...The poem An Ordinary Person by Rabindranath Tagore is about how humans do not appreciate the things around them and how they want the things that they do not have. The poem also shows how humans are constantly attracted to things that are foreign to them. The literary device allegory is very important to this poem. The poem could be seen as a poem a poem about a man simply going to the future and becoming the center of attention because he has been resurrected. However, the poem could also be interpreted as how humans do not see the extraordinary things in the world around them and how they don’t seem to care about their ordinary world. In the poem, the peasant man seems to be sent into the future, where everyone adores him. All the people, “besiege him on all sides,” and take every word from his mouth. They are eager to know everything about him because, to them, he is extraordinary. This relates to real life where humans do not see or care for the average people around them. The peasant, like everyone else, is extraordinary even though they are not usually seen as anything but normal. The poem shows the flaw in humans, where it takes a work for people to see someone in a different light. The rhythm of the poem is also important. When reading the poem, the poem first seems to starts off steady and slow. Then, near line eight, the rhythm of the poem picks up and seems more demanding. The words feel sharp and the come out very fast and emotionally. It feels as if though the...
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...on the prelude, interlude, and postlude • Linear texture with contrapuntal texture on certain areas Poet/Text: • Poetry written by Stephen Foster • The song was written for his wife during their separation and then was published when they got back together Composer: Stephen Foster Date: 1826 – 1864 Song: “Beautiful Dreamer” Melody: • Phrases are fairly short • Range: D4 – F5 Tessitura: Eb4 – Eb5 • Melody is tonal minus the use of the E natural in the melody • Lyric recitative and strophic Harmony: • Song is in the key of Eb major • Primarily tonal and voice hangs with the accompaniment Rhythm: • Tempo is Moderato • In triple compound meter 9/8 • Uses dotted rhythms but not as a stutter rhythm, just as extended notes Accompaniment: • 4 measure prelude, no interlude, and 3 measure postlude • Linear texture • Broken chord accompaniment Poet/Text: • Poetry written by Stephen Foster • The song is about a beautiful woman and her waking up from sorrow and pain to the peace of the words from the poet Composer: Charles Griffes Date:...
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...The poem "Miss Consolation for Emotional Damages" by Laura Kasischke has a uneven stanzas, it was made as a free verse poem. The speaker of the poem is a dramatic persona, because Laura Kasischke in the poem she is refering to everything as an "it," eventhought the "it" could be the poet herself. For example, where it says "It had been born," this gives us a clear personification. The poet in this poem is talking about shame, of how her mother who supposed to be an example for their children she is seen by "the boy next door, who'd seem my mother drunk." But then the poet is talking how she is confused, and it seems like they went to another country where "It couldn't speak the language," she is even more confused. At the end of the poem she is lacking meaning or sense to the new language and ideas that aren't hers but the new county is lifeless and artificial. The tone of the poem is sarcasrtic. There is a social message promoted where it talks about the mother who is drunk, but it could also be a personal message. The poem "Nineteen" by Elizabeth Alexander has four stanzas, and even though she did not end each line with punctuation, each stanza ended in periods. I think this was done to let the reader know she was completing her thought. The speaker of the poem is the poet. In this poem she is speaking of an experience she had when she was nineteen years old.She talked about the things she did and described in detail some of the things that went on while she was in Culpepper...
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...Literary Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” 1920 by Robert Frost COURSE NUMBER: ENGL-102 COURSE TITLE: Composition and Literature SEMESTER OF ENROLLMENT: Summer 2011 NAME: Kevin G. Blascoe ADDRESS: 1031 Bradford Park Road Mount Juliet, TN 37122 Blascoe 2 Kevin G. Blascoe ENGL102 Professor Terri Washer 11 June, 2011 As the world gets older and people reflect the decisions of their lives, there is one thing perfectly clear in each individual: there is no correct interpretation in regard to the choices that each person has thought and acted upon as it relates to their own live’s and circumstances. Outline of Literary Analysis I. Introduction A. General theme and background B. Introduce “The Road Not Taken” C. Re-address thesis statement II. Description of the literal scene and situation 1. Mood 2. Metaphorical or symbolic implications 3. Analysis of title 4. Rhythm patterns 5. Scansion and technical methods 6. Theme and methods used to communicate theme III. Conclusion A. Summary of poet’s existentialistic philosophy Blascoe 3 Life constantly...
