The Literary Analysis Of Countee Cullen And Cecilia Woloch

The strongest usage of metaphor in this poem is in the first stanza in the line “write their knees with necessary scratches”. While scratches cannot be written, words can, so this insinuates that children learn with nature, and that despite its fading presence in today’s urban structures, it is a necessary learning tool for children. The poet has used this metaphor to remind the reader of their childhood, and how important it is to not just learn from the confines of a classroom, but in the world outside. This leads to create a sense of guilt in the reader for allowing such significant part of a child’s growing up to disintegrate into its concrete surroundings. Although a positive statement within itself, this metaphor brings upon a negative

Contrast is one of the artistic techniques of composition poem at all levels – structural, semantic, compositional, ideological and aesthetic. The girl performs a ceremony in honor of St. Agnes, which, according to legend, should help her to dream her betrothed. Like Shakespeare's Romeo, a boy secretly sneaks into the castle of his beloved, both of them are united, and together they secretly leave the castle at stormy night. The tender is replaced with a tempest, quietness with loudness and the world of two people is changed by the world of lovers against the world. Like Shakespeare, in the history of Porphyro and Madeline the fantasy is mixed with reality, it is adorned with a passion for life. On the one side, there is a beauty of women, lovemaking, moonlight, refracted through the bright colors of stained glass, aroma of overseas fruit and treats. Meanwhile, the reality is symbolized in the poem with a life and horrors of feasting

One’s identity may be questioned when suffering; ultimately suffering is what creates one’s sense of self or what destroys it. The poetry of John Donne and the play W;t, 1993, by Margaret Edson, both illustrate and explore a sense of suffering and identity. In John Donne’s poetry, suffering, both emotionally and physically allows the speaker to understand their identity in more depth, in comparison to Margaret Edson’s play, W;t, Vivian’s suffering leads her identity to be stripped away. In Donne’s sonnet, ‘If poysonous mineralls’ we are shown suffering religiously and emotionally, through one’s sin’s, questioning god’s justice, which leads to a realisation of one’s identity. In Margaret Edson’s play, W;t, Vivian’s emotional suffering

The tone of the poem changes as the poem progresses. The poem begins with energetic language like “full of heroic tales” and “by a mere swing to his shoulder”. The composer also uses hyperboles like “My father began as a god” and “lifted me to heaven”. The use of this positive language indicates to the responder that the composer is longing for those days – he is nostalgic. It also highlights the perspective of a typical child. The language used in the middle of the poem is highly critical of his father: “A foolish small old man”. This highlights the perspective of a typical teenager and signifies that they have generally conflicting views. The language used in the last section of the poem is more loving and emotional than the rest: “...revealing virtues such as honesty, generosity, integrity”. This draws attention to a mature adult’s perspective.

Prompt: Write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the poem's organization, diction, and figurative language prepare the reader for the speaker's concluding response.

The use of symbolism and imagery is beautifully orchestrated in a magnificent dance of emotion that is resonated throughout the poem. The two main ideas that are keen to resurface are that of personal growth and freedom. Furthermore, at first glimpse this can be seen as a simple poem about a women’s struggle with her counterpart. However, this meaning can be interpreted more profoundly than just the causality of a bad relationship.

In the books Candide, The Glass Menagerie, Their Eyes were Watching God, and My Name is Asher Lev written by Voltaire, Tennessee Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, and Chaim Potok, they are all discernibly different stories, yet they all appear to share the common theme of perseverance in varying degrees to find that happiness is not always awaiting them. I have found that the various symbolic language combined with each author’s different style of writing not only makes each story unique, but they also affect each reader’s perceptions.

The early learning processes of the young are potrayed more adequately in the poem Father and Child where an older child, this time a girl at a rebellious age, experiments with the constraints of authority in an attempt to seek control for herself. This experimentation leads to an important discovery in her life; death is real and unclean. Just like The Glass Jar, the allusions to nature show the certainly of change and setting the tone for the events.

