The Maple Brown Poem Analysis

In Woodchucks, a poem by Maxine Kumin, a gardener is having problems with woodchucks invading her garden. She attempts to kill the woodchucks with cyanide gas, but the Woodchucks wouldn’t die. The pacifist gardener, resorts to violence and shoots the woodchucks with a rifle. She was hoping for an easy solution but ended up going against her peace loving ways and turned violent. Throughout the poem, Maxine Kumin slowly reveals the underlying meaning of her writing. Kumin emphasizes that there are violent thoughts and tendencies in every individual by referencing real life events, by escalading the tone of the poem, and by using a series of literary devices.

The poem contains two stanzas with two different settings. One might not know much about the first stanza; however, in the second one the speaker is next to an ocean, perhaps, at a beach. So, while the first stanza symbolizes the mindset of the speaker, the inner dream, the second stanza symbolizes the outer dream which is what we see; life. The poem

A part of home owning is dealing with unwelcome critters on your property, but how one might handle the pest can even go against one moral beliefs. The speaker in the poem “Woodchucks” said, “gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn out right”. This option was chosen because it was “merciful, quick at the bone”. This is very similar situation to what the homeowner from rural Pennsylvania in which he stuck a hose in a borrow because killing a woodchuck is a “moral issue”. As the speaker of “Woodchucks” described herself as a pacifist and killing would go against the way she identifies herself. The beliefs that these two individuals share is taken over by anger and frustration and caused more extreme measures when their original plan did not work.

Throughout the entirety of Brown's poem, the tone is one of sadness and gloom. It doesn't end happily and the reader is left with a feeling of overall hopelessness; that's what the Brown wants to get across to us and she does so in a very transparent and direct manner. She feels sympathy for the mother and despite the glimmer of hope that she gives her by introducing a fellow slave who for a brief moment gives her a feeling of hope and happiness, "Coulud a slave look so at another slave?-- (1132; 1.63). This happiness does not last as we learn of the hardships that she goes through as she decides to murder her young son to prevent him from growing up in a world where all he will ever know is slavery. The mother also feels unhappy that the child

For example, in stanza thirteen, the narrator describes the cushion’s “velvet violet lining” in which he is sitting. This image the author has led us to imagine reveals that the author finally realizes that his precious Lenore will never again sit on the chair he is sitting on. It shows that the narrator now begins to understand the finality of death and the loss of Lenore. The poem says, “Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer…” This image represents that the narrator feels something in the air, probably spiritual, shortly after remembering the loss of Lenore. He remembers the loss of Lenore, whom he dearly adores. Through this imagery, the theme of loss is able to be developed and supported.

This poem dose not just show symbolism it also shows how dissections are all around us.All the things in this paper are all connected by how they are all about how they are all about choices and how they will all connect.This poem was written in 1916 and we still don’t know what the true meaning of the poem and we have so many theory about the

Living in the 21st century, getting caught up in the hectic pace of life is easy. Our egoistic and obsessive natures are forever fantasizing about always wanting more. However, when that doesn’t happen, we quickly blame life and disregard the fact that maybe this could be one of those bad experiences that mold us into becoming a better person. Perhaps influenced by this, John Reibetanz wrote the poem “The Wood Bird”, revealing the selfish nature of humans and their inability to appreciate. As the relationship between water and a piece of wood is discovered, Reibetanz shows his readers how the word ‘water’ viscously shapes a piece of wood to its perfection, representing precisely the imperfectness of life shapes us. This creation versus

“The Gardner” written by Angela Christmas, express the poem’s complex topic of raising a child with developmental delays. At a young age, the child in the poem was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other learning disorders. The child’s Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly called ADHD, would cause his teachers to him labeled as a problem child at school. He has always been separated from the other children and placed by himself. His disorders cause him to feel like an outsider in school as well as at home. As a mother, the poet found herself being a helicopter parent with all her children, but more so often with him. The theme of “The Gardner” is about that hovering, anticipating and uncertainty that

