Essays on a poem some people will have to understand

some people will feel this painting to be a comical painting because even though Icarus is falling other things are happening around him.... If something is written is first person point of view, it will have feelings as well as fears.... A piece written through second point of view will have what the on looker is feeling not the direct feeling of the feeling.... Basically ambience is created through words in a poem.... Many poets have written about the famous painting 'Fall of Icarus'....

By these lines alone, one effortlessly gets to understand the poet's explanation of what humanity has turned into.... The 'Tiger' is a poem that was written by William Wordsworth.... he “Tiger” is a poem that was written by William Wordsworth.... The expedition schema even leaves alluring void we don't understand how to fill: what is the destination?... ?? The poet in this lines shows his astonishment at how God could have restrained fired and transformed it into this outstanding animal....

Due to the complexity of the tone and the choice of words of the narrator, many readers tend to understand the poem as an account of child abuse by the father.... t is important to understand the voice and tone of the narrator in the poem as many readers are confused whether the poem has a joyful (nostalgic) or a sad (horrified tone).... A reader needs to understand whether the narrator echoes the voice of the author or whether he is simply a character different from the author who expresses his own views, ideas or feelings....

The readers must look for metaphors and images to understand the hidden meaning of the poem; the sea is both a symbol and a metaphor in the poem.... It is also important to understand why this poem was written in order to understand its hidden meaning.... “Neither joy, nor love, nor light/ Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;" (Dover Beach) It is quite conspicuous that words like neither and nor have been repeated and usually when words get repeated in a poem it signifies emphasis and this case is no different....

His vision of death may have beautiful images of gold curving and mechanical birds but in the end he will have stopped existing.... a poem may have verses ranging from one verse to more than a hundred verses.... The devices are techniques used by the poets to help the reader understand, virtualise or interpret the poets' theme of discussion.... Both poems have used these stylistic devices, the speaker, to make the reader understand the message that both poets want to pass....

This poem is very deep, one has to read it over and over again to understand its hidden meaning.... Life is complicated and we need to understand our aim to do that we need to sit down and introspect.... he poem has a hidden meaning in it; the literal meaning of the poem is very easy to understand.... Many a time we come across situations in life where we have to make difficult choices and these difficult choices also decide our future, this poem is all about choosing the road which is less traveled, it also goes to show the courage of the poet who decides to take a path which is less traveled and there is a possibility of him getting lost but he is brave enough to try something different from others....

For the traditionalists, the notion that Cid can be converted into a heroic epitome is natural and easy to understand.... Menéndez Pidal believed that Cantar de mio Cid was a poem that was successful in safeguarding the traces of the past, which would otherwise have not been remembered, via oral transmission.... It is the only Spanish document to have survived the adulterations in truth rendered over time.... It is the only Spanish document to have survived the adulterations in truth rendered over time....

From the lines “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,”17 one can understand the empathetic character of the poet, his ability to see through the other person's eye.... In order to further understand the portrayal of individual in Whitman's poetry, it is important to compare it with other poems of the same era.... It is through literature that writers and poets alike communicate various messages to the general public about the evils of not only the society they live in, but also the societies all around the world that they may have experienced....

Nevertheless, the poet does not pity the wife, but the people who hardly understand the strings or song.... Even though, the poets do not have affectation and are rich of significant courage they show their earnest desire and inner world to grab the meaning of life.... For a text to open up, it must have numerous meanings in the end convergence within readers.... Unfortunately, there lacks a clear evidence of authorship that has left people in an arousing controversy, cloud and a discussion that keeps on appearing even today....

Verbal irony is also another figure of speech in this poem, the speaker knows that when he looks back and recollects, he will have to tell his story with a “sigh” and he would also have to throw light upon the differences the second road would have made had he chosen it.... he poem has hidden meaning in it; the literal meaning of the poem is very easy to understand.... The rhyme scheme, what type of a poem is it?... The rhyme scheme, what type of a poem is it?...

