The first lines of the poem describe the way in which the man is leading his life. ... The life he sees in front of was gradually coming to a halt. ... These lines symbolize his loss of control over this disease. ... The next lines of the poem describe his inability to cope with his life, as he now knew it. ... The last few lines of the poem states: "he spun this way and that"(23,24). ...
" (lines 10-12). ... What a trash To annihilate each decade" (lines 16-24). ... In the next few lines, Lady Lazarus describes her own body as a million little strands in front of a "peanut-crunching crowd" (line 26), like a circus or a carnival, and she seems to be the main event. ... I do it so it feels real" (lines 46-47). ... (lines 51-55). ...
We may need to read "against the grain-; we many have to listen between the lines. ... (Lines 5-6) His horse thinks that is (gay or odd) that they are not stopping near a farmhouse. ... (Lines 9-10) He r! ings the front door to see if he is at the right houses. ... (Lines 15-16) The speaker has mile to go before he can get some sleep. ...
The poem is built of four quatrains, each consisting of four lines. ... The drunken father's breath, "Could make a small boy dizzy", yet the boy hangs "on like death" (My Papa's lines 2-3). ... The waltz with his father was so vigorous that the "pans / Slid from the kitchen shelf" (My Papa's lines 5-6), thoroughly annoying the mother who's "countenance / Could not unfrown itself" (My Papa's lines 7-8). ... One way he accentuates his feelings about this woman is the repetition of the letter "s" in the front and middle of words throughout the poem, often in key places. ....
When you first think of a mask you think of something along the lines of an object concealing the face, serving for protection, disguise, or you may even envision a miraculous performance or a religious ceremony. ... The transformation seemed astonishing, as if to disappear right in front of me as swiftly as it had appeared. While standing in front of this painting, the first thing that came to my mind was Rey Mysterio. ... On the front of the mask was a large cross. ... He then creates an exploration of reconstructing identity, which worked both cooperatively and antagonistically with...
Symbolically the poem was his life, printed on gold paper ready to be framed and hung up on the front entrance of the house. ... " I clung to my poem as to faith again and again I declaimed about a few precious lines when discouragement and disillusion threatened to overwhelm me" (pg.157). ...
From those lines (7 through 8), I believe that Henry was trying tell us that in order to have creativity you have to be shown how; at the "most elevated and critical hour " you are experiencing something that is inexplicable through constant thinking. ... "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. " From this quote, it tells me that the person Henry is talking about was willing to learn to find his true self. ...
