My Last Duchess" By: Robert Browning
This poem was a harder poem for me to analyze. If I understand correctly the Duke of this city had a painting of his late young wife. In the second line it states "Looking as if she were alive" which told me that she had pasted but in the painting she looked real. The painting was behind a curtain and only certain people could only see it. The young woman always smiled at everyone and her husband didn't like this because he thought that she looked at him the way she looked at everybody else. He felt that she didn't show him enough affection. This makes me think that he was a jealous and insecure man. Near the end of the poem it talks about him giving commands and all smiles stopped completely. I think he had her killed. Then he is trying to negotiate for a new bride and says he can train her. He is a very demanding man.
"The Chimney Sweeper" By: William Blake
This poem started out sad and by the time I got to the end I felt a little happier for the little boy. The little boys mom died when he was very young and not long after that the boys father gives him away. The boy begins working as a chimney sweeper and one day he has to get his head shaved and he cries. He is told not to cry over it but to think positively about not getting soot in his hair anymore. That night he has a dream about all the boys being locked in coffins. This angel comes and sets them free and tells Tom that not to worry about not having any parents. As long as he is good and believes in God that he will always be taken care of because God is his father. That morning it was still dark when they woke up for work. Even though it was cold Tom was still happy because of his dream and believed what the angel said.
"My Papa's Waltz" By: Theodore Roethke
I read this poem a couple of times. I think that this poem is about a little girl who is dancing with her dad. Her father has had to much to drink and is bumping into everything which makes her mother upset. The little girl talks about holding on like death which makes me think that she is afraid to let go. Whether it is because she is afraid of losing her step and falling or because if she does her father will get mad I don't know. I hope some other people wrote about this poem so I can get there opinion.
"My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the Sun" By: William Shakespeare
In this poem he is comparing his mistress to different things and these things are always better. Her skin is not white like snow but her breast are gray. Her hair is like wire rough and stiff. He talks about how some perfume smells better than her breath. I assume this perfume doesn't smell good but her breath smells worse. Even though he talks about her imperfections he still loves her more than anything.
"Do not go gentle into that good night" By: Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas wrote this poem around the time his father was dying and I believe he was asking his father to fight for life not to give up. The wise men he talks about know that they are going to die but still fight against it. The good men are people who have done good deeds and have not seen them finished so they fight to live. The wild men are people who have lived a hard life. Wild to me means drank, stayed out late, done things that was hard on their body and knew it at the time but didn't care. Now that they are dying they regret it and fight for more time. The grave men are older men who have lived life and know that its their time but still want more time with their family or for their self so they fight. In the end people always want more time and this just reminds us not to ever give up.
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