Manuscripts are a very efficient way of storing literary work awaiting publishing as all corrections will have been made, as well as, the poets feelings fully exhibited in the work hence originality is maintained (McGann, 81).... This way, the poet only had to compose a poem then present it to his former teacher who would make appropriate recommendations as well as corrections.... The other reason as to why the 1844 version was chosen for subsequent essays is that it does not contain poetic jargon but rather it is made up of poems written using simple language that even non-poets can easily understand (Cohen, 83)....

Continuing the same meaning as in the first stanza, the poet claims the army that wins does not understand the meaning of victory.... In other words, the one who does not have a chance to win understands what the sweetness of success is.... Clearly, according to the poet, women are a defeated class as they have no rights in the society, and she compares this situation with death.... The first poem analyzed is “Success is Counted sweetest”....

Hence criticism of his work continued for the next decades till date and these works of criticisms have gained literary acclaim and worth over time.... His compositions began to be difficult to interpret over the 80s and often have been disjunctive and irregular.... Borrowing some elements form modernist poetry the poet has invented his own style keeping at par with the period he belonged.... some examples of such are 'On the Outside Looking Out, by John Shoptaw, Five Temperaments, by David Kalstone, Beyond Amazement, edited by David Lehman, John Ashbery: Modern Critical Views, edited by Harold Bloom, The Tribe of John, Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry, edited by Susan Schultz, and John Ashbery and American Poetry, by David Herd' (Hilbert)....

Knowing these relationships is again essential to understand the tone of her poem “Forgiving my father” ... “Come on, baby,” she smiled, then turned to address the church: “she don't have to do nothing, she don't want to do” (On Strength Gotten from Others, a mini- biography – Lucille Clifton—www.... “When I retreat into my room to just sit and stare or cry I can hear my mama speak through my four daughters ---“She don't have to act strong if she don't want to” ...

he readers must look for metaphors and images to understand the hidden meaning of the poem; the sea is both a symbol and a metaphor in the poem.... t is also important to understand why this poem was written in order to understand its hidden meaning.... ??Neither joy, nor love, nor light/ Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;" (Dover Beach) It is quite conspicuous that words like neither and nor have been repeated and usually when words get repeated in a poem it signifies emphasis and this case is no different....

Bully, helps in order for the readers to understand the changes taking place in America because of immigrant from Latin America settling permanently and seeking jobs there.... This paper helps to provide an analysis of three major poems of his which have a lot of in-depth meaning and transition from one theme to another.... This paper helps to provide an analysis of three major poems of his which have a lot of in depth meaning and transition from one theme to another....

It is important to read the poem over and over again to understand its deeper meaning.... He said that one would find it hard to understand the poem in just one reading and this is why several readings of the poem are required.... About the poem, Frost asserted, "You have to be careful of that one; its a tricky poem - very tricky.... Children playing in the school can be really emotional for some people but it is really ordinary for the poet because she is sick of her mundane routine and the labor that she has to put in everyday....

he readers must look for metaphors and images to understand the hidden meaning of the poem; the sea is both a symbol and a metaphor in the poem.... t is also important to understand why this poem was written in order to understand its hidden meaning.... ??Neither joy, nor love, nor light/ Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;" (Dover Beach) It is quite conspicuous that words like neither and nor have been repeated and usually when words get repeated in a poem it signifies emphasis and this case is no different....

The readers must look for metaphors and images to understand the hidden meaning of the poem; the sea is both a symbol and a metaphor in the poem.... It is also important to understand why this poem was written in order to understand its hidden meaning.... “Neither joy, nor love, nor light/ Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;" (Dover Beach) It is quite conspicuous that words like neither and nor have been repeated and usually when words get repeated in a poem it signifies emphasis and this case is no different....

This line reads like an indictment to the unfeeling world that fails to recognize the selfless struggles and sacrifice that some people engage into for the sake of improving the welfare of the society.... It is a poem that celebrates simplicity and innocence and mocks at the modern discourses that claim to depend of science, policy, structure, strategies, which go against the simple truths of human compassion, love, and care for the sanctity of life.... The paper "Analysis of Three Poems" discusses the three poems, Sounds of Silence, Blowing in the Wind, and Don't Need This Body, by Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, and John Mellencamp respectively, have one unifying strand as regards their thematic content....

