A good way to start analyzing a poem is to look for a central opposition. In a lot of poems you will find that an opposition or a tension exists and operates at several levels. A careful analysis will unfold a poem's basic structure in which one group of images is set against opposing images. And this tension enables the poet to develop and bring her/his theme to life in a forceful way. In other words, your analysis of a poem will be more effective as you look at some of these ways in which the poet uses details to develop this basic opposition.
Here comes your writing assignment: Identify the central opposition in any of the following poems: Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingle," or "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Try to explain how the poet presents and develops her/his central opposition to bring her/his theme to life.
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I am Ashley (49902031). I want to identify central opposition in Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers."
The whole poem is talking the opposition of Aunt Jennifer and Aunt Jennifer’s tigers. First, the poet uses bright topaz, prance to describe the confidence of the tigers. However, when the poet describes Aunt, she uses fluttering which means that Aunt is terrified, quiet and subdued. Then, the poet says the tigers are not fear of the men. Because tigers are proud, confident, free and independent, they don’t need to fear that the men will hurt them. On the other hand, the poet describes Aunt as a weak woman. She is weighed down by something so that even a needle she is hard to pull. The poet also says “The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band.” Therefore, we can see Aunt is not as free as the tigers. She is bound by her marriage. Moreover, even when she dies, she still doesn’t belong to herself. She is still bound by the wedding band and filled with ordeals. However, the tigers still go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
There is lots of opposition of Aunt Jennifer and Aunt Jennifer’s tigers. Aunt is dependent, terrified, quiet and subdued. Aunt is also weighed by her marriage so that she doesn’t have freedom. However, tigers are confident, proud, independent, nimble and courage. Most important of all, tigers are cheerful and they are free from worry.
Hi, professor. I am Jenny (49902047).
In Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, Adrienne Rich develops her central opposition with the two main characters, Aunt Jennifer and the tigers of tapestry. In the first stanza, “Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen” means that those tigers are proud and confident. On the contrary, this also means that Aunt shows her inside passion through the needlework, because she can’t express her really self in that time. In the third line, “They do not fear the men beneath the tree” indicates that Aunt fears men, and it shows women’s society situation.
In the third stanza, “The tigers in the panel that she made will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.” represent that tigers are the Aunt’s repressed self, in the reality she may be shy, quiet, worried, dependent, and terrified. Tiger and Aunt Jennifer have strong contrast. It is amazing that women can get up even when their tongues are cut out. Adrienne Rich represents those women who are desperate house wives and shows their conflict between inside and outside.
Hello professor! I am Vera! My student ID is 49807003.
I want to identify central opposition in Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers."
From the background, 1951 was a period of time that women got the chance to escape from the routine life. Because men were sent to the join the battle and lots of them were killed, women could be the person who they want to be. In fact, being a widow was not that bad. In this poem, the poet made a lot of comparison to emphasize the differences between the Aunt Jennifer and her tigers.
Reading through the poem, we can find out that poet want to describe the situation that Aunt Jennifer encountered. Wedding was not a symbol of love and freedom; it was another hell for all the women. Even though the death, she still trying to act like the confident tiger. Obviously, we should cherish the freedom we have now, because the freedom is not easy to have.
Hi, professor. I am Alice (49902053). I would like to identify central opposition in John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale."
In this poem, John Keats used much opposition to compare the world of nightingale and poet. For instance, as line 13 refers color green, it means rebirth. On contrary, line 25 and 26 appear two colors, gray and pale, these two colors actually mean death. I think Keats try to describe the world of nightingale like a wonderland. However, he lives in reality which is full of pain and despair.
In stanza 2 “Tasting of Flora and the country green, ．．．And with thee fade away into the forest dim.” Contrasts to stanza 3, there are weariness, fever, fret and inconstant love in reality. Keats makes nightingale’s world attractive and immortal. He also wants to fly with nightingale to leave the world by his imagination. Finally, he comes back to reality in the last stanza. He wrote “Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well.” I think it’s really a paradox in this part because he did it then reject to believe it. He was not only felt the perfect world of nightingale but also the stress in real world. I consider this is the most important opposition in this poem.
