(1) Read “God: The Villanelle”. Research the structure of a villanelle to understand how the poem works and post a comment on its structure. Next, consider the title and the message conveyed throughout the poem, as it pertains to God. Finally, listen to the reading of Marvin Klotz - "An Open Letter to the One True God, Whoever She, He, Or It May Be" and post a comment.
He cast away his dream because he did not know whether he would have an opportunity like this
There are many themes that are presented in the book Speak, such as to not be afraid to speak up about the truth. In the book, Melinda is a freshman in high school that is now an outcast after she called the cops on an end-of-summer party last summer. But there is more to the story. Last summer at the party, a guy named Andy Evans raped her. But no one knows the truth except Melinda.
He feels a fire in his heart that fills him with the want for knowledge. The more he wants to find the knowledge, the more he feels a fire in him. The knowledge he wants to find is the truth. He has these dreams that show him what might happen and what he might see. He sees what the truth could be.
One night, one party, one person, one call, that is all it takes to change somebody’s identity and shape them into the person they truly are. Melinda Sordino is the victim of a horrible night that changed her life. In the novel speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda is faced with many challenges. Melinda attended a party the summer before ninth grade. She wasn’t thinking about the consequences that come with drinking, she was not thinking about how one little action could ruin her relationship with those around her,one action that could shape her identity into who she truly is, one action that she would be to traumatized to tell anyone about.
The purpose of “Why, You Reckon?” by Langston Hughes is to accurately display, through the times of that century and human emotion, that despite money, power, and the color of your skin there can still be an unhappiness of the soul. There is evidence in the beginning of the short story of two men’s unhappiness in life the symbol of them being uncontent was their hunger. “Man, ain’t you hongry.... Well, sir, I’m tellin’ you, I was so tired and hongry and cold that night.” (253- 254).
Her translation gives the readers the knowledge to look at the poetry in a erotic way. There are a lot of symbols that one can focus on this poetry. One way of looking at the poem from Falk’s translation is how unusual the culture is. The culture of the story is strange to look at for some readers. In class, the way the culture was recognized was that it was an honor and shame culture.
"Why should I bless His name? What had I to thank Him for?” (Wiesel, 23). “Taking refuge in a last bout of religiosity… I composed poems mainly to integrate myself with God”. (Kluger, 111).
In this quotes, the character Guitar is throwing his feelings out and confessing all that has to do with the secret society he is in. Through his confession to Milkman he explains the Seven Days society is a society which brings revenge to whatever white person fits the picture from a current devastation in the black community. It takes place in the 1950’s which is a time in which black people have a bit more freedom but are still not seen as equal. Through this passage, Morrison is able to demonstrate how oppression sparked a feeling of hatred in Guitar. Guitar was oppressed his whole life which brought a feeling of hatred and led him to take certain actions in his community.
He dreamed about the gods when they were alive long ago. He was terrified by the tools and knowledge the gods had and
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
Literal sense: In Psalm 22, someone cries out to God and pleads for Him to save him from torments of his enemies. Progressively through the passage, he changes his tone. It goes from angry and negative to positive. He then thanks God for rescuing him.
In friendship you don 't need the most interesting friend. Just the most loyal friend. As the novel went on Stanley Yelnats realized that having one true friend is better than having friends that don 't really care. Through out the influence of Zeros friendship, Stanley changes from being unloyal to a loyal, and caring friend.
Poetry is a piece of literature where the author shares his ideas of a subject or person. He is attempting to allow the reader an understanding of his feelings regarding this subject. Most of the time poetry can be very pleasing to the ear; however, at times it can be written in a manner that is odd. Some poetry is written in a way that the reader can “hear”, “feel”, “see” or “taste” elements in the poem. Some poems may rhyme while others may not need to in order to convey the message.
The numerous titles, forms and definitions of God depict how powerful he is, making it an important motive to search for God since he is the caretaker of the human soul. The metaphorical usages of nature seen in the writings “The Dark nIght of the Soul”, “Ode 314” and “Sou’s Beloved” are distinct and similar in many different ways which help portray how love is natural, necessary and beneficial. In the poem “Ode” by Rumi, a Muslim poet, love is seen as powerful, natural, unexplainable and necessary through its usage of natural metaphors. The first couple lines describe how those who don’t experience love haven’t experienced love “pulling them like a river,” (Ode, Rumi).
