The poem as a whole seems to be a glorification of the role of a woman. ... The voices through the speaker in Frost's poem, begin speak out for those women who have not been heard. ... Even though this poem shows an almost perfect women, being idolized, we all know that is unrealistic. This poem still shows hope and promise, that women can do, and be who they want....
The poem "Home Burial" by Robert Frost, is set on a New England farm some time in this early century. ... The husband shows his intimidating behavior in the very early stages of the poem. ... These attitude changes are seen throughout the poem. ...
Poems contain various kinds of tones, themes, or even purposes. ... Poems are different to each other, but sometimes similar based on the poets" imagination and influence. ... There was a bombing at Birmingham and the title is referring this poem as the song of Birmingham. ... This metaphor contributes to the purpose of the poem by supporting the outside factors of the setting. ... Poems are mostly different, but sometimes similar to each other. ...
There is a significant pattern of change in her work, and things she put into her poems that she did not yet know in her conscious, and the things that the poems reveal about the evolution of Adrienn Rich as a writer and as a woman. ... This means her poems will go on being read by people, even long after she is dead. ... In the poem "Orion" she is not afraid to use words as "cold" and "egotistical". ... In the poem "Orion" she to substitute the pronoun she, as and begins to use the word I. Rich is not worried to be related to the characters in her poems. ...
This essay will discuss the poem To His Mistress Going To Bed by John Donne. ... The pace of the poem picks up with the speaker still expressing his enjoyment. ... These double meanings add a hint of mystery to the poem. ... Therefore, the reader can easily read through the poem with understanding. The form of the poem creates a fluid rhythm driving the poem towards the climax. ...
Sylvia Plath's poem "Tulips" is an interplay between the need for peace and an ascent to wellness. ... "Tulips," also addresses the political climate of the time when Plath wrote this poem. ... The poem relies heavily on imagery by using the senses to create the world through the words. In her poem there is a battle between being a female and becoming a desexualized persona (Line 28). ... Plath's poem contains end-stop lines and enjambments. ...
This possesses a problem for the fact that maybe the initial meaning of the poem would not be attained by all of the readers. ... This makes it hard for me to relate or learn from the poem because I feel that Pope is comparing small superficial qualities like beauty to bigger more meaningful things such as self-pride and intelligence. ... Being able to relate to the issues in the poem yet not being able to relate to the characters makes for a lengthy and tedious story line. Yet the manner is which the poem is written is well organized and allows for easy reading and following. Although I d...
The poem begins with a tone that one could see as harsh and insensitive. ... In the beginning of the poem, he has just returned from the hospital. The poem suggests that, in his prime, that he was a spritely young man. ... The poem begins the man is just leaving the hospital. ... The function of where this poem took place is simple. ...
The poem demonstrates how you do not have to go to church to worship. The poem "Sunday Morning" is memorable for its vivid use of color and action imagery. ... The poem uses the figures of the woman to work through the objections to her discarding of Christianity. ... The images in the poem combine to give a stereoscopic view of life-in-death and death-in-life. ... The woman in the poem questions what church really is. ...
In the dark poem "Strange Fruit," author Joy Harjo, explores the difficulties that minorities in the world. Throughout the poem, there is a reoccurring theme of hatred and violence, personified through antagonists, the 'Klu Klux Klan'. ... This poem is written and narrated in the first person from the Female's perspective. ... In fact, this poem involves a little more than that lynching. ... The opening sentence of the poem, creates the background for the poem, describing what she was doing and who she saw. ...
The persona in the poem finds that she lacks one because she has been stereotyped as a "mother." ... The woman persona in the poem fantasizes about a samurai who could "hush the howling baby," and "recite her haiku." The first two stanzas of the poem describe a harsher environment. ... Two poems that explore these issues are "The Carnival of Venice," and "Long after Heine." ... The structure of both poems also allows Harwood to criticise society's construction and oppression of women. ...
Strengths of a Woman Through the Looking Glass with Maya Angelou's Poem "Phenomenal Woman". ... This poem relates to all women in some way. Angelou wrote this poem in the 1970's during one of the women's movements in the United States. ... Throughout the poem she shows how she gets power from within. ... (Madden 564) As women, we read this poem and try to think of the strength we have in ourselves. ...
Many factors influenced why Bradstreet wrote poems and what she wrote about. ... Who helped her the most though was her dad Thomas Dudley, in return she paid homage by writing many poems about him. ... " (Wendy, Martin Poems & Poets- Anne Bradstreet on The Tenth Muse poetry foundation.org). ... There is also many poems to her husband, children, and deceased family members. ... The Tenth Muse is Bradstreet's most important book of poems because it gives her confidence in her writing. ...
