This 24 lines poem is divided in 3 stanza of 8 lines each. In the first stanza the author is telling to his captain that they made it, the long difficult and terrible trip was at the end they was finally arrived safe and they was nothing to worry about. The author is trying to show how the arduous journey was finally done, they made some big sacrifice and they overcome wind, bad weather and everything dangerous. They was valiant and their bravery help them to reap the benefit of their work. The speaker is a crew member in the boat, so as they are approaching the harbor, people are manifesting their victory, ringing bell and they was expressing their happiness, crying their victory until they find the dead’s body of the captain. That where the …show more content…
The eager face here in the poem is the expression of the gratitude the crowd has toward this valiant Captain, because he was courageous. The author show such a respect to the Captain who is in his hands because he call him “father”. The narrator is so sad in his word because he think it’s a dream, he can’t believe that the Captain just lie down and dead only when they get back home after the trip. The last stanza the narrator is focus on his own feeling, he was hurt and he is expressing his sadness and desolation about the death of the Captain, he was not able to move, to feel or do something, his body was lying down in the ground and the captain lose all sensation as …show more content…
When he said “O heart! “ He is expressing something which can’t answer or respond. The same also when he said “O Captain” the Captain was dead and was no longer able to hear him or respond him. In the expression “Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!” the authors is expressing something doesn’t live which in consequent cannot reply. “Eager faces” is a synecdoche because the author means something else when he makes that statement, he was referring to the gratitude the whole crowd had for the Captain. In the poem the narrator used some quotes as” My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;” the speaker use this sentence to show that the Captain was really death and unable to do or fell anything. The narrator did not use the appropriate term to represent something or someone, he was using the metaphor. He is representing the Captain as The President of United State, the ship which is talking about is the United State of America, the fearful trip is the civil war and the swaying masses are people. In the meantime the expression "Fallen cold and dead" was used at the end of each stanza to characterize the deep loss of the
My initial response to the poem was a deep sense of empathy. This indicated to me the way the man’s body was treated after he had passed. I felt sorry for him as the poet created the strong feeling that he had a lonely life. It told us how his body became a part of the land and how he added something to the land around him after he died.
This poem dwells heavily on the problems in war. It describes how high the death toll is for both sides. Slessor uses “convoys of dead sailors” to show that all these dead body’s are very much alike, with their movements and feelings being the same. It also outlines a major problem in war, being able to identify and bury they dead properly. "And each cross, the driven stake of tide-wood, bears the last signature of m...
Diction is strongly used in both the novel and the poem to manipulate the thoughts of the reader and to stir up emotions. The poem makes an almost undecipherable, literal tone within the sound of the rhyme scheme, also creating calm peace with a mostly unpleasant situation. An example is the reoccurring line, “I have a rendezvous with Death” (Seeger 1, 5, 11, 20). The word “rendezvous” is a nice word where a person would meet somebody out of free will, even like to two lovers seeing each other. Differently, death is the unknown for many humans to fear. The narrator has arranged to meet with an experience known as death. The narrator would only take such actions if he had reason to believe it was not as fearful an action to take as so many believe. The repetition of this line keeps this idea fresh in his audience’s mind. Similarly, in All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses word like forgotten and misunderstood to describe the way that outsiders think of the soldiers participating in the war. The way
Poetry Analysis Essay The purpose of visual imagery in poetry is to help get the poet’s message across in a language that is strong, vivid and very visual. Visual imagery evokes the emotions of the reader by appealing to their senses and through this helps enhance the mood of the poem. The mood implied in “Daddy”, by Sylvia Plath, is that of aggressive, anger, irritable from one that has a childlike devotion to one of severing due to abandonment. In “The Colonel”, by Carolyn Forche, is one of controlled terror, intimidation, torture, and literal dismemberment. In “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, by Randall Jarrell, the story sets the mood of melancholy at the hands of the state.
