Myth about a poem

Myth about a poem

 

 

 

   

For this post I chose to write about the poem Cinderella, by Anne Sexton.  I have always been a fanatic of the Cinderella stories. Anne Sexton talks about myths in this poem.  She makes a comparison to myth through the stories rags to riches. Sexton's final stanza suggestion about the was fairy tales end is that  main character in the story always ends up living happily ever after and the villains get what is coming to them. Cinderella is a recognizable legend. Most know about the evil stepmother and stepsisters. How the prince throws a ball to find his bride. How Cinderella is not allow to go and in some miracle she is dressed in the most beautiful dress at the ball. The princes falls in love, but she must run by the strike of mid night.  All that is left is her slipper. The prince goes in search of his mystery love. Finds her and marries her. Very beautiful story but a myth.

 



Dickinson

Dickinson

 

 

 

 

Emily Dickinson is a very interesting person to me. She spent most of her life in her family home. In some of her poetry you can sense her loneliness.  When I was reading about her the book stated that she never married. There are clues that she was romantically involved with someone. There is a poem she wrote called I'm Nobody! Who are you?  Could she have been talking about her mystery man?  Very interesting poet, goes to show that some of us are naturally talented.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MYTH OF MY LIFE

MYTH OF MY LIFE

 

 

 

One of the greatest myth of my life I could say is growing up Catholic.  As a young child I was taught that if I misbehaved I would go to hell . I was taught only to fear God and what could happen to me if I lied, cheated, or stole. Even as a child I struggled with understanding why church was so important to adult if all they did was fear God. I never went to church only on special occasions. As a teenage I started to feel an overwhelming feeling to understand God and who he really was. A friend invited me to go to her Christian church one day and I fell in love.  Then my family started to prohibit to go with her. They told me that we were "Catholic" and that "Catholic's" did not bounce from church to church and I was not allowed to change religions. Sadden by the disapproval I renounced my love.

 

In 2012, I was reunited with my long lost love, I found myself in front of a preacher accepting Jesus into my heart.  It took  22 years to finally satisfy my search in my beliefs. Today I am head of a household in where my 3 year old knows that God loves her and is merciful. A household that prays together.   

 

Symbol in a poem

Symbol in a poem

 

I am will happy to write this post. For my wiki article I am writing about The Negro Speaks of Rivers.  The main symbol is this poem is rivers. The rivers in Langston Hughes poem can be interpret as an extension of heritage and cultural awareness. He refers to the rivers to the black community.  He describes the rivers ancient and wise.   Hughes captivates and paints a picture of the rivers as being majestic. He uses    descriptions of the rivers going from muddy and dusky to golden.  In essences describing African Americans as slaves and then becoming golden once they obtained their freedom.

Symbol in myLlife

Symbol in my Life

 

 

 

 

A symbol in my life is a diamond cross necklace.  I did not learn about God until I was an adult.  On my 24^th birthday I was given a diamond cross. I am very careful and rarely wear it due to the fear of losing it or breaking. That is how important it is. The cross symbolizes Jesus has rose and not dead. On my necklace the cross is covered in diamonds. It is shinny just like me and how God’s love has restored me. The chain is very delicate and thin. The necklace symbolizes me and my faith. I am the delicate thin chain that holds the shiny diamond cross. I am a thin delicate woman that holds the love of God in my heart that makes me shine like a diamond.  

 

 



Symbol in someone's life

Symbol in someone's life

 

Some ones Symbol

As a mother of a beautiful full of life 3 year old , one of the things I notices is what she attaches herself to.  Since my daughter Natalie was a baby baby (she is still a baby but says she is a big girl now) she has attached herself to this big red brownish blanket.  This blanket is not a normal size blankie .  The blanket is more like a dang comforter but never lets it go! She eats with it, sleeps with it , watches TV with it, and takes it to daycare too! What could she possibly see in that blanket? Then the day came when that question was answered by my 3 year old. I was in such a hurry to get her to school that I forgot to bring the blankie aka comforter. She nearly had a heart attack! She said “ mommy my blankie! Go back for my blankie!”  I said “no Natalie come on, why do you need that huge thing?” Her response was priceless” because it helps me stay safe.” Objects can symbolize different things to many people in this case of a 3 year old  girl it meant safety. 

