‘’The Monsters Due On Maple Street’’:This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we all call the a Twilight Zone. Fade in on a shot of the night sky. The various nebulae and plant bodies stand out and sharp,sparkling relief. And the camera begins a slow pan across the Heavens.”Boom”, the power goes out on the whole Maple Street.
The author uses the metaphor “a silent howl” to show how fearful the narrator was feeling opening that letter. A certain choice of words can truly change what a person is feeling through a story. “Oh, Jesus,” he said, and moaned, and tried to slide
In “The History Teacher” he describes his students going out to recesses. “The children would leave his classroom for the playground… mussing up their hair and breaking their glasses...and walked home passing flower beds and white picket fences.” Creating and using the senses for the audience that the bullies are scaring the children meaning they take their innocence away from them because it creates fear for the children who are playing. Also at the end of the poem he describes what is a group of soldiers sitting and knowing their enemies are doing the same. In “A Barred Owl” the poet also uses imagery to create an ambitious tone.
A: The poem is directed to fanatics of horror or eerie writings, it’s written in a way that leaves an open door for the unknown, which can cause fear for many people since they don’t know what could be out to get the main character. P: The author might want to tell his readers that a person with no sympathy will eventually end up alone, eating themselves up with the regrets that they’ve been holding on for so long. S:
Also, the poem uses an elevated diction with a formal tone throughout. “A powerful monster, living down in the darkness, growled in pain, impatient as day after day the music rang” (Raffel 1-3). There is an obvious tone that makes the reader read as if they are telling a scary story while still being quite
Alexa Gibbons Dr. Andrea Trapp Intro to Literature 1 March 2023 Essay One Poetry can be defined as the use of imaginative language in order to gain an emotional response from a reader through the use of metronomic rhythm, tone of voice, and symbolism. In this essay I will be using a poem entitled, “Alley” by Tom Chester in order to create a relationship between poetry and three different types of literary criticism; Reader Oriented Criticism, Historical Criticism, and New Criticism. This poem is derived from the Intro to Literature textbook written by William Stewart. The importance of understanding between these devices stems from the reader's impression of what is in front of them. The interesting aspect of poetry is that no person understands it the same way twice.
In the final analysis, most readers of this poem tend to deduce a dark theme of physical violence due to its tone, word choice and imagery. Nonetherless, Roethke balances positive and negative tones of the poem to give it a rich and ambiguous quality. The exceeding tendency to paint the picture of child abuse deprives it, of this quality. “My Papa’s Waltz,” illustrates a special and powerful moment, shared between a father and a son through a waltz.
This essay presents a Literary Analysis on the short story "Just a Howl" written by Will Richter and published in 2023 (Richter). The protagonist, Ana, finds herself in the midst of a murder at an event where renowned author Gilman Ross is scheduled to speak. The author skillfully explores the dichotomy between the peaceful world of literature and the harsh reality of random acts of violence. This essay will delve into the profound themes raised in the story and examine the underlying social discontents that contribute to such tragic incidents. Additionally, the critical reflection on the writing process will shed light on the role of AI tools and their relationship with human creativity and interpretation.
Slaughterhouse-5: A tale of human war and Suffering Eternity of life is just an equivocal concept. Can a being live perpetually, even if not alive at this moment? This is just one philosophical point made by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in his book “ Slaughterhouse-5”. Vonnegut, having experienced the calamity of the Dresden bombing wrote this book to concede suffering, and not to publicize or propagandize any kind of fallacy that this is an anti-war book.
Sometimes people forget that there are often many flaws in seemingly perfect things. They imagine perfection, but there will still be many factors that were overlooked. The author of “2BR02B”, Kurt Vonnegut, realizes that perfection will never be achieved. Even in the far future when there are many new, helpful innovations and perfection will be strived for, it is not obtainable. Through Vonnegut’s use of setting and symbolism, it is evident that he feels that there will always be flaws.
Political Event: “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg “who covered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall” (line 9) “who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism” (line 31) Allen Ginsberg was a very educational person. His mother was an English teacher and his father was a Russian expatriate, a poet. Along with his intellectual knowledge, he studied at Columbia University where he met William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Irwin Allen Ginsberg would be his full name, born in Newark, New Jersey and he was the founding father of a Beat Generation (Poetry Foundation).
His use of words like “battering ram” and “boom burst” are creating even more suspense. As a woman, I found the poem very unsettling. He writes about rape in a very blunt way, he is very expressive and that made the poem quite disturbing to
Also it is depicted how the father is cruel and at the same time gentle. Booby Fang , a literary analyst, showed how this poem can have mixed feelings of interpretation. He mentions how the poem is like a seesaw where the elements of joy, which Fang notes as the figure of the waltz and the rhythm it has, balances with elements of fear which he mentions happens through the effects of diction used in the novel such as the words like romped, scraped, beat, and whiskey. The narrator in the poem is remembering an incident in his childhood which shows that thet there were qualities in his father that were good and bad. He mentions that the achievement of this poem is that it permits readers to access such powerful memories in their own lives in ways consistent with the words and construction of the
Many of his poems sound like a dialogue because they were meant to be spoken out loud. An example of this would be Howl. First hand accounts have stated that the full message of the poem could be felt from the way Ginsberg presented it. This poem was very risque at the time due to the vulgarity of the language and the taboo topics discussed throughout. Not everyone took it well, so much so that the police department even tried to sue the publishing company.
Fear is a painful emotion experienced in the presence of the expectation of danger. In the poem, The Invisible Beast, author Jack Prelutsky paints the picture of a ,”Beast that is invisible” ( Prelutsky 1). All throughout the writing of the poem, he perceives that the person has not yet noticed the fear, but the feeling still lurks. His interpretation of fear as the “beast”( Prelutsky 1) is similar to the fear that Reuben, the protagonist in Peace Like A River, encounters. In one scene of the book, Enger writes that Reubens’,”Lungs shrank with expectation” (Enger 49) as he notes Israel Finch and Tommy Basca in his home.
