"Hot Night on Water Street" a poem by Lewis Simpson?
Who might the "girls" be in line 3? With whom are the girls contrasted? Explain what the poet is staying in stanza 2. Make specific reference to "a dream of horses, dust may whisper..." Identify the metaphor in lines 10-11. Relate the previous metaphor in like 10-11 to the personification used in line 12. Describe the setting in stanza 1. Quote. Describe the setting in stanza 3. Quote. Give an example of onomatopoeia and alliteration from stanza 3. Identify and explain the metaphor in line 15. In your own words, state what the poet is saying in stanza 4. Write a theme statement for the poem. I have answers for some but I am not quite sure about them... I am really bad at poetry :(
Explination of the poem "you are old father william" by lewis caroll plz.?
Lewis Carroll's You Are Old Father William makes fun of (parodies) a poem by Robert Southey called The Old Man's Comforts (see link). Robert Southey's poem is about an old man who has become very wise over the years, and passes on the benefit of his lifelessons to a much younger man (probably his son). The poem was a favourite with teachers in the nineteenth century: it was an example of how older people know better than young people do. Lewis Carroll would have learned it at school, and so would Alice Liddell (the real little girl he wrote the Alice books for). But in Lewis Carroll's poem the old man is not wiser than the young man; he is silly (as old people often are). Lewis Carroll's poem reminds us that old people can be just as silly as young people; it also makes fun of teachers who choose poems which say what they want to hear (instead of choosing good poems). Lewis Carroll made fun of Southey's poem so successfully that teachers never use it anymore (teachers don't like to be laughed at). Teachers use different silly and dishonest poems these days, by poets like Max Ehrmann, or Sara Teasdale, or Carol Ann Duffy.
Poem analysis?
It's a satire of a poem by Christopher Marlowe called the Passionate Shepherd to His Love. (See below) My own feeling is that he is satirizing the way the Shepherd in Marlowe's poem portrays the country life of a shepherd as so pleasant and carefree, when in reality it is harsh and difficult like in C. Day Lewis's description. I think he's trying to be honest (admitting that their life together will be hard), whereas the shepherd in Marlowe's poem is trying to be dishonest in order to seduce the nymph. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe 1599 Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields Woods or steepy mountain yields And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flower, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle; A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold With buckles of the purest gold; A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love. The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
What does the poem "You are old father William" by Lewis Carrol talk about?
Carroll's poem is a piece of nonsense verse that parodies a poem by Robert Southey, "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them." Southey's poem, which was well known at the time Carroll was writing, although it is pretty much forgotten today, was a serious attempt to offer wise advice about how to live: http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20P... In Carroll's parody, the old man is not a wise sage but a goofball.
Does anyone know the poem "Jabberwalkie" by Lewis Carroll?
I can't find it on the web. My teacher told me to look it up today and I can't seem to find it anywhere and I'm giving up. Anyone willing to post it on here or give me a link?