Symbols
11057For this discussion, please read “Pied Beauty,” “Dover Beach,” “Death be not proud,” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “The White House,” and “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers.”
Respond to one of the following sets of questions. Refer to specific passages from the stories in your response.
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Pied Beauty” is full of striking imagery, delivered in lines dense with alliteration and striking rhythms. What seems to be the common trait praised in the different objects described in this poem? Do these objects symbolize something to the speaker?
In Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”, the sound of the sea seems to symbolize something to the speaker (as well as to Sophocles, author of a tragedy we’ll read in Unit Four). What meaning or meanings does the sound of the sea seem to symbolize in the poem? What figurative language is used in the last three lines of the poem and how is it used to suggest the feelings of the speaker about his (and his love’s) situation in the world?
In John Donne’s “Death be not Proud” the speaker addresses Death directly. Identify at least two different kinds of figurative language used in this poem (see the class Lecture on Figurative Language for a brief list of common types)? How does this use of figurative language help the poem make its point?
In Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” the speaker bids his wife or lover farewell before leaving on a journey. Identify at least two different kinds of figurative language used in the poem (see the class Lecture on Figurative Language for a brief list of common types)? How does this use of figurative language help the speaker make his points?
What does “The White House” symbolize in Claude McKay’s poem? What details are associated with the White House, and what do they reveal about the speaker’s relationship to what it represents? How does the use of first and second person contribute to the poem’s tone?
Adrienne Rich’s poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is a very neatly structured poem: it is made up of three stanzas; each stanza contains two rhyming couplets (pairs of lines); each of these rhyming couplets is a complete sentence. Each stanza takes us in a surprising new direction: the first seems to introduce us to an exotic locale, though we’re not sure in what sense these tigers could belong to Aunt Jennifer (whoever she is); the second stanza then shifts our attention to Aunt Jennifer’s hands knitting; in the third stanza, Aunt Jennifer is imagined dead. Could you paraphrase what each stanza says and explain how they are related? What point does Rich seem to be trying to make about Aunt Jennifer in the poem? What might the tigers symbolize, to Aunt Jennifer or to us?
What is the tone of“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” and what words and details contribute to that tone?
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