Hello~I am Jojo, and the ID is 49302007. I feel Keats was very sorrowful. I searched on the Internet and read his story. Unfortunately, he died when he was only twenty-five years old. It’s a pity that he was still young, but his art and poetry are immortal, like the Grecian urn. In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats related how beautiful the Grecian urn was, and his narration present gorgeousness of the urn. Although the urn is so old, it is imperishable and cannot be denied. I think Keats was a unique kind of person because his creativity and imagination were beyond comparison. He step across the real life and imagination. He always used complicated emotion and opposition to display vividly the picture on the urn. For example, something like “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter,” “Ah, happy, happy boughs … More happy love, more happy, happy love!” and “All breathing human passion far above; that leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, a burning forehead, and a parching tongue” really make me feel touched. I really feel Keats is a great, great, great poet, and I am surrounded by the touching when I read this poem.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger has an obvious ideological purpose, which is also the central concept forming from, accusing the imbalance of gender-equity in early twenty-century. The poem created an opposite dimension of women’s self-identification. The image of tiger walking to and fro in the picture becomes a picture of who Aunt Jennifer really is. Proud, arrogant, and boundless consist of what a tiger should have in their nature. Yet the nature of tiger can merely be connected with the appeared temperament of Aunt Jennifer. The contrast between first and second stanza is the extreme struggle in Aunt Jennifer’s mind due to the oppression of male-dominance environment. Aunt Jennifer tried to identify herself from the tiger she is needling. But the environment she was in would not allow her to be like a free spirit. Thus, she can only hiding herself in the tiger. The tiger and Aunt Jennifer become the first obvious contrast in the poem. In the last stanza, “still ringed” means that even until death she is trapped in the ideology of control. Abandoned who she really is, instead, she express herself aesthetically.
The emotion embodied in the poet is the reverse side of fear and rebel. Aunt Jennifer is trying to break the fake obligation sentenced by imbalance in hierarchy in her mind. All of the works she is doing is to lead her closer who true Jennifer is. In a nutshell, the free, the pride, and the boundless Jennifer is the opposite of the fear, the subordination, and the restrict showing in the Aunt Jennifer.
Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers", portrayal a woman trapped within the cultural constraints and responsibilities of married life.
Aunt Jennifer’s situation and character is contrasted with her imaginative creation that portrays her desire. The wall-hanging on which she has knitted tigers are very symbolic of what she wants to be in life - brave, self-confident, gracious and powerful like the tiger as expressed in the words "They pace in sleek chivalric certainty". That’s called split personality. The tigers depicted as prancing across the screen bring to mind a being that is confident, self-assured and happy; all things that Aunt Jennifer had not. The use of colors implies that Aunt Jennifer's tigers and their land are more fundamental and enjoy a sense of freedom far greater than her.
In the next stanza, her fingers are "fluttering through her wool" showing both physical and mental weakness of Aunt Jennifer. She finds it is difficult to pull the needle. "The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band / Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand" reminds us that her marriage responsibilities weigh her down which makes her unable to realize her full potential as a woman in a male-dominated society. So that the only thing she can do is the art work which she escapes into by depicting the prancing, proud and unafraid tigers which is what she really wants to be and which she attains through her imagination.
I chose Adrienne Rich’s “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” to identify the central opposition.
In this poem, apparently, the subjects of comparison certainly are Aunt Jennifer and the tigers which she created on sewing. And about what they are in contrast, Aunt Jennifer represents the one that is quiet, terrified, dependant and subdued. While the tigers represent the other which are confident, proud and independent. And why are they contrasted? Through the poem, it reveals that Aunt Jennifer probably unsatisfied with her marriage. She was afraid of her husband and was hunted and captured by him all the time. The tigers, on the other hand, do not live in fear rather they pace as if they were kings of their domain. So the tigers are to Aunt Jennifer the ultimate creatures of self-actualization. They are exactly what she wishes she could be herself. Therefore, Aunt Jennifer is just doing what she can to cope with an unhappy life, which is escape by sewing these tigers.
The poet uses the tigers to be contrast with aunt Jennifer. They’re her repressed self. The tigers are unafraid, confident, sleek, knightly and graceful in movement. Aunt Jennifer is very anxious, terrified, subdued and fettered by her marriage and her husband. Suppression paralyzes her hands even the light ivory needle is hard to pull. The invisible massive weight comes from the wedding ring becoming a nightmare that can’t get a rid of it even breathless. Although aunt Jennifer’s flesh is dead but her mind, her spirit and her real personality, always go on prancing, proud and unafraid, will be alive in the panel she made. The poem depict the women are controlled by the men and tie down in their marriage. It’s hard to break away from that circumstance.
