In the song “Church Bells” by Carrie Underwood the meaning truly hits home. The meaning of the song is money is not worth sacrificing happiness. In the song Jenny grows up poor. She then marries a rich man but he ends up abusing her and stealing her happiness. She married for money but ended up regretting it. In her song, Carrie Underwood describes Jenny, “Jenny grew up wild, like a blackfoot daisy” (1) and “broke as hell” (3). These are both examples of similes. These help to portray the meaning of the poem by explaining how Jenny grew up as a rough and tumble country girl. A blackfoot daisy is a type of wildflower and by comparing Jenny to this it shows she was wild. The other simile compares Jenny's family's finances to something terrible. …show more content…
No one should let others opinions influence what they do and no one should not do something because they are worried what others will think. In the poem the narrator tells the story of a person who is scared to talk about themselves because they were criticized once for it. They are worried about others opinion and spend their time working to be liked by everyone. The stanzas in the poem help to emphasize the meaning of the poem by breaking it up into three different parts of the story. The first part talks about the incident where the person the narrator was talking about was hurt. The narrator recalls the incident while talking to the person they wrote the poem about, “do you remember the first time you were called annoying/how your breath stopped short in your chest” (1-2). The person in which the poem was about was hurt because of something someone said to them. They were called annoying and didn't know how to respond because they took the insult to heart. The second stanza talks about how the person in which the poem was wrote about is still hurt. The narrator shows the person who the poem is wrote about is still hurt, “you’re 20 now/ and I still see the light fade from your eyes when you talk about your interests for too long”(8-9). The person who the poem wrote about is still hurt by what someone said to them when they were thirteen. Someone called them …show more content…
Most people in the world today strive to fit in and be the same as everyone else. The narrator in the poem writes the poem describing how disgusted she is with the world. Everyone is trying to be the same where she is at and she is ready to be herself. Candice notes, “sea of fakes” (1), which is an example of a symbol. Sea of fakes is really referring to her school. The authors school is full of fakes, people pretending to be something they are not, trying to fit in with the crowd. No one is being the true themselves. Candice creates an image for the reader, “I wince as I behold skin-tight jeans and skirts and shirts so tight when they breath it probably hurts/ it's odd how the supposedly "real" people are wearing what everyone else is wearing/ saying what everyone else is saying” (7-9). This section of lines in the poem gives the reader a description of a school full of identical people. Everyone is wearing the same thing and acting the same. She talks about skirts so tight people can hardly breathe. These people are putting themselves through torture just to fit in. The reader can see a picture in their mind of a group of girls all wearing skimpy clothing just so they can be liked. This line helps to convey the meaning by explaining that trying to fit in isn't the answer. These girls are all uncomfortable and unable to be themselves because they are concerned what others will
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
In the end, the poem is looking to show what actions can do in the long run. It teaches us to be very cautious with everything we do since it can affect the people around us. It can have good or bad
trauma can have on someone, even in adulthood. The speaker of the poem invokes sadness and
The poem starts with the line, “This girlchild was born as usual,” which suggests that as soon as a girl is born, society already expects her to learn the role she will soon play in when she hits puberty (1). Thus, showing why we are given dolls as little girls to illustrate how we should act and appear according to society. After we learn all the roles we will soon take part in, “the magic of puberty,” hits and girls immediately begin applying the ideals to their own lives (5). As if this attempt to conform is not enough we have other people telling us we are not to perfect. “You have a great big nose and fat legs,” says a classmate to the girl (6). This type of pressure can slowly but surely destroy even the little confidence women do have in themselves.
The tone of Listening to grownups quarreling, has a completely different impact. When reading this poem, the reader has a more sad outlook on the thoughts of this author’s memories. Whitman uses ...
