This 24 lines poem is divided in 3 stanza of 8 lines each. In the first stanza the author is telling to his captain that they made it, the long difficult and terrible trip was at the end they was finally arrived safe and they was nothing to worry about. The author is trying to show how the arduous journey was finally done, they made some big sacrifice and they overcome wind, bad weather and everything dangerous. They was valiant and their bravery help them to reap the benefit of their work. The speaker is a crew member in the boat, so as they are approaching the harbor, people are manifesting their victory, ringing bell and they was expressing their happiness, crying their victory until they find the dead’s body of the captain. That where the …show more content…
The eager face here in the poem is the expression of the gratitude the crowd has toward this valiant Captain, because he was courageous. The author show such a respect to the Captain who is in his hands because he call him “father”. The narrator is so sad in his word because he think it’s a dream, he can’t believe that the Captain just lie down and dead only when they get back home after the trip. The last stanza the narrator is focus on his own feeling, he was hurt and he is expressing his sadness and desolation about the death of the Captain, he was not able to move, to feel or do something, his body was lying down in the ground and the captain lose all sensation as …show more content…
When he said “O heart! “ He is expressing something which can’t answer or respond. The same also when he said “O Captain” the Captain was dead and was no longer able to hear him or respond him. In the expression “Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!” the authors is expressing something doesn’t live which in consequent cannot reply. “Eager faces” is a synecdoche because the author means something else when he makes that statement, he was referring to the gratitude the whole crowd had for the Captain. In the poem the narrator used some quotes as” My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;” the speaker use this sentence to show that the Captain was really death and unable to do or fell anything. The narrator did not use the appropriate term to represent something or someone, he was using the metaphor. He is representing the Captain as The President of United State, the ship which is talking about is the United State of America, the fearful trip is the civil war and the swaying masses are people. In the meantime the expression "Fallen cold and dead" was used at the end of each stanza to characterize the deep loss of the
My initial response to the poem was a deep sense of empathy. This indicated to me the way the man’s body was treated after he had passed. I felt sorry for him as the poet created the strong feeling that he had a lonely life. It told us how his body became a part of the land and how he added something to the land around him after he died.
I think from the attitude of the diver, he was suicidal. As he dove into the sea, he does so at a high speed and with reckless abandon, taking to account all the details of everything he sees as he plunged deeper into the sea. “swiftly descended/free falling, weightless”. He was doing all he could to forget about life as he descends “…. Lost images/fadingly remembered.” Initially in his descent into the ocean, the diver, having decided to end his life, treated the images in the sea as if they would be the last things he will see before his death, so I think he thought it best to savor his last moments while he had the time. When he got to the ship, he described all that was there. While I read the poem, I couldn’t help but conjure those images in my mind. The ship was very quiet and cold when he entered it but the silence drew him in and he was eager to go in, not minding the cold because at that moment he was suicidal and didn’t care about life. With the help of a flashlight, he saw chairs moving slowly and he labeled the movement as a “sad slow dance”. From this, I think the speaker is trying to point out that there are sad memories on the ship. There is no story of how the ship got to the bottom of the sea, but it seems the ship used to be a place of fun, celebration, and happiness. Now that it is wrecked and in the bottom of the sea, the
This poem dwells heavily on the problems in war. It describes how high the death toll is for both sides. Slessor uses “convoys of dead sailors” to show that all these dead body’s are very much alike, with their movements and feelings being the same. It also outlines a major problem in war, being able to identify and bury they dead properly. "And each cross, the driven stake of tide-wood, bears the last signature of m...
Swam from/the ship somehow; /somehow began the/measured rise” (Hayden 4). The R sound that begins is the swimming through the water. The B sound that continues right after in “brittle belling” is the gasp of air, and finally, the S sounds that finish the line by creating a soft feeling. As if the reader might not get out in time, even though the lines are saying that the speaker does escape the ship. The fear the alliteration evokes from the reader is the unconscious.
