Guardians of Grail

cheapbag214s · Posted: Thu 22:49, 22 Aug 2013 Post subject: Family poems FINAL WEEK-spun3

Family poems FINAL WEEK
I agree with Ashley about the occasion in Break. If I had to create a guess about who the funeral was for I would say it had been the speaker 4 year old brother. I think the road informed strangers I was the eldest works well for this inference since it explains why him being the eldest is relevant. I agree that the poem builds suspense by the progression of our knowledge of the setting and occasion. The look of tearless sighs evokes the idea that the mother doesn have anything to regret, and yet she dislikes the end result. A dark tone also progresses through the poem; It steadily gets darker and much more bitter until it reaches the ultimate line four foot box, a foot for every year. In this line we can see the speaker anger, contempt, and bitterness.
The theme of Mary Oliver's "A Visitor" relates back to the essential queries about how individuals are transformed through their relationships with others, along with the boundaries of affection and sacrifice. The first stanza introduces the situation using the speaker's father and also the speaker's initial perspective and selected course of action. The enjambment of the lines emphasizes the wild, disturbing behavior of the father and allows the crowd to empathize with the poor speaker. Initially,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the daughter chooses to ignore her father and just avoid completely the problem together with her father and "his waxy face" and "lower lip swollen with bitterness," but the second stanza represents her decision to finally confront her father. Suddenly her original attitude of fear transforms into one of optimism and belief that she could "bear him, pathetic and hollow, with the least of his dreams frozen inside him." The moment she maturely greets him she realizes for the first time the love she has for him, despite his past actions and present state. The idea of unconditional love and acceptance towards members of the family is a very common theme among many of the works we now have look at this unit. I really like the final lines from the poem in which the speaker "saw what a child must love." It's like for the first time the daughter is seeing her daddy and feeling her instinctive love for him.
I like Alastair Reid's "Daedalus!" I love the prominent picture of birds, which represent youthfulness, and so the cage, which represents age. Like Stephanie said, the daddy, who's feet have previously reached the floor and been enclosed through the cage of life, stands watching his son "swoop and soar," and although he contemplates bringing him down to the ground, he knows that with time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his son will naturally learn about "gravity" and be brought down to the ground into the "cage." Part of becoming an adult is experimenting with and experiencing life. Mistakes, the "swoops" of life, allow us to to learn and ourselves, while the "soars" of life allow us to experience life to the fullest and celebrate our blessings. We, as youths, need to learn how to survive on our very own. We must tests the "trees and rooftops" ourselves, because we are able to then learn how to be independent and gain wisdom. Also, like Stephanie said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as youthfulness ends, gravity wins, and age encloses you. The look of a cage is powerful for the reason that suddenly freedom is limited, while before, like a youth, freedom was abundant. The irony would be that the cage also represents protection. With experience comes wisdom, and wisdom could arguably be a source of protection and self-defense in working with the troubles of life. Within the "treetops" like a youth, freedom may be limitless, but the danger of "swoops" always exists. On the floor in the cage of age, less danger exists, which supports the idea that with age comes wisdom.
YAY! HAPPY Springbreak EVERYONEE!! :}
wow, Break is a powerful poem. It hard to delve into the subtleties of a poem whose pathos is so strong but the minor details are just as significant to the tone of this poem. I think the fact that the speaker is a student is significant. It isn explicitly stated whether the speaker learns of his brother death upon arriving home, or before; but it is stated that he hasn seen his brother in his six weeks of college. This is ironic, because although college fosters the speaker independence,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it also distances him from his family tragedy. It is worth noting that in this instance, the independence of one brother coincides with the death of the other. The pursuit of higher learning is thematically similar to the death of a child in that both events represent a loss of innocence. The speaker needs only to dispose of his former, less mature self to do this, but his four-year-old brother is nothing but innocence; and, so, a loss thereof equates to death.
I agree with Benji analysis of Red Hat by Rachel Hadas and how the hat symbolizes the son and the future that lies ahead of him. During the mornings when the son walks alone, the parents describe them as light since the red hat vanished from our sight. This is when you notice the significance of the title and how the red hat serves as a symbol for the boy. The parents identify their son with that red hat, so when they see it disappear, they realize that they have temporarily lost him to the world. I think that the underlying theme of the whole poem is about a boy who is trying to leave the safety and protection under his parents and move on into the real world where he wishes to become independent and fend for himself.
