Charley Patton was the scrawny child of sharecropper parents. In 1900, his family moved 100 miles north to the Delta and the Will Dockery Plantation. There Patton fell under the spell of guitarist Henry Sloan and would follow him to gigs. By 1910, he had become proficient as a performer and songwriter, having already composed "Down The Dirt Road Blues," a slow drag called "Banty Rooster Blues," and his theme song "Pony
Immediately from the start, the unknown oppressors attempt to isolate the author by “build[ing] walls higher” and “paint[ing] the windows black” so that he does not establish communication with the outside world. Subsequently, the oppressors locking of his cage represents his imprisonment (Constantakis lines16-17: 278). In lines 5-9, the author’s “heart” gets “rip[ped] open” and his life “crush[ed]”, so that he does not have any goals to live for, and so that he does not live his life as he wants. The captors describe him as “beastly and fiendish”, which serves as a mental restraint to the author’s outward attitude; while having “no passage out of hell” indicates that the author will remain stuck with his woes until he can no longer handle them. The imagery creates an idea of superiority for the oppressors over the author, and their cruelty through torture.
Play Review Assignment In the play, “ Subterranean Homesick Blues Again “ By Dennis Reardon, this young tours guide decided to deceive the minds of two bickering couples that came to visit the famous caverns. The tours guide leads the couples into different levels of the caverns, which could potentially represent how sinful each of the levels are. Both couples do not seem to suspect anything wrong, but comes to find out they were being lowered to the underground, where their souls were now in hell. Readon reveals death trails.
They had entered the land of the contentious; also known as hell. The author used the perfect back and forth dialogue in every argument. The constant conflict between the main characters distracts us from what is really going on. I also like how he uses each floor to represent stages
In the 10 minute play Subterranean Homesick blues again written by Dennis Reardon writes about a group of people who go on a journey in a cave, but this cave journey is not an ordinary journey in the caverns. This cave takes tourist to a world under our own. Throughout the play reardon reveals Greek mythology as the tourist are taken through the cave, and also Reardon gives a glimpse of how Greeks used to live. Subterranean Homesick Blues Again the playwright offered a very interesting change of events that gave a perplexed feeling to me.
The play “Subterranean Homesick Blues Again” by Dennis Reardon the genre is drama. The description of the introduction of the play is humorous. At the beginning it was funny because the characters were joking around, but as the play goes on and the family takes a trip then the play turned to horror because they found once they went they can never go back so they were stuck forever. Overall i enjoyed this play because this play consises of many many characters which makes it more fun to read because it can understand where are they coming from. Another thing i enjoyed the most is the way the author developed it to make it more entertaining.
In the drama “Subterranean Homesick Blues again” by Dennis Reardon is about a group of people going into the caverns, but it has a deeper meaning thanks to the tour guide who isn’t your average tour guide. This tour guide gives such a different and deeper meaning in the play. It’s about life and death and you’ll see that around the end how the “tour” concludes. My initial reaction to this play was shocked on how the play went from 0-100 since you think that there just in a cavern, but then they end up in hell.
Dante’s Inferno is an epic poem by Durante “Dante” degli Alighieri, written in the 1300s. He wrote a trilogy, known as the Divine Comedy, consisting of Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante was inspired by many events and issues happening at that time, such as the war between Guelphs and Ghibellines, the Battle of Montaperti, and Christian religious beliefs. In this paper, I will explore the first book, Inferno, on the topic of Hell and how the sinners had a significant impact on Dante’s journey through Hell. In Circle 5: Styx, Canto VIII, Filippo Argenti, a sinner of Wrathful, helped Dante to symbolize to readers his anger towards Black Guelphs, political enemies of the White Guelphs.
The play “ Subterranean Homesick Blues Again” by Dennis R. is a ten minute play written back in May 25th, 1983. The short play was written about a young tour guide that decides to mess with two bickering married couples ( Naomi ,Sherman ,Mick And Kathy , that came in to visit a famous cavern that the tour guide was touring them through ,but then it seems the tour took a couple turns when they were in the caverns. The play was written with a purpose of humor with a twist of darkness of a double date gone wrong for the readers to enjoy the unpredictable events occurring in this ten minute short play. The play “ Subterranean Homesick Blues Again” was a well written structured play with many details that drove the play into a humorous play.
On the bus, the narrator encounters various people who reveal what the nature of Hell is. First, the narrator meets a youth. After a puzzling comment from the boy, the narrator asks, “Do they like [Grey Town]?” (Lewis 469). The youth is convinced that the damned like Hell “as much as they’d like anything” (Lewis 469).
Subterranean Homesick Blues Again is a comedic play that soon turns tragic written by Dennis Reardon. The fantasy truly grasps of the horror between life and death as a young tour guide leads two bickering couples on a ghoulish path to hell, all the while to tousling with their minds. As the couples slowly deteriorate level by level, they realize much too late the danger around them; weeping as their souls and minds are consumed by the darkness of the treacherous cavern. Reardon portrays this elevator to hell as a series of floors that only seem to descend.
Leaving Rome, the demigods board the Argo II, and try to fly east unsuccessfully over the Mountains, worn out by mountain gods. Arion takes Hazel to Hecate, who tells Hazel four directions in which she can take and the horrors with them. Hazel picks route, through a secret pass, in which she must use the Mist. Meanwhile, Percy and Annabeth fell into Tartarus and began their horribly long journey to the Doors of Death, by following the River.
When I enrolled into University of Connecticut in 2009, I was living my life conforming to other people's goals and not my own. Life purpose and life intentions are rich and valuable. It can also be helpful in aiding us to move through the challenges life brings us. Self-discovery is an evolving process. Sometimes you have to take a detour in life.
As the characters navigate the maze, they confront the presence of an unseen power manipulating their lives. Simultaneously, the maze acts as a catalyst, forcing them to confront their inner struggles and delve deep within themselves to uncover their true identities. Through this dual representation, the novel combines the themes of authority, control, and self-discovery, showcasing the intricate relationship between external forces and internal growth. The ever-shifting nature of the maze, coupled with the numerous trials the characters endure, serves as a powerful symbol of their profound lack of control over their circumstances and the pervasive authority that WICKED exerts over their lives. The boys find themselves captured by the WICKED in an enigmatic realm they struggle to comprehend.
Inferno explores the descent of mankind into sin. The work’s vast usage of imagery and symbols, a powerful allegory, and well known allusions highlight political issues whilst dealing with the nature of sin and the road to salvation. In Inferno, Dante is forced to take a journey through hell. With the help of Virgil, his personal tour guide, Dante sees the different kinds of sins, as well as their contrapasso, or
