THE EXPLICATION OF CRUSH: BY ADA LIMON The poem dramatizes the plight of eating unripe persimmons. Poet uses eating unripe persimmons to give her audience a unique relatable snapshot of human experience. Persimmon is a highly nutritious and delicious fruit; it cannot be compared to any other fruit. To experience the sweetness of persimmons you need to eat only when completely ripe. Unripe persimmons taste very bitter, if you had the taste of unripe persimmons there is a good chance you'd think twice about trying it again. “You wouldn't want to"(6) what a waste, because ripe persimmons have exceptional depths and richness of Sweetness. Ada Limon indicates the persimmons in the poem are unripe, “you can't really eat them"(4-5) eating unripe persimmons displays of foolishness, naivety, and selfishness. Most of us display these vices when attending to life and love “impatiently" (13). We rarely wait for the right time or comment, our desperately desire for things without applying proper measures are bound to crush or end up in crushed heart. She meticulously captures and display inescapable consequences of premature and unripe love. The poem begins with the speaker comparing her body as being like a persimmons tree, displaying off the double meaning of the word "limbs"(1). The speaker lateral limbs (1) arms and …show more content…
It somehow feels funny/like you've been here before and uncomfortable/too"(8-11) mostly refers to a place, an experience, a moment, than its reference to just a piece of fruit. The actual taste of persimmons is described as "like burnt sugar or guilt" 15-16) Burnt sugar is easy to process and edible whereas physiologically is complex to process and not possible to swallow. Guilt is an emotional word, its use indicates the humanity in persimmons, what is really talking about is herself, the use of ambiguities hint phrases is to capture and take her audience breath
This is a figure of speech which takes on animals, ideas, abstractions and inanimate objects with human form, character or sensibilities. It is representing imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities, intelligence and emotions. In the poem ‘ALL THAT TIME’, in stanza one the poet has given the trees the human character of embracing each other and leaning on each other. The poet also describes one of the trees upright one which is also a human characteristic.
The first aspect of language, which he uses is metaphor in the beginning of the poem when he is describing the dwarf sitting outside the church. He uses metaphor as he says, “The dwarf with his hands on backwards Sat, slumped like a half – filled sack On tiny twisted legs from which Sawdust might run.” The metaphor here of the dwarf sitting like a ‘half filled sack’ is describing the dwarf and how he has a deformed body. He is being compared to looking like a sack, which is slumped and half empty. This is effective as it seems as though the dwarf cannot help himself
The poem talks about the old tree and relates it to an aged man. "Or the trenched features of an
AGG) The author of “Under The Persimmon Tree” often uses symbolism throughout the book. (BS-1) The author of UTPT uses the stars to give Najmah a superstitious belief, and give her hope and guidance to drive her towards her goals. (BS-2) The stars are used to help Nusrat accept loss, she looks to them for hope and guidance, and they have a religious meaning to her. (BS-3) The author uses changes in the stars to convey events and changes in Najmah’s life. (TS) The stars are used to portray changes in the characters lives, and the author uses them to give the characters hope, guidance, and an important meaning, as well as the ability to deal with loss
He first gets the reader to understand what he is thinking with the use of imagery. He starts out with a darker point, “my sweet tooth gleaming and the juice of guilt wetting my underarms.” This is showing that he had already committed the crime in his mind before he had actually performed the act. When the sat down to eat his pie, he gives the image of a nice summer day by thinking, “The sun wavered between the branches of a yellowish sycamore.” He shows that he is happy to be finally eating the pie that he stole. He showed his guilt when he says, “I wiped my sticky fingers on the grass and rolled my tongue over the corners of my mouth.” This is depicting an allusion to the popular phrase “There is blood on your hands”, which means that you are guilty of something. He also shows his guilt by thinking, “A squirrel nailed itself high on the trunk, where it forked into two large bark-scabbed limbs.” This is a biblical allusion to the cross on which Jesus was crucified. These images help to relay his feeling of guilt.
