Essays on Poems

In the first stanza of the poem, Swells, Ammons makes a connection between swell and memories. Swell is the vehicle and is use as a way to describe the substance of a particular memory. Memory plays a role as the tenor. The speaker believes there is a correlation in terms of the size of the “Swell in the ocean” with the importance or impact of the memory; as the swell increase in size, so will the memory significance. The stanza then goes on to create an image for readers with the words, “Information

That life flows on and the operation in the natural order continues is stressed here. The fame of poppies that drowses the harvester and the 'twined flowers' that offer a resistance to the 'say the' cause a brief pause in time. This eagerness to prolong the moment of happiness - the ode stanza, extended to eleven lines, is give en a more prolonged effect and is also shared by autumn who watches the 'last oozing hours by hours' she is in time and bears the full load of agony inherent in process,

the hearts and minds of her readers with the images she creates about aboriginals. Noonuccal uses various poetic techniques, in her poems Son of mine and Dark Unmarried Mothers, to create images that link to popular controversial ideas. Due to the way she expresses them, the ideas she conveys in her poetry are embodied in the hearts and minds of the reader. In her poems, Oodgeroo Noonuccal highlights issues about her people’s past and present in Caucasian society. Noonuccal’s main audience is the people

I realized: something had disappeared. Not the charm of floral button-downs locked inside the trunk. Skin-tight jeans still stuffed beneath the seat. No. The poem: my attempt to breathe life into the Syrian man thrown from a building, met by stone-carrying children who were brought by their fathers to teach them what not to be. This poem, this confession (I’m not unlike that nameless man), I’d forgotten it in the printer back home, ink face-up, as though I wanted it there. Blue Ridge, Georgia,

QUOTE 10 Adrienne Rich has written "Diving into the Wreck” in 1973. When read literally, the poem is about a scuba diver who swims down to a shipwreck in order to explore it. Symbolically, however, it has many different interpretations. It can be argued that the entire poem is a metaphor for human suffering and dealing with an unpleasant past. This argument can give way to the reason why it was written: to establish that the past can be just as tragic as a shipwreck and it can prove to be a very

name and the history of a warrior had a huge impact on society and it would determine whether or not a warrior deserved the best of riches. All of the ancient poems were associated with names and boasts. In addition, almost all of them that are around the world have been translated by authors throughout the years. In fact, one of the ancient poems that was originally written by an unknown poet before the year 1000, was Beowulf. The copy of Beowulf was actually dated to the years around 1000, in the time

Part A 1. My initial feelings about the poem are a patriotic poem where the poet is giving hope to those in war. She tells them that victory is coming at the end. 2. One interesting aspect of the poem is a motif. The motif is where the poet repeats a word, image, idea or a phrase. In the poem, the poet has repetition which makes her work fascinating. For instance, His truth is marching on and His day is marching on. Part B 1. The work was written during the American civil war in the

road trip is an individual’s life. It suggests that a person’s life will continue on through, twists, turns, and obstacles. The drive is an individual’s life journey and all the events that they may have during their life time. The beginning of this poem starts by telling us that the drive of life and journey has started. On your journey of life you will face many decisions that may leave you to a point where you can’t go on, or to a point where you will go through many turns. On your life journey

use of harsh diction while at the same time maintaining a somewhat solemn tone, Rosenberg is able to express the poem’s bigger idea - having to build lasting love and relationships while trying to deal with the conflicts that life brings you. This poem has both a literal and a figurative storyline. The literal tells the story of wasps building their nests on the narrator’s mailbox, and the idea that he could destroy all of their work and life’s ambitions

CR "Across the triple-canopy jungle you shared / You don't remember it". (7-8) Two themes that are similar in both Buntz and Weigl's poetry is the use of nature and memory. In Weigl's poem "Song of Napalm", the subject of the poem was inferred to have lived in a farm while reminded of scenes from the war. In Buntz essay, he relates the jungles with the memories of the soldiers as something that they cannot escape from. -JM "The girl / Running from her village