To me, it seems as though Kraut is being blunt with herself producing a tone that is honest, but coming off harsh. These non-makeup items are what is concealing her face as if they were makeup. The only color she has to her face is from drinking (Lines 1 and 2). Is something in her life driving her to drink? It is almost as if she does in fact have much going on in her life, but covers it up with makeup in an ineffective way, the blemishes are still visible physically. It emphasizes the meaning since she is being honest with the reader, but it comes off harsh as if she’s being nonchalant about it and does not care. I feel like what Kraut is trying to convey in this poem is to show indirectly with her facial features the current hardships going
Sound: Soft, low beat, melodic music to demonstrate the sadness and insecurity under all the makeup that she feels
“Don’t say it's disgusting. Don’t say it’s disgusting” is what I think when I’m presented with foods I don’t like. We all face the challenge of keeping our inner thoughts to ourselves, and some of us are better than others. Poet Carolyn Kizer presents this idea in her poem “Bitch”. In her poem, Kizer uses a unique format and literary devices to effectively describe an interaction between former lovers.
The places in which we live are an integral and inescapable aspect of who we are, as they largely determine culture, community, and determine the outlook that one has on the rest of the world. In the American South, physical and cultural geography has played a particularly important role in the historical and modern contexts of racial relations. The dynamic between enslaved peoples and the natural landscape is a complex one that offers innumerable interpretations, but inarguably serves as a marker of the wounds created by institutional racism and human enslavement. In her collection of poems entitled Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey utilizes external features of the natural environment in the South in order to communicate the repressed grief, both personal and collective, which can arise as a result of inflicted systemic violence. Through comparing part one of Native Guard, which focuses on
Nearly everyone has had that dreadful encounter with the last person they want to see in places like the supermarket, dry cleaners, or the movie theaters. What follows are a few awkward moments of strained conversation while one looks for signs of bitter regret in the eyes of his or her ex. Carolyn Krizer’s poem “Bitch” depicts such a meeting. The poem brings the reader to reality of what really goes on deep beyond conversation while seeing an ex. Through the use of personification, diction, and tone Kizer delineates the speaker’s struggle with feelings of animosity, repression, and desire for reconciliation.
... she is indeed angered and fed up at the fact that there is a stereotype. The way in which she contradicts herself makes it hard for readers to understand the true meaning or point to her poem, the voice was angry and ready for change, yet the actions that the individual was participating in raised questions of whether or not he actually fit the stereotype.
Her face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made, like an expensive baby doll, skin like flesh- colored enamel, blend of white and cream and baby-blue eyes, small nose, pink little nostrils-everything working together except the color on her lips and fingernails, and the size of her bosom.
In this picture the lady is hiding because she does not want to show the pain she is feeling, so she keeps it bottled up inside. She buries her true self by “wearing” these masks and fake smiles. For example, “This debt we pay to human guile;/ With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,” translating to we put up that face to hide the pain others put us through, we try our best to smile. When you look at the poem “We Wear the Mask”, they seem similar to that of those in the picture of that girl. “We Wear the Mask- We wear the mask that grins and lies,/ It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes-,” meaning “We look as though we are something that we are not” and “We show a completely different face than what our emotions feel”. It emphasizes what the girl in the picture also portrays she’s
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.
While reading the poem the reader can imply that the father provides for his wife and son, but deals with the stress of having to work hard in a bad way. He may do what it takes to make sure his family is stable, but while doing so he is getting drunk and beating his son. For example, in lines 1 and 2, “The whisky on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy” symbolizes how much the father was drinking. He was drinking so much, the scent was too much to take. Lines 7 and 8, “My mother’s countenance, Could not unfrown itself.” This helps the reader understand the mother’s perspective on things. She is unhappy seeing what is going on which is why she is frowning. Although she never says anything it can be implied that because of the fact that the mother never speaks up just shows how scared she could be of her drunk husband. Lines 9 and 10, “The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle”, with this line the reader is able to see using imagery that the father is a hard worker because as said above his knuckle was battered. The reader can also take this in a different direction by saying that his hand was battered from beating his child as well. Lastly, lines 13 and 14, “You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt” As well as the quote above this quote shows that the father was beating his child with his dirty hand from all the work the father has
The ship would take him and his crew to many places, mainly in Western Africa. Hughes was so excited to finally see Africa and to be apart of the culture there. When the ship finally reached shore, Hughes was disappointed. Thinking that Africa was actually pretty ridiculous with men walking around in white gowns, women showing their breast and little children running around naked. There were also many brothels there that Hughes described the setting as little African boys bringing the crew members to see ‘my sister, two shillings’. These brothels not only disgusted Hughes, but also disappointed him on how the Africans praised them. Hughes wrote in his journal, which is now protected at Yale University, calling them “vile houses of rotting
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes.” My first thought was this poem was written by an avid actor. I believed he was explaining the difference between himself on and off stage. It turns out I was totally wrong after reading through the rest of the poem. The mask is a symbol. It is a symbol of the heartache each African-American faced in the 19th century. The heartache they rarely displayed because of the fear of what would happen to them if they began an uprising against the white culture.
“Sloth” p. 21 I was over thinking this poem and trying to make a frog connection for the first few readings. I am old enough to remember Clifford the rasta muppet from the Muppet Show, so the second stanza’s mention of “else rasta muppet who’s fur teems with green alge”, made me think of the Muppets and Kermit. Initially, I had to look up camaru and jatobi and lianas and it helped in determining the setting of the poem. Even though the title of the poem is sloth, I still kept trying to make the frog connection, but once I researched sloth, it all came together.
Coleridge successfully illustrates the qualities of imagination in his poem, Kubla Khan, through the sound of words, the creative content and his ability to create and recreate. Coleridge turns the words of the poem into a system of symbols that are suspended in the reader’s mind. Coleridge uses creative powers to establish the infinite I AM, a quality of the primary imagination. Coleridge mirrors his primary and secondary imagination in the poem by taking apart and recreating images. The qualities of imagination discussed in the poem exist independently but also work together to create an imaginative world. It is important to understand how the poem works to achieve these qualities, but also how the poem works to bring the reader back to reality. The powers and qualities of imagination are present in Kubla Khan and it is through Coleridge’s extraordinary writing that the reader is able to experience an imaginative world, in which we alternate between reality and imagination.
“Art for art’s sake” originated from an old French slogan hundreds of years ago, but it has held true for many of the world’s most prominent poets (Landow). “Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge exemplifies this principle. Its 54 lines are bursting with numerous literary techniques and styles that continually sway between manmade establishments and the wilderness, resulting in a visionary, dreamy environment for the reader. Coleridge utilizes a changing rhythm, frequent repetitions, intense imagery, and several contrasts to reveal a theme centered about poetic creativity and the relationship between humanity and nature.
Yvor Winters is a modern poet, but he is very much a traditionalist. His poems, written in the traditional form, are works of art. Poetry is a stimulating art that when properly mastered can exhume beautiful emotions from its readers. Proper forms, structure, grammar, rhyme scheme, all are elements of traditional poetry, and all, in my opinion, are elements of lovely poetry. I will argue that Yvor Winters poetic theory, The Fallacy of Expressive Form, written in 1939, arguing that poetry must be traditionally written can be tested using a Non Traditional song, Seven Nation Army by The White Stripe, and a Traditional poem, Incident by Countee Cullen; I will then explicate each poem to further explain my thesis. I find the traditional form of poetry much more pleasurable to read because of the intellect it shows and the beauty it creates. “To let the form of a poem succumb to its matter is and always will be the destruction of poetry”