Paper one: Visual Arts Review American painter Paul Patton’s Late October (View of Rix Mills, Ohio) 1992, acrylic on canvas depicts the story of farm life in rural America in the eastern Ohio village of Rix Mills, the fields behind the farm houses are filled with cows and horses. The painting is in its original molded wood frame. Paul Patton grew up in Rix Mills, and at the age of sixty-four, began painting a series of village scenes entitled Rix Mills Remembered in his boyhood. The author depicts the painting over his boyhood, where he grew up. It is the painting of Rix Mills, a Central Ohio village on Route 313, six miles south of New Concord in Muskingum County.
Sophie Cannon March 9, 2014 English 133 Misconceptions of Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken” The meaning of Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken” can be interpreted several ways. However, Frost’s intent of the poem is often lost or misinterpreted. More times than not, this poem is printed on graduation cards with an attached message to “size the day” and “take the road less traveled.” These interpretations have lead this poem to become a cliché and steer away from Frost’s actual purpose for the poem. “The Road not Taken” is filled with different literary devices that uncover an alternative meaning of the poem. The opening line of the poem states that the speaker is standing before “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (Frost line 1).
Though, each situation was different, they remember each moment and every feeling clearly time usage, character usage, point of view, and connecting with readers. The narrators in each of these poems are both writing the poems as adults. Both poems are reflecting upon past experiences, making the poem speak from both a child’s perspective and an adult’s perspective. Both of the poem’s last paragraphs end in self reflection as adults. Paul Zimmer states, “Even now when I hide behind my elaborate mask it is always known that I am Zimmer” (Lines 21-23).
For the most part Emily sticks with iambic meter throughout her poem. The meter is interrupted in the last stanza when she draws attention to the word “Stop.” She starts the line off with this word and because of its need to be emphasized or stressed the meter is forced to change. The indirect rhyme that Emily uses is very easily seen in the first two stanzas. In stanza one the word “miles” and “tanks” both end in the same consonant sound. The same goes for “up” and “step.” Stanza 2 follows this as well having “mountains” and “roads” serve as an indirect rhyme.
“Tell me” is another line that is used throughout the poem. Also, the breaking of the lines into stanzas make this song more poem-like. The next poetic device addressed in the song is alliteration. “Shooting star and scar” (stanza 3, line 1-2) are put together for sound and to help emphasize the message of the song. A simile is also used in Train’s song when it says, “Acts like summer and walks like rain” (Stanza 1, Line 3).
There are a total of 26 songs in the second part of the collection which pertain to Experience. Songs of innocence and experience are contrasts of each other. (Anonymous, 2014) A Poison Tree is an interesting poem which explores themes of anger, death and revenge – these themes are recurrent in Blake’s poetry. The tone of the poem is one of maliciousness and bitterness giving it a very dark perspective. Language and Style in the Poem: The poem is made of four quatrains made up of two couplets each and the rhyme scheme for each of these quatrains is AABB.
He was writing his poems before modern literature. His first book was published in 1913, by then he had almost two and a half volumes of poetry. Frost once said that making a poem was “the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I knew” (Cox 2) Frost’s Poetic imagination is the analogue from the direction of his own life. The criticism that Frost heard and listened to is apart of his poetry.
Everett also uses directional focus in both drawings, but in different ways. In “Spring in San Diego” Everett use the woman’s eyes mysteriously leading off the page to make the viewer wonder what she is staring at. However in “Cotton Pickers of East Texas” Everett uses the directional focus of the cotton plants at the bottom of the drawing to lead you up toward the cotton pickers. Same element of art, just used in different
The style of "To learn how to speak" is that of a spoken poem. Cronin obviously focused on how words would sound out loud. Cronin's use of languages native to the area he is describing also reinforces his idea that language is connected to the land. Cronin also uses repetition of types of phrases and sounds. The author starts almost every sentence of the poem with a infinitive verb, such as "to learn", "to visit", or "to bury (Pike 501)."
Ancestral photograph is a poem written by Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney writes all his poems related to his personal life experiences. In this particular poem, he writes to express his emotions and feelings of his past life. He clearly describes how his daily life in the older times was and how he prefers it now. This poem was written while he put off a photo frame from the wall and This poem firstly is a first person poem with a complicated rhyme scheme.