Robert Arneson’s Portrait of George portrays George Moscone, a former mayor of San Francisco in the late 1970s. The portrait is actually a bust, that sits on a column covered with graffiti and phrases in reflection to Moscone’s life and may have been deemed unusual due to its overly casual appearance in bright colors and irreverent nature. This contrasts with Moscone’s professional career and reputation in politics and was not successful as political art as it was taken down for being seen as inappropriate and unrefined. Though Arneson’s intentions may have meant well, the controversy lied in the lack of nobility of the appearance of the bust. An honoring of a person in form of art is usually seen as more noble and serious in appearance as
Henry James in the funeral article of Lippincott’s Magazine from July 1877, issues a negative tone on describing the people attending, but is being positive about Mr. George Odger. The diction of James is agitating for the people that are present yet magnificent because it’s the funeral of an honorable man, who defended the poor. The occasion caused Mr. James talking “indecent “about the low class people, calling them “dregs” of “itinerants”. He is discriminating the poor and insulting them.
The Great Gatsby Have you ever wondered why Gatsby decided to come back and find Daisy? In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby pursues to find his ex-lover Daisy by buying a house and throwing massive parties across the bay hoping she would wander into his party sometime. Gatsby has a true love for Daisy and he is very eager to find her so he uses Nick as a way to reel her into his hands. The main character Nick is seen throughout the novel as a bystander and Gatsby’s new good friend.
Shirley recounts historical facts based on Judge Isaac C. Parker and the insight on the real Old West way of life. In the book offers several references to George Maledon. It first reference briefly describes, “George Maledon starting out his career working as a Fort Smith police officer and Sebastian County deputy sheriff” (Shirley, 1957) before going to work for Judge Parker at the gallows.
Tone/Mood: “ ... I would use her notebooks to reclaim the past and overcome terrors of my own…” (Page 1) The first page really sets a dreadful tone for the entire book. Isabel Allende uses words like “terrors”, “defenseless”, “mourning”, “powerless”, “indecent”, and “disgust”. I feel as though the ending of the book will as somber as the beginning of it.
Scott Fitzgerald the author of the Great Gatsby also shows in his book that the American dream is still alive by showing the characters George Wilson and Myrtle Wilson. The first character, George Wilson's American dream is to try and make his business successful so he can live a better life then the one he is living now. George wilson is trying his best to achieve his dream by working hard and trying to get more people come to his business so he can make more money so he can make his business more successful. We know he is working hard and is having trouble with getting customers to come to his shop because of this quote “The Valley of Ashes.”
It has been said that “beauty is pain” and in the case of this poem, it is quite literal. “For That He Looked Not Upon Her” written by George Gascoigne, a sixteenth century poet, is a poem in which the speaker cannot look upon the one he loves so that he will not be trapped by her enhanced beauty and looks. In the form of an English sonnet, the speaker uses miserable diction and visual imagery to tell the readers and his love why he cannot look upon her face. Containing three quatrains and a rhyming couplet at the end, this poem displays a perfect English sonnet using iambic pentameter to make it sound serious and conversational. This is significant because most sonnets are about love and each quatrain, in English sonnets, further the speaker’s
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AP 2014 POEM “For That He Looked Not upon Her” Edward Lee AP English Literature Ms. Pesqueda May 5, 2023 A Louring Mind Human relationships are as complex and weaving as they are necessary for people to maintain. In “For That He Looked Not upon Her” by George Gascoigne, the speaker laments of his sorrow borne of an ensnaring relation that engulfed him in consuming misery. The speaker’s multifaceted thoughts become apparent to the audience through his calm recollection and speech patterns, the burrowing pain of deception, and the subtle yet intrusive emotion.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Fay is a beautiful, rich girl married to Tom Buchanan, but has an affair with a sweetheart from when she was younger, Jay Gatsby. Tom Buchanan is a surly, commanding man, born with enough money to run a country. He and Daisy are married in June of 1919, with “more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before”(75). He and Daisy are much alike, both being so rich that they can simply spend their entire lives on vacation essentially, and using their immense wealth as a buffer against anything wrong they do. Nick describes them in his final narration as being “careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness … and
George Griffith What exactly is a hero? According to Google, a hero is a person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. People have many contrasting ideas and beliefs about what a hero is. Some people consider a hero someone like Superman and others consider a real hero someone like Martin Luther King Jr or someone who has worked to benefit society in a positive.
Beryl Bainbridge's novel Master George, is a historical piece set in the mid-1800’s. The novel depicts the life of surgeon and amateur photographer George Hardy. Like several of her novels master Georgie is a historical fiction and thus takes place during the Crimean War. The Crimean War was the conflict between the Russians, British, French, and the Ottoman Turks over the Middle East, specifically in the Crimean Peninsula. During this war Britain and France sided with the Turks to keep the Russians at bay.
Katharine Brush 's short story "Birthday Party" is about the perjury of a third person 's judgment about a birthday party thrown by a wife for her husband. Is truly a story with an objective to challenge defining how a man-woman relationship should function. This short story reveals how joyless a marriage can be when spouses are too unimaginative to stray from the bourgeois affection. The use of descriptions, perspective, diction and syntax portray the husband’s insolence so well that its purpose to induce the reader’s disgust is utterly achieved. Sensory details reveal how insignificant the celebration quickly rises into a heartbreaking emotional embarrassment.
Although his lover’s actual beauty will fade, he will forever love him/her. In Sonnet 130, despite all the magnificent things he contrasts his lover with, he still loves him/her. Through these examples, one can clearly conclude that love conquers all things- the beautiful and the ugly. This is a message that still carries through to today’s society, and that is why these poems are relevant to the people of this modern
The two poems I will be comparing and contrasting in this essay are two of William Shakespeare 's most popular sonnets. Sonnets in chapter 19, 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? ', and in chapter 23, 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds, ' of our Literature book. Both of these poems deal with the subject of love but each poem deals with its subject matter in a slightly different way. Each also has a different purpose and audience. In the case of 'Shall I compare thee ' the audience is meant to be the person Shakespeare is writing the sonnet about.