To A Locomotive In Winter, By Walt Whitman

The intriguing thing about this poem is it’s use of the imagery of a bird, the first line is the audience being addressed as “little bird” something that could easily be a childhood nickname, “Fly away little bird / Fly away to a better place / Where you will soar through the sky / In the wide open space” This is a simple verse of the author imploring the ‘little bird’ to fly freely, nothing different until paired with the second verse “Fly away to live out all your hopes and dreams / Enter the real world / Of wondrous things / Through the dark clouds and over the rainbows” Using the mirroring words of ‘hopes and dreams’ and ‘dark clouds and over the rainbows’ creates the thoughts of highs and loves and everything in between, a common happening in the ‘real world’, which is usually used in regards of a child growing up and becoming up and creating a life for themselves. This is defined even more in the next three lines; “Fly away to destinations unknown / Fly away to discover yourself / And embrace what you find” these lines emphasise the thought of growing up and moving on in life, but the use of ‘embrace’ encourages the ‘little bird’ to not be afraid of change or transforming themselves, instead to welcome the difference and

As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.

To begin with, “To a Locomotive in Winter”, written by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson’s “I like to see it lap the Miles” are fairly different poems. In “To a Locomotive in Winter”, the author writes about a locomotive and represents it in rather a positive way, using strong and vivid figurative language. While reading the poem, it is apparent that, in general, the speaker while talking about a locomotive implies American technological progress and, obviously, supports it. That is shown through the establishment of a link between science and poetry. Even though “I like to see it lap the Miles” written by Emily Dickinson is also about a locomotive and within the poem, poetry and science are connected, still, the author's approach differs from Whitman's manner. Evidently, it is possible to notice some negative implications. Specifically, the speaker may be afraid of the ongoing technological progress in America and does not support its connotations.

The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the

Dreams are a complex and almost inexplicable phenomenon we all experience, but is it possible for these dreams to slowly dictate our lives? In the case of Dexter Green, from the short story ¨Winter Dreams¨ by F.Scott Fitzgerald, it is unavoidable. Throughout the story the ¨dreams¨ Dexter has for his future begin to slowly destroy him, but he does not notice through his extensive disillusionment. Judy Jones continues to beguile Dexter in an attempt to fill a metaphorical void she holds within her soul. Even when Dexter notices her foul play, he does not stop because his dreams hold him down. Fitzgerald uses internal conflict, external conflict, and extended metaphors to portray that a combination of greed and irrationality leads to a life of regrets

The wild in this piece allows for the reader to recognize nature as an escape from what is expected; an escape from ones reality. The lines “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, / the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting/ over ans over announcing your place / in the family of things”, support this implication as they tell that the world is open to all. Oliver invites the reader to listen to what the world around tells us, comparing us with wild geese, who fly alone yet in an inclusive form, honking to keep in contact with each other in flight, connected in the “family of things.” The human species moving through this life together are analogical to the flock of geese, as all of us become one species despite diving lines when in a state of nature/ wildness. There is no specification as to what is home in the poem, allowing the human world to be tied in as it leaves it open to interprets whether home exists in the wild. The reader is pulled out of a moment in our pressured world, and puts us into another moment – one vastly more real, more understanding, as we are allowed to decide where home is; if home truly exists.

Dickinson compares a train to a "son of thunder," although other lines make the train seem playful and childish, the word omnipotent tells of the power and destructiveness behind it. It makes the tone of train commanding and powerful.

The title itself almost says the poem, providing implicit imagery and evoking a sense of freedom and wilderness. The geese are free and natural, unlike humans who are constrained by the values and attitudes inhibited on us by society in which we conform to and accept, hindering our ability to be truly free and released like the natural world is.

Although both Walt Whitman as well as Emily Dickinson write about trains in the poems “To a Locomotive in Winter” and “I like to See it Lap the Miles, “they both make different uses of tone in their poems. The tones both authors use with the subject are slightly similar, but are also polar opposites in other ways. For example, both Whitman and Dickinson use a tone that is in awe of the power that locomotives possess. Even though they use a similar tone for the power of locomotives, there are some differences with the tone each author uses; Whitman’s work has a sophisticated yet serious tone. Whereas, Dickinson’s poem has a more playful tone.

Of all the questions that have vexed contemplative minds for centuries, one of the most persistent is that of enlightenment. What exactly does it entail? Who has the capacity for it, and how is it accomplished? Answering questions such as these must be a collaborative effort, across generations, geography, class, and all schismatic divisions between humanity. From the Greek philosophers in Plato’s dialogue Republic, to transcendentalist American thought in Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of the Open Road,” to modern Jesuit teaching in “Challenges to Jesuit Higher Education Today,” a keynote address from Superior General Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, the thread of attempted understand regarding enlightenment is incontrovertible. The works of Plato, Whitman,

The speaker furthermore conveys the idea that nature is a grandeur that should be recognized by including the element of imagery. The poet utilizes imagery as a technique to appeal to reader’s sense of sight . It is “the darkest evening of the year” (line 8) and a traveller and his horse stop “between the woods and frozen lake” (line 7). By writing with details such as these, readers are capable of effortlessly envisioning the peaceful scenery that lies before the speaker. The persona then draws on reader’s sense of sound. “The only other sound’s the sweep / Of easy wind and downy flake.” The illustration allows readers to not only see,

Robert Frost's poem “The Road Not Taken” describes a traveler facing a choice, he can either choose the road not taken, or he can choose the road most traveled by. He does not know where either road might lead, but in order to continue with his journey, he can pick only one road. He analyses both roads for the possibilities of where each may take him in his journey. Frost's traveler realizes that regret is inevitable. Regardless of his choice, he knows that he will miss the experiences he might have encountered on the road not taken. Frost, uses literary elements, such as Denotation and Connotation, Symbolism, alliteration, consonance, and assonance in order to convey massage.

o “Whitman attempts, and succeeds at making the train come to live as a regal and powerful entity. The engine’s

The great poet Robert Frost was asked if the poem, The Road Not Taken, was about an experience in the poet 's life: He answered that a poem is never about an experience, it is an experience. If you succeed in determining exactly what Dylan meant in “Mr. Tambourine Man,” you will have succeeded in destroying it. This is the song that marks the change where Dylan moves on from the public world of overt political protest songs to a focus on the individual consciousness, which I’d like to argue is another more subtle form of protest. “Mr. Tambourine Man” is rich with expressions of emotion. With a new personal approach to songwriting, Dylan takes feelings that he was perhaps dealing with at the time, absorbs them, and artfully crafts them into mysterious lyrics that are simply enamoring. The song has a bright, expansive melody accompanied by Dylan’s jaunty vocals that is beautifully mesmerizing. The song is about the feeling of being trapped in a miserable existence and the desperate yearning for freedom from an individual’s own personal hell. It is about the universal need to escape one’s troubles, no matter what the means are, as long as it allows you to forget, deal, and hopefully transcend. It has become famous in particular for its surrealistic imagery, influenced by artists as diverse as French poet Arthur Rimbaud and Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. The lyrics call on the title character to play a song and the narrator will follow. Interpretations of the

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