Poetry Writing Prompt

"Here" by Philip Larkin is a pastoral poem in which a man describes the different places he has traveled to from being a salesman. The character describes the places with a direct tone.
Throughout the poem Larkin’s mildly changes as he inserts a new place to describe. A huge cit, poor urban neighborhood and so forth the salesman is from the country were things are much different. He first talks about a large town with:” Cheap suits, red kitchen-ware, sharp shoes, iced lollies, electric mixers, toasters, washers, drier.” “It may seem as if he is a little jealous of the things the people of the city are able to purchase.
The author’s tone is another way of saying his diction or his attitude towards his audience. In the poem his attitude changes from jealousy (when he describes the large town) to graceful or happy that he only has to drop off a package to an urban town. “A cut-price crowd, urban yet simple dwelling, Where only Salesmen and relations come within a terminate and fishy-smelling.”
In the poem Philip Larkin uses an eight line stanza to complete his piece. In the stanzas Larkin uses imagery to draw attention more on his poem and to involve his audience. Third stanza 7th sentence he uses a simile to illustrate the wheat fields by saying: “Fast-shadowed wheat-fields, running high as hedges.”
All in all the poem would be said to be a narrative poem, a poem that tells a story or even a lyric poem, personal emotions of a single speaker. The character is unfolding the truth about the way he feels about the places that he visits while traveling. The poem ends with the character being lonely on a beach. “Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative out of reach.

Writing Prompt- Metamorphosis

In the novella The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka a few of the characters including Grete undergo dramatic metamorphosis. The changes affect the overall meaning of the work as well as the plot overview. Grete uses Gregor to make herself as though she is a mature young adult. Many may wonder if Grete really loves her brother or if she was just plotting on him all along.

Grete's parents thought of her as an immature seventeen year old before Gregor's metamorphosis. At the beginning of the novella Grete helps Gregor by cleaning his room, feeding him, and even saying a few words to him to make his day. Grete wants to be taken serious in the eyes of her parents so much that she seizes the opportunity to use her brother's transformation as gaining responsibility. After her parents see the changes they look at Grete in a new light.

Gregor never thought that he would wake up to be a gigantic bug and not have the love of his family. The novella The Metamorphosis is based on Gregor’s morphing. Throughout the plot he is missed treated by his father and in the end even by his sister Grete. The Samsa family feels as though Gregor is becoming a burden to them now that he is not able to pay his father's debt off by working. Gregor is lonely because his sister changes in the end of the book into someone he doesn’t know anymore.

Gregor and Grete adores art Gregor did the honors of sending his sister to a school just so that she is able to play the violin. He loves the sounding of her playing because it brings back so many memories of being a human. A picture from an illustrated magazine placed in a nice frame of a woman in a fur hat and boa is Gregor's definition of art and he would not trade it in for the world.

These metamorphoses contribute to the overall meaning of the work. Grete's morphing caused Gregor's death and allows her the chance to show her family she is a responsible young adult because of the things she did for her brother. Due to Gregor's metamorphosis his father is forced to work and it also brought out the true feelings of his family. The Metamorphosis is all about change.