Titled: "Womens' Poetry Dialogue" (2011-11) ENGL 3811

Sea poppies

-"Sea Poppies" is another imagery poem by H.D. The poem is describing scenes in nature. In most of her imagery poems the images come from nature. In this poem she uses images of sand as the landscape and shells. After reading this poem one can imagine a beach with golden sand and sea-shells along the shore. One can picture themselves in this place H.D. is describing.

-Sea. The basic symbolic contrast in the poems is between the sea and the land, the sea being treated as both nurturer and destroyer. Several of the collection’s most successful poems—such as “Sea Poppies” and “Sea Violet”—are set where the sea and the land intersect, among the pebbles, shells, and sandbanks of the shore. At times this struggle of beauty to survive at the borderline of elemental forces yields a brilliant metaphor, as in “Sea Violet,” in which a blossom catching the light on the edge of a sandhill is described as frost

-I believe is written for her borther and her husband, in her Works of the “sea garden”

Emily Dickinson- i dwell in possibility

I dwell in Possibility--

A fairer House than Prose--

More numerous of Windows--

Superior--for Doors--

Of Chambers as the Cedars--

Impregnable of Eye--

And for an Everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky--

Of Visitors--the fairest--

For Occupation--This--

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

To gather Paradise--

 

 

 

 

Silvia Plath-Metaphors

I'm a riddle in nine syllables,

An elephant, a ponderous house,

A melon strolling on two tendrils.

O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!

This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.

Money's new-minted in this fat purse.

I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.

I've eaten a bag of green apples,

Boarded the train there's no getting off.

Freudian Dream Tools:

According to Freud, dreams always have a manifest and latent content. The manifest content is what the dream seems to be saying. It is often bizarre and nonsensical. The latent content is what the dream is really trying to say. Dreams give us a look into our unconscious. Freud believes that we can chip through the dream's manifest content to reveal the underlying significance and its latent by utilizing the technique of "free association". Using this technique, you start with one dream symbol and then follow with what automatically comes to your mind first. You continue in this manner and see where it leads.

Sigmund Freud

Considered the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionizes the study of dreams with his work The Interpretation Of Dreams. Freud begins to analyze dreams in order to understand aspects of personality as they relate to pathology. He believes that nothing you do occurs by chance; every action and thought is motivated by your unconscious at

some level. In order to live in a civilized society, you have a tendency to hold back our urges and repress our impulses. However, these urges and impulses must be released in some way; they have a way of coming to the surface in disguised forms.

One way these urges and impulses are released is through your dreams. Because the content of the unconscious may be extremely disturbing or harmful, Freud believes that the unconscious expresses itself in a symbolic language.

Freud categorizes aspects of the mind into three parts:

Id - centered around primal impulses, pleasures, desires, unchecked urges and wish fulfillment.

Ego - concerned with the conscious, the rational, the moral and the self-aware aspect of the mind.

Superego - the censor for the id, which is also responsible for enforcing the moral codes of the ego.

When you are awake, the impulses and desires of the id are suppressed by the superego. Through dreams, you are able to get a glimpse into your unconscious or the id. Because your guards are down during the dream state, your unconscious has the opportunity to act out and express the hidden desires of the id. However, the desires of the id can, at times, be so disturbing and even psychologically harmful that a "censor" comes into play and translates the id's disturbing content into a more acceptable symbolic form. This helps to preserve sleep and prevent you from waking up shocked at the images. As a result, confusing and cryptic dream images occur.

Freudian Dream Tools:

According to Freud, the reason you struggle to remember your dreams, is because the superego is at work. It is doing its job by protecting the conscious mind from the disturbing images and desires conjured by the unconscious. Freud believes that we can chip through the dream's manifest content to reveal the underlying significance and its latent by utilizing the technique of "free association". Using this technique, you start with one dream symbol and then follow with what automatically comes to your mind first. You continue in this manner and see where it leads.

Thomas McGlaughin’s Figurative Language

There are a number of different forms of friggin language and each with its own unique purpose

Personification: giving in an inanimate object, human characteristics

Metaphor: term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance

Simile: directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like", "as".

Metonymy: a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept

He also discusses how words have adapted to our society by holding more than one meaning

Words are linked together to work in society the same way as memory works for us (chains and whips, I mean triggers)