Anthem Anthem, written by Jim Daniels, is a free-verse poem, and this essay examines thirteen lines of the overall poem, which comprise two stanzas. Within the first stanza, a daughter or son uses a reflective voice to consider how his or her father’s work from when the speaker was a child affected their relationship. The second stanza describes the present, still strained relationship, that the father and now grown-up speaker admit they want to improve. Though not particularly evident in these thirteen lines, the second stanza takes place as the speaker and father stand before the start of a football game, singing the national anthem. This situation is expressed throughout unmentioned parts of this poem, and this song is alluded to within …show more content…
Throughout the poem, the speaker uses his poetic style to reveal a friendly yet distanced relationship that the speaker and father share together. Beginning the poem with “Thirty-three years of coughing thick factory air,” the speaker introduces his father as a diligent factory worker (1-2, Daniels). The use of the alliteration “thirty-three” in this line, strategically draws the reader’s attention to just how long the dad subjects himself to such straining labor in order to provide for his family, showing a love from the father for his child (1). The speaker continues with “of drifting to sleep through the heavy ring of machinery, of twelve hour days” painting the image of the father working nonstop, and as a result, repeatedly falling asleep on the job (3-4). By saying, “In my sleep, …show more content…
However, the speaker hears the father’s singing as “a children’s song,” which are often characterized as simple-minded (9). Since the line “my shoulder against his” demonstrates the speaker to be the same height as the father and therefore also an adult, the speaker could initially consider his father’s straight-forward attempt at a connection to be either too simple for what attention he should be given now that he is grown-up (11). The speaker believes the father should have tried for this connection when he was still a child rather than “now” (8). These negative attitudes at the beginning of the stanza, allows the speaker to create a shift for the audience with the next phrase, “I lean into him” (9). The audience sees the speaker ignoring his gut, giving into his want to form a relation with his father. Still, this action is done by the speaker with “the umbrella and rain my excuse,” because the lack of having a paternal
Next, we must summarize “Forgiving my Father” by Lucille Clifton, to discover the similarities between it and “My Papa’s Waltz”. In the poem we discover that the narrator's parents died and that she was haunted by several heated arguments between her parents over their finances. We get the sense that the daughter seems to be on her mother’s side as she used words like “old liar” and “old dead man” to describe her father. The daughter felt angry and hostile towards her father because she was put in the middle of a difficult marital relationship and felt responsible for their money problems.
The Star Spangled Banner means so much to me because every time i hear It means to me that if their wasn't our troops out there protecting our world for us i wouldn't what that song even meant to me or anybody. That song shows Patriotic Pride in all of them brave soldiers and females out there protecting our great land. This means a lot to Francis Scott Key For writing that song and for fight at War of 1812 he was key succeser for the british and song meant a lot for Him and the United States. Those O say Can u see By the rockets bursting light means a lot during the war because nothing keep the flag down. But thats the Most patriotic song to me and our nation and the whole entire world.
One of the greatest arts in poetry is the ability to interweave multiple meanings of significance behind a single poem. In the poem “Fredrick Douglass,” Robert Hayden does just that. Even more, in doing so he characterizes freedom through the lens of Fredrick Douglass’ contribution. In this poem Hayden utilizes a unique form of structuring the poem.
The Star- Spangled Banner: How Our National Anthem Came to Be When dark times arose during the War of 1812 and America started losing hope, a young man wrote what is now America’s national anthem. Every now and then, a national anthem will be about a hero or a battle of freedom; however, the majority of national anthems speak of past events in their country (Georgiady and Romano 5). Americans needed a sign of hope and strength during the fight against Britain and Francis Scott Key accepted the challenge of creating that assurance. Every time an American sang Key’s song, they envisioned the banner and the representation it held of a nation in the works (Sonneborn 22). Today, the “Star-Spangled Banner” stands as a powerful anthem for the United
In the poem, “Those Winter Sundays,” written by Robert Hayden, the speaker reflects from the present back to his cold childhood. The poem describes the tense yet caring relationship between a father and his son. Hayden used dark connotation and vivid imagery to describe their relationship. The son began the morning with annoyance towards his father which caused him to be ignorant and not realize all the sacrifices his father made. The speaker’s father was a hard-working man at home and in the workforce, but the speaker never thanked him.
