Death of a Young Son by Drowning Analysis

Death of a Young Son by Drowning: The speaker is the mother (Suzanna) and the narrator is Margaret. • • • • When we are talking about poetry we talk about speakers, rhythm, rhyme, musicality, and precision. But in the short stories we talk about narrators and the narrator might digress and equivocates here and there. Some poems are like a narrative to tell a story like a short story, but they are not, the structure and the constructure is different. Poems have one tone like sad / happy / regret. The word young is important because this boy is still in experience, and he has seen nothing in this life. He should have been places like us in the kindergarten, but he dies by drowning. Also in my opinion, the death of a young son is sadder than the death of the grown-up man for her to express how much sorrow she endured because of his age. The river: The dangerous river in the writer’s son’s death shows his birth which is quickly replaced by death. Furthermore, water is a life giving, but it is also powerful to take life away, so the river gives and takes life. Landscape: The writer imagines in what the son sees before he dies, he has become a wonderer, looking at a particular landscape. Spring / The sunshining / Solidification of new grass: These symbols means that even if the child dies, life continues. This son is young, and he is still in experience, he has seen nothing in this life. He should have been places like us in the kindergarten, but unfortunately, he dies by drowning. The mother in the poem sees her son drowning and can’t do nothing, she becomes very helpless, weak, and fragile. This mother will carry this guilt the rest of her life. So, the message that presented in the poem shows that after intense, heart-shattering grief, life should go on. You have to accept what happen to you, you may not forget what happened, but moving on is completely different, , so that’s part of human structure. After all, we are all week as a human being. He, who navigated with success--- the dangerous river of his own birth--- once more set forth. On a voyage of discovery--- into the land I floated on--- but could not touch to claim. metaphor This voyage shows the beginning of a child’s life to the end. We can’t live without water and at the same time it was the reason for taking life from this young son. Also, the speaker refers to the birthing process. The whole image here is about this notion, this child has already endured a lot when he came to this life. So, the main idea here is that we can’t change the faith, even his mother couldn’t save him. It was spring, the sun kept shining, the new grass leapt to solidity, my hands glistened with details: We can clearly see the struggle between the life cycle and death. And also, we can see the mother’s struggle as she remembers all the details before her son’s death. This means that this child born with many details, and his mother remembers the smallest details such as the pain and fatigue that she feels to give a birth to him, also fed him, and held him in her hands for the first time. Furthermore, memories came back to her like a flash. I planted him in this country like a flag / Hung in the river like a heart: He will remain in her mind and heart forever and will never be forgotten, so the word flag means existing. (A river is strong like a heart; the river gives life and also the heart give you a life. Also, maybe the son gives his heart to the river) Theme: Margaret Atwood tells a story of a curious child who goes on an adventure and dies tragically by drowning. The end of the poem talks about all the things that this child will never get to do due to his sudden death. The overall idea or theme of this poem is the feeling of loss, and hopelessness that one feels when losing an innocent child to curiosity with this child dies his or her hopes, dreams, and ambitions. Tone: 1.Mournful 2.Gloomy 3.Hopeless Marks poem by Linda Pastan. As we know from the poem that the speaker’s family always compare her performance to classes in school, grading and evaluating her according to their opinion or by what they want her to be, instead of receiving thanks for all that she does as a mother or for her hard work and effort that she gives them to make her family happy and satisfied, but unfortunately they do not give her the same, she is constantly being assessed on how well she does it. Furthermore, any mother would be simply devastated if her husband constantly put her down, and her children said she was simply an “average mom”. Also, I think that the society plays the role on grading us, they put us in standard that we should follow, so the society treat this mother as a machine or robot not as a human. So, in my opinion, instead of belittling those we love, we need to appreciate those who are in your life not only for what they are able to tangibly provide. • • • • • • The poem uses marks (grades) as a metaphor. The speaker of Mark poem is a wife and mother of two children – a boy and a girl. The overall tone of this poem is one of melancholy (sad). The phrase (I’m dropping out) brings to light the mother’s irritation with the grading system in which she is constantly judge with. So, the concluding phrase suggests that she will no longer be subjected to the judgment of her family. The poem begins on a slightly happy