Anna Swir Poem

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning—” The Green Light in The Great Gatsby situates at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn. The author Fitzgerald compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation. The green light represents Gatsby’s incorruptible dreams for the future.

Throughout Robert M. Drake’s poems his use of metaphors allows the audience to build an understanding of the visionary that the poet is trying to express. Within his poem Just Us Forever, Drake delivers his form of love through expressions of rain, “just us forever, floating through the blackness of infinite”. In this verse the author romanticizes the state of the abyss of blackness as not something to be afraid of, but something of wonder; in relation to the rain, Drake further highlights the contrasts of light and dark as the rain can be seen as hope when in need. The second poem Burned Alive, metaphorically associates love as experiencing pain; however the pain without love is indicated to be feared as more excruciating when he reveals how

We can see the beauty of his writing through imagery because it is represented in such ways such as “the twilight darkens, the curlew calls” and so much more. Longfellow seems to suggest that time is not really something measurable. This is another reason I believe that Longfellow’s poem “The Tide Rises The Tide Falls” demonstrates how life is a cycle that keeps recurring and that time won’t stop for you no matter what happens. This theme was communicated through the poet’s use of imagery. He also shows that perhaps time does not exist at all and that the events occurring in the poem were imagery is taken place are just transitory events in one moment of

sexuality. Millay expresses that love is not an object nor does it help when it falls within her sonnet “ love is not all”. She writes “ Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink/ And rise and sink and rise and sink again; /Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,” (“Love is not all” 3-5). She realizes that love has its difficulties and one cannot force love.

Ray Bradbury shows just about no hope in the ending of his story while Wiz Khalifa actually leaves the listeners with hope for a much more unfortunate event. The sun absolutely destroys Margot in “All Summer in a Day” and towards the end, it makes her basically turn into a ghost. While at the end of “See You Again” the death of Paul Walker brings Khalifa and listeners down and upset but he leaves a point that there is a chance to see Paul Walker again and that is in heaven. At the end of listening to “See You Again” and reading “All Summer in a Day” the reader is left to wonder- If someone loses something should they let it bring them down so much to basically turn them into a ghost-like Margot?

“Though nothing can bring back the splendour of the grass, the glory in the flower.” Nostalgia strikes everyone at a certain point in his or her life, as it is human nature to have a longing for the past. The longing for the carefree innocence of childhood or the crazy adventures with your best friends, nostalgia reel people into the glory of their heydays and make them wonder how is it like to relive the past once again. These verses from William Woodsworth’s poem epitomises the sense of irreplaceable loss when loved ones are gone. In dealing with a significant loss, some people will be trapped, some people move on easily and others deal with it in their own unique way.

The name, Thanatopsis, Means simply a view of death. This poem never said “take my hand” and it never said to go with death. It said to enjoy life, but not to fear death because Mother Nature will take care of you. “Dust in the Wind,” by Kansas shows that life is short but need to be enjoyed while it last.

Dickinson writes, “Presuming Me to be a Mouse -/Aground – opon the Sands -/ But no Man moved Me – till the Tide / Went past my simple Shoe” (II-III. 9-10). The audience can infer that Dickinson believes and feels that she only amounts to a small and insignificant portion of the world. That Dickinson only sees herself as a sand speck among the many beaches of the world. As audience members one can truly relate to this as most of us feel that we get lost amongst the crowds, and that we don’t stand out as individuals.

Gatsby with the disappointment of dream, the symbolic meaning behind the green light collapses. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us… So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”(Fitzgerald 193). Now the light has totally ceased being an observable object with no more meaning and illusion. Nick is not in Long Island any more, Gatsby is dead, Daisy is gone for wealth and luxury life with her husband Tom.

This was an unexpected turn, as he passed away on June 8,1982, the day after his 39th birthday. This was the very same year that Giovanni decided to write this poem. She used this poem as a window to reach her readers, while letting out her deepest emotions through poetry to mourn the lost of her father. This is a double-sided piece of poetry that deals with decisions; implying that there are two conflicting sides of the story.

In this specific article the lady didn 't listen to the males that were in the same boat as her. She states, “Surviving is about keeping your wits when everything is falling apart," she says” Everyone on the boat with her killed themselves because they couldn 't handle the pressure anymore, but she stayed calm and to herself. The two men that was left with her, tried to talk to her, but she would shut the conversation

LIMA 1  Some may say that although some may women may relate, none are the same. They all have qualities and morals that differ them from the rest. Some may be victims to domestic abuse, yet others would never let their spouse think of raising their hands to them. Some are more feminine while others feel less comfortable behaving girly. Some are free-spirited, while others abide by all the rules society places on females.

You might not become miserable and depressed. As we plow through this were constantly worrying, realizing that no one deserves to endure this pain. Whatever it is that takes your life, hoping that it’s a peaceful painless way, is right around the corner “Then it was all dark, and his white crib and the dim faces that moved above him, and the warm sweet aroma of the milk, faded out altogether from his mind” (Fitzgerald, 2010, P. 205). Your time has

You have the idea of what the rescue team and the survivors were going through. Just imagining being on a small lifeboat while 60 foot waves just crashing down on you is horrifying. If you haven 't been near the sea during winter, you will get the idea of how tremendous the storms get. I haven 't been around the ocean much, but I have an idea of how terrifying it can be. What made the setting even more unique, is that it was completely dark out.

The theme of “Your World” by Georgia Douglas Johnson is that you should take risks and explore places that you desire to go. For example, the poet states that he “battered the cordons / and cradled [his] wings on the breeze / then soared to the uttermost reaches” (10). This indicates that he was trapped inside of a barrier that restricts him to explore, but the hunger of exploration made him break out of the barrier. The poem “Your World” connects to the reading we have done in this collection is because the poem mentions about taking risks to explore the unknown.