Frost's sensitivity to the theme of entropy, doom, and extinction is displayed prominently in both of these poems, as well as the limitations and isolation of the individual in either a social or natural environment, plus the related theme of how difficult it is for the self to understand existence.... He truly portrays his views and loves, and uses his poetry to allow readers to understand these favored qualities of his.... Often times poems have hidden meanings behind the images used within them, and the best way to understand exactly what the writer was thinking is to ask yourself what you think made the poet write that particular poem....

Reader can understand a conscious effort from the part of the poet to blame the character of Amelia.... Analyzing the rhetorical elements of Hardy's The Ruined Maid and Gwendolyn's Sadie and Maude, reader can find the fact that both of them have practiced various rhetorical features like pathos, ethos and logos in different forms.... Poet presented his characters as the representatives of working-class people that we're experiencing a continuous state of exploitation....

He believes in democratizing poetry, by using easy to understand terms.... Specifically the theme tackles the creative process involved in making a poem.... Both poems also tackle the same subject: that of making a poem.... However, both of these have different ways of achieving their goal of making a poem.... The poem presents the persona as a man who woke up early to write a poem in the kitchen.... In it, the author uses the metaphor in the form of the salt and pepper shakers, comparing it to the relationship that the poet and reader has formed in the process of making and reading a poem....

to understand Poe's literary works, it is important to be open to both theories but is evident the death of his loved ones in addition to being abused by his foster father are some of the factors that significantly influenced his works.... Critics both in history and literature have constructed a number of theories about his motivations to write as he did with some suspecting Poe's unstable love life while others have noted substance abuse as the cause of his horror stories....

The author analyzes the poetry of Sylvia Plath and concludes that she died in her poetry, and with her death, she has achieved immortality putting in place women's equal rightful claim to a genre long possessed by men.... With her poetry, Plath has shown us the painful ironies of life.... .... ... ...

Verbal irony is also another figure of speech in this poem, the speaker knows that when he looks back and recollects, he will have to tell his story with a “sigh” and he would also have to throw light upon the differences the second road would have made had he chosen it.... Thesis Statement:The poem has hidden meaning in it; the literal meaning of the poem is very easy to understand.... Conclusion: The road not taken is a poem with a hidden meaning, it tells us how our life presents two choices in front of us, when we make our choice, after a few years we more often than not ponder over the options we would have had, had we chosen to trot on the road not taken....

Verbal irony is also another figure of speech in this poem, the speaker knows that when he looks back and recollects, he will have to tell his story with a “sigh” and he would also have to throw light upon the differences the second road would have made had he chosen it.... This poem is a very deep poem, one has to read it over and over again to understand its hidden meaning.... Life is really complicated and we need to understand our aim and to do that we need to sit down and introspect....

Just as he was unable to understand why he was faced by many challenges such as death of his family members, here he is trying to explain that man is unable to understand the universe's realities.... Edelman (2002) believed that the poem is a true reflection of his friend's anguish about the decisions that people have to make in life.... However, since he was deeply perturbed by the war, he decided to compose a poem titled "The Road Not Taken" for one of his closest friend who was involved in the war in France....

Hence criticism of his work continued for the next decades till date and these works of criticism have gained literary acclaim and worth over time.... His compositions began to be difficult to interpret over the 80s and often have been disjunctive and irregular.... He progresses from one phase to another and if read between the lines, then some apparently haphazard lines might have deep moral implications.... The author of the paper "John Ashbery as an Avant-Garde Poet of the Post-Modern Period" argues in a well-organized manner that borrowing some elements from modernist poetry John Ashbery has invented his own style keeping at par with the period he belonged....

