This is the first time I read the poem, and frankly, the title itself captured my attention. The first reason is the title is exactly the same as one of my favourite song during my high school years by a local band, Disagree. The lyrics actually portrayed the feeling of loneliness and emptiness that made me feel like not wanting to live in the world anymore. It is the exact feeling of mine when I just transferred to a boarding school, feeling like being out casted by my own family. I don’t sleep or eat well during that time, to the extent of being admitted to the hospital twice due to low blood pressure. The second reason is it has the dark aura that creeps in my spine, which is very rare yet gives me weird kind of adrenaline rush as the last …show more content…
It seems that the parents had little appreciation for their daughter’s achievements and doings all this while. The mother only wish to see her being her mother’s pride and joy, while in his father’s dream, she is the one who will help the family, maybe even being the provider for the family. This is a burden being carried by the girl that made her worked very hard. Sadly, she had the urge to apologize through the writing of the poem, as she failed the tasks, getting disapprovals and disappointments that made an impact on her. She thought her hard works were not good enough, and she was not strong enough to overcome anymore failures, disapproval and …show more content…
My wish was rejected as my family thought that the school is a high performance school that could offer better education and higher chance for me to further my studies in the tertiary education because of the branding, ‘high performance school’. I am thankful that I did go to the boarding school as it did help me getting better places and chances to further my tertiary studies. However, it is 10 years later that I realized this, as I was debating with my family and friends that anyone can be successful, anywhere, anytime with hard work and
The speaker expresses how she feels about the books and poems she produced through the metaphor of a mother and her child. For example, the speaker begins with words such as “offspring” and “after birth” to liken the two relationships (1-2). She implies many complex feelings toward her books like a mother would toward her child. The speakers feels resentment and embarrassment when the book was “snatched by friends” and “exposed to public view” prior to her revisions (3-4). Because of all the flaws she believe the book possesses, she doesn’t want others to see as “errors weren’t lessened, all may judge” like a mother might be embarrassed and ashamed because of some of her child’s actions (6). Even though the speaker thinks she is a terrible author because of the mistakes in her book, when she sees her work as an actual book, her “blushing was not small, my rambling brat (in print)” (7-8). She was somewhat proud of her book as now it is published and bound as a book, just like a mother would be proud of her child’s achievements. Then, after the moment of proudness, the
From the first-time read through, the poem gives a basic understanding of the narrative: a daughter telling the audience about her mother’s struggles
Song later writes “It seems it has always been like this: the two of in this sunless room,” this tells the reader that she has bathed her mother many times, possibly attempting to pay back her mother for everything she has done for Song. The reader is also able to find Song illustrate her bursts of imagery to convey and important piece of the poem in “The Youngest Daughter.” Song uses imagery to truly reflect and highlight the themes of ethnic background and family life.
Throughout time, fathers and daughters have had special relationships. Some, the best relationship a girl could ever hope for. For others, the relationship is not so great. Sylvia Plath and Lucille Clifton wrote poems describing the darker side of a father-daughter relationship. Their poems demonstrate them in different ways. The poets of “Forgiving my Father” and “Daddy” demonstrate the theme, unresolved anger leads to lifelong bitterness, because both narrators hate their fathers for lying, blame their fathers for ruining their lives, and, finally, learning to cut their fathers out of their lives.
As we reach the end of the poem, the speakers attitude changes. The mother realizes that aging is just a part of life. We all get older, we all start to wrinkle and our hair color eventually turns grey. She realizes that at some point she has to let go of her daughter’s childhood so that she can start a family of her own one day and keep the generation going. The speaker and the daughter are moving forward in their lives but their aging processes, at the time, are
As we get older we tend to reflect more on our life and get our priorities together. We tend to realize who and what is important, the people who mean the most to us and the ones we can’t live without. Who would those significant individuals be for us? For most people it would be their parents. In the poems “My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz, and “My Mother” by Ellen Bryant Voigt, both writers express their emotion towards a parent. The poems are similar in many ways simply because they share a parent child relationship, they are also vastly different. “My Fathers Song” is a poem about a son who lost his father and is grieving and referring back to old memories, reflecting on their past and the wonderful time he had with his father. “My Mother” on the other hand is a poem about a daughter who lost her mother and is having a difficult time coping as she reflects on the decisions she made as a child and how that affected her relationship with her mother. Despite their differences, the two poems share a true connection of love towards their parent. Most notably “My Fathers Song” and “My Mother” differ in the relationship with their parent, the settings in which the memories they hold of their parents take place, and who they are mourning over, yet the two have a strong emphasis on love.
Her lover leaved her. This poem is about pain. Although the young girl feel love and falling in the love, but she also get hurt by love. In its use of the simile of her lover, it shows us painful. In the end, she was heartbroken.
Based on the fact that his father left him was the purpose he wrote the poem to give himself the hope of what kind of father he could be and the opportunities that he could have with his children. The poem was writing
The narrator is totally crushed by the gender discrimination. She longed to be seen by her mother and her grandma. The narrator is heartbroken that her mother loved her brother more than her and failed to notice her. “When she went into Nonso’s room to say good night, she always came out laughing that laugh. Most times, you pressed your palms to your ears to keep the sound out, and kept your palms pressed to your ears, even when she came into your room to say Good night, darling, sleep well. She never left your room with that laugh” (190). Her agony can be easily seen by the way of her narrating. She does not get the affection that she deserves. She really needs the affection from her own mother, but she is not getting it. She compares the love which her mother shows to his brother and herself. This is gender discrimination can be seen with her grandmother too. She hated her grandma as she would always support her brother and find fault with her. Even though what the brother did, no matter what crime. Her mother and grandmother always supported her brother and never supported or showed interest towards
It can be seen that although parents want to protect their daughter, they have to allow their kids to step out of their comfort level and learn how to deal with difficult or challenging circumstances. In addition to this, the author writes this poem in first person and uses personal pronouns. When the parent recalls the instance when she was, “loping beside you as you wobbled away”, it can be seen that the parent is not only sharing her experiences with her audience, but allowing them to see how she felt and the actions she made during times in her past (Pastan 1014). Now, having many years of experience in parents, the parent has come to the realization that her once tiny baby, is now grown up and ready to be self sufficient. To add to this, the author uses conversational syntax, rather than narrative to create a colloquial style of
Being this “goody two shoes” type of girl is tiring and boring. The middle/end of the poem talks about the mother's view of the “ charity children.”
In the poem, “Mothers and daughters”, she writes about the relationship of mothers and daughters. The speaker of the poem is mother and she is describing mothers’ relationship with their daughters. In the beginning of the poem, she gives insight of mothers and daughters share love with each other. They have close bonding and have a perfect relationship. Later, the mother describes the dark side of their relationship where they have conflicts with each other. “Mothers and daughters” is the poem which illustrates the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters as they share love with each other, but they have conflicts too.
In the poems you have studied a recurring theme is that of ‘loss’. This can take many forms: death; identity; hope or loss of innocence
Although this poem comes from a different era to the present, it is visible as from long ago are no fights or unkindness with family. In the poem also the author speak about situations such as ornaments
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1919. This poem is a prayer-like poem. And it generally tells about the poet's ideas about his daughter who is sleeping at the same time while the poem is being told. Throughout the poem Yeats reflects how he wants his daughter's future to be. This essay will analyze the poem in three sections: 1- What does this poem mean?, 2- The poetic devices, imagery, rhyming, figures of speech, used in the poem and mood, diction, language, and the structure of the poem, 3- An essay in a feminist point of view titled "What does the poet want his daughter to become?" .