Ta-Nehisi Coates extensively explores the vulnerability of black bodies, he writes about the distance from the assumed societal norm a black body must endure. “This chasm makes itself known to us in all kinds of ways. A little girl wanders home, at age seven, after being teased in school and asks her parents, “Are we niggers and what does this mean?” (136). What does it mean to be Black in America?
(-- 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.
Through out this semester we have gone through so many readings. The readings were different types of readings. These different types of readings were things such as poems and full on stories. In my perspective all of these readings were all wonderful, the reason why these readings were wonderful is because as you read these poems and stories you get a sense of what the writer is trying to convey. To me I felt like I was in the story or poem because its just the understanding of what the writer is trying to say that made me grow a connection to the story or poem.
The number of military and civilian casualties in World War One was over thirty seven million,over sixteen million deaths and twenty million wounded. Many soldiers were not themselves after this incident. The terrifying scenes a soldier experiences on the front will probably follow him throughout his life, if he manages to survive the war . The two poems are both written by war poets from the First World war. ‘Attack’ written by Siegfried Sassoon.
The triumph of reaching the summit of a mountain, but more so, the climax of one’s success is effectively encapsulated in Kurt Fitz’s free verse poem, “The Summit”. The poem explores the challenge of climbing a mountain literally, as well as overcoming strife figuratively through the depiction of a victorious conquest, the feeling of being on top of the world. The speaker’s sense of accomplishment at the end of his challenge, although only momentary, is worth the strenuous journey to the top. The elegant, enlightening and definitive diction used throughout the poem crystallises the unbeatable taste of victory. The bold and vivid physical imagery in the first stanza conveys his euphoric emotions as well as describing the physical challenges of his journey through the wildness of nature.
It describes the unspoken love of a father through a distant memory. In this poem, the author excellently illustrates both the simplicities and complexities of parental love, the limited outlook on life and love in childhood due to a lack of knowledge and the author’s underlying emotions about his father and his childhood through the recollection of a simple memory. In “Those Winter Sundays,” the speaker, is reflecting on a childhood memory. It is of his father waking before the dawn of day to start fires to warm the family dwelling.
“Their voices blended into a threnody of nostalgia about pain. Rising and falling, complex in 1harmony, uncertain in pitch, but constant in the recitative of pain.” The Blues Aesthetic is a catharsis of pain, suffering and cultural wisdom gathered from the age of slavery. It is a means of transmission of narratives that builds on the oral tradition of storytelling; a compilation of stories peppered with suffering, sacrifice and loss narrated through lyrics of songs, “The Blues arises as a late nineteenth century/early twentieth century secular thrust of African-American culture, whose oldest musical and lyrical heritage was Africa but whose changing contemporary expression summed up their lives and culture in the West.”
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
A situation of misplacement can be found in “The Sergeant”. The forty-two-year-old narrator has received a draft notice even though he served in the army previously during the Korean War and achieved the rank of sergeant. The protagonist is returned to a southern army post from which he was discharged twenty years ago and is forced to resume the responsibilities of an army sergeant’s routine. He trains recruits, teaching them how to pull the pin from their hand grenades and how to keep a barracks clean. But he is subject to the same harassment and orders from officers that he gives to the soldiers.
In the eighth poem, the speaker’s desire has reached unbearable levels. He has been suffering since his soul belonged to the beloved, whom he asks to judge if he really deserves such pain and to relieve him from his agony. The poem’s division into three sentences is underlined by the rhyme scheme and the shortness of each of the last verses of the two tercets that surround the rhyming couplet. In the first tercet, the speaker claims that it would destroy him if he could not touch the beloved’s body.