Review Of The Poem 'How Public Like A Frog'

Firstly, the speaker’s attitude or the tone demonstrates how a person can be the cause of their own misery. From the very start of the poem the speaker has a depressing tone. Any little event that occurs the speaker reads it as a negative occurrence that adds to his ever growing misery. For Example, when the speaker says “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” The speaker hears a knock on the door and opens it to see that there is no one there. Instead of going back to sleep he demonstrates his negative attitude by

The main idea of the poem is that all life no matter how small it is has value. This is shown through Birdfoot’s Grampa’s constant stopping of the car to save toads along the road instead of just running them over; also his careful handling of them to make sure they are not harmed. The value of life is also demonstrated in the poem when he kneels down in the grass and releases them and doesn’t just throw them out of the way. Lastly his saying of ‘They have places to go too” demonstrates

This poem is written in free verse. My paraphrase of this poem is: I am fourteen, and now my skin is marked with acne. The boy that I love is still immature. How come my skin is so dry? What if I was gone before morning? Even so, my mother leaves me isolated. I have to learn how to dance before the upcoming party. I cannot practice in my cramped room. Maybe if I die before graduation, they will chant melancholy tunes. There’s nothing I want to do, but there are too many things to be done. Even so, my mother leaves me isolated. Nobody wants to listen to what I have to say. I should've gotten into the math team, I had better grades than him. How come I have to be the one with braces? I don’t even have anything to wear tomorrow. Would I even live long enough to grow up? Even so, my mother leaves me isolated.

The sense throughout the entire poem is that the speaker is nervous about embarking on a new journey in their life. Something encapsulated perfectly when the speaker says “this is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself” (24). The irony here is that many children dream of becoming older from the time they can talk. Hell, maybe even before that. They see a distorted view of freedom in adulthood and oppression in childhood. This speaker’s view of blossoming out of childhood, however, is bleak and contrast with what most children want. Maybe the speaker is scared of getting closer to going to high school, having to leave certain things or people behind or, maybe they just fear change in general. The poem does not hand the correct interpretation to the reader and leaves it up for interpretation, something that makes the poem more powerful by allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions as to why the speaker is apprehensive about reaching their new milestone. Thus rings the bell, calling for a pause of reading and the start of thinking. This openness leaves different readers with different backgrounds, different experiences and different personalities to all read differently into what the speaker fears about growing up. A reader who grew up affluent may attribute this concern as a normal progression of feelings which starts as fear but grows into excitement due to having new experiences to enjoy. A reader who grew up poor may think the speaker realizes they will have to make tough decisions to survive and that the best years of their life are behind them. This openness of having different people read differently into the speaker’s irony is why a thirty-two-line poem leads to an infinite amount of interpretations. As well as being used for humour, irony is also used to highlight certain expectations of growing

This poem has a true meaning behind it. The meaning of it is of Antwone when he was little. He would cry himself to sleep. He would get beaten over an over again. It just kept building up and finally he cried for help on the inside. Luckily he got help from his psychiatrist before it was too late.

The humor and seemingly-comedic personification used in the poem are very different than the theme, and serve as a distraction from the speaker’s pain.

As the poem goes on it gets deeper with meaning, sadder even. Lines four and five are the most crucial lines of the poem. Line three ends with the head giving the heart advice. “You will lose the ones you love. They will all go,” this isn’t the first thing someone wants to hear, especially not someone who is aware that they have just lost someone they love. But this is classic, logical advice that your emotions need to hear. What it means is that one day everyone you love will be gone, it is the sad truth of the world we live in. Nothing is forever. “But even the earth will go,

“Hop-Frog” is a captivating short story of a joker who learns to deal with his problems, one way or another. Edgar Allan Poe draws you in with the tale of Hop-Frog and his encounters with the king and his royal council. With the help of his good friend Trippetta, Hop-Frog learns the ways of dealing with the demanding king and his foolish ministers. Using literary devices like imagery, plot, and point of view Edgar Allan Poe hooks you into the story as you learn to

The poem has 14 stanzas. There are no rhymes in this poem, it is written in free form. Similes are being used in this poem such as: “Like my feelings-it’s lonely feeling like a saint.” This line describes how the persona’s feels lonely because he wants to fit in and be like everyone else and fit in, so he acts mean, when in actual reality, he is not mean. Another simile is: “Like your waistline that exists a little too much, like my hairline that doesn’t exist at all!”

This poem is a narrative of a woman, talking about how she is repeatedly asked where her secret lies, because of the confidence she wears, and the power she has over a room of people. She states it because of things such as the stride of her walk, the span of her arms, and then goes on to state “I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.” The conflicts being dramatized are how despite she isn’t “pretty” or a “fashion model’s size”, she is able to hold the attention of a room with grace, convey power and beauty in everything she does, and be completely confident in the person she is. She is being asked this by men and women wherever she goes, because the power of her entering a room has men swarming around her “ a hive of honey bees”

Is a poem without any specific sound easy to understand? Possibly not! In most poems, a poet uses assonance or consonance to draw special attention to specific parts of the poem. A poem with assonance or vowels tells the reader about how low or high the sound is, giving them a sense of the emotion of the character or the poet at that specific part. On the other hand, consonance determines the friction or tone of a word or line, telling the reader when to slow down or when to read faster.

The poem opens with a thought to bring the main message into the poem. Barks, then, expresses examples in the text to bring you into the shoes of this man. The speaker is discussing the simple aspects of his life to which all humans can relate. Nobody, easily admits to there flaws and weaknesses to each of our lives and that is what the speaker is doing.

To say I am a people person is an understatement. Throughout my seventeen years, I have learned a few things about myself. People are my passion and communication is my gateway to friendship. Where others might see a stranger, I see an opportunity for I believe that a stranger is just a friend one has never met before. Interaction with people is just one of my talents for I acquire many abilities, as opposed to being the best at one gift.

The initial impression of the poem is that the narrator is in the desert for some reason and runs to a creature, he seems a bit wild. He sees a creature that was naked and bestial. You would think the narrator would try to avoid this creature or run away, but he confronts it and talks to it. It seems like he was not judging on how it looked. So it is talking about how you do not judge a book by its cover, but the inside is all that matters. The man knows he does not look to great but he has his heart which he is really proud of even if it is bitter and not sweet so he is proud of who or what he is.

The stanza establishes a form of isolation between the persona to the place that they live, as they believe that in this unknown territory, ‘[they] think / in a language of [their] own and talk in’ (Stanza 1, Line 4/5) those who lives in the territory. Almost every reader can relate to this theme of isolation as a common theme that a person would experience in their lifetime would be moving to a new area that they have never been to before. This goes for the persona, as even after ‘living in the strange, dark city for twenty years’ (Stanza 1, Line 1) the persona feels out of sync with the system. With effective writing and a great use of imagery (whether it is auditory or visual), Duffy writes in an extremely clever way in which the reader can definitely have sympathy for the narrator of the poem. The author aims to achieve a strong connection between