Summary OfTuesday 9 : 00AM Poem

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 different groups of people within the poem represent the different stages of life. At the beginning of the poem it talks about a young boy and his dog and swimmers. Several lines down it talks about “young lovers” and then families.

Secondly, the author uses word choice to show the speakers overall sorrow. Throughout the whole poem there are word scattered everywhere that describe the general emotion of sorrow, some of those word being “restless” (19), “torment”, and “troubled” (4). These words instantly give the connotation of feelings like despair and sadness. The speaker also uses literary elements such as simile to express sorrow, like when she says “These troubles of the heart/ are like unwashed clothes” (27, 28). Everyday people usually do not pay much mind to unwashed clothes, and usually look at it as something unimportant or irrelevant. When the speaker compares her internal troubles to something that holds little importance to everyday life and is also seen as unpleasant, the readers really get a look into the sorrow and sadness that the speaker is truly feeling. The speaker also uses word choice to help show the readers the true intensity of what she is going through.

In Julie Sheehan's poem we get a clear message that the tone is sarcastic. The usage of figurative language exaggerate the poem. The exaggeration in the poem makes us believe if this is real “hate” because of the hyperbolic phrases. In her piece “Hate Poem,” Julie Sheehan uses hyperbolic personification, metaphor, and simile to create a sarcastic tone to convey that passionate emotions can be easy to confuse.

Once I was able to associate these words to emotions and issues present in everyday life, the poem started to make me feel sad. I began thinking about all of the emotions and feelings that everyone hides as they go about life. For example, how the waitress I see once a week may have an eating disorder, or how the singer I look up to just lost her son, or the businessman who got laid off today. Everyone has their own personal battle that they carry everywhere, at any given moment. This explains why the setting is so plain, since the internal struggles people face affect them even at a bus stop. While each person waits, the waitress may be thinking about how much skinnier the person next to her is. The singer could be remembering when she held her baby. And the business man could be planning how to break the news to his wife. No matter how small, everyone experiences a type of trauma or bad experience, and this poem seemed to show what happens when these emotions become bottled up. No one can help each other because they are so stuck within their own issues. The difficulty helping others reminded me of the idea of having to take care of yourself before being able to take care of others.

In this poem, women are tired and outraged of the limits of their occupation. The poem shows this by the tone of the first line “women are burning”. This shows that women all over America are fed up and angry for being stuck at the house. I believe that burning gives a negative connotation. So when I hear burning this makes me think that the person is angered and outraged. These women are outraged because they are limited to only housework.The poem also states that “she says, once I was the roast duck on your platter with parsley but now I’m spam”. This quote makes me feel that this woman is being treated poorly. I also believe that this woman feels unappreciated and abandoned by their husband who once paid

In stanza six, we see the end of visiting hour, and the persona’s loss of control as he is overran with emotion. The phrase, “black figure in her white cave” creates an image of an intruder in her sanctuary. The black and white contrast suggests he is a shadow of his former self and also that he is trying to detach himself. The phrase, “clumsily rises” gives connotations of his state as he is physically affected by his feeling of loss. Furthermore, “swimming waves of a bell” is a metaphor which has connotations of water. This is used to illustrate that he is drowning in the realisation that she is dying. Finally, “fruitless fruits” is an oxymoron used to reinforce that there is no hope or going back, for her.

George Gascoigne’s sonnet, “For That He Looked Not upon Her,” portrays a sullen man, hurt by the woman he loved. Through the uses of form, diction, and imagery, the sonnet evokes a complex attitude in each quatrain elaborating on the stages of torment the speaker receives from his ex-lover. By using these literary devices, the speaker portrays the dangers of desire and the conflicts that arise from within it. Gascoigne conveys a solemn and melancholy complex attitude developed throughout the use of such literary devices. The attitude of the speaker, expressed through the form of the sonnet, explains the dangers of gazing at the woman who burned him.

. The video “To this day” by Shane Koyczan, based on the poem by the same name, is a little boy with an unfortunate nickname of porkchop that led to bullying throughout his life. They have Koyczan the nickname porkchop when they heard his story that he used to call porkchops karate chops. Koyczan wrote the poem because he is noting how people get bullied and that he also got bullied also that bullying is still going on. What he also explains in his poem is that kids can break and nobody hears how nobody cares or knows.

“The Life River” was written to allow readers to understand the difficulties of life and how this Poem explains how people feel and act when things continuously doesn’t go they way it was supposed to, or when something bad happens over and over again. The people eventually turn to their last source of secretary to escape. Their mind. In “The Life River,” the writer uses simile, metaphor, and personification to portray that although life is frustrating, the only way to deal with it is to face the fact and go with the flow.

In the poem “To This Day” by Shane Koyczan talks about being bullied. Shane Koyczan would think pork chops and karate chops were the same. His grandmother never corrected him. Then one day he saw big kids were not meant for trees, he got investigated and told the counselor about it. When him thinking that pork chops and karate chops were the got around the school he earned his first name.

To start off the analysis, the setting of the entire poem is significant. Though the poem takes place in a house, the atmosphere the house is set in is also important. The month is September which is a month of fall which can be seen as a symbol for decline. It definitely insinuates that the poem is leading towards death. Line 1 has “September rain falls on the house” which gives the feeling of a dark and cold night with a storm on top of that. To further develop that, Bishop gives us the failing light in line 2 to also give us an idea of the grandmother’s struggle. Bishop uses the cyclical theme of changing seasons to show the unending nature of what is transpiring within the

When I began to interpret the meaning of this poem the biggest thing that stands out is the storm and the rain which could mean that the narrator is depressed or very sad. I think in this poem the narrator drinks a lot and is under the influence of alcohol. In the beginning of the poem he talks about an overflowing wineglass although all of the wine either spilled out or he drank it all but considering he is drunk I would assume that he drank it all. When you combine the alcohol with being depressed is what the feeling of the poem really is. Through the poem the narrator talks about his drinking and how his depression is consuming him. Depression is when you’re feeling really sad about your life or something in your life. In the middle of the poem it says “Over the table’s scales of rust, Shining like chained sores” which would mean that the drinking is an old habit and he has been following the pattern of getting drunk and being depressed for a long time. Rust forms when water continuously sits on a table and the more the water the more the rust forms so that would represent how often he gets drunk and depressed with the depression continues to

It uses figurative language and imagery to show pathos, or emotion. “Become a stranger, to the need of pity” is an example of imagery, describing pity is someone we know, and what we should do to that feeling of pity. What the poem’s message is trying to say is that we need to no longer pity ourselves, that the feeling of pity should be absent from our mind. “Tame wild disappointment” is an example of personification, where she uses disappointment as a noun, and tell us we need to tame it, or reduce it. She is saying you shouldn’t linger on the feeling of disappointment, to not get caught up on huge disappointments.

The poem that is being analysed is called The Hour is Lost by John Shaw Neilson. The subject of this poem is a mixture of sadness, relief and joyfulness. My first impressions when I read this poem were very good for I liked the sound to it and it had a relaxing effect on me. I have chosen this poem because it has so much information embedded in the words and it’s a peaceful poem which I’m sure everyone will like. The poem is about the day ending and the way the outside looked and the person in the poem described the colours and the way it made the person feel. The poem tells a story about a person’s opinion of an hour and what this person sees and feels during that time.