Themes In Beware : Do Not Read This Poem

Essentially a monologue set within a frame, this poem creates two personae. The anonymous author gives a brief introduction and conclusion. The Wanderer, an aging warrior, who roams the world seeking shelter and aid. The Wanderer’s monologue divides into two distinct parts, the first being a lament for his exile and the loss of kin, friends, home, and the generosity of his king. In nature, he finds absolutely no comfort, for he has set sail on the winter stricken sea. Poignantly, the speaker dreams that he is among his companions, and embracing his king, only to awaken facing the gray, winter sea, and snowfall mingled with hail.

The absence of meaning in both Carroll and Lear’s poems is significant, even though it may seem like the opposite. When reading these poems for the first time, the reader may be

However, the poem has fluidity despite its apparent scarcity of rhyme. After examining the alteration of syllables in each line, a pattern is revealed in this poem concerning darkness. The first nine lines alternate between 8 and 6 syllables. These lines are concerned, as any narrative is, with exposition. These lines set up darkness as an internal conflict to come. The conflict intensifies in lines 10 and 11 as we are bombarded by an explosion of 8 syllables in each line. These lines present the conflict within one's own mind at its most desperate. After this climax, the syllables in the last nine lines resolve the conflict presented. In these lines, Dickinson presents us with an archetypal figure that is faced with a conflict: the “bravest” hero. These lines present the resolution in lines that alternate between 6 and 7 syllables. Just as the syllables decrease, the falling action presents us with a final insight. This insight discusses how darkness is an insurmountable entity that, like the hero, we must face to continue “straight” through “Life” (line 20).

The works of poetry are often underappreciated and overlooked. The stories of plenty are being neglected in the education of our youth. The work of Cathy Song, per say, personally has never come up prior to the assigning of this paper. In Song’s “The Youngest Daughter”, we are introduced to a variety of meanings in which an analysis full of depth is required to clearly interpret and understand what it is that the speaker is attempting to bring across through the use of clever diction. The poem in itself also contains a compilation of carefully puzzle together literary techniques that are taught to be broken down to provide a good understanding of a work of

Once the reader begins to really analyze the poem it is apparent that it was not written in a very complex or thought provoking manner. The poem itself is written with an ABAB rhyme scheme and without much

Reading chapter three was truly a thoroughly enjoyed adventure. In that, it was like a hunt, where the prize catch was a deeper understanding of word choice, word order, and tone. Furthermore, understanding the poets have a duty to words opened up new revelation as the poems in chapter three were read. Notably, the poet Gwendolyn Brooks stated that “I still feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things And it’s too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them” Poetry goes far beyond the simple rhyming of words, it is an art.

The similarity between “Suicide Note” and “Awakening” makes both work almost identical, only being differentiated by the outcome of the character's life or death. Although the illustration of the characters depicts the burdens of establishing a personal identity within a society that impairs the formation of an individual's identity, there is a substantial difference between their psychological states, coping methods, deriving in varied resolutions for each author’s struggles,shown by the authors use of theme, figurative language, and tone. The entirety of the poem and song theme depicts a multitude of changes in the character's identity while they try to cope and resolve their struggles of achieving a ‘perfect persona’ set on to them by society.

The poem is composed of quatrain stanzas. In each of these stanzas, the speaker reveals descripted imagery of his environment that also correlates with his attitude towards poetry. Additionally poetry can be interpreted to have different meanings in each stanza where the speaker gives poetry personification characteristics, to suit the situation in the stanza where poetry is found.

The poet shows us his point of view in raising a kid and also trying to become his best friend. We as readers are given the ability to read the mind of the father, and see through his perspective; being afraid of being separated from his son over time. Through his point of view, his nightmare and his desire are being exposed.

“Ye sometimes rest; men never can be still but in their graves.” This poem uses many literary devices like similes and onomatopoeia to convey that this world never stops moving and people are in constant rushing. In The Daily Trials of a Sensitive Man by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the author uses language and similes to portray that the world and everyone living in it never stops moving. In this poem, the author uses great language like repetition and onomatopoeia to help convey the message of the motion and great rush of the world and the people in it.

The idea of poetry is a long romanticized work of art, that’s been analyzed and exploited over the centuries. Since it was first discovered in 40,000 B.C. it’s revolutionized the style of writing. Poetry wrecked the border and rules of literature, that has taken millenias to be developed by several dynasties and empires. From the billions of poems that have been recorded, and the thousands of themes these authors write about, choosing merely two poems to be compared is almost a disgrace to the community. Disregarding this, two poems from Richard Berengarten and Edgar Allen Poe will be analyzed. Despite their related themes, the two poems narrowly match each other besides the theme of Dreams.

First of all poetry conveys the reader more better feeling about how the character feels, in stanza 7, line 25-28, it states,

For thousands of centuries, poetry is an outlet for writers to communicate their innermost emotions and convictions. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of a poem is its ability to draw in the reader and hold that attention so that the reader cannot do anything else. Written in free verse, the poem “Beware: Do Not Read This Poem” by Ishmael Reed compares the habits of an eccentric woman to the hypnotizing powers of a poem. Various uses of structure, tone, and poetic devices help establish the main theme of isolation.

Paths we walk on define our lives. In reality, no path is well-footed or without obstacles, even if it seems so from outsider perspective. In literature, especially in poetry, what is written as a path may not be one in the most literal sense, but a metaphor for or an allegory to something not within grasp of the material world. To compare two pieces from different periods by different authors means not just to compare different styles and themes embedded in them, but different paths the authors, and by extension their characters, take. Moreover, how two different paths in entirely different contexts may, upon closer reading, seem as one path treated differently, becoming what it is because of the actions someone took. This essay brings forward

Reread what chapter two has to say about the importance of history and context to understanding poetry. Keeping these two aspects in mind, write a paragraph in which you explain what the following quotations from the poem refer to: