My aunt Kristina Cruz was a joyful person who always had a smile on her face despise being diagnosed with kidney failure since birth. Although she wasn’t expected to live that long, she fought and lived 25 long years making every one of them count. Unlike anyone else in my family, she wasn’t only my aunt, but my best friend. In Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Voice” he recounts the memories and grief of losing his beloved wife by expressing his emotions for her in a poem. Because I lost someone very special in my life, I attempted to imitate Hardy’s “The Voice” because you could really see how much Hardy misses and loves his wife. In order to express my emotions towards my aunt, I created a poem about my memories about her to show that although she …show more content…
Alternating rhyme refers to the alternating rhyme of the last word of each line in each stanza. For example the first stanza would be in the pattern of ABAB with the next stanza being CDCD and so on. Although this style is sort of tricky and I personally prefer free verse, this style makes the poem flow smoother and helps the reader be more connected to the poem. Since the reader wouldn’t know my aunt like I would, I feel like my poem needed this aspect within it to do just that which is to make flow better and also connect with the audience. In my poem I used the same alternating rhyme scheme utilized in “The Voice” retaining to the scheme ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, and GHGH. In “The Voice” Hardy does this in all the stanzas for example rhyming words like “listlessness” (Hardy 46; line 9) and “wistlessness” (Hardy 46; line 11) and “here” (Hardy 46; line 10) and “near” (Hardy 46; line 12). In my poem I did the same rhyming words like “keeping” and “seeping” and “while” and …show more content…
In Hardy’s poem he seems to be hearing his wife, “Woman much missed” (Hardy 46; line 1), as he questions “Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then” (Hardy 46; line 5). This makes Hardy seem delusional and questions if something may be wrong with him, which can lead to him maybe not completely over the loss of his wife and he feels she’s still alive. Throughout the first three stanzas this hearing of someone or something is described, but in the last stanza Hardy states, “Thus I; faltering forward, Leaves around me falling” (Hardy 46; lines 13-14) showing he comes back to reality and notices the present. Similarly, in my poem I wanted to show this retaining to losing my aunt in my life. Like Hardy incorporated this ghostly figure within his poem, I did the same but more of a shadowy figure that I only saw rather than anyone else. I do this when I describe “Maybe it’s your eerie shadow that fills the hallways” and “Your hugs, chilly” showing that there seems to be some sort of ghostly figure that others see, but I see as my aunt. Giving her these characteristics shows readers that this may be some sort of spirit as when a ghost is present some say shadows and cold breezes are present. Then I come back to reality in the last stanza as I realize “It’s been
Throughout the lives of most people on the planet, there comes a time when there may be a loss of love, hope or remembrance in our lives. These troublesome times in our lives can be the hardest things we go through. Without love or hope, what is there to live for? Some see that the loss of hope and love means the end, these people being pessimistic, while others can see that even though they feel at a loss of love and hope that one day again they will feel love and have that sense of hope, these people are optimistic. These feelings that all of us had, have been around since the dawn of many. Throughout the centuries, the expression of these feelings has made their ways into literature, novels, plays, poems, and recently movies. The qualities of love, hope, and remembrance can be seen in Emily Bronte’s and Thomas Hardy’s poems of “Remembrance” “Darkling Thrush” and “Ah, Are you Digging on my Grave?”
Though most have a desire to leave earth and enter eternal life peacefully, without any sorrow, the departure of a loved one can be despondent. Previously in 2011, my grandfather passed away due to heart failure. It was an arduous battle, not only for my grandfather, but also for the close knit family surrounding him. His battle with heart failure enabled me to create unforgettable memories with him, even in his final days. Laughing together, playing together and learning significant values about life together made me grow to become a more mature and wise person. Therefore, my personal experience is entwined with empathy because the death of my grandfather has made me realize how dismal it is to lose someone important. It also interplays with self-interest because I have grown as an individual to deal with the ache that is attached to losing a family member. It has helped me to realize how beautiful the gift of life is. Stephen Dunn, the poet behind Empathy and my story are connected because they both involve the feeling of empathy for others and the self-interest of an individual. They help us to grow and learn about ourselves and the emotions of
...s the theme of family. For example, when you truly love someone in your family, you make sure that you show them you truly love them by not only giving them a hug but also telling them that you love them. I can relate to this situation because whenever I notice that my mom is feeling down, I make sure that I tell her that I love her and she is the best mom in the world. Another theme that is present in this poem that I can relate with my life is the theme of mortality. For example, the man is obsessed with not only how but also why Annabel died. I can relate to the man in this situation because after my mom’s dog passed away about nine or ten years ago I was wondering for the longest time why she had to pass away. She wasn’t always the nicest dog, but I still loved her anyways. This poem celebrates the child-like emotions with the ideals of the Romantic era.
...poem because when I read it, I suddenly became interested. The thought of the speaker going through stages of a breakdown and referring to it as a “funeral’ was quite unique. The speaker didn’t really know and experience insanity till then. I learned that when you’re having a rough time and having trouble to figure out the difficult events, you can still fix the causes of what’s going on. The poem helps me understand what it’s like to be at that point in your life, if that happens.
