Poems Dealing with Parent/Child Relationships
All of these poems deal with parents’ relationships with and
reflections on their children. Show how the poets bring out their
feelings through use of theme, language, imagery and structure
The relationship between parent and child is one of great mystery and
also profundity. Love can survive a lifetime but can also falter
within a second, though the love of a parent for their child, their
offspring, no matter what, is eternal and unconditional. Though it is
hard to express a love so full of devotion, so powerful it can survive
generations, in to a few simple words. Yet here we have three poems
written over four centuries expressing the author’s love for their
child. Although the poems were written in a number of different eras,
where social stance, economy and living conditions were so different,
love is and will always be the same. Love can bring endless pain and
heartbreak but also immeasurable joy and happiness and this vast range
of emotions is captured in the three poems that we studied. The
earliest to be written being, ‘For my son Samuel, on his going to
England, Novem 6, 1687, wrote by Ann Bradstreet confessing her worries
over her sons departure on a sea voyage. A later poem was, a parental
ode to my son, aged 3 years and 5 months, by ‘Thomas Hood’, written in
a humorous style, with many contradictions. Then the modern poem,
written by Sylvia Plath relates to her body and state of mind during
the development of the foetus in her womb and how she thinks it will
grow. Although different at first glance, they all share the common
bond of parental love, so there are many underlying comparisons
between the three poems.
Firstly, we have the pre-twent...
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...e the nest and their parents protective love in order to achieve
full fulfilment. This poem also gives the reader the an idea of the
unbearable pain felt when having to let a part of you leave, I’m sure
every parent must also feel some sort of pride in this situation,
though in Ann Bradstreet’s poem any other emotion that she may be
feeling is masked by her grief. Each poem was clearly written in a
different era with the modern one more flowing and the earlier two,
sticking to a particular rhyming scheme. The use of archaic language
in the pre-twentieth century poems, I believe add a sense of clarity
even in thee humorous ode. Yet despite the time difference all of the
poems written and those that will be written in the future on this
subject, will contain a line or perhaps more that certainly comes from
the heart and speaks clearly to all generations..
Presentation of Family Relationships in Carol Anne Duffy's Poem Before You Were Mine and in One Poem by Simon Armitage
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.
Patricia Young’s poem Boys is a representation of implied heteronormacy in society. Young uses tropes and schemes such as allusion, metaphors and irony to convey the ways in which heterosexuality is pushed onto children from a young age. Poetry such as Boys is a common and effective medium to draw attention to the way society produces heteronormativity through gendered discourses that are typically used to understand sex. Boys does an excellent job at drawing its readers to the conclusion that it is an ironic poem trying to emphasize the over-excessive ways in which we express heterosexuality in daily life.
Is there a special type of family that everyone should follow and look up to?
To be labeled as a feminist is such a broad classification therefore it is divided into various subsections, one such subsection is known as hip hop feminism in which Ruth Nicole closely associates herself with throughout this essay I will thoroughly discuss this form of feminism. Ruth Nicole is a black woman that categorizes herself as a girl, by her definition a girl is far from independent. Black girlhood discusses the shared experiences of the ever-changing body, which has been marked as vibrant, Black, and female, along with memories and representations of being female. As a result, Ruth Nicole wrote Black Girlhood Celebration in order to share her personal and political motivations of working with black girls within the community. A conversation that is not often articulated about due to a language barrier. In which this discussion accurately details a means to work with black girls in such a way that does not control their body or pilfer black female individuality. Under those circumstances, Brown believes that black girls are being exploited for their physique through the use of music and instructed to conform to white norms constructed by society.
but moved from place to place after his father got a job in the Navy.
Open any number of parenting books that line the shelves of a bookstore and within the pages of those books a reader will find endless portrayals of a father’s role in a child’s life. Some portray an openly affectionate father that is fully involved in every aspect of a child’s life. Others portray a more detached father that focuses on one specific role within that child’s life. Traditionally, that one specific role is that of provider. Often, the manner in which a father communicates and shows his love for a child is based upon the role in which he plays. Accordingly, the poems “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden both portray the relationship between a father and son and the manner in which they communicate and show love. However, while love is visible within both poems, the relationships within each poem cannot be more different and it is through the authors’ use of imagery that such relationship is revealed.
Fabian Terrazas VT1701237 English 1, Part 2Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1. Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. (20 points) In my opinion communication does change us in a way like for example backthen we did not have smart phones like we do nowadays. Back then they would have to send letters with messengers and it will take the message awhile for it to get there. Now we can carry a phone in our pocket. We can send messages in seconds across the world and make phone calls as well. Communication changed the whole world.2. Provide an example of each poetic device from any of the assigned poems. For each quote, explain the author’s intended meaning. What is the author really
Romanticism is a major concept used in the 18th-19th centuries in revolt against Enlightened thinkers of prior centuries. The writer, Wordsword, is a poet that uses romantic ideas in his writings. Wordsword wrote the poem, “Daffodils”, using the characteristics of romanticism to develop the theme of nature’s connection to humanity. Wordsword uses appropriate setting, imagery, speaker, literary techniques, and other writing tools. These tools help his readers grasp the beauty and personality of daffodils.
Stanza two shows us how the baby is well looked after, yet is lacking the affection that small children need. The child experiences a ‘vague passing spasm of loss.’ The mother blocks out her child’s cries. There is a lack of contact and warmth between the pair.
The simultaneous distance and closeness within the relationship between the father and the child are inevitable even in the most tragic and happy events in life. The poems “Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad” by Jan Heller Levi and “In the Well” by Andrew Hudgins are both about the closeness and distance in a father and child relationship. Both poems are written in first person, or in the child’s point of view to emphasize the thoughts of distance and the experience of childhood thinking to the readers. The poems both use similar literary devices such as motifs and imagery to illustrate and accentuate the ideas of each event that the narrator, a child, experiences. Similarities between both poems are the use of water as a motif of the barrier to being farther away from the father, and the use of different synonyms for the word, father, to indicate the amount of distance at each point in the poems. On the other hand, each poem takes its route of distance in completely opposite directions. “Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad” by Jan Heller Levi and “In the Well” by Andrew Hudgins accommodate the similarities for the use of the same motif, water, and the use of several synonyms for “dad” throughout the poems, but also differentiate because they proceed in opposite directions from the beginning to the end.
In the essay I hope to explain why I picked each poem and to suggest
Love is one of the main sources that move the world, and poetry is not an exception, this shows completely the feelings of someone. In “Litany” written by Billy Collins, “Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims, “Song” by John Donne, “Love” by Matthew Dickman and “Last Night” by Sharon Olds navigate around the same theme. Nevertheless, they differ in formats and figurative language that would be compared. For this reason, the rhetoric figures used in the poems will conduct us to understand the insights thought of the authors and the arguments they want to support.
shows that the poet is so fixated in one woman that he is blinded by
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