The book “Shadowshaper” by Daniel Jose, is a diverse urban fantasy novel that takes place in Brooklyn. The story begins with Sierra Santiago an Afro-Latino, who was painting a mural on an abandoned building when all of the sudden the mural started fading too quickly, the faces on mural started shifting from happy to terror, some of them shedding tears. Sierra’s grandfather, Lazaro who can’t talk due to a stroke, tells her the Shadowshaper are coming and she has to finish the murals as quickly as possible. She also needs to find Robbie an artist, who is going to help her. Together, Sierra, Robbie, and her friends unraveling the mystery of Shadowshaper and her family connection to them.
America is a land of immigrants. People come from all parts of the world to experience the American dream. These two pieces of literature are focused on Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans. In the Poem which resembles a letter, In Response to Executive Order 9066 by Dwight Okita. The author is writing about a fourteen year old Japanese girl.
This is a part of the poem from the book Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. The passage is about division among people, their loss of touch with nature and hostility. In modern society it’s kind of a norm and new trend being anti-social and guarded. People are prejudice and racist against each other and there are many frustrations and unfairness. The main focus of this particular poem is hostility and bitterness.
{I can’t think of a dang introduction sentence for the life of me. Good thing this is a rough draft]. Together with four classmates in my English class, I created an anthology of five poems on the theme of death. The authors within the anthology include Bill Knott, Dusan “Charles” Simic, Donald Justice, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Kathleen Ossip. My favorite poem in the anthology is “Eyes Fastened With Pins” by Dusan “Charles” Simic, as it is well written, with the use of rhetorical devices and personal experience, to ultimately convey his belief that death is inevitable, no more or less special for anyone in particular.
Attitude: The attitude of the poem is assertive and defiant. The speaker, who represents women as a collective, refuses to accept the traditional gender roles imposed on them and demands recognition and equality. There is a sense of empowerment and determination in the speaker's stance. 1st Stanza: Tone: Critical, Indignant Attitude: Defiant
This poem showed that anyone can be somebody no matter what background they came from or situation they're in. He then proceeded to say that people need
The commands and rhetorical questions in the poem are critical in order to make the reader really care and feel passionate about the
Acceptance is something the speaker has to adapt to, he ends up accepting that the impact of English is so large of his life, he can’t separate from it. Then he continues on Stanza 30-34, lines 88-93. “There’s much more to green than ‘go,’ and there’s much, much more to yellow than ‘caution,’ for as the yellow sun clearly enunciated to me this morning.” By describing these words as such, the speaker is able to demonstrate to the reader, he is starting to understand what English really means to him. The fact that English language is so important to the speaker is something the speaker has come to an acceptance
This poem also comments on societies attitude towards the unemployed and people in a bad situation. It comments on societies apathy to bad situations experienced by others and disgust of disadvantaged and poor people. The poem reads like a list of all the things the person is supposed to follow, "eat with
The rhyme alternating from the beginning gives kind soft words, “brothers” “creeds” “deeds”, whereas the opposite alternating words that the poem ends with are harsher “fast”, “alone”, “cast”. The alternating tone given off by these words implies that no matter if we do good or bad, it still shapes us into who we are. All these words and phrases strengthen the message of its not who we are or where we’re from that matters, what we do is what really
Written poetry is seen as more universal than personal as the reader, instead of the
The Thorough Breakdown of Poem Immigrants After reading and studying the poem “Immigrants” by Pat Mora, one can see and identify a few literary symbolisms that are used to express the fearful tone of the poem. This poems three literary symbols that can be seen are, a sense of pride, acceptance, and of course sacrifice. The tone of this poem show how much an immigrant has to sacrifice in this country, in order to gain acceptance and, therefore, be proud Americans. Although, they can’t ever stop being who they are, they must try and sacrifice their own culture in order to be Americans.
It can also give us implied information or moods that aren’t supposed to be direct. In line 38, it is stated,”When you dream.”. This is implying that even when they sleep that they cannot escape the diversity and discrimination they receive everyday. In stanza 1 it states, “My brother and I… decided to get the ‘good food’ over on the other side of the tracks”. This makes the readers think they believe in the discrimination; that anything of the other people’s is better because those people are better than the Watt’s people.
In the first stanza, we can already see how this poem can relate to the world today and how we feel about certain things. We as humans don't like change. Sometimes, we want something to happen so bad, that we don't consider how our life might change if this wish, this hope of something, actually happened. We sometimes may want something so bad, but fear what the consequences might be if something goes
In this grand poem, Whitman glorifies the unity of all people and life. He embraces the geographical diversity as well as the diversity of culture, work, as well as sexuality or beliefs. Whitman’s influence sets American dreams of freedom, independence, and self-fulfillment, and changes them for larger spiritual meaning. Whitman appreciates hard work as well as being simple and non-egotistical. His major ideas are things such as soul, good health, as well as the love of nature.
