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In “Buffet Etiquette” by Hieu Nguyen the author discusses how his transition from Vietnamese culture to American culture, has caused tension and hardship between his relationship between his mother and him. Nguyen’s use of candace, tone, and volume accentuate the message that losing the roots someone came from can cause hardship. In the beginning of the poem, Nguyen uses the metaphor “My/ voice is bleach. My voice has no history” (1) to compare his caucasian accent to his mother’s strong Vietnamese

The poem I chose was “The Red Wheelbarrow”, by William Williams. This I a very short poem, and still delivers great imagery and description. There is the speaker who is the only one speaking and is speaking towards a red wheelbarrow and chickens. In line one the word depends appears and from then I saw how it is speaking in regards of something important. Also when I looked back I noticed it was an essential because Williams said so much”, both words make the reader see how it was just not important

In “Nothing Gold Can Stay” the author is discussing natures first green and how it is golden and never lasts long. Likewise in “Unfolding Bud” it is comparing an unfolding bud to poetry, gradually unfolding. In both the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and the poem “Unfolding Bud” the author uses nature to develop the theme of living life to it’s fullest by using comparisons, symbolism, and imagery. The poem “Unfolding Bud” conveys the theme of enjoying the golden part of your life with the use of analogy

A Meaning as Complex as a Platypus1 “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space” (Oscar Scott Card). The puritan poets Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor write of their lives and of God and where these two things intertwine. God, however, is an enticing mystery that these poets attempt to understand, and in their exploration, they use the metaphorical reasoning to explain what they’ve discovered. Bradstreet and Edward Taylor implement metaphors to create the greatest understanding

The Truth In Emily Dickinson's poem “ Tell all the Truth but tell it slant ----” she talks about how to tell the truth and how important the truth is. In the beginning of her poem in the first 2 lines she talks about how you should tell the truth not the whole truth. In the next 2 lines she talks about how powerful the truth is. She basically says it's too strong for our weaken minded people. She also says it brings a great shock like lightening she compares it to children and how it can bring pain

The soul is a wonderful thing, as it tells us who we are mentally, while the body signifies who we are physically. Both may seem entirely different, but when the body is the soul, it can emphasize people’s individuality. This is what Whitman describes in his poem I Sing the Body Electric. He compares and contrasts both men and women equally and even treats slaves in a positive way as well. Whitman’s theme portrayed in I Sing the Body Electric is that the body is perfect in every way and in every

In this essay I shall explore the way poets Phillip Larkin and Elizabeth Jennings both show love. For Larkin I shall look at An Arundel tomb and Wild Oats and for Jennings I shall look at Absence and Disguises. I will consider the way in which the two poets deal with the idea of love as timeless.I will also explore themes of authenticity and identity in their poems about love. In addition I will consider the extent to which their gender may have affected their view of love. In similarities I think

Emily Dickinson was a poet of the 19th century. Failure to fit in is expressed in the poem “I’m Nobody! Who are You?”. The theme of being a misfit is seen throughout the poem. The theme is similar to Paul Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”. Dunbar’s poem gives a voice to those who try to fit in but cannot. The theme of both poems is similar, but the tone of the poems is completely different due to the different perspectives of the speakers. Emily Dickinson expresses failure in the poem “I’m Nobody! Who

The theme of the poem Nothing gold can stay by , Robert Frost is “Nothing lasts forever.”The evidence can be found in three different lines of the poem , starting where it says “Her hardest hue to hold” , then on the third line “Her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour then leaf subsides to leaf so Eden sank to grief” , and finally “So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay”. On the second line of the poem it says , “Her hardest hue to hold”, at first you’ll most probably think it’s

John Donne authored poetry that relied on intelligent allusions and wordplay. He strung together paradoxical ideas that utilized more of a philosophical structure than his counterparts, in some ways making him an outlier in relation to the normative poetry of his time period. Donne’s poetry dealt outside of the physical realm. He conjured biblical allusions in secular poems and often reversed that formula to make secular connections in otherwise religious poems. He used extended metaphors to make