Hi, this is Lily 49902009. I want to identify the central opposition in the poem, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers.
In the poem I can see that Aunt Jennifer is a woman that struggles to accept the indignities in her daily life. Under this kind of massive pressure, she must find something to ease her pain. Therefore she releases her feelings through sewing. And the protagonist in her sewing is always the central opposition in the poem. In the first stanza, Aunt Jennifer’s tigers walk in a proud and confident way. This reveals that Aunt Jennifer’s personality is quiet and always terrified. Also, the tigers do not fear the men while Aunt Jennifer is afraid of men. The second stanza is mainly describing the condition that Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fast movement. It reveals the fear of hers and the burden from her marriage. And the third stanza described that Aunt Jennifer’s tigers would continue to prance, proud and unafraid. In the end Aunt Jennifer has kind of fulfilled her need and achieved her own little sense of immortality. Although her life is incomplete, there is something that will carry on forever.
In Ode on a Grecian Urn, the theme is permanence of art. How Keats express the permanence is have a conflict between permanence and instant. In stanza one, Keats uses sweet things to compare with the instant thing. We can find Keats wants readers think what beauty is. Mortals live in the changing world, but the unchanged are more precious.
Author figures the urn as a woman and appreciate the woman in stanza two and three. Keats express that what don’t we have are more beautiful than what we already have. For example, he writes unheard melodies are sweeter than heard one. We hear melodies through ears, but always ignore we can image everything the world doesn’t have. Though Keats couldn’t own the woman whom he desire, the woman can be pretty in Keats mind forever. Keats shows his pain in stanza three, it’s different from front stanza, cloyed and high-sorrowful left in his heart substitute for sweet and un-withered love that is because eternity still eternal in the world, what are left is things that are not permanent, including Keats.
In the end, Keats sums up what is eternity: Beauty is truth, truth is beauty. The marble men and maidens are as cold as pastoral which means permanence is cold and lonely. Keats writes the ode to praise drawing on the urn and know how Keats love art and appreciate all beauty in his life. Through the poem, we see a world filled with truth that is beauty and eternity.
In the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, Keats uses reality to compare with the paradise. He uses the painting on the Grecian Urn to represent the wonderful and eternal life.
Keats thinks things that in the real world will decay in the end, on the other hand, thins in the paradise(imaginative world) will keep wonderful and never ruin. In the paradise, there will never have torture and pain. For instance, in the poem, Keats uses the sound of melodies to express his conception. In here, the ear of sense is opposed to the ear of imagination, he thinks the sound in the real world will fade away in the end, however,the sound in the imagination will existed forever and even beyond the felling of our bodies. What 's more,the Grecian Urn in this poem is playing an important role, Keats thinks the world we live is torture for him, the world of Grecian Urn is eternal. The virgin bride on the urn is perfect, because she will never suffer form the affair of her husband in the world of urn. Every thing is unconsummated in the real world while in the world of urn, everything will happy and wonderful. The world of urn represents the fantasy world of writer and shows that he is longing for permeate in a world.
I chose John Keats “Ode to a nightingale” to identify the central opposition.
In the poem, John Keats used the world of nightingale to represent immortality; however in the poet’s world, which was reality, reference to mortality. In first line we can see very obvious that the poet was not happy, and as we read the following lines we can figure out what led his depression. In 13, he used “green”, but in line 25 he used “gray” instead. It’s because that he wanted to live in nightingale’s world (the image of the heaven) and wished himself could fly away like a nightingale. To him the real world is like the image of hell. Besides, in line 58 he used “ecstasy” to emphasize and admire how attractive the world of the nightingale is.
I’m Judy (4902027), and I choose the poem, “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers,” to identify the central opposition. Basically, the central opposition lies in between the reality and Aunt Jennifer’s imagination. That is, there are two main characters in the poem, Aunt Jennifer and the tigers. Apparently, Rich tried to show the deep conflict of different genders which Aunt Jennifer had suffered from. We can see the obviously opposite situation in the poem. That is, the tigers are fearless, confident, and free from worry, while Aunt Jennifer is terrified, quiet, and weighed down by life’s ordeals. For example, the third stanza describes, “When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by. The tigers in the panel that she made will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.” I think the restrictions of marriage and the unequal status between man and woman is the primary point of this poem which is also the central opposition Rich put focus on.
