In the short story “Lysandra’s Poem”, by Budge Wilson, Lysandra is justified in taking revenge on Elaine. This is because Elaine was never a good friend to begin with. Elaine mentions that Lysandra was always made fun of as a child, being given the nickname “Pigeon-Toed Cochrane”. Elaine had never stood up for Lysandra, not even once. If they truly were best friends, Elaine would have tried to stand up for Lysandra.
Immigrant from Cuba Speaks His Mind through Poetry Luis Estable’s poems are simple yet thought-provoking and fun to read. Cuban immigrant Luis Estable offers his gift of poetry to America, and what a wonderful gift it is. Over the years, he has written hundreds of pieces of poetry, in styles ranging from free verse to sonnet. Estable covers a wide range of topics and themes, and he conveys different thoughts and emotions between the lines. Such poems are found in his first published book of poetry
Walter Dean Myers won the Coretta Scott King award for African American author five times. Myers was originally named Walter Milton Myers but he adopted the middle name “Dean” to honor Florence and Herbert the parents that raised him after his mother passed away when he was 18 months and his father sent him to live with Florence and Herbert Dean. Walter Dean Myers was born in August 12, 1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia and died July 1, 2014 in Manhattan, New York city, New York. When he was a child his life involved his neighborhood and church, the neighborhood protected him and the church him, and also had a speech impediment that made communicating very difficult for him.
Topic: The complex relations between fathers and children in the poetry of Robert Hayden, Rhina Espillat, and Theodore Roethke Thesis: the historical backgrounds and family settings of Robert Hayden, Rhina Espillat, and Theodore Roethke have contributed to the expression of complex father and children relationships in some of their poems. Williams, Pontheolla T. Robert Hayden: A Critical Analysis of His Poetry. University of Illinois Press, 1987.
The black men who fought in the Civil War made huge sacrifices and had more challenges than white soldiers due to discrimination. Yet in her poem, Trethewey notices that they were not given the same recognition as the white soldiers. In the poem, Trethewey repeats the word “half”. First, in line 5 she says “Half a reminder of the men who served there” (5). Only the white soldiers are remembered.
Both Emily Dickinson in her poem “A Man may make a Remark” and Ray Bradbury in his novel Fahrenheit 451 develop the theme that a movement can start from the smallest remark. It reminds us that everyone has the ability to make a change in society, but they must have a thought-out plan and an open mind to do so. Dickinson opens her poem with the lines “A Man may make Remark-/In itself- a quiet thing” (1-2). The remark symbolizes the start of a movement and she personifies it because doing this the remark sounds more powerful, and it can take on a life of its own.
Although a poet rooted in the folk tradition of the African American South, Finney’s work relies upon the spiritual and aesthetic influence of West African tradition, the womanist wisdom of her maternal grandmother, Beulah Lenorah Davenport, and her family’s political commitment to equality and social justice (Beaulieu 333). She mingles the personal with the public in order to share the experience with her readers and therefore truly express their feelings. “I think that my putting myself in my poetry is me saying to my readers and my listeners “I’m willing to stand here and be as vulnerable as perhaps I am making others and situations vulnerable in my work. I have to be willing to do that” (Finney, “Interview with: Nikky Finney.”).
In Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, he uses diction, imagery, and emotional appeal to get his message of nonviolence across. First of all, Henry David Thoreau's
Williams’s article is written in a subjective viewpoint. His audience for this particular journal entry is towards other educators, as he himself is also a writing professor at a university. Because of the author’s educational background, he can use his own experiences to address issues with teaching methodology in writing. Williams begins his article with a quote from an unidentified individual whom he met at a conference: “I’m not so sure that an academic journal should be focusing so much on identity when what we’re supposed to be doing is teaching academic literacy” (710). With this introduction, Williams is able to address the common stigma he has come across throughout his career as a writing educator.
“But mousie you are not alone your planning may be in vain, the best plans of mice and men often go Ary.” A line from “Of Mice And Men.” A poem by by Robert burns which’s theme is Even the best laid out plans fail and we should show sympathy for the ones whose plans do. When John Steinbeck wrote his book OMM, he had Robert Burns Poem in mind and here's why.
Bill Watterson, author of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, once said in his speech to Kenyon College, “We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.” Our world is full of people who know that they want something more in life, but only a small percentage of them know what it is they want, or even have the drive to achieve some far-away goal. These lives yearn for an escape from monotony, but why is it seemingly impossible for them to achieve freedom? Tennessee Williams alludes to the Pablo Picasso painting “Guernica” to represent the Tom, a character in “The Glass Menagerie” and his desire for freedom, and to live his own personal life. “Guernica” was painted by Pablo Picasso after the bombing of the city by the same name.
This poem details a misfit who believes he should have been born in a different era. He believes the days of Ancient Greece were better than modern time and wants to live out the personas of rules of that time. Instead of being productive he decides to drink his misery away of being born in the wrong time. Miniver Cheevy wanted to live a life of men in past time that held traits of bravery and gallantry because he felt he failed at life. I believe Robinson’s tone of the poem appealed more to masculinity.
Looking at what she had gone through as a teen and into her early adult years is a perfect example of how she is so experienced and skilled. Denise had been big into poetry at such a young age that she knew many style techniques when it came to her own writing. Levertov demonstrated what was called “Romanticism” in fact she was called the “baby of the new romanticism.” Romanticism is a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of older verse forms.
Liberation After Death: Akhmatova’s Shifting Tone in “Requiem” Written between 1935 and 1940, Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem” follows a grieving mother as she endures the Great Purge. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s General Secretary, unabatedly pursued eliminating dissenters and, consequently, accused or killed hundreds of thousands who allegedly perpetrated political transgressions (“Repression and Terror: Kirov Murder and Purges”). Despite the fifteen-year censorship, Akhmatova avoided physical persecution, though she saw her son jailed for seventeen months (Bailey 324). The first-person speaker in “Requiem,” assumed to be Akhmatova due to the speaker’s identical experience of crying aloud “for seventeen months” (Section 5, Line 1), changes her sentiments towards deaths as reflected in the poem’s tone shifts.
Many poems about the civil war convey universal themes of the time. Stephen Crane’s poem “War is Kind” is no different. The poem,“War is kind” written by Stephen Crane(1871-1900) has three themes common to civil war literature: Warfare, Home, and Patriotism. This poem’s overall theme is about how war destroys families conversely to the title of “War is Kind” or the many times which Crane says “War is Kind”.
