Tone is a very strong thing in all types of literature and it helps set the mood for the reader to understand how to feel what he or she is reading. Like if the writer wants you to feel the creepiness by a supernatural presence watching over you in Robert Warren's short story "Original Sin". The tone in Seeger's poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" is some what weird when he is talking about death but he then makes it sound beautiful with apple blossoms. He switches up his tone from dark sounding of death and war to fresh flowers in the field for peace. Seeger's meaning of the tone is to embrace death in a prepared way even if everything around you is so horrifyingly destroyed.
Symbolism is when a writer uses a word or a group of words to describe a meaning for a bigger picture. In Seeger's poem their is a lot of symbolism in it like the word spring being used each time something bad is taking place. For example "I Have a Rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade when spring comes back with rustling shade and apple blossoms fill the air, I have a rendezvous with death when spring brings back blue days and fair". This section of the poems meaning is that death will show up during spring in a war zone when the air is calm. How he uses something so welcomed in are lives and transforms it into a creepy portal for death to come through.
In conclusion this poem talks about how to accept our faith with death and to not be scared of him. As much as he is described to us in pictures and in stories, he is our guide to the afterlife. He supposedly helps bring us to a much better place to live where there is no more war, death and sorrow as the bible explains. But to find out what's on the other side, all we have to do is wait for that dark tall figure.
Good essay. Very descriptive and explanatory, I think I might just read "Rendezvous with Death"
ReplyDeleteIt seems like a good start but you need to go reread your essay again there are some grammer mistakes like "accept ARE faith.." it should be our faith. Also like "he is are.." I dont understand what your tring to say there I think you mean "our".
ReplyDeleteThe essay was interesting to read made me want to read the poem you picked out but you should reread your work there are grammer errors.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a very intersting poem and you seem to be on point with the tone and symbolism of the poem but there are some grammatical errors so re-read your essay and try to fix that. also, Wikipedia is not a proper source, try looking at the bottom of the page at the "sources" section.
ReplyDeleteGood essay, just reread it and fix some errors.
ReplyDeleteGood essay. like everyone else says reread and correct the little errors and you'll be good =)
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ReplyDeleteI think you did a pretty good job in explaining tone and symbolism, and I liked that you gave a short background about the author of the poem in your introduction. However, I think there are a couple of things that you need to work on. First is your thesis statement. Your thesis is like a road map for your paper. It tells your readers what to expect from the rest of your paper. It also serves as the summary of the arguments that you are going make in your essay. I think your thesis is the last sentence on your introduction, but I think you have to revise that and state what you are going to talk about in your body paragraph. Second is that you have to give more concrete details in your body paragraphs. Like in the first paragraph, how did Robert Warren make you feel creepy? You might want to add more details there.
ReplyDeleteI think your paper is in the right direction, you just have to work on it more, and just like what I said earlier try to give more concrete details on both your body paragraphs.