What Is The Theme Of The Poem By The Men Who Moil For Gold

In the poem the Cremation of Sam McGee it is written in the form of a ballad. The poem has multiple words that give it a rhythm that sounds like a song. The poem would sound sad and bleak without the melodic tone used. The poem uses a lot of alliteration and has a use of strong figurative language. The use of the figurative language used within the poem helps portray a more vivid and detailed pictured in the readers head. The melodic tone of the poem gives it a very upbeat mood. Without the rhythm in the poem it would sound very bleak. The poem the “Cremation of Sam McGee” is like a story being told in the form of a song. ”And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow, And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe”, the figurative language within this piece of the poem “ The Cremation of Sam McGee” it gives the stars such detail as if they are alive. Within the poem the figurative language helps bring some inanimate objects to life and paints a vivid picture using strong language. The imagery used within the poem helps enhance the picture that the author is trying to paint for the reader. The structure of the poem helps draw slowly but steadily into the conflict that main character runs into.

In the first line, “I felt a funeral, in my brain / And Mourners to and fro”, the speaker imagines a funeral inside her brain and feels mourners going back and forth, which could mean that her thoughts are full of sorrow and her mind is going crazy. One interesting thing I saw in this poem is that the speaker does not want readers to think that she is comparing her feelings to a funeral. She does not say “It felt like a funeral, in my brain” instead she says “I felt a funeral, in my brain”. Changing this part would give readers a

Beginning the poem with the explanation of how one feels when they first experience someone’s deception, Weslowski chooses words like “mummified” (6) and “morgue” (4) to paint the image of grief and the loss of self-expression through words. Using the term morgue makes the reader

The poem is somewhat ironic in that it talks death and the drinker being ostracized from society, both very cold subjects.

Having to find a place to cremate his friend’s corpse, and at the same time trying to stay alive, proved to be quite the challenge. His hardships on his way to find a suitable place to cremate Sam McGee is described in stanzas 34 - 39, “In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load. In the long, long night, by the firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring, howled out their woes to the homeless snows - O God! How I loathed the thing And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow; and on I went, though the grub was getting low; the trail was bad and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in.” The goings get so tough along his trip that the narrator begins to feel jealous of Sam McGee’s corpse, thinking death is better than what he is going

The last line in the poem “and since they were not the ones dead, turned to their own affairs” lacks the emotions the reader would expect a person to feel after a death of a close family member. But instead, it carries a neutral tone which implies that death doesn’t even matter anymore because it happened too often that the value of life became really low, these people are too poor so in order to survive, they must move on so that their lives can continue. A horrible sensory image was presented in the poem when the “saw leaped out at the boy’s hand” and is continued throughout the poem when “the boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh…the hand was gone already…and that ended it”, this shows emphasis to the numbness the child felt. The poem continues with the same cold tone without any expression of emotion or feelings included except for pain, which emphasizes the lack of sympathy given. Not only did the death of this child placed no effect on anyone in the society but he was also immediately forgotten as he has left nothing special enough behind for people to remember him, so “since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”. This proves that life still carries on the same way whether he is present or not, as he is insignificant and that his death

In the beginning of the short story, as Brother reflects on Doodle’s life, the author uses personification and foreshadowing to create a mood of remorse. As he gazes out of the window into his backyard, Brother states that “the graveyard flowers were blooming. ...speaking softly the names of our dead” (Hurst 1). The flowers provide flashbacks of the past, and foreshadow a loss of life. The loneliness felt by Brother causes readers to consider how they would feel if their loved one was gone. As Brother observes the seasons, it is noted that “summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born” (Hurst 1). The personifications of the seasons as stages in the cycle of life and death creates an unsure and uncertain mood. The shift between seasons creates an idea of change and uncertainty of events to come. Hurst creates a mood of remorse through

The poem, ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, by Robert Frost is an important part of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Explain how the poem relates to the key events in the novel.

Every one of Robert Frost’s poems connects to nature. Frost ties in flowers, trees, leaves, nature paths, and many more features of nature to make readers intrigue to read the poems. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost uses flowers and leaves to help readers better understand the poem. “The Beauty of Fall” by Lizzy Cooper, Hannah Wovna, and Mikaela Wovna uses different imagery like apple trees, pumpkins, and hilltops to draw the reader’s’ attentions to the theme. The poems, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost and “The Beauty of Fall" by Lizzy Cooper, Hannah Wovna, and Mikaela Wovna has different imagery and literary devices, but both poems share the same overall meaning.

“The rain this mourning pours from the gutters and everywhere else it is lost in the trees. You need your glasses what you know is there because doubt is inexorable; you put on your glasses. The trees, their bark, their leaves, even the dead ones, are more vibrant wet. Yes, and it’s raining. Each moment is like this—before it can be known, categorized as similar to another thing and dismissed, it has to be experienced, it has to be seen. What did he just say? Did she really just say that? Did I hear what I think I just heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? The moment sinks. Still you want to stop looking at the trees. You want to walk out and stand among them. And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.” (page 9)

The fourth stanza reverts itself to the gloomy tone the title implies with the lines, “The cold water is anesthetic and very quick. / The cries on all sides must be a comfort.”(11-13), at a glance, these lines seem to be pure irony. The words used to describe the atmosphere of their final moments arouse the feeling of sarcasm, rather than desire. However, when compared other means of death, slipping peacefully away in the cold could be something to pine for.

Hayden utilizes diction to set a dark and solemn tone throughout the poem. Like the various examples of imagery, there is also a strong use of underlying symbolism. In the first stanza, the words “cold” (1. 2) and “fires blaze” (1. 5) are used, which introduces a conflict. This is emphasized in the second stanza when the word “cold” (2. 1) is used again, later followed by the word “warm” (2. 2). In the last stanza, the father eventually “had driven out the cold” (3. 2). Yet the father had not ridden the house of the cold air until the end of the poem, which symbolizes how it took his son several years later to recognize the behaviors in which his father conveyed his love for him.

The first line of stanza four “Or rather-- He passed Us—“ (l. 13) demonstrates that the speaker is uncertain about her existence in the world. Now she feels that her life symbolized by the sun is passing by. She becomes chilled by the “dews” (l. 14). Lines three and four in this stanza illustrate the reason for her coldness. The speaker is attired in a light “Gown” (l. 15) and cape or “Tippet” made of “Tulle” (l. 16), which is a kind of thin, transparent, open meterial. When people die,

Next, the speaker states “We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain--/Or rather--He passed Us--.” The speaker is aware now that she is leaving her world, the earth, to company Death in his world. Also, the speaker says “The Dews drew quivering and chill--/For only Gossamer, my

The second stanza of the poem can be interpreted in many ways. The narrator mentions his fear and how at one point he broke down in tears. To me, this could mean that he is so headstrong about his hatred towards his enemy that it scares him. He couldn’t possibly be scared of his enemy because it was never mentioned that his enemy threatened him. The narrator then starts crying because he never expected to grow so quickly and instead of yelling about his anger, he develops these tears. Just as the unwanted emotions surface, the good emotions come up just as quickly. The narrator smiling could mean that he wants to mask everything with a smile to show his enemy that he’s doing fine. It could also mean that he’s enjoying how everything is unfolding.