Choose one of the three poems and write an analytical paragraph (5-8 sentences) discussing the meaning of the poem and interpreting key aspects of the poem (form, rhythm, rhyme, diction, symbolism, imagery, etc.) To be graded.
We Wear the Mask: This poem talks about as people growing up, they used to wear masks. They wear smile masks even when they get hurt. The poem uses metaphor to compare mask as people's fake side. What you looked is what they want you to see, they pretend to be happy, sad or crying. This poem also uses rhyme like "lies" and "eyes","wise"and"sighs", "cries" and “arise" ”vile“and"mile". Author also uses symbolism. In the poem, "shades our eyes" symbolized people couldn't show their real side because eyes can tell the truth, human always determine if people are telling a lie or not by looking at their eyes. If the mask shades the eyes, it shows people couldn't see other's real side or show their real side. I think the tone of the poem is sad.
I choose the poem by Langston Hughes named Harlem. The speaker uses a visual image that is also a simile to compare a dream deferred to a raisin. The speaker does not emphasize the appearance of the raisin, so the description isn't as significant as an image as it is as a simile.The comparison of the dream to the withered raisin shows how a dream that is postponed changes dramatically and will not turn out as the person originally intended.
Harlem In poem uses a lot of short questions, I think the author wants the readers to answer it, and it will help readers feel a poem in themselves rather than depending on the author Each question in the first stanza uses simile: “like a raisin in the sun,” “like a sore,”like rotten meat,” “like a syrupy sweet.” The second stanza which is not a question but a suggestion also uses simile “like a heavy load.” The last stanza uses metaphor, “does it explode?”
We Wear the Mask This poem is about people going through they're life having a "mask" to hide behind. This mask is used when people smile but it does not have a meaning. The words that are rhymed in this poem are used to tell the reader how the "mask" is used. It is a front people use when they cannot show their real emotion afraid of being hurt more if they do. Eyes are the windows into the soul (they show more emotion than any other part of the body), so when they are shaded people cannot tell how one really feels. This is a sorrowful sounding because of the truthfullness of the "mask" we can all hide behind.
This is the thing that normal people always do, anyone has their own mask and wear it for most of time. Before soneone trust others 100%, they do wear their mask to show up another face of himself, even sadness.
I found these symbolisms from the poem, like cheeks and eyes,smile,tears and sighs..... all these symbolisms are try to show how a person influenced by his mask, and they get two sides, and the real side will not appear easily.
We Wear the Mask： The poem tells us: in the human growth process, we learned to lie, learned to communicate with others with a mask. The poem contrasts the use of techniques, shows that people in masks the is different inside and outside. “In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask.” And the authors also used the symbol of writing, "It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes" This sentence shows that people's facial expressions and eyes can tell people if you are lying or not. However, we put a layer of the mask of hypocrisy, so people could not guess we say is true or not.
We wear Mask: The poem captures the pain and suffering of a person that does want other to know the kind of person who hids their feelings with a smile.But then cries them self to sleep at night.Man-kind hind their sarrow,shame,and guilt from society. To appears if everthing is fine.The Mask is a symbol of a person who is acceptable to society by lies. In a way it is a sacrifice. The literally devices is diction because of the tone and chracter.
Alice Zhou I mentioned about “what happens to a dream deferred” is by Harlem. The first phrase “dry up” also has the meaning about to deprive someone of (something vital), like someone who wants to reach his/her dream, almost reaches it but not. When people in their way to get accomplishment, the failures make them upset, like the rotten meat is disgusting and stink. The successes cheer them up, like they degust syrupy sweet. People just carry too much hopes and wishes to their dream; it’s hard when they undertake heavy load. Others’ opinions and expectations are loads. If people get too much pressure, they may release them out just one second, like explode.
Harlem My first impressiom after reading this poem is kind of pessimism. Langston Hughes, author of Harle, try to express some of the frustrations author felt at the world, even in socity and family.in the poem, because in the poem, there are couple words such as raisin, fester, and stink which obviously belong to negative.
Although this poem is a little short, it still has a rhyme. For example, there is a external rhyme, they are SUN and RUN, which pronounce are similar. In addition, in the mid poem, there is a repetion with three sentense, they both use interrogative sentense with same form.
In my view, the symbolism of the poem is failure, the tone is pessimistic.
