The Lanyard Poem

A mothers love is simple: caring, forgiving, and unconditional. This is shown in Billy Collins poem “The Lanyard”, which starts out with the narrator reflecting on a lanyard that gives him memory of back when he would go to summer camp.  This is because he made a lanyard out of boredom and brought it home to give to him mother. The narrator thinks as a young boy that this can thank his mom for all she has done, but then he realizes once he gets older that nothing he can do will repay his mothers efforts. After reading the poem “The Lanyard, I believe that the narrator feels as if he will never be able to give back to his mother what she has given to him in his life, however, what he does not realize is that his mothers view could be completely different.

Sometimes the relationship between two generations is very complicated. “My Father Is a Simple Man” by Luis Omar Salinas and “A secret Lost in the Water” by Roch Carrier explore these universal themes, the greatness of love together with the unavoidability of conflicts between two generations through the depiction of the speakers’ personal experience with their fathers.

I am not a father so I cannot express the love for a child. “My son the Man” is a short 16-line poem. In the poem, Sharon compares her son to Houdini and explains how he has grown up. Sharon expresses deeply about her son growing up and leaving her and it is hard for her to watch her little boy become a man. I can kind of relate to this because my mom still looks at me as if I am a little boy. “Sharon shows strong emotional feelings about how she struggles to accept her child is all grown up”. Olds memories of her son as a child, her feelings of seeing him as an adult, and her description of his realizations that he is becoming a man all convey this. She is also having a hard time realizing that her “son” is now a man and there is nothing she

As a young child, one 's life relies on the hands of a parent yet as one grows up a clear distinction is seen in the type of relationship that is established between a parent and child. In Once more to the Lake by White, he makes his son do the exact same things he once had done as a young boy during the annual summer trip to Maine lake. White uses the dual existence to illustrate the pattern of parenting bonding that has existed within generations of his family meanwhile White begins “to sustain the illusion that he was [his son], and therefore, by simple transportation, that [White] was[his] father”(White 689). White has formed a very close bond with his son that allows him to know that his son is happy and doing the same things he had

We have transformed into a society where people are so focused towards the future that we forget to stop and look what is going on around us. Children are propelled forward to become more mature than ever and are not able to experience the beauty of life. The boy in The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein moves through life at such a rapid rate, while the tree sits back and watches life go by her. This tree represents the pleasures in life that some may take for granted as they rush through life without reflection.

Receiving an object holds much more meaning than that of just the object itself. To say that a token, handed down for generations in a family, just represents a token is blasphemous. All objects, items, and gifts symbolize an interpretation that validates a connection between a party to another. In the case of Fennelly and her father’s scarf, the symbolic meaning behind the scarf is indirectly assumed as the adult relationship between her and her father. The relationship was one of smotherment and differing points of views for the scarf symbolized the narrow-mind life which Fennelly had as of result of her father.

In conclusion, I thought that The Giver displayed three major themes; The importance of freedom and individuality, the significance of memory and how it is related to wisdom, and finally maturity and becoming a certain age. Many examples showed how dangerous it is to fully conform, while others displayed the importance of memory to human life and the influence it has on it. Some also showed that one must be able to cope pain to gain sophistication, and aging means more freedom, but also less innocence. Lowry used themes and symbols well throughout the book to get me thinking about life and its small

The ideal room for a teenager is one that has walls cluttered with posters or quotes of famous men and women. Every morning a teen wakes up and is surrounded by images of those that he or she admires and goes to sleep with the idol like figures watching over him or her. Everyone has a role model that they look up to whether it be a friend, a colleague, a stranger, or a super star. One cannot help but look at the life of another and attempt to model one’s own life after the other. Following someone else is how humans have survived, one sees what works and begins to do the same. However, many follow and model their lives after the wrong people or the wrong crowd, and because of this it is essential that parents or guardians take up the form of

The tone of poem is important in this poem. In beginning speaker shows a passionate hatred and anger towards her father, later the tone changes with sympathy for her father. Similarly, “Because of you” present the pain of deteriorating relationship with singer and her father. In this song, Clarkson reflect on the discomfort that she felt when her parents were getting divorce. The poem display how it can affect a child to grow up with a neglectful relation throughout their childhood. Olds would use Clarkson’s song to express her repressed feelings. In a divorce everyone is victim, both the poem and song tells its audience how divorce affects everyone in the family for rest of their life. In the poem, there are two victims. At the begging it

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.” - John Lennon. John Lennon said this because the world focuses too much on what they want instead of looking at what we already have and what we really need. The stories “The Necklace” and “The Monkey’s Paw” share the theme of materialism. In both stories, the main characters learn about materialism and how what they have may not make them worse off than better.

The father was abusive on some level, however, that doesn 't disregard the fact that the son relishes attention and contact from his father. Even though the father can be abusive to a degree, the son can still crave that attention and love from his father that he longs to have but doesn 't. This can be tied to relationships outside of domestic violence. If a person is abused in a relationship and had the choice to break up, they wouldn 't because they may think he or she may be doing it out of love; the same thing applies in the poem. The boy may be thinking it is out of love or craves that love and wants him to be a father figure so bad that he disregards the cruelty of the situation and doesn 't realize it 's abuse. Furthermore, if the

As a child, time seems to take forever pass by. Whether it is waiting in the lunch line, sitting in class, or waiting for our parents, time drags on, and on, and on. Waiting for a parent to do something is the worst. As children, we like to nag or whine. We rush our parents no matter where they are or what they are doing. A simple task like going to the store to get some milk seems like an eternity. You simply cannot have your cereal sans milk! In Fortunately, the Milk, Neil Gaiman uses archetypal figures and narrative patterns to show how the father overcomes obstacles and struggles on his journey to purchase milk for his children to help validate himself as a father figure.

“Symbols and Signs” written by Vladimir Nabokov, and “Dance in America” written by Lorrie Moore, both examines parental responses to a child’s illness. The “Symbols and Signs”, is the story of severe mental debility of an unnamed child and the struggles of his parents to cope with it. Meanwhile, “Dance in America” is centered on the sufferings of narrator’s friend and his son named Eugene, who is dying from cystic fibrosis. The children in these stories differ in their relationship to their parents and their attitude towards illness. However, both parents experience hopelessness and hardships in response.

The poems “To the Virgins to make much of time” ,“Valediction: Forbidding mourning” and “To His Coy mistress” are poems about love. A few of them I would have to say relate to a realistic view of love like the poems “To His Coy Mistress” and Valediction: Forbidding mourning”. How ever one poem doesn’t have realistic view of love like “to the virgins to make much of time”. There are multiple line that show this realistic view in love and there's some lines that oppose that it is a realistic view on love. If you truly love someone, would you actually have an affair outside of your marriage? I believe that when two people are truly in love they won’t have wandering eyes or be unfaithful to their spouse.

When choosing a poem, the reader is likely to be concerned with the diction of the poem. Diction is the choice of words that the author has chosen. The diction of a poem can make or break the reader’s ability to understand the poem, or to continue to read the poem after a few lines. A poem with a simple diction will keep the reader engaged while a difficult diction can frustrate the reader. For example, “When I consider how my Light is Spent and “Digging” diction is very differential. Diction of the poem effects the tone in various ways. The diction of the poem affects the tone by the play of words and their difficultly to understand. The tone is set in the poem by the author’s meaning, however when the diction is harder to understand the