Beware: Do Not Read This Poem A poem called Beware: Do Not Read This Poem by Ishmael Reed. Think about the things that you enjoy the most to do. If you enjoy soccer you become soccer, your life is soccer,and all you want to do is play soccer. If you are consistent at soccer you will become better and better.What you do in your life is what become and what you like; it is a reflection of your life. The poem is in a third person setting ,like in a movie, narrated by the poem, and it is about a women that surrounded herself with mirrors, and one day she disappeared into the mirrors. Later when people moved in the same house they also disappeared one at a time. The second part of the poem is about a poem that eats its readers. The reader then becomes
Blanche Taylor Dickinson poems address women’s’ pain, mainly those that felt invisible and ugly when compared to what society sees as beautiful. “Four Walls” (Dickinson, 1927, p. 77) is the poem I picked. It is categorizes as descriptive and a meditation poetry because it gives an insight and focuses on a physical object and uses it through out, in this case it is a wall. The poem is free verse because it does not rhythm. There are 22 lines with no set metre because the lines have irregular length, the only pattern is in the beginning with two stanzas of four lines.
Examining the literary terms used in this poem, one should mention alliteration first. It is used in the following line: “There are those who suffer in plain sight, / there are those who suffer in private” (line 1-2). Another literary device,
in the third person for the majority of the poem and it is only really
The poem starts out with the daughter 's visit to her father and demand for money; an old memory is haunting the daughter. feeding off her anger. The daughter calls the father "a ghost [who] stood in [her] dreams," indicating that he is dead and she is now reliving an unpleasant childhood memory as she stands in front of his
The poem “The Bean Eaters” was written by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem is about ways to to achieve a piece of mind at an old age. This older couple in the poem did not have a big home, a marvelous Cadillac truck, nor an enormous bank account. This couple relied on the little things in life to reach their peace. The elder couple realized how much they needed each other in older to gain some peace. The couple is also able to reflect on the past memories to keep them happy. Lastly, this couple is not concerned with the little possessions they have. This poem entails the proper way to reach piece. A person must have a significant other, the ability to cherish past memories, and must be content with possessions, in order to have a peace of mind.
7. The personification in the second stanza is that she gives poems the ability to hide and are waiting to be found. The author states that poems are hiding in the bottom of your shoes, and they are the shadows drifting across your ceiling before you wake up. This is personification because she gives the poems traits that only a living organism can possess.
In order to completely grasp exactly how the old maid appears to the woman on the sidewalk and the love she feels for the man walking with her, Sara Teasdale uses personification to describe the characters in the poem. One would be, “Her soul was frozen in the dark/ Unwarmed forever by love’s flame.” Obviously, a person’s soul cannot be frozen, but the meaning is that the old maid had never felt a heated intensity between herself and someone special to her which could give her a cold outlook on life. Another time the poet uses personification is when the speaker states, “His eyes were magic to defy”. Eyes cannot be magic. By saying that his eyes were magic the reader can get the notion that when the speaker looks into the eyes of her lover she feels awed, happy, or even entranced. Sara Teasdale also uses a metaphor in her work, “Her body was a thing growing thin,” In that line the speaker is comparing the old maid’s draining body to something that can get thinner. The poet uses a rhyme scheme of rhyming the second with the fourth line and there are four lines in every stanza. Finally, in this narrative poem there are eight syllables per line of the poem.
I interpreted this poem as a very sad one. A love unrequited by the pursued. In the first two lines the poem tells you to forget about the love you share and hear a tale of this. Not to literally forget, but possibly put aside. The man is a winter breeze, cold and rough and sort of roams the land. The woman is a window flower, shut off from the outside. This sets up the separation.
The poem begins with a description of a scene familiar to many, “an ant on a tablecloth…” Then the ant bumps into a day drowsy moth that is much larger than him. The ant seems a tad bit jealous that the moth lacks the amount of responsibility that ants are burdened with. The ant thinks that if the moth were one of his own race he’d chastise him and send him back to work. He describes how the ant society is much more sophisticated and intellectual than the likes of the moth. Their philosophy is to learn about religion, nature, and space. The ant then being concerned with his own duties hurries back to his own job. The ant subsequently runs into another ant carrying “the body of one of their dead.” The poem goes on to describe the ants’ treatment and procedures of the dead. The ants are not taken aback by the death “… isn’t even given a moment’s arrest, seems not even impressed.” However, word of the deceased is passed along among the ants, “death has come to Jerry McCormick.” They reflect briefly on the life of Jerry, mentioning that he was a “selfless forager.” The dutiful priorities of the ants then kick in when they put o...
I decided that I wanted to play a sport, I chose volleyball. Most of my friends played the sport so it wasn't hard for me to adjust and make new friends. Becoming a student athlete was a big adjustment for me, I could no longer float through my classes but I need to excel. And that's exactly what I did. For the first time in my high school career I made not only honor roll, but principal’s honor roll. For the first time my mom was proud of my report card, that made me even more proud. From then on I knew I wanted nothing less than what I earned, good grades and a proud family. From my decision to chose to become a student athlete not only make me work harder but, be great at everything I put my mind to. I had motivation to stay successful, to stay eligible. Three years ago if you were to ask me where I thought I would be my senior year, I probably would have told you low level classes barely making it by. Now here I am today excelling in my education preparing to take the next step in my future, college. Even if we don’t understand why we go through them, we have to be willing to let our obstacles become out
The poem seems to have been written by a deceased person leaving a monologue to her relatives, asking them not to grieve for her loss, with the aid of some comforting words. Obviously, the poet is writing in behalf of the dead. Even though the eyes of the close ones have seen the body of the writer placed in the grave, the poet is saying that there's nothing further from the truth. She is telling them that a bit of her exists in their surroundings. Mary Elizabeth Frye instead says that she is roaming about, and that grave is not where her body
The author applies sight and personification to accentuate the mirror’s roles. The declaimer of the poem says “I am silver and exact [and] whatever I see I swallow” (1, 20). The purpose of these devices is to convey the position of the mirror in the poem. As an inanimate object, the mirror is incapable of consuming anything but the appearances of entities. Furthermore, the glass’ role accentuates an inner mirror, the human mirror which does not forget instances of misery and contentment. According to Freedman, the mimicking image emulated by the mirror elicits “… a look for oneself inside” as observed from the life of the elderly woman in the sonnet (153). Moreover, as the woman looks into the lake, she commemorates her appealing and attractive and pleasant figure as a young girl. As time passes, the inevitability of old age knocks on the door of the woman, readily waiting to change the sterling rapturous lady perceived by many. One’s appearance can change; it is up to an individual to embrace it or reject it.
As a beginning, let us look closely at one of the poems in which Dickinson gives a detailed account of a deathbed scene: The last Night that She lived
Irony is the most obvious and most absurd element in postmodernism. In “Mirror,” the woman’s action is portrayed as ironic. The woman “bends over” the mirror, “searching for what she really is.” The mirror “reflect[s] it faithfully”, yet the woman burst into “tears and an agitation of hands.” The woman is disappointed by the fact that she is no longer young, and is depressed by that every single time she looks into the mirror. Ironically, she returns to the mirror everyday, and it is “her face that replaces the darkness” every morning. The irony is presented with a light and playful tone, yet it leads readers to think about their personal experiences, because everyone looks at themselves in the mirror and judge themselves without even realising it. The subtle irony in the poem points out the seemingly normal occurrence in life and hints the readers of the raw truth that humans often
The tone of the poem is one of reflection and possibly regret, The narrator starts out as a man...