What bows down to quite literally everything that it comes into contact with? Tricky question right? The answer is grass. You may ask yourself why she wrote such a detailed story on this topic, I know I did. Then I began to think about more reasons for the resemblance of the grass to the human characteristics. While reading this poem the line that states, "and bow to everything" I really thought about what this could have meant. The grass really does bow down to everything, and I can see how she might have been referring to a person who always backs down. The grass has no choice but to bow when we place our foot on it. This is very similar to someone who everyone walks all over without any resistance. We all know someone who resembles these qualities, and you might even be this person now that you are thinking about it.
I think that the poem has a specific meaning that symbolizes the life of a girl who compares her life to grass. This
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poem is very gentle and smooth, with a unique organization that she went by when writing it. By reading the poem multiple times I know that there is a deeper meaning to what each part of it really exemplifies. The mood that Dickenson seems to portray in this poem is soft, simple, and idealistic. She makes the grass seem like such a beautiful and amazing thing. It personifies the grass by saying that it "has bees to entertain", "and bow to everything", and "hold the sunshine in its lap"(Emily Dickenson). These are all different qualities of a living thing, and things that happen in ones life. The tone or attitude that I feel while reading this is very serene. Even when there is a chance for a transition to another tone, she keeps the same mellow way of speaking. I think this is a very important aspect to how the story flows. She almost makes it seem like a daydream, because of how real the grass seems. I pulled a quote from The Prowling Bee that went along with my feelings, and it goes, "The Fairy Queen, or perhaps a 30-some woman much like Dickenson, is lying on a rise in the meadow resting in profound enjoyment. The poem seems like a daydream taken from the quiet vantage."(The Prowling Bee) This statement also leads me to believe that she was unhappy with some aspect in her life, and she planned on changing it. We've all been in a position where we are at our wits end with something, and we will do just about anything to change it. The theme of this poem has a lot to do with that deeper meaning that I mentioned. I did some reading on a few different analysis' of the poem, and I have came to the conclusion that the story is about a very beautiful woman. The only downfall to this woman is that everyone wants her to be still like the grass and do nothing, but she does not want it that way. According to a post on Team Liquid, "if it is a woman's job to be grass and do nothing all day, well, Dickenson would rather be dirty, ugly, hay."(poem analysis). This goes further into that feeling of wanting a change in the live you are living. I am guessing that the character in the story has been dealing with these things for a very long time. You can tell that she isn't aggressive about her motives though, she simply wants a transformation to give her the life the dreams of. This is understandable when you think about how boring the life of grass really is. The poem's title literally says that is has so little to do. It would be a pretty boring life, and I understand where she is coming from for wanting to gain her freedom. As far as the direct context of them poem goes, it is a build up things that are all about the life of grass.
It reasonably describes the day in the life of, well, grass. After reading it a few times, and paying more attention to the personification, I could tell that there was more to it then we are led on to think. I more indirect or deeper context is based about it actually being about someone. After knowing this I was torn between it being about people in general, or about a specific person. The poem was then almost a completely different story, because I had figured it out.
I was able to find a pattern of stressed and unstressed words throughout the poem without it being exactly iambic pentameter. The organization changed throughout, but it keeps the stressed and unstressed aspect. According to Team liquid, "You will notice that every other beat is stressed, and the last beat is doubly highlighted since it is both at the end of a line and stressed"(Poem Analysis). At some points this changes, but this is the basic lay
out. All in all this poem implies that a girl who was portrayed by grass is very determined to make some changes in her life. Emily Dickenson created a character that resembled herself, and then made it about grass to make the reader stop and question themselves. I find that the best poems are the ones that make you stop and think about what you just read, and what deeper meaning could be hiding between the lines. Which is exactly what she did in this story. Emily Dickenson wrote this poem about grass, giving it life and relating it to some human condition. She coded this poem with grass, when realistically it was about a beautiful girl who was not okay with the way she was expected to live. She would rather be "hay" by this she means not as appealing as she is now; just so she could live in a way that would make her happy. The poem did have a deeper meaning that just the daily life of grass. It was in the end about a girl who was done "bowing down", and she planned to change her way of living indefinitely.
...ntion of memories sweeping past, making it seem that the grass is bent by the memories like it is from wind. The grass here is a metaphor for the people, this is clear in the last line, “then learns to again to stand.” No matter what happens it always gets back up.
At the beginning of the poem, the speaker starts by telling the reader the place, time and activity he is doing, stating that he saw something that he will always remember. His description of his view is explained through simile for example “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets of their branches” (Updike), captivating the reader’s attention
Walt Whitman's seventh poem in his work, Leaves of Grass, displays the subtlety with which the poet is able to manipulate the reader's emotions. In this poem there are no particular emotional images, but the overall image painted by word choice and use of sounds is quite profound. This poem, like many others written by Walt Whitman, is somewhat somber in mood, but not morose. It is serious, but not to the point of gloom. Whitman writes concerning the general idea that everything is merged together and is one. One cannot die without being born, just as one cannot be a mother without first having one. The purpose of the poem is to show those things that are real are true and holy, and even more importantly unified. In this poem he is speaking as some sort of omnipotent being, perhaps God or a soul.