 

Poem

Poem

 

 

 

Of course the poem I would write about is The Negro Speaks of Rivers.

 

 

I love reading poetry because I love the symbolic meaning.  In The Negro Spoke of river has a deep rich meaning to it .

 

 

I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the  
     flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
     went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy
     bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

 

 

 

There is history in this poem. Metaphorcal meaning , symbolic meaning. I think the reason why I  like this poem, and I have mention it before in other post is the similes. Similes are a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid . " My Soul has grown deep like the rivers", "I've known rivers

  ancient as the world."  Such rich comparisons.  

 

Poetry has different figures of speech. This poem portray such figures of speech such as

Alliteration

Repetition of a consonant sound

Assonance
In stressed syllables, repetition of a vowel sound followed by a different consonant sound

Anaphora

Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups occurring one after the other

 

 



Psychological criticism

                                   Psychological criticism

 For this post I will link two stories that I can sense  psychological criticism.

In the story of revelations, Ms. Turnip is portrayed with such Narcissistic personality. She is preoccupied with personal adequacy, power , prestige and vanity, mentally unable to see the destructive damage she causing to herself and to others in the process. She is a very interesting character and I find it genius the way the author uses this type of a psychological criticism to portray this character.


The second story that stands out to me is the Fall of the House of Usher. Roderick is psychologically profiled as a character with mental disorders. Depression is the mental disorder that is emphasized. He is in a states of a  depressed mood.  This mood can make him feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, helpless, worthless,guilty, irritable, ashamed or restless.


Roderick  loses interest in activities that were once pleasurable, has problems concentrating, remembering details or making decisions, and may contemplate, attempt or commit suicide. Just the feel of the psychology behind this character.

Women Writers

Women Writers

Women Writers

As a woman I find women writes to be very  influential. Women like Maya Angelo, JK Rowling, Alice walker, and SE Hilton. Women have gave literacy a great contribution. Contributions like unique styles of literacy, pushed boundaries and inspired social, moral and optical views. Women writers have contribute and expanded the literacy world.

 

Gender Critcism

Gender criticism

 

 

I had to really research this topic. Gender criticism is an approach that examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works. In literacy, males are portray as masculinist and females are viewed demeaning and oppressed. Gender Criticism has influence women to make a movement. Feminist have fought this view of gender criticism. They have tried to correct these assumptions of women being demeaning and oppressed in literacy.  Some have question the influence of sexual identity in text. Like how women are perceived in images of imaginative literature. Thus, trying to achieve literacy equality.

 

Wiki Article WS 5

Wikipedia Article

The Negro Spoke of Rivers

 

I've known rivers

 I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the

 flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

 I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

 I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

 I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln

 went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy

 bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers

 Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

 

For this post I will be breaking down a bit more in depth the symbolic meaning of this  poem.  This poem has metaphorical verses, and musical as well as similes.

The “rivers” are use as metaphors. Rivers are long and can extend for miles. The way rivers are used as metaphors are used is through the extension of the black community. The deep roots of what has made black people so wise. 

In some of the research that I have done I found out that the poem is describe to have a musical component. It is viewed musical because Hughes repeats “I’ve known of Rivers.” Just like in a song the chorus is repeated. This correlates with Hughes verse “I’ve known of rivers” this is the chorus for The negro Spoke of Rivers .

The Negro Speaks of Rivers has great similes. Similes are some of my favorite things in writing. I love the figure of speech involving the comparison. One of the similes that stands out to me is when he uses a simile to compare the age of the rivers to the age of the Earth: "ancient as the world."