Ok, no one except Oleg and Jaclyn really addressed the poem "Father's Old Blue Cardigan". I agree that the poem is a little bit confusing and kind of doesn't make all that much sense, but I think we can agree on a few things: in the beginning, the speaker tries to relive and reenact her father's everyday actions to try to keep them alive. I mean after all, we acknowledge each other's presence by noticing each other's habits, right? And for the speaker, keeping those habits alive keeps her memory of him alive in her mind ad therefore present. There is a definite shift at "I put it on and sit in the dark"; the speaker admits that there was something that she didn't know about her father, hence the dark, the absence of light,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or truth. The next big shift was at "His laws were a secret. But I remember the moment at which I knew he was going mad inside his laws" where the speaker recalls a disturbance in her father's behavior and notices that this disturbance is coming form inside him. These "laws" I think can be interpreted many different ways,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but I think they just mean the man's repressed feelings and boundaries that pressured him in, and later "went mad." When she says "the turn of the driveway", it is sort of a metaphor for "almost" or "about to leave",[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], foreshadowing his fate. His buttons being all the way done suggest that he reached a closure and made a final decision about his problem. The simile made with a child and the early morning suggests that although it was final, he did not want to go, but knew he had to and couldn't take it back. I think the backwards comment suggests that he knew, yet shocked, that death was coming for him. Going backwards also implies "going back to where we came from", in other words: death. It's a sad poem that brings to surface the pain that both our parents and us keep hidden, and the end leads to destruction…sorry didn't mean to sound depressing.
The poem Wash the Shirt by Anna Swir confuses me a little. After someone passes away you hold on to little things that remind you of them, and the speaker does that. The speaker uses a shirt to reminisce about their father. I just don understand why the speaker would want to wash the shirt. I mean, if it was such a great way to remind her of her father, then why erase it forever. She comments on how once it is washed it is gone forever which can be compared to life, but I just don find it to be the normal response. Most people keep things from family members that have passed and even if you are looking to move forward in your life and leave the past behind, keeping something of your father seems like maybe it would be important enough. In the end of the second stanza the speaker says that now only paintings of her father can survive him, but he has his family. Your loved ones are supposed to be the ones who keep you living even after you passed and a painting smelling of oil shouldn really be the only way to remember someone by my opinion.
I want to talk about "Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead" by Andrew Hudgins. The speaker clearly tells us that he does not accept his father's death and acceptance of it, although it doesn't sound like that in the beginning: "One day I'll lift the telephone and be told my father's dead." In that single line it sounds like the speaker has almost accepted this inevitable fate that is to befall his father, but as the poem continues, the tables are turned, and it is revealed that the father is the accepting one and the son is the one that can't bear to make sense of it and take it lightly. It's sad how the son just can't accept what his own father has already accepted; yet it still implies the tremendous love there is in their relationship. The father confidently says that they will continue loving each other as they did in life, "He thinks that when I follow him he'll wrap me in his arms and laugh, the way he did when I arrived on earth", and the speaker follows that with "I do not think he's right". By the end of the poem we sympathize with the speaker yet also believe the father is truly ready. But the fact the poem is titled "Elegy for my father, who is not dead" is a sign of acceptance by the speaker, who has decided to write an elegy for his father as if he has already passed on. He has accepted his death by writing an elegy that describes his refusal to accept it in the first place.
I completely agree with Arielle on the poem and Maud That poem was probably my favorite of the bunch because of how many different elements and nuances it had in such little text. I agree that the rhyme scheme and rhythm really give the poem a satirical tone because the meaning of the poem is a very serious topic. It just seems so matter of fact but the purpose of the poem is a very important issue that a lot of people and siblings struggle with. The fact that the poem shows two distinct paths in life makes the reader realize the seriousness of the purpose and how genuine it is, but yet the tone makes it feel so light hearted at the same time. Clever! Dahh it was probably done on accident.
I agree with Skye response,i thought of the ring right away when they girl gets trapped in the well. This image helps me imagine the well as a dark and mysterious place,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a new place that the was not familiar with. In lines 5-7,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the child says could taste my fear and i think that Hudgins was making a point that the child experienced fear because he was experiencing a dark and unfamiliar situation, yet he was also making it clear that the child father was with him the whole time. I enjoyed how different this poem is because its not like the other poems, it really dark and mysterious. Everything that is new to children while growing up is dark and mysterious.
Actually, Julia (Faunce): I think that Daedalus is talking more about the burdens that age place on the free spirit of individuals. The father in this poem at first refers to his son as a world but goes on to live out the liveliness of his son as if he wants his son to be in this world. It seems more as if the father wishes for his son explore and the son doesn realize that it is his nature to do so. Wiith age, of course, gravity will make his world enclosed, and caged in. That isn to say that birds are in his son head I don think. I think that sitting in his cage gives the father the perspective that his son free-spirit is exploring and flying. Reality will enclose him long before age does,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but his father perspective is such that he would be outside of the cage if it weren for his age.
The poem Wash the Shirt involves moving on from her husband death. I really enjoyed how Swir used a distinct memory as a metaphor to moving on in life. The lines breathe it in for the last time. Washing this shirt I destroy it forever. She destroys the shirt to tell herself that she is moving on from her husbands death, but the last lines (only paintings survive him which smell of oils) shows that shes moving on to a more pleasant memory of him as oppose to his smelly shirt. The pleasant paintings that her husband did could be a transition of her depressing stage of her husbands death to a more appreciate point? I dont know.
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