note, a good grade she has received. Once we get into the second and third grades, we can easily see the decline of the happiness in the poem. As the poem progresses, the reader begins to realize that the persona of the poem is miserable and sad in her life. Many of the ideas in the poem reveal her feelings and a few physical traits that contribute to her feelings. Indicates the misunderstanding about motherhood. I’m dropping out: We have different out coming with this end (opening end), we don’t know if she wants to leave them or if she wants them to grow up and learn what it means grading their mother when they have children. She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways poem by William Wordsworth. • • • • • It has three quatrains. it has an ABAB rhyme scheme. This poem can be read as an elegiac poem: An elegy, in literature, is a poem or song that is written in dedication to someone who has died. A mourning tone. The main theme is death, a death that is described and grieved for throughout the entire poem. This poem is not only about the girl Lucy, but about all of us, about the challenges and chances we face in our lives for our future, we may have an opportunity to travel to another place far from your family and your home and people you love. She dwelt among the untrodden way: She lived in a remote place where few people ever ventured. Beside the springs of Dove: Near the source of the Dove River in central England. A Maid whom there were none to praise. She was a young, unmarried woman who didn’t get the appreciation she deserved in life. And very few to love: and whom very few people loved. It describes the area in which Lucy lived. She dwelt meaning that she lived in the past. The first line, which serves also as the title of the poem means that Lucy lived both physically and spiritually unrevealed. A violet by a mossy stone: She was like a violet next to a big mossy stone. Half hidden from the eye! the result of which was that her delicate beauty was often obscured by bigger, more obvious things—it was hard to fully see and understand her. —Fair as a star, when only one: She was as beautiful as a star when it is the only one to appear in the evening sky. Is shining in the sky. The second stanza focuses on nature. It compares the beauty of nature with Lucy. These comparisons serve to exemplify Lucy as an embodiment of all beauty. She lived unknown, and few could know. This young woman was unknown by people when she lived. When Lucy ceased to be. and therefore, few people noticed when this woman, whose name was Lucy, died. But she is in her grave, and, oh, Nevertheless, she is dead and buried in the earth. The difference to me! and, I must admit, it has had a serious emotional impact on me. She lived unknown, and few could know her. In the first stanza she is presented as alive, whereas in the last stanza the lyrical voice talks about her death. Although the narrator generally wants to tell us that the women are unfaithful, and they are not loyal, they are betrayals and having double faced feelings, but he has been biased towards the young widow in this story. For example, in this story the narrator wants to explain that we as a human beings may be quick to judge people as we quickly judge this young widow. 1) We think at the first that this woman is not loyal to her husband because she moved so fast, but on the other hand, she moves too fast because people abandoned her so fast, no one came, no one stood by her side, no one supported her, as it explains in the story that her family and the city official and everyone left her with only her favorite slave-woman, so she has no other solutions. 2) However, in times of sadness she does not have good thinking skills or thinking capabilities, she is out of her mind in that moments. 3) Also, maybe she was not in good terms with her husband because she was a good wife or because society demands her to stay with her husband, so we don't have fixed clue to what is going on, or what is going inside their house. 4) She didn't find the right person who passed away, so the soldier might be savior to her. The narrator in this story tries to prove that the women are unfaithful, not loyal, they are betrayals and having double faced feelings, so he has been biased towards the young widow in this story. Firstly, in this story everyone thinks that this woman is faithful and loyal to her husband and loves him because she grieves greatly for him and does not eat for days, but after his death she moves too fast and loves another person, the narrator thinks that this rapid movement is illogical. Secondly, the narrator also explains that she is unfaithful and disrespectful to her husband because she stayed with another man in the same place where her husband’s body. Thirdly, the narrator also explains that this woman is not loyal because she orders that her husband’s body be taken out of the tomb and fixes upon the empty cross to protect the soldier, and this behavior indicates a great lack of respect for her husband. Fourthly, the narrator is surprised how a woman can fall in love with someone so quickly, especially since her husband died two days ago or even less. It’s clear that the narrator here has been very patriarchal in his presentation of women, he holds primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and control of property.