In the first five stanzas, the author discusses the already submerged ship. ?Stilly couches she,? describes the ship resting on the bottom of the ocean. The lines, ?Jewels in joy designed?lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind?, point out the waste of money, technology and craftsmanship going down with the ship which is consistently mentioned in these stanzas. In the next six stanzas he describes the iceberg and the ship meeting together as one in destiny.
A. Philip Randolph was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and once said “Freedom is never given; It is won.” Our American soldiers fight every day so we can stay free and have the privileges we have today. We do not just get to be free. There are people fighting for our freedom. However, the poem and the song both talk about fighting for freedom but they have a separate motive. Both the poem named “Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?” by Langston Hughes and the song “American Soldier” by Toby Keith both have the same theme by freedom is worth fighting for and everyone wants freedom, but in the poem the soldier is fighting for freedom and in the song the soldier already has freedom.
Subsequently, the language in the poem reflects that of military use: “reinforcements” and “disrupting blockade” represent conflict and furthermore, colourful and textural imagery evokes within the reader a deeper understanding of the destructive nature of war; “crimped petals”, “yellow bias” and “spasms of paper red” support the colourful imagery used by the poet. The metaphors used by the speaker, moreover, show how the mother cannot escape from an awareness of her son’s violent death: “spasms” and “bandaged” suggest that the son’s death was exceedingly heartless and brutal. The speaker’s memories enable her to maintain a connection with her son but she is unable to avoid think of injury and death. The use of colours and texture ...
...smile”; however, after listening to the introduction about every pen from the girl, the boy’s voice “filling with fear”. This marked contrast indicates the speaker’s impatience, and the audience can feel the development of the story clearly. If the attitudes of the speaker remained the same throughout the poem, it will create a lack of movement so that the audience cannot relate to the speaker.
Swam from/the ship somehow; /somehow began the/measured rise” (Hayden 4). The R sound that begins is the swimming through the water. The B sound that continues right after in “brittle belling” is the gasp of air, and finally, the S sounds that finish the line by creating a soft feeling. As if the reader might not get out in time, even though the lines are saying that the speaker does escape the ship. The fear the alliteration evokes from the reader is the unconscious.
Metaphors can detail the emotions soldiers feel from their endurance of war and the methods soldiers use in order to survive. The second stanza of the poem is an extended metaphor for conveying the pain soldiers feel when they breathe in gas. 'Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime…' portrays what sort of pain the soldier is going through and helping the reader understand what's it like in the battlefield. 'He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.' These metaphors show the comparison between a person who was attacked by the gas and a person drowning, the feeling of
From the beginning of the poem he states he is alone, but hearing the flute mean he is no longer alone. Therefore, he is even more anguished because now he is not alone, but he still alone with his emotions. It caused him to contemplate even more about his emotions, the war, his men fighting beside him, and his loneliness. Although the flute stirred more uncertain feelings, he felt torn as he still did not want the sound to go away because it still offered the solace of another person, even if there could be no
In the first part of the poem, Margaret Atwood alludes to stories about sirens, mythological creatures known for luring sailors to their deaths. This is done by mentioning what they were about, and giving some details about them. Atwood says “The song that forces men/To leap overboard in squadrons/Even though they see the beached skulls.” (Atwood 4-6) It also mentions the danger of the sirens and their hypnotic songs, as the myths state. As the poem goes on, irony becomes more and more present, as the speaker, who is implied to be a siren by the wording of the poem,
The character of Captain Cat is treated sympathetically by Thomas, his conversations with the dead a reminder of both death's immanence and of the importance of having no fear of this. Captain Cat relishes in life, surrounding himself with the things he loves, shown in his "seashelled, sh...
waits as he takes the character through a journey before entering?Eternity? 24. The syllable of the syllable. Another word of importance is the term?passed?. Used many times, especially in the third stanza, has multiple meanings in the poem.
Symbolism was used to express the Captains minds set. In the beginning paragraphs, the Captain is viewed as depressed, apprehensive, and insecure. The Captain viewed the land as insecure, whereas the sea was stable. The Captain was secure with the sea, and wished he were more like it.