Theodore Roethke’s poem Root Cellar was the inspiration for my poem Homecoming. Root Cellar by Theodore Roethke was one of his greenhouse poems, which he wrote during his youth while he spent time with his father in the large greenhouse they owned. I was captivated by his lyric poetry because of its strong rhythm and natural imagery. Theodore uses phonic repetition and alliteration to set the tone of the poem. I believed to that the succeeding images of death and decay, ws meant to give readers a sense of uneasiness and foreboding. I created Homecoming by rewriting Root Cellar and changing all of its original nouns and adjectives to ones of my own. By doing so I was able to create my one imagery and theme while preserving the ominous tone …show more content…
I knew that the poem needed revision because I didn’t know what to title it, which meant that I didn't really know what my own poem was about. After re-reading it I decided that it could help if I added another stanza that I could use to introduce a main character and a subtle tones of love. I also want more in depth with setting details and used metaphors/figurative language to convey the intense bond between the human main character and the inanimate subject. The poem is about a sick elderly woman that returns home to die peacefully in the place she is most comfortable, her childhood bedroom, where she experienced some of the most substantial experiences of her young life. I imagined that when she returned to the house, it was worn down and vacant because no one wanted to live there in the condition that it was in. I also imagined that she empathized with the house and her bedroom because it was as tired as she was. I wanted to convey the peace that she felt standing amongst the memories in the room and died tranquilly and then the room and house collapsed with her in it. As if it was waiting for hr to come home to give up life, thus I named the poem
The quality and importance of life are looked at by most as a valuable and great gift, but this perception of someone’s life is stated differently by the two poets, David Malouf and Bruce Dawe. The poems Suburban and Homecoming express life through the eyes of two separate groups, one being a ‘stereotypical’ individual and the other, a group of men fighting for their own lives. Poetry offers many hidden meanings within their stories, Suburban and Homecoming are no different offering two distinct takes on the meaning of life. Whether that be shown through war, or a Sunday morning after a long night out, both poems convey the emotions of life, both positively and negatively.
The title “Homecoming” symbolises irony because the soldiers never return home. This poem is in free verse which shows the deeper meaning of what happens in the war always stays with you. “They’re zipping them up in green plastic bags” is
The Bustle in a House is a poem by Emily Dickinson about the painful loss one feels after the death of a loved one. Dickinson was quite familiar with the kind of pain expressed in her poem. Her father, mother, nephew, and three close friends, all died within an eight-year period. It is no small wonder that a common theme in Dickinson s poetry is death. She uses many literary devices, including structure, imagery, figurative language, sound devices, and capitalization; to convey the hurt one experiences when a loved one passes on.
The poem tells of a narrator who is reading an old book in his parlor when he is interrupted by a knock at the door. The protagonist is in a period of grieving over the loss of his love,
The word “homecoming” is universally associated with a celebration of the returned and is linked to feelings of happiness and anticipation. Dawe however, employs this word ironically as the “homecoming” described in the poem correlates to the death and mourning of the soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War and depicts the arrival of their nameless bodies. Through establishing this irony Dawe is about to effectively capture the brutal reality of war and highlight the emotional trauma associated with its dehumanising
Gary Brigg’s article offers detailed information on the mystery of the Lost Colony. In the article, Gary gives background information on the Queen Elizabeth and detailed information on the colony itself. The Roanoke Colony was the Second English colony in the New World. The Roanoke Colony was found at Roanoke Island and was the second English colony in the world. Researchers say, there were two settlements in 1586 and 1587.
