The Madness Underneath Poem Summary

Initially, Collins demonstrates how one can weigh a dog’s weight with his method. Concrete diction in the first stanza, such as, “ small bathroom”, “ balancing”, and “shaky” suggest the uncomfortable nature of his intimate relationship with his pet. Although Collin is unappreciated for the gritty toil determination, he praise himself to applauded that “this is the way” and raising his self-esteem by comparing how easier it is than to train his dog obesity. In addition, the negative diction used to describe Collin holding his dog to be “awkward” for him and “bewildering” for his pet. This establish he rather force love rather willing show patience. When holding a pet on scale, there is less hustle because he secures the dog’s position by carrying it. Where as when he orders the dog to stay on the weighing scale with a cookie, his dog only followed him because of the expected reward.

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

Take a minute to imagine “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals,” “never/ ending blasted field of corpses,” and “throats half gone, /eyes bleeding, raw meat heaped/ in piles.” These are the vividly, grotesque images Edward Mayes describes to readers in his poem, “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976.” Before even reading the poem, the title gave me a preconceived idea of what the poem might be about. “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976” describes what an extreme version of what I expected the poem to be about. The images I

The 2016 census reported that 14% of the United States population was living below the poverty line. And sometimes, desperate times call for desperate measures. Leading people to go as far as committing a crime just to feed their family. This was the theme of Cage The Elephant’s song, “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked,” written by Matt Schultz. In the song, Schultz utilizes personal experiences and an emotional appeal to address the issues of poverty to the upper classes and to justify how people in poverty or “the Wicked” handle their situation by the means of crime and immoral ways.

This may not be the type of story that one is looking for as an extra credit assignment, sorry to say, but it's what you're going to get. As a teacher, one might be looking for a story or a poem, which in a way this is a story, the story of how a young man figured out how he was going to type this assignment. But first he want to let people know that even though they may be a teacher or mentor, that doesn't mean that life is all of a sudden fair. That being said, the teachers don't always get exactly what they want, despite the fact that they could give someone a zero for writing a paper with this style or format. He realizes that the teacher wanted a story or poem, and as he said before, he has a story; this is just

Ted Kooser, the thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for his honest and accessible writing. Kooser’s poem “A Spiral Notebook” was published in 2004, in the book Good Poems for Hard Times, depicting a spiral notebook as something that represents more than its appearance. Through the use of imagery, diction, and structure, Ted Kooser reveals the reality of a spiral notebook to be a canvas of possibilities and goes deeper to portray the increasing complexities in life as we age.

In “Alzheimer” Kelly cherry tells the story of a old man with Alzheimer. She is telling his story as he is coming home to what we expect to be his wife. This is a narrative poem in which we see this shell of a old man remembering bits and pieces from his house which seems to be the only thing that he remembers. The pieces are reveal piece by piece of the small things he remembers about his house. Even with all the things he remembers it won 't be enough to save this crazy old man. Cherry uses imagery, and diction to show a old man as he goes through the signs of Alzheimer, we see the terror he experiences as he comes home.

In "Sixteen" the narrator went through a conflict: the narrator went to a skating rink close to where she lived  and she met a boy she fell in love with a boy from her school that spends the night spending time having fun  with her and after they spend time together he walks the narrator home and when they get to the narrator's house he tell her "Good night now. I'll call you" and she never got a call back from him and she felt devastated because of that the narrator probably will not fall in love so easily with a man she knew or just met. "Through the Tunnel" a conflict and how it got resolved when a young english boy named Jerry and his mom went on vacation at the beach. He asked his mom if he could go to the adult part of the beach and she

Normal. So many people strive for it, but what is it really? Most people strive to be normal but is that right. Normal is being comfortable and fitting. Not going outside your comfort zone or sticking out. It's like the black pen, or arial fount. It's fitting in, wearing the same style of close. But really it’s what everyone you should be. So is normal really worth it? You know they always say don’t stay in your comfort zone. So it’s up to you, normal or

