In the poem "Charm" by Susan Telfer, the setting signifies to create a very dry-like enviroment, but, yet feeling the pleasure of paradise within it. The narrator has come to a garden of dry winds and dusty land where she expresses his memory of tasting the "soft piles of fruit swelled ripe." In the land of Keremeos, she explains that she parks "the van in dust by [the] roadside...crowded with orchards" and if you close your eyes, you can feel the humide of the wind just "dry out your lungs. Although the land is of "dry hills", the narrator speaks about the fruits to be exteremly amazing. As the narrator would "drive north onto the Okanagon shelf,... the scent of the perfumed peaches [soaked the entire van.".Overall, in the poem "Charm",
the narrator had clearly expressed the setting to be significant in its dusty land, however, having the most delicious fruits. Which is why she relates it to be the "first garden of creation."
Poverty is often taxing to one’s life in multiple ways, some of which include mind taxation, stress taxation, emotional taxation and of course money taxation. Mother Theresa once said “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty”. How would you find time to look for the one that would make you feel special and wanted, while having to live in situation which doesn’t forgive free time? “Night Waitress” by Linda Hull is poem that looks at daily life of a waitress who struggles to answer just that question.
Rituals, teachings, ceremonies and identities of the Aboriginal people were lost and neglected in the past. Even today, those of the culture continue to heal and strengthen from the consequences. In Louise Halfe’s poem “My Ledders,” a native woman addresses the Pope expressing her passionate feelings towards the traditions that were robbed of her culture, while pleading him to change the teachings back to the original way. In the letter the speaker writes as if she was speaking, using phonetic spelling and broken English, asking the Pope if he could use his power to retain the native culture, as the government may listen to him. Directly linking the losses of native traditions, customs and languages to the residential school system, the speaker uses orature combining a native dialect along with satire to express how the losses in one generation continue to affect the aboriginal identity in future generations.
In Tim Seibles' poem, The Case, he reviews the problematic situations of how white people are naturally born with an unfair privilege. Throughout the poem, he goes into detail about how colored people become uncomfortable when they realize that their skin color is different. Not only does it affect them in an everyday aspect, but also in emotional ways as well. He starts off with stating how white people are beautiful and continues on with how people enjoy their presence. Then he transitions into how people of color actually feel when they encounter a white person. After, he ends with the accusation of the white people in today's world that are still racist and hateful towards people of color.
Kim Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” portrays a speaker who contemplates the state of their romantic relationship though reflections of their partner’s tattoos. Addressing their partner, the speaker ambivalence towards the merits of the relationship, the speaker unhappily remains with their partner. Through the usage of contrasting visual and kinesthetic imagery, the speaker revels the reasons of their inability to embrace the relationship and showcases the extent of their paralysis. Exploring this theme, the poem discusses how inner conflicts can be powerful paralyzers.
Foulcher’s Summer Rain represents a juxtaposed view of suburbia towards the natural environment throughout his poem, as he explains societies daily repetitive tasks. This idea is expressed through Foulcher’s use of simile, in the stanza “steam rising from ovens and showers like mist across a swampland.” This simile makes the comparison between average tasks completed in the urban world, such as cooking or showering to a natural situation such as a swampland, creating a feeling of bother and discomfort for the readers, as swamplands are generally humid, insect ridden and muddy. This effectively makes the readers feel this way, not of the swamplands that are compared, but of the tasks in the home that are conveyed. Similarly, Foulcher uses simile in “clutter on the highway like abacus beads. No one dares overtake,” to illustrate the lack of free will in society as abacus beads are on a set path, there is no freedom or individuality. This demonstrates how where everything is busy and cramped, there is no room in society to notice the small simplistic divinities in the natural world around them. The complexity and mundanity of society causes the simplistic beauties of nature to be
Under the pear tree on that spring afternoon, Janie sees sensuality wherever she looks. "The first tiny bloom had opened. It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously" (10). Gazing across the garden...
Connie Fife is a Saskatchewan, Cree poet who writes using her unique perspective, telling of her personal experiences and upbringing. This perspective is revealed to her audience through the poems “This is not a Metaphor”, “I Have Become so Many Mountains”, and “She Who Remembers” all of which present a direct relationship to her traditional background and culture (Rosen-Garten, Goldrick-Jones 1010). To show the relationship of her experiences through her poetry, Fife uses the form of dramatic monologue, as well as modern language and literal writing to display themes about racism presenting her traditional viewpoint to her audience.
