1. In “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick (391), the element of poetry that stands out most for me in the poem is personification. By endowing nonhuman things with characteristics of human’s power, thrive and aliveness, the author wants to encourage people to pursue their goals and take risks to reach what they want. For example, in line 3, by comparing a flower to a human being (flowers cannot smile), Herrick encourages people to enjoy their youth and do not just wait and watch life pass by and be wasted. In lines 3 to 5 in the second verse, the author personifies the sun by using the pronouns he and his, once again meaning that the sooner we fight for our goal, the sooner we will have our reward.
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In “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins (391?), the element of poetry that stands out most for me in the poem is connotation. Hopkins gives additional meaning to his words using this method. The author refers to a child crying over the fallen leaves from the trees, referring to her first experience and contact with death. In “Leaves, like the things of man” he compares the leaves with human troubles and although Margaret is still a child “fresh thoughts”, she cares and feel sensitive about it. Then the author says that she will get less thoughtful about these things when she becomes an adult in line 5 “…heart grows older” and line 6 “sights colder.” But finally, the author compares the mortality of the leaves to human mortality “the blight man was born for” and suggests that in reality Margaret is mourning her own death in the last line of the poem, as we are all destined to die one …show more content…
In “The Facebook Sonnet” by Sherman Alexie (304), the element of poetry that stands out most for me in the poem is sarcasm. Alexie considers the contemporary society’s fascination with social media making fun of it. For example, he starts the poem with “Welcome to the endless high school Reunion” referring to people being trapped into a nostalgic past that bring them some kind of comfort so they never want to leave. In the second stanza the author states that people forget to live the present and “undervalue” it, because we are to busy worrying about past and future. In the final lines the author says we are too committed to social media and it has become our temple “Let’s church.com become our church” and finally when we are not connected living a lie, we are all
The common factor found within these two poems were in fact, metaphors. The writers Waddington and Tennyson both apply them to accentuate crucial opinions that influence love relations. In the third stanza, line one Waddington writes, “late as last autumn…”, however in the beginning of the poem he had written, “Late as last summer”. Therefore, autumn is a metaphor for different phases of life; spring represents childhood, summer is young adulthood and in this case autumn represents the middle age as winter would be death. Metaphorically speaking, as the season changed from a blissful summer to a dry autumn, so did their relationship. And we can all agree that as long as the clock remains to tick, time can change everything, even love. In Tennyson’s poem the fourth stanza, line two it mentions, “A shinning furrow, as thy thoughts in me”. This charmingly written metaphor refers to the author and his significant other. Tennyson uses a farmer’s tractor which produces furrows on the ground to relate to his sense since this person has had furrows of her thoughts leave a shining trace in his mind.
In “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why?” Edna St. Vincent Millay says that “the summer sang in me” meaning that she was once as bright and lively as the warm summer months. In the winter everyone wants to bundle up and be lazy, but when summer comes along the sunshine tends to take away the limits that the cold once had on us. She uses the metaphor of summer to express the freedom she once felt in her youth, and the winter in contrast to the dull meaningless life she has now. There are many poets that feel a connection with the changing of seasons. In “Odes to the West Wind” Percy Bysshe Shelley describes his hopes and his expectations for the seasons to inspire the world.
“The Facebook Sonnet,” a poem by Sherman Alexie, deciphers the present day culture’s fascination with social media. Alexie scrutinizes how status updates are altering and molding Facebook user’s day to day lives. He gives his cynical opinion of the website in the form of a sonnet, analyzing how Facebook is lengthening the immaturity of youth by concerning its users with opportunities to portrays one’s life as more fulfilling that it is in reality. “The Facebook Sonnet” describes twenty-first century culture in its most negative light by painting a picture of a self-centered society through Alexie’s use of satirical tone, irony, and sonnet structure.
For each seasonal section, there is a progression from beginning to end within the season. Each season is compiled in a progressive nature with poetry describing the beginning of a season coming before poetry for the end of the season. This is clear for spring, which starts with, “fallen snow [that] lingers on” and concludes with a poet lamenting that “spring should take its leave” (McCullough 14, 39). The imagery progresses from the end of winter, with snow still lingering around to when the signs of spring are disappearing. Although each poem alone does not show much in terms of the time of the year, when put into the context of other poems a timeline emerges from one season to the next. Each poem is linked to another poem when it comes to the entire anthology. By having each poem put into the context of another, a sense of organization emerges within each section. Every poem contributes to the meaning of a group of poems. The images used are meant to evoke a specific point in each season from the snow to the blossoms to the falling of the blossoms. Since each poem stands alone and has no true plot they lack the significance than if they were put into th...
