Short Literary Analysis Of 'The Author To Her Book'

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

Construct a close reading of this poem that demonstrates your awareness of the poet’s body of work.

The poem suddenly becomes much darker in the last stanza and a Billy Collins explains how teachers, students or general readers of poetry ‘torture’ a poem by being what he believes is cruelly analytical. He says, “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it”. Here, the poem is being personified yet again and this brings about an almost human connection between the reader and the poem. This use of personification is effective as it makes the

The poet uses many metaphors, repetition and morbid diction to illicit the response I had to this poem. Firstly, Butson compared the emotions and internal struggles of a

Now that you have read the poem and considered the meanings of the lines, answer the following questions in a Word doc or in your assignment window:

Prompt: In a brief essay, identify at least two of the implications implicit in the society reflected in the poem. Support your statements by specific references to the poem.

Lastly, I noticed the use of rhetorical questions in the poem. For example, In stanza four, the speaker asks, “How would you prefer to die, on a perfect April evening with young men gossiping and smoking

One of the most difficult tasks I encountered in writing this paper was trying to get into Hughes's mindset, especially since this poem was written shortly after he graduated high school. It is interesting to see how mature he was at the time, which could indicate that external factors forced him to become a mature young man at an early age. Additionally, I struggled with figuring out what Hughes meant, and how he used symbolism to enhance his poetic vision.

Discuss its meaning to you. How is the poem a reflection of the author’s beliefs and the Romantic Movement as a whole?

You seem to be discussing at least two different characters in depth. However, by leaving them unnamed and often referring to both of them with the same masculine pronouns, you made it a bit difficult for me to navigate the poem. I think the basic themes and style you employ are very effective for this poem. However, my confusion about whom you were describing at certain points detracted from the poem’s readability. I’m not sure if naming the characters would be the right move, but I think some clarification is needed.

The poem has a tight, intricate rhyme scheme interlacing all three stanzas: abcd, abcd, abcd, a feet in itself, but the effort shows in the limp line :“Soon they’ll be ruffled,” which fits the subject but strains for its rhyme , and the weak “a” and “d” rhymes, especially the latter, push the poem, inappropriately, toward humor. The point of view in the poem is an impersonal telling, distanced until the “we” of the last line. Her poem has obvious strengths—a firm opening line with a powerful verb, alliteration and the musical, a slow build- up to the strangeness of the penultimate line, the terror of the close - - and more concealed effects. The juxtaposition of indifferent nature, night, out there, against the apparently ordered hospital,

Skimming through Bishop’s poem, many valuable elements constitute to the overall beauty. Nevertheless, the tail rhyme is perhaps one of the most distinctive characteristics. For every stanza, the last word of the first line rhymes with the last line’s, for instance, “master” (1.1) and “disaster” (1.3) in the first stanza. However, this excludes the fourth stanza. Such usage of rhyme creates a quite unique flow, fast and smooth. This affects the poem significantly, for it captures readers’ interest. Moreover, she also enhances the effect with repetition. Throughout

When reading this poem, the first thing you may realize is that this poem is written as a dramatic monologue, which is a literary technique used to speak to some kind of non-present listener, and she puts this story together in a dramatic and shocking sort of way as if she

The essay, Tide of Voices: Why Poetry Matters Now helped to expand my understanding of the poem: “A Brief For The Defense” by Jack Gilbert. It also reinforced my belief that analysis is needed to gain full enjoyment of poetry. “The first time around, it may be hazy, but, the second time around, the clouds will part and the sun will shine through.” Similarly, the first time you read something and you don’t understand it, you go back and reread it. The poem, “A Brief For The Defense” by Jack Gilbert made no sense whatsoever when I read it the first time. I thought it was supposed to help ameliorate my definition of poetry but it did no such thing. “Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere… praise the Devil…” After reading such things, I found the poem to be useless in enhancing my definition of poetry. I was so confused with the mention of blood, slaughter, starvation, poverty, and sickness when I thought the poem was supposed to have an influence on my understanding of poetry. The

The immediate effect of the poem on me was confusion and irritation. I felt it was deceptive. It looked so simple, and was so short, yet I could see no meaning behind it. It frustrated me that even after several re-readings all I could think was a bird in a tree.