Metaphors can detail the emotions soldiers feel from their endurance of war and the methods soldiers use in order to survive. The second stanza of the poem is an extended metaphor for conveying the pain soldiers feel when they breathe in gas. 'Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime…' portrays what sort of pain the soldier is going through and helping the reader understand what's it like in the battlefield. 'He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.' These metaphors show the comparison between a person who was attacked by the gas and a person drowning, the feeling of
In the first part of the poem, Margaret Atwood alludes to stories about sirens, mythological creatures known for luring sailors to their deaths. This is done by mentioning what they were about, and giving some details about them. Atwood says “The song that forces men/To leap overboard in squadrons/Even though they see the beached skulls.” (Atwood 4-6) It also mentions the danger of the sirens and their hypnotic songs, as the myths state. As the poem goes on, irony becomes more and more present, as the speaker, who is implied to be a siren by the wording of the poem,
In the early stages of the play, the audience is invited into the "big seas" of Captain Cat's "dreams" where "the long drowned nuzzle up to him". The humorous banter between the "dead" which follows is used by Thomas to highlight how important it is to appreciate the simple, everyday things in life which may otherwise be taken for granted. As their banter becomes more and more frenzied, it turns to topics which, for a living person, may seem unimportant; the "coconuts and shawls and parrots", the "rum and lava bread" and music of "concertinas". The continued presence of these subjects within the conversation of the "drowned" however brings a sense of pathos to the scene, reminding the audience that the time which such simple and ultimately important aspects of life is very restricted.
Diction is strongly used in both the novel and the poem to manipulate the thoughts of the reader and to stir up emotions. The poem makes an almost undecipherable, literal tone within the sound of the rhyme scheme, also creating calm peace with a mostly unpleasant situation. An example is the reoccurring line, “I have a rendezvous with Death” (Seeger 1, 5, 11, 20). The word “rendezvous” is a nice word where a person would meet somebody out of free will, even like to two lovers seeing each other. Differently, death is the unknown for many humans to fear. The narrator has arranged to meet with an experience known as death. The narrator would only take such actions if he had reason to believe it was not as fearful an action to take as so many believe. The repetition of this line keeps this idea fresh in his audience’s mind. Similarly, in All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses word like forgotten and misunderstood to describe the way that outsiders think of the soldiers participating in the war. The way
Poetry Analysis Essay The purpose of visual imagery in poetry is to help get the poet’s message across in a language that is strong, vivid and very visual. Visual imagery evokes the emotions of the reader by appealing to their senses and through this helps enhance the mood of the poem. The mood implied in “Daddy”, by Sylvia Plath, is that of aggressive, anger, irritable from one that has a childlike devotion to one of severing due to abandonment. In “The Colonel”, by Carolyn Forche, is one of controlled terror, intimidation, torture, and literal dismemberment. In “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, by Randall Jarrell, the story sets the mood of melancholy at the hands of the state.
...smile”; however, after listening to the introduction about every pen from the girl, the boy’s voice “filling with fear”. This marked contrast indicates the speaker’s impatience, and the audience can feel the development of the story clearly. If the attitudes of the speaker remained the same throughout the poem, it will create a lack of movement so that the audience cannot relate to the speaker.
A. Philip Randolph was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and once said “Freedom is never given; It is won.” Our American soldiers fight every day so we can stay free and have the privileges we have today. We do not just get to be free. There are people fighting for our freedom. However, the poem and the song both talk about fighting for freedom but they have a separate motive. Both the poem named “Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?” by Langston Hughes and the song “American Soldier” by Toby Keith both have the same theme by freedom is worth fighting for and everyone wants freedom, but in the poem the soldier is fighting for freedom and in the song the soldier already has freedom.
Jazz was a form of musical protest during the oppression of African Americans in the US, especially throughout World War 2. Duke Ellington’s passion for music and drama made him stand out throughout the musical evolution of Jazz. His song “Cotton Tail” paved the way for a new jazz subgenre called modern jazz. Ellington’s innovation and free mentality influenced the future of jazz, inspiring other artists and musicians, and making him one of the most influential composers of the genre to date. Through the song Cotton Tail, we unravel the historical, musical complexities and cultural significance.
Symbolism was used to express the Captains minds set. In the beginning paragraphs, the Captain is viewed as depressed, apprehensive, and insecure. The Captain viewed the land as insecure, whereas the sea was stable. The Captain was secure with the sea, and wished he were more like it.
waits as he takes the character through a journey before entering?Eternity? 24. The syllable of the syllable. Another word of importance is the term?passed?. Used many times, especially in the third stanza, has multiple meanings in the poem.
From the beginning of the poem he states he is alone, but hearing the flute mean he is no longer alone. Therefore, he is even more anguished because now he is not alone, but he still alone with his emotions. It caused him to contemplate even more about his emotions, the war, his men fighting beside him, and his loneliness. Although the flute stirred more uncertain feelings, he felt torn as he still did not want the sound to go away because it still offered the solace of another person, even if there could be no