The Survivor by Marilyn Chin is about she is trying to find her identity. Her mother is teaching her how to be just like her culture. Struggling to find a voice and survivors to be who she unquestionably is. The poem's speaker mistreated,gloomy and being isolated. She is a person who loss and assimilation if not loose your self. “That this world will be forever puce-pink as just as well”(Chin 15). The life she is having is try to fit in. “that your skin is yellow, not white, not black”(Chin 10). The occasion is she is in with her mother, in a house. I understand this a place while she the girl was in her childhood was difficult. “Don’t suck on your long black braid and weep”(Chin 5). Try to do what she has been told to do. “Don’t tarry around the big red sign that says “danger!”(Chin 5). …show more content…
The audience is narrow group, people operative on the wrong path, progressive through something. “That you have this way and not that,”(Chin 10). She is doing something they want it this way and not that way. “Don’t throw your teacup against the wall in anger.”(Chin 5). A purpose is the reason behind the text and theme. The purpose to let people know to be yourself and showing your identity, not losing yourself. “Remember, the survivor is not the strongest or most clever”(Chin 15). To let people know not to let people choose their path. “Merely, the survivor is almost always the youngest”(Chin
situation is not to surrender to fear and the author shows this idea throughout the poem that we
In the poem Survivor wrote by Marilyn Chin it states they she don’t know what she is in her ways she’s feels like she’s is confused about her race. In the poem she feels like she don’t understand where she is from because she s being raised in the american culture, but still trying to figure it out and she is thinking about it. Towards the end of the poem she has the figures out the conflict and she feels that the title will eventually go away.
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston portrays the complicated relationship between her and her mother, while growing up as a Chinese female in an American environment. She was surrounded by expectations and ideals about the inferior role that her culture imposed on women. In an ongoing battle with herself and her heritage, Kingston struggles to escape limitations on women that Chinese culture set. However, she eventually learns to accept both cultures as part of who she is. I was able to related to her as a Chinese female born and raised in America. I have faced the stereotypes and expectations that she had encountered my whole life and I too, have learned to accept both my Chinese and American culture.
Also, the word ‘remember’ indicate that Grace Dong-Mei have keep her mother’s command in mind and she actually do what her mother told her to do. This illustrate that Grace Dong-Mei take her mother’s commands as a guide of her action because she is not ascertain about her own decision that she needs her mother to guide her and to make her more confident about herself. Furthermore, when Grace Dong-Mei starts to grow up, she starts to become defiant due to the insistence of Jane Parker of getting Grace Dong-Mei to know more about her roots. Since Grace Dong-Mei is not mature enough to state her stance clearly that she is not accepting her culture, she finally take action: “So I tried playing dumb and deaf, with my mother especially, refusing to respond when she called me Dong-Mei” (2). The use of the verb ‘refusing’ suggest the idea of of developing rebellious phase and psychological resistance of Grace Dong-Mei while facing her own culture. The fact that Grace Dong-Mei is trying to play dumb and deaf with her mother shows her sarcastic defiance
The speaker begins the poem an ethereal tone masking the violent nature of her subject matter. The poem is set in the Elysian Fields, a paradise where the souls of the heroic and virtuous were sent (cite). Through her use of the words “dreamed”, “sweet women”, “blossoms” and
An individual’s solitude can come from the state of being alone; however, this word goes deeper for the purpose here. To be in a solitary state does not mean an individual is lonely or isolated in a negative way. The word instead means a chosen state in which an individual has time to reflect internally. This gives an individual time to observe and reflect. The observation can lead to a positive or negative response. This is seen in two contrasting poems: William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” and William Blake’s “London.” In Wordsworth’s poem, his persona is observing “[a] host, of golden daffodils” (Line 4). His persona is initially “lonely” but gains a sense of solitude after seeing these yellow flowers (1). This solitude allows him retreat to personally reflect on what he has seen. In Blake’s poem, this poet’s persona has not physically separated himself from other people. He is, instead, observing his external surroundings and internally reflecting on them. Each poet depicts a solitary speaker observing his surroundings. This reveals each individual’s internal reflection. The main contrast, however, arises when Wordsworth’s persona responds positively in observing the natural world, whereas Blake’s persona responds negatively in observing an industrial London.
The poem told the story of a man who is inhibited by language, and has never quite had the ability to articulate his thoughts and feeling through words. It is said that his family members have tried
This story is about a young Lady that lives in California with her mother and Father. She
...Also an important quote is when she says, "But today I realize I've never really known what it means to be Chinese. I am thirty-six years old" (857). Even though she was in her 30's and still had that identity crisis, it was uplifting knowing that all it took for her to resolve that conflict was one meeting with her sisters.
"On which lost the more by our love"(8) tells the reader that the poet is unhappy with the chatter and would rather be speaking of the unresolved problems betwee...
her good-byes to her own family because in the Chinese culture she is now part
Many times people express their feelings through words others can understand but in the poem, “Lost Soul” by Brianna Alvarez, she expresses her way of feeling and thought through poetic and literary devices. There is a use of imagery and the theme to imply heartbreak, suffrage, and hopelessness. The poem express how the speaker wants to be left alone of something or someone that has hurt or is hurting them.
The Wife?s Lament speaks movingly about loneliness, due to the speaker projecting the lonesomeness of the women who was exiled from society. The woman in the poem has been exiled from her husband and everything she loves, all she has is a single oak-tree to be comforted by. As she has been banished from all she loves, the tone becomes gloomy and depressing. The speaker uses expressions such as joyless and dark to create a sorrowful mood for the poem. As well as the expressions used in this poem, the setting also creates loneliness. The setting generates a darkened and desolate place which makes the woman feel exiled from society.
One of the most prevalent themes in poetry is that of alienation and despair. The two feelings are ones many poets delve into exploring and expressing