The Mother We Real Cool And The Bean Eaters

The Bean Trees there are many themes but one of them could be “The Shared Burden of Womanhood”. This book is like many others, all moves around the same theme and literary devices that we use today. Most of them have the same concept. In “The Bean Tress” and “The Sun Rises” symbolism and figurative language is used.

Language and imagery plays a dramatic role in portraying relationships and feelings/thoughts of the persona. Whilst in ‘Burning Sappho,’ the mother’s attitude towards tasks is portrayed as emotionless (“the child is fed, the dishes are washed, the clothes are ironed and aired,”), language is utilised within ‘Suburban Sonnet’ to construct the mother’s mental state and situation as dire. “Zest and Love drain out with soapy water.” The use of two personal, passionate adjectives and the depiction of them being physically overcome by soapy water directly link the mother’s loss of feelings and fiery emotion to the household chores and duties. For example, she “scours crusted milk,” as a part of her role as mother and housewife as the reader is positioned to reject this requirement as a result of the huge impact to her quality of life (“Veins ache”). The literal image of a dead mouse symbolises the mother’s situation as the ‘soft corpse’ directly represents the mother, that is, emotionally dead as a result of the entrapment by society. The reader is positioned to fully

and the development of the nuclear bomb. The growing of the U.S. is shown by the mother being interested in more mature ideas and being involved in more adult things. We see the scientists working on the bomb making it better and testing it in the U.S. This in turn affects the U.S. and is why the U.S. is becoming older, losing its innocence. It is because of these tests that we have lost our innocence and have strayed away from the rest of the world and is why the mother was alone. This will most likely stay as one of my favorite poems for time to come and be one of the most interesting to

Although there is more detail expressed in this poem, simple words are still used but still manage to retain the deep meaning that can easily be understood by anyone. I think this is used to try and create an understanding of how the Grandmother valued all of her material items. A large portion of the poem is dedicated to these items to show that they were a big part of the old lady's life. The poem is divided into four stanzas, each of them tells a different part of the story.

"The Bean Eaters” The descriptive adjectives in Gwendolyn Brooks’ “The Bean Eaters” help contribute to the poem’s thematic intent. At the very beginning of the poem she starts to describe who the “bean eaters” are that she is writing the poem about. She writes, “They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.” (Brooks 1).

Using imagery Hayden brings a clear setting of the poem by describing the features of his/her father after working long hours and lighting the fireplace for warmth in the cold winters without ever receiving the slightest bit of gratitude. Using firm diction Hayden creates tone for the speaker describing the environment and ambience in a dismal way giving the reader an idea of the family relationships, and provides more detail by describing the speaker’s father in pitiful aspects such as being hated by the whole household and the indifferent personality the speaker presents toward his/her father. However, by using symbolism Hayden brings the essence of the poem together by writing how the speaker of the poem does not understand the lonely offices of austere and strict forms of love, Using the previous literary devices to describe the warmth of the fireplace every sunday, and the pitiful description of the speaker’s father, and giving slight implications to the reader of the poor background Hayden connects the speaker comes from, but only through hard work the daughter/son realizes how his/her father is showing a disciplined form of

Pregnancy is a daunting feat not for the faint of heart. When on this journey of creating life, many mothers have feelings of doubt and regret. The poems The Victory, Metaphors, and The Mother all take varied approaches to the topic of motherhood in regards to their use of imagery, diction, and syntax. The imagery in The Victory is extremely negative and graphic. Anne Stevenson describes her child as a “tiny antagonist.”

The poem describes/separates the fights and complains of a poor lady who has had many (too) early or soon births. The mother has going ahead with tension and stress on account of her troublesome choices. The first (or most important) line of the main poem, "(too) early or soon births won't let you (ignore/not notice)," instantly attracts thoughtfulness (related to/looking at/thinking about) the title, "the mother," and to the importance of "feeling of love"-- what it has meant to the person who tells stories (or lies) to love her children or, rather, the kids she may have

The couple referred to in this poem has built a great deal of self-esteem. They continue to do what they do for a very long time. The fact that they eat beans is very humbling. There is no support in this poem that claims them as vegetarians, therefore they are eating beans because of economics reasons, with no complaints to each other. The two have built self-esteem amongst themselves as stated “two who have lived their day, but keep on putting on their clothes and putting things

The poem describes the weather and its effect on cotton flower by pointing out the dying branches and vanishing cotton. The image of insufficiency, struggle and death parallel the oppression of African American race. The beginning of the poem illustrates the struggle and suffering of the cotton flower; which represent the misery of African Americans and also gives an idea that there is no hope for them. But at the end the speaker says “brown eyes that loves without a trace of fear/ Beauty so sudden for that time of year” (lines 13-14). This shows the rise of the African American race, and their fight against racism. The author used mood, tone and

The poem uses fungibility to show how the mother is interchangeable in the eyes of her family. For instance in line 1-4 Pastans says, “My husband gives me an A for last night’s supper, an incomplete for ironing, a B plus in bed.” The husband appears to be casually handing out grades about his wife’s performances throughout the home as if he is a teacher and his wife is one of many students. He doesn’t acknowledge that she is working hard for the family and that she is not interchangeable. It appears that he thinks anybody can do the job as a wife and a mother. It even appears that he thinks somebody else would do a better job at being mother because he gives her an incomplete for not doing the ironing.The fathers lack of respect for the mother causes the kids in the poem to not respect their mother. On line 5 Pastan says, “My son says I am average, an average mother, but if I put my mind to it I could improve.” The sons treatment towards his mother is a lot like the fathers treatment of the mother. He acts like the mother is an employee who can be fired if they don’t start to improve their work.

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

An amazing composed love poem. The poem talks about mothers affection for her child and the other way around, joining nature, animals, and their general surroundings. A delightful poem I have enjoyed is given the lovely mother child relationship. Cummings utilizes nature all through the poem to offer the reader some assistance with visualizing the more profound implications of what it is attempting to pass on the voyage of life, the unique spot we leave in our souls for adoration, the comings and goings of individuals, and so forth. Yet, the poem is focused on love. I liked the poem and I think it is worth take the time to read

Imagine enduring every day life being responsible for three kids without a companion to assist in support. The responsibility of raising three children alone is burdensome enough, but what if these children were the source of regret and pain each day as well? In the poem “In the Park,” Gwen Harwood portrays a woman who feigns satisfaction while talking to her “ex-lover,” but who is actually regretful that her life is devoted to her children, to emphasize the challenges involved in motherhood, especially raising children without a father.

The first stanza of the poem the speaker starts out using the word “you”. By using second person point of view the speaker appears to speak directly to the reader. “You remember the children you got that you did not get” (Brooks 2), here the speaker uses the term “children” to refer to her aborted children, which also gives them an identity. Brooks uses throughout the poem the word “children” instead of “fetuses” which gives the speaker the image of motherhood and a person compared to inanimate object. These are the children she has lost. The speaker goes on throughout this stanza to express to the reader all the things “you” will never get to experience with your children because of the decision to have an abortion. “You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh, / Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye” (Brooks 9-10), here the author uses metaphors about food, “snack of them” and “gobbling mother-eye” to illustrate the speakers yearning for motherhood that will never be. This is the only time in the poem other than the title that Brooks will use the word “mother”, all else will be implied that the reader is a mother to