In “We Real Cool,” Gwendolyn Brooks utilizes a series of internal rhymes in her fairly short and simple poem. The rhyming structure consists of: AA BB CC DD, however, she decides to end each line with “We” rather than the rhymes’ end words. This breaks up the flow of the poem and places more emphasis on each “We” as the line break causes a run-on pause. Instead of “We real cool./ We left school./” the writer fragments the natural flow of each phrase by writing the lines as “We real cool. We/ Left school.” I assume by setting up the poem’s structure in this way, the writer intended to isolate each “We,” allowing the pronoun to resonate a little longer in the reader’s mind or speech.
The narrator explains in the first line that he “may cease to be” and rushes to include he is afraid to die “before [his] pen has glean’d [his] teeming brain”. It almost seems as though Keats was unable to fit his ideas neatly into spaced lines, with punctuation marks because he is afraid to lose valuable time while he is still living. In Longfellow’s poem, however, pauses, punctuation and composition of multiple sentences produce a relaxed tone and overall feel of the poem. The poem is filled with caesuras that decrease the entire speed of the poem. “Half of my life is gone,” the comma allows for a pause and a deep breath to continue on to say “and I have let the years slip from me”.
Shakespeare tends to write in blank verse when the character is calm and then switches to prose when there is a spin of emotion. This also suggests that blank verse can be used for higher status characters but prose can be used for things like accusations. However, in Havisham Duffy uses four equal length paragraphs which shows how controlled the speaker seems to be until the reader gets down to the very last line in the last stanza. “b-b-b-breaks” suggests that the speaker is losing control of her feelings. The repetition of the letter “b” is suggests that she may be starting to cry thinking about the things that happened in her past.
To Vivian, losing power is like losing herself. Her whole life she was trying to figure out John Donne’s sonnets and now she is trying to figure out herself. She doesn’t know what is going since the language, vocabulary and the setting has changed. On the hierarchy, she is shifted from the very top to the bottom. From being a scholar of body of work to a research material turns Vivian into an infantile stage, she literally becomes not only an infant, also a student when she says, “Once I did the teaching, now I am being taught.” Vivian likes to believe her only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary, while she has no defense left with her actual condition making her
The Haunter Imaginatively, and most pathetically, Hardy writes this plaintive and moving poem from the point of view of Emma. It is written in the first person, with her as the imaginary narrator. It is almost as if, in putting these words in the mouth of Emma (who, in the poem, sees Hardy as oblivious of her presence) Hardy is trying to reassure himself that she forgives him and continues to love him. Detailed commentary Though Hardy does not know it, Emma's phantom follows him in his meanderings, hearing, but unable to respond to, the remarks he addresses to her in his grief. When Emma was able to answer Hardy did not address her so frankly; when she expressed a wish to accompany him Hardy would become reluctant to go anywhere - but now he does wish she were with him.
Therefore, the snake can represent Delia’s protector, sin, death, or devil but it most certainly is a mirrored reflection of Sykes. Sykes routinely shows his lack of respect for Delia. One morning Delia, sorting laundry and wondering where Sykes has gone with her horse, becomes paralyzed by fear when suddenly something “long, round, limp, and black falls upon her shoulders and slithers to the floor beside her.” Again Delia is reminded of what a malicious man Sykes can be. He uses a bullwhip to scare her; she believes it is a snake. Delia
Jessica Burcham Advanced Comp Prof. Koelling October 1, 2013 Sweat By: Zora Neale Hurston Sweat is a short story written with a southern dialect. I think the story is about karma and how one should respect others at all times. Delia shows Sykes that he should have respected her in the beginning. There is a snake involved in the story that symbolizes evil and death. (this sentence seems a little odd or out of place) “Sykes, what you throw dat whip on me like dat?
(Macbeth I, v, 26) Lady Macbeth made Macbeth feel bad about himself, by lowering his manhood and bravery. Lady Macbeth deceives everyone so well that people were scared to tell her about Duncan’s death, not thinking she can handle it. “Look like an innocent flower /but be the serpent under it” (Macbeth I, IV, 65-66) this means to look innocent and pure but to be evil on the inside. At first Lady Macbeth is able to keep her cool and not think anything of the deed. Macbeth on the other hand cannot sleep and starts to see things.
To me she used a pacing that kept me wanting to read and get to the ending so that I could see what would finally happen in the end. Orwell’s essay tended to get away from me at times and took more than a couple of reads to get what he might have been saying. Even now as I think about Orwell’s essay I’m left with a cloudy interpretation of what his story could have been
To deal with her problems, Alice ignores them, she buries them deep and forgets them. This may or may not work to an extent but sooner or later her problems will resurface and torment her. Basically, what I’m trying to say is that Alice’s