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…
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
The news is out and Sister Wives star Mykelti Brown is engaged. This makes her the second one of the Brown children to decided that it is time to tie the knot. Her sister Maddie Brown is already married to Caleb Brush. Logan Brown seems close to an engagement, but hasn't proposed just yet. Us Magazine shared the news about Mykelti being engaged. Her fiance is Antonio Padron and fans can't wait to start seeing him on the show.
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.
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.
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
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
In the poem “Self-Pity’s Closet” by Michelle Boisseu, the speaker’s main conflict is self pity, and the author used diction and imagery to show the effects that the conflict has on the speaker. Phrases like “secret open wounds,” (3) show the effects with the word “secret” meaning pain that others are not noticing, which leads up to the speaker getting hurt, but no one indicating to notice it. Another effect is the speaker becoming more self concerning and thinking more about her negatives. This effect portrays through “night raining spears of stars,” (19) because night tends to be the time when people have the most thoughts about themselves and also the word “spears” make up an image of pain piercing through the speaker. “Tangy molasses of
Yolanda is a young girl from the Dominican Republic. She is not use to Americas antics of war and bombs. In the short story she accounts her first sight of snow for what she thought were bombs, "I looked out the window warily. All of my life i had heard about the hite crystals that fell out of American skies in the winter"(5). The way the poet decribes how Yolanda saw th ice fall out the sky lets us know that snow is something that is unfamiliar to her. Also the way she describes the new vocabulary, "nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter" (2). This lets us know that the seeting takes place ina time of nuclear warefare and the country is in a state of emergence.
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.
“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.
The poet writes these poems to express her strong feelings and tells a story of a beautiful garden. She has used many elements in her work to express her emotions and story in a very beautiful and imaginative way. The use of these elements do not bore the reader and emerge them into a story of creation, life and death, rebirth, and the recovering of innocence. These are the reasons why the poem collection is highly successful and why I enjoy reading these poems and highly recommend them to anyone who enjoy reading poems or any sort of
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.
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.
According to Erlewine, the album "would have been stronger" if Selena had lived. He concluded his review by calling the album a "powerful—and touching—testament to her talents". Time magazine's David Browne said Dreaming of You 's release was "one of the quickest posthumous albums ever cobbled together". He stated producers who worked with Selena on this album had decisively paired her with recordings that reminded them of lighter versions of the heavier sound of Paula Abdul and called them "greeting-card sentiments".
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.
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.