Throughout our life time we all experience different moments that we will never forget. In Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill,” Fleur Adcock’s “The Video,” Theodore Roethke's, “My Papa’s Waltz,” and Margaret Atwood's, “Bored,” the reader can see the interconnecting theme of memories. Each poems memory possesses strong emotion and thought.
In the “Fern Hill” the speaker talks about their time spent at a barn when he was little. He uses descriptive words to portray the beauty and mystery the objects presented in his childhood. For example the speaker says, “Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air and playing, lovely and watery (20),” to describe the fields and chimney he saw everyday. This poem shows that such a trivial moment can make impacting memory in a person’s life.
Fleur Adcock’s “The Video,” discusses a memory of a girl named Ceri’s baby sister being born. By reading this poem we become aware of the feelings Ceri is faced with during this life changing moment. Her little sister’s birth was video taped. She liked to watch the tape over and over again and make it go in reverse. “She watched Laura come out, and then, in reverse, she made her go back in(9).” This states that Ceri is wishing she could go back in time and undo her sisters birth. She is thinking about the memories of how life was before her sister came into it.
In Theodore Roethke poem, “My Papa’s Waltz,” we learn about a little boy who is dancing the Waltz with his drunk father. He describes his happiness of when he used to dance with his dad. He longs for the times when his father would, “romp until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf (5).” From the tone of this poem we can become aware a the little boy reminsicing on his childhood memories.
Finally in Marert Atwood poem “Bored,” the speaker talks about the bordem she faced with her everyday task. Even though she might have been uninterested at the time, the reader discovers later on in the poem that, “Perhaps bordemon is happier (36).” This means the speaker may no longer have time to spend with the person she did her everyday chores with. She realizes what did not seem like a lot at the time, was really truly special. This important memory makes her think twice about the time she has spent with her life.
In all of the above poems we face the common theme of the importance of memories in our past. What may not seem important at one moment may be really important years later. We use memories everyday to keep impacting moments alive in our everyday life!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
impacting memories
Throughout our life time we all experience different moments that we will never forget. In Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill,” Fleur Adcock’s “The Video,” Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz,” and Margaret Atwood, “Bored,” the reader can see the interconnecting theme of memories. Each poems memory possesses strong emotion and thought.
In the “Fern Hill” the speaker talks about their time spent at a barn when he was little. He uses descriptive words to portray the beauty and mystery the objects presented in his childhood. For example the speaker says, “Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air and playing, lovely and watery (20),” to describe the fields and chimney he saw everyday. This poem shows that such a trivial moment can make impacting memory in a person’s life.
Fleur Adcock’s “The Video,” discusses a memory of a girl named Ceri’s baby sister being born. By reading this poem we become aware of the feelings Ceri is faced with during this life changing moment. Her little sister’s birth was video taped. She liked to watch the tape over and over again and make it go in reverse. “She watched Laura come out, and then, in reverse, she made her go back in(9).” This states that Ceri is wishing she could go back in time and undo her sisters birth. She is thinking about the memory of how life was before her sister came into it.
In Theodore Roethke poem, “My Papa’s Waltz,” we learn about a little boy who is dancing the Waltz with his drunk father. He describes his happiness of when he used to dance with his dad. He longs for the times when his father would, “romp until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf (5).” From the tone of this poem we can become aware a the little boy reminsicing on his childhood memories.
Finally in Marert Atwood poem “Bored,” the speaker talks about the bordem she faced with her everyday task. Even though she might have been uninterested at the time, the reader discovers later on in the poem that, “Perhaps bordemon is happier (36).” This means the speaker may no longer have time to spend with the person she did her everyday chores with. She realizes what did not seem like a lot at the time, was really truly special. This important memory makes her think twice about the time she has spent with her life.
In all of the above poems we face the common theme of the importance of memories in our past. What may not seem important at one moment may be really important years later. We use memories everyday to keep impacting moments alive in our everyday life!
In the “Fern Hill” the speaker talks about their time spent at a barn when he was little. He uses descriptive words to portray the beauty and mystery the objects presented in his childhood. For example the speaker says, “Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air and playing, lovely and watery (20),” to describe the fields and chimney he saw everyday. This poem shows that such a trivial moment can make impacting memory in a person’s life.
Fleur Adcock’s “The Video,” discusses a memory of a girl named Ceri’s baby sister being born. By reading this poem we become aware of the feelings Ceri is faced with during this life changing moment. Her little sister’s birth was video taped. She liked to watch the tape over and over again and make it go in reverse. “She watched Laura come out, and then, in reverse, she made her go back in(9).” This states that Ceri is wishing she could go back in time and undo her sisters birth. She is thinking about the memory of how life was before her sister came into it.
In Theodore Roethke poem, “My Papa’s Waltz,” we learn about a little boy who is dancing the Waltz with his drunk father. He describes his happiness of when he used to dance with his dad. He longs for the times when his father would, “romp until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf (5).” From the tone of this poem we can become aware a the little boy reminsicing on his childhood memories.
Finally in Marert Atwood poem “Bored,” the speaker talks about the bordem she faced with her everyday task. Even though she might have been uninterested at the time, the reader discovers later on in the poem that, “Perhaps bordemon is happier (36).” This means the speaker may no longer have time to spend with the person she did her everyday chores with. She realizes what did not seem like a lot at the time, was really truly special. This important memory makes her think twice about the time she has spent with her life.
In all of the above poems we face the common theme of the importance of memories in our past. What may not seem important at one moment may be really important years later. We use memories everyday to keep impacting moments alive in our everyday life!
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