Decome Et Decorum

Heartland write by Linda Hogan has underlying messages a reader must carefully overcompensate attention to in order to fully understand the poem. Hogan describes City Poems as her analysis of urban center deportment and how she appreciates it which basin seem complex when reading her poem. She begins the poem describing how rare silence in the city toilette appear to people, constant traffic from vehicles and voices of people set offing the streets. Then she understands what the city poems other authors write or so and how life in the city is constantly surrounded with common images related to city life such(prenominal) as yellow hard hats and beggars.I feel like Hogan feels a connection with city life and she has knowing to appreciate it. I think the author identifies city poems as poems about the chaos people erect 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 seven-spot to ten describe how people pray and feel the heart beat in a smattering of nothing which I interpreted it as meaning that the city can drain people of whatever they have and leave them with nothing.When people have nothing to fall back on, faith holds a the right way connection to people who seek support to help put back the broken pieces of life and by praying, a higher power can bring an answer 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 cablegrams eleven to seventeen, where she describes construction workers, beggars, pigeons, and peoples puking on metal.I interpreted the statement human acids etching themselves into metal as how many people travel to the city to become famous and make a name for themselves which the human acid being written onto the metal represents a person writing there name in stone. In stanza t hree, line twenty, Hogan writes listening hard to the underground language where the underground language refers to the lingo of the streets of the city where people of the city understand one another and can communicate with each other, even if they are not utterance 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 MUST learn the rules (language) of the city to succeed. The underground language is hidden within the city, where outsiders chew over upon conversations on the street, trying to figure what it really means. When Hogan writes listening hard I think she refers to taking