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In her poem "Suicide Note", Janice Mirikanti expresses that the amount of stress she's experiencing is a result of the continuous pressure from her parents and culture. In her poem she apologizes to her parents. She even goes on to say that if she were a boy that things could possibly be easier for her. She expresses that she gives each task her all, no matter the difficulty and somehow still fails to receive validation. In the poem she uses key words or phrases to trigger specific emotions within the reader such as "not good enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough."

In the Robert Frost poem ‘’The Road Not Taken’’ there is a pervasive and in many ways intrinsic sense of journey throughout. In such, the poem explores an aspect associated with human decision, or indecision, relative to the oxymoron, that choices with the least the difference should bear the most indifference, but realistically, carry the most difficulty. This is conveyed through the use of several pivotal techniques. Where the first such instance is the use of an extended metaphor, where the poem as a whole becomes a literary embodiment of something more, the journey of life. The second technique used is the writing style of first person. Where in using this, the reader can depict a clear train of thought from the walker and understand

The poem “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Amiri Baraka uses vivid images of sights, sounds, and daily activities to symbolize a heartfelt story. In the poem, Amiri, is one of the African American slaves who is frustrated about the discriminatory treatment by whites. So frustrated he wants to commit suicide. The writer used transition words starting with “lately”, “now”, and “then” for each stanza. He was imagining how he acted before his death and how his daughter reacted to his death.

Janice Mirikitani’s words in this poem is depressing and her message is blunt. This poem has a way of making the reader feels like they going through the same thing that the young asian american was going through. “Suicide Note” illustrates an individual's need to be themselves, as well as parents instinctual nature to want the best for their children, and how both of these things go completely

So I decided to write an explication essay on the poem “The Road Not Taken”. The poem is by Robert Frost and it tells the story about a man who is thinking about something he had done before. Even though what he did wasn’t looked as being good or bad, it was indicated the decision he made had an outcome that caused a shift in his life.

The poem Suicide Note, written by Janice Mirikitani (1987), talks about a young lady, who has studied in an Asian-American female college. The lady, unfortunately, committed suicide by jumping through her dormitory’s window. She left behind a note, citing reasons that led to her actions. After a critical analysis of the note, her parents were held responsible for her actions; they were pressurizing her to perform better in her exams. The poem, thus, describes the real feelings and the emotions of this young lady, who believes that committing suicide is the only option left to please her parents and to escape the enormous pressure placed on her. The persona uses voice in the poem to bring our attention to the sufferings she was going through, and that led to the devastating event. Voice in poetry is the strong words of a line, stanza or a page that creates a relationship between the audience and the persona. Voice can, therefore, be categorized as imagery, patterns of sounds created, rhythm, tone, and diction (Gahern 166). The following is a description of how the voice in Mirikitani’s suicide note helps the reader understand the persona’s reasoning.

Janice Mirikitani “Suicide Note” is the speaker of this short poem with 63 lines in it. The poem is a dramatic monologue. It tells a small story about how an Asian-American girl who is in college, committed suicide because she was not able to meet the expectations for herself and her family. She talked about how each failure effects are greatly, how standing on the ledge reminded her about how a sparrow is about to take flight, and she reminds me of a few people in school that have gone through similar instances like the girl but, did not go through with it fully.

Janice Mirikitani is known for being a poet, dancer, and a community activist and earned a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Through her poetry and activism, Mirikitani is committed to addressing the horrors of war, combating institutional racism, and advocating for poor people and women. Mirikitani’s collection of poetry include Awake in the River (1978), Shedding Silence (1987), Suicide Note (1987), We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems (1995), and Love Works (2001). Poetry depends on the speaker who describes events, feelings, and ideas to readers. The Suicide Note was written by Mirikitani to become the victim’s voice and writes the poem through the victim’s perspective, based on her own life experiences and reasoning

The poem “Suicide’s Note” by Langston Hughes is a deep and emotional poem that is shown as the result of the imagery and literary devices present in the poem.

Robert Frost is an iconic poet in American literature today, and is seen as one of the most well known, popular, or respected twentieth century American poets. In his lifetime, Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, and the Congressional Gold Medal. However, Robert Frost’s life was not always full of fame and wealth; he had a very difficult life from the very beginning. At age 11, his father died of tuberculosis; fifteen years later, his mother died of cancer. Frost committed his younger sister to a mental hospital, and many years later, committed his own daughter to a mental hospital as well. Both Robert and his wife Elinor suffered from depression throughout their lives, but considering the premature deaths of three of their children and the suicide of another, both maintained sanity very well. (1)

Home Burial by Robert Frost and The Quarrel by Diane di Prima written nearly 50 years apart, explore the complexities of unhappy marriages. From a marriage torn apart through the death of a child in Home Burial to a broken relationship fueled by bad communication in The Quarrel the reader is completely engrossed in the similarities and differences of Frost and di Prima’s poems. Both works are great examples of T.S. Eliot’s concept of the second voice and the third voice, and how these voices interact with one another. They also share commonalities and distinctions regarding the interaction of these voices that contribute significantly to the reader's reception of them.

Poetry is a type of literature that uses rhythmical composition to implement the reader with beautiful, imaginative or elevated thoughts (dictionary.com). Two of the finest poems during their time were“Mirror”, by Sylvia Plath, and “Suicide Note”, by Janice Mirikitani. Sylvia Plath was a troubled poet; throughout her life she had dealt with major depression. During college she attempted to put an end to her life by taking sleeping pills; she was placed in a mental institute and was treated with electroconvulsive shock treatment. A few years later after graduating from college she got married to a fellow poet, Ted Hughes. Four years later, Hughes and Plath had their first child followed by their second child two years after. After seven years of marriage, in 1962, her husband left her for another woman which a few months later she committed suicide by using a gas oven (Wagner- Martin 4). Plath was not the only poet out of the two that had to deal with hardship. Janice Mirikitani is an Asian American activist that was born in Stockton California. Her and her family were incarcerated during World War II in an camp in Arkansas. After being released from the camp, her father and mother separated. Her mother remarried and moved to rural Petaluma. Mirikitani at the age of five had to bear years of hardship of emotional isolation, poverty and sexual abuse by her stepfather that lasted practically a decade. These dramatic events in her life, caused her to

Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost influenced my thorough love of different styles of literature, particularly poetry. To the masses, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost only share job titles, but the two poets share many similarities within their writing. Personally, I read pieces from both authors over the course of my schooling experience. I admired Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” from a young age, and that particular stole my heart since the first read. “The Raven,” became one of my favorite poems further down my schooling career, with its clear ominous tone that symbolizes much of Poe’s writing. Frost’s and Poe’s works may not seem similar, aside from the section in which their books reside within a library, but their work resembles each other’s quite well. Frost’s writing serves as a better introduction to poetry due to his easily relatable themes, his background connects to everyday audiences, and his use of modern language.

Robert Frost's poem “The Road Not Taken” describes a traveler facing a choice, he can either choose the road not taken, or he can choose the road most traveled by. He does not know where either road might lead, but in order to continue with his journey, he can pick only one road. He analyses both roads for the possibilities of where each may take him in his journey. Frost's traveler realizes that regret is inevitable. Regardless of his choice, he knows that he will miss the experiences he might have encountered on the road not taken. Frost, uses literary elements, such as Denotation and Connotation, Symbolism, alliteration, consonance, and assonance in order to convey massage.