Everyone has lost something, or someone that they love. When you lose someone that you love, you become very sad, and become very secluded from usual everyday activities. When this happens, we oftentimes feel that no one is there for us, and that there is no reason to go on. Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet, shows this in her poem ¨To Death¨ when she explains that she is willing to die at any time, as she has lost both her husband and child. Anna Akhmatova uses “To Death” to show that the loss of a loved one can make it so you do not want to live anymore. Akhmatova lived a life in constant struggle, with the most troublesome times being when she lost her husband, and then years later, her son. She lived in Russia during the time of the revolution, and stayed in Russia for the entire time. Akhmatova’s family, like many other Russian families, was broken …show more content…
One of the many forms of personification in the poem is when Akhmatova personifies death, and gives it many human characteristics. One example of this is when she says “You will come anyway-so why not now?/ I wait for you”(Akhmatova 1-2). In this quote, she is saying that she will die anyway, so why doesn't she just die now? She is personifying the death to be someone that she waits for. By doing this, Akhmatova adds greater detail to the poem, as well as she creates a better image of what she is going through and what it looks like. Not only this, but this sets up the rest of the poem. With death as a real life character, that can do things and that can make movements, it becomes the main character of the poem. An example of this is when she says “Poison me, if you want”(Akhmatova 80). Akhmatova is referring to the main character of the poem, death. Without the personification of death, there is no way that she can portray how she feels, and that she wants to
Death is sometimes considered unthinkable. People do not wish to think of loved ones dying. When someone close to us dies we are over come with sadness. We wish we had more time with them. Their death shows us the importance of that person’s role in our lives. We begin to think of how we will live our lives without them. We think of all the moments we shared with them, they live again in our memories. Perhaps death is considered unthinkable because we fe...
Uttering the final goodbye is never an easy thing to do. In many cases we never have the chance to say goodbye. Deep in our subconscious, we know our final moments in this world will eventually come. The question that leaves everyone in fear is when our final moments in this world will be, and whether we are able to say goodbye to the ones we love. Literary writers compose great pieces of writing that revolve around death. Sometimes it is not the death of a person, but rather, having something being ripped out of our hands; having no control. Take English poet Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “Upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666,” Bradstreet allows us to feel what she feels; when losing her home, she is rattled with anger towards God, but
When you die you no longer have control of your body or your thoughts. Thus, many people are afraid of death. In this novel, the idea of death seems to be associated with the idea of not being able to be who are truly are and not being able to do what you want to do. The main character David, has a hard time accepting his sexual orientation and his relation with people around him. He is not really himself with his father and instead pretends to be whom and what his father wants him to be to make his father believe that their relationship is okay. He also ashamed of being gay and hides it from his father as well. For David, the idea of death seems to represent how, even though he is alive he is really dead because he can’t allow himself to be who he really is. In addition to David, death is also used in Hella’s case as well. For instance, Hella mention, ““...I’m beginning to think that woman get attached to something by default. They’d give it up, if they could, anytime, for a man…But I think it kills them –perhaps I mean…’that it would have killed me’…” (Baldwin) In this instanst, death was not used directly, but the word kill seems to implied the same idea of being dead even though you are alive because you are not truly doing what you really want or being who you really are. In Hella’s case she did not seem to really want to get marry and was suspecting that something was up with David, but ends up coming back to David nonetheless because it is typical for a woman to set down with a family in
...e and death overtakes her” (Toth). Edna Pontellier began to deal with emotions that were just too overwhelming for her; she received a letter from Robert stating “I Love You. Good-by—because I love you” (Chopin 625). Losing someone you love and having the feeling of being useless can cause you to do the unthinkable. She may have thought of the children and her husband but “they need not have thought that they could possess her, body and soul.” (Chopin 627).
She personifies death as a gentleman who kindly takes her for a journey in his carriage. She also personifies immortality as a person riding with them in the carriage of the. She uses the paradox “The Cornice on the ground”. Whitman’s language is poetic and realistic. Both poems discuss the view of death, but from different perspectives.
Death and Grieving Imagine that the person you love most in the world dies. How would you cope with the loss? Death and grieving is an agonizing and inevitable part of life. No one is immune from death’s insidious and frigid grip. Individuals vary in their emotional reactions to loss.
