Strawberry bushes go on for miles, green and red brightening the gloomy sky. Rolling hills of trees and fog surround the strawberry patch as birds come and go. The air has a crisp bite to it. The fresh scent of the air soothes the singing birds. “Strawberry fields Forever” by The Beatles plays softly somewhere in the distance pausing the calming silence. The song ends just before the birds start chirping again. A chilly breeze goes over the strawberry patch cooling everything in its path.The breeze carries the sweet aroma of fresh strawberries from place to place. The strawberry patch has a fresh dreaminess to it from the sweet strawberries that cover the earth. It will always stay the same with the fresh, sweet scent of Strawberries.
In “The Poem You Asked For” by Larry Levis, he is comparing writing a poem by comparing it to a plant, stubborn person, and toad. Larry Levis, a 20th-century writer is well known for his brevity and surprise approach in poetry. This poem magnifies the complications that authors may face while trying to write something of such importance. The speaker uses an abundant amount of figurative language to personify how writing is so difficult, and can lead to many difficulties and dead ends. The author uses figurative language to portray the theme of difficulties in the writing process such as: difficulties prewriting, writers block, and how hard it is to let go of writing as an author.
Written in 1980, Galway Kinnell's Blackberry Eating is a poem which creates a strong metaphoric relationship between the tangible objects of blackberries, and the intangible objects of words. The speaker of the poem feels a strong attraction to the sensory characteristics (the touch, taste, and look) of blackberries. The attraction he feels at the beginning of the poem exclusively for blackberries is paralleled in the end by his appetite and attraction to words. The rush the speaker gets out of blackberry eating is paralleled to the enjoyment he finds in thinking about certain words; words which call up the same sensory images the blackberries embody.
The title of Natasha Trethewey’s poem, “Amateur Fighter”, is what made me curious to read it. An amateur fighter is an odd subject choice. It is more common to read poems or even stories about great fighters or champions. The title also sets the tone of the poem. Obviously, the poem will not be about a hero, but instead, it will be about a fighter. It is also interesting that the poem is titled “Amateur Fighter”, yet the poem says that the fighter won a prize. It makes me think the word ‘fighter’ could mean a boxer or someone who is fighting for life or their place in it.
This poem by Jeremy Windo is set in the passenger seat of his fathers ‘55 Chevy truck where he grew up. This poem is a reflection of the main characters memories with his dad in the old 55 Chevy truck. He talks about the paint, the interior, every little detail he can remember. One literary device that is used in the poem is end rhyme. An example of this is “Driving on a backroad / Directing a new episode” (3-4), and also another example towards the end of the story is “This one is mine / For the rest of time” (29-30). Imagery is also used throughout the entire poem as well and he very thoroughly explains the interior and exterior. This poem also has free verse in the middle of the poem in lines 15-27. This adds to the poem in helping
In Sharon Olds The Summer-Camp Bus Pulls Away from the Curb she states “With a pencil and two Hardy Boys and a peanut butter sandwich and grapes he is on his way, there is nothing more we can do for him” the narrator is sending her son off with what she thinks he will need not only for summer camp but for life.
Different cultures around the world utilize different techniques to pass on family histories. The Hmong culture makes story tapestries and West African tribes use song and oral story to pass on their traditions. In the poem, “The Century Quilt,” poet Marilyn Nelson Waniek shares the story of one family’s heritage and the role blankets play in telling the family history. Waniek uses the literary devices of shifts, symbolism and colors to show the complexities of the speaker’s heritage, and how the familial relationships in her life have shaped her.
I remember the soda shop that Robbie Nelson and I used to frequent on the corner near the theater, but that was before the war you understand. My, you’re a bit paler specimen aren’t you, dearie?—and so much smaller than the other butterflies. So fragile—just come from your cocoon, perhaps? Anyway, where’d I put that coffee cup?
The main character, Andy, in David Michael Kaplan’s “Doe Season” develops significantly throughout the course of the short story. Andy reverts from being a tomboy to a “little lady” after a hunting experience with her father, Charlie Spoon, and Mac. Throughout the story, Andy is constantly reminded that she is a girl and is told that she is out of her element in the woods. Andy’s father defends her and claims that there is no difference between Charlie Spoon’s relationship with Mac and his with Andy. Despite her father’s support, Andy does stick out in from the others because she is a girl.
District 12 is a poverty incarnate. As plumes of ashen grey smoke pollute the sky, the monotonous sound of pickaxes bang sullenly against ghastly grey stone rings throughout the streets of District 12. Homeless men and women line the streets, laying against the walls of run down buildings with nothing but the tattered clothes on their back to shelter them from the vicious frost biting away at their flesh. Drunkards and miners drag their feet across the cracked and faded pavement, some wandering aimlessly in the hopes they might discover a better life, whilst others head towards the Hob, a makeshift agora were the denizens of District 12 attempt to trade goods and services. The sun hides behind an infinite expanse of grey clouds that blanket
We turn on the TV or log into a social media site, and see fast cars, stacks of money, mansions, and the most exquisite jewels. Get in the car, turn on the radio, and the story continues. The revolution of hip hop has submerged, and brainwashed its audience with this idea that these are the things that we’re supposed to strive to obtain. The belief then becomes that if we don’t have these things, we don’t have happiness. For years, rappers have been painting us this picture through songs, that portrayed a luxurious lifestyle as the key to happiness. In 2014, rap genius J Cole, destroyed the idea that wealth was the equivalent to happiness in his song “Love Yourz”. Cole raps this message in a very beautiful, passionate tone and opens the eyes
Promised Land In a land far, far away A girl with twinkling, almond eyes Dimpled-broad smile And a mesmeric, adenoidal voice. Dreamt of a land, far, far away. Where words don’t wound like thousand bullets and
Don't take me to that spoken phrase minefield. - My dignity slips a little further down. I never needed this before. Constant voice caressing my ears with lips that sting like your yellow eyes.
Sweltering heat of summer beats Under the blue sky wide. Many a day is passed away Many taken in stride. Early light pushes back the night
I don’t know what to write this poem about I could write about Jake’s gross pit hair Or poop, but let’s not take that nasty route What is this supposed to even share? The fact that I am not a good poet, Or that I still wet the bed sometimes?
In her poem “Route 62,” Helen Moffett paints a beautiful and powerful picture of the landscape in South Africa. However, the title evokes the image of a man-made road familiar to many Americans. Nonetheless, Moffett carefully structures her poem and employs vivid language to clearly illustrate that human achievements and life, like the titular road, are ultimately insignificant in comparison to the durability of the long-lasting mountains.