Theme Of Muttering Over The Crib Of A Deaf Child By Gary Soto

Growing up is a part of life , but with growing up we go through phases and life experiences. Author Gary Soto tells a little bit if his similar life experiences in his two stories “Broken Chain”, “Seventh Grade”, and small narrative poem “Oranges”. “Broken Chain” is about a boy named Alfonso who was insecure. One day he meets a girl named Sandra who he went to school with and thought she was cute. Alfonso asks her is she would want to go on a bike ride

The book peace like a river is a story of a young boy named Ruben land with breathing problems, Davy a runaway murderer, and swede, the naive little sister of Ruben and Davy. Ruben witnesses many miracles preformed by his father, Jeremiah. Through out the story Jeremiah performs miracles to protect his family from death or unfortunate situations. While reading peace like a river I noticed that many things were added into the story by the author in ways or spots that seemed random, surely it wasn't random thought, was it? 



Kingsolver relates this to various characters in the book, particularly Taylor, Turtle’s adopted mother. In addition to that, the birds in the throughout the story are also a nature based form of symbolism used widely in the book. As Taylor’s life changes so do the sounds the birds make; each of these bird sounds representing different emotions like comfort when the mother quail and her chicks are walking in

This explication will be discussing Gary Soto’s poem, Oranges. This poem is a narrative about the speaker, a twelve-year-old boy, and his first date with a girl. The poet opens the poem about the young boy walking to the girl’s house to pick her up for their date. Then, once he picked her up they walked down the street and went to a drugstore to get candy. He wanted to pay for the candy, but the girl picked out chocolate that cost a dime, when he only had a nickel.

Lucille Clifton’s “The Lost Baby Poem” tells the story of a mother who is full of regret and guilt for a child that she chose not to have. The poem depicts many ways that express Clifton’s intentions and how it all fits together. Clifton wrote this poem with so much deep emotions that she was “talking in such a way that the heart can hear”. Robert Bly stated that when “talking in such a way that the heart can hear” “… The voice naturally drops and we feel an achieved intimacy” (Bly, 42). I noticed that this poem had been written in all lower case letters except for Genesee Hill and Canada.

This leaves the reader under the impression that the birds are symbols of love because the author writes, “[We used] birds to stimulate [our] hearts” (Reed). Their hearts were disappearing and to gain back what they were about to lose they used birds to fill that void. However, the author decides to make a quick turn and establishes that the use of birds is no longer needed. They decided to let their birds fly into the sun, and they

Symbolism Birds are associated symbolically with Turtle. When Turtle begins to grow and change so do the birds since they symbolize her. When Taylor laughs for the first time Kingsolver connects Turtles laugh to a mother quail and her babies as they pass them on the road next to the car that they were in. That is used to show how Turtles starts to trust Taylor, like the baby quail following their mother. After Turtle gets molested in the Park, a bird becomes trapped inside the house.

The poems use the caged bird to represent the lack of freedom that both of the authors have. In each poem the caged bird uses singing as his only hope, because when there is nothing left for him to do he sings. Each

Humans are often afraid of animals, however poets such as Randolph Stow use animals to convey deeper emotional and philosophical thoughts and to create a sense of morality and ethics. This is visible in his poem The Wild Duck’s Nest, where the subject matter, themes and the literary devices promote the message: humans are the ones to be afraid of, as the creatures that humans often fear are even more frightened of us. The poem describes the encounter between some animals and two hunters looking to find some prey.

Birds are gifted with the extraordinary ability to fly. Their wings propel them above the ground and over people below. They are able to view the world from an angle that no one else gets to see. This is what makes birds and wings such powerful symbols in literature. These symbols characterize characters, move the plot and develop one more of the book’s ideas.

Strong and graceful, the bird is unhampered by physical force. Bauldelaire uses the bird to represent the freedom we could achieve. With the ability to go almost anywhere, the bird is inexplicitly drunk. The bird is always flying, with infinite amounts of open space. Our hearts, they are always dreaming of new wishes to feel whole.

Ever wonder what life would be like if a person hid away from society and isolated itself from the whole community? That is exactly what the well-known poet, Emily Dickinson, did for twenty years, and during that time period, she was writing poems that would later have english scholars thinking about the different interpretations of them for years. Emily Dickinson is from a puritan family who wanted her to follow their beliefs, but she decided to break away from her family and society by focusing on her writing. Dickinson isolating herself from society helped her come up with the theme of isolationism in her poetry, and these years away from her community helped inspire her in creating the plot of her poems. In Dickinson’s

When the word “erotic” is used, it generally conjures up images of sex and desire; these are, after all, the primary connotations of the word, and often figure into dictionary definitions in some form or another. As such, it is easy to label Natalie Diaz’s “I Lean Out the Window and She Nods Off in Bed, the Needle Gently Rocking on the Bedside Table” as an erotic poem because it suggests a short, post-coital scene between lovers. However, in keeping with the content of Deborah Miranda's essay on the erotic, "Hummingbirds, Dildos, and Driving Her Crazy," Diaz does not paint a scene filled with life and creative energy, but a scene that is in the process of coming apart at the seams. It is by including imagery of death, destruction, and subtle undoing, that Diaz crafts a love poem that wears the mask of the erotic to hide its anti-erotic nature.

The poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a good example of poetry that explains the tragic events of a birds like stuck in a cage. In the poem Sympathy there was symbols about what parts of the poem actually means. One of these symbols in the poem was in stanza two when Dunbar wrote about the bird having “old, old scars”. I think this means that the “bird” has been in the cage for a really long time, and while being in there he never stops trying to get out of the cage. Another symbol that stuck out to me was In stanza two also when it says “For he must fly back to his perch and cling”.

Throughout her poem she compares it to a girl and a bird to show how fragile hope is and how it “flies” away when you need it. In the poem “Hope is the thing with