The poem, Inside out, by Diane Wakoski, uses metaphors and changing tones to express her troubled emotions in a bad relationship as she starts to see him inside out, at the beginning it’s a light dreaming tone then it turns into a anger filled past when she remembers her memories then, in the end she has more of a angry sarcastic tone that is revengeful. The poem Inside out uses light dreamy tones to describe the beginning of the relationship and contrasting angry, bitter tones to describe her bad relationship. The light dreamy tones show that she had a good relationship when they first met/ got together In stanza 1 it says” I walk the purple carpet into your eye, carrying the silver butter server” (stanza 1 line 1-2). This shows that the words …show more content…
Then is says “leaving its Black tire prints on my foot” (I’m not sure, this is my guess) I believe this might be a metaphor for a bruise that she has on her foot from the man in her bad relationship(stanza 2 line 1). The next lines “and old images, the sound of banging screen/ doors on hot/ afternoons and a fly buzzing over the Kool-Aid spilled on/ the sink/ flicker, as reflections on the metal surface” this is still more of a dark, angry tone that were used in the previous lines(stanza 2-7 lines 1). These lines are just more examples of her bad …show more content…
This is more of the same thing of her saying that he is nothing special and he has flaws like everyone else, and as she explains this a tone of revenge builds up.” You cannot let me walk inside you too long inside /the veins where my small feet touch /bottom. /You must reach inside and pull me /like a silver bullet /from your arm” (stanza 10 lines 1-6). this section now shows that he is venerable, and she is taking advantage of that. And in the last 3 lines of the poem it shows there are almost polar opposites and don’t do well together by referencing a silver bullet which is know as to kill werewolf’s or a magic killing device that can penetrate through
In the first stanza, “one leaned on the other as if to throw her down” symbolism has been used to show the intensity of the embrace between the two. In stanza two, “and finally almost uprooted him” symbolism has been used to show how much the female dominates in this relationship. “He was thin, dry, insecure one” this symbolized that the male did not have much power nor say in the relationship.
The song has heavily used imagery when stating “And the Legal pads were yellow, hour’s long, pay packet lean. And the telex writers clattered where the gunships once had been.” This is used to explain his stress of coming back to civilization after war and all the things that once traumatized you are now take place in a different way. The song also uses Social Criticism“And she was like so many more from that time on. Their lives were all so empty, till they found their chosen one.” This is used to say that a female’s life is incomplete until they settle down and marry. Cold chisel has added this in to reconnect with their message to show that women are incomplete without their male counterparts and it makes it hard for both people in the relationship after war because of a miscommunication between love and
...t she has put on a new “costume” and is now a completely different person. The stockings are “night-black” representing the backyard and its negative connotation. In line twenty, the author writes that she wants to “strut down the streets with paint on [her] face,” again emphasizing Brooks’ new rebellious nature since crossing over into the backyard. The “paint” suggests that her rebellion is just and act, and as soon as she removes the paint, she can return to the front yard if she pleases. The repetition of “and” at the beginning of the last three lines illustrates Brooks’ desire to completely rebel against her mother and the front yard life since it shows how she wants to rebel in so many ways. The main theme of the poem highlights the desire people have to experience what they do not have and live life on their own terms.
Nearly everyone has had that dreadful encounter with the last person they want to see in places like the supermarket, dry cleaners, or the movie theaters. What follows are a few awkward moments of strained conversation while one looks for signs of bitter regret in the eyes of his or her ex. Carolyn Krizer’s poem “Bitch” depicts such a meeting. The poem brings the reader to reality of what really goes on deep beyond conversation while seeing an ex. Through the use of personification, diction, and tone Kizer delineates the speaker’s struggle with feelings of animosity, repression, and desire for reconciliation.
...es her. The imageries of pink Mustang signifies her social class, while “Road” indicates her location as nowhere within a community. The commodification of her body means it can be touched in ways derogatory to her dignity whether she likes it or not because it is a saleable commodity that doesn’t belong to her. Her silver painted nipples identifies silver coins. Silver coins represent monetary value put on her body. Silver painted nipples also mean the attractive way in which a product is packaged. The poem also depicts the defiance of women against how she has been treated. She identifies man as the one that kisses away himself piece by piece till the last coin is spent. However, she cannot change the reality of her location, and temporal placement.