Verbal irony is also another figure of speech in this poem, the speaker knows that when he looks back and recollects, he will have to tell his story with a 'sigh' and he would also have to throw light upon the differences the second road would have made had he chosen it.... This paper illustrates that the poem observed is a very deep poem, one has to read it over and over again to understand its hidden meaning.... Life is really complicated and we need to understand our aim and to do that we need to sit down and introspect....

They may be difficult to understand especially because it is old English but the meaning of the poems is deeper than what they seem.... Our study of John Keats' poems is important in making us understand what the words really mean.... All the poems we learned in class have different subjects or themes.... The two have a number of similarities and they also have differences.... 'I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme' (52-53)....

They manage to strike some balance that allows the audience to understand that one theme can be presented through a different tone.... hough the poets present their poems by contrasting mood and attitude of the poem, they manage to strike some balance that allows the audience to understand that one theme can be presented through different tone, attitude and mood.... The two poems presented by Nikki Giovanni – Love in Place, and that presented by Ruddy Francisco- Love Poem Medley have been used to demonstrate the use of stylistic devices in presenting a theme in a poem....

The only way to handle with one's nightmares (as suggested by Kinnell) is to understand that there are people who can always help.... The reader will understand that apart... The Book of Nightmares is one of those books where the real world and non-existing worlds of Kinnell and other people's nightmares intermingle.... Kinnell starts depicting one of his frightening worlds and in the very end of the poem he states that the book is the book of nightmares which many people still would like to read because the real world is full of nightmares and there is no escape from them....

Thus, Coleridge is known as a dreamy poet who has managed to put his vision into words for the readers to understand and be effected from.... Kubla Khan and Christabel it is first crucial to understand the context of this poem after which a thorough analysis can be made which can be used to draw patterns regarding the bold and even the violent themes expressed in his works.... Now, a reader may be wonder how this account of Kubla Khan has discussed sexuality or violent themes, however, in order to understand that, one has to read between the lines and understand nature which is symbolic for sexual pleasures, thus Coleridge has cloaked sexual descriptions under the imitations of natural phenomena....

Man, nature and art are all assembled together and it might take and a little separation from everything to understand this.... Hous-es and rooms are full of per-fumes He encounters his soul and asks the mankind exploring the meaning of poems to stop discussions and look inside them to understand the "origin of all poems".... He considers the whole country a poem for the very reason.... Most of his poems do not have standard versus or stanzas....

This was mainly due to the curiosity that Poe had presented in regard to his life, and many people hoped they could understand the late man through his various writings.... This was mainly due to the curiosity that Poe had presented in regard to his life, and many people hoped they could understand the late man through his various writings.... “John Allen alternately spoiled and aggressively disciplined his foster son (Meyers 9),” which proved to have played a large role as Poe grew into a successful student and an established writer....

/ I like to work, read, learn, and understand life” (Hughes).... Thus, by looking from the historical perspectives, the readers can easily understand how the social attitudes of the people of America in the early part of twentieth century get reflected in Hughes's poems.... This home work prompts the student to have an examination of his real self.... The poem thus enables the readers to have a social and historical understanding of the Harlem Renaissance period, illuminating the history of America....

Use of imagery helps the audience understand the poem's theme with a lot of ease.... The person digging outside is purportedly his father, so far only the pen, spade and gun are the objects that have been mentioned.... The creation of “toner's bog” (Heaney Line 18) gives the poem a sombre mood and an inclusive feeling to those people who are familiar with the traditions of the potato farming and peat harvesting. ... Both the poems present a traditional society where people believed in hard work and did hardship jobs....

A Reading Response on The Pool Players The Pool Players is a poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks.... The point, however, is that when The Pool Players is detached from the consequence of such possibility or not, it is indeed a poem that could only come from poet laureate such as Brooks.... In just reading the poem, one would have the impression of youths who are just expressing themselves in the simplest language that they are accustomed to; no flowery descriptions, no use of symbolisms, and no adjectives to clarify further what they mean....

Human beings have to be acquainted with the fate; they have no control of their fate because the fate is designed.... The poem is set in an urban place at night, a fact revealed when he says, “I have out-walked the furthest city light” (Line 3).... In the poem Acquainted with the Night, although most people live in urban places, the speaker is lonely and depressed in the urban city.... Although the three creatures are white, which depicts some hope; they represent destruction in a food chain....