Almost everyone who is fortunate enough to live in a developed country can enjoy benefits and freedom. As people who have had a happy life since day one, many may have never gave much thought on how privileged we are compared to those living in horrible conditions in developing countries. The book Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples, provides the reader with a new perspective of the lives of those living in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is done by exploring the lives Najmah, a teenage Afghan girl, and Nusrat, a young American-Pakistani woman. The story is about these two characters struggling to survive under the Taliban regime. As both slowly start to lose what they love most and fall into despair, the
Literary devices such as metaphors are used in poetry to symbolize one things for another. The book in this poem represents the beloved body of a woman who is expecting. The subject of the book is a metaphor for the body of a woman. The womb would be represented as the bulk of the book while the “Hinge of the Darker Door” represents the strong spine a pregnant woman has to have to take care of the burden of having a child. Another metaphor that is used in this poem is of a pear tree. In the Chinese culture, the pear tree is a symbol for femininity and is a sign of fertility. Since some of Kiki Petrosino's poems refer to a restaurant in a China city, it can be deducted that she also chose to refer to the pear tree being a symbol from Chinese
The second stanza immediately shows symbolism starting with the first few words. Line 10 begins with, “Once the renegade flesh was gone.” The use of the phrase, “renegade flesh” within this poem symbolizes the person who was causing the hurting. Renegade involves synonyms such as: traitor, deserter, and rebel, thus contributing to the meaning behind the phrase. Then throughout the rest of the stanza, the woman resumes talking about her time slowly going by until she begins to completely give up on
The poem opens upon comparisons, with lines 3 through 8 reading, “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets/ of their branches. The maples/ were colored like apples,/part orange and red, part green./ The elms, already transparent trees,/ seemed swaying vases full of sky.” The narrator’s surroundings in this poem illustrate him; and the similes suggest that he is not himself, and instead he acts like others. Just as the maples are colored like apples, he
At the beginning of the poem, the speaker starts by telling the reader the place, time and activity he is doing, stating that he saw something that he will always remember. His description of his view is explained through simile for example “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets of their branches” (Updike), captivating the reader’s attention
Not only the words, but the figures of speech and other such elements are important to analyzing the poem. Alliteration is seen throughout the entire poem, as in lines one through four, and seven through eight. The alliteration in one through four (whisky, waltzing, was) flows nicely, contrasting to the negativity of the first stanza, while seven through eight (countenance, could) sound unpleasing to the ear, emphasizing the mother’s disapproval. The imagery of the father beating time on the child’s head with his palm sounds harmful, as well as the image of the father’s bruised hands holding the child’s wrists. It portrays the dad as having an ultimate power over the child, instead of holding his hands, he grabs his wrists.
The true meaning of this poem could only be perfectly interpreted by Wilbur, himself. In "Orchard Trees, January," it seems that the interpretation previously given above is correct, although Wilbur may have some different stress points. There probably is an even deeper meaning in this poem that Wilbur could get across, but most of the time it is up to the reader to be able to pick it out and relate it to the poem.
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
(AGG) Have you ever wondered what it is like to live without a home in a dangerous and vile place. Well that is what it is like to live in some refugee camps. (BS-1) The refugee camps are overcrowded and they affect the character in the book. (BS-2) The camps are dangerous to live in and to get, and this is shown in the book. (BS-3)The camps have people from all over not just from one area. (TS) Life in the refugee camps is cramped dangerous and most of all they have refugees from all over the place this is shown in the article and in the book Under The Persimmon Tree, and She uses them to create conflict for the character.
This change in mental state accounts for the change in language from the unflattering descriptions early on to the more loving and affectionate feelings expressed later in the poem. This continued consumption of alcohol results in the speaker 's proclamation of love -- a state defined as "rare" because it will most likely be gone in the morning. It is clear in the poem that the speaker 's complex maze of attraction and derision is cyclic, transforming the unattractive innkeeper to the prized jewel of his eye on a weekly or perhaps daily basis. Through the clever use of negative descriptions and false comparisons, the author confides to paper what is effectively a bipolar relationship with the woman he both loathes and