Poetry Essay: Eating Alone by Li Young Lee Sharing meals with others is common tradition ritual for humans. So, traditional, in fact, that eating alone conveys a reputation of social embarrassment for example, look at that guy at a table by himself he in fact must be lonely. Where is his loved ones or anyone who knows and cares about him? Why has every left him by his lonesome?
In this poem, Ruth Belknap contrasted the perceived, romanticized pleasures of country life against its difficulties. I selected this document because I thought that it was interesting how she detailed the challenges of country life; she needed to constantly work and if she didn’t, she wouldn’t be able to provide for herself or for her family because they produced their own food and clothes. I found the verse “If with romantic steps I stray/Around the fields and meadows gay,/The grass, besprinkled with the dews,/Will wet my feet and rot my shoes” (28) to be especially interesting because even if there were pleasures of life in the country, she could not enjoy them because she was too preoccupied with her work and accomplishing what she needed
In Sara Teasdale’s poem, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, she writes, “Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,/ If mankind perished utterly;,” (10/11), meaning the world will not miss the humans after they have all been destroyed by their own doing, and everything will carry on in peaceful bliss without the pests. Their destruction would come from the wars that Bradbury warned against in his
He ends with an emotional appeal to particularly artists and passionate people, saying “we become aware of the irreplaceable value and beauty of the darkness we are
“To Myself” by W.S. Merwin, is a poem about rememberance and loss. A man is looking back on his life, realizing he has lost who he was and envisioning his old self reminds him of a loss he wish he could regain. With the use of the title, ‘‘To Myself” he writes to the one person he lost, himself. He feels the person he once was and there is a tinge of regret in his voice, “here a moment before and the air is still alive around where you were.” He keeps remembering what he used to be, still feeling his old self while pretending to be someone else.
"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks portrays the plight of the rebellious youth in all their glory. In this poem, the author utilizes unique meter and verse to add to the story she's conveying. The pool players in this poem are rogue youths and Brooks attempts to understand their lives. The tone conveyed in the poem adds a slightly ominous tint to the picture of the pool players. Brooks uses this poem to convey the plight of the pool player’s existence and urge the reader to see the fun the pool players have and also the looming consequences.
In conclusion, the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury includes many possible life lessons that the reader can learn about such as the world keeps spinning even if one were to fade, everything goes through a cycle and there is always a new
Comparison Essay “Before the world intruded” By Michele Rosenthal, “Theme for English B” By Langston Hughes, and “Won’t you celebrate with me” By Lucille Clifton are all portraying the theme of identity but addressing it in a different way. As one can see, “Won’t you celebrate with me” is saying that her identity has forged her into a strong person that cannot be put down, while “Theme for English B” is about a man trying to find who he is. Lastly, “Before the world intruded” is about her identity when she was an infant and how it is hard finding one as a grown up. In conclusion, all three poems are using literary devices in order to portray identity in a different way.
A great Italian poet named Dante Alighieri once said, “Nature is the art of God.” Nature has dominated earth since the very beginning. When all perishes, nature still remains. This is seen in the poem called “Grass” by Carl Sandburg which is a free verse poem that emphasizes war and the immortality of nature. Throughout, the entire poem, the speaker remains unsympathetic towards the deaths caused by humanity because it is a constant cycle.
The poem “A Story” by Li-Young Lee depicts the complex relationship between a boy and his father when the boy asks his father for a story and he can’t come up with one. When you’re a parent your main focus is to make your child happy and to meet all the expectations your child meets. When you come to realize a certain expectation can’t satisfy the person you love your reaction should automatically be to question what would happen if you never end up satisfying them. When the father does this he realizes the outcome isn’t what he’d hope for. He then finally realizes that he still has time to meet that expectation and he isn’t being rushed.
The poem A Step Away From Them by Frank O’Hara has five stanzas written in a free verse format with no distinguishable rhyme scheme or meter. The poem uses the following asymmetrical line structure “14-10-9-13-3” while using poetic devices such as enjambment, imagery, and allusion to create each stanza. A Step Away From Them occurs in one place, New York City. We know this because of the lines, “On/ to Times Square, / where the sign/blows smoke over my head” (13-14) and “the Manhattan Storage Warehouse.”
See It Through “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best,’’ St. Jerome once said. The poem “See It Through” reminds me of this motivational quote and lots of others from St. Jerome. “See It through” was written by Edgar Guest to give ideas and advice to the audience.
(-- removed HTML --) is the poem which i chose, actually it is a song. And the writers of this poem is “CCR” which means Creedence Clearwater Revival. The poem satirize the rich and powerful, I know it because the author repeated “It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one, no” And it means he wasn't the people who was born in rich or powerful.
In today's world, technology is appreciated by most people, but it can be toxic and can lead to humanity's destruction. Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains”, uses Sara Teasdale poem to show that nature will thrive even when humans have gone extinct. Bradbury included Sara’s poem in his story because their themes are very similar, and they both emphasize nature’s power. Both of the authors themes are very similar.
“Report to Wordsworth” by Boey Kim Cheng and “Lament” by Gillian Clarke are the two poems I am exploring in this essay, specifically on how the common theme of human destruction of nature is presented. In “Report to Wordsworth”, Cheng explores the damage of nature caused by humans and man’s reckless attitude towards this. In “Lament”, the idea of the damage of oceans from the Gulf War is explored. In “Report to Wordsworth”, Boey Kim Cheng explores the theme of human destruction of nature as a response to William Wordsworth, an romantic poet who celebrated nature’s beauty in his poetry.
