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"The Race" by Sharon Olds the author uses, similes, allusion, and anaphora to deliver and engage the reader to go more deeply into the passage. Not only did the author uses a powerful repetition but the author had an overall meaning to the short story. The overall tone of the short story was delivered to the readers and helped support the literary elements. Throughout the poem, the author used imagery to deliver an important image to the readers. It states on line 33-35 , " I have seen pictures of women running, their belongings tied in scarves grasped in their firsts.
“On the Subway” by Sharon Olds Essay In the poem “On the Subway”, by Sharon Olds, the Author uses descriptive language to vividly depict the contrast of a black and white, With the slight flaw that she is a white female. She also organizes the poem in a way that intensifies the deeper along the poem you get. Lastly there are multiple tone shifts that go along with the organization/scenarios of the poem.
The Art of Racing in the Rain Pg. 155 “Yes one more lap. One more lap. Forever, one more lap. I live my life for one more lap.
The essay will consider the poem 'Practising' by the poet Mary Howe. It will explore how this poem generates its meaning and focus by analysing its techniques, metaphorical construct and its treatment of memory. The poem can primarily be seen to be a poem of missed opportunity. In this way is comes to form, alongside other poems of Howe's a study about a certain kind of loss and the recuperative efforts of memory, alongside the certainty of the failure of this recuperation. The paper will begin by giving a context to the poem with regard to Howe's life and work and will then proceed to analyse it directly, drawing attention to how it can be seen to fulfil this thesis about its content and meaning.
In "The Race" by Sharon Olds, the author attempts to convey a sense of aggravated confusion in addition with the fear of being in a race against time in order to see if the main character will reach her dying father in time. Imagery, mood/tone, and point of view play a huge role along with the display of the frantic atmosphere. Imagery and symbolism in and of the setting, play a huge role along with the description of events with colors. For example, "...dark blond mustache...". Dark blond can be portrayed as the color of the unknown of what is to come. "
How would you feel if someone could control what you were thinking? In “The Feed” written by M.T Anderson, everyone living in the community had a feed in their brain that was controlled by one large organization. Violet, the main character, suffers through a malfunction in her feed that changes the way she sees her society. Most people’s opinions can be changed when they have experienced the benefits and the disadvantages of something. Since Violet is aware of how life is with and without the feed, she becomes hesitant to believing that her community is being run efficiently.
Poetry Analysis Once the poem “History Lesson” was written numerous poetry foundations celebrated it for many reasons. “History Lesson” not only makes an impact on literature today it has also impacted people also. This poem inspires people and moves them to the point to where they can find a personal connection to the poem itself and to the writer. Not only does it hold emotional value for those who were victimized and those whose family were victimized by the laws of segregation, but the poem is also celebrated for its complexity. The poem uses many techniques to appeal to the reader.
I related the song “Paint In Black” written and sung by The Rolling Stones to Tim O’Brien because Tim was part of the Vietnam war and after the war, he visioned many things black and the color black symbolizes death. Tim witnessed a lot of deaths including his friends during the war and those deaths haunted Tim. What keeps Tim’s friends alive is by telling people about his story of his experience in the war and about his friends. “I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy’s life with a story. ”(246) tells us that Tim found a way to keep his friends alive and to do that, he would tell stories about him and his friends and how they were together in the war.
Rina Morooka Mr Valera Language Arts Compare and Contrast essay on “The poet’s obligation”, “When I have fears that I may cease to be”, and “In my craft of sullen art” The three poems, “The poet’s obligation” by Neruda, “when I have fears that I may cease to be” by Keats, and “In my craft of sullen art” by Thomas, all share the similarity that they describe poets’ relationships with their poems. However, the three speakers in the three poems shared different views on their poetry; the speaker in Neruda’s poem believes that his poems which were born out of him stored creativity to people who lead busy and tiring life, and are in need of creativity, while the speaker in Keats’ poem believes that his poems are like tools to write down what
It is often said that all non-indigenous Australian poetry is "migrant" poetry. That the process of leaving your place of origin, your "home", and travelling to an adoptive home, defines you as a migrant, regardless of when the migration took place. This line of argument possibly arises out of a desire by the dominant culture - the anglo-celtic in the case of Australia - to create a new language of assimilation, despite a multi-cultural, or maybe post multi-cultural environment. Of course, in the case of Australia many of its earliest non-indigenes were transported rather than migrating by choice and the sense of foreignness was extended to their own cultural space. But later migrations, too, whether voluntary or induced by desperate circumstances at home - such as the migrations from Europe after the second world war or the movement of refugees from Indochina after the Vietnam War and the rise of Pol Pot in
The poems Tiananmen by James Fenton, and A Piece of Red Cloth by Cui Jian are examples of protest poetry, created around the time of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in 1989. Within both of these texts, the idea of government control and censorship are interesting and significant. These ideas are shown through the use of imperatives, and second-person pronouns in Tiananmen, and metaphors and dialogue in A Piece of Red Cloth. Government control and censorship are still relevant and significant, and still affects people in today’s society. Both of these poems were written around the time of the Tiananmen square massacre - A Piece of Red Cloth during the student protests, before the massacre, and Tiananmen after the massacre.
Although miscegenation is not a new topic, the effects that this phenomenon has on people’s lives has been the source of inspiration for many literary works. “Miscegenation” by Natasha Trethewey is an autobiographical poem that expresses the difficulty that mixed-race people face in accepting their identity in a society that discriminates people who are different. That is, this poem expresses how racial discrimination can affect the identity of those people who do not identify as white or black. Besides, in this poem, Trethewey narrates her origin, as well as how her parents were victims of a society that did not accept their relationship. Therefore, the speaker starts by saying “In 1965 my parents broke two laws of Mississippi” (Trethewey 1); those two laws that broke the Trethewey’s parents were that they were married and had a daughter.
Get on the bus and join the movement towards appreciating poetry. Join author of Poetry Should Ride the Bus, Ruth Forman in making poetry an everyday thing. Poetry should be familiar to everyone and looked at as a mundane concept. Society should be able to use poetry as a benefit to their lives on a regular basis. Unfortunately, poetry isn’t appreciated as much as it should be.
“On the Subway,” written by Sharon Olds, is written from the perspective of what is presumed to be an upper class white woman, who finds herself on a subway with a lower class black boy. In “On the Subway”, Olds focuses on the controversial issue of racial conflict, and the theme of White v. Black. She does so by use of contrast between whites and blacks, by using harsh enjambments, powerful imagery, and by using the tone to convey the purpose. A major strategy used by Olds throughout the poem is contrast; in this case, the contrast between blacks and whites.
The song that I chose to analyze is called “Colors of the Wind”, a Disney classic sang by Judy Kuhn. The song is called Colors of the Wind because it represents the various shape and forms of earth’s natural creature or non-living things. It is also called Colors of the Wind because it symbolizes something very important and also it is often repeated in the song, to give an essence of that statement. The singer wants the listener to learn and see how we should be behaving towards nature and Earth. Colors of the Wind is about a person who is considered an ignorant savage when actually the savage one isn’t her, but is the guy she is talking to.