As I read through Williams’ poem “Red Wheelbarrow” several times, I am amazed by the amount of imagery used in this poem (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). Even though this poem is very short, it actually tells a very long story about the importance of life. In the first stanza, Williams begins the poem with the phrase “so much depends” (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). This particular phrase explains the entire responsibly absorbed with the red wheelbarrow and puts the whole poem into a new perspective. In general, the red wheelbarrow is a very important tool that is critical for carrying large and heavy items to the proper destination. It is the workhorse that has to be physically loaded by a person and then pushed and unloaded at its destination by a person. The red wheelbarrow completely depends on a person to keep it actively engaged. Without the involvement of a human being, the red wheelbarrow would remain unused and become a worthless piece of equipment with absolutely no purpose or value. …show more content…
There are several meanings to the meaning of red, but I believe that the color red in this poem is focusing on interpersonal hostility (Fetterman, Tianwei, & Robinson, 2015). I do not believe that his poem is aiming towards the direction of anger, but using the hostility towards a struggle from within oneself. A person needs the desire and willpower to physically use the red wheelbarrow, whether it was from their decision or someone else’s decision. The last two stanzas let me know that the wheelbarrow is wet and near the white chickens. This could mean that the person quit using the wheelbarrow when it began to rain, or it rained while the person was using the wheelbarrow. This goes back to the beginning of the poem with “so much depends” (Kirszner & Mandell,
In the text “Seeing Red: American Indian Women Speaking about their Religious and Cultural Perspectives” by Inés Talamantez, the author discusses the role of ceremonies and ancestral spirituality in various Native American cultures, and elaborates on the injustices native women face because of their oppressors.
“A Fire Truck” is a display of excellent poetry writing. Although a passing fire truck is a menial topic and the poem itself is brief, Richard Wilbur is able to brilliantly recreate this ordinary event through the use of rhythm, sounds and figurative language. The author captures, absorbs and retells this event in a way that the readers could almost physically experience the passing of a fire truck as did the speaker.
A key symbol in this story is the red convertible. The vehicle as a whole symbolizes the strong bond that was once held between the brothers. The color red has many different meanings. In some Native American cultures the color red means beauty, faith and happiness but sometimes it means blood, violence, and energy. Within the story there were two brothers that loved each other dearly. They had love for each other and everything was great between them. One day Henry lost his job and his brother Lyman had already had money saved up and they went to Winnipeg to get away and there they saw the car, the red convertible. Since both of the brothers were so close, they decided to buy the car. Both brothers loved the car just as much as they loved each other. The color of the car symbolized the love these two had for each other because the color was bright and vibrant and the car represents the strength of the actually bond between these two. After they made their trip to Alaska the car needed repairs. At the same time Henry was called to serve his country. When the car needed repairs, so did the relationship between the brothers. When Henry returned, he was not well and suffered from PTSD.
The story line of Red Harvest is riddled with double-crossing characters, bootleggers and crooked authority figures that obviously challenge universal moral codes of conduct. More importantly, some characters remain more morally ambivalent then others. Although, this is a troupe of hardboiled detective novels from the time, and the Film Noir genre where nothing is as it seems, there are particular characters and events that stand out. The language and situations are so double sided that the reader is forced to question the weave of their own moral fabric. Dashiell Hammett through his writing style is able to reflect on the concerns many had at the time regarding rise in crime and deterioration of Victorian age morals, coincided with the rise of the detective Anti-hero, guilty woman (femme fatal) and vigilantism.
This poem is divided into six stanzas with four lines each. The poem opens with “When the black snake flashed on the morning road” (1-2). The narrator uses “when” to signify the beginning of the story and introduces the snake as the main character. Labeling the snake as “black” gives it a dark and sinister appeal. The word “flashed” is used to demonstrate how fast the snake moved, and how quickly this event occurred. “Morning” is applied to the time of day that this event occurred. The narrator sees the snake quickly flash across the road. This sets up the scene in our minds. The “truck could not swerve” (3) implies that this was an accidental death. The poet uses “truck” to suggest a big vehicle that is unable to make quick moves or sudden stops. The narrator sees the snake flash across the road, into the path of a big truck that is unable to stop or swerve. “Death, that is how it happens” (4). The word “death” is italicized, emphasizing its importance. The p...
