In analyzing the two poems, The “Lost Sister” written by Cathy Song and the “Myth of Spirits” written by Monica Mody both share a similar free verse style of writing. The two poems are both penned with applying metaphors and unique symbolism. Meanwhile, suggesting the importance of spirituality that helps create a greater experience of self-identity. However, they differ in their characteristic examples of ethnicity. In the analyzation of the characters portrayed in these two poems, the concept of how “freedom” is relatable in fairly different aspects. In an initial examination of these two poems, a reader may discover that the two poems have no comparisons. There are not many comparisons between the two poems but, what holds true is the …show more content…
secret darkness into the thoughts of the characters. In the process of searching for self-identity, these two poems are creating a story from memories in the mind. In the poem, “Lost Sister” the writer relates to the depth of the Chinese culture and how it affects power and equal rights in Chinese women. The writer openly allows the reader an inside view of the Chinese naming custom which describes the value of the name, Jade.
That name was specifically chosen for all firstborn daughters in China. Jade holds a strongly significant meaning to help explain the Chinese culture. This describes some eccentric details about her Asian-American background. The writer uses brilliant colorful imagery and power of the jade stone. The poem references how the girls and the jade stone bring life and healing their country. The daughters considered in the poem are seeking self-identity and desperately moving away from a trapping type of tradition. The tradition of foot binding caused these women to be “rooted” meaning emotionally strong. The false sense of being able to leave their homeland and experience true freedom was realized to almost being impossible to happen. In the “Myth of Spirits” the writer, Monica Mody is a ritual artist and looks to the spirit world for guidance someone who believes they can contact the invisible worlds of Spirit. A poetic description of the “Myth of Spirits” conveys a rebirthing freedom of thoughts, expression and renewing of the soul. In the poem, “triangles in a neat row” may represent the holy spirit to the ascension into the spiritual world which caused a spiritual awakening. The “bird of thought” could be considered as a spiritual concept of
thought processes. “Pale warm blue” metaphorically dancing in the writer’s mind constantly. The bird “fitting into the eye socket” explains a releasing of trapped thoughts, pressing to be spoken but in many cases unable to be referred. Birds have a freedom that other animals do not have, freedom to move in flight. The sensing of a bird behind cheekbones, maneuvering into an eye socket would be extremely difficult. The continual tapping of a bird’s peak inside moving around aimlessly hearing feathers flop around inside a skull meaning. To gain clearer vision, it seemed to be a positive movement giving a forced perspective but tapping the center with his “flimsy head” to show signs of concern or emotional feelings.
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As this poem characterizes the view of a native woman expressing feelings of passion relating to her culture, it also criticizes society, in particular Christianity, as the speaker is experiencing feelings of discontent with the outcome of residential schools. It does not directly criticize the faith, but through the use of a heavy native dialect and implications to the Christian faith it becomes simple to read the speakers emotions.
Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, in their poems “We Real Cool” and “Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict”, are both alike in their idea of dealing with troubled youth. Brooks discusses in her poem “We Real Cool” rebellious pool-playing youth that “sing sin” (Line 5) and “thin gin.” (Line 6) The whole poem centers around disturbed youth. The narrator in Sonia Sanchez’s poem “Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict”, is also a disturbed young woman who is addicted to heroin, and seems to live a rather rebellious lifestyle. In addition, both of these poems use tone via word choice, sentence structure, and meter in order to vividly describe the scenarios in their poems, and to impact their reader. However, both poets use the literary elements mentioned above differently in their poems.
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.
Sister Flowers and A View From the Bridge are two short stories with strong correspondence and likeness. In the story, Sister Flowers by Maya Angelou our narrator Marguerite, a young African American female gives the reader introspect of her life and how a scholarly educated and aristocratic woman named Mrs.Bertha Flowers has made an impact on the narrator's life. While in the story A View From the Bridge by Cherokee Paul Mcdonald a man talks about his encounter with a boy he met on a bridge. Both short stories from the choice of character comparisons with both Marguerite and the boy on the bridge , The author's theme,syntax and symbols to overall effectiveness of both narratives proves that these two stories are more the same as a sense to their overall message they are trying to communicate to the reader.
