There is a phrase that is common within the poems by Yamanoue no Okura in V:806-807 and V:909-911 - "What are they to me?" (Line 10 & 5) This phrase, or more specifically a question, refers to the "treasures" the speaker speaks off in both poems and is the core of both poems The first reference to the word "treasure" appears in the poem V:806-807, when the speaker compares a child to silver, gold, and jewels. The speaker claims that the greater treasure, to the eyes of the speaker, was a child or perhaps his children since the speaker before the envoy speaks of the memories of his children who have supposedly passed away due to the phrase "flickering before my eyes," probably referring to the images his children appearing in the speaker's …show more content…
This is one of the answers to the question mentioned in the first paragraph "What are they to me...", with the "they" being the treasure. The question could possibly be rephrased to "What are my treasures to me?" However, there is another way to interpret the question "What are my treasure to me?" If we replace the "treasure" with the word "children" or "Furuhi," which we know are the treasures of the speaker, we obtain the question "What are my children (or Furuhi) to me?" This question is the main theme of the poems. The reason why the question" What are my children to me?" is the main theme of the poems is that the poems do not concentrate on the concept of "treasure." If "treasure" was the main theme of the poem, the answer "our treasure was our son Furuhi" would be sufficient. However, the speaker then displays his memories and feelings towards Furuhi when he was alive and when he died, which is the majority of the poems and provides an answer to the second
This is first seen in the family with Heaven and Earth after they had kids. Their children were extremely ugly and Heaven wanted nothing to do with them, so he hid his kids away in Earth and wouldn't let them escape. It is written that “Heaven rejoiced in his evil-doing,”
The speaker’s personal emotions emphasizes the poem’s theme since although his father is no longer with him in this world, the memory of his father will always live in his heart. Throughout the poem, Lee uses the sky, underground, and the heart to symbolize imagination, reality, and memory—emphasizing the poem’s theme of the remembrance of a loved one. Lee also uses repetition to convey the meaning of Little Father. The speaker repeatedly mentions “I buried my father…Since then…” This repetition displays the similarity in concepts, however the contrast in ideas. The first stanza focuses on the spiritual location of the speaker’s father, the second stanza focuses on the physical location of the father, and the third stanza focuses on the mental location of the speaker’s father. This allows the reader to understand and identify the shift in ideas between each stanza, and to connect these different ideas together—leading to the message of despite where the loved one is (spiritually or physically), they’ll always be in your heart. The usage of word choice also enables the reader to read in first person—the voice of the speaker. Reading in the voice of the speaker allows the reader to see in the perspective of the speaker and to connect with the speaker—understand
The text begins with the speaker musing about how her lineage is related to that of an album cover with one solid identity. In an album, each song forms an idea that is encapsulated in a large pool of its sister tracks to form one singular unit containing an idea or focus. By referring to her family as an album, Harper has directly stated that her family is deeply connected. Above the poem is the subtitle “for my father,” which means that Harper’s message is connected to her father the most. This metaphor strikes even further into the
"Am I thy Gold? Or Purse, Lord, for they Wealth; / Whether in mine, or mint refined for thee? (Stanza 1, Line 1-2) The first two
treasure in this odd place. It is a music box, and one of the most beautiful things either
the poem On My First Sonne, the father loves his son a lot and feels
However, despite the monetary value of precious metals, attaining such superficial items does not allow man to gain any true fulfillment. For example, in the opening stanza, all the treasures "In jasper cask, when tapped, doth briskly vapor" (ll. 4). The material items mean nothing in the larger scheme of the world and therefore "briskly vapor" and disapp...
father’s childhood, and later in the poem we learn that this contemplation is more specifically
It is stacked into pontoons as ruin, gave out in bowed bars as corridor blessings, covered in the earth as fortune, enduring underground as an insistence of a people 's magnificent past and an epitaph for it. Before the end of the sonnet, gold has experienced a radiation the Christian vision. It is not that it yet measures up to wealth in the medieval feeling of common defilement, simply that its status as the metal of the sum total of what esteem has been placed in uncertainty, however in the movie gold was a symbol of moral corruption if
Then it says ‘why did a great lord find me out,’ this tells us that the lord has been chasing after her and she has been caught by him.
Candide Wealth and great materialistic possession brings happiness and success to most people’s lives. Although wealth does not always bring happiness, El Dorado was one society where all it’s inhabitants lived lives full of success and happiness. In Candide, wealth proved to guarantee a person a step forward in life and some sense of freedom. Sometimes when one lives in an environment consisting of total equality, one may prefer to leave and go to a different place where they would be considered superior and everyone else inferior to them. The people of El Dorado were so wealthy that they abused the things that they possessed that others would cherish. The children proved this when they were playing at quoits covered with tattered garments of the richest brocade. It is obvious to see that they were so rich that the quoits did not have any significant meaning to them. We were able to see this when upon having to return back to school they left the quoits on the ground along with their other playthings. Candide was surprised to find out that an adult schoolmaster would do the exact same when given these quoits which consisted of gold and precious stones. Candide realized that these children must have been those of a king and he said, " The king’s children in this country must have an excellent education, since they are taught to show such a contempt for gold and precious stones." (49). Another way in which we saw that they were very wealthy was the fact that the common pebbles of their highways were large gold pieces, houses were built of silver and gold, the antechamber was incrusted with rubies and emeralds. I feel that this was not very appropriate. Just because they were wealthy does not mean that the money should be wasted in such a way as to build a highway of these expensive stones, when it could be substituted with a much less expensive material. El Dorado was a place where everyone was extremely happy and satisfied with what they possessed. This place was seen as heaven on earth. It represented a cultural wealth. Everyone here was a priest and priests were considered to be pleasant happy beings. We clearly saw that Cacambo and Candide were very satisfied with their stay here when they said, "Possibly this is that part of the globe where everything is right for there must certainly be some such place." (50). They ...
I have elected to analyze seven poems spoken by a child to its parent. Despite a wide variety of sentiments, all share one theme: the deep and complicated love between child and parent.
Through the conflicts in this story, the author has a lesson for the reader. The lesson is if one wants something bad enough, he must be ready to suffer the consequences. To claim the treasure the group has to go through a lot. Some examples of this are being abducted by an army of goblins, being captured by giant spiders, and being captured by woodland elves. If a person has a goal for himself, he too will have to go through hard times. The only way the group succeeded is by having lust and pride drive them on. A person with a goal must also have something to drive him towards his goal.
... overall themes, and the use of flashbacks. Both of the boys in these two poems reminisce on a past experience that they remember with their fathers. With both poems possessing strong sentimental tones, readers are shown how much of an impact a father can have on a child’s life. Clearly the two main characters experience very different past relationships with their fathers, but in the end they both come to realize the importance of having a father figure in their lives and how their experiences have impacted their futures.
The poem is written in the father’s point of view; this gives insight of the father’s character and