Poetry for Students
122 Poetry for Students of the world (and everything in it, including an onion) also wears facades. To find the truth of somethi ...
Volume 24 123 In the fourth stanza, the onion reveals that the person is not slowed down by the teary eyes; the person continues ...
124 Poetry for Students refers to Korea, from which Kim’s family origi- nally came. Since the end of World War II, Korea has bee ...
Volume 24 125 In Kim’s “Monologue for an Onion,” the un- likely speaker is an onion that is being peeled and chopped by an unnam ...
126 Poetry for Students imagery in describing the destructive wake of the person’s pursuit is disturbing. Many of the words Kim ...
Volume 24 127 trying to survive by fighting back with truth. Op- pressive governments almost universally sacrifice their own peo ...
128 Poetry for Students he tears off one more layer of her being, he will find what he wants, her heart, and possess it. But an ...
Volume 24 129 “divided at the heart.” He demands to have the speaker be the way he wants her to be, not really as she is. He wan ...
130 Poetry for Students helpless to avert their fate, these mocking lines in “Monologue for an Onion” become particularly tellin ...
Volume 24 131 this in the majority of her poems. By skipping back and forth from the flat diction of factual truth to lusher fig ...
132 Poetry for Students mother to speak more English in their upstate New York home. That way, Suji could learn to speak English ...
Volume 24 133 critiquing this sort of received idea of empathy, that it works merely through the emotions rather than also throu ...
Not like a Cypress “Not like a Cypress” was first published in 1958 in Two Hopes Away, a collection of poems by Yehuda Amichai; ...
Volume 24 135 into power, Amichai’s family left Germany for Palestine and then settled in Israel. Amichai studied Hebrew and, af ...
136 Poetry for Students Again, Amichai arouses the curiosity of his readers. What parts of the cypress are like the speaker? Wha ...
Volume 24 137 The last lines suggest a death and rebirth. Someone has quietly left, having renounced all con- nections to his ma ...
138 Poetry for Students reference to bodies turning to dust when they die. Grain, on the other hand, is a sign of life. Bread is ...
Volume 24 139 the reader’s perceptions. A surprise appears in the next line, which reveals that the children are play- ing a gam ...
140 Poetry for Students numbers dwindled drastically. In the 1800s, a new wave of Jewish immigrants began to arrive. Zion- ism, ...
Volume 24 141 can be symbolic, as in the coronation of God as king. A shofar also is used to communicate with God. Prayers are s ...
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