The poem is filled with imagery techniques such as the “arrivals of new comers in busloads”, “Comings and goings”, “barrier sealed them off from the highway”…
In Stanza 2, the man washes himself up at a tap where he steps into mud, as there is always mud at taps. ‘Vandals Lavatory’, Grey uses the word ‘Vandal’ as he does not appreciate people vandalizing the streets to ruin the beauty of the Australian Coast Lines. The persona flushes the toilet and gets a chill whilst flushing, it’s the use of an actual toilet that gives him this chill as hitchhikers if not able to find a nearby toilet will often go in a bush. In Stanza 3, the man eats a floury apple, which he supposedly found in a supermarket bin where you find ruined goods. Grey uses personification ‘At this kerb sand crawls by’ to demonstrate that it was almost like the path was covered in sand moving slowly from the light wind about. ‘Car after car now-its like a boxer warming up with the heavy bag, spitting air’ the cars on the street are busy going somewhere. The use of simile is comparing the cars to a boxing match, how dangerous and violent of each car passing is like a punch by a boxer.…
Food plays an intricate part in any given culture; it is a medium that is used to express love, and to pass down tradition from generation to generation. In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem “Green Chile”, Baca explores the value of chile peppers in his family and it’s heritage.…
There is also figurative language used in phrases such as “Having come from the clouds” and “tilting road”. This adds to the effect of imagery and emphasis on the journey to the sawmill town. It also helps to make the stanza more interesting to the reader.…
The form of the poem is not easy to determine. It consists of six stanzas of uneven length, which are, except for the first and fifth, again divided into sub-stanzas. The meter is irregular as well as the length of the verses and there is also no rhyme scheme. Cervantes plays very freely with the structure of poems. She does not use an established type of poem and ignores rhyme and meter, but she presents her words graphically in the form of stanzas, in separate but related sections. The six main parts are numbered. It can be assumed that the arrangement of the verses was done consciously and that it aims at a certain reception on the side of the reader. Each time a stanza or sub-stanza starts, a kind of pause emerges. This also allows the poem to have spatial and temporal leaps without transitions, but it also increases the difficulties concerning the understanding of the text. In addition to that, many things are only vaguely hinted or ambiguously presented. The inherent continuity of the poem is achieved by its themes and by its imagery.…
The word choice in the poem is a big part of what I think ties the whole poem together, and creates a theme that carries through each stanza. As you read the poem you will notice the excessive use of the word "one" which is most often featured at the beginning of a stanza and followed by something that connects everyone in the country together. An example of this is the first line in the fourth stanza of the poem, which reads "One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands...". Another example is the use of words that represent movement. "Rose, charging, crescendoing, teeming, launching, jetting" are all words used throughout the poem that outline the daily movement that occurs in the lives of American citizens. In the sixth stanza of the poem Blanco gives examples of the many different ways that you may hear U.S residents say hello. I think that he…
Next, the speaker of the poem is someone who is Spanish that used to tend to that school and knowing the features of the Theodore Roosevelt statue and what it represents. The reason for this is because the poem leaves you with facts that have taken place back in history involving Theodore Roosevelt and his invasion on the Spanish. The speaker seems to have something against Theodore…
The poem, “Black Hair”, by Gary Soto describes a story of an eight-year-old boy imagining that one day he could be like his hero, baseball player Hector Moreno. Each image in this poem gives the reader an opportunity to visualize the narrator’s childhood. Three images in particular, “The game before us was more than baseball. It was –Hector Moreno quick and hard with turned muscles”, “and mother was the terror of mouths twisting hurt with butter knives”, and "when Hector lined balls into deep center, in my mind I rounded the bases". These images show that baseball was very important at this time in the young boy’s life and it gave him hope.…
To start with the text one has to go through each line and understand what the writer was trying to portray. The song was originally written…
We were asked to analyze T.S. Elliot's poem "The Rock" based upon these three questions:…
However he, or the idea of him, no matter how superficial, still seems dangerous and wildly violent. Lines 7 and 8 stand on their own and are quite different from the childlike image of the decorative cowboy who tows his fake cactus behind him on a string in stanza one. Here he is…
4. What heavily connotative words are used? What words have unusual or special meanings? Are any words or phrases repeated? If so, why? Which words do you need to look up? This poem is very straightforward. There is no hidden meaning between the lines, just a wonderful poet pouring out her emotions on paper.…
Throughout the entire poem, Soto captures the feeling and power of adolescent love using contrasting imagery and symbolism. The contrasting imagery is expressed in the lines where the speaker peels his orange "that was so bright against/the gray of December"(52-53). The oranges can be used as a symbol to represent the fruits of young love, as that is what the author is seeking to…
Main idea is a sudden abrupt shift into imagining the present reality of the bones of dead miners underground…
| 'I wrote / All over the walls with my / Words ' (line 11). Are these words Clarke 's shouts and screams of pain, or are they words of a poem she thinks of through her labour? She imagines the words colouring 'the clean squares ' (line 13) of the hospital. Decide whether you think the coloured words would deface the hospital 's clean walls, or give them new life and vibrancy.…