I chose Adrienne Rich “Aunt Jennifer's Tiger” to identify the central opposition.
In Adrienne Rich's Aunt Jennifer's Tiger, it has vivid contrast. In stanza one, it describes Jennifer's Tiger. The tiger is proud and confident when it walks - Rich used "prance" to describe. And in line 2, it used “topaz” –yellow- to show how bright the tiger is and green to show the booming in tiger’s world and in Aunt Jennifer’s deep mind. The tiger looks like a knight, independent, fearlessness and graceful, only in the tapestries -Aunt Jennifer’s work.
But look at Aunt Jennifer, her fingers are fluttering and even cannot handle a needle for the heavy wedding band. Aunt Jennifer is subdued and dependent. Like an hour of story’s main character and a big part of women, weighed down by life’s ordeals. Until Aunt Jennifer or the big part of women, no one knows their true personality. It sounds tragedy.
I choose John Keats's " Ode to a nightingale" to identify the central opposition.
In the first stanza, Keats uses "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains" and the nightingale's delightful behavior to express the different feeling.
In the following stanzas, Keats keeps on making the poet's and the nightingale's world opposite.
The poet is facing the reality, which includes weariness, the fever, the fret and death.
However, in the nightingale's world, with imaginative ideal, there are dance, provencal song, sunburnt mirththe and blushful Hippocrene that give a positive feeling. He gets satisfaction through appreciating the nightingale.
In the poem, it tells that the world of nightingale is immortal and eternal. However, in the opposite, the poet's world is mortal and mutable.
In the poem, Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats compared the nightingale life with the poet’s life. The world of the nightingale represents immortality and eternity; it’s totally different from the poet’s world. In the poem we can find that Mr. Keats used a lot of contrast between the stanzas, for example, in line 13, he used “green” to present rebirth, and in line 26, he used “pale” to present the nightmare. We can detect the great sorrow and the desire of living in long life in John’s poem. It’s because this poem was written in the time when John suffering from a steadily worsening case of tuberculosis. John knew that he will die soon; he would not accomplish his dream. After this, he wrote the poem with dense desperation, therefore, John’s poet became more and more famous.
I want to identify the central opposition in "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" describe the poem as a contest between the individual and the social Also the contest between the "oppressed" and the "oppressor. Tiger is confident and proud. He does not fear the men beneath the tree but Aunt Jennifer is terrified. Their freedom is contrasted in the second verse to the restrictions of marriage. So the tiger is free from marry but Aunt Jennifer is not free from marry. In the final, third verse, even death will not free Aunt Jennifer from her “ordeals,” but the tigers she has created will continue to appear proud and unafraid.
So there are much central opposition between tiger and Aunt Jennifer Tiger. The tiger is graceful in movement on the other hand Aunt Jennifer is quiet. in the image of Aunt Jennifer weighed down by an oppressive marriage but tiger is free. The tiger is independent but Aunt Jennifer is dependent.
I want to identify the central opposition in Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers”. It is obviously a feminist poem which criticizes the male world for terrifying and oppressing ‘Aunt Jennifer’, causing her to create an alternate world of freedom.“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” presents an image of power which is revealed and repressed by domestic service.Aunt Jennifer is created as well as an oppressor, whereas the tigers symbolize the freedom of spirit which she dreams but she never achieved in her dreams. Her dreams work as an escape from the terrifying power of the husband and the living locked. Aunt Jennifer is repressed physically under the weight of Uncle’s Wedding Band. She is free in her mind and soul that is why she is fearful but her creation ‘tigers’ are not afraid of men. This freedom of mind and soul, which is one of the basic rights of every individual, is denied to women who are under the culture which men controlled.
After the World War II, women forced to go home to take care of their family and became a house hold. However, I think they deeply desire to go outside to work and escape their husband’s control. In Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers it depicts that a woman wants to become a tiger and this tiger is Aunt Jennifer her repressed self.
