It’s Never Your Fault “It’s His Fault” by Amanda Gray, published in February of 2009, is a speech-like poem, complex and intriguing, in which the author tries to comfort you in a time of heartbreak through reciting her own experiences and how she came to cope with the fact that her husband was a cheater. She continuously encourages the reader to move on and tells them how much more they deserve then their unfaithful S.O. When you first skim through the poem, realistically, it sounds like a motherly figure talking to a daughter about how to overcome an obstacle, but near the end of the poem, in the last three stanza, we see something a little more abstract that still heavily relates to the poem’s content. Throughout the poem, the poet seems to be asking the reader a bountiful amount of questions that suggest they (the reader) are better then them (the cheater), but the last three stanza flat out tell the reader how to cope with a heartbreak, painful as it may be. It is a pleasing reminder that the heart can be mended with time and rest, and you should not blame yourself for an action that an unfaithful person performed. It is up to us alone to realize that, and all good will come in time.
Perry 2 The poem is an exquisite blend of 3 emotions, both equally notable; caring, uplifting, yet subtly unpleasant. The poem begins with a small heading note that explains she’d written this from past, personal experience. This adds a layer of sadness to the poem when we see
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When a reader grasps a theme throughout any piece of literature, he or she never clearly understands the intent without knowing where the theme came from. The theme that is portrayed in the poem is, often times reconnecting with a loved one cannot only bring happiness, but it can also bring sorrow. This theme was emphasized throughout the poem and without knowing the historical context of the poem, one could not necessarily understand where it came from. In the text it
The tone of this poem is very important. Throughout as I was reading this poem I sensed heartfelt and great concern for the new mother. Also, in this poem one may notice the role of
Once I was able to associate these words to emotions and issues present in everyday life, the poem started to make me feel sad. I began thinking about all of the emotions and feelings that everyone hides as they go about life. For example, how the waitress I see once a week may have an eating disorder, or how the singer I look up to just lost her son, or the businessman who got laid off today. Everyone has their own personal battle that they carry everywhere, at any given moment. This explains why the setting is so plain, since the internal struggles people face affect them even at a bus stop. While each person waits, the waitress may be thinking about how much skinnier the person next to her is. The singer could be remembering when she held her baby. And the business man could be planning how to break the news to his wife. No matter how small, everyone experiences a type of trauma or bad experience, and this poem seemed to show what happens when these emotions become bottled up. No one can help each other because they are so stuck within their own issues. The difficulty helping others reminded me of the idea of having to take care of yourself before being able to take care of others.
I think the mood of this poem was suspenseful, anxious, and sad. Here’s why I thought this. In the beginning when the girl got home from being gone for two days, she wouldn’t answer any questions which made you anxious to know what happened. Secondly, that she was terrified of the man on the troika, then she asked her dad to invite the law to the ceremony made the suspense grow. Lastly it was sad because the girl she saw go into the house with the men got killed, and her hand cut off.
"The Faithful Wife" by Barbara L. Greenberg is a fascinating, satirical account of what the speaker would do if she were unfaithful to her husband. Upon the first reading of this poem, I thought the woman in this poem was saying that her husband was irreplaceable and because of that she would never be unfaithful. Also I thought that if she did betray him, she would choose someone totally different from him, which somehow wouldn't dishonor this great man. However, with repeated reading, my opinion changed. Greenberg did an incredible job of revealing the truth of the situation. She used verbal irony to explain how the wife in the poem is actually revealing the relationship
The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him
As the poem moves along, she focuses on the growing baby inside her and the reaction she expects from her husband. The woman‘s statement “I know you’ll say it makes your
In the last stanza of the poem, this is a realization of the poem where a schoolgirl who is hiding underneath her desk understands the meaning of death, grief, and sadness unlike the society around her. When the schoolgirl says
The author uses mood to really get the message out there, so people can feel what the victims felt everyday. "I am not an artist But my mind has painted a painting of you " this element contributes to the poem because it makes the author feel like he wasn’t enough to be able to do anything to help those people that suffered everyday. He had a view that by telling everyone about the horrible pain that they went through people would remember that and that way they can honor those people. I would recommend this poem to everyone that wants to know what they had to go through and why they never said
The short pause, signified by a comma, in the very last line enhances the sad tone of the poem, because the speaker is stating that her happiness is gone and will forever be that way. She is so sad, and it breaks her heart so much, that she has to take a breath or pause before she states the last six words. The poem also has a melancholy tone that accentuates
Secondly, the author uses word choice to show the speakers overall sorrow. Throughout the whole poem there are word scattered everywhere that describe the general emotion of sorrow, some of those word being “restless” (19), “torment”, and “troubled” (4). These words instantly give the connotation of feelings like despair and sadness. The speaker also uses literary elements such as simile to express sorrow, like when she says “These troubles of the heart/ are like unwashed clothes” (27, 28). Everyday people usually do not pay much mind to unwashed clothes, and usually look at it as something unimportant or irrelevant. When the speaker compares her internal troubles to something that holds little importance to everyday life and is also seen as unpleasant, the readers really get a look into the sorrow and sadness that the speaker is truly feeling. The speaker also uses word choice to help show the readers the true intensity of what she is going through.
This is a complete contrast within the poem. At the beginning she was travelling South, was pregnant and was relatively happy, now she is returning North, isn't pregnant and is depressed.
It gives out a strong message saying how women in general are tired of men coming in and out their life with excuses. Saying how if they have an excuse everything is going to be good and it's ok for them to do that over and over again .The men walks away while the women are left to bear the scars. Between these two poems the women says that they are no longer willing to sacrifice stuff for men who don't deserve it at all.
In both pieces she wishes to be detached from love and responsibility, yet as the poem progresses, she has a change of heart, almost an epiphany.
This piece has several “mini” themes given to almost each stanza, emphasizing reminiscing, grief, and isolation. Appearing to be from the point of view of a man (apparently the writer himself) profoundly grieving the departure of a lover who has passed on. He starts by calling for quiet from the ordinary objects of life; the phones, the clocks, the pianos, drums, and creatures close-by. He doesn't simply need calm, but be that as it may; he needs his misfortune well known and projected. Its tone is significantly more dismal than earlier versions, and the themes more all inclusive, despite the fact that it talks about a person. There is almost an entire stanza demonstrating a bunch of analogies that express what the speaker intended to his lover. The style in the piece readers typically perceive it as a dirge, or a mourning for the dead. It has four stanzas of four lines each with lines in