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Even if there is no specific audience for "Old World," the poem may have added depth and meaning to those who have left the Old World for the New. Simic is not Sicilian, and yet his imagery would especially appeal to those from Mediterranean countries. The Romans were in Serbia, though, so there is a thematic link between the forgotten empires of Italy and Simic's own Serbian lands.
In "County Fair," the audience is even more elusive than it is in "Old World." The speaker does use the first person plural, bringing the audience actively into the action of the poem. In this sense, "County Fair" speaks to the audience on an intimate personal level. The narrator includes the reader in the action, as the poet is asking the reader to determine what "County Fair" means to the individual. There are no absolute meanings embedded in the poem. Instead, the poem can be taken differently to have an emotional and psychological impact on each person...
For example, some readers will have never gone to a county fair where there are "freak" shows like that of a six-legged dog or a bearded lady. Others will have looked forward to county fairs every year in their childhood, and the poem will speak to them differently and on a more visceral level of memory.
The "us" is an audience of people watching the spectacle that is the carnival in its entirety. The spectacle is not just the dog, because the drunk man and woman are part of the show too. They are the catalysts, who cause the dog to leave his corner. The dog could have remained invisible, notes the narrator. As it is, the keeper of the dog throws something so that the dog will chase it. The dog is being used as a source of entertainment, which appears cruel. The narrator speaks directly to the audience to ask what the individual reader thinks about using people who are "different" for entertainment purposes.
Nabokov's father studied criminal law at St. Petersburg University, but then channeled his legal background into political activism. He was against capital punishment, pogroms, and many tsarist practices. Nabokov explains how his father's "antidespotic" writings have gotten him into trouble (175). In "Old World," Charles Simic celebrates a moment of contemplating eternity as he gazes on the ruins of an ancient temple in Sicily. The first line of the poem
Simic Charles Simic's poem "My Mother Was a Braid of Black Smoke" appears in New and Selected Poems, 1962-2012. The poem is the story of the poet's genesis, and it is difficult for the reader to distinguish between what is actual memory and what is the impression or imagination of the speaker. The first stanza starts, "My mother was a braid of black smoke." The imagery in this stanza, with his
I pulled over and called out to him, while being very conscious how ludicrous I sounded, did he by any chance know of a church where there was to be a poetry reading tonight?" The man did indeed tell Simic where the church was, indicating that poetry can serve as a means to uplift and communicate the universality of human experience. Social alienation and isolation that accompanies the immigrant
Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas) The "Poetry Explications" handout from UNC states that a poetry explication is a "relatively short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationship of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem." The speaker in "Fern Hill" dramatically embraces memories from his childhood days at his uncle's farm, when the world was innocent; the second part brings out the speaker's loss of innocence and
Literature Review 1. The dilemma of Obesity Mokdad et al., (1999) in his study found that the issue of unhealthy weight, overweight and obesity are perhaps one of the rising concerns for the Americans in the 21st century as more and more U.S. citizens become vulnerable to the circumstantial risks and dangers of the phenomenon (Mokdad et al., 1999). It is usually the body mass indexes (BMI) that indicate whether a person