Never Surrender To those feeling discouraged today about a goal, do not give up. Continue marching and success may come. After all, others have come before in the pursuit of goals. Out of those who kept pursuing their dreams, a fraction succeeded. However, the rate of success among quitters is zero percent. In their pursuit of goals, people will travel far and surrender their precious time. In the poems, “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” by William Butler Yeats, and “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” by Robert W. Service, Yeats and Cap both journey to fulfill their goals and promises. Yeats searches aimlessly for his one true love, while Cap trudges through the snow with the corpse of his friend, who he promised he would cremate. Despite having …show more content…
Since nothing binds him to his search, he could simply give up and live the rest of his days single. However, Yeats writes in the last stanza, “Though I am old with wandering, through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, and kiss her lips and take her hands; and walk among long dappled grass, and pluck till time and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun.” Despite all of the years he has spent to no avail, Yeats continues to search, still so confident he will find her that he has made plans for that day. He refuses to give up pursuit of love and live the rest of his days in heartache. Due to his dedication and passion for love, he will likely never stop searching, even though he can. While he may not have succeeded in the text, he might find them one day. They realize this and continue to wander, as they value love and wish for it with all their heart. Despite having the option to quit the hunt for love, the speaker continues to comb the land for a partner in “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” by William Butler Yeats.
Cap In “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” by Robert W. Service, Cap hauls the corpse of his deceased friend, who he promised to cremate. The ballad opens with the two men on a trip through the mounds of snow during the Klondike Gold Rush. Sam McGee is a strange fellow, who fears the biting cold more than death itself. Unfortunately, his phobia begins to become a reality. The freezing
People working on their dreams will encounter unmotivated, ignorant individuals who will try to convince them that nothing is possible. Nonetheless, they overcame the prejudice and heavily relied on determination and motivation to succeed. Because they realize that it is achievable and crucial to accomplish their ambition. When comparing “The Rose that grew from Concrete” By Tupac Shakur and “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, it is seen that both authors focus on how people must not give up, yet they have completely different perspectives which they express using personification and symbolism.
Robert Frost and William Shakespeare have been celebrated by many people because of their ability to express themselves through the written word. Here we are years after their deaths analyzing these fascinating poems about life and death. It’s clear they had similar thoughts about this subject at the time of these writings, even though their characters could not have been more opposite. For both poets, life is too
In the poem the Cremation of Sam McGee it is written in the form of a ballad. The poem has multiple words that give it a rhythm that sounds like a song. The poem would sound sad and bleak without the melodic tone used. The poem uses a lot of alliteration and has a use of strong figurative language. The use of the figurative language used within the poem helps portray a more vivid and detailed pictured in the readers head. The melodic tone of the poem gives it a very upbeat mood. Without the rhythm in the poem it would sound very bleak. The poem the “Cremation of Sam McGee” is like a story being told in the form of a song. ”And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow, And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe”, the figurative language within this piece of the poem “ The Cremation of Sam McGee” it gives the stars such detail as if they are alive. Within the poem the figurative language helps bring some inanimate objects to life and paints a vivid picture using strong language. The imagery used within the poem helps enhance the picture that the author is trying to paint for the reader. The structure of the poem helps draw slowly but steadily into the conflict that main character runs into.
However, in my option since the poem was about Sam who hates cold is about to die and he makes his friend swear that when he dies to have his body cremated. He didn’t want to be buried in the
The further the poem is read, the more consuming the impacts of separation becomes to the narrator until they now desire to recede from their past. The title of the poem confirms this desire through insinuating that the path of separation that they are on is perpetual and therefore, shows no clear destination. This ending consequently leaves a feeling of hopelessness for the reader that is meant to mimic the hopelessness that the narrator feels over their situation. However, in the conclusion of my personal response, I recognize the impacts of separation and the need to correct them. Whilst not wanting to vanish from society, I admit to the difficulty of returning to society due to now being accustomed to the feeling of separation and the nothingness that it creates within me.
