"The Improvement" by John Ashbery.
Title: "The Improvement" by John Ashbery.
Category: /Literature/World Literature
Details: Words: 468 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
"The Improvement" by John Ashbery.
Category: /Literature/World Literature
Details: Words: 468 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The only thing that humans cannot count on is that things are constantly changing and life is one of those things. It is a complex, intriguing, and inscrutable process which has negative and positive shades. This is the message John Ashbery is trying to transmit to us!
1.Theme
a.Life changes in an instant
-He is questioning the meaning of life; the meaning of how things can change quickly.
- "Only yesterday when I came …showed first 75 words of 468 total…
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2.Characteristic of the poem
a.It is a mysterious poem
-The reader cannot fully comprehend what message John Ashbery is trying to transmit.
-Sometimes one finds the poet shifting from the good things to the bad ones or even digressing.
- "Shards, smiling beaches, abandon us somehow even as we converse with them."
-"I felt the eggplant, then the rhubarb. Nothing seems strong enough for this life to manage.