Destini Boyd English 102:05 According to the poem, “Skittles for Trayvon: A Diminishing Suite In Verse” by Lilian Bertram. Judging a book by its cover will always cause tragedy. In the poem the text states “Trouble man took him for a terrible ghost.” This poem is about a young boy who wanders off into a neighborhood that is unfamiliar and is killed because of the way he is perceived by someone else.
Walter Dean Myers won the Coretta Scott King award for African American author five times. Myers was originally named Walter Milton Myers but he adopted the middle name “Dean” to honor Florence and Herbert the parents that raised him after his mother passed away when he was 18 months and his father sent him to live with Florence and Herbert Dean. Walter Dean Myers was born in August 12, 1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia and died July 1, 2014 in Manhattan, New York city, New York. When he was a child his life involved his neighborhood and church, the neighborhood protected him and the church him, and also had a speech impediment that made communicating very difficult for him.
In the poem “The Century Quilt” by Marilyn Nelson Waniek, Waniek is able to craft a complex, contemporary poem using a variety of literary devices. Through enjambment, imagery, and chronological succession, Waniek describes the complexities of her quilt and reflects on it’s beauty and uniqueness. In lines 1-2 of “The Century Quilt” Waniek uses enjambment to start her poem with ambiguity and suspense. In addition, her use of enjambment slows the pace and forces the reader to digest each line as an individual thought, rather than a cohesive statement. In turn, the slowed pace and ambiguity of the opening couplet offers a preview to Wanieks unique style and syntax.
Tyler Johnson due date: Friday Sept. 23 Journal 1 I have read the bass the ricer and Sheila mant by w.d wetherell the story is about a dude who likes a chick and asks her on a date and he takes her on a boat and catches a big fish. --------In this journal I will be questioning and relating. G pick fish or girl Y bass
In “Ain’t I a Woman” and “Lucinda Matlock” both women speakers discuss the hardships they faced through their lives. Even though the both women speakers both had hardships, the hardships were in different circumstances. In “Ain’t I a Woman” the speaker was faced with the difficulty of slavery while “Lucinda Matlock” was free. Both “Ain’t I a Woman” and “Lucinda Matlock” had similar themes throughout both of the poems. Both women speakers thought they deserved more respect then what they were receiving.
Paul Laurence Dunbar is known as one of America’s early and most well-known African American writers. He not only has many published poems, but also short stories, essays, and novels as well. He began writing early in his life, and in 1889 was editor of the Dayton Tattler, a newspaper published by the famed Orville Wright who, with his brother, invented the airplane. Though the newspaper was short lived, for Dunbar to be in such a position as a young African American during this time was a clear sign of his intelligence and talent.
Poets and other writers often express life through their works and characters. Some poems convey a depressing, gloomy attitude towards life, while others show the world as a joyful and simple place. Two skilled creative writers, Edgar Lee Masters and Edwin Arlington Robinson, wrote detailed poems describing the lives of characters with extremely different perspectives on life. Many obvious differences can be identified between the lives of Robinson’s Miniver Cheevy and Masters’s Lucinda Matlock. Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem about Miniver Cheevy paints life as miserable and useless.
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.
Kay Ryan’s poem, “Blanduer”, describes how a faithful believer in God can be conflicted between the beauty and power of God’s creation, and the struggles that His created world causes in life. In this poem, Ryan is asking God to be less dramatic with His creation and to make life a little simpler by easing the burden human’s bear. The feeling of conflict can be seen in her use of words. Denotation is defined as “the ambiguous or dictionary meaning of words” (Mays 550).
John: On this show what I like to do is to entertain and I also like inform people that is why today’s episode will be about Gloria Whelan. Gloria Whelan is a poet that wrote 40 books most of them are children books. She also won a lot of awards for her books and how great they are. Moreover, she began making up stories at a very young age John: And here she is.
The poem ¨Lucinda Matlock¨ by Edgar Lee Masters is about a woman who had passed away at a very old age. She describes her life and how beautiful it was. The other poem I chose was ¨O Captain! My Captain!” By Walt Whitman.
Another portion of the text that is worth analyzing is whether or not the poet is a real person or a generalization about all or most poets. All of the lines in the poem use general text and never label a specific person. What’s interesting about the text is that without the title it would be nearly impossible to distinguish whether or not the person the poem is about is a poet or not. The way the text allows the reader to find a figurative meaning to the poem is by being vague enough and
"The Poet’s Occasional Alternative" by Grace Paley and ‘In My Craft or Sullen Art’ by Dylan Thomas are poems which portrays writing as an arduous and under-appreciated form of art. In "The Poet’s Occasional Alternative", the speaker’s disillusionment with the poor reception of his poetry is exacerbated by the contrasting attention his pie receives, while the speaker in ‘In My Craft or Sullen Art’ reveals his motivations for persevering in his writing despite the lack of attention it receives. Both poems illustrate how the act of writing receives little attention from the masses and is thus an unappreciated form of art. In "The Poet’s Occasional Alternative”, the speaker likens the process of writing poetry to that of making a pie with starkly different results. The pie is described to “already” have a “tumbling audience”, and these expressions show how the pie is able to garner a substantial and excited following with ease, even from “small trucks” which are inanimate objects, presumably toys.
When reading The Making of a Poem one thing that really intrigued me was the beginning. Right away we get to see how Eavan Boland fell in love with poetry and it's very significant to put it there at the start before getting to know anything else about her. As readers, we never really get to hear how a writer picks up their talent but rather little snippets of their life if you will, it's about more of where they come from and their life experiences, then the craft itself. We don't see what really moves them to write and where their reasoning comes from so I think it is very clever to open the book with that and allows us to get to know where the writer's passion lies. It comes as no surprise to me that she grew a love for poetry from her father,
Emely Dickson write poems totally different for that time using some different punctuation that characterized her. Many of the people that knew her didn’t know about her poems after her death “in 1886 when Lavinia”, when her sister discovered all her poems, then they make all her production available. Many of her poems talk about death, immortality and some are referred with her friends. Like we can see if we read some of her poem many of them talk about death like “Because I could not stop for Death” “I heard a fly buzz when I died” in those poems we can see when we feel that we are death like not emotions like if nothing to care about, when you just feel empty inside of you, like if you are dying inside for many reason probably some loss or different kind of problem that just make you see the stuff around and is like you are not there not in this word just out mind. Sometime feel that all eyes are upon us and it is also not only be dead is to feel you want to die, it's like that moment when you just say earth swallow me when only hear silence while everyone is talking about and feel that you are the center where everyone expects something from you.
