive, and they realize that they are dead, but ask questions like, “ Why did I have to die?”, “How did I die?”. All of a sudden, the reader’s closet friends rise up out of their graves, but they are there to help one out, so one needs to listen to what they have to say. While the speaker is listening to their closest relatives, the speaker sees that his or her family and friends are sad because, one is dead and they won't be able to see the speaker until they die. The speaker figures out that he or she is the only one in the graveyard, and they haven’t went to Heaven yet, and they figure out that there might not be a place where everyone can meet up when he or she is dead.

First, the poem “The Rose that Grew from concrete” uses Figurative Language (metaphor)to develop the theme of overcoming obstacles in life.For example, Tupac Shakur uses personification for a rose in “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” to develop the theme by using a rose for the poem and how it is said it was able to walk and breath and how it defied nature.

In the poem “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” by Tupac Shakur uses personification. It also uses metaphors to illustrate what is being compared in the story. It shows that how to grow and get past through things in order to accomplish it.

Once I was able to associate these words to emotions and issues present in everyday life, the poem started to make me feel sad. I began thinking about all of the emotions and feelings that everyone hides as they go about life. For example, how the waitress I see once a week may have an eating disorder, or how the singer I look up to just lost her son, or the businessman who got laid off today. Everyone has their own personal battle that they carry everywhere, at any given moment. This explains why the setting is so plain, since the internal struggles people face affect them even at a bus stop. While each person waits, the waitress may be thinking about how much skinnier the person next to her is. The singer could be remembering when she held her baby. And the business man could be planning how to break the news to his wife. No matter how small, everyone experiences a type of trauma or bad experience, and this poem seemed to show what happens when these emotions become bottled up. No one can help each other because they are so stuck within their own issues. The difficulty helping others reminded me of the idea of having to take care of yourself before being able to take care of others.

To begin, the poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” uses figurative language and perspective to develop the theme of rising above obstacle in life. Also, the author uses figurative language to develop the theme by giving the rose human life features. It says, “learned to walk without having feet.“ An example of figurative language in this poem is personification. Personification develops the theme of rising above obstacles in life, in this text because the quote, “learned to walk without having feet” is overcoming a challenge and learning to “walk” without having feet. Next, the author uses perspective to develop the theme by helping us know what the rose “feels” inside. It says, “Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, “ The perspective of this poem is Tupac talking to us about the rose. Perspective develops the theme of rising above obstacles in life, in this text because Tupac tells us what the rose feels and shows us what the rose feels inside. From our perspective we are just seeing a rose in our head but when Tupac talks about how the rose was grew up, we see that the rose was more than just a regular plant. But this rose was a plant that grew up somewhere that was unknown and now the rose is something big and know well just like Tupac. To conclude, the author of “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” uses figurative language and perspective to show the theme of rising

Many critics agree that the poem is clearly about loss but some argue about the central theme. The most common theme is mastering loss. Dodd said,”Loss is its subject, but the poem begins almost trivially.” Dodd means that this poem is about loss, and it begins so simple. The theme sits in the poem and its not hard to discover when even reading the first line, “The art of losing isn’t hard to master,”. As well as loss, the poem recalls the speakers own experience with it. Another common thread found from this poem is how hard it is to overcome loss of love. This theme is significant for the demotion of this poem. When readers first look at the fourth stanza on line two, they imagine that the words “...of three loved houses went,” represent physical houses. Excerpt critic Cone sees otherwise. Cone states that these three loved houses that were lost represent lost loves. Cone also states that losing love is not a one in a million experience. To overcome these losses, Bishop states “...lose something everyday...”. Loss is a common experience which is inevitable in the human life yet, extreme loss of family of loved ones is not an everyday experience. People cannot survive this loss without learning how to deal with it in a non-disastrous way. “The idea that disaster pervades everyday life is crucial to the poem, belying the repeated claim that grief can be mastered gracefully, by art or any other

The song is about breaking away from an old life and trying new things. Some may even consider it a song about growing up, and that could be true in some ways, but it is mostly about shedding your past and becoming a new person. Firstly, she talks about her childhood in her hometown and dreams that she wants to achieve to make her life happier and meaningful. The poet tries to work hard to reach her dream, but she has to meet obstructions from her surroundings that make her finally feel uncomfortable to stay in her hometown. And with strong motivation to reach her goal, the poet assures herself to move to another place, but when she is able to reach her dream, she will not forget her past and people she loves.

The poem “The Rose That Grew from Concrete” by Tupac is about having dreams, ambitions and obtaining them, despite the circumstance one is put in. The rose disguises an individual who has been raised in burdensome ghettos, which is represented as the concrete. The rose is found “Proving nature’s laws wrong it learn 2 walk without having feet” henceforth no one expected one coming from the burdensome life of the ghettos to make something wonderful out of themselves. Subsequently “By keeping its dream it learned 2 breathe fresh air,” undoubtfully, as one focuses on their ambition, nothing, even the lack of a good people and surrounding will not get in their way. On the grand scheme, I have a dream as well, to complete university with very high

The poet shows us his point of view in raising a kid and also trying to become his best friend. We as readers are given the ability to read the mind of the father, and see through his perspective; being afraid of being separated from his son over time. Through his point of view, his nightmare and his desire are being exposed.

and that he believes them. The poem also translates into how living in the city is toilsome and that the city is unrelenting. On the other hand it shows how the city can be prosperous and happy with the city’s disadvantages. in the second half of the poem it’s telling how nomatter what is wrong with the city, the people are still proud of who they are.

The prison is a dark hopeless building while the rosebush contrasts with its brightness and hope. It indicates that there will always be hope and light even with the onset of darkness and despair, “It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found on the track” (50).

The poem always speaks of hope. Every single word Fallain has used as symbol in the poem describes lively the emotion of the main character. The poem has effectively portrayed a lonely, absent minded man kicks the cylinder on a frozen road, and it stops under a sky studded with stars. It describes the man's pathway from trauma and depression to hope and wonderful future. Also, there is a message that the author gives us. Whenever you are hopefulness, do not give up, stay hold and observe, there will be a ray of light for you to follow. Life is difficult or easy depending on you. It is all about your choices. Staying calm and you will make

The poem's rhyme scheme makes the overall tone sound deeper in thought, contributing to the theme. The theme being," Most people will experience challenging moments in life and will need love and will need love and friendship to survive them." The poem speaks of the holly-tree surviving the harsh winter for the rose-briar, which is carried in rhyme in the rhyme

In other words the author uses concrete to express how in the poem "Life" you can feel sadness and can imagine it, during the poem he mentioned " with a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us " this was an example of concrete when the author said " a smile to warm " you can actually feel a smile you can actually feel when you're warm, it also goes with the same thing when it says "and the tears to refresh us " you can feel when you cry also feel the tears like it's refreshing your face as saying happiness gets erased by the tears when you're getting refreshed. Another well done example the author used is when he said in his poem " A pint of joy to a peck of trouble " the author basically just mentioned how a pint of joy goes by so fast and when trouble comes, it comes in a matter of seconds and sometimes it can happen keep happening instantly, therefore it's concrete because you can feel the pint of joy where you actually feel the happiness but then he said "peck" means your conflicts start showing up rapidly. Additionally, he used the same strategy when author said "And never a laugh, but the moans come double;" this one is pretty straightforward when he said "And never a laugh" you know when you laugh you feel the happiness. However, if you laugh it's