“Lost Brother” by Stanley Moss is a poem dedicated to a fallen brethren, an ancient tree that had lived a long, noble life. As bizarre as it may seem to mourn a felled tree, the speaker wants the reader to share in his sorrow through extended metaphor and personification to prove that the tree was full of humanity undeserving of its untimely fate and whose life should serve as an example to others.
In the poem Reunion by Carolyn Forché, she does an excellent job of including line breaks to make a meaningful impact. I noticed that the poet’s use of “half-commas” as referenced in the book helps show the reader where there’s an emphasis. For example, in the poem stanza, “later, the tongues swishing in my dress, some yours, some left by other men.” The punctuation here aids in presenting the words in an exciting way as “some left by other men” was not what I expected after the pause.
“Resurrection of the Errand Girl: An Introduction” establishes the entire collection of poems. The reason for the title, Head off and Split, is introduced, and the themes of social justice, sexuality, and family are presented. This poem enhances the themes and their overall meaning through imagery, historical references, and various literary devices. These, in turn, encourage deeper thought into what is really being said.
The purpose of this essay is to analyze and compare and contrast the two paired poems “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning and “My Ex-Husband” by Gabriel Spera to find the similarities presented within the pairs. Despite the monumental time difference between “My Last Duchess” and “My Ex-Husband”, throughout both poems you will see that somebody is wronged by someone they thought was a respectable person and this all comes about by viewing a painting on the wall or picture on a shelf.
Every parent in this world loves their children more than anything. Even the children can’t stay away from their parents for so long. Nothing in this world could be more precious than the love of a parent has for his/her children. Our parents are always with us no matter what happens. Often in life we make mistakes, but our parents give us supports and teach us to learn from those mistakes and move on with our lives. They also try to teach us from their experience. Parents always make sacrifices to provide for their family. In the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Huges and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the poets talk about how the parents are always making sacrifices to make their children’s life a little bit easier. Both of these poems reveal the struggle the parents go through in order to provide for their family.
The Theme of Loss in Poetry Provide a sample of poetry from a range of authors, each of whom portrays a different character. the theme of loss in some way. Anthology Introduction The object of this collection is to provide a sample of poetry from a range of authors, each of whom portray the theme of ‘loss’ in some way. The ‘Loss’ has been a recurring theme in literature for centuries, from.
The poem “Always Something More Beautiful” by Stephen Dunn is certainly about running a race, but the speaker is also arguing that pursuing something beautiful can help guide us through life. Through the title, we can see that we should constantly look for more beautiful things in life. The poem begins with the speaker describing his experience before a race. He uses words like “best” and “love.” The tone is extremely enthusiastic. In the first line, he talks about coming to the starting place. This can be a metaphor for beginning our lifelong journey. The speaker also implies that we need to approach it with a positive attitude. In the next few lines, the speaker indicates being tested in excellence
In all three poems there are images of duality; generally the image of duality is used in order to understand the "self", namely it is used for self-definition. The "other" functions as a tool to reflect the "self." So, the double image can be considered as a kind of mirror to see the reflection of the "self." Therefore, the double images will be scrutinized in this essay in order to argue that the woman in these poems reflect their doubles as alienated characters from the society. These women poets try to put forward the alienation of women in their works with images of dualities or personifications.
The theme throughout the poetry collection is the emotion of melancholy and the speaker speaking with a wise and philosophical tone. She has also used the repetition of nature and religion-based implications in her poems. Most of the poem titles is named after a specific plant because it fits in the meaning of her entire poem collection. The title of the poems hold symbolism because of the flower language. You can constantly see the cycle of rebirth through the beautiful description of a nonphysical form of a soul and develop into beautiful flowers in her garden. The vivid imagery of the flowers by describing the color and the personification of these living beings. She is also trying to explore the relationship between humans and their god. The poet is a gardener who tends to the flower and she prefer the flowers in her garden over her god, “knowing nothing of the
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