The speaker then moves to a restaurant where he picks up a chicken noodle soup and gets his want across to the staff by simply pointing at it. The stanza ends with the line “I am adjusting well to the new way”(10), showing that according to the speaker the new law is working fine for him and he is able to live a normal life. However, with the entrance into the third stanza we begin to question whether the speaker naturally only acted this way towards the phone call and the staff in the restaurant, without using any words or he was actually saving them for his lover. The second reason is more likely to be true, due to his statement in the next verse “I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-nine today. I saved the rest for you”(11/13). Here, the second character is introduced in the poem – the long distance lover. It becomes obvious that the speaker, who is most probably a man, is in a long distance relationship with a woman and the way communicate is via phone call. The speaker tells his lover proudly he has only used fifty-nine words today and has saved the rest for her. This shows the speaker’s devotion towards his lover because he has chosen to use most of his words on her.

Hirsch conveys the theme of the body and the heart being separate from the mind by using imagery and diction to describe the link between … The theme of this poem is that sometimes what one’s heart is directing them towards is more fulfilling than what the mind wants. Hirsch uses both visual and sensory imagery to represent the relationship between risk, trust, and bravery when sleepwalking. Hirsch states that “sleepwalkers... have/so much faith in the invisible/arrow carved into the carpet…” ( 4-5). Even though they are not awake, sleepwalkers still have a certain path they need to follow to meet their goal.

The poem ”In a Dark Time” written by Theodore Roethke illustrates the inner conflict between good and evil faced by the character in this piece. The main topic portrayed in the poem is the constant fight between giving into the dark part of the yourself or persevering to achieve the good. The poet in this piece uses visual imagery to help convey to the reader the immense inner turmoil the character is facing. The author sets the dark tone of the poem by using sound imagery to help the reader understand the violent internal fight the speaker is going through. Symbolism is used constantly during the poem to allow the reader a more meaningful understanding of the poem and the internal battle the character faces. Roethke uses imagery and symbolism to demonstrate the internal struggle between good and evil that the narrator faces in this piece.

The first line in the poem is a phrase that is found in Bible: 2 Thessalonians 2:7 “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.” Which means the lawlessness, discrimination, and immoral is already working.” Lauryn Hill is rightly regarded as one of the most exciting and original talents of her generation. As singer, songwriter and rapper, she first came to prominence as a member of the hip-hop trio the Fugees, before launching a short-lived but impactful solo career. She is also regarded as one of music’s lost geniuses, avoiding the limelight and the studio to raise her five children with Rohan Marley, son of reggae legend Bob. Right now, with a life that has involved no-shows at concerts and a prison sentence, it doesn’t look like she’ll be adding to her five Grammy awards”(The Biography.com website, 2017). The poem speaks about how messed up and crooked the court system are towards African Americans.

"Line 1- No longer mourn for me when I am dead " the speakers are still alive, he is reassuring his wife that it is okay to let go. The poet cannot escape from death, and his wish is that his partner should not live in pain. The speaker apparently wants his partner to move on with his life. This line also shows that no one can escape from death. The second Line "Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell" this line has a better understanding poem and interpretation on grief, it is time to let go and let the poet die in peace. In a way, the poet is done with this world and wants to be free. The third line "Give warning to the world that I am fled", this

A third prominent mode of practice that has arisen through the renewed interrelation between the sciences and poetry is what I describe as unconscious resistance. That is poetry that arguably is written in either a conciliant manner that is working within the concept of epistemological understanding and equality between the fields, or in a manner of co-option. Unconscious resistance appears on the thematic surface to align with and wish to conform to consilience, or co-option, but consistently illustrate an inability to do so. As Walpert advises this resistance “to the notion that science provides the fullest understanding of the world” is related to the particular foundational aesthetics of the forms of poetry. As such, the resistance to science, whilst also using it and its language-games becomes a “means of elevating…poetry itself as knowledge.” Or alternatively, to assume a conscious level of co-option whilst through its language and structural make up is working against this surface thematic mode of thought. It is the Avant Garde, contemporary poets that perhaps best illustrates this unconscious resistance. In response to the binarism of separate spheres, and epistemic claims within the sciences which is seen through these poet’s tendency to focus intensely on the “materiality of language.” This intense focus on language opens up internalised discord within the poetry, which whilst using a scientific linguistic system, also