Harlem Harlem was the place where many black people lived. The author was talking about the situation of black people in that society, because at that time black people had lower social class than white people, and they didn't have the equal rights as white people. This poet is short, but there is 6 questions in there. Deferred means submit humbly to a person's wishes, here it means it was too hard to achieve their dreams. In next question there is "dry up" and "raisin", they also means the black people are weak to fight agains white people. And in the 3rd question there is "fester", "sore", "run", they mean the black people were suffering a lot of pain from white people, but they still live on. In 4th question there is "stink", "rotten", "meat", the "meat" is like what white people have, and "stink" and "rotten" means how bad the black people feel their "meat" is. In 5th question there is "crust", "sugar", "syrupy sweet", they seems they feel good about it, but actually they mean the black people only get piece of it. In last question there is a most important word "explode", the author predicted that sooner or later black people will stand up and fight for their rights.
Harlem: This poem resembles what happens to the dreams people have and have given up. There is dullness to the results of forgetting about one's goals and aspirations. These dreams are put aside by the people who don't have time for them. The rotting food and lack of energy resembles the hopelessness that is brought to ones dreams once they are given up. The rhymes are sun, run, meat, sweet, load and explode which are all antonyms of each other until Langston Hughes rhymes load and explode. He may be trying to get across the idea of all dreams dragging you down until you just go for it and once you do, the dream comes to life in ways you could never imagine.
This poems uses 'Harlem' to represent deferring of dream. As Harlem is the isolated part of the Manhattan city where people come for their own dreams, this poem also used people's perspectives in Harlem to represent dispear of people's dreams. This poem used lots of expression to represent deferring dream such as 'dry up', 'stink', and 'run'. But the last expression 'explode' means different than other experssions of differing dreams because it also menas it will rise really surprisly at once.
I'm so disappointed of the society that we are living now after i read the poem. Because the most of the people only know people and power, they do not even believe friendship. For the poem, the author narrates that people always wear a mask, they trap to their friends, they can do the illegal things to get their goals. When they get in trouble and they will smile and treat you with civility, but when you need help and tell them, they just use many excuse to put off and never give you a hand. People think they are smaller than others, but they don't even know that so many people are planning to trap himself/ herself.
Harlem What does Harlem represent to us? Isolated area from world, A place which is should not be gone, the place which includes a lot of poor or dangereous people ? Author try to make people pay attention what's going on right there. He thinks Lots of people never think seriously about Harlem. Harlem is what they heard about for Harlem. But in the poetry there is different point of view for Harlem which explains harlem is more than what people think for it. For Instance...
When author syrupy sweet he means that there are lot of things than you see under you hear about harlem. Rotten meat and syrupy sweet??? That is exactly what he means
We Wear the Mask:
ReplyDeleteThis poem talks about as people growing up, they used to wear masks. They wear smile masks even when they get hurt. The poem uses metaphor to compare mask as people's fake side. What you looked is what they want you to see, they pretend to be happy, sad or crying. This poem also uses rhyme like "lies" and "eyes","wise"and"sighs", "cries" and “arise" ”vile“and"mile". Author also uses symbolism. In the poem, "shades our eyes" symbolized people couldn't show their real side because eyes can tell the truth, human always determine if people are telling a lie or not by looking at their eyes. If the mask shades the eyes, it shows people couldn't see other's real side or show their real side. I think the tone of the poem is sad.
I choose the poem by Langston Hughes named Harlem. The speaker uses a visual image that is also a simile to compare a dream deferred to a raisin. The speaker does not emphasize the appearance of the raisin, so the description isn't as significant as an image as it is as a simile.The comparison of the dream to the withered raisin shows how a dream that is postponed changes dramatically and will not turn out as the person originally intended.
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ReplyDeleteIn poem uses a lot of short questions, I think the author wants the readers to answer it, and it will help readers feel a poem in themselves rather than depending on the author
Each question in the first stanza uses simile: “like a raisin in the sun,” “like a sore,”like rotten meat,” “like a syrupy sweet.” The second stanza which is not a question but a suggestion also uses simile “like a heavy load.” The last stanza uses metaphor, “does it explode?”
We Wear the Mask
ReplyDeleteThis poem is about people going through they're life having a "mask" to hide behind. This mask is used when people smile but it does not have a meaning. The words that are rhymed in this poem are used to tell the reader how the "mask" is used. It is a front people use when they cannot show their real emotion afraid of being hurt more if they do. Eyes are the windows into the soul (they show more emotion than any other part of the body), so when they are shaded people cannot tell how one really feels. This is a sorrowful sounding because of the truthfullness of the "mask" we can all hide behind.
We Wear the Mask
ReplyDeleteThis is the thing that normal people always do, anyone has their own mask and wear it for most of time. Before soneone trust others 100%, they do wear their mask to show up another face of himself, even sadness.
I found these symbolisms from the poem, like cheeks and eyes,smile,tears and sighs..... all these symbolisms are try to show how a person influenced by his mask, and they get two sides, and the real side will not appear easily.