I can definitely see what Wright was communicating with this poem. I had a somewhat depressed feeling after reading it, but I don’t know how one could read this and NOT feel that way. I also felt a little sad because I have been around people like this all of my life. Family, friends, friends of the family- a large majority of these people worked in factories and in the steel mills. As a child, I did not realize just how hard working these people were but of course as I grew older I started to understand. No one really spoke of it, as Wright also expressed in the poem.
“I've told her and I've told her: daughter, you have to teach that child the facts of life before it's too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's short story “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. In his fairy tale Perrault prevents girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author elaborates a slightly revisited plot without altering the moral: young girls should beware of men; especially when they seem innocent.
“I've told her and I've told her: daughter, you have to teach that child the facts of life before it's too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's fairy tale “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. Perrault provided a moral to his fairy tales, the one from this one is to prevent girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author advances a revisited but still effective moral: beware of wolfs even though they seem innocent.
People always like to refer to themselves as “independent”. Independence may seem like a great ideal in modern society, but in a post-apocalyptic world, a sense of dependence is unavoidable. Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs help us to understand what people depend on. In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, survival of the boy and the man is due to their dependence on their human nature and ability to support one another.
Some say one thing, while someone else will say something completely different. Such is the case on the song “Red House.” Noel Redding said the song was about Jimi’s old girlfriend back in the United States (soundcheckmusicblog.com). Linda Keith said the song was about her friend’s red velvet walls and decor that was grazed her apartment (Roby 148). Others say it has no true meaning at all.
I am reading Red Kayak, by Priscilla Cummings. I think that everyone has had to make a big, risky decision that may affect the rest of their life. For Brady Parks, that decision is whether to stay loyal to his friends and not turn them in for killing Ben DiAngelo, or whether to turn them in and risk their friendship. Sometimes admitting the truth is hard, but it is the right thing to do. When Brady decides to tell the truth about how Ben DiAngelo died, he is forced with knowing that him and his friends may never be friends again. What pushed Brady to tell the truth is something that his dad told him. “Sometimes, even when the answer is smack in front of you, you got to reach deep inside yourself to act on it.” (pg. 163) This statement made
The poem begins with, “After I got religion and steadied down They gave me a job in the canning works,” this introduced the personality of the character that the poem was going to be based on. His boss's son seemed to be in charge of the workers but he was not blamed and they accused another worker which meant that the main person was severely injured in an accident but was not going to be payed for the help he needed. “The Circuit Judge said whoever did it Was a fellow-servant of mine, and so Old Rhodes’ son didn’t have to pay me. And I sat on the witness stand as blind As Jack the Fiddler, saying over and over, ‘I didn’t know him at all.’” Since the boss did not cause the accident and the worker did, the now injured and blind main character did not receive any financial aid that could help pay for his medication and food now that he could not work with these disabilities. Masters believed that small town life was very unfair in the United States, a powerful figure could sway the authorities and change the law until they saw it was enough to protect
The Taxi, by Amy Lowell, is an Imagist poem that relies heavily on imagery, rather than abstract ideas, to reveal meaning to the reader. The author uses free verse to allow the images and lines to speak for themselves and stand alone as individual lines. By doing so, each line offers its own tone and meaning, which then adds to the overall feel of the poem. Lowell wrote this poem to a love interest, clearly stating the meaning of the poem. She speaks as if the reader is the one being called after. The reader is entranced in her short poem filled with imagery to set the mood; the dire, last goodbye that seemed to separate the two forever. The poet's love for this person was also shown in her other works, and has made it very clear that there was a connection (Highleyman). This connection reveals the theme to be that she is lost without love. Before breaking the poem down into fragments for a line-by-line analysis, it can first be analyzed as a whole.
The characters in this poem are Sarah, her father, and her friends. Sarah is the main character who refuses to take out the trash. She is not lazy, she just doesn’t like this chore.
First, the texts of Wordsworth, Pope, and Dryden evidence their agreement that machinery is a destructive force of serial production and repetition. In “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” Wordsworth writes, “However exalted a notion we would wish to cherish of the character of a Poet, it is obvious, that, while he describes and imitates passions, his situation is altogether slavish and mechanical, compared with the freedom and power of real and substantial action and suffering” (361). In this statement, Wordsworth expresses his view that an association with anything “mechanical,” or “[o]perated or produced by a mechanism or machine,” is not exalted and is unbecoming to a poet; machinery does not help produce freedom and substance (“Mechanical”). In “The Rape of the Lock,” Pope similarly demonstrates that machinery causes a lack of freedom and ...