Two Scavengers In A Truck: Poverty And Wealth

Later on in the poem, the reader can see that the structure of the poem drastically changes. There is not a consistent rhyme scheme and the speaker begins asking rhetorical questions. An example of these rhetorical questions being asked by the speaker can be seen here, “Who said the free? Not me?” (line 64).

The novel shows the ways itinerant workers were treated compared to upper class. Intertextuality between the poem and the novel foreshadowed some parts of the text and hinted some factors that may ruin the dream of owning a

Carelessly, the working middle and the high class people always forget about what the poor working class has to do in life to survive. In a passage from the novel, The Working Poor Invisible In America, David Shipler compares the poor working class wages to the amount of food they are able to buy. Shipler is able to creatively inform the audience using description, exemplification, and cause and effect what the life a poor working class citizen does everyday.     David Shipler shapes an image in the minds of all of his readers with his selective word choice. As a result of not having the money to pay for food, parents are forced to let their children starve, and as a result those children start looking “listless”.

This sets the mood as a depressing type of mood. Later in the poem, the same tone and theme show up again and again. Hughes speaks about people that are poor, people of color, and overall people not having a fair life. Later he strengthens this statement by saying, “I am the man who never got ahead, the poorest

The poem begins with the narrator describing being alone in the woods. She is being dragged through the water, by a mysterious man which develops the sense of imprisonment. She describes the man’s language as not human and she turned to prayer to find strength.

This poem showed that anyone can be somebody no matter what background they came from or situation they're in. He then proceeded to say that people need

This poem is about a woman who is in exile. “I grieved each dawn wondered where my lord on earth might be” Her husband went on a journey and she was left to grieve every dawn wondering where he was. She didn’t know her husband very well and he mistreated her, but in that time a woman 's husband was all she had. Her left her alone when she needed him and his family didn’t support her.

This can be seen at the end of the poem which states, “No,’ she said, ‘bring me tree-grubs”. This young girl wants a functional, practical love, simple love where her dream husband is providing for her the basics and necessities of life, where love is not represented through materialistic objects. On the contrary, the second line of stanza one, from The Child wife, states, “Life’s smile of promise, so soon to frown.” This is evident that the young girl who is present in this poem, is talking about her life which is now miserable, by being chosen to marry an old man. It enables the reader to feel guilty and sorrow for this young girl as she did not get a chance to have her say but rather was forced to marry the old man when she got chosen by him.

As the poem progresses, it moves from a description of God being with happiness to a God playing with us and happiness itself. There is a comparison between the perfect Bliss, and the playing with emotions and happiness from God. If God comes to a direct encounter with us a plays with our human lives, it will kill

Jennings provides the determining symbolism for this poem by linking ideas derived from the poetics of inspiration to ideas associated with the experience of love. In the opening lines of the first two tercets, the speaker carefully describes the intense joy she experiences following a period of profound grief. She says:“I have come into a sudden sunlit hour.” These lines induce the ideal of epiphany, the delighted moment of inspiration and the experience of sudden regeneration which is found in the poetry of

When the speaker employs the simile “its toys are strewn in the yard/ like branches after a storm,” he is referring to the stress that even the children experienced in the times of The Great Depression. There is a certain innocence and ignorance that children have and The Great Depression most definitely robbed some children of that security. The speaker personifies all the characteristics of the farmhouse by giving them the human trait of being able to say something. This gives the poem an archaic presence. It shows that even after people are gone, their possessions remain.

The Balance between The Implicit and The Explicit: “The Wife’s Lament” In “The Wife’s Lament” we see the blurred line between what is explicitly said and what’s inferred. Although some might disagree their degree of importance, I must say that they both make up the poem’s emotional aspect and finality. The poem allows us to make assumptions of women’s hard conditions during those times based on the text: “There I can weep over my exile / my many hardships” (38-39), but we also get the theme of the fickleness of love, which I’ll discuss later on. First of all, my speculations based on the text have made me believe that women were in some sort of helpless state in those ages.

What is more, is that both poets are heartbroken in which they grieve but they do not speak negatively about their lovers indicating that they understand that you cannot get everything in

The poem explains how a newborn starts to develop to the age where they start to grow little by little they become young children and through time they start to level up, for example, ¨they become young teens and start to fall in love and go to the stage where they become more mature¨ (source A) and serious about life then after they fall in love and become jealous. After all, we come to the age where we can do nothing much as a younger child only thing that is going to be formed is belly after the body stops working how it did before and it is no longer the same. Then the time of where you can no longer be the same where now what people see are the wrinkles on your face, ¨spectacles on his nose¨ (source A) and you can no longer be the same person in the seven stages of a

When the character says, “I buried my father in my heart. Now he grows in me, my strange son, my little root who won’t drink milk, little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night, little clock spring newly wet in the fire, little grape, parent to the future wine, a son the fruit of his own son, little father I ransom with my life.” , he/she is expressing that someone is pregnant and will be able to carry on a part of their father even though he is gone. Even though both poems are similar, they also differ.