Decome Et Decorum

Heartland pen by Linda Hogan has underlying messages a reader must carefully reconcile attention to in order to fully understand the poem. Hogan describes City Poems as her analysis of city behavior and how she appreciates it which stop seem complex when cultivation her poem. She begins the poem describing how rare silence in the city gutter face to masses, constant traffic from vehicles and voices of people traveling the streets. Then she understands what the city poems former(a) authors write about and how heart in the city is constantly adjoin with common images related to city life such as sensationalistic hard hats and beggars.I feel like Hogan feels a connection with city life and she has learned to appreciate it. I conjecture the author identifies city poems as poems about the chaos people endure in the city that the city may not seem enjoyable to most. The chaos that the city brings can take a toll on a person and can leave them questioning their life. Lines seve n to ten describe how people tap and feel the heart beat in a handful of vigour which I interpreted it as meaning that the city can give out people of whatever they have and leave them with zero point.When people have nothing to fall back on, faith holds a powerful connection to people who seek support to help put back the broken pieces of life and by praying, a higher power can bring an dish up to their prayers. However, Hogan seems to find the beauty and joy that the city brings and describes it in her poem, Heartland. I think that Hogan enjoys the city life with the detail in lines eleven to seventeen, where she describes construction workers, beggars, pigeons, and peoples emetic on metal.I interpreted the statement human acids etching themselves into metal as how many people travel to the city to become famous and forge a name for themselves which the human acid being written onto the metal represents a person writing there name in endocarp. In stanza three, line twenty , Hogan writes listening hard to the immunity language where the underground language refers to the lingo of the streets of the city where people of the city understand single another and can communicate with each other, even if they are not speaking the same anguage. When growing up anywhere, a person picks up certain characteristics of their society. Specifically, when growing up in the city, a person mustiness learn the rules (language) of the city to succeed. The underground language is hidden within the city, where outsiders cogitate upon conversations on the street, trying to figure what it really means. When Hogan writes listening hard I think she refers to taking