The title, “Harlem,” frames the poem as being about the experience of an entire community—that of Harlem. The dream, then, implicitly, is the dream of this neighborhood and group of people. In the poem, the dream is also described with the singular “it,” suggesting that the dream ...
Her labor, like her voice itself, has been silenced by a culture that doesn't respect women as full, independent human beings. Eurydice also contradicts the ancient legend that Orpheus's poetry charms animals, and she makes clear that it does nothing at all for women! In her telling, his...
Ultimately, the poem itself is about culture: the celebration of culture, the death of culture, and the misery of being learned in a world that has largely forgotten its roots. Eliot wrote it as a eulogy to the culture that he considered to be dead; at a time when dancing, music, ...
Silenced as my cries fall on death ears I can’t breathe!!! forgive me, because sometimes I wear my feelings on my sleeves and I’m sure my actions are sometimes hard to receive so if I act like a uncaged animal in the streets remember that is what I was trained to believe as a ...
It's horrible to think about. My life will never be the same. I often go to his grave site and sit on his bench, looking in the sky just wishing he would appear. Being without him hurts so bad. I feel bad that I'm here and he is not. I know I have to go on because I ...
“Mr. C.W. Penny supplies from memory the same verses, which were taught him about 1842.” Reading between the lines, this tells me that the question of forgery must have occurred to others, and the fact that the poem was being passed on, orally, in 1842, seems to have argued in ...
After the fall of Rome and (probably not coincidentally) the rise of Christianity, women’s poetic voices are increasingly silent and silenced. It takes just over a thousand years beforeMarie de Franceappears – an Anglo-Norman poet. Project Gutenburg, increasingly my all-time favorite literary ...
It is difficult to tie one meaning to ‘The Waste Land‘. Ultimately, the poem itself is about culture: the celebration of culture, the death of culture, and the misery of being learned in a world that has largely forgotten its roots. Eliot wrote it as aeulogyto the culture that he co...
Silenced as my cries fall on death ears I can’t breathe!!! forgive me, because sometimes I wear my feelings on my sleeves and I’m sure my actions are sometimes hard to receive so if I act like a uncaged animal in the streets remember that is what I was trained to believe as a ...