"We stood by a pond that winter day," (1) This line indicates a still quietness, with lack of the movement of life. There is a vast difference in appearance and movement around a pond in winter and a pond in the midst of summer. This indicates no leaves, and no visible signs of life. The poet is painting a stark and lifeless scene.
Loss and isolation are easy, yet difficult to write about. They are easy because every human being can empathize with loneliness. If someone denies this, they are lying because loneliness is a common feeling, anyone can relate. It’s hard because we don’t discuss loneliness or loss publicly very often, and when we do, we forget about it quickly. These poems contrast each other by speaking of the different types of loneliness and isolation, distinguishing between the ones of loss, and isolation in a positive perspective.
At a glance, the poem seems simplistic – a detailed observance of nature followed by an invitation to wash a “dear friend’s” hair. Yet this short poem highlights Bishop’s best poetic qualities, including her deliberate choice in diction, and her emotional restraint. Bishop progresses along with the reader to unfold the feelings of both sadness and joy involved in loving a person that will eventually age and pass away. The poem focuses on the intersection of love and death, an intersection that goes beyond gender and sexuality to make a far-reaching statement about the nature of being
At a glance, the poem seems simplistic – a detailed observance of nature followed by an invitation to wash a “dear friend’s” hair. Yet this short poem highlights Bishop’s best poetic qualities, including her deliberate choice in diction, and her emotional restraint. Bishop progresses along with the reader to unfold the feelings of both sadness and joy involved in loving a person that will eventually age and pass away. The poem focuses on the intersection of love and death, an intersection that goes beyond gender and sexuality to make a far-reaching statement about the nature of being
The regular rhyme scheme -- A-B-C-C-B -- gives the poem a nursery-rhyme quality. In many places, the style seems to overpower the content: stanza 47 seems constructed solely to showcase the rhyme it contains: "Perhaps he's climbed into an oak / Where he will stay till he is dead" (ll. 233-234) is not really a worrisome fate, but it rhymes neatly with the last two lines of the stanza.
...antic elements, Bronte has helped me to reflect and sympathise on those who have lost a loved one, and also for me to appreciate that I have not yet lost a loved one. Through the theme of this poem, remembering becomes present in my mind when I am reading, and through the repetition, forces me to reminisce on the people that I love and who love me. The historical and cultural background reflected in Remembrance in somewhat similar to the sense of loss that has been felt across centuries and remains the same today. The idea of loss in the poem and the context used has stimulated my understanding of the concept of love and also helped me to appreciate the love that I experience every day.
The loss of a loved one is an emotional and personal experience, and everyone grieves in their own way. Before the healing process can begin, the deceased must be laid to rest and this is usually accomplished with a funeral service. Many people choose a piece to be read at these ceremonies, such as W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” and Mary Elizabeth Frye’s “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.” It is quite thought-provoking to compare the poems, since the subject matter is the same, however each of these works views death from a different perspective, one negative and the other positive.
Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden is a short poem that illustrates the emotions that he is dealing with after the love of his life passes away. The tone of this piece evokes feelings that will differ depending on the reader; therefore, the meaning of this poem is not in any way one-dimensional, resulting in inevitable ambiguity . In order to evoke emotion from his audience, Auden uses a series of different poetic devices to express the sadness and despair of losing a loved one. This poem isn’t necessarily about finding meaning or coming to some overwhelming realization, but rather about feeling emotions and understanding the pain that the speaker is experiencing. Through the use of poetic devices such as an elegy, hyperboles, imagery, metaphors, and alliterations as well as end-rhyme, Auden has created a powerful poem that accurately depicts the emotions a person will often feel when the love of their live has passed away.
It was June 6, 2011. I remember taking my mother to the County Hospital’s emergency room. She seemed extremely exhausted; her eyes were half-closed and yellow, and she placed her elbow on the armchair, resting her head on her palm. I remember it was crowded and the wait was long, so she wanted to leave. I was the only one there with her, but I did not allow her to convince me to take her home. I told her in Spanish, “Mom, let’s wait so that we can get this over with and know what’s going on with you. You’ll see everything is okay, and we’ll go home later on.” I wish then and now that would have been the case. Unfortunately, she was diagnosed with colon cancer that had spread to many parts of her body including her lungs and kidneys. The doctor said to me not considering that I was a minor and my mother’s daughter, “Her disease is very advanced and we don’t think she will live longer than a year.” With this devastating news, I did not know what to do. I thought to myself that perhaps I should cry, or try to forget and take care of her as best I could and make her laugh to ease her pain.
Losing a loved one is one of the hardest experiences every person must go through. The experience does not end with the loss though, but begins with it. The loss of a dear person leads those left behind into a downward spiral of emotions and memories. A poem entitled “Lucy Gray” by William Wordsworth focuses on that loss and the emotions that follow it. By reading the poem one can objectively experience both the grief that Lucy Gray’s death brings on but also her parents’ acceptance of her death.
this poem was very touching as it made me feel sorry for who had to