An elegance in word choice that evokes a vivid image. It would take a quite a bit of this essay to completely analyze this essay, so to break it down very briefly. It portrays a positive image of blackness as opposed to darkness and the color black normally being connected with evil, sorrow, and negativity. The poem as a whole connects blackness with positivity through its use of intricate, beautiful words and images.
Like the woods it describes the poem, dark depth of interpretation. We have to dig it in to interpret the possible meanings. The woo...
Poetry is something that is to be read delicately and cautiously if one wanted to find meaning through the words. Readers have to be gentle and patiently ponder about what they are reading in order to find any significance in the poem. If someone is not patient with reading, they will not feel impacted by poetry and will not want to read it. In Billy Collins’, “Introduction to Poetry,” he uses figurative language to help readers see that the way to enjoy and understand poetry is by reading between the lines and being patient with how each individual relates to the readings.
Through the poem's free verse, its peculiar, playful tone and imagery, the speaker implores the reader to appreciate the poem for all its capable of eliciting naturally, rather than forcing its meaning into awareness. He wants them to explore the poem, to listen to its sounds and unearth its hidden gems; to delight in it as a work of art. Collins wants the reader to traverse the poem as if on a sort of adventure, yet the reader seems to just want to cut to the chase and unfairly understand it by "beating"
the ripe fruit being left to waste. In line eleven she writes, “past the cellar door the creek ran and
Written in 1980, Galway Kinnell's Blackberry Eating is a poem which creates a strong metaphoric relationship between the tangible objects of blackberries, and the intangible objects of words. The speaker of the poem feels a strong attraction to the sensory characteristics (the touch, taste, and look) of blackberries. The attraction he feels at the beginning of the poem exclusively for blackberries is paralleled in the end by his appetite and attraction to words. The rush the speaker gets out of blackberry eating is paralleled to the enjoyment he finds in thinking about certain words; words which call up the same sensory images the blackberries embody.
The books, The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland and A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, are memoirs about two young Sierra Leoneans lives before, during and after the Sierra Leone Civil War. The Sierra Leone Civil War was a conflict about governmental power in the country and it lasted many years. Both memoirs recount the way that the civil war affected their lives and determined their lives’ paths. Kamara and Beah, had similar experiences of living through the Sierra Leone Civil War yet their experiences were also different.
Tate delivers the poem in a fascinating perspective, instead of that of the outcast he describes the perspective of those that feel the outcasts are intrusive to their own way of life. Something that they do not understand or accept seem less significant to them or un-superior. This ideology is masked under the representation of the town’s seaweed eating inhabitants. Tate’s signature talent to approach serious issues of society with weirdness and humor shines most appropriately here. Racial stereotypes and the accepting of one’s culture is guised in the everyday activities and life habits of these “seaweed eaters”. It starts simply by the narrator criticizing the food that these people eat, “There are these people in town who only/eat seaweed,” (Lines 1-2). Then it begins to make a progression to the color of their skin, language, as well as their beliefs. The voice of the narrator is also intentionally judgmental to match the mentality of how everyone else in that town feels toward these strange people. The narrator ends on a bit of a harsh note by labeling these people as “brininess” which means salty, which means looking stupid. Interesting enough the seaweed makes a return image from the beginning lines. As in the same case with Jessie’s sandwich and Africa in the earlier poem, the seaweeds return in the end has a changed meaning, “seeking out/the seaweed source, the packs of carnivores/parting to let them through, not wanting to be/smudged by their brininess.” (Lines 13-16). The brininess is the guise for the seaweed which not only characterizes its flavor but characterizes the popular view towards these people. The components of the seaweed here act as a double meaning, one being literal and the other as a
Throughout Langston Hughes poem Harlem he used heavy imagery to convey his central idea. In this poem Hughes is discussing the circumstances that could happen if you were to defer a dream. He uses a variety of similes in order to get his point across to his readers. In the first two lines he asks “Does it dry up -- like a raisin in the sun?” By saying this it makes the readers think about a dried up raisin that is no longer good, helping convey the fact that if you were to hold off on your dreams they might die as quickly as a raisin would dry up if it were in the sun. If the dream was used while it was fresh it would still be usable. “Does it stink like rotten meat?” makes the reader understand that eventually your dream could rot and could
This act of symbolism is pertinent to the poem, because lust is typically strongest and most passionate in the beginning of said relationship, and predominantly plagues youth . Although, the berries color represents time, the berries themselves symbolize what the speaker is lusting after ; women. This is important because it creates a clearer idea of the Speaker's motives, and eventual decline in hope. Lastly, Heaney uses the bathtub full of berries as a symbol of the Speaker's desires being met, or fulfilled, “ But when the bath was filled we found a fur, A rat-gray fungus, glutting on our cache” (lines 17-19, Heaney). As the poem progresses from this point, the speaker starts to negatively describe his once prized berries, describing them as sour and rotten. The speaker uses the
The poem’s opening statement catches the reader’s attention. From this line, “There is nothing more beautiful than spring” (line 1), Hopkins continues to describe elements of spring through similes and metaphors. “Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens” (line 3) is an example of a simile that uses alliteration to not only give the reader a vivid picture of a birds eggs that are evident in spring but to also make it pleasing to read and say aloud with the repeated ‘l’ sound. Other terms throughout the octave such as “the glassy peartree” (line 6) that begins to bloom, the blue sky and “racing lambs” (line 8) express the beauty of spring. Hopkins uses alliteration in “weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush” (line 2) to slow the reader into a sense of strolling through a mead...
Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Market” most explicitly showcases its use of imagery in its description of the market fruits. “Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpeck’d cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries, Crab-apples, dewberries, Pine-apples,
Wallace Stevens is not an easy poet to understand. His work is purposely twisted and tangled so one is forced to thing-whether they want to or not. Stevens’ poetry ranges from real life situations to situations which are simply a depiction of his imagination. One thing can be concluded though, Stevens does not allow his work to have a single meaning. Why should he? This is the upmost quality that makes his stand out from his competitors in the poetic industry. An interesting theme though which Wallace truly enjoys writing about, in all seriousness, is something thought provoking- perception. The book definition of perception is “appending [something] by the means of senses or the mind” . In his poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, Stevens offers multiple definitions of this single concept. It just depends on what the reader can decipher from thirteen parts consisting of short verses.
“In black you are your own artist” also does not have to contain any links with ethnicity, as black is a colour naturally associated with power and elegance. “When black brings you those sudden inexplicable hostile glances” can also be read as having nothing to do with race as like power, evil is also associated with black. The theme of perception could also refer to how race is perceived by others and not the meaning of the poem. This can again be seen in the final lines “When black brings you those sudden inexplicable hostile glances” showing how some view peoples race negatively. Perception likewise plays an important role in “Palm Tree Seductions.” In the poem a woman 's perception of the sea is a calm one, with it being described as a “Blue serenity” despite it being dangerous. This links it with “Black” as it perception can lead to misconceptions, in the case of “Black” about race or
...created a poem that, at a glance, is simply about a man being tired of picking apple after apple during his life. However, further examination shows that “After Apple-Picking is so much more than that. By analyzing symbols in the poem like the ladder, sleep, and the apples, the reader can see that it’s a poem about a man having worked hard during his life to achieve his goals, looking back at his accomplishments, and wondering if it was all enough to bring him peace and happiness once he falls into his eternal sleep of death.