In literature and in life, misunderstandings create a divide in society. In “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, the Walls live a reckless lifestyle and frequently move around the country, as a result of their denial towards society. “Poetry” by Marianne Moore describes Moore’s complicated relationship poetry because it is often not true, raw emotion. “The Glass Castle” and “Poetry” are representative of the constant battle between self and society.
Both poems, 'Orkney Interior’ by Ian Hamilton Finlay and 'The House ' by Sweeney investigate the components of an unusual and dreamlike atmosphere by utilizing subjects of surrealism, destiny and issue. Finlay uses elements of an island to describe the landscape, in order to highlight the routine he is trapped in and Sweeney uses many techniques including tone, specific choice of words/diction in order to make this poem compelling and erect a weird atmosphere. The theme of solitude/isolation is scrutinized in both poems. In ‘The House’, the speaker does not define the place he lived in as a ‘home’ but refers to it as ‘The House’, which distances him from the house, stressing on the fact that he did not feel like he belonged there.
Monument 14 is a book written by Emmy Laybourne in which a post apocalyptic story takes place. The story follows Dean, a teenager, who is stuck inside of a grocery store with other students, including his younger brother Alex. They are forced to stay inside of the store because there is freak super cells developing over them that are causing huge hail storms and other severe conditions. While there they have to overcome many obstacles and difficulties that reveal their true colors. Although this novel is nonfiction, it impacts society by showing how catastrophes can affect people and it also shows how dependent we have become on other people and other objects in our daily life.
Under the Southwestern Sky Parched and dry describes your land, with buttes and canyons all so grand! Oh such a wonder to behold, your beauty is worth its price in gold! This arid region
While, reading the article "Some Lessons from the Assemble Line ", I think the main point of this article is to compare working at a plant to college. According to Baaksma “Working can put stress on your body and going to college seems much easier to do” (17). Andrew Baaksma wants his readers to think about the importance of college and how simple it can be to get up and go to classes vs how stressful it can be getting up and going to work at a plant. I think Andrews views of college and work life to be true. I see it for myself, this is one of the reasons why I decided to go to college.
Jean Toomer’s “Georgia Dusk” reveals the remaining influence of slavery on a newly freed African American society. The title is especially relevant within Toomer’s poem, as it signifies a motif that exhibits lightness and darkness within the poem. “Georgia Dusk” signifies this fusion through the word “dusk”, or the time when day transforms into night. This has a possible relation to Toomer’s identity as a mixed-race person, in that he has several racial identities.
Over the spring break, I enjoyed perusing through my collection of Yazoo Records reissues and spent considerable time with a seven-disc boxset entitled, Kentucky Mountain Music: Classic Recordings of the 1920s and 1930s. In the liner notes, Richard Nevins commented on a few sides recorded by Taylor’s Kentucky Boys at Gennett Records in 1927. In addition to some fine musicianship by the players, what made this group different was its interracial lineup of guitarist, Willie Young, banjoist, Marion Underwood, and African-American fiddler, Jim Booker. Nevins lamented that, historically, the racial make-up of the group was the most remarkable attribute of their recordings and not the fine playing on the few sides released by Gennett. He states, “It’s hard to understand why anyone would have the perverse impulse to place fiddlers into categories of black and white.
Totem poles have been carved and cherished from many generations. Some totem poles recall ancient stories, handed down from family, to family. Totems, typically Consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols. They are usually made from large trees, mostly of North America (northwestern and Canada's province, ). The word totem derives from the word "his kinship group".
Joy Harjo’s “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window”, references a broken woman who is deciding between life and death. The thirteenth floor in this poem is critical because the number 13 is viewed as an unlucky number and here you have an Indian woman who is poor and is dangling on the unluckiest floor of them. In fact, many buildings across this world do not have 13th floors and skip from 12 to 14. It is possible that the woman is mentally ill “The woman hanging from the 13th floor hears voices” (141). The woman hears one side telling her to jump and the other voice wants to help her save her life.
Wordsworth also uses imagery to expresses a similar experience. In the first stanza he describes “A host, of golden daffodils; /beside the lake, beneath the trees, /Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” (Wordsworth Ln 4-6). Words such as “host”, “golden”, “Fluttering” and “dancing”, all appeals to the reader’s sense of sight, hearing, and smell. It brings us into the scene.
Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind opens with views of a tapestry to provide backstory for the viewer to understand the course of events leading up to the film, such as the prophecy that is fulfilled at the end of the film. The tapestry is a creative way for the film to inform the viewer of the story of how the world became polluted and changed to appear as it does when the characters of the film are introduced. The tapestry emphasizes the fact that the pollution has happened a large amount of time ago considering that tapestries are often associated with ancient civilizations. By doing so, the film makes it seem like a precious item that has been passed down and preserved. This effect would not have been achieved had one of
He describes London as a fen, which is a swamp, but I believe he does not see it as a small pond, but rather a green and revolting swamp. The list in these lines represented the things that Wordsworth believed was great about London, until the people of London turned selfish and unhappy, which was, the altar representing religion, the sword representing the military, and the pen represents literature. Now I will give you some information about Paul Laurence Dunbar. Paul Laurence Dunbar was an excellent African American poet who published “Douglass” in 1895. During this time, the American Civil War was ending, but the states were still in horrifying conditions regarding race.
The days, which were once spent in the serene of the outdoors, are now filled with “getting” the material things that only make the hearts of man grow more selfish. The money as well as youth of people is being “spent” away on items that ultimately will not bring true pleasure to the soul. The materialism that Wordsworth encounters is not much different from that which can be seen in society today. Throughout the poem, diction is also used to explicitly show how the shift to materialism was a cognizant decision made by the society as a whole. These growing material desires did not
The bits and pieces of rhyme become much more apparent when the poem is read aloud. Occasionally we’ll get a couple of lines of blank verse, which have no rhyme but a regular meter, usually iambic pentameter, where an unstressed syllable is followed by an accent. Eliot uses a lot of rhyming couplets. Eliot is making fun of Prufrock by using this old-fashioned form. The rhyming couplets are sometimes called "heroic" couplets, but our title character is anything but heroic.
For Romantic poets, there is no greater force upon humans than one of the many forms of the imagination. For William Wordsworth, this force is exemplified in memory. The greatest example of his exploration of memory comes from "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798. " In it he displays his opinion of memory as a powerful source of enlightenment and pleasure through his interaction with the natural world. It becomes something he recalls time and time again to ease the ills of everyday life, giving him solace that he hopes can also affect the companion of the poem, his sister, Dorothy. Through his experience within "Tintern Abbey," Wordsworth presents his view that memory is a powerful balm that can allow its bearer some degree of relief from the adverse situations that a person may face throughout life.
