In the poem, “shaving” by Richard Blanco, the speaker incorporates the use of vivid imagery and metaphor in order to portray the complex associations between the short-lived life of the speaker's father whom he knew to a limited extent, the ritual of shaving a beard, and the cyclic, subtle yet significant occurrences of nature. To begin, the speaker compares his beard to “a creation of silent labor, like ocean steam rising to form clouds” and the “ bloom of spiderwebs each morning”, which serve as real-life applications for the audience to grasp a deeper understanding of the oblivion towards such silent yet noticeable performances in life. Through this comparative analysis, the speaker indicates that his fathers life flashing before his eyes …show more content…
This routine of rain becoming a river and rain again serves to emphasize the cyclical, yet often overlooked conduct of the progression of age, and span of life that comes with it. Over time, one's features have the potential to depict the way they interpret their own identity. With this, the speaker reminisces upon the mornings he shaves his beard, and the emotions and thought processes that follow. For example, while shaving the speaker remembers “ him in a masquerade of foam, then, as if it was his beard I took the blade to, the memory of him in tiny snips of black whiskers swirling in the drain-- dead pieces of the self from the face that never taught me how to shave. His legacy of whiskers that grow like black seeds sown over my cheek and chin, my own flesh.with a full beard and the blade in my hand, when my eyes don't recognize themselves in a mirror echoed with a hundred faces”. Evidently the speaker recognizes, “him”, his father, in himself given his beard is grown out. The speaker's beard conjures a sense of disassociation within the speaker, which may portray the ritual of shaving as the motion of eliminating the aspects that link the father and speaker
The timeline carries on chronologically, the intense imagery exaggerated to allow the poem to mimic childlike mannerisms. This, subjectively, lets the reader experience the adventure through the young speaker’s eyes. The personification of “sunset”, (5) “shutters”, (8) “shadows”, (19) and “lamplights” (10) makes the world appear alive and allows nothing to be a passing detail, very akin to a child’s imagination. The sunset, alive as it may seem, ordinarily depicts a euphemism for death, similar to the image of the “shutters closing like the eyelids”
The readers are apt to feel confused in the contrasting ways the woman in this poem has been depicted. The lady described in the poem leads to contrasting lives during the day and night. She is a normal girl in her Cadillac in the day while in her pink Mustang she is a prostitute driving on highways in the night. In the poem the imagery of body recurs frequently as “moving in the dust” and “every time she is touched”. The reference to woman’s body could possibly be the metaphor for the derogatory ways women’s labor, especially the physical labor is represented. The contrast between day and night possibly highlights the two contrasting ways the women are represented in society.
Imagery uses five senses such as visual, sound, olfactory, taste and tactile to create a sense of picture in the readers’ mind. In this poem, the speaker uses visual imagination when he wrote, “I took my time in old darkness,” making the reader visualize the past memory of the speaker in “old darkness.” The speaker tries to show the time period he chose to write the poem. The speaker is trying to illustrate one of the imagery tools, which can be used to write a poem and tries to suggest one time period which can be used to write a poem. Imagery becomes important for the reader to imagine the same picture the speaker is trying to convey. Imagery should be speculated too when writing a poem to express the big
The author of Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense, Thomas R. Arp, asks the reader to “List the elements of the poem that seem no beautiful and therefore ‘unpoetic.’ Are there any elements of beauty in the poem?”(566). Although this is an extremely dark poem, and reveals some very ugly realities, I find it beautiful. It may not be about flowers, and the sun, and the gleaming ocean, but it is beautifully expressed—the way it ought to be. It encourages thinking and feeling, while removing ignorance.
In the second stanza the reader is being introduced with Tom, another child central in this poem. Tom cries when his head gets shaved but in fact he is absolutely oblivious of what is going on. A few words used in this stanza are striking, words such as lamb, soot and white hair. There is a clear distinction made here between black and white. ‘When your head’s bare, you know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair’2, to put that sentence in other words, it says that the innocence of the child cannot be spoilt by the soot because it will remain clean for it is not there.