We Wear the Mask：
ReplyDeleteThe poem tells us: in the human growth process, we learned to lie, learned to communicate with others with a mask. The poem contrasts the use of techniques, shows that people in masks the is different inside and outside. “In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask.” And the authors also used the symbol of writing, "It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes" This sentence shows that people's facial expressions and eyes can tell people if you are lying or not. However, we put a layer of the mask of hypocrisy, so people could not guess we say is true or not.
We wear Mask:
ReplyDeleteThe poem captures the pain and suffering of a person that does want other to know the kind of person who hids their feelings with a smile.But then cries them self to sleep at night.Man-kind hind their sarrow,shame,and guilt from society. To appears if everthing is fine.The Mask is a symbol of a person who is acceptable to society by lies. In a way it is a sacrifice. The literally devices is diction because of the tone and chracter.
Alice Zhou
ReplyDeleteI mentioned about “what happens to a dream deferred” is by Harlem. The first phrase “dry up” also has the meaning about to deprive someone of (something vital), like someone who wants to reach his/her dream, almost reaches it but not. When people in their way to get accomplishment, the failures make them upset, like the rotten meat is disgusting and stink. The successes cheer them up, like they degust syrupy sweet. People just carry too much hopes and wishes to their dream; it’s hard when they undertake heavy load. Others’ opinions and expectations are loads. If people get too much pressure, they may release them out just one second, like explode.
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ReplyDeleteMy first impressiom after reading this poem is kind of pessimism. Langston Hughes, author of Harle, try to express some of the frustrations author felt at the world, even in socity and family.in the poem, because in the poem, there are couple words such as raisin, fester, and stink which obviously belong to negative.
Although this poem is a little short, it still has a rhyme. For example, there is a external rhyme, they are SUN and RUN, which pronounce are similar. In addition, in the mid poem, there is a repetion with three sentense, they both use interrogative sentense with same form.
In my view, the symbolism of the poem is failure, the tone is pessimistic.
Harlem
ReplyDeleteHarlem was the place where many black people lived.
The author was talking about the situation of black people in that society, because at that time black people had lower social class than white people, and they didn't have the equal rights as white people.
This poet is short, but there is 6 questions in there. Deferred means submit humbly to a person's wishes, here it means it was too hard to achieve their dreams.
In next question there is "dry up" and "raisin", they also means the black people are weak to fight agains white people.
And in the 3rd question there is "fester", "sore", "run", they mean the black people were suffering a lot of pain from white people, but they still live on.
In 4th question there is "stink", "rotten", "meat", the "meat" is like what white people have, and "stink" and "rotten" means how bad the black people feel their "meat" is.
In 5th question there is "crust", "sugar", "syrupy sweet", they seems they feel good about it, but actually they mean the black people only get piece of it.
In last question there is a most important word "explode", the author predicted that sooner or later black people will stand up and fight for their rights.
Harlem:
ReplyDeleteThis poem resembles what happens to the dreams people have and have given up. There is dullness to the results of forgetting about one's goals and aspirations. These dreams are put aside by the people who don't have time for them. The rotting food and lack of energy resembles the hopelessness that is brought to ones dreams once they are given up. The rhymes are sun, run, meat, sweet, load and explode which are all antonyms of each other until Langston Hughes rhymes load and explode. He may be trying to get across the idea of all dreams dragging you down until you just go for it and once you do, the dream comes to life in ways you could never imagine.
Harlem
ReplyDeleteThis poems uses 'Harlem' to represent deferring of dream. As Harlem is the isolated part of the Manhattan city where people come for their own dreams, this poem also used people's perspectives in Harlem to represent dispear of people's dreams. This poem used lots of expression to represent deferring dream such as 'dry up', 'stink', and 'run'. But the last expression 'explode' means different than other experssions of differing dreams because it also menas it will rise really surprisly at once.
I'm so disappointed of the society that we are living now after i read the poem. Because the most of the people only know people and power, they do not even believe friendship. For the poem, the author narrates that people always wear a mask, they trap to their friends, they can do the illegal things to get their goals. When they get in trouble and they will smile and treat you with civility, but when you need help and tell them, they just use many excuse to put off and never give you a hand. People think they are smaller than others, but they don't even know that so many people are planning to trap himself/ herself.
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Harlem
ReplyDeleteWhat does Harlem represent to us? Isolated area from world, A place which is should not be gone, the place which includes a lot of poor or dangereous people ? Author try to make people pay attention what's going on right there. He thinks Lots of people never think seriously about Harlem. Harlem is what they heard about for Harlem. But in the poetry there is different point of view for Harlem which explains harlem is more than what people think for it. For Instance...
When author syrupy sweet he means that there are lot of things than you see under you hear about harlem. Rotten meat and syrupy sweet??? That is exactly what he means