“Corinna’s Going A-Maying”, a poem written by Robert Herrick, holds a pastoral setting. Eglesfield and John Williams published it in London in 1648. It reveals how Corinna is enticed by a youthful man who wants to take her to the festivity. The purpose of this project is to modernize “Corinna's Going A-Maying” for the new generation. The assay will focus on analyzing the setting that the poem is based on, in terms of the age or period and try to bring it to the modern setting.
Thus, the major theme of the poem is love and he is trying to awaken his girlfriend so that they can attend the May Day festivities together and the setting is the ancient period, which comprised of different cultural practices. He argues that it would be unwise to remain indoors on such occasions stating that other youngsters were enjoying themselves and many of them had found suitors during the May Day, which was specially meant for fun and nature celebration. The author further argues that one should live in the present and avoid worries of the future (Herrick 1). The ending of the poem shows that the festive is more than partying on May Day. The importance of attending local dances is also portrayed in the poem. The poem advocates new ways of life for instance, physical satisfaction and further illustrates the exposure of life in the present world. To modernize this, the author would have used modern means of communication to awake the girl instead of raising the alarm by calling out her name.
More so, the poem’s theme is to take pleasure in life when one has the time. The poet tries to wake Corinna’s by calling her repeatedly, showing how much he is interested in her. The thought that Corinna is asleep increases the author’s yearning to wake her up ...
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The author, unlike other known many poets tries to get a woman from the bed. The celebration of the entire village for the arrival of the spring is the best place for falling in love and getting down to trade. The author demonstrates that the May Day was simple and pure as it welcomed the fertility and warmth of spring after winter. He argues that people getting in on life cycle is not a sin, but rather an opportunity to enjoy one’s life. The author has based this poem on tradition, but as discussed above, the world has changed. The invention of technology has dramatically changed the living style in the modern world, giving the opportunity to use technological tools such as mobile phones and the web services to foster communication. The provision of better education has also enlightened people on better ways of courting and celebrating.
The theme of the poem “Woman Work” is that she is a very busy, lonely
The verbose use of imagery in this poem is really what makes everything flow in this poem. As this poem is written in open form, the imagery of this writing is what makes this poem poetic and stand out to you. Marisa de los Santos begins her poem with “Its here in a student’s journal, a blue confession in smudged, erasable ink: ‘I can’t stop hoping/ I’ll wake up, suddenly beautiful’” (1-3). Even from the first lines of this story you can already picture this young girl sitting at her desk, doodling on her college ruled paper. It automatically hooks you into the poem, delving deeper and deeper as she goes along. She entices you into reading more as she writes, daring you to imagine the most perfect woman in the world, “cobalt-eyed, hair puddling/ like cognac,” (5-6). This may not be the ideal image of every person, but from the inten...
Judith Ortiz Cofer’s use of diction had effectively implemented the dismissiveness behind an individual’s transition from childhood into adulthood, which had been the central meaning of the poem. Cofer’s uses a rather negative choice of wording in the first line of the poem that being, “My dolls have been put away like dead children”. As the poet decides to use the words “dead children” it brings a sense of gloominess upon the passage. Once the reader continues reading it appears that a connection can be made between the gloominess in the act of putting away the young girl’s dolls like “dead children” to her Quinceanera. Further Along the poem, the pessimism towards the act of maturing is found once again as the poet uses defeatist words such as “poison” when describing the fluids of her body that being blood. It seems that the young girl’s blood symbolizes her menstrual cycle, which effectively marks her entrance into womanhood. When describing the fluids of her body by using the word “poison” it creates a somber image of adulthood as she views her rite of passage as being toxicant. Ultimately, it seems that the poet’s use of diction provides the poem with a solemn tone which ultimately supplies the p...
...e family’s life style; that they live in poverty and go to church on Sundays. The poem is centered on one question: “what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?” The majority of the poem is examples of “love’s austere and lonely offices”. One such example would be when the boy polishes his shoes, probably getting ready to go to church. The father, although poor, still passes on good values to his son by going to church on Sundays. Another example would be the father waking up earlier than the rest of the house to get it warmed up. He deeply cares and loves his family and doesn’t want them to suffer in the cold and darkness as long as possible (only suffer at night). Another example of the father’s love is when he wakes up earlier and gets the wood from the cold outside weather to keep the family and house warm instead of enlisting for help from his family.
The name of this piece of literature itself is able to help its reader gain insight into the meaning behind this work without the reader having to begin digging into the work. This helps to draw the reader into the work with anticipation. Dana Gioia alludes to the point that although the amount of poetry enthusiast has greatened over time, the art of poetry has slowly been lost within the midst of the average citizen. Gioia urges poets to pursue a more passionate advertisement towards the rewarding benefits in regards to poetry. The passion that Gioia conveys towards this topic also helps draw the reader into his piece due to the fact the reader can easily conclude how influential poetry can be within ones’ life. Literature can be majorly influential
In conclusion, the mood and meaning of the six poems are expressed through the selective use of diction. All poems use imagery to express their emotions on the their attachment to a person or a time period; these emotions range from feelings of detachment to the feeling of safety and comfort. The selective poems also use metaphors and similes to juxtapose the positive and negative connotations and use structures and rhyming schemes to compare the past and the present to emphasize on the theme of attachment. In closing, a sense of loss can be felt after a long period apart if one has an emotional attachment to a specific person or an attachment to an object. This compels us to appreciate them as they are and educate ourselves to treasure our love towards them; therefore I believe the emotional attachments to different times and people is a very important of study.
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In the end, the poem is looking to show what actions can do in the long run. It teaches us to be very cautious with everything we do since it can affect the people around us. It can have good or bad
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.
The poet tries to appreciate the people, who are always present when their friends and family are in need. She says that when people are in need of help, and/or suffering, all one needs to do is stick by their side, to give them courage to overcome their troubles.
The main event is the death of the child, which has happened previously to the beginning of the poem. This event foreshadows the death of the marriage which will happen after the poem. The husband and wife go through the grief process in many different ways. The wife believes that her husband does not understand her or the grief in which she feels. Online 10, she shouts at him, “You couldn't care!...
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