This also could be used to describe to describe his view on life seeing that he thought people were “boring” if they were just like everyone else and cared about the little details. The author also uses italics to emphasize words like in this sentence: “I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them”. Just as the Salinger used italics for the same purpose, to show how Holden only cared about the main idea, which in this case was his unrealistic role as the “Catcher in the Rye”. Holden seemed to try to get the point of what he was trying to tell his sister while she kept on correcting him. Another strategy used by the author to effectively
In On His Blindness, many interpretations focus on the negative mood and resentful tone of the poem surrounding the author’s blindness. According to one interpretation, Milton’s blindness limited his ability to write poetry because, “there was no way for a blind man to put words to paper” (Answers.com). Although these interpretations highlight the dark side of these poems, it’s clear that the authors were presenting a self-revelation about choice. The self-revelation about choice occurs as the main character is presented with choices. The first line of each poem uses a first person format.
Paragraph 1 – Language Jacks language and feelings at the beginning of the book foreshadows his violent behaviour that occurs later on in the novel. At the beginning of the novel Jack is humiliated by Ralph when Ralph is elected to be chief, suggesting that there might be tension between the boys later in the novel. This is implied when “Jacks face disappeared under a blush of mortification”. The word mortification means a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect. This shows that Jack was hurt that the other boys did not choose him to be chief as he was leader of the choir boys.
Ironically,when the wall is actually supposed to separate two beings,this wall reunites the two neighbors ,this is seen in the title ‘Mending wall’,where one might suggest that this is grammatically incorrect, what Frost might actually be intending is that the poem is more about the wall mending the relationship between the two individuals than the two merely mending the wall itself !This wall maybe built due to differences in thoughts and ideas or merely just because of social awkwardness of the two characters. Frost maybe trying to hint at the barriers that are built between people because of prejudice and unwillingness to socialize. People set up walls to keep away from each other’s property and to protect their own,in this case it might be just to keep themselves away from interacting with one another,but ironically,this wall building ‘game’ is what makes the two interact and therefore might be seen as an activity that sparks interaction and communication . The wall could also be seen as a symbol of their relationship,which needs mending every now and then,it gets worn
In this comparative commentary the main comparison is about the fact that the subject in both texts are alike. In both texts the writers have the same point of view: people don’t want to read poetry anymore. Billy Collins tries to clear this matter up for the audience by showing the reader what we all could do to understand the poem better. We have to lift our understanding for writing into a whole new dimension. He does this by figuratively showing what you can do with poems.
It is apparent that Twain pits religion against racism and in the book Huck feels like he has to give up all religion in order to save his new found friend, Jim. Twain might have shown religion in a negative light because of his personal views on religion the common belief that God had made black people naturally inferior and that slavery was okay, and the church may have been an easy target for satirical work. Huck often didn’t believe in religion or its power, especially after he is not rewarded for prayer, has to learn about people he cannot actually meet, and is unable to “pray a lie” (pg. 213). The satire in this book makes twain’s attacks
“Censorship Arguments in ‘Take the Tortillas out of Your Poetry’” Many writers in the past and even today have struggled to express their ethnic values in their writing because of the act of censorship. Censorship is the suppression of writing to accommodate the common good. Not only are the writers unable to express their values, but this act also neglects the readers from knowing and learning these values. In Rudolfo Anaya’s essay “Take the Tortillas out of Your Poetry” he makes valid arguments against this act of censorship. He uses many different methods to achieve this such as symbolism and specific events that have affected multicultural writers.
He has emphasized on the different problems they face, and how they are spoken to be inferior and of lower class by the closed minded hypocritical people. The language has been written in away that a non-native speaker would have sounded as if an illiterate would write like this. The poem starts by sarcastically ‘apologizing’ for being half-caste, ‘Excuse me standing on one leg I’m half-caste’. He is not really apologizing. This is satire; although the poem starts by apologizing for being half-caste, Agard means exactly the opposite.
Derek Walcott’s Codicil has some of the anger of his earlier work, but for the most part his tone in this poem is one of exhaustion. It is autobiographical rather than historical; in it, he reflects on his own writing and his frustration with the need to write in two different styles. For this reason, it is likely that writers, particularly those who write for a living, and non-writers would react differently to this poem. Walcott was working as a journalist when this poem was published in 1965. The language used in Walcott’s poetry is clearly different from the journalistic conventions he was confined to at work (“Schizophrenic, wrenched by two styles”).
I had to read this poem a couple of times to get an understanding in what he was actually saying. That is a strong reason why I was drawn to this poem due to its hidden meaning. I like a challenge and seek deeper understanding as I analyze an author’s work. Some of Langston poems can leave you with different ambiguity in his writings but on the other hand it will make you think and process your feelings. In this poem the beat that the author is talking about is not a happy beat as the author is using a metaphor of what people were feelings about the situation they are in at that time.