Comparison of Olds’s and Uyermatsu’s Poems The literature has many examples of poems that do express the direct moo at the first sights. The Rite of passage by Sharon Olds and Deliberate by Amy Uyermatsu are in this list. The first poem describes the Birthday party of a small boy who should be about six or seven years old. Second work speaks about the growth of female representatives of ethnic minorities, as lines about the makeup and high heels suggest characters are girls. However, deeper reading shows authors gave gloomy mood to their works. This idea is supported by such poetic devices as dictionary, metaphors and similes. While both works are examples of a blank verse, it does not look like authors used rhymes, rhythm or other such methods …show more content…
All guests are first-graders, but the author shows they act like adult men. Olds even does not call them children, they are “short men, men in first grade” (l. 3). The author compared guests with small bankers, which shows their surprising maturity. It could be created by their holiday suits, but Olds highlights the impression is also created by children’s behavior. Little guests easily speak about the violence. While lines like “I could beat you up, a seven says to a six” (Olds, l. 12-13) are an example of a common dialogue for this age group, following words of the host fuel concerns. “We could easily kill a two-year-old” (Olds l. 22), it is strange to hear words about the infanticide from a first-grader and understand the boy believe this action is easy. The word “beat” would be less violent, but the author used “kill”. This contrast between thoughts and appearance of the character is highlighted by metaphors used to describe the boy. “Freckles like specks of nutmeg… [and] long hands cool and thin as the day they guided him out of me” (Olds l. 16, 18-20), these lines show the mother still see her son as a small, infant child. This image creates a contrast with the comparison with generals and understanding children were calmed by the host’s words and continued to celebrate. The mood of the poem is gloomy or at least fraught as it shows the vulnerability
The essay will consider the poem 'Practising' by the poet Mary Howe. It will explore how this poem generates its meaning and focus by analysing its techniques, metaphorical construct and its treatment of memory. The poem can primarily be seen to be a poem of missed opportunity. In this way is comes to form, alongside other poems of Howe's a study about a certain kind of loss and the recuperative efforts of memory, alongside the certainty of the failure of this recuperation. The paper will begin by giving a context to the poem with regard to Howe's life and work and will then proceed to analyse it directly, drawing attention to how it can be seen to fulfil this thesis about its content and meaning.
The poet is attempting to extinguish the bystander effect amongst her readers by choosing a very solemn and tragic mood to place emphasis on the reality of child abuse that goes unreported due to people not questioning what they are hearing. The poet wants to prove a point to the reader that we must acknowledge the signs of child abuse and take action.
The mood and the poets’ outlook in both poems are prideful and appreciative
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” -- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994. Almost 22 years later, these the impactful words have motivated six million people.. and counting. The coming of the new millennium has pushed new and old generations to learn from the past and mend present day issues.
Poetry Analysis 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.
The child then seems to grow heavy as stone. The writer’s use of words and imagery conjures up a surreal and dreamlike atmosphere, which at times, seems to over- shadow the plot. The issues explored in this story can be themed by guilt (“And when I realized for the first time that I was a murderer…) and fear (“I began to feel afraid of him even though
In his poem “Behind Grandma’s House,” Gary Soto details the life and daily routine of a somewhat masochistic ten year old boy as he kicks over trash cans, terrorizes cats, and drowns ant colonies with his own urine. In many ways the boy acts as any other boy his age would be expected to, but he tends to go further than most young boys with his actions and descriptions of how he feels. This extra violence and destructive tendency the narrator exhibits can lead the reader to believe that, rather than being a typical child, he strongly craves attention due to his circumstances, and he is willing to act out and act obscenely in order to receive that attention. Throughout the poem the narrator details all the things he does to prove how tough he is, many
“Sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me. (Naomi Shihab Nye)” Poetry is literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. The tile of this poem is “Making a Fist” and it is written by Naomi Shihab Nye. “Making a Fist” is a free verse and lyric poem.
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.
The author’s sentence structure does not rhyme, diverges in length and in connotation, more often observing the children, some other times her own feelings. Some of the sentences are evocative or descriptive, while some others are spoken comments going back and forth between the kids. She, as well touches back upon her own past; when she was bringing back some memories of the birth of her child: “… long hands cool and thin as the day they guided him out of me” (703). While the sentences run and read easily, as a cheerful child’s birthday party, they have no verse, or alliteration, which for a poem can seem paradoxical, as the adult original sound of the theme. One sure can get the feeling from which Sharon Olds is unhappy about the forfeiture of naivety of her son and she has the feeling that the upcoming of him is already placed in a disappointed manner, like they are going to grow up with conflict in their thoughts.
Through repetition and a conversational tone, Audre Lorde conveys the isolation and anxiety of a young girl who is trying to bridge the gap between childhood and adulthood. “Hanging Fire” goes through a young girl’s thoughts. These thoughts illustrate her isolation, anxiety, and lack of guidance. This poem shows what happens when children are growing up alone, and hints and the horrible things that can happen.
The question of truth has haunted mankind for generations. Each and everyone of us on our journey to find truth will have brushed up against many obstacles. Whether it be a child struggling with the legitimacy of their childhood fairytales or a middle aged man fighting for his purpose in this world. Everyone will come across their own truth and be forced to grapple with it at some point in their lives. Through many sources of literature we can attempt to grasp the truth and become enlightened.
NATIONALISM IN THE WORKS OF SAROJINI NAIDU ABSTRACT: Indian English Poetry is remarkably great. In Naidu 's poetry one can see the representation of the different colours of India and its folk cultures. There is also depiction of her secular outlook and patriotism as her theme of her poetry.
Children literature may not always be considered appropriate for children to read it because of the content it may contain. The poems I will be analyzing will be “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. These poems have nothing to do with each other they both have different meanings. “My Papa’s Waltz” concentrates in the life of this family were the father is drunk most of the time. “Mother to Son” concentrates in the concept dreamed by many called the “American Dream”.
Average flocks watch me like Magnavox as I shatter blocks and ravage spots The arrowbot whose so past the top I piss on astronauts With massive shots, I’m like two surgeons, I’m a paradox The more rotten rappers plot, the worse my habit got And oxygen is no longer an option when the cabin locks I stare at dots till my hair is hot, one of my savage plots Will have knots soft as a fabric washed bag of socks I rock a beat till the cops retreat, known to block the street And drop some heat even with taser guns shocking me I’m obviously elite you can not compete Jotted my topics deep into the night, when I finish writing the clock will sleep My jabs raps are great, they decapitate What used to be a rapper’s face is now only a neck under a massive space