The Empire Came Home

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 lines of the poem are short, the sentences are choppy, and one idea seems to flow right into the next from line to line. This hints at a very childlike mentality, as well as a plethora of scattered thoughts in the speaker’s mind, hinting at the speaker’s confusion and distress.

In poems it is essential to be a creative writer. The author uses many techniques from from exposing deep thoughts to giving humorous jokes throughout the sentence. As human beings, we all have a difficult time understanding others .We may agree or disagree depending our viewpoints on life. One of my Favorite poems is “The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield” by Robert Hayden. My favorite poem is the type of poem that has some history and confusion. When getting the audience confused, it makes them want to know more and reread the whole passage again. Hayden’s poem is a fresh new opening that brought an old dimension, his creativity to open the minds of others and look back to the past.

“Homecoming” is an elegy and anti-war poem written about the Vietnam War. The poem starts off in what seems to be a monotone, with many simple verbs such as "picking... bringing.... rolling ... tagging..." used to depict how day after day it is all the same. The bodies of the soldiers all tediously follow the same routine and being treated in a somewhat seemingly cold and offhanded way. Unlike “enter without so much as knocking”, these simple words are repetitive and slow paced; they aim to enhance the effect of imprinting a strong image within the reader’s imagination, forcing the reader into feeling this great injustice for these soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for their country, within the war.

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.

How did this poem make you feel? Did it make you feel cheerful, sorrowful, or anxious? If it made you feel something I did not mention that is great, because there is where to beauty lies. There where everyone understands it in their own way, a way that makes them feel safe and comfortable. Poetry is a art and the artist puts a bit of himself in with every word. Poems have different meanings and purposes to each and everyone, a poem can make you feel sad, happy or anxious like Abdul Kalam

”with sorrowful quick fingers, heading south, heading east, home, home, home”, and “bringing them home now, too late, too early” are lines from the poem to signify that the soldiers have been returned home too early because the war has cost them their lives. The reader is left with a feeling of much sorrow at the thought of the many young lives lost at war. The simile “the noble jets are whining like hounds” indicates that the bodies are being returned to their homeland by plane. Dead bodies being flown home are one of the destructing characteristics of war. This also emotionally attaches the audience by explaining that the soldiers died defending their country and that throughout history soldiers have represented them not just in the Vietnam

The tone of this poem is very important. Throughout as I was reading this poem I sensed heartfelt and great concern for the new mother. Also, in this poem one may notice the role of

The title and final lines of the poem is Latin for “It is sweet and honorable.” At first glance, the title may seem to be supportive of the war, however it is the ultimate irony of the story. The title uses the words sweet and honor to open the reader to ideas of these feelings. The first stanza portrays the bleakness of the battlefield for these young soldiers. The first two lines describe the soldiers as old beggars and hags because of the horrendous situation they were put in. Many of the soldiers

With all of the major empires had ended to it reign. The United States are coming close to the end of its power. But with many empires, most of the empires have fallen to invaders, and disease. With empires struggling to survive after anything can conquer their empire or destroy it. Three most problems that are facing the United States that could lead to its collapse as a world power are political corruption, welfare, and public health.

The Roman Empire was known for being the most powerful nation in the world for over 2,000 years. Otherwise known as the eternal city, Rome quickly became the largest empire after being a city-state. However, for several reasons and over a long period of time, the empire began a period of decline. At the end of this period was obviously the fall of the Roman Empire. There are many aspects that contributed to the failure of the Empire, and different people argue that different reasons were most important to the collapse of this superpower. Social, economical, and political reasons are held responsible for the crash of the empire. The real cause of the crash was due to military over spending, inflation, and unemployment throughout the

The author uses mood to really get the message out there, so people can feel what the victims felt everyday. "I am not an artist But my mind has painted a painting of you " this element contributes to the poem because it makes the author feel like he wasn’t enough to be able to do anything to help those people that suffered everyday. He had a view that by telling everyone about the horrible pain that they went through people would remember that and that way they can honor those people. I would recommend this poem to everyone that wants to know what they had to go through and why they never said

One of my reactions when I first began to read was a great sense of epiphany towards not only the poem but to the world as well. To have lived the life I have, with many of my own obstacles, and then read about how this subject's mind works so differently to life brings a wide variety of thoughts that could only be described as a deep realization of the world. Shockingly, Appleman took my young happy view of life, and completely threw it out of the window in just a few short sentences. The poem made me realize that, Life has been described for decades as such a beautiful experience to have, though conversely in reality it is all an illusion. For years, I’ve thought that everyone was as strong as the next person, that no one could break down because the world was a happy place. Viewing this poem made me think of how important it is to stay open minded, and not believe everything you’ve been told. Forcefully, life has managed to take some of the strongest people into its captivating grip and turn them into the weakest. There are many people out there that truly feel like life is just “Black wings closing in on you”, there is no hope nor is there any more chances for them. So why continue on? Instead of letting people think in such a way, we need to take time to realize what’s happening around us before it's too late.

Some reader might find some poem relate to their own life while the others interpret the poem based on the literal meaning of the word choice. An interpretation without any prior knowledge or background information of the writer allow reader to make personal connection and perceive the poem in a different way.

These sentences are a great example of how imagery not only creates the image but also emphasizes the emotion within the poem. As a reader it is easily seen that the speaker is still having an internal battle between their depression and acceptance. As the speaker begins seeing things more bright and lively their grief is overshadowing connecting anything with positive thoughts, but what's different is the speaker has turned away in an attempt at letting go. Next, the speaker introduces their son which in a way changes the mood of the poem with the innocence of the child.