In "Homage to My Hips", Lucille Clifton creates some kind of imagery pertaining to her hips. She seems all into herself, more specifically, her hips. She makes it a point to convey that her hips are strong or powerful by the lines "they go where they want to go. /they do what they want to do. /these hips are mighty." (9-11) She gets into how her hips are big and mighty, no one can hold them back, and how they can even seduce men.…
I think the type of love that Anne Bradstreet demonstrates through this poem is something that we should try to be practice in our daily lives. It may be through little things, but we have the incredible opportunity to allow God’s love to flow through us each and every day of our lives!…
In the poem “Sweethearts,” by Allen Branden he describes the feelings of a young couple who have to sneak out to find time to spend with each other. The line, “Through the pale statuary and falling leaves” (2) gives the poem a setting of being in a cemetery in the autumn. Their love is so strong that they never want to be apart. The speaker is a man who is telling a story about a relationship that he was in as a teenager; he is not speaking to anyone unparticular. Through diction, symbols and tone the author explains how young love can be confusing, misunderstood, and full of emotion.…
Think about the major Puritan beliefs as you re-read this poem. What philosophical beliefs about God and the purpose of human life are reflected in Bradstreet’s poem?…
For me poetry is usually rather difficult to decipher the real meaning behind the rhyming and sentences that do not really flow with everyday speaking. This poem is an elegy in closed form which encompasses elements such as: alliteration, syntax, diction, rhyme, and has been one of the most parodied poems of all American literature. After much reflection, I believe the way in which Poe intended this poem to be…
It can be said that struggles bring people together and, at the same time, break them apart. When two people realize their life situations are quite similar are controlled by fundamentalism, they tend to stay close to one another for comfort and understanding, even though they share nothing in interest. However one will eventually attempt a change, to try and manipulate their circumstances for the better or to leave. The other is inevitably left alone and desolate. Although a complicated kindness entwines many such consequences from social issues and other obstacles deep inside its storylines, it reveals its dominant theme in the conclusion: that love endures in the end. Love will make hardships tolerable, will bind people together in spirit if not in a physical sense, and will brighten the optimism in the heart.…
Poetry is very strange you can read it and think you know what it means and when person next to you thinks it something completely opposite so you talk about it and realize nobody is wrong it just how we interpreted it. There are many poems that talk about love and show examples of love, but in the poems “You Fit Into Me” by Atwood and “French Toast” by Silver they show a different meaning to love. They use many different types of of metaphors to describe the relationships between their emotions. They explain how love can never fade away it's always there.…
The true nature of the poem was cordial and relaxing. The sentiment was also inspiring as the poem gave me the strong feeling of passion by his use of poetic devices and tone. The verse "Loving can heal, loving can mend your soul" paints a beautiful mental image which strengthens the power and passion the poet is trying to portray. In addition, the verse "We keep this love in a photograph" allows for the symbolization of a picture as a memory of love. This provides the poem with the basic foundation that drives the poet's ambition to reconstruct the love he feels toward his significant other. All in all, the poem talks about capturing the key moments he felt closely toward his partner and to use it to keep the inner flame of their relationship…
pretty easy to understand but it also has deep meaning. This poem can be seen as representing…
This poem had reminded me of the time when I was at the hospital because my aunt was extremely sick and was about to die. I remember as I was walking out of the hospital and there was this dad who was very happy and giving everyone at the hospital cupcakes out because his wife gave birth to their first child. As I walked passed this newly made dad I realized that ones best day could another persons worst day; and then at that moment I understood the circle of life, where there is ones birth there is ones death, and vise versa.…
I realized that this poem was about a son and a mother that was grieving over the death of his father, and her husband. They both that day had thought about the father and husband cause the son had called that day to talk to his father. That's when he found out that his mother, had made coffee for his father and had put it on the table like she does everyday for him. They both knew that he had been deceased for a year now. I know the death of a family member can be a traumatic thing for most families to every experience in their lifetime.…
This is another old sappy love poem. Though this one is more about love at first sight and not saying goodbye to a love. It’s about innocent love. I like the rhythm of it. It goes with the flow and is easy to say. I think that an awesome thing to have in a poem. The whole poem is describing the girl’s face. Which is why I think it’s about love at first sight. When people fall in love at first sight, they see the eyes and the face first. Though love at first sight might not be real, it’s still beautiful when you read about it. I think poem really capture that feeling. I also like how it was written. When I first read it, I did not think it was a pre-20th century. Plus it’s very detail. There not really anything I don’t like about the poem. I’m sure there are some small things that are wrong with it, but I don’t see it. It is truly a well written poem. This poem is nice and light-hearted. That is all I really have to say about this…
This poem really contains the main theme of the nature of people. She describes a stereotypical view that people do not take the time to appreciate and understand things. The poem honestly causes me a lot of confusion, which is why I picked it. I do not know how to get a full understanding of anything in this poem, especially things such as themes and allusions so I do not really have anything to say about either of those things so I am going to move on.…
If somebody read their lover this poem in today's society it would more than likely be taken into great offence and result in arguments since things…
This is why the poem is so significant, unlike any other poem; this one has a meaning which I can relate my past experiences from one which actually bonds with me. A true meaning which I can remember forever.…
