passing of a loved one‚ your left with your grief‚ sorrow and the loneliness left behind. Yet in Emily Dickinson’spoem“ThelastNightthatShelived” it is almost devoid of emotion entirely. The opening stanza gives a preview of thepoem‚ its devoid of emotion‚ we have no relation ...
It takes little imagination to go from that to the first stanza: My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - Somebody took the gun out. The only interpretive question regards the identity of the gun and the owner...
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. –W. B. Yeats In lines three and four, the speaker tells her that one man (implicitly himself) loved her better than anyone else – because he loved her not only for her physical attributes but also for the nature of he...
On top of that, most journals won’t accept poetry that’s been published online, which eliminates poets like me. So, here it is, published at Poemshape. Having written this, I might be ready to finish the outline for my third novel in the WistThistle fantasy series. That will be in ...
Selecting a poem that has special meaning to a parent, grandparent, sibling, or chosen family member could make the reading more meaningful to you and this person. Using a suggested poem could also potentially give you an anecdote to incorporate into the ceremony, if your loved one has a un...
out of them, the speaker opened one window, and used her fingers to wipe the steam off the other window as though she were wiping sweat off of a person’s forehead.It was then that the speaker saw her husband standing beneath a pear tree in the yard and breaking a small stick in ...
as the poet stands in moonlight after rain observing the ‘dappled lights and shadows interlaced/permeating and turning into one another’. The moment is so perfect the poet wants to gather it up and take it home to keep forever. And, of course, by writing this poem that is exactly what...
My old man’s a white old man (…) I take my curses back. In the first stanza of‘Cross,’the speaker begins by describing his mother and his father. The father is white, and the mother is Black. It becomes clear later in the poem that both of these parents have passed away. Now...
It's a part of life that, as they get older, children tend to grow less interested in the lives of other people. All the while, the bells chime again and again. Of course, at some point, anyone passed away. noone bent over to kiss him and eventually, she died too. Townspeople who...
The falling action is on the other side of the pyramid, followed by the resolution and sometimes the dénouement. Depending on the version of the pyramid one is looking at, the story structure elements may or may not be the same length. But, in other versions that better represent a story...