"During a Son's Dangerous Illness" and "Lost Sister"
Poetry is a very powerful way of communication between a writer and a reader. Different poets express them selves in a variety of ways, writing about what they have gone through or just simply what they dream about, both spiced up with twists and double meanings. Every reader gets a different reaction to a poem and everyone sees and interprets the poem in their own way. Unfortunately only author knows the true feeling and understanding of their own poem, all we can do is guess and put a big puzzle together. Although all the poems are differently written by different authors, many of them share common feelings and common reaction from readers. Out of several poems I have chosen to discuss "During a Son's Dangerous Illness" by Denise Levertov and "Lost Sister" by Cathy Song. The reason I have chosen these poems is because I found them pretty easy going and I could feel the author's emotions as they laid down the poem on a paper. Both poems are very different from each other, yet they share something in common. After reading the first poem, the feeling was very transparent, feeling of sadness, grief, helplessness and sorrow. Levertov seems to use figurative language in a very well described and explanatory way. Such lines as: "-
Again we notice figurative language "whirling cinder" nicely put. The author doesn't go much into details as much as she describes her feelings. Two different poems, two different authors, yet both seem to share feelings and emotions associated with loss in their own way. Where In Levertov's poem she talks about Death. We created this image in order for us to be reminded that not only death exists, we also need to physically see it and be afraid of it. Line 56 states "You remember your mother who walked for centuries, footless-and like her, you have left no footprints, but only because there is an ocean in between". "the whirling cinder we love but not enough. Two poems are very different from each other in structure and almost every aspect, yet they have several things that are alike. Although both poems are tragic, "Lost Sister" brings less feelings of sadness.
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levertov's poem,
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