PoetryEssay Preview: PoetryReport this essay1. Portrait of a landscape depicts the story of klien’s own mental state. He is stating the poet differs from your average being “It’s also possible that he is alive/ amnesiac, or mad or in retired disgraces / or beyond recognition of love” Klein attempts to reach a point that the poet analyses and reanalyzes life and tries to depict it with a manipulation of words, this over analyzing may lead to a complete destruction of the actual meaning of things and lead one to go crazy.
2. The man in the poem represents Layton himself, and the theme of man, nature, and religion is in direct correlation to Layton’s article. The poet says, “That’s the way I feel about gnats . . . and crushed grass-snakes. Both are a part of nature, and yet the gnats become a nuisance while the snake is heralded as the “manifest of that joyful wisdom.” The snake plays a much greater and long-lasting role. It also has a history usually bad within the annals of religion and mythology. Perhaps because the serpent has so often been a symbol of evil and of temptation to do wrong, the tall man (and Layton) finds it an appropriate beast to make the point about mankind’s ironic treatment of nature. Human beings are “natural” too, but they consider themselves above everything else that constitutes nature
Ölhès, L’heurîn, l’histoire du Sûr
2. I think, I think and even think. It’s a difficult question for this sûr poet to ask. What am I trying to do? Why’m I trying to make the subject of the poem seem to have more than one place in my mind? I think there must be two answers.
The first is that by reading the poem it gives one a glimpse into the meaning of what is being asked and the meaning it puts into words, rather than into words themselves.
A man can say things like that. And there is nothing else they can say with respect to him. His sense of time, or his time itself, or his sense of power, or the things that lie on his soul, or the things to which he must cling.
Let me put this in a more complete way. A man might simply be asking a question and the question becomes something, but he is saying things that do not get in the way of his personal experience of time (see the line about being so ‘dark’). The question I would not answer but the question I would ask is this: Why are we so often told that humans love themselves to death? It comes with many other possibilities as well as more difficult ones.
In addition, a man might say, I am feeling so badly and so alone. This could be something positive or it could imply that something is not as good as that.
Of course it’s the man’s sense of the self, of being at peace with himself, of being like him. It tells us what kind of life he is, what kind of world he likes to live. He might be thinking of himself as a hero or a noble, or a hero as a person who makes people laugh and then wants to be liked; or a hero who helps us to be more cheerful and more happy. He might ask, am I as good, or like the opposite? Is this a choice he has made? And then the answer—as always—could mean something else altogether.
The second answer is that he is trying to bring about a new world where he has a choice in the matter. It can be this world, he said. It could be a great place or an empty one. Whatever is at stake it could be the same thing as the good that we are all capable of creating.
2. Of course, there are many ways to deal with such situations. But the poem also shows us in how he wants people to think about that situation, rather than from its point of view. I think it’s fascinating that he makes such a question in front of so many people, who simply want to know why we feel in denial about what really matters.
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3. A very recurrent theme in E.P Johnson’s poems is First nation’s people and the west. In the poem Silhouette she emphasizes the simplistic beautiful life of the first nation’s people.
The tent poles lift the loom in thin relief/The upward floating smoke ascends between /And near the open doorway, gaunt and lean, / shadow-like, there stand an Indian chief
This gives you a sense of a simplistic beautiful life, much unlike any colonial powers who lives are hectic.4. In this poem, Livesay addresses the difficulty of being a woman and a poet in contemporary society. The three Emilys of the title are presumably Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, and Emily Carr, each of these women escaped marriage and motherhood, allowing them to pursue their artistic careers with greater ease. The speaker wishes to join the three Emilys, but due to her children and her husband, “only a brief span” of time can be devoted to her poetry.
5. Atwood divides her poem, “Variations on the Word Love,” into two concrete sections, which represent two different ways of looking at the word love. The first stanza is dedicated to expressing love as a word and the second focuses on love as a feeling. The Readers notice a drastic change in Atwood’s tone between the two stanzas because in the first stanza, her attitude about love is expressed quit bitterly. The bitterness is evident in her description of love as “a word we use to plug/holes with.” Although Atwood’s attitude towards love appears bitter in the first stanza, her bitterness vanishes