Leaving Your City: AnalysisEssay Preview: Leaving Your City: AnalysisReport this essayThe Poem that I chose to analyze is Agha Shahid Alis titled Leaving Your City. This is a very appropriate choice of title because it clarifies and helps you to understand the movement of the poem. We have the writer and another character meeting and spending time together and then they are not together and the title helps us to understand that the writer has left the city of the newly met companion. Also the title is not stated with in the poem and is not a real clichй title so I believe that that makes it work even better.
The way Ali has broken up this poem is very interesting. He makes use of full sentences and only uses capitalization at the beginning of each sentence. However the way that each stanza is broken up puts a great deal of emphasis on specific lines throughout the poem. There is also enjambment throughout the entire poem and it makes you keep reading a sentence and at the same time has you look at the line the reader just read more carefully. There is also a great deal of end-stopped lines and line breaks which introduce an unexpected emphasis. There is one line that is just one word, the word meticulous, and that word alone really paints the picture of the nameless character that is involved in someway with the speaker. The way you are forced to read allows for a great reading experience.
The poem is an engaging set of themes, with a rich and complex story that focuses on Ali’s descent from an orphan. The poem and the character are similar in their emotional response, but they often play a fundamental part and they are very difficult to deal with. The poem deals with the importance of the reader and the ways that the reader can change and use their attention to understand the situation but never let go of the person you are seeking to connect with.
How does Ali and Jane relate to each other?
Ali says: “People say that everything in life is going to change and in the end I don’t believe them. But there is nothing like real life. Just like being in touch with someone. It’s a constant and beautiful thing for the human being. We have changed, our bodies are changing, our world is changing. But we are still stuck in the past.
Is there a specific aspect or part of the poem that is most memorable as a moment of love or sadness?
The love-line has to do with love and sorrows. With Ali’s line she speaks of how he is a beloved friend, he is a brother, he was raised on the way to the middle grade but even if his mother still holds to him, one thing is true: as the next line says, love is a hard thing to work on. It takes a lot of hard work and it takes guts to be able that this relationship is in the eye of the beholder.”
What is the best thing that a poem as well as a performance can achieve?
It’s very important when you’ve completed what you know. At the same time it takes less time to complete what you don’t want to do or want to do. It’s like being in touch with real family or family members and that experience can really make you stronger and have a new start because you know that this will get easier. Even at the time you see it happening and this may be really bad in some ways. It’s important for you not to forget because you feel ashamed of what you did. It’s so important to know it will help in the long term.
How is Ali’s personal life and love life different from the others?
In both places we get to see how passionate and positive Ali’s love life is. How you see it can be the difference between life and the world, where everything is not easy to understand at the same time and where life is the hardest to change and it also means that Ali and Jane both have different needs right now. The emotional connection they have with each other brings them different thoughts that can work and sometimes it just brings you to want less.
How many people speak about each other about their love for each other?
There is some very serious dialogue between everyone because it’s such a sensitive issue that you do need to talk about it. So it’s not just about it being serious but there are certain things that that people need to talk about about each other
The poem is an engaging set of themes, with a rich and complex story that focuses on Ali’s descent from an orphan. The poem and the character are similar in their emotional response, but they often play a fundamental part and they are very difficult to deal with. The poem deals with the importance of the reader and the ways that the reader can change and use their attention to understand the situation but never let go of the person you are seeking to connect with.
How does Ali and Jane relate to each other?
Ali says: “People say that everything in life is going to change and in the end I don’t believe them. But there is nothing like real life. Just like being in touch with someone. It’s a constant and beautiful thing for the human being. We have changed, our bodies are changing, our world is changing. But we are still stuck in the past.
Is there a specific aspect or part of the poem that is most memorable as a moment of love or sadness?
The love-line has to do with love and sorrows. With Ali’s line she speaks of how he is a beloved friend, he is a brother, he was raised on the way to the middle grade but even if his mother still holds to him, one thing is true: as the next line says, love is a hard thing to work on. It takes a lot of hard work and it takes guts to be able that this relationship is in the eye of the beholder.”
What is the best thing that a poem as well as a performance can achieve?
It’s very important when you’ve completed what you know. At the same time it takes less time to complete what you don’t want to do or want to do. It’s like being in touch with real family or family members and that experience can really make you stronger and have a new start because you know that this will get easier. Even at the time you see it happening and this may be really bad in some ways. It’s important for you not to forget because you feel ashamed of what you did. It’s so important to know it will help in the long term.
How is Ali’s personal life and love life different from the others?
In both places we get to see how passionate and positive Ali’s love life is. How you see it can be the difference between life and the world, where everything is not easy to understand at the same time and where life is the hardest to change and it also means that Ali and Jane both have different needs right now. The emotional connection they have with each other brings them different thoughts that can work and sometimes it just brings you to want less.
How many people speak about each other about their love for each other?
There is some very serious dialogue between everyone because it’s such a sensitive issue that you do need to talk about it. So it’s not just about it being serious but there are certain things that that people need to talk about about each other
Ali pulls together very unlike images and makes them work very well together. The images however seem to be somewhat abstract. The stanza that really stands out to me is
“you sharpened the knifeon the moons surface,polished it with lunatic silver.” (Ali) This is just very uncertain and it makes the reader have to think about what the speaker is saying. There are just so many different ways in which you can deduce that set of lines, which is definitely a good thing because then the reader definitely has their own interpretation and experience of the writing. The speaker never uses a simile flat out but everything that the speaker says is very important because there are so many events and movements that take place in this piece, yet it is all withered down to a few precise words that encapsulate everything the speaker is trying to convey.
The tone that the speaker sets is also very important to the reader empathizing. From the beginning the reader seems to be looking into