His grandfather Snell was a sever magistrate, who, for the period was not one that favored leniency to criminals. Bryant remembered the whipping-post that stood a mile from his early home in Cummington, where he saw an eighteen year old boy get forty lashes as punishment for theft. That incident was the last corporal punishment inflicted by law in his area, but the post was still around for a long time.. Magistrate Snell was a strict disciplinarian, and he and his wife lived with Dr. Bryant and his family. Dr. Bryant was so in awe of his father-in-law, that William Cullen was prevented from feeling anything like affection for him. It was an age of repression, and of oppression, especially for children, who were seen and not heard, never allowed back talk or discord. The few rights children had were not respected by their elders. Thrown in with that kind of dominating authority was the deep terror that spiritual law to be followed by these deeply religious people. Education was confined to the three R's, though the children of wealthy parents were sent to Colleges as they now are. William Cullen Bryant wasn’t born in the easiest or open minded societies. It would have been much worse though, except for his father. A good man and Father,who was in many respects superior to his neighbors. He was broad-shouldered and muscular, proud of his strength, but his manners were gentle and reserved, his disposition serene, and he was fond of society. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives several times, afterward to the state senate, and associated with the cultivated circles of Boston both as legislator and physician. He was a dabbler at writing and when William showed an early precociousness, his Father was both elated and extremely encouraging. We have the authority of the poet himself that his

The poem Revelation, by Liz Lochead, is a gripping story about a chance encounter that leads the reader into a deeper understanding of the poem’s underlying theme. The poem focuses on a girl who is visiting a farm and is given the opportunity to see a bull that is kept out of sight. Lochhead manages to grasp the reader’s imagination by the use of word choice, sentence structure, imagery and personification. This allows the reader to visualize the recurring theme of sexual awakening within the poem. Liz Lochhead, creates a deeper understanding of the poem’s theme by her word choice, which helps explain the events leading up to the young girl’s encounter with the bull. She uses the word ‘threshold’, which describes the girl standing at the opening of the barn. The word has connotations of a crossover from innocence to experience. At this point in time the girl is standing at the edge of purity, about to step over to the other side revealing something unknown to her. This describes to the reader that she has reached the stage in her life where she is ready to be exposed to her sexual awakening and the evil that is prominent in the world. The writer then builds on this motif by the way she structures the poem in the lead up to the girl meeting the bull. In stanza one she adds ‘the hot reek of him. Then he was immense’. The use of the caesura adds a dramatic effect to the poem causing the reader to pause, instilling fear. It makes the reader realise that this isn’t just a chance encounter after all, as it has a great impact on the young girl. From this one encounter the girl remembers the bull’s overwhelming smell & body heat.

Elizabeth Bishop hid many aspects of her life, and although she was not openly confessional as Robert Lowell, pieces of her did filter through in her poetry: intentional or otherwise. Even so, Bishop’s work is like twisting the blinds open. You must exert some force, though not too much, to allow the light to come in. There is a delicate balance a reader must find when interpreting Bishop’s poetry between knowing the context of the poem and bringing in personal experience. Moreover, interpreting her work through only raw text rather than the communication between poet and reader will dilute the experience. Using expert tone and imagery, Bishop paints elaborate scenes that create a portal to places one has never been, but feels like they’ve

Contrastingly, Nas explains how he would create a fair and diverse world, where people don’t segregate. Although the authors wrote these poems in different time periods, they are similar because they depict that the modern society is a reason behind the conflicts that the world faces, and share the same goal: to express the poet's’ feeling about a problem in society, and to teach people how to change their views to resolve it.

Rain pattered down against the cobblestone streets of nineteenth-century England, pooling in the dips and cracks of the uneven rocks. Each pool of raindrops reflected the light of the lanterns, each carefully lit to illuminate the way for those returning home late to their families or an empty house. There didn’t seem to be much space in between the two; either you had somebody or you didn’t. In the case of Angelica Porter, she was the latter.

This promotes the positive trait of sameness in children. Because children are the same in that they are immune to conventions and that conventions are useless in the face of childhood. Cummings resists society because it promotes conventions and conventions result in sameness. However, this sameness is different because it is natural and thereupon, it is an element of the positive natural world. What strengthens the fact that this sameness is positive is the reoccurring word “and” that is found after each girl’s name. The word “and” placed after each and every name of every girl, replaces punctuation marks. The continuous “and” behind every name makes it harder to read the poem smoothly because the “and” is like an obstacle that forces the

It was a dark and stormy night, the wind blows as the ghostly moonlight filled the darkness. George the highwayman made his way toward Bess the innkeeper’s daughter. She was gazing out the window when the two of their eyes met. Hers, black as the night sky, and a dark red love knot placed on her hair. A red dress made of the fabric silk. Her hair was a dark brown, but could have been mistaken as black. Her outfit fit her personality as much as it did the highwayman. I hope he loves poetry. Bess thought. He rides toward her on his horse dressed in a fancy cloak colored velvet, with a curled white wig and doe brown skin, lace wrapped around his chin, and the most beautiful brown eyes anyone had ever seen. His boots sitting as high