To effectively show this, he uses rhetorical strategies such as italicizing words, and the use of punctuation and repetition. In this excerpt, J.D. Salinger used italics to show the change in tone of the character. This rhetorical strategy is useful in defining Caulfield and his view of life. An example of this would be when his sister Phoebe corrects him and tells him the poem was by Robert Burns.
Mother’s Tongue vs. Public Language Richard Rodriguez and Amy Tan, both writers, talk about their experiences with non-American backgrounds living in America. In both of their essays "Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood" by Rodriguez, and "Mother Tongue" by Tan, are very similar in that they both emphasize the importance of language and describes how it affected their lives. Both Rodriguez and Tan stress the importance of their family's language. Tan expresses two major issues; how language has impacted both her and her mother's lives and the different English's she uses towards her mother and others. Similarly, Rodriguez explains how language has affected him and his family's lives and the transition from Spanish to English.
One of the most known poems in of his book “Leaves of Grass” is Song of myself. In a scary translation of life and the real experiences of Americans post World War II, “Howl” is a mind blowing and disturbing poem by Allen Ginsberg. In this essay I’m going to compare Whitman’s “Song of Myself” to “Howl” written by Beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg. There are a number of ways that Whitman’s influence can be noticed in Ginsberg’s work “Howl”, including a similar style of format and structure, a similar impact on the literary world and a concern with American people. Another significant influence that Whitman has for Ginsberg is the fact that Whitman had been an outcast from the literary circle of his era, with his long -winded style, free verse, sexual exposure and his appearance as a plainly dressed workman rather than a high society poet.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a female composer in a patriarchal society that is hi ghly religious and traditional, wrote reluctantly about her love for Robert Barrett Browning throughout her poems. Sonnet XIII specifically reflects on parochial Victorian age values and shows how Barrett Browning does not conform to female expectations as she wrote spontaneously about her obsession with love. Similarly, F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals the consequences of obsession with love and the impact of non-conformity in social and historical contexts through the characterisation of Gatsby, who refuses to conform to expectations of immorality and develops an obsession with this. Thus, the issue of different context and forms is significantly ineffective as the consequences of obsession relatively have the same effect even if the influence was different. Barrett Browning presents positive consequences of obsession as her sonnets, whilst being heavily influenced by religion and spirituality, also
The seriousness of their love results from the lovers’ disrepudance (?) of artificial language of ‘love’ and superficial code they had tired by at the beginning of the play. This is seen through the development of language form beginning with rhyme (Levin- “Comedy set the pattern of courtship embodied in dance (rhyme)) heavily used in the first act to its replacement of Blank verse which representative of a for more logical and realistic tone. This also reflects a common Shakespearean comment on Appearance versus Reality which is often a deeper theme discussed in tragedy. Tragedy is said to be further represented in Shakespeare’s use of opposites or antithesis.
What makes this poem worthy of critical study is Browning’s development of the character of the Duke. The offhand tone in which he says ‘That’s my Last Duchess painted on the wall’ indicates that, as far he’s concerned this woman was the most recent in a sequence of acquisitions. What shines out is his arrogance and lack of emotion in his pointing her out and establishes him as a proud and self-centred character. So the question is if he regards his dead wife, in this way as his property however will he treat his new bride? We, today, would not have the same attitudes to women, would we?
Response to “Counting the Mad” When reading the contemporary american poetry anthology I found myself becoming almost lost in one specific poet. Donald Justice, or more specifically, one of his poems,“Counting the Mad” was a poem that was both the most enjoyable work for me to read and at the same time, the most difficult for me to understand, at first. For myself this poem could be compared to a type of riddle due to its ever apparent ambiguity. At the same time, I believe that this poem takes a satirical perspective of mankind. Justice utilizes the sound similar to that of a nursery rhyme to engage his readers.
Women are treated as objects, as outsiders or victims in Thomas Hardys Tess of the D’Ubervilles, poems by Zoe Brigley and Khlaed Hosseni’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. How far do you agree with this statement. Oscar Wilde sad ‘their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation’, a quote that perfectly fits Thomas Hardy’s character in Tess Durbeyfeild, yet a quote that is continually defied by Mariam and Laila in a Thousand Splendid Suns. Tess of the D’Ubervilles is set and written in Victorian Britain, a time where women’s roles focused on motherhood and domesticity. Raising a family, following religion and looking after the home, were at the fore front of women based ideology.
Alonzo Booth III IB English Due: November 8, 2013 Porphyria’s Lover Analysis Robert Browning was a famous English Poet who mastered the use of dramatic verse expecially dramtic monologues. One of his famous pieces was Porphyria’s Lover. Robert Browning use situational irony, personification, imagery, iambic tetrameter, juxtaposition, rhythm, and enjambment to complicate the notion of truth throughout the poem. Robert Browning uses situational irony to depict the love portrayed by Porphyria’s lover but it ends up going awry when he took, “ in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around and stranged her.” (lines 39- 41) It displays the irony of a person saying a whole lot of good things about that person that they love and cherish but they end up killing them. Browning uses that to throw the readers off from the suspecting romantic love poem or love story to a romantic tragedy that ends up leaving the reader wondering why did the man kill the woman he loved so dearly?
Sombre non-diegetic music sets the mood, while an extreme close-up focuses on her fumbling hands. Voice over is used while Plath is recites her poem, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, which metaphorically captures her search for freedom, and the director’s perspective that Plath’s suicide freed her from the trappings of her unfaithful lover. The picture book The Emperors New Clothes shows how perspectives which conflict are often changed to conform. Hughes’ Red conveys conflicting perspectives through the personification of colour into personalities of Plath. The Minotaur shows Hughes’ subjective view and conflicts with Plath’s view portrayed in