Adelbert Ames, Letter from the Republican Governor of Mississippi (1875) Adelbert Ames, an Idealist, Union war hero, and Medal of Honor recipient stayed in the South after the Civil War to aid in the region’s Reconstruction. Ames discovered white resistance to Republican rule, first as a senator, then as the governor of Mississippi. On September 5, 1875, Ames wrote a terrifying letter to his wife Blanche to express despair over what was going on. His letter tells a story of fifteen colored men, women, and children. He recounts how while the group was barbecuing in Clinton, white men fired into the crowd killing two women and two children.
How effectively do the prescribed poems use language forms and feature to convey images of the Australian landscape? The beauty and significance of an Australian landscape is successfully conveyed in the poems through a variety of language forms and features. My Country by Dorothea Mackellar and Red by W.Les Russell are the medium through which poets express their feelings and love towards Australia. The poem Red by W.Les Russell reflects the Australian Indigenous spiritual, physical, social and cultural connection to Australia through flora, fauna and land.
In The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative, In the second and third chapter Thomas King discusses the difference between the literary Indian and the Indian of fact. In the second chapter, King describes how the “literary Indian” was the idea of an Indian that was dying – which, in reality, didn’t exist. King describes this in his second chapter saying, “To be sure, while many of the tribes that lived along the east coast of North America, in the interior of Lower Canada, and in the Connecticut, Ohio, and St. Lawrence river valleys had been injured and disoriented by the years of almost constant warfare, by European diseases, and by the destructive push of settlers for cheap land, and the vast majority of the tribes were a comfortable distance
Maggie Nelson condemns the media’s erotic interest in violence done to women. Her novel, The Red Parts, is as much of an explanation of what happened at the trial for her aunt, Jane, as it is commentary of the perverse enjoyment people have for learning of these cases on TV. When going over her aunt’s case, Nelson tries to describe what occurred truthfully and objectively, avoiding erotic descriptors as they are disrespectful to Jane and all the women who shared a similar fate. One of the things Nelson shared about the trial was the media’s high interest in it. News stations and crime shows sent cameramen to film the proceedings and tried to secure interviews with members of the Nelson family.
When Weisel experiences, “Babies! Yes I did see this, with my own eyes, children thrown into the flames” (32). And the woman on the train shouts, “Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere” (26).
Although many Americans have lost their hope in how society treats the ones that do not have enough to cover their basic needs, there is still people that care about the ones that do not have the same resources to keep a proper life like us. The “Lady in Red”, a story brought to us by the writer Richard LeMieux, this story proves that there is still people that are willing to help others with their needs. This excerpt tells the story of LeMieux, when he was homeless; it takes place on thanksgiving of 2002 in the city of Poulsbo, Washington. It shows how there still people that are willing to help others
In, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight”, by Dylan Thomas, the author’s use of diction displays how he believes that no one should go down without a fight. To begin his poem, Thomas uses the title to emphasize his belief. A common recurrence throughout his poem is his use of two different lines, in which he alternates to end each stanza with. For example, he ends his first stanza with, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” and ends his second stanza with, “Do not go gentle into that good night.” (Thomas 3 & 6), and so on.
(Book Review) ROSE SEES RED By: Cecil Castellucci INTRODUCTION: Cecil C. Castellucci is known being Canadian young adult novelist, indie rocker, and director. She is born on October 25, 1969, in America. Castellucci grew up in New York City where she attended the Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts.
There are two different blood types silver and red. Silvers rule the world they have power and money. Each silver also has there own unique ability. Reds are the opposite they are poor and have no special ability. Mare is a lowly red who steals to keep food on the table.
By repeating these two lines a great emphasis is put on them and their meaning, Thomas is telling us and telling us and telling us to do these things, to not go quietly, to rage, that if we must die we have to go out swinging, etcetera, etcetera. By using repetition, Thomas reiterates and really drives home the theme which is to “not go gentle”, to “rage, rage”, to stay alive. There is, also, the use of parallel stories in this poem. The way parallel stories are used is by recreating the same context, an old man close to death, but with a different kind of man every time. In this poem we encounter “wise men”, “good men”, “wild men”, and “grave men”.
Here the poem uses imagery excellently, for the viewpoint of the reader receives a total paradigm shift. Taking into consideration the dark tone of the poem until now, the change is dramatic and revealing. Almost as if the sun were rising from a dark night or a child was being born, the veil over the reader is lifted and light replaces the darkness clouding them. This shift is due to the outstanding introduction of the son of God at the end of the poem, which spotlights Him as the solution to the proposed problem, so the only way to have light in life is through Jesus Christ.
In the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night,” the poet uses a metaphor to compare death as “night” and “dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas repeats the lines “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” in each stanza to emphasize that all men should not accept death, but fight it until their last breath. He describes four types of dying men before addressing his father. First, he states that intelligent men that know death is near and have not had any impact on society still fight to live: “though wise men at their end know dark is right, / Because their words had forked no lightning they / do not go gentle into the good night.” (Lines 4-6).
This is relevant to the meaning of the poem whereas Thomas reiterates the need to “...rage against the dying of the light.” The repetition of this line creates an urgent tone, as if to plead to those who are leaving this world
This poem is written during the hardships of World War I which would gives a life threatening mood to a reader. Without that specific information a reader would clarify quotes such as “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere” (5)will help the reader acknowledge that chaos has appeared somehow. The idea of a chaotic society gives a understanding that something terrible has happened as the author expresses that a last hour is upon us with the quotation “ And what rough beast, its hour come round at last”(21) implies that a previous quote “The darkness drops again”(18) has foreshadowed the darkness has done its job by awakening Jesus once more for the Second
Throughout his poem he compares night and darkness to death, and light to life. By saying “Do not go gentle” (1), he is saying for one to not to let the darkness have authority, but to draw a temper and to not let darkness have dominion. Using these metaphors enables him to create imagery and
