In the lyric poem, “House of Gold” by Twenty-One Pilots, it describes a young boys plan for the near future with his mother. The speaker is a son talking to his loving mother. The mother asks repeated, “Son, when I grow old will you buy me a house of gold”, stating that she needs him in the future. He answers his mother by saying he would do anything for her but life throws obstacles and sometimes your perfect plan doesn 't always work out. In the song he is preparing his mother for what the reality of the future is. When the son promises all of these things to his mother, it is more of a romantic idea of promising her these things to simply please her. He promises regardless of whether he can fulfill them or not. The word choices are appropriate …show more content…
The main image is the “house of gold”, which the speaker mentions throughout the poem. Although it may be a metaphor, it’s easy to picture a huge house made of gold and glistening in the sun. Another vivid image is when the speaker says “I will make you queen of everything you see”, which provides an image of a huge landscape as far as the eye can see. There isn’t a copious amount of personification in the poem, but life and dreams are both personified. Life is turning plans upside down and dreams are dead, according to the speaker. There were a few metaphors present in the poem. “When your father turns to stone” means when the father dies. When the speaker says he will make his mother “queen of everything”, he can’t literally make her a queen, but it refers to spoiling her and taking very good care of her. A symbol in the poem is the house of gold, which symbolizes how much the speaker cares about his mother and how he wants to give her everything he …show more content…
It starts off with the mother asking her son (the speaker) to take care of her when his father dies. The son responds with a promise to spoil her and take the best care of her that is possible. He imagines them leaving and entirely changing their lives to make them happier. Later, he speaks about dreams being dead and how life sometimes turns out the opposite of what you want. This causes him to plan to be a bum instead. The poet expresses different emotions through this poem such as love for his mother, but also pessimism and negativity for the future. He wants to help his mother and support her in her old age, but he believes that his dreams will die and life will give them the opposite of what they want. The only character speaking in this poem is the son. The poem is a monologue, most likely to his mother. The situation that prompts him to speak is his internal conflict of how he can provide for his mother as she
She was merely teaching her son a lesson, or maybe she was scolding him, and using that as a life lesson. Either way, she was the inspiration for the poem. I was unable to locate online the reason that the poem was initially written - however, I can only assume that he is remembering a time when his mother was right, and he’s wishing he had listened. Maybe he is now older, wiser, and faced with a decision where he wants two things equally, and needs to make a decision.
Fulfilling the roles of both mother and breadwinner creates an assortment of reactions for the narrator. In the poem’s opening lines, she commences her day in the harried role as a mother, and with “too much to do,” (2) expresses her struggle with balancing priorities. After saying goodbye to her children she rushes out the door, transitioning from both, one role to the next, as well as, one emotion to another. As the day continues, when reflecting on
At the beginning of the poem, the audience is able to witness an event of a young boy asking his father for story. While the father was deemed a “sad” man, it is later shown that his sadness can be contributed to his fear of his son leaving him. The structure then correlated to the point of going into the future. The future was able to depict what would happen to the loving duo. The father's dreams would become a reality and the son's love and admiration would cease to exist as he is seen screaming at his father. Wanting nothing to do with him. The young, pure child can be seen trying to back lash at his father for acting like a “god” that he can “never disappoint.” The point of this structure was not really a means of clarification from the beginning point of view, but more as an intro to the end. The real relationship can be seen in line 20, where it is mentioned that the relationship between the father and son is “an emotional rather than logical equation.” The love between this father and son, and all its complexity has no real solution. But rather a means of love; the feelings a parent has for wanting to protect their child and the child itself wanting to be set free from their parents grasp. The structure alone is quite complex. Seeing the present time frame of the father and son
The poem is written in the father’s point of view; this gives insight of the father’s character and
The poem starts out with the daughter 's visit to her father and demand for money; an old memory is haunting the daughter. feeding off her anger. The daughter calls the father "a ghost [who] stood in [her] dreams," indicating that he is dead and she is now reliving an unpleasant childhood memory as she stands in front of his
“The Mother” (Gwendolyn Brooks) has three stanza has and aabbccdd etc. rhyming scheme that is called couplets. The first stanza The first stanza started of “abortions will not let you forget” (Gwendolyn Brooks) this is a strong statement that supported the theme of this poem. Then Brooks go on and telling how the mother did not get to hold the child that she aborted and how sad it was for her.
