What Is The Mood Of The Poem Recuerdo

The children are unnoticed by others and the mother is the only one that is protecting them. This poem shows the hard times that the mother must face because her children have died. However the mother is coping with them while still protecting her children after they have died, This is the mother's way of coping because she is not yet ready to let go of her children and still wants to care for them. This poem shows this through nature by portraying the mother as a bird who is protecting her nest. Also the poem uses nature by describing the harsh times as a winter wind that has caused harm to the mother and her children.

The sentence structure of this poem is unlike a lot of poems that you might see where the lines are of equal length and contain the same amount of sylables. Rather than taking that approach, Blanco's poem contained senteneces, and lines that were all of different length. For example, in the second stanza blanco included two very long lines that included dashes and comma's because he was creating a list. Some of the very short lines feautured throughout the poem occur beacause the sentence was too long to fit into the line before and was continued in the next line.

However, to look at the poem more thoroughly, the use of nouns and grammar is also important. The first part of the poem contains a total of twelve nouns within four sentences. These twelve nouns only contain two actual persons, the narrators' mother and a referral to Saint Theresa; these two people have similar maternal qualities. The positioning of commas and full stops are equally important as they emphasis the importance to objects and also gives the poem tension. But because of all the commas and full stops, I found it hard to find a repetitive rhythm and will go along with the conclusion that there is not one. There are two very short anaphoric sentences which make those items placed into the bag appear important to the narrator in some way, as if they have more then a practical use to them and are symbolic. These two sentences were "Passport" (line7) and "A key" (line 8). However in the second part of the poem there are 6 sentences containing 10 nouns; these nouns are more spaced apart unlike those that appear as if listed in the first part of the poem. The proceeding lines are more

The second half of the poem is very different from the beginning half because the lines that follow the first sentence

After telling her daughter she can go to the church, the mother gives her a bath in rose petal water, dresses her in her best clothes, and even gives her a pair of gloves to wear and little white shoes. This is the most ironic part of the intire poem because the mother believes she is sending her to a safe place, but is unaware of the fact, that she is doing the exact opposite

This allusion plays an important role in helping reveal the theme of time and love. In addition, the poem has some rhyme and meter that add to the style in the poem. Firstly, there is a basic end rhymes with the AABB rhyme scheme. The lines are also made up of trochees and their are four sets of them. Trochaic tetrameter is the meter of the poem as well.

The author uses the poems structure and stanzas to help get her point across. The poem is composed of four stanzas with a total of 25 lines. Each stanza signifies a different part of the child’s life. The stanzas have irregular lengths and structures. The numbers of lines in each stanza vary from five to seven. Piercy separates the pieces of the story by stanzas to tell the girls story so the audience could see how she was treated since birth. For instance the first stanza talks about her birth and adolescent years, while the third and forth stanzas talk about the end of her life.

Have you ever wondered why people use tone while writing ? Tone is a very strategic way to get the reader's attention. While reading, people can have a different opinion than you. De Vaca did not know that he would have to use tone or even write a report on all that happened in order to save his own life.

In order to occupy her child, the mother dresses her daughter up to go sing in the children’s choir at church in the fifth stanza. She brushes her hair, bathes her, and puts on her gloves and shoes. Randall appeals to the senses in this stanza; he uses a metaphor here to inform the reader a visual that the family is African American. She has “night-dark” hair and small brown hands. She is dressed in white and smells of sweet rose petals. The mother takes the girls mind off of the Freedom March and fixes it on the children’s choir. The tone is one of content. The sixth stanza is a

The main observation readers could take from this poem is that the “lower” individual has to take care of and pick up after the white man. It is even hinted at that the poems the mother chant rival the alleged master of poetry’s own works.

As the speaker casually calls their parents, a setting of calm expectations is established. While greeting the speaker, the mother’s decision to “run out and get” (1) the father highlights the lack of urgency that is present. The mother is calm and fetches the father in an expected and relaxed fashion, further establishing the calm expectations of the ongoing call. The mother additionally states that “the weather here’s so good” (2). Heaney’s use of the word “good” reflects the setting of the mother and father’s home; the atmosphere of where they live is pleasant and unperturbed. The “weather” serves as a projection of the father’s own state, implying that the father is in good health and that death is not yet looming over him. The last spoken words in the poem reveal that the father was conducting “a bit of weeding” (3). The word “weeding” highlights the capability of the

Therefore we have two poems which are deliberately changing their structure from the norm in order to create effect. However, these effects have totally different intentions, which lead to the end of the similarities and the first of many differences between the two poems.

In each verse, at lines four and five the ballad always repeats a word 2 to 3 times. For example, in the first verse, the word “riding” appears three times. Poets repeat

The first use of parallelism is in the first line of the first stanza with the words “unkempt bed, messy desk, and piano bench”. The use of an adjective followed by a noun creates a stronger connection between the places as well as add to the overall flow of the line. The next use of parallelism is in the last line of the first stanza with the words “my room, my house, my school, my car, and my thoughts”. This parallelism, achieved through the use of “my” followed by a noun, allows the places to build upon each other and tie together. The next use of parallelism is in the second line of the second stanza with the words “Same old rice, same old recipes, same old family dinners”. This line uses both anaphora, or the repetition of a phrase at the beginning of a series of worlds, and asyndeton, or the omission of conjunctions in a series of similar phrases. Both the anaphora and the asyndeton help create parallelism within the lines. This again emphasizes the connection between the phrases and gives the line a smoother

The poem is unique, as the formal structure of it is separate and not similar to any other structure. The poem does not