Dickinson 's poem uses poetic devices of personification to represent death, she represents death as if it were a living being. Dickinson 's capitalization of the word “DEATH”, causes us to see death as a name, in turn it becomes noun, a person, and a being, rather than what it truly is, which is the culminating even of human life. The most notable use of this, is seen in the very first few lines of the poem when Dickinson says “Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me”. In her poem Dickinson makes death her companion, as it is the person who is accompanying her to her grave. She states that death kindly stopped for her and she even goes as far as to give death the human ability to stop and pick her up. The occasion of death through Dickinson use of personification makes it seem like an interaction between two living beings and as a result the poem takes on a thoughtful and light hearted tone. The humanization of death makes the experience more acceptable and less strange, death takes on a known, familiar, recognizable form which in turn makes the experience more relatable. As the poem
I have felt the pain of the loss of a Sister; have felt the pain of the death of my Mother, and felt the death of my Father. I know how it feels. I experienced it. It is painful, looking at those old kind folks who bore you; who took care of you; went through all kinds of sacrifices and pains just to look after you for years and years, until one day the child stood on one’s own two feet, and then … there they are, the parents, helpless and lifeless in front of you.
First of all, the speaker starts her poem personifying death as a kind gentleman who comes to pick her up for her death journey. It is obvious if the reader looks at “He kindly stopped me” (2). This kind of personification makes the reader feel that death is something normal and dealing with it is just like people dealing with each other.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Szymborska is fighting against the idea of Death having power over humanity by providing reasons not to let Death win, such as, laughing at the banality of Death. It isn’t something to be feared or revered. Szymborska points out all of Death’s misses, then she points out the beautiful things in life that thumbs its nose at Death. In the final lines of the poem, Szymborska writes, “As far as you’ve come / can’t be undone” (47-48). Although, Death means life has come to an end, life’s journeys and memories can never be erased; they will always be remembered. Ultimately, Death is meaningless in life and humanity has the advantage on Death. Life will always be more powerful than
Death and the grief that comes with it can be one of the hardest battles a person has to overcome.
The speaker believes that there is life after death, she believes that death isn’t the end but it is one step closer to eternity. She believes that death is something that happens to us and is not something we can challenge or decide when and how it happens. In the poem Dickenson presents death as something other than death. She uses the poetic device of personification to present death as if it was a human being. (Napierkowski 26-38.) She humanizes the experience making it more acceptable, fearsome and less abstract. (Napierkowski 26-38.) She capitalizes death to make the word more like someone’s name rather than being depicted as the end of human life. Dickenson describes “death” as her companion who is accompanying her to her resting place, her grave. (Napierkowski 26-38.) She states in the poem that “He kindly stopped for me.” Therefore making the event of death, through her use of personification an interaction between human
Imagery is a big component to most works of poetry. Authors strive to achieve a certain image for the reader to paint in their mind. Dickinson tries to paint a picture of ?death? in her own words. Thomas A. Johnson, an interpretive author of Dickinson's work, says that ?In 1863 Death came into full statue as a person. ?Because I could not stop for Death? is a superlative achievement wherein Death becomes one of the greatest characters of literature? (Johnson). Dickinson's picture to the audience is created by making ?Death? an actual character in the poem. By her constantly calling death either ?his? or ?he,? she denotes a specific person and gender. Dickinson also compares ?Death? to having the same human qualities as the other character in the poem. She has ?Death? physically arriving and taking the other character in the carriage with him. In the poem, Dickinson shows the reader her interpretation of what this person is going through as they are dying and being taken away by ?Death?. Dickinson gives images such as ?The Dews drew quivering and chill --? and ?A Swelling of the Ground --? (14, 18). In both of these lines, Dickinson has the reader conjure up subtle images of death. The ?quivering an chill? brings to the reader's mind of death being ...
One of the ideas that poets use in literature is the thought of immortality, something that cannot be control in real life but in fiction it can be As Emily Dickinson proves it in the stanza ‘’because I could not stop from death he kindly stop from me ‘’ (lit anthology) what she point out that even when least expected death can happen whether or not you are ready to depart from the world. In the poem the narrator is a dead woman that tell her process of dying she indicate her wish to live longer to live an eternal-life by using metaphor to show that death is just process of life that it cannot be stop from coming to you . In the second stanza Dickinson also uses simile to compare the act of death as a man seducing her ...
The loss of someone you love will leave you feeling empty inside, I know because I felt like that when my