Her idea of the loss of female community finally expands to speak extensively about the conflicts females have to confront on a regular basis which include unsuccessful marriages and loss of creativity in the face of motherhood.... What follows confirms this feeling in association with abstract loneliness: “…the sea is not a question of power I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.... They consider themselves helpless and beyond control in the aftermath of the distressful lives that they have spent....

Both these poems have great implications in a reflective understanding of the poet's general themes.... In fact, the major characteristic of her poetic style is greatly evident in these poems and these have immense value in a deeper realization of the meaning of both the poems.... ?? (Dickinson's Style) And the magnificent effects of her poems, as illustrated by the poems under discussion, have been the result of her compressing language.... Both the poems have individual themes and concerns....

A detailed analysis of the poem gives a chance to the reader to understand the fact that poet successfully uses various literary devises such as visual and auditory images, sound devises, and symbolism.... Reader can understand the glorified status of London city and its industrious developments, population, occupation, social and cultural life.... Historical researches have remarked the fact that for the period of these flourishing times London became a massive consumer and service center....

The most important aspects that must be analyzed are the rhyme scheme, what type of a poem is it, how it was written etc.... The rhyme scheme, what type of a poem is it?... We Real Cool is a tragic story of young children who have started enjoying committing crimes on the contrary I died for beauty is a poem which represents how we isolate a few people from our society and how it impacts them.... “We real cool” is also a poem that focuses upon the youth and it is a very easy to ready poem....

They also use hidden meaning and prevent direct language hence one has to think to understand the analytical deep meaning.... eading a poemMany students have a negative attitude towards poetry, perceiving it as too hard for them to understand.... Read it twice to understand the deep meaning conveyed.... However, their approach in the analysis and reading a poem is the first aspect in eliminating that barrier.... One cannot compare a poem to a novel, where one simply flips the pages and easily navigates the pages....

dditionally, the use of music and sound is another important element of Hughes's poem among which several poems have identifiable beat.... Langston Hughes has always portrayed the forgotten aspiration by elaborating that the American and African people do not have the capability to access American dream due to differences in their race.... onversely, Frost's poems have always concentrated on becoming perfect from every aspect for which the poet has always put effort on developing the scenario....

iterature, through the different periods, has reflected human history and the contemporary world situation, and the modern literature is one of the most effective ways to understand the modern human and world environment.... Both the works, in their specific ways, have been greatly successful in dealing with the specific context of the modern world, and the relationship between history and violence is greatly evident in the main theme of these works.... In Blood Meridian, life itself is repeatedly shown to have no value, the repeated descriptions of horrific, inhuman violence having the effect of desensitizing the reader....

In the first part of the poem, the woman looks very naive and seems not to understand that having a master and being a slave is not the way things should be.... "I Love my Master" is a title that would have appeared as innocent and not ironical in a poem dedicated to children, where there is an animal at the centre of the story.... Criticism is also in Freedom Now, a poem that deals with the black struggle in the United States.... As well as in the case of the first poem analyzed, we understand from the very title the idea of the poem....

The cloud paired with the action “floats” enables the reader of the poem to understand the tranquility and also the lightheartedness of the author with regards to the present state of nature.... Thus, lives will be bearable, and people will experience happiness on their daily lives.... It is due to the figurative language and also diction that the author employs that makes the reader understand his response to nature.... he diction that the writer employs at the beginning of the poem makes the reader understand the authors understand his state of mind....

These poems have been illustrative of the satirical merit of the poet.... The critics of Swift have always been in praise for the prominence of the satire of Swift.... These poems have been illustrative of the satirical merit of the poet.... The critics of Swift have always been in praise for the prominence of the satire of Swift.... he poetic tools such as imagery and symbolism have been helpful in order to convey the deeper meanings incorporated in the satire and it is the same tools that elevate the poem to greater levels....