I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than "analyzing" it, if there isn't time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is "a criticism of life", and "a heightening ...
What if readers of My Life had stood have gotten the poem’s tone all wrong? According to Vendler, debate over the poem has less to do with the nature of the gun than with whether Dickinson “approves of the gun’s actions”. Vendler writes: The relation between the Gun and its “...
Now an old woman Ill favoured grown with years, if she be poor, Must be call'd Bawd or Witch. Such so abus'd Are the course Witches: t'other are the fine, Spun for the Devil's own wearing. Sir Art. And is thine. Sawy. She on whose tongue a wirlwind sits to blow A man ...
The intensity and suddenness of this transformation—from bride to monster—can be read as a subtle criticism of the binaries forced onto women by men. The poem suggests that women are allowed to be either a bride or a monster, a virgin or a whore, good or bad—but nothing more complex...
I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is “ a criticism(批判) of life”, and “a ...
For example, in several differentCharles Dickensnovels. InHard Times,he uses innuendoes when he names characters in accordance with their lives. For example, “Slackbridge” and “Choakumchild.” InOliver Twist,the author does something similar when he names a character “Master Bates.” ...
Google Says: I always feel like we should be taking up charitable collections for Canadian poets who live abroad. Julie Bruck teaches and lives in San Fransisco now, and despite really classy byline credits like The New Yorker and Ploughshares, I wonder if people are going to read her here...
‘Digging‘is the first poem from his first book, which takes place in a daydream. The speaker thinks about his family and the men who have come before him. He considers the hard work they put into their lives andjuxtaposesthis against his own life. Reality is reintroduced as the speaker...
Upon the Child, if he disturbed the sheep By catching at their legs, or with his shouts Scared them, while they lay still beneath the shears. And when by Heaven's good grace the boy grew up A healthy Lad, and carried in his cheek ...
I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than "analyzing" it, if there isn't time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is "a criticism of life", and "a heightening ...