Wind In A Box Poem

Terrance Hayes is an American poet who published his first poetry in 1999. His poetry was a big hit from the time that he published it. Terrance Hayes won an award for his first poem book that was published in the nineties. After achieving this award, he continued to publish poems that took the world by storm. Terrance Hayes has maintained his status among the elite poets that are still walking this earth. He eventually published more poetry books that also won an array of awards for various different reasons including the best book for 2006. The way that Terrance Hayes sculpts each one of his poems into a magnificent piece of art is like no other poet. Contained in his latest work, “What it Look Like,” Terrance Hayes use of style, cultural context, symbolism and his use of stereotypes makes this poem one of his most elegant pieces, that can reach communities with the amount meaning that it includes.

The Divine Wind, written by Garry Disher, is a novel in which not only shows and describes the struggle of characters during World War II in Broome, Australia, but also the many aspects of prejudice which affect namingly Ida Penrose, Mitsy Sennosuke, and Magistrate Killian.

The poem explains how he was hiding his fear into his heart. He said, “I’ll plant deep, within my heart the fear”(Bontemps). He uses this so that the reader can have a better understanding or emotion and tone of what the man has been going through and that he had to hide away all his fear from the men. The poem mentions how the the wind or fowl takes the grains away, this is also imagery, giving us a picture of how the wind is evil, or some type of creature that takes the grain away. He also mentioned how he scattered seeds so much that he could make it to Canada and Mexico and that even with all the hard work, all he could show was, what was in his hands. This would also be called a hyperbole, because for how he explained that he made rows from Canada to mexico.. He uses this to exaggerate how much this man has been

Through structure, Dickenson and Wright express their holistic views through both critiquing and celebrating life. Dickenson’s poem, ‘187’, reflects the life of a domesticated woman. The poet directly addresses the audience when she suggests, “Stroke the cool forehead – hot so often”. Through inclusive language, in addition to hyphenation, the audience are made to feel involved, hence understand how the woman is now at peace after having worked laboriously her whole life. The last line of the poem, “Indolent Housewife – in Daisies – lain!”, further enforces that the woman is at peace through the personification of daisies and the exclamation mark emphasising that her life was so hard-working that in death she can finally relax. Wright also employs a similar idea in her poem, ‘Metho-Drinker’. Like Dickenson, Wright utilises personification when she states, “who cried to Nothing and the terrible night”. Through personifying “Nothing” the audience understands that this man’s life was lonely and hopeless, hence through death, he became “safe in the house of Nothing”. A gentle

Wordsworth uses imagery to convey positive images of confined spaces. The first instance of this is in the introduction of the poem, “Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room” (Wordsworth 78). A nun is not unhappy with her small room because she is able to find peace there. This is where nuns are able to connect with god. The connections that they feel there helps to provide them with comfort. Even though it may be a small room, it is what they are familiar with and have grown accustomed to. Over time they probably haven’t noticed the small space of the convent because it has been over shadowed by the positive memories formed within the building. Imagery is used throughout the poem to continually convey the theme. All of the images that Wordsworth portrays lead to the same conclusion. Each image that Wordsworth creates in the poem is of a confined space. However, the subject of the image is never trying to flee from this place. In many instances they are drawn towards these compact spaces. All because of the same general reasons, it is comfortable, safe, and familiar.

The wind “lifted her hair away” to take her comfort and “blew her eyelashes away” to take her sight and sense. Her relationship with the street and the wind that lives on it is defined then and there as nothing but a conflict. The wind then, to add insult to injury, pushes “the sign swaying back and forth over her head” out of focus every time she attempts to look at it. In an act of defiance, she then enters the building where the sign warned her against entering. An action which the sign itself foreshadowed as grim with its “dark stain like

The concept of the malign nature of the tenement is developed throughout the first stanza with Crichton Smith exploring his own role in his mother 's confinement. He tells the reader that whilst he drove away, his mother would 'wave from the window. ' Again the poet successfully employs alliterative words to draw our attention - this time to the image of his frail mother still lovingly 'waving ' from her prison 'window '. This notion is supported by Crichton Smith comparing himself to

The following passage is an excerpt from Katherine Anne Porter’s short story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.” Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how such choices as figurative language, imagery, and dialogue develop the complex emotions the character is feeling.

Also, ‘the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows’, this represents that the little hope in the bunk house only helps to further illuminate the darkness and harshness of society. In a setting, such as the ranch, where dreams are suppressed and suffocated, they take on a greater importance and significance to the mens lives, they rely on the dreams to get by.

In life and in literary text hidden meanings are quite common. There is basic level of understanding by the majority and a concealed meaning that requires a deeper level of critical thinking and analysis. Terrance Hayes provides a “poetic style that resist style” which proves hard to interpret, but I conclude he provides a common theme many might mistake for just an element of poetry (Fabu 1). A common theme present within two of his poems “Lighthead’s Guide to Galaxy” and “Antebellum House Party” as well as ”Mausoleum” from his signature book Wind in a Box is the idea of symbolism and underlying meanings within itself and how individuals tend to look for something more in things even in life instead of being as it is.

The play Inherit the wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee contains many abstract symbols that give the story a timeless essence. We see these symbols through the ongoing conflict between evolutionism and creationism. While exploring the conflict the reader gains insight into how exactly ones right to think freely is forbidden through the town itself “ Heavenly Hillsboro”. The idea that ones right to think freely relates to another symbol, the golden dancer. Through the wooden play horse the reader learns that nothing is as it seems and sometimes one must look beyond the horizon.

The narrator’s feelings of inferiority and powerlessness parallels the female figure she sees trapped behind the pattern in the wall-paper adorning her room. She gradually withdraws from both John and reality by locking herself in the room and ultimately merging with the figure. Through the changing image of the pattern from a “fait figure” (Gilman 46) to a “woman stooping” (Gilman 46) behind the paper and “shaking the bars” (Gilman 46) as if she wanted “to get out” (Gilman 46), we can see her becoming one with the figure: “I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.”(51) Her collapse into madness as reflected in her behavior with the “bedstead [that] is fairly gnawed” (Gilman 51) and her “creeping all around” (Gilman 50) is a direct result of her passive submissiveness to John’s control of her life.

He fills his poem with highly descriptive language utilizing the tool of imagery to paint the setting within the minds of the readers. For example, “Amid the stubble and the stones…” puts the reader within the disenchanted field. Furthermore, Kunitz uses loaded words and pathos to display the effects the changing of the season can ultimately have upon an individual in this case being extremely negative. Moreover, rather than the topic of the poem being about the shallow end of summer, it has a deeper meaning and is symbolizing a big shift in a person’s life. The last line of the poem leaves interpretation in the hands of the reader and allows them to connect “[the] cruel wind” to any aspect of their own

Racing into the Wind Minnesota, early May: The air is tranquil, fluffy clouds fill the sky, while people line the stands on this broiling, sluggish day. Horses, their tails waving to the crowd, bullet around the track. Suddenly, the heavens darken.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover,” has been described as one of the most challenging poems to explicate, so with my limited knowledge I will attempt to do this correctly and disagree with professors who have studied this poem far longer than I have.