1. The narrator of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is trying to express his insecurities and lack of a companion, which he desires so strongly. The narrator expresses his low self confidence in several ways. He goes on to compare himself to possibly a fly on the wall, also to a scavenger on the sea floor. “When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall”. (p. 2007) “I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” (p. 2008) He feels helpless and weak in his loneliness and feels he has done all he can to no longer be alone in his world. “Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed.” (p. 2008) The narrator also expresses his coming …show more content…
In Anne Bradstreet's "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment" she compares her husband and children to many things. She first starts with her husband by comparing him to completing her whole being. "My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life" (p.121) "My joy, my magazine of earthly store". (p. 121) Anne Bradstreet also compares her husband as being the warmth and light in her life, which is absent while he is away working. "My Sun is gone" (p.121) "nor frost I felt, His warmth such frigid colds did cause to melt." (p. 121) She goes on to compare her bearing of their children as a product of the passion the two of them share. "those fruits which through thy heat I bore?" (p. 121) She compares her children's innocence to "sweet contentment". (p.121) Anne Bradstreet goes on to compare her children's facial features to her husband's face. "True living pictures of their father's face." (p. 121) Toward the end of this poem, she compares her husband to a guest rather than a member of the household. "The welcome house of him my dearest guest." (p. 121) The final comparison of her husband is when she defines each of their own individualities as one whole. "Flesh of thy flesh, bone of thy bone, I here, thou there, yet both but one." (p. …show more content…
In Section II of "Live Oak, with Moss" Walt Whitman considers a large live oak tree that grows by itself, sprouting "joyous leaves" (p. 1096). The “live-oak growing” (p.1096) fascinates him, because the oak is in full bloom and is big and beautiful. The oak is not surrounded by any other life and its growth and ability to exist does not depend on another’s presence. “Without any companion it grew there, glistening” “solitary in a wide flat space, uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near”. (p. 1096) Whitman cannot grasp how this is possible and reflects that he differs from the oak. “standing alone there without its friend, its lover—For I know I could not.” (p. 1096) Whitman is taken in by the oak’s beautiful growth, and how it does not depend on the contribution of another living thing. He takes a piece of the tree with him as a “curious token” and places it openly in his room. “I plucked a twig” “and brought it away—And I have placed it in sight in my room.” (p. 1096) I think he does this to remind him, although he longs to share his life with another and cannot phantom the possibility of living any other way, it can and does
In the fourth stanza, line one to three the female has an upper hand in this relationship. In line four to seven the male feels uplifted by the deeds of the female and chooses to change himself for the
Stanza one is set in the morning at breakfast time. It involves the mother and her child. Instead of the usual loving mother, we see a cold mother and one that is doubtful of her lover for her own child. Dawe uses cold language such as ‘beneficence’, ‘beamed’ and ‘laminex’ as well has the pause after ‘she loves him’ to signify this. The pair are also conveyed to be separate from each other, symbolised by them being on opposite sides of the breakfast table.
She writes a letter to husband, almost instructing him on what to do after her death. Unlike other demure housewives of her time, she acknowledges the risk birthing her child brings by saying, “And when thy loss shall be repaid with gains / Look to my little babes, my dear remains” (107). Bradstreet also approaches a taboo subject by acknowledging that her husband might remarry. Bradstreet does not tread lightly on this subject either by writing, “And if thou love thyself, or loved’st me, / These o protect from step Dames injury” (107). In this poem, Bradstreet faces the possibility of not only the loss of her life but the loss of her husband’s love. Bradstreet challenges Puritan beliefs by showing that she will still be concerned with her earthly life after her
Ironically, Bradstreet describes life after her death in her poem “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” and states that husband to look for her love by looking at her children stating, “And when thy loss shall be repaid with gains, / Look to my little babies, my dear remains” (Before the Birth of One of Her Children lines 21-22). She also speaks of her husband’s next wife by stating, “These O protect from stepdame’s injury”, hoping that their step mother does not hurt her children (Before the Birth of One of Her Children line 24). Taylor shows more about planting his seeds in his wife approach when speaking about his children. He writes “One knot gave one tother the tother’s place. / Whence Chuckling smiles fought in each other’s face”, he’s describing the joy of watching his children playing with each other
Anne Bradstreet loves her children so much because she raised them all with pain and care. Bradstreet often talks about her children loving people, and people loving them, “And with her mate flew out of sight” (14) and out of her reach so she can not watch over them. Bradstreet’s strong Puritan heritage gives her unquestionable belief that God is watching over her children for her, and her children are watching for God. With this relationship between her and God, Anne Bradstreet accepts the departure of her children. In this poem Anne Bradstreet talks about success, “Coupled with mate loving and true” (23) this is Bradstreet’s idea of success for her children in this poem. Anne Bradstreet’s idea of success is so much more than just this line, in the fact that she wants her children to be educated, and live good productive Christian lives. All of these things are implied in the poem as simple as finding a mate and “flying” off.