After reading this poem by Robert Frost, I was left with many different ideas about this work. I believe one could take this poem in a literal sense to actually be about a window flower and the wind. I also believe, however, that this poem perhaps has a bit of a deeper meaning.
There are a couple of similes the author uses in the poem to stress the helplessness she felt in childhood. In the lines, “The tears/ running down like mud” (11,12), the reader may notice the words sliding down the page in lines 12-14 like mud and tears that flowed in childhood days. The speaker compares a...
This poem helps us to recognize and appreciate beauty through its dream sequence and symbolism. The poem opens with the Dreamer describing this
In stanza six of the poem "Song of Myself", by Walt Whitman, he poses the question "What is the grass?" I believe that grass is a metaphor for the cycle of life. Throughout the poem Whitman points out images that grass could represent. All of these images stem from the life and death that we come to expect in our lifetime. During your life you will experience death, it at times surrounds you, but if you look past the grief and look to the beauty you will see that it is a cycle that keeps our world in balance. The images of flags, tears, children and older people that are torn from the ones they love, but only to soon return to other lost ones are all parts of Walt Whitman's poem.
In the first stanza, the poet seems to be offering a conventional romanticized view of Nature:
My first and immediate explanation for the poem was an address from one lover to a loved one, where distance became a factor in their relationship. The lover has it far worse than the desired partner and the solitude builds nothing but longing for this person at a time when his love is the greatest. He says " What have I to say to you when we shall meet?... I am alone" with my head knocked against the sky”. He further asks, “How can I tell if I shall ever love you again as I do now?” There is uncertainty because he is wondering over the next encounter with his loved one. He says, “I lie here thinking of you” and is compelling when he wants the loved one to see him in the 5th stanza and what love is doing to his state of mind. He is hopeless and expresses it by asking questions he is unsure of, conveying his troubled state. Williams enforces imagery along with sound effects to demonstrate the despair of the man in a realm that is almost dreamlike with purple skies,spoiled colors, and birds. Stating he is alone and that his head collides with the sky may underline the man’s confusion. He also uses imagery in the “stain of love as it eats into the leaves”, and saffron horned branches, vivid and easy-to-imagine images that captivate the reader. The line stating “a smooth purple sky” and this stain which is “spoiling the colours of the whole world” easily formulate a very distinct picture. Through consonance words like “eats” and “smears with saffron” become fiercer in the eyes of this lover as they cancel out a “smooth sky”.
real life and a story which is being told in the poem. To me it seems
...za there is personification in the line, “the vapors weep their burthen to the ground”. There is also a sense of irony with, “man comes and tills the field and lies beneath” because its humans working the land for crops that help them survive, only to be buried beneath it when they pass away. In the second stanza, the God granting his wish is described by the smilie, “Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile, like wealthy men who care not how they give”.
“Song of Myself” is written completely in free verse, as it has no consistent poetic form throughout. In my opinion, this could resemble how life really has no set rhythm or length. From what I have read, the image of grass is mentioned several times throughout the poem, and is observed by Whitman in many different lights.
The tone in the first 11 stanzas of the poem seems very resigned; the speaker has accepted that the world is moving on without them. They says things like “I don’t reproach the spring for starting up again” and “I don’t resent the view for its vista of a sun-dazzled bay”. By using words like “resent” and “reproach”, the author indirectly implies that the speaker has a reason to dislike beautiful things. The grief that has affected the speaker so much hasn’t affected life itself and they has come to accept that. The author chooses to use phrases like ‘it doesn’t pain me to see” and “I respect their right” which show how the speaker has completely detached themself from the word around them. While everything outside is starting to come back to life, the speaker is anything but lively. “I expect nothing from the depths near the woods.” They don’t expect anything from the world and want the world to do the same thing in return. This detachment proves that the speaker feels resigned about themself and the world around
I can picture him seeing life and feeling it in every flower, ant, and piece of grass that crosses his path. The emotion he feels is strongly suggested in this line "To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." Not only is this showing the kind of fulfillment he receives from nature, but also the power that nature possesses in his mind.... ... middle of paper ... ...
As the poem progresses, the speaker’s attitude changes in (line 26), where he tells us that his mood is lowered. It is here that the speaker presents himself as “a happy child of earth” in (line 31); as once again Wordsworth... ... middle of paper ... ... / Of the unfinished sheepfold may be seen / Besides the boisterous brook of Greenhead Ghyll,” showing the growth of human beings in relative notion to nature.