"The Aim Was Song" By Robert Frost

Robert Frost was an educator as well a poet. He is a four time Pulitzer Prize Winner. Many of Frost's works depict life, through language and situations, that is familiar to the common man. 

When I first read this poem, I thought that the main focus was on the wind. But after reading it over a few more times, I realized the subject of the poem was the wind and a man. This poem is about a man who is trying to teach the wind how to properly blow. The man is trying to teach the wind to blow with more melody, or song. This is where readers can connect the title with the content of the poem; the aim of the wind is to create song or a better wind.The author uses personification to create a better understanding for what is occurring between the two main figures. If we took the meaning of this poem to a deeper level, we could talk about why the man is teaching the wind to blow and why the wind does not already know how to correctly blow. In the first line, "Before man came to blow it right", I am reminded slightly of time before man. It is as if the author was referring to why man came to earth, which we know is because we were created to complete God's work and make a difference; to teach.

"Barbie Doll" By Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy was born in Detroit and suffered through the Depression. She became sick in her teenage years and during this time of all her sickness she put all her love into books. She was the first person in her family to go to college, and much of her writing highlights factors in our lives that are taken away from us or held back from us. 

In this poem, the topic is focused on young girls and their appearances. Looking deeper into it, we can see that the theme of this poem is the pressure young girls have to look perfect. The author uses comparison and imagery to help readers understand the pressure young girls have on themselves to look exactly how everyone believes they should look. For example, in lines 12-15, we get an idea of what it is like to be objectified to the point of wearing ourselves down to the point of wanting to commit self- harm. The author uses a tone that focuses on struggle and death to convey the theme's message. When we read this poem, we are able to visualize the way society controls women and their actions and choices. The poem contains descriptive words to characterize young women and the way they are viewed as imperfect to outsiders. In lines 20-25, it is clearly identified the only way women think they can cope with their pain and insecurities is through suicide or by giving into their sadness. This piece of writing should be a reminder for all young women to stay strong and for all people to get an idea of what being rude to other people could do to their life. The theme of this poem is accurately expressed through the tone of the author and holds a great message within it.

"To My Dear and Loving Husband" Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was the first woman writer recognized as an accomplished New World Poet. She benefited greatly from the Elizabethan Tradition which focused mainly on female education; as we can see by her many writing accomplishments it truly did benefit her! Bradstreet's works reflect her religious and emotional experiences. 

 

 

This poem is focused mainly about love; we know that as soon we read the title. But the slower we read it, and the more times we do, we are able to find a bit more than a classic love between a man and woman. Anne Bradstreet uses passionate languages and rhyme schemes, which helps to portray the trouble she may have been going through while being in love with this man. She writes, "My love is such that rivers cannot quench,", which portrays a love in which their is pain and suffering that cannot be helped even in the most logical ways. At the same time, that line could also mean her love is so passionate and rare that not even the most similar kind could replace it. The title of this poem sets the tone and displays the focus. Bradstreet's emotional words and comparisons, such as, "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,", demonstrate the intense feeling of love she had for her husband. Her use of punctuation, allows readers to pause at the right times so they fully understand the emotion she is writing with. With this poem, the slower and more time we give to the words, the more of an effect it will have on us. Not all poems give off intense feelings, but the way Bradstreet rhymes her words and repeats the words "love" and "live" ; readers can connect more easily to the poem.