“Even if you are not ready for the day it cannot always be night” this line from the poem had genuinely stuck out to me. I felt that the speaker was trying to tell readers that even if your not ready to move on from something unfortunate, you can't stay in that place forever. Life goes on through tough times, but there is always a way to jump around it and move on. In the poem Gwendolyn Brooks explains how there will be tough parts in life and how it is sometimes easier not to face your problems but you have to. The poem is also about how not everything is about winning in the end, but about enjoying the present, and to look at the positive side of things. I enjoy the poem because in “Speech of the Young” there is a great meaning behind the poem. In the first stanza of “Speech of the Young” There is symbolism in line 8 "For that is the hard home-run." The author uses a home run to symbolize how hard it was to do something. The lines "say to the down-keepers, the sun slappers, the self soilers, the harmony-hushers," are referring to people who don't feel good about themselves or make others feel bad. I think that the term “harmony hushers” is great way to describe someone who is down on others, because once everything is in harmony breaking it would cause others to feel …show more content…
The poem has a lot of meaning behind it, the poem uses alliteration throughout. I feel that I can relate the speaker of the poem because the speaker talks about how life isn't easy but there is always a better way. The way the author uses the different meaning throughout is one reason why I enjoy the poem. My favorite line in the poem in “Even if you are not ready for the day it cannot always be night” because behind the line is very meaningful, because even if your not ready to move on from something that happened, you cannot stay in that place
Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Education at Harvard University with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society. Smith Clint wrote a poem called “Something You should Know.” The poem is about an early job he had in a Petsmart. The poet allows the readers into his personal life, but before he had trouble opening up to people and his work. Moreover, Clint wrote an insight in the poem about relying in anything to feel safe and he says it is the most terrifying thing any person can do.
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.
When you read this poem you can see that the same idea is carried onto the next line. In most poems there is a new idea in every line. In the poems that we read last week The lines were very short and I think this brought great meaning to the poem. I think with the same idea carrying onto the next line it makes the poem more like a story.
The main idea of this is to get the reader to understand that things always get better and bad times will always have an end even if it does not seem that way. I think that the theme of this poem is self confidence and that things can be difficult, but you will always get over it. Lauren Hill thinks of herself as a very powerful and important person. She thinks that everyone deserves to live the life that they dreamed of and she understand that they are going through many different struggles because they are teenagers and are starting to change. She wants them to persevere and believe in themselves and they will eventually overcome the changes. Lauren Hill thinks of herself as a very powerful and important person. In the poem, Lauren Hill
In the poem the primary speaker takes a stroll through an urban city only to hear a naive and optimistic lover singing about love being eternal. The primary speaker imagines a clock responding to the lover in mocking and pessimistic tone for believing love will be eternal. Through the utilization of personification, diction, metaphors, and imagery, the clock emphasizes to the lover not to take his/her life for granted.
The Young Elites by Marie Lu contains the five main elements of a plot line. To start off, the song “What a Catch, Donnie” by Fall Out Boy is an excellent way to summarize the exposition. The lyrics explain “I got troubled thoughts/ and the self esteem to match”, which corresponds with Adelina’s life. Adelina is full of dark thoughts, and her dad is constantly mean to her, trying to provoke her. She is a Malfetto, a survivor of the plague. All Malfetto have a mark. Adelina has a terrible scar down her face, reminding her she is different. The lines “You’ll never catch us/ So just let me be” show Adelina just wants her father to leave her alone. She thinks if he would stop being mean to her, then her dark thoughts would also stop.
This poem was descriptive, yet simple. But every verse had meaning behind it. The poem has 16 lines that’s broken into 4 stanzas. (Poetry Foundation.) This poem also has a rhyme scheme and the rhythm is an iambic pentameter, meaning it has a five-beat rhythm of the pattern. Some verses in this poem are slightly negative yet also positive at the same time.
The intended message of the overall poem is how life is complicated and that stressing over finding structure and order in life is a timewaster. Looking on the form of the poem, the same message can be depicted as well. The form of the poem being free verse implies the complications that is seen in everyday life. However, the last line, with it being iambic pentameter, signifies control which indicates that no matter how unorderly one's day can be, control can still be taken at the end of the day.
When songs are written, there is often some deeper meaning hidden within the various pieces. Hearing a song may not make this apparent, but by listening to the lyrics and/or instrumentation individually, the true meaning can be realized. For example, in the song Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men, the writers convey deep meaning through their choice of lyrics. The actual instrumentation and rhythm of the song keeps it sounding lighthearted. It is only when the listener separates the song from the lyrics that this particular song’s significance is discovered; mourning the loss of a loved one.
Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.
The education system today has the whole pedagogical process down to a science - Take a certain percentage of the student’s multiple choice score and then multiply the free response score by a seemingly random string of digits, then consider the weighted average, consider adding a touch of stimulating material, perhaps a movie or two; arrange students this way; this many days of one topic and this many of another - and after crunching the numbers out comes the perfect student; One who can write the proper essay, the correct lab report, correctly perform an experiment, correct, proper, right. But the system never stops to consider producing the best person. If the educational system does not consider the student, then do teachers? Should
I agree with your opinion. The poem is exhibited in lonely ad sorrowful tone. It is about a son losing his father and he misses him. A man needs a father as a mentor and guide especially in his youth. However our writer loses his mentor at that period and feels alone. Li shares his memory of last year where he and his father were walking together among windfall pears but does not remembers the conversation. This shows all it matters is togetherness of son and
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
“Not everyone goes to poetry readings to find love. She did. Growing up poetry had been the sanctuary that space in words where longing could be spoken. Nobody in her world understood. Poems came in another language. Nobody could find or hurt you there.” “ Poetry made childhood bearable “. Bell Hooks is speaking about how poetry and words were a place for her to escape the harsh reality of her everyday life during her painful childhood in the oppressive South. Wounds of Passion is Bell Hooks autobiography that details the struggles of an independent, feminist, black woman from the South struggling with a difficult childhood due to an abusive father and a non-supportive family. Hooks speaks from a personal level as the book details her witnessing her father beat her mother one night and displaying a “If I cant have you, nobody can” dysfunctional type of love and her relationship with a man seven years older than her, named Mack, whom she credits with encouraging her to write and publish her first book, “Ain 't I a Woman.” With raw honesty, she tells us about the 15-years relationship between her and Mack: even as she finally leaves Mack, she says, "Inside me I am still the country girl who never goes anywhere.” Hooks recalls other influences on her early intellectual development, and her shock at discovering that while gender and class were considered to be important elements in academic world, race
His contradictions and uncertainty are done with and he seems to be proud of the path that he has taken. Overall, the poem delivers a strong theme of curiosity and uncertainty, which in reality, is what comes to mind when thinking about the “journey of life” and what is in everyone’s future. No one knows what is going to happen tomorrow or the next day, but we can always remember our struggles of yesterday and before. People always want what is best for them and their loved ones in the end, and the author has made it a point in this poem to demonstrate to others that it is not always easy to find success, and the answers are not always “right in front of you”.