In this poem the author makes Aunt Jennifer and tiger has a big contrast. In first stanza, prance, means proud and confident which Aunt Jennifer doesn’t have. The color of topaz means happiness and the color of green means rebirth. Those are very bright colors to describe the tiger. However, Rich use “do not fear” to describe the Aunt Jennifer’s emotion. She is afraid of her husband; therefore, she can’t become as proud and confident as the tiger. In the second stanza the author uses “massive weight” to represent that Aunt Jennifer is weighed down by life. However, the tiger’s movement is nimble and sleek because the tiger is free from worry. In the third stanza, Rich tells us that when the Aunt Jennifer died, she still ringed with ordeals. She can never become to a tiger which can prance, proud and unafraid. I think it’s very ironic. The opposition in this poem is Aunt Jennifer and the tiger’s personality. Aunt Jennifer is subdued, quiet, dependent and afraid of her husband. However, the tiger’s personality is confident, proud, independent and cheerful.
The poem” Ode on a Grecian Urn”
The author, John Keats, wrote the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” to express his longing for permanence in the world of change. Therefore, the Grecian Urn represented an eternal world. In first part of the poem, Keats described the drawing on the surface face on the urn. For example, the word “sweetly” in the “a flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme” showed that he author preferred the world on urn than that in reality. The last three lines of the first part, Keats gave the six questions to express that the permanent world was full of the imagination.
As a result of the unchangeable world filled with the imaginations, everyone could use all the senses to convey the eternal world such as smelling and touching etc. in the second part of the poem, the author make the picture pipe play on the sweet melodies vividly. In addition, the “Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss” showed that the figures drawn on the urn could keep their love forever because human beings always like something new. Once the husband got the kiss from the bride, the sense of freshness would decrease gradually. In the end, the husband will no longer love her because of losing the interest in her.
However, the last three lines in the third part showed that the world of change makes the passion of mankind disappear little by little. Moreover, people even feel annoying on something they once love.
In the end, Keats wanted us know that “Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ”
I chose the poem “Ode to a Nightingale” to identify the central opposition. In the poem,there are totally different worlds between poet and nightingale. The poet's world represents mortality and mutability. On the other hand, the world of nightingale stands for immortality and eternity. If we read the second stanza, we can know that the poet wants to escape the reality which causes him unhappy. And in third stanza, it shows that the poet is eager to have the life of nightingale. Because the poet is in a painful situation, so, he envies and thinks the nightingale's world is paradise.
I am Ben (49902049). I want to identify central opposition in "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," by Adrienne Rich.
There are two main character in the poem, First of course, Aunt Jennifer, and second, the tiger. I believe after reading this poem will find out that tiger is the represent of freedom, being made by Aunt Jennifer, this the biggest contrast in the poem. We can also find out at the first line and line eleven, that prance contrast to in the panel, prancing feels so free and comfortable in contrary being stock in the panel.
At the second stanza, the author talk about the wedding, in our impression, wedding usually represent happiness, that two people can be together happily ever after, but the author used some words like "hard to pull", "massive weight",and "heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand", that gives reader pressure instead of feeling free, maybe author is trying to describe the image that the marriage is not happy, like what she said at line ten, ringed with ordeals... comparing to the tiger will go on prancing at last, leaving readers space to imagine the freedom she never experience.
In ode to nightingale, John Keats imagined the world of nightingale which are no mortality, no anxious, and nothing could bother him.He hoped to have immortality life as bird has, in the seven stanza we can obviously find the heaven of Keats imagined,and the nightingale is a symbol of beauty freedom and stay alive forever.
Back to the reality world, John Keats is full of pain and sadness,just as line one"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains" He was weakness and unfortunately died when he was age of 25, compare to nightingale,Keats lives a miserable life, full of sorrow and disappointment.I think this is the intense opposition in this poem between fantasy and reality.
I want to identify central opposition in Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers."
In this poem, the tiger appear proud, independent and unafraid in first stanza. And, Aunt Jennifer appears terrified, dependent and quiet. It's become a contrast. In fact, the tiger symbol Aunt Jennifer ‘mind desire. In real world, Aunt Jennifer is a conservative and traditional woman. We can find some clues in second stanza and third stanza. In these stanzas, author mentioned that Aunt Jennifer also feel terrified when she is dead. I think Aunt Jennifer’ characters appear women’ position is low in that society because she always afraid. Even though, she is dead. Besides, author mentioned the tiger do not fear the men. It symbols that Aunt Jennifer fear the men. This also symbol that women’s position are lower than men in 1951.
In fact, Aunt Jennifer symbols women in 1951. Adrienne Rich presented women’s conflict in their mind by writing this poem. They don’t want to be a house wives. They also want to satisfy their desire like a man.