Homecoming (1968), a narrative piece of elegy by Bruce Dawe delineates the Australian soldiers who died in Vietnam war. The whole poem’s tone appears to be ironic and the tempo is inexorable as if the appalling episodes of soldiers are occurring unremittingly. The title itself is ironic because when I think of homecoming it’s something celebratory and lots of partying. But within this poem, Dawe doesn’t
In Theodore Roethke “Root Cellar”, there is a heavy use of vivid and stylistic imagery. In the first line, the speaker states, "Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch." We are given that something is refusing to sleep--that is, to die--and at the same time being "dank" gets us thinking about things that are “undead”. In line two, the speaker states, “Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the dark.” This tells us that things are still growing and they are looking for the light. In the next following line the speaker mentions, “Shoots dangled and dropped” (3). This gives us the image of the shoots coming out of the bulbs. The shoots dangle and droop towards whatever light possible. In line four, the speaker gives us an idea of the type of housing they are in, “mildewed crates.” The moisture creates mold and mildew. It also creates prettier life like plants. As you can see, mold and mildew are life, and they grow alongside the plants. In line six, the speaker brings us a smell by saying "congress." Roethke must mean just the coming together or gathering of smells. In line seven, the speaker give us another sense of smell, "Roots ripe as old bait, pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, leaf-mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks.” He gives us this image and the sense of smell of mold and rot to show it is still life. These words for example would be ripe, pulpy, rank, and rich. The last two lines, “Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing
The poem, "The Night House" by Billy Collins, is very symbolic and meaningful, and most people can relate to because everyone has something they are not content with in life. Collins is a great, straightforward writer that people can depict with in his poems because he is practical and uses simple things or everyday experiences in an easy way. This poem in particular is very symbolic and effortless to analyze because it is the everyday life--- going to work, coming home, and then going to sleep--- the cycle then repeats over and over. He talks about "the body works" at the beginning (which sets the tone for the rest of the poem), which symbolizes that our hearts and minds are not always into what we are doing. He talks and illustrates figurative parts of the body: the heart, mind, conscience, and soul. When he talks about the woman sleeping, all these figurative body parts are restless and come out at night to do what they really want to do.
“Roethke was a great poet, the successor to Frost and Stevens in modern American poetry, and it is the measure of his greatness that his work repays detailed examination” (Parini 1). Theodore Roethke was a romantic who wrote in a variety of styles throughout his long successful career. However, it was not the form of his verse that was important, but the message being delivered and the overall theme of the work. Roethke was a deep thinker and often pondered about and reflected on his life. This introspection was the topic of much of his poetry. His analysis of his self and his emotional experiences are often expressed in his verse. According to Ralph J. Mills Jr., “this self interest was the primary matter of
The ending of the poem is most tragic. In the safety of her home, the mother hears
Effective instructors must understand the issues that impact multicultural education in the United States. The significance of providing an eminence instruction in an unbiased approach to all of their students is essential. The tide of demographic changes in the United States has affected most classrooms in our schools. As a result, some classroom teachers realize they must quickly acquire a comprehensive understanding of ethnic, cultural, and social-class diversity present in today’s schools. Otherwise, these teachers will face difficulty in classrooms comprised of fifty-one percent minority students. (Texas Education Agency, 1993) Nonetheless, traditional teachers with no experience in multicultural
An anti-war poem inspired by the events of the Vietnam War, Homecoming inspires us to think about the victims of the war: not only the soldiers who suffered but also the mortuary workers tagging the bodies and the families of those who died in the fighting. The author, Australian poet Bruce Dawe, wrote the poem in response to a news article describing how, at Californian Oaklands Air /Base, at one end of the airport families were farewelling their sons as they left for Vietnam and at the other end the bodies of dead soldiers were being brought home. Additionally, he wrote in response to a photograph, publishes in Newsweek, of American tanks (termed ‘Grants’ in the poem) piled with the bodies of the dead soldiers as they returned to the
A morbid melancholy stole over me. Anxiety gnawed at my heart. I was a living corpse. There was a feeling of chill in the air every day as I felt. I faked illness so as not to go to school. Despair hangs heavy in the stifling air. It was a dreary day for me , cold and without sunshine. I dread people and always avoid people. The door was locked from the inside. A cold grey light crept under the curtains. The windows were secured with locks and bars. The room felt cold and sterile.The flowers faded for want of water. A single lamp was suspended from the ceiling. The clock ticked louder and louder in a quiet room. I regarded the room as a refuge from the outside
“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another,” a quote written by Ernest Hemingway from the novel of discussion, The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway was quite the interesting man for his time; injured during the first World War, an avid bullfighting aficionado, even being close friends with F. Scott Fitzgerald. These tales and adventures of his young career become a retelling through the eyes of Jacob Barnes, whom Hemingway based himself off of, although this is not just any retelling. It’s one of love and ability, of otherness, and what it meant to be a man or woman of the time. Hemingway wanted people to see how one thing affects another, how manhood impacts love, for instance. Hemingway had many different views for love