In Song in the Front Yard, the author uses imagery and symbolism to explain how a privileged and monitored childhood can lead to a rebellious and naive lifestyle. The use of descriptive words and phrases that also have alternate meanings can help the reader visualize and understand how early years filled with surveillance can alter your ways of thinking later in life. Gwendolyn Brooks uses illustrative terms such as “rough” to form a detailed image of a dirty and neglected backyard that describes the type of life she craves to explore. The use of this word conveys a lifestyle that is the complete opposite of the current one she has been given. Unlike the front yard, which can be described as perfect and pristine, Brooks wants to be dangerous …show more content…
For example, Brooks uses “roses” to describe her current life. Roses are typically seen as gorgeous flowers that are always on display, but their beauty fails to warn people about their hidden thorns. This can be tied back to the poet's life, as it shows how even though, on the outside, her life seems perfect and lacks any flaws, there’s a dark and underlying darkness to it. She then goes on to say that she “gets sick of a rose,” therefore saying she’s sick of pretending that she enjoys her repetitive and fake life. Additionally, Brooks then says she “wants a peek at the back,” where “weed grows.” Her use of this certain plant, compared to the rose previously mentioned, symbolizes the carefree and wild nature of the life she wants to explore. Weeds typically grow whenever, wherever, and don’t care about the plants or their growth effects. This can be used to represent how the speaker's thoughts about this new life are quickly growing, and she does not care about how this change will affect those around her. The symbolic message behind both of these words shows how the poet is tired of living on a facade and craves danger, excitement, and a new
I chose to compare “The courage that my mother had” by Millay, “A Song in the Front Yard” by Brooks, and “The Other Wife” by Colette. They all on some level deal with gender roles and give examples of women who do not completely fall in the cult of domesticity. All three works of literature contain women who are strong, yet still considered beautiful by their peers. In Millay’s poem rock and granite personifies the mother when “rock from New England quarried; now granite in granite hill” is stated
for something or someone, has taken part of every war in the world, whether it is a political or civil one. Macklemore, the rapper of the song “Same Love”, uses powerful lyrics and imagery in many of his songs. It is in “Same Love” that he raps about a social issue that the world has been dealing with since, some could argue, the beginning of time. In the song “Same Love” he uses his rap to speak to everyone who can make a change in this world. “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis bring awareness
clean, with talkative and friendly neighbors. Text Box: Osato Asemota 10p Saturday 8th May 04 Sil... ... middle of paper ... ...en. It shows Silas has achieved heaven on earth. "The garden was fenced with stones on two sides, but in front there was an open fence, through which the flowers shone with answering gladness, as the four united people came within sight of them." At the start of the book the weavers (Silas) are described as "the remains of a disinherited race"; at
Stage to Screen Proposal – Missing Dan Nolan by Mark Wheeller Synopsis Dan, George, Thom and Joe, a group of fifteen year old boys, set up their fishing rods for a peaceful night of fishing on the 1st January 2002, but the tranquillity is obliterated when a concealed bottle of vodka is revealed. The boys drink and boisterously fool about, but they soon get hungry and go to the shops. On the way back Joe falls ill and Thom takes him home. The group separates and Dan ends up alone. This is the last
to know if the medications are as bad as they say. Is anxiety a mind game that only you can control? Well lets look at some of my family members and find out. It’s 90 degrees and muggy outside. Eighteen children run wildly up and down the front yard. They’re yelling and laughing hysterically as they throw one another off the country blue dock into the brownish-green lake water. They don’t seem to have a care in the world. Then there’s twenty five adults trying to relax on their day off