Hi, professor. I’m James. My student ID is 49902039. I choose Adrienne Rich’s Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers to identify the central opposition. After read the poem, I know there are two main characters in this poem, Aunt Jennifer and the Tiger. Actually, there are many conflicts between the two characters. The tiger is confident, independent and graceful in movement. However, Aunt Jennifer is quiet, dependent, terrified. The tiger doesn’t fear the men beneath the tree but Jennifer does. She is afraid of men. In the first stanza, the tiger prance across a screen. It means no fear and very confident. However, in the second stanza, Aunt Jennifer find even the ivory needle is hard to pull, it reveals that something simple could be so difficult.
In Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, the tigers are a confident, unafraid and knightly. The tigers walk in a proud way across a screen. Fearing nothing, they pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
As to Aunt Jennifer, she is totally a big contrast to her tigers. Her fingers flutter that even pull the needle is hard for her. She is weighed down by life’s ordeals, being terrified, subdued and dependent. She is not free, under the massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band and can't have confidence. She can’t be her true self, so she made the tigers. The tigers are she depressed parts that she can’t be.Even after her death, she still is ringed with those ordeals that she was mastered by.
• I am yan 49644071. I choose Ode to a nightingle to answer. I think the central opposition in the poem are two conceptions between the current world and ideal world. In the first standard, the author uses lots of words to describe the normal life. For example, numbness pains、hemlock、dull opiate；from third standard weariness、fever、fret、groan、palsy…and so on. Those adjective present the poets’ concepts for the real life. The true world isn’t forever, Nobody can life infinity without ending ,everybody will face the end of his life. On the opposite, he uses some adjective to compare to sorrow life. We can see from second standard draught of vintage, sunburnt mirth,etc. Those are the key worlds about wonderful life, as the word is forever and eternity. That is to say, the poet is in the current world but yearns for the ideal world. He desires to escape from the world and fly away with nightingale, life with immorality. we can infer that the poet isn’t satisfied for the present situation but was in vain to change. Therefore, fly with nightingale.
I want to identify central opposition in John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” In this poem, Keats expresses the conflict between permanent and temporary, passionate and cold by the picture of the urn. In the first stanza, “unravished bride” and “foster-child” indicate they are still perfect. The bride can still enjoy the best time with her husband, and the child does not need to worry about his future. And the pursuit on the picture of urn is unsophisticated. In the second stanza, the unheard music is sweater because you can imagine it whatever you want. The spirit ditties are toneless so that they won’t be controlled. But in fourth and fifth stanzas, the poem shifts to another perspective. The sacrifice of heifer show that the eternity is only a “cold pastoral.” The urn is still cold, and the picture on the urn is only a painting. Through this poem, Keats conveys his longing for permanence in a world of change. However, it just a heaven which is far away from this world.
In Aunt Jennifer's Tigers,Aunt Jennifer embroidered tigers on her wedding band. These tigers prance across a screen. They are confident, pround, independent and free. Tigers are nimble sleek and graceful in movement. Aunt Jennifer's tiger are so different from Aunt Jennifer.Aunt Jennifer is quiet,dependent and subdued and we can see that she is terrified of her husband,even though her husband doesn't really appear in the poem. She is weighed by her marriage so that she doesn’t have freedom.Aunt Jennifer's marriage is unfortunate,so she made her tigers. These tigers are very oppsite of her. The most important is the tigers don't affraid of her husband. Just like the man who she want to be.
Aunt Jennifer’s contrast side is absolutely the tigers. In that era, women are always those people who had been ignored. The tigers are her expectation, a faraway expectation. The tigers are prancing and fearless, so that we could know Aunt Jennifer is afraid to go forward and filling of fear. Aunt Jennifer was weaving in front of the tigers screen, the author described that she was hard to pull and heavily, but behind the screen, the tigers are proudly walking. It’s a very strong contrast.
I am Calre(49788036). Sorry! I am late for this assignment! In "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" this poem, the opposition is obsviously talking about Jennifer and Aunt Jennifer’s tigers. Aunt Jennifer made these tigers be unrestrained and pround. I think these tigers made by Aunt Jennifer, they just like her best friends. Because they made by her, they could know more about her than others. Also the author made a strong contrast in this poem. Aunt Jennifer`s fear and the tiger`s fearless. One is strong, the other is on the contrary.
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