To celebrate the praising of family heirlooms, and through the careful use of allusions, imagery, rhyming, personification, and hyperboles, the reader is able to understand the meaningfulness of items as they relate to family stories. These poetic devices cultivate two shifts pertaining to the tone and subject matter, the first occurring between the detailing of a pocket watch to a journey, and the second as the tone shifts from reminiscing to somber pertaining to sickness. The beginning of Ticking Away details an old clock and its importance to me. Present in these first four stanzas are the poetic elements of personification, rhyming, and allusion. Stanza 1 has personification present as it describes the watch being “trapped inside Victorian
The laughter filled the room as I ran through the house running away from my uncle who was close behind me. I thought that I finally escaped from him but as soon as I turned around I was blasted with shaving cream that placed a thick, fluffy layer onto my clothes. I knew from then on there was going to be a revenge fight with the famous barbasol shaving cream. Later on that day, he decided to take a nap and did not worry about anything that happened earlier that day. I knew this was the perfect time to get revenge and cover him in shaving cream like he did to me. I tiptoed into my grandparents bathroom and carefully opened their linen closet. There was five aerosol cans of barbasol shaving cream that were all different types. I decided to choose the extra moisturizing shaving cream to use on my uncle. After I made my decision, I closed the closet door as quietly as I could and then tiptoed back out to the living room where my uncle was curled up on the couch. I sprayed the shaving cream into my uncle’s hands and it foamed over onto his stomach. I grabbed one of my grandma’s cat’s toys that had feathers on the end of it and began slowly tickling his nose
The consistent pattern of metrical stresses in this stanza, along with the orderly rhyme scheme, and standard verse structure, reflect the mood of serenity, of humankind in harmony with Nature. It is a fine, hot day, `clear as fire', when the speaker comes to drink at the creek. Birdsong punctuates the still air, like the tinkling of broken glass. However, the term `frail' also suggests vulnerability in the presence of danger, and there are other intimations in this stanza of the drama that is about to unfold. Slithery sibilants, as in the words `glass', `grass' and `moss', hint at the existence of a Serpent in the Garden of Eden. As in a Greek tragedy, the intensity of expression in the poem invokes a proleptic tenseness, as yet unexplained.
Homo Faber, a renowned literary classic written by Max Frisch in the late 1950’s, explores the miserable life of Walter Faber with an added bonus of delving into the unsatisfying, and in some cases tragic, lives of those closest to him in order to reveal the effects this has on Faber himself. His unhappiness in life stems from his constant struggle to accept death and his inability to cease to age, as shown by many motifs and symbols throughout the novel. Initially, Faber’s struggle to accept death is apparent in the way he refuses to acknowledge nature aging him. He rarely looks at his reflection in mirrors, unless he needs to shave, because he is afraid of what nature has done to his features as the years go by.
The poem’s initial discontinuity of pattern and image is new (includes a kind of pattern that is established and quickly broken). We are invited to surrealistic and conjured, personified as an animal, “yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes . . . rubs its muzzle . . . (and) licked its tongue into the corners of the... ... middle of paper ... ...
In this poem a man struggles to remain a man while fighting off his memories of the past, which he feels would be uncharacteristic of his present. maturity. The sas The imagery in this poem helps to describe a picture in the reader's mind. mind so that the reader can sympathize with the speaker during his journey into the past.
The best way to shave your head in 3 steps Whether this is the first time or the 100th time you have shaved your head, it is always a good idea to get tips on how to do it. You want to make sure you do it right the first time and it is very important to be careful. There are 3 major steps for the best way to shave your head bald and all of them are very important. Step 1: Preparing Shaving your head can be stressful and downright annoying, but preparing ahead of time can cut most of that out and make the whole process easier.
Certain people believe that shaving the hairs on your body will force the hair to grow back faster, darker, and thicker. However, this is not the case, according to professionals. According to Dr. Vreeman, “Shaving hair will not cause it to grow back in a darker or coarser form or to grow back faster. This belief is often reinforced by popular media sources and perhaps by people contemplating the quick appearance of stubble on their own body.” She believes that the power of coincidence can make the belief seem obvious to some as well.
Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses, where we ran the gantlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables...“ Since the boy is living in a place of dreariness he feels the need to look for something that can bring light to his situation;so he sees that in Mangan’s
Grooming is not left only to the ladies; men care about their appearance too, and there are a few things men must keep in mind when grooming and keeping up their appearance. Below are 6 of the most common grooming mistakes that men make or don't consider, and how to fit these grooming mistakes.