Having to find a place to cremate his friend’s corpse, and at the same time trying to stay alive, proved to be quite the challenge. His hardships on his way to find a suitable place to cremate Sam McGee is described in stanzas 34 - 39, “In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load. In the long, long night, by the firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring, howled out their woes to the homeless snows - O God! How I loathed the thing And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow; and on I went, though the grub was getting low; the trail was bad and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in.” The goings get so tough along his trip that the narrator begins to feel jealous of Sam McGee’s corpse, thinking death is better than what he is going
Everyone feels burdened by life at some point. Everyone wishes they could just close their eyes and make all the problems and struggles of life disappear. Some see death as a release from the chains and ropes with which the trials and tribulations of life bind the human race. Death is a powerful theme in literature, symbolized in a plethora of ways. In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve" Robert Frost uses subtle imagery, symbolism, rhythm and rhyme to invoke the yearning for death that the weary traveler of life feels.
Epictetus once wrote, "First say what you would be; and then do what you have to do." This aphorism of self-discovery and obligation clearly describes Robert Frost's poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In the course of the poem, Frost's speaker is confronted with two choices: he can either forget his problems or he can follow through with his responsibilities and make the most of life. It is through Frost's remarkable presentation of the speaker's thoughts that the reader may see how difficult this decision can be. Through powerful elements, such as alliteration, rhythm, and imagery, Frost stresses the importance of perseverence and facing one's fears and
Throughout the poem you will notice Sam McGee asking his friend for one last and final request, and I quote: "It's the cursèd cold, and it's got right hold till I'm chilled clean through to the bone. Yet 'tain't being dead—it's my awful dread of the icy grave that pains; So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains." While reading this part of the poem I felt quite bad for the speaker; hence the fact that he will have to burn Sam’s body to aches. However it was Sam’s last request and he did not want to die in the cold; so his friend accepted the request given to him by Sam. Although the speaker had promised his will, he figures it will be too difficult finding a way to do it in the dead of winter. He ends up having a very uncomfortable trip carrying Sam’s frozen body;
Grief causes people to turn on each other. In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner’s use of stream of consciousness narration demonstrates the Kübbler-Ross model of processing grief through the minds of the Bundren family, especially with the youngest children, seventeen-year-old Dewey Dell and six-year-old Vardaman, after the recent death of Addie, their mother. The Kübbler-Ross model of processing grief has five stages (in no particular order): denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The anger stage is when the person finds fault in others and can include selfish behavior. Dewey Dell and Vardaman turn on others throughout the book.
Not all poems fall into the category of epic poetry or ballads. Some pieces are short and concise rather than lengthy and elegant. A shorter poem may focus more thoroughly on diction, or the author’s specific choice of words, rather than things such as rhyme scheme or meter. Langston Hughes poem “Suicide’s Note” is a perfect example of this. Because it is only twelve words long, every single word is important and chosen carefully. This poem uses many literary techniques, none more than diction, to achieve its purpose. which is to focus on the split-second decision that is suicide.
In the poems “The Wanderer” and “The Dream of the Rood,” anonymous authors give way to the idea that an Almighty God will solve every problem a person has by doing two things: 1) drawing upon the memories of a warrior who has lost everything near and dear to him due to war, and 2) entering the dream of a man who has been exiled and isolated. Each piece takes its reader through the trials and tribulations that one may not relate to in this era, yet the reader is still there alongside the character wanting them to find peace with their world and themselves. Initially, it is believed that the characters will overcome their hardships and achieve the happiness they seek. However, as the reader delves deeper into the character’s story, there is an overwhelming sense of incompleteness. What actually happens at the end of each piece is not written in stone - telling us the story is not whole - nor has a conclusion been reached. The intrapersonal thoughts being shared with the reader reveal the obstacles that keep an overall wholeness from occurring.
"Out, Out," by Robert Frost is a gruesomely graphic and emotional poem about the tragic end of a young boy's life. It is a powerful expression about the fragility of life and the fact that death can come at any time. Death is always devastating, but it is even more so when the victim is just a young boy. The fact that the boy's death came right before he could " Call it a day" (750) leads one to think the tragedy might have been avoided and there by forces the reader to think, "What if." This poem brings the question of mortality to the reader's attention and shows that death has no age limit.
Once more, the poet anticipates his own death when he composes this poem. But in each of these quatrains, the speaker fails to confront the full scope of his problem: winter, in fact, is a part of a cycle; winter follows spring, and spring returns after winter just as surely. Age, on the other hand, is not a cycle; youth will not come again for the speaker. In the third quatrain, the speaker resigns himself to this fact.]
These are perfect examples of individuals who achieved their goals because they persevered and didn’t lose sight of their dream. Here are two great poems that inspire me in accomplishing my goals