If you change the way you look at things, do the things you look at change? Jennifer Keith and Herbert Guitang relate their poems to the topic of perspective. The significance of the poem “Eating Walnuts” by Jennifer Keith is discovering an alternative for opening walnuts. In comparison to “The Third Eye” by Herbert Guitang, illustrating the ability of the third eye to reveal reality. The poems “Eating Walnuts” and “The Third Eye” have a primary theme, but differ in language. The narrator of “The Third Eye” views the world, with “real and pure living people” (Guitang 7). It is not until “the third eye” is used , where the narrator “can see beyond the real people” (Guitang 11; 3). The eye displays “the lost and bad spirits” and most importantly, the “pure heart” (Guitang 6; 14). The heart reveals “honest friendship..[and] The heart connotates what is real and genuine, in contrast to the “meat” of “Eating Walnuts” being the brain, signifying intellect (Keith 18). The heart and brain on a figurative level reveal the truth, our heart. The usage of consonance differ in the two poems. In “Eating Walnuts”, some examples include “years”, “seams”, “hemispheres” (Keith 2;3;4). Whereas “The Third Eye”, uses “Friendship” and “Compassion” (Guitang 14;15). This device provides structure to the poems with a rhyming effect, making it appealing to the reader. The use of consonance belabored the emotions behind their words where it cannot be simply conveyed and reiterated the significance of a theme. The connection of “Eating Walnuts” and “The Third Eye” relate with the author's use of language to carry out the overall theme. A new view of the shell in “Eating Walnuts” and the use of the thrid eye in Guitangs’s poem, disclosed what is real. Although the poems contained different uses of language, Keith and Guitang shared the central theme of
To that end, the overall structure of the poem has relied heavily on both enjambment and juxtaposition to establish and maintain the contrast. At first read, the impact of enjambment is easily lost, but upon closer inspection, the significant created through each interruption becomes evident. Notably, every usage of enjambment, which occurs at the end of nearly every line, emphasizes an idea, whether it be the person at fault for “your / mistakes” (1-2) or the truth that “the world / doesn’t need” (2-3) a poet’s misery. Another instance of enjambment serves to transition the poem’s focus from the first poet to the thrush, emphasizing how, even as the poet “[drips] with despair all afternoon,” the thrush, “still, / on a green branch… [sings] / of the perfect, stone-hard beauty of everything” (14-18). In this case, the effect created by the enjambment of “still” emphasizes the juxtaposition of the two scenes. The desired effect, of course, is to depict the songbird as the better of the two, and, to that end, the structure fulfills its purpose
At the beginning of the poem, the speaker starts by telling the reader the place, time and activity he is doing, stating that he saw something that he will always remember. His description of his view is explained through simile for example “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets of their branches” (Updike), captivating the reader’s attention
In this paper I will discuss two poems by Sharon Olds. They are both taken from her collection “The Dead and the Living” and are entitled “The Eye” and “Poem to My Husband from my Fathers Daughter.”
makes each poem unique the central idea is identical, they both emphasize the particular bond
1. In “The Tell Tale Heart”, I found that the old man's eye symbolizes the old man's having inner vision. In the story, it states that the eye is a pale blue with some kind of of film resting over it. The narrator describes the eye as having the likeness of a vulture. In the world of nature, vultures are scavengers that stalk and wait for animals to die before they land on dead animals to feast on the remains.
...ces, and the most complex in intention, exhibiting a subtlety of presentation and density of implication which we have only begun to appreciate.” In other words, we have only skimmed the thoughtful and meaningful intentions of the Gawain poet. We have only started to appreciate and understand the poem. All in all, there is so much more to find within the piece, more lessons to be learned, and morals to be taught.
In the poem, “Oranges”, Gary Soto expresses his narrator's experience through imagery that appeals to the senses. On a particularly Cold evening in December, a twelve-year-old boy left his perch next to the fire and kept his hands in his winter coat. He was going to brave the cold for a special event. His first date. Nervously, he walked five blocks to his girlfriend’s house with a nickel and two oranges weighing down in his worn pockets.