She wrote her poems while rearing eight children, functioning as a hostess, being a good wife, and performing other domestic duties. ... Bradstreet is very critical about her works and it shows in her poems. ... Bradstreet's ability to be too hard on her writings only led to her writing fantastic poems. Overall, Bradstreet's poem is a sharing of her desire to be recognized and respected as a writer during a time when the majority was male. ... As a very talented writer, she was sure to put her heart and soul into each poem she wrote. ...
Around 1678, a second edition was published after she revised and added some new poems. ... Anne Bradstreet is famous for her use of plain style in her poems. She has many poems, all of which are done in this style. All of her poems have a clear story and lesson to them. ... The poem that plain style is very evident to me is "To My Dear and Loving Husband." ...
These women wrote poems and books and were published. ... She writes about this in her poem, The Flesh and the Spirit. ... Her poem begins with the following lines: "In secret place where once I stood/Close by the banks of Lacrim flood..."" ... She mentions this in her poem The Prologue. ... This pleading request is further echoed in the last stanza of Bradstreet's poem. ...
The first line in Robert Frost's "The Silken Tent" automatically sets the foundation for the rest of the poem: "She is as in a field a silken tent.... The poem as a whole seems to be a glorification of the role of a woman. ... " In attempt to mimic the beautiful image presented by the poem I have drawn an elaborate silken tent in the mist of an elegant field. The tent is comprised of all the elements found in the poem. ...
Fulfilling your needs and desires in Nikki Giovanni's "Master Charge Blues- In Nikki Giovanni's poem "Master Charge Blues- we are told a story of how a woman misses her mate and uses her master charge to escape the feeling of loneliness. ... (Jong 95) This poem seems to be dealing with ways to cope with the absence of the one you love. I think that one possible theme for this poem may be that when the one you long for and desire most is not present you need to fulfill those desires in other ways, for instance shopping. The woman in this poem seems to be a very d...
Christina Rossetti's poem, "A Rose Has Thorns As Well As Honey," does not fail to provoke an interpretation of the ideal woman as each flower she introduces to the reader represents a type of woman. ... As the poem continues, we find that all ten flowers preceding the holly fall short of being the ideal woman for these various reasons. Curiously, the poem begins by immediately dismissing the rose–a flower that many might label the perfect, idealistic flower. ... The poem ends with a beautifully executed play on words in that the word "merry" also suggests the man who will marry a wo...
In the poem The Sick Rose by William Blake the subject is a women on her psychological and physical sick bed. ... Blake ends the poem with the affair causing the woman's life to be destroyed physically and mentally. Without Blake's use of similes the reader would not see the true meaning of the poem. ...
The poem is narrated by the mirror, which doesn't provide an unbiased and impartial view on its character contrary to what the mirror claims. The poem has a balanced structure with two verses mirroring each other. ... Throughout the poem the mirror is shown as an arrogant object in need of power and importance. The metaphor of mirror being "the eye of a little god" is sustained throughout the poem signifying the power it has. ... Her aging is also marked by four references to passage of time in the poem: "so long", "over and over", "each morning" and "day after day." ...
Although it is less well-known than some of her other works, Anne Bradstreet's seemingly" less ambitious poem "The Prologue,"" is actually a tense and skilled exploration of the Puritan desire to relate spirituality to everyday life. Bradstreet's use of poetic techniques in "The Prologue"" shows a more intimate and more realistic designed reference in of her other poems, because it is more personal. ... With this poem, Bradstreet acknowledges her role as a woman in society even if she doesn't agree with it. ... As she seems to begin to reflect on the spiritual more, the tone o...
Amanda Portefield writes that "while Bradstreet's poems testify to her dependency on her husband, to her feelings of insufficiency without him, and to her worship of the potency he represented, they also reflect her power to establish the context of his authority and her efforts to control his behavior."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about women in developing an alternative to both submissive and subversive readings of some of her gender poems like "The Prologue,"" insisting that this poem is best read as "consistently ironic, inviting both male an...
Amanda Portefield writes that "while Bradstreet's poems testify to her dependency on her husband, to her feelings of insufficiency without him, and to her worship of the potency he represented, they also reflect her power to establish the context of his authority and her efforts to control his behavior."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about women in developing an alternative to both submissive and subversive readings of some of her gender poems like "The Prologue,"" insisting that this poem is best read as "consistently ironic, inviting both male an...
Although a man, the poem's subject possesses feminine charms superior to a woman, with "An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling" (5). ... The painful duality of the speaker's muse is loudly echoed in Shakespeare's structural choices for the poem. ... Sonnets in particular were used for professing love to female lovers and paramours, yet this poem professes adoration of a man. ... However, the true heart of the poem lies in the curiosity of its meter, which suffers like our subject with the constraining repercussions of excess. ... Indeed, the meter sets t...
