The poem "Enlightenment" is a narrative poem written by Crystal Williams in 1994. Most of Crystal's poems are sympathetic, which plays a huge role on the central message. Crystal writes narrative poems where she is the speaker. In the poem "Enlightenment" the speaker is directed at the woman, who seems to be driving angrily. The woman also seems desperate to have a race car, for she used tape to make her car look like a race car. The poems continues describing tragedies, where at the end the speaker teaches both the woman and the audience a lesson. The literary elements that are incorporated in the poem are structure, and point of view. These literary elements helped the readers understand that desires should come second to needs, and you should appreciate what you have. One of …show more content…
The poem is divided not only into stanza, but also lines. Most of the separate lines connect to other lines. "Our want is just one of many in line of wants & the line of wants is ancillary to the line of needs/ people close to you are hungry & you have ignored it. People close to you have lost their jobs" (Williams lines 10-13). This is an example of two sentences from the poem that connect with each other. This quote is connected with a similar idea, that your desire is secondary to your needs. The structure of the poem is significant because emphasizes the main idea of the separated lines. " Which she has done, which is what it means to want, but not have/ in a city stacked with desire, to know that desire is our most ruinous trait," (Williams lines 7-8). This demonstrates that desires could ruin people; furthermore, people have more important needs that should come before anything else. The poem's structure is significant in understanding the central message because it emphasizes the needs that should come before your
Williams’ minimalist writing style employed free verse and by maintaining simplicity allowed the wheelbarrow to be the center of attention. He accomplished this task by breaking up the poem, which consisted of one sentence, into eight lines and further divided it into couplets. The beginning line of each couplet was longer than the second line, which only had one word. This formation allowed the reader to focus on specific words before moving to the next line. This is best illustrated in the opening lines, “so much depends/upon,” (Williams 288). Already, Williams has established the importance of the object by conveying to the reader that many things are dependent on the object. It is also significant that none of the words in the poem are capitalized nor did Williams
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
The poet begins by describing the scene to paint a picture in the reader’s mind and elaborates on how the sky and the ground work in harmony. This is almost a story like layout with a beginning a complication and an ending. Thus the poem has a story like feel to it. At first it may not be clear why the poem is broken up into three- five line stanzas. The poet deliberately used this line stanzas as the most appropriate way to separate scenes and emotions to create a story like format.
This line was very unexpected and this line makes the poem what it is. The poem transition from a love poem to a darker more painful story. The tone of the poem also shifts to a more eerie tone. Another thing about the third stanza is that at this moment in the poem, I can connect the poem to the Greek mythological story of Persephone and Hades. The allusion sets up the rest of the poem and gives the poem a lot more meaning.
result it has on people. In all three poems the last line of the poems
The first six lines of the poem highlight the incompetence of love when compared to the basic supplies for life. Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; It is quite obvious that the narrator highlights everything that requires living in line 1 through 6. Line 1 depicts the deficiency of love as a thing that is not able to provide food as compared to “meat” (1): love cannot hydrate a man as signified by “drink” (1): love cannot refresh a man as signified by “slumber” (2): it does not offer shelter as signified by “a roof against the rain” (2): love cannot give a preserving “floating spar” to a man who is in peril (3): nor will love give air to a “thickened lung” (5): love cannot “set the fractured bone” (6). The narrator describes love as a worthless element in the first 6 lines, but line 7 and line 8 express a tremendous level of violence that people are willing to commit because of the lack of love: “ Yet many a man is making friends with death / Even as I speak, for lack of love alone” (7-8). Line 7 and line 8 is an evidence to prove that no matter what the poet says about love, people are willing to die for it because it is important.
The structure of the poem shows the hierarchy of difference in itself. The poem consists of six stanzas, all of which are eight lines each. The poem is divided into two sections: the first three stanzas describe the effects of the empire- builder and the last three stanzas describe th...
These poems are not as complex when compared to other poems, and with that being said they do not take an abundance of inference to determine the theme of the poem. Because they are not as complex as others all 3 of these poems are capable of being paraphrased to better understand the main idea of the poem. When putting the poem into different words, one can
Each stanza is composed of words that present a logical flow of growth through the entire poem. The words in the poem do not rhyme and the lines are different lengths.
In relation to structure and style, the poem contains six stanzas of varying lengths. The first, second, and fourth stanzas
Yes I can are important words for Marie Williams and for good reasons. She is a successful student at Maranatha Bible College & Institute (MCBI). Like for many, her path for biblical education is not totally determined. Yet, she continues to learn more about the Word of God for her ministry, teaching and self-development. Marie is has benefitted from the skilled instructors at MBCI who she describes as creative, knowledgeable and committed to the success of each student. She reflects on an instructor who googles right on the spot. He really is an advocate for researching the answers to complicated questions. This is an approach that is appealing to the Millennials who are noted for using the 5 R’s of research-based,
A consistent structure, with the exception of stanza three, is found within the poem. The speaker almost seems to be creating a cause and effect list. Berry’s choice to begin every stanza
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”.
The poem is divided into 2 Stanza's with 3 lines each. And there are an
... since it deals with the growth of the mind. Therefore, the poet uses syntax and form to emphasize on the important matters that occurred in each stanza.