Sixteen lines of this poem are dedicated to describing creatures that “alight” the subject of the painting, delicately perching for a brief second before humming away. If this much detail is required to understand the water lily above the surface, then there must be something to say about the waters below; however, it is through the exclusion of the details of the water that Hughes makes his most powerful comment on nature. The water lily balances delicately between what is known about nature, the “dragonfly” so to speak, and “whatever horror nudge her root,” the uncertainty, the unconsciousness, the yet to be

This song is different from the usual laid-back blues tempo. It races and changes through out the song. While the song might sound mournful, it actually depicts a bold woman willing to stand up to her husband. The mood in this stanza is of realization; she finally realizes that the person she is with will not change. She has been left multiple times and she has come back to the same person, but on this occasion she learned her lesson. She feels betrayed that she was there for him throughout everything and he was not there when she needed him. They were through rough times together and now that the person she cared about has money, he left her out of the blue. She would of felt heart broken and rejected that she was thrown away so quickly because

A woman frustrated with a friend for betraying her. She doesn't know whether or not to confront her or hold it in. The rage builds up as she has been holding it in for weeks now. This anger grows and grows until she snaps and their friendship comes to an end. Holding in that rage and devastation will cause it to grow more. This is shown throughout many different poems. “A Poison Tree” by William Blake and “A total stranger one black day” by e.e. cummings both convey the message that keeping in anger can make it grow more than it was before.

They say you should live without regrets, but I still ponder. Have I strung the correct chords. The mournful melody of a private memoir makes me wonder. A chance to have it all, the sweet life. The life that songs, stories, and movies promise you, the happy ending. I don’t want to write about myself and I don’t want writing a cliche, but the best painting I can paint is dull and blue. A personal love story about a time that now seems so far away. A cheap classic film in black and gray, a high school adaptation of a Shakespearean play, expressing itself to the unknown in struggling tone. The forceful force feeding of words will begin, so this is how the story begins.

A boy upset by a mistake he made; devastated, he beats himself up and dwells on the negative. One day he goes home and someone cheered him up and made him look on the bright side and he learned that there is always a bright side to a situation. When people make a mistake they have to learn to forgive them and not to dwell on it. This idea can be seen in the following poems “A Poison Tree” by William Blake and “A total stranger one black day” by e.e. Cummings. Both of these poems convey the message that People need to learn to love someone and not to hate them and to forgive their mistakes.

The poem is taking place in a frozen swamp. At first, this man is not very confident if he wants to keep going his path. He decides to go on and follow the path. He is walking through this path full of nature and sees a furious, fiery, bird fly in. The bird represents the human society and the troubles they have throughout their lives because the bird is waiting to see his reaction to the wood pile. The bird flies away and his attention is now back on the path. He sees a four by four by eight stack of wood. This wood was not any ordinary wood. This wood is old and gray. The weird thing is that this wood had strings around it and was barely standing. This wood exemplifies the tone of darkness. It is showing death and that this wood has “passed away”. It is very dark and represents that tone of darkness. After seeing this wood, he knows that a person with fresh new tasks must have to deal with this. That an ax being found far from a fireplace to warm the frozen swamp. Smelling the smokeless burning decay. This poem has very many different literary

In a bright morning, the sun shone through the window in my bedroom, quietly. The golden sunshine, brings me a sense of freshness, comfort and happiness. After half day of paper work, in the afternoon I slowly came to the woods that situated not far away from home. Perhaps because the noon drizzle, the air became fresh and sweet, filled with a touch of grass and the fragrance of wild flowers. In the wood, the green leaves of these ancient pagoda tree brings a trace of coolness after the breeze passing by. I walk on the earth, the green grass is so delicate, like the famous artist “Spring” try to make more people understand that spring is coming; with her most precious color rendering of this vast expanse of grassland, emerges a thriving scene.