Lament

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.
 When you are Old
William B. Yeats

When you are old and gray and full of sleep

  And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
  And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

  And loved your beauty with love false or true;
  But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

And bending down beside the glowing bars,

  Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
  And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
 Dreams
By Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
 The analysis of lament poem
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Lament,” the speaker, a mother whose husband has just
passed away, must face both her grief and the continued daily needs of her children: clothing,
medicine, food. “Listen, children: Your father is dead” this word means that the speaker tells her
children that their father was death. “From his old coats, I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you
little trousers, From his old pants.” This lines means that the speaker focuses on the practical
needs of her children, telling them that she’ll make them pants and jackets from his old clothing.
The speaker says, “There'll be in his pockets, Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies,
Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys,
To make a pretty noise with.” it means that the speaker will take care of her children, give
everything that her children need until her children be successful.
“Life must go on, And the dead be forgotten; Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat
your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine;” it means that the speaker want her children not to be
sad again, the speaker want they forget the grief. “Life must go on,” and adds, “I forget just
why.” This last line is a clear indication of the hopelessness and emptiness that the speaker feels
now that her loved one is gone. And this poem represents a universal expression: that life must
go on even when we feel like it cannot.
In this poem Millay also use the symbol like: his pockets, the pennies, the keys to illustrate the
speaker hope about her children in order to their successful.
 The analysis of when you are old poem
by William B. Yeats

In the poem “When you are old” by William Butler Yeats, it begins with the image of an elderly
woman, “gray and old and full of sleep”, who is sitting by a fire and reminiscing about "the soft
look" her eyes held once. She takes down the book that holds Yeats poem as she remembers how
beautiful and young she once was. Yeats also uses a variety of symbols to illustrate the power
and melancholy elements of love. The first symbol he uses is of a fire. The fire symbolizes her
desire for warmth or comfort and her want for the fiery love she once rejected. In this poem the
elderly woman realizes that the only man who loved her has gone away. The last two symbols of
the “mountains overhead” and the “crowd of stars” go hand in hand. They both symbolize
something the elderly woman can always see and always know is there, but never fully reach.
This poem is most likely about his first true love, who rejected him. She never understood until it
was too late that he was not one of the men who “loved only her beauty with love false or true,”
but more so her “pilgrim soul” and the “sorrows of her changing face.” He would have been
there with her into her old age and loved her despite her fading beauty. Yet, she allowed love to
flee and become extinguished like the fire in her living room soon will be. Now she can only
murmur, as those who are alone might do instead of speaking aloud, testifying to her isolation
and reiterating the disposition of the poem, “a little sadly.”
 The analysis of Dreams
By Langston Hughes

In this poem the writer tells about a dream that without a dream our life is nothing. “Hold fast to
dreams” this line means that we must have a dream and we must keep our dream. In a life the
dreams are need to be motivated in our future. “Hold fast to dreams, Life is a broken-winged
bird” in the next lines means that if we do not have a dream our life will be stuck. We cannot do
anything. “That cannot fly.” It means we will like a bird that have a broken winged and cannot
fly. “Hold fast to dreams” in this line this word is repeat again it means the writer want to make
the reader believe the important of the dream in our life. “For when dreams go, Life is a barren
field, Frozen with snow.” It means that if we lost our dreams our life like a barren field, our life
will useless without a dream. In this poem the writer uses some symbol to illustrate a dream. For
example like: a broken-winged bird that describe a life without a dream. barren field, Frozen
with snow that describe the end of our life without a dream that cannot going on.