Can I have your honest opinion on this poem?
I do not really know anything about poetry and I would appreciate some advice from more experienced / Educated people …. Your black is so beautiful, that the gold plating of your short life, your story must be told the elegance of movement, as you fly and royal dignity is what you bring light to places your ancestors once called home, meadows and fields will be gone soon Ton Kingdom is now made of concrete and stone Serenity I aspire to see you so close to fight with you what I want most. [Written a prison cell], I doubt anyone else will look but the black and gold refers to a butterfly. And I want to leave it open to interpretation, but concrete and stone may have to do with where it was written.
Trying to understand the poem My interpretation is. A young black man sentenced to die in prison. He made his peace with his creator and is not afraid of his imminent execution. He thinks about his ancestors and Provence, where they lived, in Africa. The hopes of continuing his reign would have been, his life had followed in his family tradition, are no longer a viable option. Modern expansion do to the political upheaval was sentenced to death, and it looks honor and peace with the creator of his imminent death, and resurrection to a fuller life with his Lord. It's a beautiful poem and the structure shows promise writer. Interpretation can vary, and it gives the reader a relationship closer to both the author and the meaning.
Short Poem
|
|
Chicken Soup For The Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit £4.23 A collection of tales that can inspire you to live your dreams. It presents stories that demonstrate the best qualities we share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, generosity and faith and they share a collected wisdom on love, parenting, teaching, death and the overcoming of obstacles…. |
|
|
Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul: Stories of Life, Love and Learning £4.95 A handbook for surviving and succeeding during the teen years. It contains lessons on the nature of friendship and love, the importance of belief in the future and the value of respect for yourself and others. It also deals with tough issues like death, suicide and the loss of love…. |
|
|
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: And Other Stories £2.97 Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton’s lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children – hopeful, yet hapless beings…. |
|
|
A Life in Medicine (Paperback) $12.33 Short fiction, poetry, and essays by such notable authors as Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Wendell Berry, Robert Coles, Audre Lorde, Lewis Thomas, and Albert Schweitzer explore diverse facets of the medical profession, coveri… |
|
|
Mercury Dressing (Paperback) $13.9 Since the publication of Hazmat, a book about the life of the body—short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize—J. D. McClatchy’s poetry has increasingly taken up the life of the soul. Now in verse as quicksilver as it is authoritative,… |
|
|
Poe (Hardcover) $16.63 An intriguing portrait of enigmatic American writer Edgar Allan Poe examines his literary accomplishments–lyrical poetry, macabre tales, invention of the first fictional detective, and pioneer of the science fiction and fantasy genres–and legacy in t… |
|
|
Bloom`s How to Write About Sylvia Plath (Hardcover) $41.63 Sylvia Plath`s short life and intense poetry continue to draw considerable critical and popular attention. Among her more recognizable works are the poetry collection Ariel and the novel The Bell Jar. Her suicide and tumultuous mar… |
|
|
The Aztecs (Paperback) $9.17 This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and phi… |
|
|
Happy Life (Paperback) $10.77 “Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort.”—Wendell Berry”[Budbill] can be hilarious, as when he gripes, `What good is my humility / when I am / stuck / in this obscurity?`”—Booklist, star… |
|
|
Plainwater (Paperback) $10.77 A provocative anthology of poetry and prose by the Canadian intellectual includes selections from “Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings,” “Short Talks,” “Canicula di Anna,” “The Life of Towns,” and “The Anthropology of Water.” Reprint. |
|
|
My Town (Paperback) $15.84 Incorporating short prose, photography, and poetry, this memoir celebrates Albuquerque, New Mexico, and recollects how the author’s life and the city itself were impacted by Cold War politics, the at… |
|
|
Spunyarn (Paperback) $11.58 The best of one of England`s greatest writers about seafaring and the sea. John Masefield is one of the greatest storytellers of life at sea. Based on a recently rediscovered early manuscript, this collection of short stories, extracts… |
|
|
The Faerie Queene $9.85 Part of a series of volumes, each of which provide one book of Spenser`s great work, a concise general Introduction, annotation, Spenser`s letter to Raleigh, a short ?Life of Spenser,? note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of character… |
|
|
Almost Invisible (Hardcover) $16.46 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems, each one a precise drama revealing the receding vista of our lives.   In these sparkling, often hilarious short paragraphs, Mark Strand, writing… |
|
|
First German Reader (Paperback) $6.62 Specially chosen for their power to evoke German life and culture, these short, simple readings include poems, stories, essays, and anecdotes. Featured authors include Goethe, Hesse, Heine, Schiller, and Hölderlin, in selections off… |
|
|
Collected Poems (Paperback) $13.43 Arthur Rimbaud`s meteoric career was crammed into four teenage years in which he wrote two masterpieces,The IlluminationsandA Season in Hell, and some wonderful short poems. At nineteen he then rejected the literary life and left … |
|
|
Killing the Black Dog (Paperback) $9.95 In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the “Black Dog” (as he calls it) ruled his life. H… |
|
|
Sopa De Polla Para El Alma De Los Ninos $11.99 A collection of short stories, anecdotes, poems, and cartoons which present a positive outlook on life. |
|
|
Chicken Soup for the Kid`s Soul 2 (Paperback) $10.07 Written by kids and adults reminiscing about their childhood, a collection of short stories, anecdotes, poems, and cartoons presents a positive outlook on life, designed expecially for kids on the verge of becoming preteens. Original. 150,000 first pri… |
|
|
Messenger (Paperback) $10.1 Despite having his life cut tragically short by muscular dystrophy, Mattie Stepanek (HEARTSONGS) will long be remembered as one of the most beloved poets of his time. In this stirring tribute, Mattie`s mother Jeni Stepanek recalls her son`s fight again… |
|
|
A Cape Cod Notebook (Paperback) $9.85 A collection of more than 50 exquisitely crafted radio essays, these short but poetic gems celebrate unique aspects of life on Cape Cod, especially the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Entranced by the islandR… |
|
|
Thanks to You (Paperback) $6.92 Photographs and short verses celebrate the life lessons that mothers and children learn from one another. |
|
|
The Psalms $14.63 The Psalms, the most previous poetry in Hebrew literature, remain a favorite of religious people today. In this short book, Luigi Giussani reflects on the Psalms, the profundity, and their meaning for our spiritual and practical lives today. |
