When creating my song, “Time of Year,” I expected the process to be much more difficult than it truly was. I found the most difficult aspect to be constructing the first verse. There were many other details I struggled with at times, but most were minor and solved much more easily than that one. On the other hand, choosing a theme and title came almost naturally to me. I recently went through a separation that has proven to be very significant in my life, and I chose to draw from this when making “Time of Year.” I discovered the first verse is somewhat of a foundation for the entire song. Just like in poem 146, “Your Lamb’s Wool,” the first two verses of “Time of Year” are very similar, while the third is a bit more distinct. Unlike “Your Lamb’s Wool,” I chose to use “It’s that time of year” as the first line of each of the three verses. I did so because I wanted some form of unity to be shared between all three verses in order to keep them connected. My first verse was primarily inspired by that of “Moon Rising;” “A moon rising white Is the beauty of my lovely one. Ah, the tenderness, the …show more content…
I felt as though I could write a better poem if it was on something I have personally experienced, so I chose a significant separation. The lines “He waits in anticipation to open the letter,” “He sets a date and plans are changed accordingly,” and “His bags are packed and we say goodbye,” are meant to give insight to the situation the couple is facing. I did not want to write about the separation after it occurred, but rather wanted to demonstrate the building up of the dynamic between the couple before the event. This was expressed through the final two lines of each verse. The title “Time of Year” is repeated in the first line of each verse and represents a different season in each. The purpose of this is to show the amount of time the couple has been anticipating the
The first stanza begins with a familiar setting, a “… winter evening”(1). This is associated with a lack of growth and a loss of vitality. It also describes death and desolation. This does not last long when we are confronted,” with smells of steaks in passageways”(2) paints a picture of a polluted and mundane environment. The precise use of descriptive words composes this mood of decline and despair. As seen when you read ” …the burnt-out ends of smoky days”(4).
For my poetry paper I chose to examine poetry from the family album. The family album stood out to me significantly because I thoroughly enjoyed all of the poems because I had a personal connection with it. Family has always been an important part of my life and I think this particular album speaks volume. This album has many levels to it, some deeper than others. I feel that from reading poetry, it expands our ability to think and form ideas that we would have not thought about before. Poetry gives readers the ability to make connections on a deeper level and see things from a different perspective. The two poems that spoke to me in this album specifically were “Those Winter Sundays” By Robert Hayden and “Begotten” by Andrew Hudgins. These two poems are both similar because they are from a son’s point of view, talking about their parent(s). “Those Winter Sundays” was one of my all-time favorite poems from this album because it shows a hard working father who is dedicated to his family, but does not get any recognition for his hard work.
When I first read the poem, I did get a sense of a dark, cloudy day, kind of gloomy day. However, by the end, I did have a more uplifting feeling afterwards. In the first two lines, the reader is exposed to a cold, rough ground, with the speaker picking the last available onions of the year (Lee, 1-2). The tone of the poem does progress into a much
In typical poetic construct, “Danny Boy” remains, at its core, a narrative poem whose main function is to “express interest we as human beings have in other human beings…by telling or attending to these stories”32. Weatherly uses this basic form throughout his four stanzas by expertly placing markers of time like the lines “The summer’s gone, and all of the flowers are dying” and then “But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,/Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow,” in order to portray to the reader the feeling of watching the seasons change as time mercilessly marches on. Narrative form, however, is not merely about telling a story. It also is used so that “the reader will have a certain feeling toward it and will grasp a certain interpretation”33. Once again, Weatherly has expertly used descriptive words and phrases in order to convey the feeling of yearning throughout his lyrics. The repetition in the fourth phrase of the first stanza where “It’s you” is repeated34 is an example of the feeling Weatherly created. By repeated that Danny is the one who is forced to leave, Weatherly places more emphasis on his leaving instead of the potential for Danny to come back home, just as one would place more emphasis on the leaving of a loved one before they were going to leave or within the first few days or weeks of that person’s leaving.
A brutal direct poem that’s very powerful is Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” (Hayden, 551). In this poem, the writer employs concrete specifics and sensory descriptions to create a literal image for readers to resourcefully create. For example, at the beginning of “Those Winter Sunders” the speaker reflects back on the coldness of his childhood. He remembers the “cold” in both straightforward and figurative terms. At first, he focuses on the Sundays on how his father would wake up early to get the fire going before walking the rest of the house. However, the poem is really about how the speaker laments the fact that growing up he never really understood the meaning of his father’s actions – how they were the way he communicated his love for the family, for the speaker.
Winter, the hardest time of the year, has a normal family living with its father. In this poem, the winter season doesn’t keep the whole family from going to church together. So how does the author of this short poem, Robert Hayden, use language to create meaning in this poem? Before sunrise, the speaker of this poem has a stubborn sister and a hardworking father, and figures out a way to help out his father as much as possible. Before sunrise, the speaker of this poem has a stubborn sister and a hardworking father, and tries to figure out a way to help out his father as much as possible.
I was practicing the routine for my opening act, for the Broadway musical "The Sound of music." I am an actress playing the lead role of the main character Maria. My director Jane Marshall says," Barbara, you only have twenty minutes until your performance." My only chance to start a satisfying reputation for myself and please the audience. As I listened to those words come out of my directors mouth, that's when it dawned on me. I will only have one chance to do it right. I wouldn't want to cause any disarrays.
We had finally done it! We were good enough to play on stage. We had practice so long for the concert. We could play the Christmas songs we practiced for in front of our parents.
	Imagery is used throughout this poem to help describe the extent of the boundaries of hope. Hope has endless boundaries in this poem it goes from one extreme to the next. In the first stanza (lines1-4), the poet describes a late fall scene just before winter when all the leaves have already fallen off of the trees. But in the same stanza, he also depicts a beautiful spring day just after all the leaves have come out before all the blossoms appear on the orchard trees. Frost does this to show the extremes in which hope can be found. The second and third stanzas reiterate the same thing as the first four lines but in a more vivid way using color images and images off a frosty morning that brings a chill to the readers spine.
Music can makes us feel different type of ways and it could also provoke on us different type of emotions. It could go from happy to sad, or to angry to mad. Since we were born we have being listening to many different type of music . Music is really related to us and our culture. Music can even be used to define us. Music has the ability to change many different situations. There is music for literally everything. For any specific occasion no matter what is there is music that goes with it. In my opinion Without music this world wouldn’t make sense. Music is so interesting and amazing that I can 't even imagine being without it.
When the poem starts it takes place in autumn. The speaker is explaining his love for autumn and all the things he does with his wife. For him autumn is the time of year where
The girl’s fear of love causes her to long for control. The title of this poem, “Spinster,” highlights the speaker’s highly critical tone of the girl. While the girl may not be an old lonely woman yet, the continuation of her actions of withdrawal will cause her to be alone forever. The metaphor used in this poem as spring representing love and winter representing control is perfect because spring is variable while winter is monotonous.
Ever since I was a small child, I have loved music. The strong, steady beats, the
Many writers use powerful words to portray powerful messages. Whether a writer’s choice of diction is cheerful, bitter, or in Robert Hayden’s case in his poem “Those Winter Sundays,” dismal and painful, it is the diction that formulates the tone of the piece. It is the diction which Hayden so properly places that allows us to read the poem and picture the cold tension of his foster home, and envision the barren home where his poem’s inspiration comes from. Hayden’s tumultuous childhood, along with the unorthodox relationships with his biological parents and foster parents help him to create the strong diction that permeates the dismal tone of “Those Winter Sundays.” Hayden’s ability to both overcome his tribulations and generate enough courage
Every since I can remember I have liked to watch movies, I would never watch a scary