“You know we are made up of love and hate but both of them are balanced on a razor blade.”-Ed Sheeran “What Do I Know?”. In the poem “Little”Sister, Vina Berger uses the rhythm of iambic pentameter and many metaphors to describe the fine line between love and hate. “Little”Sister paints a picture of Berger’s strong emotions at her younger sister in an articulate yet figurative manner. It shows that the line between love and hate is so fine that sometimes the people that we destest the most are also the people we adore the most. This point is particularly illustrated in line(s) 9 and 10 when Berger describes how she loves and hates her sister's sense of humor at the same time “It enrages me that your sense of humor; Smacks a reluctant smile
The definition of gender has become way more revolutionary and expressive compared to the twentieth century. Gender used to be similar to sex where someone would be identified as a male or female based on their biological genitals however, this day in age it is way more complex. Someone can be born a male but mentally they feel like a male. In “Sisterhood is complicated” Ruth Padawer explains the journey of different transgender males and the obstacles they face while attending Wellesley college. Wellesley is a women’s college that has been around for a very long time and is in the process of the battling the conflict of whether they should admit transgender students. Ariel Levy author of “Female Chauvinist Pigs” tackles the stereotypes and
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
In her poem entitled “The Poet with His Face in His Hands,” Mary Oliver utilizes the voice of her work’s speaker to dismiss and belittle those poets who focus on their own misery in their writings. Although the poem models itself a scolding, Oliver wrote the work as a poem with the purpose of delivering an argument against the usage of depressing, personal subject matters for poetry. Oliver’s intention is to dissuade her fellow poets from promoting misery and personal mistakes in their works, and she accomplishes this task through her speaker’s diction and tone, the imagery, setting, and mood created within the content of the poem itself, and the incorporation of such persuasive structures as enjambment and juxtaposition to bolster the poem’s
Love and Hate are powerful emotions that influence and control how we interact with people. To express this influence and control and the emotions associated with love and hate, for instance, joy, admiration, anger, despair, jealousy, and disgust, author's craft their writing with literary elements such as as structure, figurative language, imagery, diction, symbolism, and tone. Poems in which these can be seen present are “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, and “Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare. Within “My Papa’s Waltz” a mighty love is seen between the father and son. To express this Roethke uses figurative language, symbolism and diction. Within “My Last Duchess” there is little love, but an ample hate towards the duchess from the Duch. To express this the
An important element that is displayed in both love and hate is motivation. An example of this is portrayed in “A Note on My Son’s Face,” as the author states, “I wanted that face to die, to be reborn in the face of a white child” (35,36). This line displays a level of prejudice towards what is hers. Derricotte battles intense feelings of wanting a white looking child amongst a world where not being grateful for what she has is seen as hatred towards her son. She looks at the face of her black child and is filled with animosity for what he looks like and what he will become. This is where the motivational factor comes into play, and where the lines of love and hate really become blurred. Does she hate her child because of how he looks? or Does she love her child because she wants him to become better than what he is destined for? She is motivated by love to want him to become better than what she believes is possible for him, yet she displays hate in the sense that she is hurting the child for what he is, and also for what he has no control over. According to Rempel this grandmother is displaying both intense feelings of love and hate. Loving what is hers, but hating what it will become. Therefore, this poem supports the theory that love and hate are
' Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.' Act 1 scene 1.
Today some people say that love is blind, but in William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” and Pablo Neruda’s “My Ugly Love,” they understand and see its honesty. Inside their poems they tell love like it is: imperfect and full of flaws. Needless to say, Shakespeare and Neruda had no apparent trouble conveying the true meaning behind beauty and love through their usage of reflection against positive and negative imagery, the usage of an orderly structure, and usage of sensory devices. If there is one thing that someone could learn through the work of these poets, it’s that beauty lies further than just the appearance on the outside; once someone else can realize this, only then will they discover the true significance that beauty brings to love.
...er” (Shakespeare 9) and “eternal lines” (Shakespeare 12) both refer to Shakespeare’s desire to immortalize the subject’s beauty. The final, and undoubtedly greatest difference between the two works, is the method of expressing them. A sonnet is meant to be recited, unlike a song, which is always accompanied by a melody and vocals. Dolly Parton’s soft and feminine voice beautifully complements the lyrics, and the upbeat music further enhances the warm and cheerful atmosphere of the song. Despite the differences in structure and time period, Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and Dolly Parton’s “Love Is Like a Butterfly” share similar themes, and are great representations of how love can be expressed through literature.
The woman, if only reading stanza one, would think her and the speaker are in total agreement. This idea, however, is fleeting as stanza two acts not only as a refutation for stanza one, but also as evidence for stanza three.... ... middle of paper ... ... The satire exists in the expectation that love has to occur before sex.
In a typical family, there are parents that expected to hear things when their teenager is rebelling against them: slamming the door, shouting at each other, and protests on what they could do or what they should not do. Their little baby is growing up, testing their wings of adulthood; they are not the small child that wanted their mommy to read a book to them or to kiss their hurts away and most probably, they are thinking that anything that their parents told them are certainly could not be right. The poem talks about a conflict between the author and her son when he was in his adolescence. In the first stanza, a misunderstanding about a math problem turns into a family argument that shows the classic rift between the generation of the parent and the teenager. Despite the misunderstandings between the parent and child, there is a loving bond between them. The imagery, contrasting tones, connotative diction, and symbolism in the poem reflect these two sides of the relationship.
Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet XLIV “You Must Know That I Do Not Love And That I Love You” clearly illustrates that love has two sides. Neruda uses the text as an example throughout his poem to explain that love has two sides. These two sides are that he loves and that he does not love.
She defines her idea of what is right in a relationship by describing how hard and painful it is for her to stray from that ideal in this instance. As the poem evolves, one can begin to see the author having a conflict with values, while simultaneously expressing which values are hers and which are unnatural to her. She accomplishes this accounting of values by personalizing her position in a somewhat unsettling way throughout the poem.
In conclusion, it can be stated the examples of Emily Dickinson's work discussed in this essay show the poetess to be highly skilled in the use of humor and irony. The use of these two tools in her poems is to stress a point or idea the poetess is trying to express, rather than being an end in themselves. These two tools allow her to present serious critiques of her society and the place she feels she has been allocated into by masking her concerns in a light-hearted, irreverent tone.
In our lives, we sometimes find ourselves burning in paroxysm; a hot-blooded, impulsive, and impassioned version of ourselves. Some choose to express these emotions in words. Take Marge Piercy as example; she wrote a poem on the basis of love. In Marge Piercy’s Moonburn, she uses vigorous and engaging language, and contrasting symmetrical stanza length to convey the effect of tempestuous passion, and state that love can take over our lives.
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter, which initially gives the impression that the poem will be a cheerful and upbeat poem. However, when you realise words such as ‘Weakness’ and ‘Woe’ the true hatred and resentment of the poem is shown.