All three poems share the theme of reaction to loss of a loved one and
Panty Pulpers is a group started by Drew Matott to bring attention and awareness to sexual assault victims. Matott went to college to become a professional print maker, but found a love of making paper. He blends his paper making with art therapy and social activism in many of his projects. Matott said that he wanted to make his work “more than a substrate”, and he certainly does, with projects like his Combat Paper Project is emotional, when veterans cut their uniforms to pieces and write letters or paint on to the paper made, is defiantly a work of activism. The same goes for Panty Pulpers, when victims of sexual violence are given the opportunity to cut up the clothing from a traumatic event, then make write poetry
The visual images identified in both poems and the senses that have been stimulated by the
This poem is an expression of the author’s troubles in her life. The “tears” from her neglect and the memories of her long-dead grandmother are mentioned. The author is descriptive throughout the poem and produces a picture for the reader to see “the black cow grazing with her newborn calf long-legged, unsteady.” Creating this visual through this analogy was effective. Words and phrases like “soft dampness of my tears” and “squirrels slipping in and out of the mango trees” were also a useful way to plant imagery for the poem.
As an unrhymed poem, the rhythm created uses devices such as, consonance, repetition, and alliteration. The inconsistency rhyme schemes in both poems seem to reflect the speaker’s turmoil and feelings they harbor for their fathers. The poetic meter Plath uses gives a slow, almost childlike melody. Throughout the poem, a soothing sound with the continuous use of the “-oo” sound anchors Plath to a childlike tone. Words like “do,” “shoe,” “Achoo,” and “you” gain recognition with the continuation of the poem. Meanwhile, “Those Winter Sundays” provides fourteen-lines, but its meter distinguishes. Some examples of rhymes and near-rhymes are shown but no rhyme scheme. The first line is presented as a trochaic pentameter rather than the standard iambic pentameter. In order to capture the harshness of his father’s life, Hayden uses grating consonance sounds in the words “cold,” “cracked,” and “ached” (Line 2 and 3). Gradually, the “k” sounds become replaced with “o” sounds, like in the words “good,” “shoes,” “know” etc. these sounds evoke associations with love and
Eyes observe. Eyes perceive. Eyes understand. They know everything about you and who you are. They are the windows to the soul, and they can never be abolished. In the stories The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat, both narrators realize their acts were wrong, but they did them anyway by rationalizing that they were driven by circumstance. The Tell-Tale Heart is about, a man who is trying to prove his sanity, however, in doing so, the proves his insanity. The man who is also the narrator of the story plots to kill the man with the disturbed eye; to rid of the oppressing evil forever. So every night he soundlessly sneaks into the man's room, and searches for any hints of the troubled eye. For eight straight nights, consecutively, he does this
William Blake is a poet most noted for the engravings that accompany his works of poetry. These engravings included with the poems help to depict the meaning of the poems. However, at times the engravings he includes with his poem can lead to complications for the interpreter of the poem. There are a multitude of variations of the same engraving that accompany a poem, all of them originals; some of these engravings compliment the poem, while others complicate the poem. One example of this occurrence, where one engraving may compliment the poem and the other complicates it, is in William Blake’s work “The Ecchoing Green” which can be found in Blake’s Songs of Innocence. The important thing to recognize is that regardless of whether the poem is further complicated or simplified because of the image, the poem and its accompanying image are still evoking thought, and discussion from the reader.
Your heart cannot be simply defined as an anatomical organ. Although it functions to pump blood throughout the body, the true essence of the heart is much deeper than science. The true essence of the heart lies somewhere within the limitless realm of art; submersed in the passion that runs through your veins, it fiends desperately to be admired. My heart is filled with a love for writing. Besides writing to complete tasks and assignments, I write to unveil the beauty of language. This beauty, created simply with words, meaning, and punctuation, is one that is uniquely crafted by its author.