It is easily inferred that the narrator sees her mother as extremely beautiful. She even sits and thinks about it in class. She describes her mother s head as if it should be on a sixpence, (Kincaid 807). She stares at her mother s long neck and hair and glorifies virtually every feature. The narrator even makes reference to the fact that many women had loved her father, but he chose her regal mother. This heightens her mother s stature in the narrator s eyes. Through her thorough description of her mother s beauty, the narrator conveys her obsession with every detail of her mother. Although the narrator s adoration for her mother s physical appearance is vast, the longing to be like her and be with her is even greater.
Bradstreet further highlights her internal struggle between her love for her material possessions and her relationship with God through her usage of literary devices such as personification, and various allusions to her Puritan faith. While describing her grievance for the loss of her items, Bradstreet states that “to my God my heart did cry / To straighten me in my Distress / And not to leave me succourless” (8-10). The personification of Bradstreet’s heart emphasizes that despite mourning the loss of material items, she desperately seeks the guidance of God and does not want to be left helpless. Later, Bradstreet also personifies the ruins of her home, stating, “No pleasant talk shall ‘ere be told / Nor things recounted done of old.
As the poem is a devotion to her husband, Bradstreet describes her relationship as strong and eternal. “Each heroic couplet is its own logical unit in the argument the poem sets forth” (Lambeth). To delve into this thought, every couplet has a changing shift in tone to offer imagery and context of her love. The first couplet uses anaphora to show many pieces; one is their relationship makes them a whole entity (Bradstreet 1,2). It conveys her husband’s affections for Anne.
She writes about her father, loving husband, children, And grandchild. When it comes to poems we notice the puritan influence; And it came to the role women played through Puritan society, it can be expected the women resented the husbands for they were considered more than the women. However, In Bradstreet case, she doesn’t resent her husband for leaving her with all the household needs. She just misses him and wants him back to her as Throughout "Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment," she states how she feels lost when her husband is not around and that life is always better when he is around.
Whitman is giving a more graphic example of how sex is a natural thing. By comparing the act of reproduction to death he shows just how natural of an act sex is. Everything that is born will eventually die. He feels that the natural curiosities of the human sexual appetites should not be denied or not discussed because of social standards. Not only is sex a "miracle" that is a part of him, but also nature and the universe, and each individual part should be celebrated.
"look in vain for the poet whom I describe. We do not, with sufficient plainness, or sufficient profoundness, address ourselves to life, nor dare we chaunt our own times and social circumstances. If we filled the day with bravery, we should not shrink from celebrating it. Time and nature yield us many gifts, but not yet the timely man, the new religion, the reconciler, whom all things await" (Emerson 1653). Emerson is stating how everything can be a poem and a poet can reflect on valuable resources like nature to draw on and write. Whitman clearly uses this guide in order to write his poetry. He agrees that nature is a valuable tool.
Breytenbach’s poem your letter is delightful… shows the important role that his wife plays in his life. She is his “God”, for even as God’s powers become useless in the chaotic world around him, she is able to bring him joy and hope and free his mind. Breytenbach compares his wife to God in this poem by using biblical allusions.
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faith to reject fate. Therefore, she detaches herself from her strong affection for “Elizabeth,” and accepts the reality that God has taken her to “everlasting state.” The speaker compares the death of the child to nature: “corn and grass are in their season mown” (10) to reveal her sadness that her child does not live long as it is common in the natural order. But the speaker concludes with comfort in her faith that it is in “His [God’s] hand alone that Guides nature and fate” (14).
He crossed the boundaries of the poetry literature and gave a poetry worth of our democracy that contributed to an immense variety of people, nationalities, races. Whitman’s self-published Leaves of Grass was inspired in part by his travels through the American frontier and by his admiration for Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poetry Foundation). He always believed in everyone being treated equally and bringing an end to slavery and racism. Through his poetry, Whitman tried to bring every people in America together by showing them what happiness, love, unison, and real knowledge looked. His poetry and its revolution changed the world of American literature