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...Ted Hughes poem Hawk Roosting can be interpreted in two very different ways. Firstly, it explores -on a literal level- the hawk celebrating itself and its power and control over nature. Hughes begins the poem by writing ‘I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed’ which comments on where the hawk sits in the food chain; at the top, and also suggests that as well as being the ruler of nature he rules blind. Further down in stanza 3 and 4 Hughes portrays the Hawk as almost godlike as he includes a link with the idea that god creates and is in control of life and death. ‘I kill where I please because it is all mine’ reveals how the Hawk believes he owns and holds everything, including life and death, in his claws. The Hawk sees himself as omniscient and everything else as its prey. Similarly, the lines ‘It took the whole of creation to produce my foot, my feather; now I hold creation in my foot’ (line12) demonstrate how he was created by nature and now he is in control of it. Again in stanza 4, we were told that the Hawk has ‘no sophistry in his body’ meaning that all his actions are justified. How it is his nature to be violent and aggressive (portrayed in the line ‘my manners are tearing of heads’) and that there is no animal above him who could challenge him (portrayed in the line ‘no arguments assert my right’), therefore he has the control to do whatever he likes with out any competition. Finally, the Hawks arrogance is demonstrated mainly in the last stanzas where...
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...Throughout the short 1980 poem “One Art,” writer Elizabeth Bishop approaches the topic of loss with a whimsical, almost satirical mood. She speaks of lost car keys in stanza two, then we see a rapid decline in the “funniness” of the lost items. In stanza three Bishop speaks of losing names, homes, and dreams, all things that people consider dear and try hard to hold onto. In stanza four Bishop talks of losing a precious heirloom, and property that she owned. This stanza suggests that the speaker is in some sort of financial down spiral, but is still speaking with the same light intonation. Stanza six goes yet a step further, and the speaker writes that she has lost whole countries, whole realms that once belonged to her, most likely in a metaphorical...
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...In the poem “Singapore” by Mary Oliver, there is a very important lesson of social acceptance. The poet speaks of encountering a woman in an airport bathroom stall, cleaning an ashtray in the toilet, and the disgust that she first feels towards this woman and her job. The speaker does however, express that she moves past the judgment that she first feels towards the woman in the stall. She imagines parts of nature and wishes to put the woman in a beautiful place in life. In this poem, the poet uses imagery, connotation, metaphor and symbolism to describe what she is really seeing compared to what she is imagining and would like to see. Significantly, the speaker begins the poem by saying, “A darkness was ripped from my eyes” (line 2). The darkness that she is speaking of is the judgment that she places upon this woman in the stall. She first has a closed mind, a disturbed perception if you will, towards the cleaning lady. To say that it “was ripped from my eyes” (line 2) implies that she did attain a better perception of her. The speaker knew that she should not be so judgmental towards this woman and the job she is performing. It is obvious that she understands she should not feel this way when in the second stanza she states, “Disgust argued in my stomach” (line 6). For that feeling to argue, it exhibits her capability to understand. Bewilderment and dismay overcame the speaker. She feels disgusted by what most people consider such a degrading job, yet so displeased with herself...
