Schoolsville-Billy Collins
The narrator of Schoolsville is a high school teacher reflecting on his past students making up a community. The grades and activities the students were involved in determine their class segregation. Judging from the final two stanzas, the narrator is rather despondent. He speaks in stanza seven that he rarely leaves his house, his car tires deflate, and vines grow around his porch swing. Then in stanza eight he conveys that his profession is a dead shell, for he now tries to keep it alive by lecturing wall paper, quizzing the chandelier, and reprimanding the air.
Because I Would Not Stop For Death- Emily Dickinson
Miss Dickinson was moderately obsessed with death poems from what I know, and this is one of her more famous poems. She speaks of dying and of Death as being not the state or happening, but rather a character or figure. She says that she is being brought to immortality by the absolution of her mortality. In the final Stanza, she comments that all the time since one day seems shorter than that one day, because it is the day she realized she was being brought to eternity.
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening- Robert Frost
First and foremost, I read this poem in sixth grade during a study island assignment. The narrator speaks of stopping to see the snow fall in the woods the day of the winter solstice. There are hints of some dark yet wonderful desire to remain in the woods forever, but as the narrator mentions, he has obligations and a long distance to his destination. There is the possibility of a hidden depression, or a lacking of the simple beautiful things in the world, to the point that one may even come to the conclusion that the narrator is potentially suicidal and wishes to stop and die in the forest, but he is more dedicated to his obligations.
The Man He Killed-Thomas Hardy
The narrator is reflecting on when he killed a man in war. This poem shows that war is people dying for some cause they are not entirely devoted to, but join out of necessity, and therefore kill and are killed. The narrator shows a suppressed guilt, and he speaks of how in another time they would have become acquaintances. It shows that war is the breaking of possible bonds.
Sonnet 55-William Shakespeare
The narrator is addressing his lover, and how his poem to said lover will last forever, but that his lover’s beauty and majesty is beyond what he has written. He says that his lover’s memory will outlive death, and reach out past the end of the world. As I read this, I wonder; it is certainly a lyrical poem, but could it not also be considered narrative? After all, this is the story of how his love’s memory shall endure forever.
Two Hangovers-James Wright
The narrator has no rhyme pattern, but it has a certain fluidity to it, one that I cannot quite explain. It is obviously telling a story, making it narrative. The narrator wakes up after being drunk, and feels plagued by his environment at the time. In his frustration, he returns to sleep and reawakens to be pleased by a blue jay enjoying itself on a branch outside his window.
Because I Would Not Stop For Death- Emily Dickinson
Miss Dickinson was moderately obsessed with death poems from what I know, and this is one of her more famous poems. She speaks of dying and of Death as being not the state or happening, but rather a character or figure. She says that she is being brought to immortality by the absolution of her mortality. In the final Stanza, she comments that all the time since one day seems shorter than that one day, because it is the day she realized she was being brought to eternity.
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening- Robert Frost
First and foremost, I read this poem in sixth grade during a study island assignment. The narrator speaks of stopping to see the snow fall in the woods the day of the winter solstice. There are hints of some dark yet wonderful desire to remain in the woods forever, but as the narrator mentions, he has obligations and a long distance to his destination. There is the possibility of a hidden depression, or a lacking of the simple beautiful things in the world, to the point that one may even come to the conclusion that the narrator is potentially suicidal and wishes to stop and die in the forest, but he is more dedicated to his obligations.
The Man He Killed-Thomas Hardy
The narrator is reflecting on when he killed a man in war. This poem shows that war is people dying for some cause they are not entirely devoted to, but join out of necessity, and therefore kill and are killed. The narrator shows a suppressed guilt, and he speaks of how in another time they would have become acquaintances. It shows that war is the breaking of possible bonds.
Sonnet 55-William Shakespeare
The narrator is addressing his lover, and how his poem to said lover will last forever, but that his lover’s beauty and majesty is beyond what he has written. He says that his lover’s memory will outlive death, and reach out past the end of the world. As I read this, I wonder; it is certainly a lyrical poem, but could it not also be considered narrative? After all, this is the story of how his love’s memory shall endure forever.
Two Hangovers-James Wright
The narrator has no rhyme pattern, but it has a certain fluidity to it, one that I cannot quite explain. It is obviously telling a story, making it narrative. The narrator wakes up after being drunk, and feels plagued by his environment at the time. In his frustration, he returns to sleep and reawakens to be pleased by a blue jay enjoying itself on a branch outside his window.
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