Marge Piercy’s “The Secretary Chant” begins the poem by describing different parts of her body as office supplies. In line one she states that “My hips are a desk.” In line two and three she says “From my ears hang/ chains of paper clips.”(2) In line four she also continues with “Rubber bands form my hair.”(3) I feel like Piercy’s goal by starting off the poem in this way, was to help emphasize the speakers frustrations toward her job right away. I also feel that by comparing the speakers body
sleepy air. I think this line was deliberately chosen to convey the monotonous lull of everyday life in the zoo and set a drowsy mood. The second line has a rather different tone; it tells of the parrots that 'shriek as if on fire'. Parrots do shrieks, so this is literal, but it gives a connotation of pain or perhaps boredom. Also, they strut themselves like cheap tarts so that visitors of the zoo will feed them, which indicates that they are losing their dignity to food. Line three speaks of the tiger
there is an example of synthetic parallelism, specifically staircase parallelism, in which the beginning of the parallel lines begins with the same phrase – “Most blessed woman” – and moves beyond the first. This form of parallelism shows how Jael’s title is escalated to not only
The most common technique is enjambment; a line without any terminating punctuation at the end of the line, "running on" to the next, and creating an emphasis on the words at the end of the first and start of the second lines. This is used on the very first line: "[...] the ridge emerges massed and DUN / in the WILD PURPLE [...]" (emphasis mine) to create effect on the word "dun", which is a strong juxtaposition against the "wild purple" of the next line; this effect conveys the sense of chaos and
time. The poem mixes the two elements in order to create the spooky environment. The first element in “Southern Mansion,” which is sound, is presented through three main components: music, chains and dry leaves. Regarding the component of music, the lines six and seven of the poem refer to it as follows “There is a sound of music echoing / Through the open door” (6-7). In this case, that music echoing might refer to two aspects: the voices or moans of the ghosts or simply the blowing wind. As the poem
on the past. The title itself hints at the greater meaning of the poem. An “unforced error” is a sports term, defined as a mistake made solely by the player and not caused by an opponent. It’s often just bad luck, a small error, or “happenstance” (line 18). The poem’s first word, “Once” (1),
of blackberry eating is paralleled to the enjoyment he finds in thinking about certain words; words which call up the same sensory images the blackberries embody. Throughout the fourteen lines of the poem, the imagery of the blackberries, as well as the speaker's ardor for them is explored. In the final lines of the poem, the speaker reveals the connection between the imagery of the blackberries and the imagery that is created by words. The blackberries become the existing tangible reality of
and property. The poem moves in the next single line to make the first stanza seem like it means something completely different. The next line says, “It is before that, and colder.” This line is one of the most confusing lines of the poem. Maybe it could mean that marriage is one of the oldest known rituals, it existed before the house or even the tent. This line, if meaning the second option, does not relate to Pride and Prejudice at all. Moving on, the next stanza is by far the biggest. It is chock
vividness to the reader. The second verse of this poem tells us of the wind going over the hill pastures, hill pastures being a feature of any hill farm. After this he says, “Year after year,” making this process seem constant. In the next three lines there seems to be a link between the ewes and the farmer, where it says, “The ewes starve, milkless, for want of the new
are having. Personally, I was able to break the poem in to three sections: lines 1-7 are the introduction and the mother
matter what. In the beginning it says, “Hope is the thing with feathers” (line 1) implying that hope is like a bird. When I hear that it makes me imagine that hope is like a bird because no matter what it goes through, it just keeps flying. It could be injured or 20 degrees and the bird would still try and find a way to fly somewhere. Then is states, “And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -” (line 3, 4) backing up what I said that no matter happens to the bird, it is going
blasting air. I would guess that the second line represents day being happiness and night being well darkness, so it shows happiness at darknesses knees. But then the next line the sun, the center of light, so bright that there's no darkness but the sun does leave scars and the scars carved so they'll never go away. When I think of a single tree on a hill I think of loneliness the moon only
first line reads, ?I sat all morning in the college sick bay?, which has connotation of depression, illness and suffering suggested from the word `sick`. Also with the reference to college the reader gathers that the boy is in his late teens. Second line, ?Counting bells knelling classes to a close?, the word `knelling` in that line is associated with funerals and death so we get the feeling that something might be wrong and gather a sense of foreboding at what is to come. The final line, ?At
scarce by Emily Dickinson; In line 1 scarce is translated to insufficient for the demand (lacking) or rare. Line 1 is saying that the person who died wanted to die for her beauty but couldn’t quite reach it or that he/she wanted to meet that expected beauty espect at the time but like everybody else couldn’t match up. In line 2, tomb is translated to an enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or a monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place. Line 2 is saying just before he/she
is, a nineteen line poem divided into five three-line stanzas (Tercets), and has a final quatrain. In each tercet, the rhyme scheme is aba, and the quatrain has a rhyme scheme of abaa. Villanelles also use a distinct pattern of repetition, for example, lines one and three of the first stanza are used as refrains throughout the poem, and paired as the final couplet. Therefore, line one would be replicated in lines six, twelve, and eighteen, and line three would be repeated in lines nine, fifteen,
and in this scene her morbid fantasies about tombs and spectres take a violent turn, showing the violence of her feelings and state of mind. It seems strange that most modern productions omit this scene, giving only the first and last lines. The last line too is given in various versions. Do the directors think that this "death bed soliloquy" - for that is what it turns out to be - from the heroine, is too wordy and that modern audiences cannot interpret the violent images she talks about
scanning the poem line by line, its is easier to uncover meaning. The first line of the poem suggests that Richard Cory wasn't a common person among the people. "Whenever Richard Cory went down town", suggests that Richard Cory lives uptown, probably in some huge house, maybe by himself, and doesn't make it into town very often. The reader could guess that maybe Richard Cory is very old, a hermit, sickly or unlike the other people in the town. After reading the second line, it becomes clearer
Analysis – Sonnet 116 ‘Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds’ Study the first 12 lines of the poem. Discuss how Shakespeare makes a statement in the first and second lines, and then use lines 2-12 to give examples which supports his viewpoints. In the first two lines of the poem Shakespeare writes, Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love The first line shows that he thinks you should not marry unless you are faithful. He says ‘let me not’
friend and roommate.” (Sanchez, line 1) I am trying to tell the reader that even though of what may come, William is still my friend and I don’t hate him. The next line “I want to know your trick” (Sanchez, line 2) shows how I want to learn to be sort of like William. He has a sort of magic trick that nets him something that I can’t get. The next two lines “Let me know for I wish to be that great” (Sanchez, line 3) and “Let me guess it’s your football kick,” (Sanchez, line 4) here I try to tell say how
is the meaning and the effort put forth in each and every line that makes it so deep. In the first line, "I am colorblind” (1), this is a clear depiction the songwriter’s (Adam Duritz) perception of everything. His emotions have been dulled due to pains of the past cnsequently renderring him cold and unfeeling. He sees everything as it is; there is simply no middle ground or grey area when it comes to life. This can be seen in the next line, “Coffee black and egg white" (2) He sees everything just