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...The growing idleness of summer grass With its frail kites of furious butterflies Requests the lemonade of simple praise In scansion gentler than my hammock swings And rituals no more upsetting than a Black maid shaking linen as she sings The plain notes of some Protestant hosanna-- Since I lie idling from the thought in things-- Or so they should, until I hear the cries Of two small children hunting yellow wings, Who break my Sabbath with the thought of sin. Brother and sister, with a common pin, Frowning like serious lepidopterists. The little surgeon pierces the thin eyes. Crouched on plump haunches, as a mantis prays She shrieks to eviscerate its abdomen. The lesson is the same. The maid removes Both prodigies from their interest in science. The girl, in lemon frock, begins to scream As the maimed, teetering thing attempts its flight. She is herself a thing of summery light, Frail as a flower in this blue August air, Not marked for some late grief that cannot speak. The mind swings inward on itself in fear Swayed towards nausea from each normal sign. Heredity of cruelty everywhere, And everywhere the frocks of summer torn, The long look back to see where choice is born, As summer grass sways to the scythe’s design. “A Lesson for This Sunday” from Collected Poems: 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott. Copyright © 1986 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. A Lesson for This Sunday by Derek Walcott The title...
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...bera Gabriel English 103 Tech ID 11952210 Michael Dusek Beats by Dre: The Game before the Game The Beat is the name of a popular headphone franchise owned by Apple. The advert was produced during the World Cup to boost the popularity and sales of their products worldwide. The advert started with Neymar Jr., a young Brazilian football star talking to his father as he gave him advice before he commenced playing. The advert also featured ordinary people including celebrities getting ready to watch the game around the world. Famous footballers like Luis Suarez, Robin Van Persie and many more were shown preparing for the game as each performed his startup ritual to play in the biggest football tournament in the world. It's basically showing how everyone was preparing for the game - praying, setting their TVs, wearing costumes and makeup of their national flag, and concentrating on the game. Also the footballers could be seen in the advert wearing the Beats by Dre listening to interesting and inspirational music in preparation for the biggest game of their career. The main focus of the commercial was on Neymar, and as he stepped out of the bus with his Beat, he was greeted by a huge crowd of paparazzi and the News media. He headed straight to the locker room and talked with his father who gave him inspiration and prayed with him to excel in the game. He later walked through the tunnel and emerged in the stadium for the game. No doubt, the...
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...Poetic Merit is how songs could be identified as a poem without the music. A song can have poetic merit if it has end rhymes, allusions, figurative language, and many other elements. With the song that I picked, The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel, I believe it has the poetic elements of ending rhymes, personification, and how I think they wrote the song about a man accepting his depression. First off, the reason I chose to talk about end rhymes is because when people started to write poetry, it was common end the lines to rhyme with another in a stanza. In The Sound of Silence, each stanza follows a pattern of “AABBCCD.” For instance, the first stanza of the song follows the pattern by ending the lines with “friend...again...creeping...sleeping...brain...remain...silence.”...
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...The poem "Warned" by Sylvia Stults, is a poetic take on the destructive nature of the human race. She uses a rhythmic pattern of the sonnet to describe the beauty of our planet along with the destructiveness that is breaking down nature. The poem is revered as sympathetic to the audience and evokes a sense of compassion and longing for change. It is devastating to hear all the ways people have polluted our once luxurious planet. This poem allows the readers to think more clearly about how to treat our environment. If the people continue this road of self destruction there may not be to much of earth left to cherish. By becoming more aware of the environment and the everlasting consequences of our actions we can begin to take the necessary steps to preserve the wilderness, protect wildlife, and create a better future. The theme of this poem is the destructiveness of the human race and the effects it is having on the earth. This poem draws the reader’s attention to the environment and how it is being ruined. Each stanza covers a different piece of the world turned bad – the white sandy beaches, blue skies, and towering abundant trees. By stating what once was so beautiful about our earth, she then refers to the damage the humans have caused— “The sands of time have rendered fear, Blue skies on high, no longer clear, Stars were bright whence they came, Now dimmed, obscured, pollution's haze” (Stults). Stults is appealing to the audiences emotions in order to persuade the...
