Response To The Poem Scars

The poem “To This Day” written by Shane Koyczan, the symbolism is the black things grabbing the kid. This is showing that words do hurt and it stays with you this is shown through the whole story of the pain and suffering of the kid. This is said " who used to say that rhyme sticks and stones as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called" this is showing word do hurt and the black things grabbing him is showing that like a broken bone it still hurts over time just like words do. With this evidence it shows that if you don't want to be called that don't say it at all.

The memories and feelings that the memorial brings forth from the veteran are the driving force to the tone of the poem. The poems is heavy and heartbreaking. It clearly shows that the visit to the memorial has an enormous impact on the author. The author describes several different visions he has while at the memorial. The visions that he has are as real to him as if they were physically present. The author makes it easy to see and feel things through his eyes. The words used to describe his thoughts and feeling evoke emotions of sadness and at times, even despair.

The experience seems painful, and yet she ends leaving with a happy tongue, as if the foreboding surroundings only make the berries sweeter. “Facing It” is yet another poem about memories, but in this poem the speaker is an adult. As he looks into the Vietnam memorial, he reflects on his past. He struggles with internal conflict, he’s angry and sad, and he wants to cry but he also forces himself to hold back the tears. He has a very personal connection with the wall, and sees himself in it both literally and metaphorically.

The importance and value of extended family and family heritage/ memories in Saed’s work is represented by descriptive language, personification and motifs. Saed tells the story of the healing nature of sharing traumatic memories after hers and her extended family’s traumatic experiences. In the lines, “Grandmothers tell the story of healing; how wounds heal only after they have memorized the moment of hurt...” and “Mother’s veil hangs on the wall like a talisman. Her lapis doves and tinselled mountains are misplaced and glorified behind plates of glass…”(What the Scar Revealed) the personification of wounds enables the reader to compare the situation to their own lives, bring it ‘alive’ and giving it a deeper meaning. ‘Wounds’ is a recurring motif throughout the poem to reinforce and emphasise the principal message of the healing nature of sharing traumatic memories. These extracts show the value Saed holds

Have you ever met someone who carried a scar on them? According to the dictionary, a scar is, “The trace of a healed wound, sore, or burn” (Oxford English Dictionary). What if I told you that scars are not only physical remnants of an accident, but can be held in the mind for generations? Unlike how physical scars die with their host, a mental scar can be passed down by blood for years. In Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, the theme of scars serves not only as physical, but as a metaphor for the lasting effects of trauma and it changes the way that people or society views the victims of it.

Poems are not only words, they are further more than that. Poems are a way for the poet to express their feelings, thoughts, ideas, and point of views. Poets can creat poems that are fiction and made up or poems that give real-life situation but,it will always have a purpose or a life lesson. Every poet has their own way of writing and way of building an idea in a reader's mind. This essay will analyze a well known poet named Daniel Halpern. It will teach the reader more about the poet, It will analyze 3 of his poems called, Scars, The Storm, and Careless Perfection. Lastly, we will recognize Daniel’s accomplishments and awards.

It is pretty poignant, yet honest to say that the hurricane Katrina has long derived an almost obsessional attention from Natasha writer. In “Beyond Katrina: A meditation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast”, Tretheway has purposely pictured the devastation scenario from witnesses’ narratives; hence her story could speak for many stories of people who are less visible, whom we cannot see struggling against the aftermath - the stories we may not know about how tenacious the return of Gulf Coast communities was from those tremendous sufferings they miserably faced up to.

Millay throughout her poem utilizes symbolism which sets the tone of loneliness and nostalgia, making it easier for the reader to grasp the meaning of the poem. The first two lines of the poem, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, / I have forgotten, and what arms have lain” (Millay 1-2) the speaker explains in a subtle way about her former lovers she has now forgotten. “Under my head till morning; but the rain/ Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh/ Upon the glass and listen for reply,” (Millay 3-5) the speaker uses symbolism on her former lovers as ghosts that are tapping and can be interpreted as them prompting her memories. “And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain/ For unremembered lads that not

Scars are undoubtably an incredible means of storytelling in Beloved. No matter how a person changes or what happens to them, these marks are another bit of tangible history, following each of them wherever they may go. These physical characteristics are what one can believe in, more than what is said or written. When written and oral language can many times not be trusted, physical characteristics provide another more certain form of communication--one that cannot be biased or altered.

The speaker in “Remember” has a calm voice evident in the simplicity in the syntax of the poem which is easy to understand starting from the first line, but is increasingly uncertain until it turns commanding. Lines 3 to 8 show the uncertainties of the speaker as they do not know whether or not they will be able to “stay” with the person they are writing the poem to (presumably a beloved someone) or that they will be able to give them advice or “pray”. Yet, the tone takes on a strong personality when the speaker says: “Better by far you should forget and smile/Than that you should remember and be sad” (line 13-14) by this reassuring the recipient that no matter if the speaker dies, it is completely fine if they are forgotten and by this giving the poem a much more lighthearted tone. Unlike “Remember,” the “Cross of Snow” is not a mysterious poem, in fact, Newton Arvin’s biography called Longfellow: His Life and Work states that the poem was actually written to mourn his wife, who died horribly after her dress caught on fire from an ember in the chimney as the couple rested. Although, Longfellow tried to put the fire out, he did so unsuccessfully and in the meantime, burning his own face with scars he covered up with his long beard. Moreover, Longfellow’s wife was kept alive four days in hope of curing her, but at that point no one could help and she died. The poem, therefore, picks up a tone of isolation, emphasized by the cold atmosphere that the wintery scene

Veterans are more susceptible to the memories of war, pain, suffering, and death. Memorials such as the Vietnam Memorial bring back many memories for veterans when they view these memorials. Those memories can attack the mind, and cause a veteran to feel vulnerable. Many veterans can only associate those memorials with the pain, suffering, and death that they had seen while at war. Yusef Komunyakaa expresses the pain that is felt within war veterans when they remember memories of war and survival in his poem "Facing It."

Pain can be expressed in both sorrow and anger. Sappho creates great imagery in this fragmented poem by taking pain into natural moving actions. She expresses how her feelings change from hurt to anger and how heavy pain can really be. Sappho uses physical movement to express her emotions in different directions. She also emphasizes how she sees revenge is the ultimate goal in order to recover from that pain.

The lyric poem “We wear the mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a poem about the African American race, and how they had to conceal their unhappiness and anger from whites. This poem was written in 1895, which is around the era when slavery was abolished. Dunbar, living in this time period, was able to experience the gruesome effects of racism, hatred and prejudice against blacks at its worst. Using literary techniques such as: alliteration, metaphor, persona, cacophony, apostrophe and paradox, Paul Dunbar’s poem suggests blacks of his time wore masks of smiling faces to hide their true feelings.

“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou and “You Will Never See Me Fall” by Joyce Alcantara are similar poems because they both use hyperboles to convey their strength in the face of adversity. In Angelou’s poem she states“Out of the huts of history's shame. I rise Up! from a past that's rooted in pain. I rise!” During Alcantara’s piece she says “Times get hard,

Before reading the poem, I assume, as the title suggests, makeup may be condemned in the author’s eyes since she says that someone who is wicked goes to makeup counters to purchase it. Based on this assumption this person may think that makeup is immoral or artifical, but it could also be a protest againsts women’s beauty standards. Beauty does not just happen, chromosomes and cells do it. Beauty stays and goes like marbles on a floor. We blame it on the sun, years, and the nights we did not wash our faces before bed, leaving makeup on our pillows.