Furthermore, when Gaga refers to Beyonce as “Honey Bee” before they pull of their poison murder spree in the diner, this is a clear reference to “Honey Bunny” in Pulp Fiction; again highlighting the intertexual referencing. It can be argued that one of the major examples of postmodernism is within Lady Gaga herself where she is seen as a simulacrum of Madonna in a significant number of ways. This is evident through not only Gaga’s clothing, but also her music style, persona and also image. Examples of this can be seen within one of Lady Gaga’s song “Born this way” which many argue has considerable similarities with Madonna’s song “Express Yourself”. As a result, Gaga is seen as a replica of Madonna
The fact that the mother fears for her child’s safety and sends her to what she believes is a safe place is ultimately where her daughter meets her demise. Another specific example of irony within the poem is the fact that her mother dresses her in her fancy church clothes, white gloves included, which is ultimately the dress in which one might be buried. In lines six and seven, the words “fierce,” “wild,” “clubs,” “hoses,” and “guns” all conjure up images of fights and riots. In stanza five, the images shift to those of a pure and innocent nature with the words “rose petal sweet.” The imagery shifts again causing a feeling of panic in stanza seven with the words “explosion” and “raced.” Randall uses musical devices to emphasize the effectiveness of the poem. Alliteration in used in the following examples: “for,” “fear,” and “fire” (14) and “wet” and “wild” (26).
As stated in the text, "Pocahontas contrasts Smith's utilitarian and possessive thinking with her own intimate knowledge of nature. She scolds Smith for seeing the earth as 'just a dead thing you can claim,' for she knows that each rock, tree, and creature 'has a life, has a spirit, has a name." (Rollins 196) Pocahontas embodies the schoolmarm function of women in the film through this song as she and Smith trade different perspectives on their cultures. However, Pocahontas also takes on the traditional dancehall girl stereotype. Upon her initial encounter with John Smith, "The seductive and precocious Pocahontas, who stalks Smith like a wildcat and then rolls with him in the grass, is a "free spirit" who embodies the joys of belonging to an enchanted and uncommodified world."
Her artwork is about her life and the experiences and obstacles she went through due to her accident, culture, fantasies and bisexuality. She painted herself with no emotion on her face because she painted the way she used to see herself on a mirror, but she always painted herself wearing Mexican clothing, colorful hair ornaments and leaves representing life. On almost all of her paints she had plants which represent life, animals as cats or monkeys which represent promiscuity and in her case, her desire to become a mother. She had an obsession with fertility and babies. So she painted herself image when she had one of their miscarriages.
The poem is an example of irony. The use of irony and imagery are contributes to this poem. The words “fierce,” “wild,” and “guns” all are images of fights and riots (6-7). An example of irony in this poem is the mother dresses her child in her nice clothes for church with her white gloves, which represents the first Sunday holy commune. The images shift to innocence nature with the words “rose petal sweet”
Graciela Iturbide “Graciela Iturbide is a small woman with a dreamy disposition and soft, searching eyes that seem to reflect the photographer’s natural desire to see and record things unknown”. Being born in Mexico City in 1942, Iturbide didn’t establish her photography career after her marriage to her professor and mentor, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and becoming a mother of three. Though Graciela began taking pictures at a young age, she had no inspiration until she came across her fascination with Mexican culture, which started her career (Elgraby). Seven years after her marriage in 1962, Graciela enrolled herself at Mexico City’s “Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos” switching from filmmaking to photography, Bravo as her professor. A year later in 1970, Bravo invited his student/wife to be his creative assistant.
Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe is also known as Our Lady of Guadalupe. She is like a female God that Mexican made famous. The way I understand it there several story out there about the Virgin Mary. The most closet one and the one that the book in it (spilling the bean) stated that she approach a peasant by the name of Juan Diego. ( Juan was an Indian, who had just converted to Catholic, the story has it that the Virgin Mary (Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe) appeared to Juan Diego as he was on his way to church service which he had heard a whisper calling his name coming from the top of the hill of Tepeyac).
The film uses the flashback to tell audience about Kay’s childhood. The four girls’ singing and the government’s black car’s sound make juxtaposition that highlights the missions and the stolen generation. The thunderstorm is the symbols of children will taken by the white Australian. It highlights the environment changes to trouble and danger. The government took Kay when she is sick in the hospital.
The director carefully uses music to describe the atmosphere of the character of Lady Ashley and her surroundings (destruction of Darwin – be explicit) Baz Lurhman wants the audience to feel the same emotions as Lady Ashley by effectively using a close up shot of Lady Ashley’s face to show the surprise and despair as she examines the exploded transport ship and black smoke covering the sky or when she suddenly hears “Some Where over the Rainbow” this song is presented to the viewer as Nullahs theme song (Magic song) as it is first introduced to the audience and Nullah by Lady Ashley as she sings it to Nullah after the death of his mother, Daisy. The song is repeated throughout the film in many scenes such as the drove to Darwin but specifically when Drover brings home the children and Nullah from Mission Island. This song represents that they will go home as it is shown by Dorothy in the ‘Wizard of Oz” when she wants to go home, also when this song is sung by the children on
‘The moon and the Yew Tree’ is a poem whereby Slyvia Plath attempt to establish connection and relationship with the nature and her mother, which in the end failed. She made used of form and structure, personification, dictions , description and images to portray her message. In her establishment of connection with the nature, she personifies the surrounding such as trees, light, grasses and moon, giving them an identity and human nature and thus attempt to connect with them by describing how she thinks she understand them inside out. She felt that “ the light is blue” and “ The grasses [are unloading] their grief on [her] feet…”; this does not only signify that she understands the hearts of these nature but also her sad mood where everything she sees seem overwhelming with sadness. She filled her senses occupied with experiencing the nature; “ prickling my ankles” and “ murmuring…”, indicating her wholehearted attempt to establish connection with the nature.