All throughout life we encounter certain affairs that can instantly change our whole domineer. These experiences we undertake can cast a ‘black cloud’ above our heads, leaving us in a dreary state. Only you can tell yourself: what will work exactly to get yourself out of that shadowy position. The reason I chose this poem is: I can relate to having ‘black days’ and having to find my own ‘peace’ and ‘balance.’ To me, this poem is more than a man just getting through one bad day; it’s about him teaching us that there is light even through the darkest days. Similar to him, I had to find my own peace of mind or ‘balance’ that would help me get through my tuff times. Even though his was through music and mine was through writing, all that matters is what technique works best for you to get though those days.
The connection I had with this poem was very strong; it was like I was reading a poem out of my own life, especially after I had seen myself embedded deep within this poem. In the poem “ALLEGRO,” by Tomas Tranströmer, he shows us exactly how he overcame the shadowy overcast that became a dilemma for him. He was left with
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The visual imagery that stood out the most to me was: I raise my Haydnflag. The signal is: ‘we do not surrender. But want peace.” I can picture a man standing tall in an untroubled manner waving a flag in a nonviolent way, but reminding everyone to not take his kindness for weakness. Thomas’s choice of words he uses in his stanzas really allows his readers to visually paint a picture as they read along. His work leaves vivid images in the reader’s head much after they are done reading the poem. Thomas’s many uses of imagery were very appropriate and used accordingly with the depictions he was trying to express in his artwork. Another great example of imagery used was his display of personification when referencing his glass
This poem reflects on how when you lose someone you truly care about it affects you mentally. When we lose someone who we're really close to, we tend to hold a grudge and start questioning our love for the world. We lose ourselves when we
To help Year Twelve students that are studying poetry appreciate it's value, this pamphlet's aim is to discuss a classic poem and a modern song lyric to show that even poetry written many years ago can still be relevant to people and lyrics today. By reading this may you gain a greater knowledge and understanding of poetry in general, and not just the two discussed further on.
The speaker in “Five A.M.” looks to nature as a source of beauty during his early morning walk, and after clearing his mind and processing his thoughts along the journey, he begins his return home feeling as though he is ready to begin the “uphill curve” (ln. 14) in order to process his daily struggles. However, while the speaker in “Five Flights Up,” shares the same struggles as her fellow speaker, she does little to involve herself in nature other than to observe it from the safety of her place of residence. Although suffering as a result of her struggles, the speaker does little to want to help herself out of her situation, instead choosing to believe that she cannot hardly bare recovery or to lift the shroud of night that has fallen over her. Both speakers face a journey ahead of them whether it be “the uphill curve where a thicket spills with birds every spring” (ln. 14-15) or the five flights of stares ahead of them, yet it is in their attitude where these two individuals differ. Through the appreciation of his early morning surroundings, the speaker in “Five A.M.” finds solitude and self-fulfillment, whereas the speaker in “Five Flights Up” has still failed to realize her own role in that of her recovery from this dark time in her life and how nature can serve a beneficial role in relieving her of her
Imagery can be thought of as being visually descriptive. More commonly defined as creating a word picture in literature. There are many examples of imagery in “Civil Disobedience” to describe his surroundings. He explains the setting in his jail cell and compares other things to it to convey that it really wasn’t all that awful. When most people think about jail they think that it is this horrible thing that can lock you up forever and endanger you by locking you up with other criminals. He backs up his idea that the cell wasn’t that bad to convey that it wasn’t really a punishment. He sneakily does this to persuade people to revolt to the government to get proper way of dealing with serious matters like serving time. Thoreau plays the part in the cafeteria that starts a food fight in order to get people to protest how disgusting the food is. He “eggs” on the people to take charge of their lives and the way that the government should be run. He tries to convey the idea that if it isn’t a harsh punishment or even one at all then why should they even be enforcing it? Therefore, Henry David Thoreau uses his literary powers of imagery to rally the people in
When reading a story or a poem, readers tend to analyze, and develop their own opinions. Any content an author or poet produces is up to the reader to question, and identify what the story is trying to say. The point that I am stating is that, stories are like maps that we readers need to figure out. We have to find the starting point, and get to the destination of our conclusion, and the thoughts we have about the story or poem. In the stories that we have read so for throughout the semester, they all have different messages of what they are trying to convey to the reader in a way that can be relatable. Among all the author’s and poet’s works we have read, I have enjoyed Theodore Roethke’s poems. Roethke has developed poems that explore emotions that readers can relate to. I would like to explain and interpret the themes that Theodore Roethke expresses in the poems “My Papa’s Waltz”, “The Waking”, and “I Knew a Woman”.
One of the literary techniques most prominently featured throughout the passage would be that of imagery. The author takes great care to interweave sentences comparing the traits
This essay is anchored on the goal of looking closer and scrutinizing the said poem. It is divided into subheadings for the discussion of the analysis of each of the poem’s stanzas.
In poems, imagery is used to help get the writers’ message across in a language that is extremely visual. The poet wants
... be casting stones, or holding a conversation. The speaker of the poem does not move on from this emotional torment, yet I do feel as if in his quest for closure he does resolve some of the tumultuous feelings he does have in regard to losing his love.
The poet mourns the death of his loved one and wants the world to grieve with him. His wants his subjective to be objective. The first stanza links everything to noise. He wants to 'silence the piano ' for example, showing how he wants no more noise in the world. Throughout the poem, there are many imperatives. This relates back to Remember, where the poems title is included in the imperatives. The third stanza has no imperatives at all, and many antonyms. This is the poets way of saying they meant everything to him. The second stanza uses 'scribbling ' to personify a plane. The use of personification in the poem links back to Do not go gentle into that good night. The first stanza contains references to things that can be easily done like 'stop all the clocks '. The second has things that are theoretically possible but a bit harder to do. The poem seems to get less and less realistic as it goes on. The final line, 'For nothing now can ever come to any good ', is quite bleak, showing how the death of his partner has affected the poet. It gives him no good feelings
Most people have one person they confide everything in, and when they are gone they feel like they have no one. When we lose someone like that in our lives we no longer have them to come home to and to spend time with. When they said “My working week and my Sunday rest” it means that they looked forward to seeing that person everyday and sharing life with them, and also spending a day of rest with them after a long week. This poem shows us that everyone has something that they want to stop when they lose someone. When you have someone that you lose you realize that they will never be there to share another memory with you.
Imagery is one of the many ways Edgar Allen Poe used to convey his message. At the beginning of the poem, the reader can instantly recognize imagery. A man is sitting in his study trying to distract himself from the sadness of a woman who has left him.
In “A Rainy Morning” by Ted Kooser, we get a lot of imagery, as well as figures of speech, specifically metaphors. This poem through the use of an extended metaphor helps us to see life and our everyday actions into a new perspective. Here we will examine the poem’s language and imagery to help understand what the theme of “A Rainy Morning” is.
In this poem, the speaker tells of how to embrace life by needing the experience of melancholy to appreciate the true joy and beauty of life.
The poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth is about the poet’s mental journey in nature where he remembers the daffodils that give him joy when he is lonely and bored. The poet is overwhelmed by nature’s beauty where he thought of it while lying alone on his couch. The poem shows the relationship between nature and the poet, and how nature’s motion and beauty influences the poet’s feelings and behaviors for the good. Moreover, the process that the speaker goes through is recollected that shows that he isolated from society, and is mentally in nature while he is physically lying on his couch. Therefore, William Wordsworth uses figurative language and syntax and form throughout the poem to express to the readers the peace and beauty of nature, and to symbolize the adventures that occurred in his mental journey.