Along with the imagery we get from the title, there is a lot of imagery within this poem. Let us start with the first three lines:
The poem as a whole is a metaphor of a woman to nature, specifically a certain species of flower, which accurately represents the growth that occurs within her. Women are often compared to nature in poetry, as it represents their beauty and delicacy, much like Williams did in this poem. Queen Anne’s lace is a white flower with a purple spot in the middle, also called the flower’s “beauty mark.” Douglas Verdier from Poetry for Students points out that the name of the flower alludes to the face of a queen, being fair and pure (189). Queen Anne’s lace is also a hardy flower that is able to thrive in many environments, supporting that the woman of the poem is beautiful yet strong (Stephenson). The metaphor to this flower shows the man’s adoration towards the beauty of the woman in the poem.
Throughout the poem there is only one narrator, a man or woman. The narrator is of high importance to the one being spoken too, so possibly a girlfriend or boyfriend. This narrator alludes to the idea that dreams and reality can be one in the same. The narrator says, “You are not wrong, who deem/That my days have been a dream;” (Line 4-5). The narrator explains that the moments spent with her have felt almost, if not, a perfect dream. The narrator also says, in the closing lines of the first stanza, “All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream.” (Line 10-11). The narrator concludes like dreams, reality is not controlled; reality is what you make it, or what you see. Moreover, in the second stanza the narrator
The phrasing of this poem can be analyzed on many levels. Holistically, the poem moves the father through three types of emotions. More specifically, the first lines of the poem depict the father s deep sadness toward the death of his son. The line Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy creates a mental picture in my mind (Line 1). I see the father standing over the coffin in his blackest of outfits with sunglasses shading his eyes from the sun because even the sun is too bright for his day of mourning. The most beautiful scarlet rose from his garden is gripped tightly in his right hand as tears cascade down his face and strike the earth with a splash that echoes like a scream in a cave, piercing the ears of those gathered there to mourn the death of his son.
The poet uses four line stanzas or quatrains, and this is a narrative poem because the speaker tells a story. The speaker seems a little odd in a way because she does not know what is happening; “Worried whispers” (6) is an alliteration, and it also symbolizes the speaker’s anxiety. Both her uncle and father do not tell the truth to the speaker, instead they “Sugarcoat” it. This is similar to Emily Dickinson’s poem “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” because the children might get scared if they learn the truth right away. In the line “What a good time she’ll have learning to swim,” (11) the poet again emphasizes how adults lie to children so they do not hurt them. The speaker feels as though her parents are lying to her; however, she just trusts them because she believes that what adults do cannot go wrong. Also, “A week at the beach so papi get some rest” (15) sounds as if the speaker’s father has to leave the Dominican Republic because he is some kind of danger.
the theme of death. The speaker of the poems talks about the loss of a
Form and meaning are what readers need to analyze to understand the poem that they are evaluating. In “Mother to Son”, his form of writing that is used frequently, is free verse. There is no set “form”, but he gets his point across in a very dramatic way. The poem is told by a mother who is trying to let her son know that in her life, she too has gone through many frustrations just like what her son is going through. The tone of this poem is very dramatic and tense because she illustrates the hardships that she had to go through in order to get where she is today. She explains that the hardships that she has gone through in her life have helped her become the person that she has come to be. Instead of Hughes being ironic, like he does in some of his poems, he is giving the reader true background on the mother’s life. By introducing the background, this helps get his point across to the reader in a very effective way. In this poem there are many key words which help portray the struggles that the mother is trying to express to her son. The poem is conveyed in a very “down to earth” manner. An example of this is, “Life for me ain’t been a crystal stair (462).” This quote shows the reader that the mom is trying to teach the son a lesson with out sugar coating it. She wants her son to know that throughout her life has had many obstacles to overcome, and that he too is going to have to get through his own obstacles no matter how frustrating it is. Her tone throughout the poem is stern telling the boy, “So boy, don’t turn your back (462).” The poems tone almost makes the reader believe that the mother is talking to them, almost as if I am being taught a valuable lesson.
I found that throughout this poem there was much symbolism within it. Identifying that it was written in first person form showed that this poem relates to the author on a personal basis, and that it was probably written to symbolize his life. But when talking about people’s lives, you can conclude that people’s lives are generally and individually very diffe...
The poem basically tells a story about the death of the captain of a ship men crew. The speaker of the poem is a sailor of the ship crew. He grieves mournfully about the death of his respectfully captain. Gloomy and dreary atmospheres are vividly sensed throughout the poem as the speaker lamenting the captain’s death.