In the first two lines alone, a rhythm is presented that begins slow, speeds up, and then slows again (Unrein, 2015). Lux uses enjambment in the second line, “then she wants some meat”, followed with no punctuation used, and then starts the third line, “directly from the bone.” (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012, p. 618). This slowed down the rhythm and creates an image that the father’s daughter has grown quickly, and now the story slows to show as her teeth are coming in, she is exiting the cute, baby part of her life and growing into a girl now ready to put her canine teeth to use (Unrein, 2015). The run-on line “she’ll fall” then “in love…” (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012, p. 618) stresses the daughter’s progress through her adolescence and early adulthood falling for the “wrong” guys (Unrein, 2015). The rhythm is fast paced in this part as it covers a significant portion of the daughter and parents lives. The line breaks do an exceptional job of giving life to the hidden story that time flies by and before you know it, your kids are grown up and your near the final chapter in your own life. The words flyblown and rue are impactful. The line break between rue and nothing really emphasizes the point of having no regrets in all your life’s accomplishments (Unrein, 2015). Flyblown is a word I have honestly never heard of before. The definition is rather unsettling when trying to relate it to this poem as it deals with contamination or parasites. However, I remember the poem about the red wheelbarrow and dividing up a word into two. This leaves “fly” and “blown”. That is much more fitting to this poem as time has blown by so fast. It flies by before you realize it. Lux uses line breaks to effectively dictate the pace and overall story of a father raising his daughter from birth till the end or near
This stanza begins the encounter. It sets the scene saying it is a lazy street. He begins to describe the woman's beauty, pointing out her hazel eyes and tiny feet.
The second stanza immediately shows symbolism starting with the first few words. Line 10 begins with, “Once the renegade flesh was gone.” The use of the phrase, “renegade flesh” within this poem symbolizes the person who was causing the hurting. Renegade involves synonyms such as: traitor, deserter, and rebel, thus contributing to the meaning behind the phrase. Then throughout the rest of the stanza, the woman resumes talking about her time slowly going by until she begins to completely give up on
Although the little girl doesn’t listen to the mother the first time she eventually listens in the end. For example, in stanzas 1-4, the little girl asks if she can go to the Freedom March not once, but twice even after her mother had already denied her the first time. These stanzas show how the daughter is a little disobedient at first, but then is able to respect her mother’s wishes. In stanzas 5 and 6, as the little girl is getting ready the mother is happy and smiling because she knows that her little girl is going to be safe, or so she thinks. By these stanzas the reader is able to tell how happy the mother was because she thought her daughter would be safe by listening to her and not going to the March. The last two stanzas, 7 and 8, show that the mother senses something is wrong, she runs to the church to find nothing, but her daughter’s shoe. At this moment she realizes that her baby is gone. These stanzas symbolize that even though her daughter listened to her she still wasn’t safe and is now dead. The Shoe symbolizes the loss the mother is going through and her loss of hope as well. This poem shows how elastic the bond between the daughter and her mother is because the daughter respected her mother’s wish by not going to the March and although the daughter is now dead her mother will always have her in her heart. By her having her
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
The author uses imagery, contrasting diction, tones, and symbols in the poem to show two very different sides of the parent-child relationship. The poem’s theme is that even though parents and teenagers may have their disagreements, there is still an underlying love that binds the family together and helps them bridge their gap that is between them.
In the opening verse of the song, the speaker discusses the need to see her childhood home at least once more before moving on with her life. She shares with the current homeowner some of her experiences while growing up in the house. For instance, she says, “I know they say you can’t go home again, but I just had to come back one last time.” This shows that the speaker realizes that returning “home” is going to be a different experience than it was when she lived there, but she cannot resist the temptation of a final visit to the “house”. The speaker says that “Up those stairs in that little back bedroom, is where I did my homework and learned to play guitar. And I bet you didn’t know, under that live oak, my favorite dog is buried in the yard.” This indicates some of the significant memories the speaker has of her time in the house, such as honing her...
To begin, the episodic shifts in scenes in this ballad enhance the speaker’s emotional confusion. Almost every stanza has its own time and place in the speaker’s memory, which sparks different emotions with each. For example, the first stanza is her memory of herself at her house and it has a mocking, carefree mood. She says, “I cut my lungs with laughter,” meaning that...
She defines her idea of what is right in a relationship by describing how hard and painful it is for her to stray from that ideal in this instance. As the poem evolves, one can begin to see the author having a conflict with values, while simultaneously expressing which values are hers and which are unnatural to her. She accomplishes this accounting of values by personalizing her position in a somewhat unsettling way throughout the poem.