The poem told the story of a man who is inhibited by language, and has never quite had the ability to articulate his thoughts and feeling through words. It is said that his family members have tried
The speaker reflects on the teenage girl’s childhood as she recalls the girl played with “dolls that did pee-pee” (2). This childish description allows the speaker to explain the innocence of the little girl. As a result, the reader immediately feels connected to this cute and innocent young girl. However, the speaker’s diction evolves as the girl grew into a teenager as she proclaims: “She was healthy, tested intelligent, / possessed strong arms and back, / abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity” (7-9). The speaker applies polished language to illustrate the teen. This causes the reader not only to see the girl as an adult, but also to begin to grasp the importance of her situation. The speaker expresses what the bullies told this girl as she explains: “She was advised to play coy, / exhorted to come on hearty” (12-13). The sophisticated diction shifts towards the girl’s oppressors and their cruel demands of her. Because of this, the reader is aware of the extent of the girl’s abuse. The speaker utilizes an intriguing simile as she announces: “Her good nature wore out / like a fan belt” (15-16). The maturity of the speaker’s word choice becomes evident as she uses a simile a young reader would not understand. This keeps the mature reader focused and allows him to fully understand the somberness of this poem. The speaker concludes the poem as she depicts the teenage girl’s appearance at her funeral: “In the casket displayed on satin she lay / with the undertaker’s cosmetics painted on” (19-20). The speaker elects not to describe the dead girl in an unclear and ingenuous manner. Rather, she is very clear and
The poem also focuses on what life was like in the sixties. It tells of black freedom marches in the South how they effected one family. It told of how our peace officers reacted to marches with clubs, hoses, guns, and jail. They were fierce and wild and a black child would be no match for them. The mother refused to let her child march in the wild streets of Birmingham and sent her to the safest place that no harm would become of her daughter.
In a typical family, there are parents that expected to hear things when their teenager is rebelling against them: slamming the door, shouting at each other, and protests on what they could do or what they should not do. Their little baby is growing up, testing their wings of adulthood; they are not the small child that wanted their mommy to read a book to them or to kiss their hurts away and most probably, they are thinking that anything that their parents told them are certainly could not be right. The poem talks about a conflict between the author and her son when he was in his adolescence. In the first stanza, a misunderstanding about a math problem turns into a family argument that shows the classic rift between the generation of the parent and the teenager. Despite the misunderstandings between the parent and child, there is a loving bond between them. The imagery, contrasting tones, connotative diction, and symbolism in the poem reflect these two sides of the relationship.
... Therefore, instead of losing mental stability because of old memories, one should try to embrace sanity and perpetuate it in life. Moreover, the poem emulates society because people fantasize about looking a certain way and feeling a certain way; however, they are meddling with their natural beauty and sometimes end up looking worse than before. For instance, old men and women inject their faces to resemble those in their youth, but they worsen their mental and physical state by executing such actions. To conclude, one should embrace her appearance because aging is inevitable.
The poem “Bell Theory", written by Emily Jungmin Yoon is portraying her dissatisfaction with how she been treated in the United States. She is basically stereotyped daily and made fun of for mispronunciations of words. She uses poetic devices such as imagery, repetition, and metaphors to symbolize her disapproval and emphasize her melodramatic chaotic life. Jungmin also used things such as real life references for example tensions between Japan and Korea to depict how stereotypes are not only a thing between Americans and Asians but between Asians themselves as well. The crux of the poem is that no matter how closely related you are people will always find a way to differentiate themselves and call themselves superior.
The poem says that "since feeling is first" (line 1) the one who pays attention to the meaning of things will never truly embrace. The poem states that it is better to be a fool, or to live by emotions while one is young. The narrator declares that his "blood approves" (line 7) showing that his heart approves of living by feeling, and that the fate of feeling enjoyment is better than one of "wisdom" (line 9) or learning. He tells his "lady" (line 10) not to cry, showing that he is speaking to her. He believes that she can make him feel better than anything he could think of, because her "eyelids" (line 12) say that they are "for each other" (line 13). Then, after all she's said and thought, his "lady" forgets the seriousness of thought and leans into the narrator's arms because life is not a "paragraph" (line 15), meaning that life is brief. The last line in the poem is a statement which means that death is no small thi...
She only allows her to see her worth in having a clean home and a satisfied man. She never once tells the girl to follow her dreams or even talk about what they are. The mother only keeps on instructing her on even the simplest things like smiling : “...this is how you smile to someone you don 't like too much;this is how you smile at someone you don 't like at all;this is how you smile to someone you like completely...” this poem is filled with the phrases “this is how”. “ don’t do this”, and “ be sure to..” the speaker does not even give the girl a chance to speak her mind or form her own thoughts. The young girl was only able to get one sentence out the whole poem : “...but what if the baker won 't let me feel the bread?”
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.
In the second stanza, the poet says that women are the cause that make her write poems because of the stereotypes against them, which give her a strong desire to challenge. Therefore, she takes women’s stories and writes them in poetry. She describes herself as a “seamstress” and without the dresses of women, she would be a seamstress without work, but her friends give her their dresses (their stori...