Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard is a collection of poems highlighting the childhood of her life and honoring her mother. Additionally, Trethewey speaks about the racial background of the Deep South where she grew up and one of the first black regiments who were called into service during the Civil War, the Louisiana Native Guards. Trethewey includes sonnets and monuments to express the meaning behind her poetry. Throughout the collection of poems, there are certain poems that are very apparent in expressing the severity of Trethewey and the Native Guard’s struggles. One of the poem’s in Native Guard that truly captivates the story of Trethewey’s childhood and racial struggles is “Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971”.
Abby Hoffman is a former elite Canadian track and field athlete. Abby, her real name Abigail is Jewish and was born in Toronto in 1947. During her childhood, she learned to skate when she was only 3 and showed her interest in playing hockey when she was 9 years old (Abby Hoffman, 2017). Her inspiration of playing sports was watching her elder brothers, Paul and Muni who were Hockey players. Going back to the early times, Women have been a part of hockey and their popularity led to the creation of Ladies Ontario Hockey Association in the early 1920 forming teams like Aura Lee, North Toronto.
In the first poem "Oranges", the creator utilizes delicate tone thinking about a youth memory of his first date with a young lady. The narrator gives the readers descriptive words to give details
“Innocent at Rinkside” Précis William Faulkner, in his Sports Illustrated article“Innocent at Rinkside” (1955), argues that he believes that there is too much violence without a purpose in sports by saying that “blood could flow, not from the crude impact of a heavier fist but from the rapid and delicate stroke of weapons” and adding on saying, “but only for a moment because he, the innocent, didn’t like that idea either” (para. 4). Faulkner supports his argument by incorporating imagery, diction, and syntax. Faulkner’s purpose is to present to the readers of Sports Illustrated, what a man like himself, who does not watch hockey or other violent sports, sees when watching a hockey game for the first time; he sees violence and what seems “discorded and inconsequent” (para. 2) with hints of patterns and beauty that then dissolves away. He adopts a hopeful tone [“The vacant ice looked tired, though it shouldn’t have. They told him it had been put down
Poetry is an extraordinary form of self expression, one can follow the limitations of certain poem styles such as limerics, or let the words flow freely without common writing restrictions such as punctuation and grammar. In his poem “The Lost Dancer,” Toomer describes the
Canada, a home of the great. Between the years 1914 and 1929 there have been many significant events such as change in women roles, Canada’s recognition as a nation, and advancement in technology. The significant events help out Canada by adding to its independence, improving its equality to all genders and establishing new forms of technology. These events have changed our daily lives and now we have grown into a civilized country.
Free verse poems can, in a way, symbolize freedom because it allows you to ‘write freely’. It gives poets the chance to illustrate and communicate meaning through images, linges, and more. The use of free verse illustrates the freedom that the narrator felt by giving her unrestricted access to writing her poem however she wanted. Elhillo’s use of a free verse structure provides comfort and relaxation.
In Audre Lorde’s essay, “Poetry is not a Luxury,” there is a similar theme that there is great strength in the sharing of stories. While Hairston’s main use of the theme is to illustrate the strength in using stories to bring people together, Lorde’s focus of this theme is to demonstrate the power of storytelling to share one’s thoughts and experiences with the world. Lorde argues that poetry is a
Through using alliteration, he creates a rhythm with in the poem that unmistakably suggests a rhythmic nature to the ecosystem. Reading between the lines, Hughes uses alliteration also to pose the quandary of painting the ecosystem in a still, and his difficulty accentuating the rhythmic pattern. Further down, Hughes uses visual imagery and auditory imagery to further the rambunctiousness that he attempts to paint. Visual imagery is more pronounced than auditory imagery within the poem as there are abundant examples of visual imagery. The first instance occurs within the first stanza as he describes the water lilies as “roofs the pond’s chamber”.
To many people not familiar with the sport of lacrosse, a men’s game is just like a women’s game. There does not seem to be too many differences. That is the case in most sports. The only difference is the uniform and the gender. However, this is not true for the sport of lacrosse.
By the twentieth century, modern poetry was freed of it’s constraints to meter, rhyme and other lingual schemes. Thus began the age of poetry becoming more opaque, complex, and private in nature, leading most readers to give up and claim that it is too personal to the poet for anyone else to understand, and denounce reading it. Free verse does hold a special place in the history of poetry, however, especially in those pieces written after the Victorian era, had to resemble some of the original piece’s meter and rhyme scheme. That is the case with Who Has Seen the Wind by the contemporary American poet Bob Kaufman. Kaufman wrote his piece in response to Christina Rosetti’s poem Who Has Seen the Wind.
Most people who watch Ice Hockey live in North America, Europe, and North Western Asia. The greatest experience for a hockey fan is cheering for their respected countries. Every country who has an Ice hockey team has die hard ice hockey fans who live for Ice hockey. The countries with the most ice hockey supporters are Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, and the United States of America. Ice hockey can unite countries, and bring people together.
It forces us to rethink or relationship with the natural world, as well as the inevitable mortality we as living beings must deal with. By describing Jane’s physical and emotional characteristics as aspects of nature, it reminds us of the connection we have with nature. That every soul has something to contribute to the world, no matter how unnoticeable we may think it is. Through the clever and thorough use of a number of literary devices and rhyme scheme, the overall form and meter of the poem allows us to imagine the life of Jane and the impact she had on those around
Ice hockey is a very fun and active sport a lots of people enjoy it because they can be a little rough. You can push people over and just rough house. In the olympics they decided to put ice hockey because they thought it was really interesting sport and they also put it in like 1875. They really like ice hockey because you can spice up things and have fun if you know how to use skates.
This style is abstract, undefined, and simply beautiful. “ And this is how I came to know my mother: she seemed a large, soft, loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.” (In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens). Walker uses simple vocabulary that is understood by the common reader, yet she puts together a full description of a
