Wednesday, October 17, 2012

annotation of the three poems

       "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake is a very emotional amd sad poem. The child's mother died and the father gave him away the child meets another kid name Tom. The poem talks about child labor, hope and dreams. Tom has a dream where all the kids are fintally happy and free. This is a very meaningful dream for Tom and makes him have faith that there is a better life than their miserable life where they have to work. The idea that Tom gets is that once they die they're going to a better place and will finally be free and happy.
     "For My Daughter" by Weldon Kees is a bitter poem. Throughout the poem we start to interpret that this person is scared of what might happen to his daughter and he sees more than the innocence but at the end the last line is very meaningful because he says "I have no daughter. I desire none". To me this means that he doesn't want to have a daughter because he is scared of what the world might give her, he is scared that he has a daughter and she suffers or goes through a lot of struggles.
     "Mother to Son' by Langston Hughes is a nice poem because the mother is  trying to encourage her son. She tells him that life wasn't easy for her and it wont be easy for him either. She wants to prepare him for the struggles that might come to him. She tries to encourage him by saying that she never gave up. She kept going and going and that he should do the same. Even when the road seems very bumpy and dark he has to keep moving forward and be strong like her.

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  1. Nice comments about the poems. In Blake's poem, what literary device is being used when the children, the chimney sweepers, hear of Tom's dream , or "that once they die they're going to a better place and will finally be free and happy"?
    That last line of Kees' poem is ambiguous; can it also be interpreted as the speaker does have a daughter and worries about the future and what her life will be like?
    I agree that the mother in Hughes' poem tries to prepare her son for the life's road ahead; why does she describe the road as a "crystal stair"?

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