He described the fields of Ohio’s villages in autumn and their beauty. He described the “apples ripe”, the “grapes on the trellis’d vines”, “the sky so calm”. so transparent after the rain”. He made us feel as if we were smelling the grapes, the buckwheat and touch them. He made us hear the buzzing of the bees.
The speaker is posing herself as a Cree student in school who is being silently ostracized. The student hates the education system, as she thinks it is dull and tedious, and the teachers have no faith in her intellect. However, she does not stop at her frustration, as, in the poem we see a certain turn-around: she is sick of playing dead, and as a result, she makes a firm decision to push for change. In the poem “Communications Class,” Connie Fife shows through form and school imagery, the frustrating experience of ostracization in school, but also the resilience a student can exhibit against it.
When sorting through the Poems of Dorothy Parker you will seldom find a poem tha¬t you could describe as uplifting or cheerful. She speaks with a voice that doesn’t romanticize reality and some may even call her as pessimistic. Though she doesn’t have a buoyant writing style, I can empathize with her views on the challenges of life and love. We have all had experiences where a first bad impression can change how we view an opportunity to do the same thing again. Parker mostly writes in a satirical or sarcastic tone, which can be very entertaining to read and analyze.
'The Icarus Girl' is the novel by Helen Oyeyemi. It is a story of a little girl 'Jessamy Harrison' also called as 'Jess'. She is a shy girl. She loves reading books. She spends most of the time alone writing haikus. Sometimes she had a panic attacks also. She is sensitive, possessed and have powerful imagination. She was very alone because there is nobody of her age. Throughout the novel she read many books, fairy tales, novels, poetry, and plays. So, here I pick a poem 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which were read by Jess in the novel. She loved that poem as mentioned in the novel. I choose this poem because I think it was very similar to the character mentioned by Helen Oyeyemi 'Jess'. I also think it influences Jessamy's character. ‘Kubla Khan’ is one of the best-known poem of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This poem details of named Kubla Khan in the foreign land of Xanadu. Similarly, in the novel Helen describes about her main character 'Jess', which was going to Nigeria, which was also a foreign land for her. Nigeria is the different world for her. In this poem, poet describes the familiar themes of the powers and complexities of nature, explores the fantastical creations of the imagination. Similarly, in the novel Jess had also a powerful imagination. In the first stanza, poet describes an exotic garden, where the trees, gardens, hills, and river, together present the beautiful nature. The poet carefully observes his surroundings. Xanadu is described more romantically in the second stanza. The poet describes his own vision and power of imagination that comes only from a successful poet. 'Kubla Khan' describes in two parts. The first, describes Xanadu as if poet is actually there, experiencing the place. The poem start...
Discuss how intertextuality allows Dobson’s poetry to resonate across time and place. In a society determined to identify and correct every one of the never ending inequalities and injustices of life, Rosemary Dobson provides an alternate perspective. Dobson’s poetry creates the concept of equal opportunity. This is the idea that in fact, everyone on Earth that has ever existed has been born into their lives with an equal and proportionate chance at achieving success and happiness, within their given circumstances.
While it is not one of his most famous poems, John Dryden wrote You charm’d me not with that fair face sometime in the mid to late 17th century and added to his career as one of the greatest English poets of his time. Born into an English Puritan family in 1631 and dying in 1700, Dryden became known for his satire and other occasional poems; however, he was also a well-known playwright and critic. In this particular poem, You charm’d me not with that fair face, John Dryden wrote about unexpected conflicts in love using multiple literary devices throughout the poem, including quatrain, rhyme scheme, and alliteration.
In the first stanza, the poet seems to be offering a conventional romanticized view of Nature:
The world is full a mean people Melody in the book Out of My Mind knows this very well. Melody has not been able to walk and talk since she was born. Her biggest dream would be able to talk. She has so many ideas and thoughts to share with people and is hard to that without talking. Melody is a very intelligent person. She seems to do very well in school and gets good grades. A lot of people think that this is because of the special ed teacher helping her and giving her all the answers. Melody tries to live like a regular girl in school but she knows that, that is not going to happen. Throughout the book melody goes the struggles and challenge of school and life. In the book Out of My Mind by Sharon M Draper Melody the main character is influenced by