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 his poem “Field of Autumn”, Laurie Lee uses an extended metaphor in order to convey the tranquility of time, as it slowly puts an end to life. Through imagery and syntax, the first two stanzas contrast with the last two ones: The first ones describing the beginning of the end, while the final ones deal with the last moments of the existence of something. Moreover, the middle stanzas work together; creating juxtaposition between past and future whilst they expose the melancholy that attachment to something confers once it's time to move on. Lee’s objective in this poem was to demonstrate the importance of enjoying the present, for the plain reason that worrying about the past and future only brings distress.
The poets use personification to create a message about nature in the poems "Earth is a Living Thing," "Sleeping in the Forest," and "Gold." Lucile Clifton used the line "feel her rolling her hand in its kinky hair feel her brushing it clean" to give the image of the earth being a child. By making the earth a child it urges the reader the reader to help the earth. Mary Oliver uses personification in the line "arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds". This line gives the message that the earth is full of life. "When Sun paints the desert with its gold" is a line that Pat Mora uses in her poem to send a message that the sun is like a painter with the earth as its canvas. So the common message sent to the reader
This poem dramatizes the conflict between reality and our own world of social media. “The Facebook Sonnet” by Sherman Alexie illustrates how not just Facebook, but all of social media has isolated society in efforts to bring them together. The author talks about how the internet does not let people live out reality when they are stuck behind a screen. The author makes this clear when he states “For God become public domain. /Let Church.com become our church” (11-12). The speaker’s true meaning lies with the sarcastic tone behind every line. He focusses on how social media lets us grasp onto the past by using terms and phrases such as “endless high school reunion” (1) and “Let’s exhume, resume, and extend /Childhood” (7-8).
Shakespeare writes, “ The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms,/ And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;/ The third day comes a frost, a killing frost . . . “ (Shakespeare 3. 2. 353-55). The leaves blossoming symbolize the person putting a continuous amount of work into getting something and finally getting the prize they have been working hard for. The person is getting more powerful with their pride, but then, something knocks that person down. The frost is what kills the blossom, which symbolizes the killing of the person’s greatness and pride. In Professor Foster’s guide, he mentions “That shared storehouse of figuration - that is, types of figurative representation such as symbols, metaphors, allegory, imagery - allows us, even encourage us, to discover possibilities in a text beyond the literal” (Foster 243) meaning that the symbols mentioned in the poem are for the reader to see beyond just leaves blossoming. The symbol is there for the reader to comprehend that it symbolizes a person losing the pride they once
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Rober Herrick and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” have many similarities and differences. The tone of the speakers, the audience each poem is directed to, and the theme make up some of the literary elements that help fit this description.
Alexie points that out in lines 9 and 10 “Let fame and shame intertwine”, some people just don’t have any shame of what they share to the outside world. I’m not saying everything is shameful but some of what is posted can be. Alexie points out how Facebook has become a platform for people to share their religious beliefs. It’s become a place to share their confessions to others, and to ask for forgiveness. When he points out “let church.com become our church.” (Alexie line 12) shows us how society has made things that were once sacred become a public domain. Alexie ends the poem with his definition of Facebook to be the altar of loneliness. It’s kind of ironic that he says that Facebook is lonely, because it is a place where people connect with one another. At the same time he maybe saying that we have lost the connection to real people in front of us other than
Within Alexie’s diction and tone, “The Facebook Sonnet” belittles the social media website by showing how society are either focused on their image or stuck in the past to even live in the present. Alexie’s use of words and tone throughout the poem shows his feelings toward Facebook in a negative way. First, Alexie grabs the readers’ attention by opening the poem up with the word “welcome.” His sarcastic tone is already being shown in the beginning of lines 1-3, “Welcome to the endless high-school/ Reunion.
The use of visual imagery in each poem immensely contributed to conveying the theme. In the poem “Reluctance”, Robert Frost used this poetic device to better illustrate the leaves of autumn:
In the poem “To Autumn” the initial impression that we get is that Keats is describing a typical Autumn day with all its colors and images. On deeper reading it becomes evident that it is more than just that. The poem is rather a celebration of the cycle of life and acceptance that death is part of life.
When a man becomes old and has nothing to look forward to he will always look back, back to what are called the good old days. These days were full of young innocence, and no worries. Wordsworth describes these childhood days by saying that "A single Field which I have looked upon, / Both of them speak of something that is gone: The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?"(190) Another example of how Wordsworth uses nature as a way of dwelling on his past childhood experiences is when he writes "O joy! That in our embers / Is something that doth live, / That nature yet remembers / What was so fugitive!" (192) Here an ember represents our fading years through life and nature is remembering the childhood that has escaped over the years. As far as Wordsworth and his moods go I think he is very touched by nature. I can picture him seeing life and feeling it in every flower, ant, and piece of grass that crosses his path. The emotion he feels is strongly suggested in this line "To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." (193) Not only is this showi...