“A Story about the Body”, a prose poem by Robert Hass, is literally about a man who supposedly loves a woman but then finds out about her health conditions and then changes his mind. This poem, when I read it, was more like a short story than a poem. The poem uses imagery and a variety of adjectives which allow the reader to put themselves in the story as if they were watching it happen. In the first line, we learn about the speaker. We discover that he is an artist that frequently goes to an artist’s colony which is like a cabin where selected artists can go and be creative while being able to also interact with each other. We also find out that he admires one of the other artists who lives there and has been watching her for a week. In the …show more content…
When he wakes up and goes outside in the morning, he sees a blue bowl on his porch and at first sight, it appears as though it is rose petals, but when the man gets closer and picks it up, it is full of dead bees. I think the rose petals are a metaphor for the love that she felt for him and the picture that she had painted in her head of the two. I think the bees symbolize how her hopes of finding someone to be with at her age were crushed the instant the man found out about her condition and was unwilling to accept it. I also think that there is another possible interpretation of the bowl. I think that the petals could also symbolize the desire they both had to have each other because someone normally gives a rose to someone during a romantic encounter, and the bees under them show how the man’s love for the woman died after he found out about her physical appearance. This poem opens up the eyes of the reader and teaches us a lesson about life. It is essentially an example of the saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. The woman seems so perfect on the outside and for that reason the man wants to be with her, but when he knows that the cover of her book is different from that of most, then he instantly makes up his mind that he won’t even open
In Tim Seibles' poem, The Case, he reviews the problematic situations of how white people are naturally born with an unfair privilege. Throughout the poem, he goes into detail about how colored people become uncomfortable when they realize that their skin color is different. Not only does it affect them in an everyday aspect, but also in emotional ways as well. He starts off with stating how white people are beautiful and continues on with how people enjoy their presence. Then he transitions into how people of color actually feel when they encounter a white person. After, he ends with the accusation of the white people in today's world that are still racist and hateful towards people of color.
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
The speaker is supposed to be writing a love poem to his wife, but the unmistakable criticism he places on her makes one wonder if this is really love he speaks of. It may not be a "traditional" love story, but he does not need to degrade his wife in this manner. Reading through this poem the first time made us feel defensive and almost angry at the speaker for criticizing his wife so badly. Although it is flattering to be the subject of a poem, we do not think many women would like to be written about in this way.
The flowers are completely abandoned and unwanted. Steinbeck makes it obvious that the chrysanthemums represent Elisa. The way the tinkerer keeps the pot and throws aside the flowers is symbolic for how society, or men to be specific, disregards women and only takes from them what it wants. The blatant rejection of the chrysanthemums and, to an extension, Elisa herself dampens her mood. When she sees the flowers on the road “it was over.
Description: A coffin. It is normally two pieces, a top and bottom, but it is now contrived to look like one cohesive piece. The coffin has a realistic face that is uniquely colored green with a beard that is plaited (braided) and turns upward. These attributes are done in homage to Osiris – who is said to be the Lord of the Underworld and the god of resurrection. The head of the coffin has been adorned with a traditionally worn Egyptian nemes headdress and a traditional collar necklace trimmed in tear drops is placed around the neck area. The bodily outlines are subtle, but in close examination, you can see the meticulous efforts added by the sculptor. This coffin is lucid, but uses line in remarkable patterns for detail. The base of the coffin has a prayer to Osiris along with the name of the deceased inscribed. This artifact represents Horankh’s coffin for his bodily remains.
The poem is about a couple that has broken up and the man calls the girl to see if they could work thing out. As she thought about her own needs, she started questioning his loyalty. The moral of this poem is sometimes we can love someone more than we can love ourselves. But the problem is when you have no one to love us. Be true to yourself. Love starts within....
This poem “ Read from the Bottom up” has every element to be consider a great poem, it inspires to think different the diction of words seem weird but yet it accomplished it point to go beyond a normal point of view and see things further then are. The purpose was accomplished the central theme is challenging to understand, but that was the whole of the poem to challenge traditional thinking and think beyond ourselves.
As might be expected of one of her background and artistic gifts it is in the Part Three "The Guide" we see poetic, rhythmic and musical qualities at its best. She uses words with a keen sense of their rhythmic and musical potentialities: her style is richly figurative.
Overall, the poem is a successful attempt on using literary elements such as ironic and sarcastic rhetoric and powerful and suggestive imagery. From its title to its stanzas and specific lines, the poem is truly anchored on its central thesis and main themes. Its effective use of consistent tone and elements of the figurative language such as oxymoron and metaphor added value to its splendor as a piece of
I am going to analyze this text using the intrinsic and feminist literary theory analysis. With the intrinsic analysis, I will brood mostly on the style and characterization of the text. According to Eaglestone, 2009, intrinsic analysis is a look into the text for meaning and understanding, assuming it has no connection, whatsoever, to the outside world. “Style is said to be the way one writes as opposed to what one writes about and is that voice that your readers hear when they read your work” (Wiehardt, n.d). The text uses mostly colors, poems and songs to deliver its messages. The main characters in the...
The poet writes these poems to express her strong feelings and tells a story of a beautiful garden. She has used many elements in her work to express her emotions and story in a very beautiful and imaginative way. The use of these elements do not bore the reader and emerge them into a story of creation, life and death, rebirth, and the recovering of innocence. These are the reasons why the poem collection is highly successful and why I enjoy reading these poems and highly recommend them to anyone who enjoy reading poems or any sort of
It is something that comes without a warning, that may come silently and suddenly. Death is a power beyond us, it is fate that can never be stopped or avoided. Expressed in the words of famous poets, such as Dylan Thomas in his poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight", Christina Rossetti in "Remember", and Chinua Achebe in "A Mother in a Refugee Camp". In Addition to more poets, like Mary Elizabeth Frye in her poem "Do Not Stand at My Grave And Weep", Edwin Arlington Robinson in his poem "A Happy Man", and finally, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem "The Cross of Snow".
“The Spring and the Fall” is written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The poem is about two people, the poet and her significant other that she once had love for. The poem integrates the use of spring and fall to show how the poet stresses her relationship. Of course it starts off briefly by having a happy beginning of love, but the relationship soon took a shift for the worst, and there was foreshadow that there would be an unhappy ending. “I walked the road beside my dear. / The trees were black where the bark was wet” (2-3). After the seasons changed, the poet begins to explain why the relationship was dying, and all of the bad things she endured during the relationship. So, to what extend did the poet’s heart become broken, and did she ever
The poem “Warned’ by Sylvia Stults, first seems to be about the ways human are hurting nature. However, when we look at the poem through the lens of John Shoptaw’s essay “Why Ecopoetry,” we see the evidence that this is an ecopoem and is asking people to take action to protect the environment. The poem is about the destruction of earth. The poet also tries to raises some awareness about the environment. Additionally, the internal meaning of the poem is that we, humans depend on the world’s resources, therefore we should take care of the natural world.
The three poets convey the feelings of seriousness, happiness, and failure. In the poem “Simile”, Scott Momaday explains how people and the actions we do are similar to animals in which the comparison was towards deer. In “Moon Rondeau” by Carl Sandburg he illustrates that working together in a relationship, you may be able to accomplish a task and generate a strong bond. In the final poem “Woman” by Nikki Giovanni she displays how one may want to grow and be someone special to your significant other but they may not care of what their other may want. The three poets are illustrating the theme of humans being similar to animals in which case they either work together or they just ignore each other within the literary similarities and differences of the three poems.