Many people don’t realize how fast life is actually moving. Today could be someone’s last day. Planning life and living it to the fullest can be challenging at times, but when you stop and smell the roses, life can seem a little bit more enjoyable. In Peter Meinke’s poem “Advice to my Son,” he portrays how important it is for his son to find a balance between loving the fun aspects of life while still having the necessities.
Alliteration is shown numerous times in this poem. “To be specific, between the peony and the rose plant squash and spinach, turnips and tomatoes.” (Lines 11-12) Squash and spinach as well as turnips and tomatoes are a few examples of alliteration. Meinke used the device to let the reader know how important it is to have the spinach, squash, turnips, and tomatoes for survival. Survival out weighs the importance of beauty like in a rose or peony. That is why alliteration wasn’t used when writing the beautiful flowers, but was used in the necessary plants to survive.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how planning life and living it to the fullest can be challenging at times, but when you stop and smell the roses, life can seem a little bit more enjoyable.
- Analyzes meinke's use of alliteration in the poem, stating that survival outweighs beauty like in a rose or peony.
- Analyzes how mienke's lines could be realistically compared to a terrible car crash, or an army battle with surrounding bullets and guns going off.
- Analyzes how mienke is teaching his son that beauty is sweet like nectar. it is capable of saving someone from their lowest point.
- Explains that in the lines that state," therefore, marry a pretty girl after seeing her mother," the mother is supposed to be just an older replication of the girl.
- Analyzes how the poem, "show your soul to one man, work with another," tells the son to keep work out of his or her personal life.
- Explains that the lines stated above are saying to the son to give all that he can give. giving bread is just giving half of what the child is really capable of giving.
- Concludes that it is never too late to enjoy life, because it could be gone in a second. meinke's poem tells the audience to have fun while working hard and doing the necessities.
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