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...Structure The Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each and a final couplet. The rhyme scheme can be described as a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. This predictability and use of a regular pattern is frequently found in older poetry as writers tended to stick to the restrictions of a set format. This poem follows the conventional structure and includes the usual 'turn' at the end - a pair of lines (or couplet) that either shifts the mood or meaning of the poem, or asserts some sort of revelation. Structure The Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each and a final couplet. The rhyme scheme can be described as a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. This predictability and use of a regular pattern is frequently found in older poetry as writers tended to stick to the restrictions of a set format. This poem follows the conventional structure and includes the usual 'turn' at the end - a pair of lines (or couplet) that either shifts the mood or meaning of the poem, or asserts some sort of revelation. Structure The Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each and a final couplet. The rhyme scheme can be described as a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. This predictability and use of a regular pattern is frequently found in older poetry as writers tended to stick to the restrictions of a set format. This poem follows the conventional structure and includes the usual 'turn' at the end -...
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...Janessa Joy Mendoza May 4, 2012 COMSKI2- SC1 Outline I. Introduction A. Our life was full of mystery. B. Music is an inspiration to me, my life, and as a rhythm that we can compare in every aspects of our daily life. II. Body A. Music as rhythm. 1. It is a movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements. 2. It is the timing of events in a human scale of musical sounds and silences. 3. It also refers to the visual presentation and a common language of pattern unities rhythm with geometry. B. Music as my life 1. Music calms me down when I am pressured. 2. It makes me forget my problems and helps my heart heal. 3. Its takes me far away from where I need to be. C. Music as my inspiration. 1. Music can be my inspiration while doing the things that I am supposed to do. 2. Music gives me inspiration and relaxation. 3. Music washes away from the soul the dust o our everyday life. III. Conclusion Our life was full of mystery. We need to find something that can fulfill our life. We have so many things to compare in our life like music. I can say that music is an inspiration to be and as a rhythm. Like in life we’re all different, sometimes we can find people that has the same attitude like ours. We need to know...
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...Peralta, Daniel 11/13/13 Period 7 Captain Wolf The poem starts with a brief description of the maturing of blackberries, “Late August, given heavy rain and sun/ For a full week, the blackberries would ripen”. The speaker then begins talking about the beauty of this fruit when they are at their peak, which make him ramble about the wonderful act of picking blackberries. The poem moves on from talking about beautiful and astonishing things to the frustrating event that takes place once the blackberries are picked out of the bushes. The speaker describes how the once vivid fruits ferment and eventually rot, which makes him very miserable because he would pick blackberries every year knowing that they would perish. Through the detailed descriptions of the blackberries and the simple act of picking them the poem reflects on the course of life and the inevitable passage of it, from a joyful childhood and youth to a devastating senescence giving it the theme of justice of life. In Seamus Heaney “Blackberry-Picking” the author compares the plain act of picking blackberries to the unstoppable cycle of life. The whole poem is an extended metaphor that compares the act of picking blackberries to the process of life. The poem is composed of two uneven stanzas in which the first one, which is the longer one, is used to reflect the best years of one’s life, the early years when everything is amusing and stunning. The poet includes imagery in the first stanza to aid in the understanding...
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...“Hunting Snake” by Judith Wright is a poem which talks about the ambiguous nature of a snake. Wright uses this idea to convey how powerful and intimidating nature can be. This includes the use of language features, structure of the poem and vocabulary. Firstly, Wright uses a wide range of language features to emphasis the idea of powerful nature. One of features is personification. The snake “quested” through the grass, telling us that it is requesting to pass through the reader. The word “quested” shows that the snake is going on a spiritual mission, much like the pilgrims. This suggests a messenger of God, who is powerful and of great reputation. Another point is the snake’s “fierce intent”. The word “intent” highlights the idea the snake has a mind of its own and makes decisions itself. The personification suggest the power of the snake, even as an animal, the snake intimidates the author. Wright also uses the structure of the poem to reinforce the idea. The use of consistent rhyme scheme which is destroyed at the last stanza when the rhyme scheme changes indicates a sudden shock when put in the perspective of the poet upon realising what a dangerous experience it was only after the meeting with the snake. The fact that it starts to rhyme towards the end shows that the poet is already starting to get her thoughts back in order, illustrating how little of an impact this snake had on the author’s life in the long run. The fact that she could maintain the rhyme scheme to...
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