Summary Of A Little Tooth By Thomas Lux

This shows that the novel and the poem compare because they both grow up and they are not so innocent as they grow. In both the novel and the poem talk about making mistakes and how no one is

The poem tells the story of a farmer who accidentally ruins a mouse’s hole. The man talks about the poor mouse and his burrow. The characters from the book and the poem all had hopes and dreams that never materialized because of another person.

In Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “The Light Gatherer,” the speaker, presumably a doting parent, describes the process of watching her child grow up from infancy to adulthood. Duffy’s use of light, time, and body imagery, symbolism, figurative language, and syntactical structure of the poem all contribute to establishing the speaker’s endearing attitude towards her child’s maturing. Each set of three stanzas is divided through the use of enjambment, and the first set of three stanzas depict the child as it is newly born, with it being pure and gathering light from the start of its existence. The “candlesworth” of light the child has expresses how delicate the newborn seems in the speaker’s eyes, as the flame of a candle can easily be extinguished

(7-9) represent the maturity of the daughter and her intelligence. The references show how the daughter analyzes and observes her surroundings, making her appear much too wise for her age. Also, there are descriptions of the boys, in comparison to the daughter, "... They tower and/ bristle, she stands there smooth and sleek" (2-3) symbolizes the distinct differences between the genders around the age of puberty. Each element of symbolism, whether directed at the daughter or not, contributes adequate support to the poem's

After reading the poem, I believe that the poem means everything beautiful always dies. Like how Johnny and Ponyboy lost their innocence

The father did not acquire cracked hands from work in the cold, but rather “labor in the weekday weather” (line 4). Labor today one would associate with farming, working in a factory; very hard physical ‘work’, making the role of the father in this case seem all the more laborious. The first stanza ends with “No one ever thanked him” (line 5) which gives the poem a brief pause, leading the reader to assume that perhaps his father has passed away recently. The love shown by the speaker’s father is now recognized, but it is too late to give thanks. When the speaker wakes and his father calls him downstairs, he dresses slowly for he fears the “chronic angers of that house” (line 9). ‘Chronis angers,’ the reason for the boy’s hesitation to dress and go downstairs, illustrates the extreme amount of tension that must have been present in the house. The speaker mentions talking indifferently to his father, followed by “who had driven out the cold” (line 11) as though now he recognizes that he had never treated his father as a loving one even though he got up every morning to do this great chore for his family. The poem ends with the question “What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lovely offices?” (line 14) admitting the speakers adolescent ignorance and obvious answer of nothing. The way the author chose and arranged these words completely defines the story he is trying to tell and the point he is trying to make.

From the beginning of the poem, the reader can tell that the tone of the poem is consistent. There is no shift in tone, it’s simply sad and bitter. The father notices the innocence of his daughter and knows that there is bad luck that is coming for her future. The reader is able to see the father’s concern throughout the poem when he says that the “night’s slow poison” will change her. He knows that this issue cannot be changed, so he is doing what he can to avoid it becoming a bigger dilemma. By the end of the poem, it’s easy to notice that the father has become angry about the situation that is brought upon him. In the last two lines, the father decides that he doesn’t want to have children because of all the things he sees in their future, nothing but pain and suffering. His decision is expressed in the way he says “These speculations sour in the sun. I have

She had also mentioned some of the little things that she enjoyed like summer breezes and lemon sorbet. After, she talks longingly about all of those things, she talked about how she gave her promise to the world and the world followed her to where she was now. Throughout the poem, it seems almost as if she misses the way things used to be for her, the easiness of living, the basic simplicity of life, she sounded

The ex-lover thinks of his thankfulness to have escaped the past misfortune of the woman and the future of misery that she will endure. The lover also indicates that “Time holds great surprises” (6) meaning that time has brought three children that have taken over, taking the living out of her life, which the lover has so ironically escaped some time ago. Time has resulted in the mother living for the children but not for her own self, resulting in her identity never being recreated. In the sestet, time is shown through “birthdays” (10) and, “watching them grow” (11). This is the first reference of time made in the present and the future tense. It is the first positive point in reference to time rather then the conversation of escape and regret of the past. It shows the attempt of the mother’s display of false happiness in present time as she sits in the park. She struggles to reassure herself, while trying to convince the lover that her future will be content, ideally giving herself a false identity. Throughout the poem the use of time as a symbol of identity obliteration promotes the high expected potential of mothers, set by society.

Concept: This passage summarizes the mood of the poem. Two elderly doing menial tasks who have lived their day elicits sadness in those who read it. Describing the couple as having “lived their day” is cruel and sad, as if they were already dead. The adding of this tone helps make connections between the reader’s own grandparents and

The ancient Inca government and the government of the United States of America have some things in common; while at the same time both very different. The powers possessed by the Inca monarch are similar to those of the U.S. government. However, Inca punishments for criminals are very different from American punishments for criminals. The Inca government had a very strong structure, which enabled it to last for hundreds of years. One major distinction between the two governments though, is that the Inca government was invaded about two hundred years before the U.S. government was founded.

The narrator is lamenting about the fact that not only is it aesthetically bleak, but her child is also sick. In the poem she says the child has the flu, “The baby flushed with the flu / asleep on the pillow” (Minot 6-7). However, while she puts a great deal of detail in the description of the negative aspect of her day, she also put an equal amount of detail in the description into what makes

This quote shows how a father at that time would wish to have no part of his daughter for committing such acts because he knows of the dishonorable reputation he will receive as a result.

I really like this passage because I think it shows who Mrs. Dalloway really is very deep down. She shows a part of herself that people do not see but is always just looming there. Most people, including her husband, think of Clarissa as a party girl who only cares about the shallow things in life, but this passage hints that there is much more to her than that. The truth is that Clarissa is a deeply sad woman who is dealing with the after effect of her sister’s death and World War I. The party girl persona she embraces as a way to cope with her depression and her anxieties about her daily life.

His name is hidden in a yearbook that I bought 5 years. I don’t recall his name or much of his personality. I remember how he looked and the story behind it. He had blue eyes and blonde hair, but that wasn’t the most striking feature of face, it was the dent he had on his forehead. It started from the side of his diamond blue eyes and extended onto his scalp. His blonde hair was thin, so you can see the crevices well into his head. He acted normal like any kid. It was well aware to all us, that this dent was man-made. Nothing else can make that kind of injury. It soon came to light that a car is responsible for the damage made on this boy. More importantly, the driver behind the wheel. It was told to us that a couple years earlier, he had