My Wicked Ways Analysis

Can people be fully mature? Many teeangers and adults think they are mature and can control many things. Here are two literary works that show how people are not fully mature as they thought. A short story “Crystal Stars Have Begun to Shine” by Martha Brooks and a poem “12 years old” by Kim Stockwood deal with the maturity of people. Each has written about the speaker’s experiences of growing up to become adults. Although they share similar theme, which is about the coming of age, each has portrayed the theme in different ways. Both “Crystal Stars Have Begun to Shine” and “12 years old” support the same theme, “coming of age” by struggles and expriences during relationships. However, each has different tone and way of showing the theme.

In the poem “Bitch” by Carolyn Kizer the poet uses a satiric account of an exchange between her and an ex-lover. The setting is in an unspecified place where the two meet up after years of ending their relationship and they are trying to have a normal conversation. While to talking to her ex, the speaker is internally trying to keep her feelings or the “Bitch”, calm. But, the more she talks to her ex the rowdier the “Bitch” becomes, yet she eventually controls it by threatening it by giving it “a taste of the choke-chain”, and a story about controlling a female dog or a “Bitch” turns into a story about a heartbroken woman trying to keep her feelings contained.

The inside out poem by Diane Wakoski is saying even with flaws involved you can fix a problem with determination. In the beginning and middle of inside out it is all about his flaws and the annoyance he is, then in the end she wants to fix or solve the problem of their relationship. The overall meaning of the poem is you need to act and fix the problem in your life.

Art can be seen as a moment in time that is captured and forever frozen. The images seemed to have had something so magnificent that the artist found it important to have the memory remain forever in one’s mind. Jericho Parms “Lost Wax” explored this idea of how art and memories forever remain in history. Parms essays displayed many moments of time that signaled the longing to be someone that was special enough to be captured as a piece of art that would remain in people’s minds.

Growing up I was always raised in a nice environment. Dinner at our kitchen table, trips to Reno, Six Flags to see the cute dolphins, we had a great bond between our family. When I was in elementary school, my friends and I talked about our families and what we were going to do during the weekend. My classmate told me that he was not able to do anything for the weekend because his parents would always be fighting. Quickly I began to have sympathy for a kid that I knew was a trouble maker. Sandra Cisneros does a great job of revealing the theme of the poem,”My Wicked,Wicked Ways” to the reader 's mind by using connotations and

Loose Women, is a collection of poetry written by Sandra Cisneros. A wonderful collection of words that speak to the beauty, disgusting, painful, extraordinary things about love, sexuality, women, bodies. Throughout the novel Cisneros revels in sort of “bad girl” image: however the overall persona is that of a passionate, sexual woman who’s had her share of both joy and disappointment. We all know Sandra Cisneros roots come from Mexico and is from Mexican American immigrant family and the culture for her is very different. I can relate to Cisneros’ culture different, since I am from Indian and in India women are considered to be the goddess from ancient time, however they are not being treated like goddess. Cisneros poetic style makes the book easier to read and comprehend and I think her Mexican roots play big part of her writing. In the book Loose Woman, the author seems to be talking about herself in each poems and is trying to express woman’s journey through the collections of her poems. Through her poems Cisneros’ voice shows love, hate and all the stages of feelings the woman goes through and sends message of bravery.

There is nothing more beautiful than the human language. Words that flow off of the tongue like honey bring readers to a place of tranquility. Words are comparable to a Vincent van Gogh painting: complex but simplistic. Anne Sexton uses the work of Brother Grimm to create her own dazzling work of confessional poetry in Transformations. Her poem entitled “Rumpelstiltskin” uses figurative language such as similes and allusions to enhance the imagery of her poems and transform these short stories into confessional poetry.

In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, temptations entice you and are sometimes irresistible as it’s brought on by the evil that lurks at the carnival which includes the man of many identities who tries to convince the most vulnerable characters to join the evil side and as a motif it  because it represents the interaction between the freaks of the carnival and everyone else being tempted or coerced to join the autumn people.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”- Martin Luther King Jr. (August 28, 1963). The racial interactions in the poems Tableau and Incident, written by countee cullen in the early 1900s, were impacted by the tone, figurative language, and the intended themes of each poem. Both poems deal with racism between two young boys, one white and one black.

Sandra Cisneros, author of the 1984 novel "The House on Mango Street", attempts to express her soul-searching concerns, including those about the power possessed by one whom musters the courage to speak up in the face of injustice, through her beliefs and her personal human characteristics. Often, the power to speak up is one which is applauded in the highest regard, as it may control the path of an individual's life or their development of a persona. Cisneros herself states that she "[continues to] try to be honest about what I say and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity", showing her determined nature in order to prevent those who have been silenced by the onslaught of others or their

Ron Rash’s tone in his poem portrays the dark feelings the woman has in the beging with words like dredging, darkness, and thundering as well as a phase like life leaks away like blood. The woman has this feeling of being trapped or stuck in the life she was given and longs to be free. Later in the poem, as she is escaping from the life she

Poetry is a work of art giving strength to those who have no way to explain how they feel. Edgar Allen Poe had a dreary pitter patter manner of writing poems which were depressive due to loss of his thirteen-year old wife. Another example is Anne Sexton who had a mental illness and used writing as a manner to escape. The grandiose praise of Icarus’s feat of flight struts gracefully through Anne Sexton’s “To a friend whose work has come to triumph”; Through her exquisite diction, Anne Sexton shed light on the fact success is success even if it ends dramatically.

William Butler Yeats: a nationalistic Irish Poet and Protestant who lived during the twentieth century. He was a part of the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled much of political, economic, cultural, and social life of Ireland. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who merely happened to

The sardonic modulation in the speaker’s voice indicates that this poem can be read as a gently ironic poem about Jennings’s own poetic procedures, about the indecision depicted in many poems between meekness and commitment. The persona she creates is a feasible source for the unusual utterances she makes about the inept Persephone irresolutely moving between the two worlds, waiting for the precise “moment” when the symbol will combine form and meaning. She “would certainly hibernate if she could.” She would withdraw into the symbol, into the world of extreme aestheticism, but she knows that in order to write poetry, she must remain committed to the world of experience, the subject matter of her poetry. The inept Persephone could be considered as an avatar of the poet who knows that if the mind

In the poem Mother in a Refugee Camp, the themes of power and powerlessness are shown at the same time consistently throughout the poem. The powerless aspect is shown by the mother’s lack of ability to help her child, as he is described as ‘her tenderness for a son’ that she will ‘soon’ have to ‘forget...’ This foreshadows the inevitability of his death and shows the difficulty of the position his mother is in, having to helplessly watch her own son perish. This is also further foreshadowed when the poet describes the mother’s actions towards her child: he says she is ‘combing’ the ‘hair left on his skull’. The symbolism of ‘skull’ is used as a representation of death and mortality, it displays the rapidity of his hair loss and emphasises the dangers of his starvation and protein deficiency. However the word ‘combing’ is used to show the mother’s unconditional love for her child and how she will always care for him and never give up hope, this antithesis fabricates an element of power in the poem, and demonstrates the powerful effect of a mother’s love towards her child. This is also exhibited when the poet describes her as bathing her child amidst the ‘heavy odors’ of ‘diarrhea’, as she is ‘rubbing him down’ with her ‘bare palms’. The use of sensory imagery here to describe their surroundings also emphasises how the mother will always love her child unconditionally. The end of the poem contradicts this moment of hope by ending on an extremely solemn tone, with the use of