Hungry Like The Wolf Darken the city, night is a wire Steam in the subway, earth is a afire Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo Woman, you want me, give me a sign And catch my breathing even closer behind Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo In touch with the ground I'm on the hunt I'm after you Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd And I'm hungry like the wolf Straddle the line in discord and rhyme I'm on the hunt I'm after you Mouth is alive with juices like wine And I'm hungry like the wolf Stalked in the forest, too close to hide I'll be upon you by the moonlight side Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo High blood drumming on your skin, it's so tight You feel my heat, I'm just a moment behind Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo
Kim Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” portrays a speaker who contemplates the state of their romantic relationship though reflections of their partner’s tattoos. Addressing their partner, the speaker ambivalence towards the merits of the relationship, the speaker unhappily remains with their partner. Through the usage of contrasting visual and kinesthetic imagery, the speaker revels the reasons of their inability to embrace the relationship and showcases the extent of their paralysis. Exploring this theme, the poem discusses how inner conflicts can be powerful paralyzers.
Li-Young Lee’s poem, A Story, explores a complex relationship between a father and his five year old son. Although the poem’s purpose is to elaborate on the complexity of the relationship and the father’s fear of disappointing his son, the main conflict that the father is faced with is not uncommon among parents. Lee is able to successfully portray the father’s paranoia and son’s innocence through the use of alternating point of view, stanza structure, and Biblical symbolism.
What differentiates a knowledgeable man from a wise one? It is the ability to keenly observe one’s environment and have good judgement. The poet, Countee Cullen, chose to name this poem “The Wise” in order to portray the subject, death, as a great state of being. Throughout the poem he praises the characteristic of these “Dead men” because they get to see the world grow without having to experience positive and negative feelings. They are not bound by emotions and therefore are only left to observe them. This leads them to have a complete understanding of both sides which in turn makes them wise.
is turning into night, all the good things are going to sleep, and the evil
Both these poems are great poems and emphasize on different parts of an animal’s life. The two poems are “The Blessing” and “Predators.” The four topics that will be compared and contrasted are the animals, the speaker’s feelings, the title, and the conclusions.
Less than a century ago, the US experienced a combination of one of the worst natural disaster in our nation 's history and the biggest economic downturn that we 've experienced to date. The Great Depression in the 1930 's, crippled the American economy, causing many to lose their jobs, homes, and land. Along with this horrific economic state, the American Midwest also experienced the Dust Bowl, which made land impossible to farm, and caused dust storms that made the area uninhabitable. John Steinbeck 's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, explores the struggles of the Joad family, who happened to have experience the brunt of both devastating blows. Mumford & Sons made an adaptation of this story into a song that some say is better than the original
Robert Frost had a fascination towards loneliness and isolation and thus expressed these ideas in his poems through metaphors. The majority of the characters in Frost’s poems are isolated in one way or another. In some poems, such as “Acquainted with the Night” and “Mending Wall,” the speakers are lonely and isolated from their societies. On other occasions, Frost suggests that isolation can be avoided by interaction with other members of society, for example in “The Tuft of Flowers,” where the poem changes from a speaker all alone, to realizing that people are all connected in some way or another. In Robert Frost’s poems “Acquainted with the Night,” “Mending Wall,” and “The Tuft of Flowers,” the themes insinuate the idea of loneliness and isolation.
Some people are born into this world without as many chances to get a better position in life. This can affect the people born into a lower class for the entirety of their life. In the poem “Saturday’s Child,” Countee Cullen uses imagery, personification, and similes to suggest the differences between people that are born into poverty and those that are born into an upper class part of society. Throughout this poem Cullen speaks about how the different social classes affect people; he does this with a pessimistic tone throughout the entirety of the poem.
She Kills Monsters has a lot of obstacles that characters have to overcome during the play. From accepting each other for who they are, overcoming struggles and shaping their identity even more. I created a poem about acceptance and how you just be yourself no matter what people say. Be imaginative because it leads to the best outcomes. Shape your identity into something you are proud of.
In Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf (1992), a young Humphrey Van Weyden is thrown overboard from the ship, the Martinez, in a collision with a ferryboat. After he struggled in the cool San Francisco Bay he is pulled into a seal-hunting ship, the Ghost. On the ship the captain, Wolf Larsen, and Van Weyden become intellectual friends. As the voyage continues Larsen and Van Weyden start to become enemies because of their disagreement in the philosophy of Captain Larsen. The captain and Van Weyden are both well-educated men but differ in strength and desire.
Throughout history, both men and women have struggled trying to achieve unattainable goals in the face of close-minded societies. Authors have often used this theme to develop stories of characters that face obstacles and are sometimes unable to overcome the stigma that is attached to them. This inability to rise above prejudice is many times illustrated with the metaphor of hunger. Not only do people suffer from physical hunger, but they also suffer from spiritual hunger: a need to be full of life. When this spiritual hunger is not satisfied, it can destroy a life, just as physical hunger can kill as well.
During interactions with different cultures sometimes they clash and fight against each other. In Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, “Powwow at the End of the World” by Sherman Alexie, and “How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina clashes between cultures result in one culture being lost or replaced by the colonizing one.
In “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker is in old, rusted rented boat fishing. In the beginning, the speaker catches a fish that she admires off the side of his or her boat. For what it can do, the speaker notices that it is an older fish by saying its skin was like “ancient wallpaper”. After the speaker finishes examining the fish, the speaker notices the hooks hanging from the lower jaw of the fish. While looking in the water, she notices a rainbow that oil from the old rented boat has made in the water and the speaker lets the old fish swim another day.
lot. It informs us that whatever is going on, there is, a man or a boy
Commentary on the poem Night of the Scorpion Commentary The poem “Night of the Scorpion”, written by Nissin Ezekiel has an interesting contrast of good and bad hidden within it (an essence of equality). The poet has made the mother’s experience of getting bitten by a scorpion sound very painful and endless. The poet has conveyed this by using some descriptive language. E.g. “May the poison purify your flesh of desire, and your spirit of ambition”. This poem which was written by the first person, has other techniques such as; alliteration – “I watched the flame feeding on my mother”; tone of voice (short sentences giving a tense atmosphere) – “My father, sceptic, rationalist, trying every excuse and blessing”.