At Mornington Poem Analysis

In WW2 the holocaust clamed 6 million Jews lives, and over 7 million soviets died too and 1.7 million of those soviets were also counted towards the 6 million Jews. The holocaust was a genocide during World War II in when Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany tried to take over then world and also attempted to kill off all the Jews. They would send Jews and people who opposed them to concentration camps where they were either durned or worked till they couldn’t. Night is an autobiography by Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor. Auschwitz death camp is a video documentary with oprah winfrey and Elie Wiesel. One thought I had after learning about the holocaust was how crazy to you have to be to try to eliminate an entire religion of people.

The poem “Morning” written by Billy Collins is written in free verse. There is no rhyming pattern or form. Also, the number of syllables per line and lines per section are inconsistent. Upon first reading the poem, one can assume that Collins is expressing that the morning is his favorite part of the day. Collins begins the poem by wondering why we even have the rest of the day. Here he gives the impression that he does not care for it by using words such as swale, dip, and notorious. Also, when listening to Collins read the poem he reads the first section with a sort of irritated tone.

A variety of issues are examined in Dawe’s poetry, most of which, aren’t uniquely Australian. In ‘The Wholly Innocent’, the poet utilises the narrator being an unborn baby to express their opinion on abortion. The emotive language; “defenceless as a lamb” and comparisons of abortion to “genocide”, all turn this poem into a type of activism, for pro-life; a concept that is certainly not uniquely Australian; as abortion is only legal (on request) in 4 states and territories. These issues aren’t always directly referenced in Dawe’s poetry, much like in ‘The Family Man’, which chooses to explore suicide and it’s effect. The man who killed himself had no name - he was just a statistic, that had “all qualifications blown away with a trigger’s touch”.

Jones (2009) uses that nature of sexuality to depict a discovery of a hidden poetry, a form of poetry which drawers elements, inspirations, and reflections from other creations. ‘In the Park’ by Gwen Harwood and ‘The move from Cape Coast’ are two similar poems. Both poems channel lost of home and identity. The two use simple poetic techniques to evoke emotion from the reader, with striking imagery the audience are able to capture a geographical sense of both poems. Hardwoods work unravels the challenges of motherhood, as they do not live the same life as before “...Her clothes out of date”, this line demonstrates to the audience that a mother scarifies her identity for her child. Taking upon this inspiration, ‘The move from Cape Coast’ has taken the same fourteen line sonnet structure to romanticise the thought of being taken away from home. Though ‘The move from Cape Coast’ drawers negative imagery, like Hardwoods work, it challenges the reader a sympathetic tone. ‘The move from Cape Coast’ was composed through grasping different elements from other works and

Elinor starts us out with a small sight of the setting. She talks about a smoke-tarnished moon and the dead leaves, “with the color like blood.” I thought of it’s interesting word choice; showing/relating to death. She then mentions a child being murdered by the sea, and how the sea was joyfully killing the so-called “strong little boy.” The title itself, is also memorializing the meaning of the poem, “Sea Lullaby.” A lullaby is a story telling a child to go to sleep peacefully. However, throughout the poem the child is wandering through the night at the beach, not realizing he is heading towards the sea. He then drowns and the rest of the poem talks about how unfair and dramatic his death was, “she choked him and beat him to death, for a joke...She shouted for joy.” The author uses negative diction, showing passion for violence. It makes the audience feel like they absolutely have no sense of control over their surroundings. Therefore, allusions can be mashed under things (sea is beautiful but cruel) making us unsecured. Everything must go on, despite our

Once the poem “History Lesson” was written numerous poetry foundations celebrated it for many reasons. “History Lesson” not only makes an impact on literature today it has also impacted people also. This poem inspires people and moves them to the point to where they can find a personal connection to the poem itself and to the writer. Not only does it hold emotional value for those who were victimized and those whose family were victimized by the laws of segregation, but the poem is also celebrated for its complexity. The poem uses many techniques to appeal to the reader. In this poem the writer uses imagery to create logos, uses connotation convey ethos,

Jean Toomer’s “Georgia Dusk” reveals the remaining influence of slavery on a newly freed African American society.

How would you like it if you had to fit in? The poet Erin Hanson, who goes by E.H., wrote the poem “Welcome to Society”. The poem is summarized by the third and fourth lines, which state, “And please feel free to be yourself/ As long as it’s in the right way.” Hanson expresses the theme of social acceptance through his/her use of conflict, word choice, and idioms throughout the poem.

The poem “In a Library” was written by Emily Dickinson as an expression of her love of books, and the way they can transport her. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. Emily Dickinson was born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts. She went to school, where she was an excellent student, until she was 18. She then dropped out and lived her life at home. Emily lived at home, with her sister, for many years and took care of her parents until their deaths. After both of her parents’ deaths Emily stayed home very often, and is thought by most scholars to have had depression and/or other mental illnesses. It was during this time she got most of her writing and poetry done.

The final poem of significance is Jazzonia, in which Hughes experiments with literary form to transform the act of listening to jazz into an ahistorical and biblical act. Neglecting form, it is easy to interpret the poem shallowly as a simple depiction of a night-out in a cabaret with jazz whipping people into a jovial frenzy of singing and dancing. But, the poem possesses more depth, when you immerse yourself in the literary form. The first aspect of form to interrogate is the couplet Hughes thrice repeats: “Oh, silver tree!/Oh, shining rivers of the soul!” Here, we see the first transformation. The “silver tree” alludes to an instrument used to perform jazz (probably a saxophone). “Trees” are long, like a saxophone, and the “keys” and “key

In order to change history, people must learn from their mistakes. Segregation in North America has been a big issue in North America that unfortunately still happens in the world today, however, it is not as bad as it once was. In the poem “History Lesson” by Natasha Trethewey, the author uses mood, symbolism and imagery to describe the racial segregation coloured people faced in the past compared to more recent times, where equality is improved and celebrated.

When an individual experiences prejudice or a lack of connection to place it can diminish ones sense of identity, leading to social isolation and a loss of cultural practices and traditions.

Waterhouse use the myth of Ulysses to show that he was surrounded by sirens and tied to an long pole and couldn't break loose.The Sirens were scary and dangerous creatures that seduced the sailors with their attractive voices to their doom and causing the ships to ruin by the island.The Sirens likes to hurt people by luring sailors with their enchanting music to their death.The Sirens were beautiful but they were also threatening creatures that caused men to crash on the ships.The Sirens seem to have evolved from an ancient tale of the dangers of early exploration combined with an Asian image of a bird-woman.

Conflict is a big theme and many poems and texts have been written on this topic, but two of the most well done and most expressive poems about this topics are “Out of the Blue” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. Even though the topic is the same the two authors, Simon Armitage and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, present the theme with different approaches, one about the innocent, one about the ones that chose to get involved In the conflict.

In the poem, "When I Was Growing Up”, Nellie Wong relates the struggles of a Chinese girl growing up, searching to find her voice in a predominantly white cultural majority. The speaker begins the poem with, “I know now that once I longed to be white,” (1). This speaker longs for the privileges she attributes to being a member of the cultural majority. Ashamed of her darker Asian skin and Chinese culture, the speaker laments, “…I could not change, I could not shed / my skin…” (49, 50). The poem details the feelings of the speaker as she was growing up in America, while simultaneously being immersed in Chinese culture. She wanted to be part of the American white culture as it was depicted and glamorized by the media and movies. "When I Was Growing Up", utilizes literary devices such as diction, imagery, and symbolism to create friction and express the theme of shame and regret that the speaker feels about her longings to be white.