Research Project Proposal Essay For my research project I will be covering the works of Edgar Allen Poe, primarily focusing on his poem “The Raven”. The reason for my interest in Poe and his works is primarily because his life had a huge impact on the tales and poems he wrote and in a weird perspective; the hardships he experienced in his life can be seen as his “inspiration” for his work. Poe, who died at an early age of only 40, went through many hardships during his life. First losing his mother at the age of only 2 years old, Poe never really got to know his mother as many of us do today. His father died shortly after and Poe suffered greatly during his life not being able to claim to have “known” his parents.
In Joseph Boyden’s short story “Driving Lessons” there’s a contrast between life and death portrayed by two important events in the narrator’s life. The writing creates similarities between these two events to show us how the protagonist is reminded of the birth of his child by the death of a teen, as well as creating scenarios to represent the themes of each story. The first story portrays the death of a young boy by a teenager that shoots him in the chest. To begin the story the writer creates an “inky” night scenario that helps create more intensity for what is going to happen next. This kind of dark scenario gives us hints of the theme of this short story as a comparison between darkness and death.
I didn’t know my father that well since he didn’t live with us, but I’m sure the pain I felt was just as bad as any child that lost their father. When I read the story, A Journal For Jordan by Dana Canedy, it reminded me of the loss of my father and I felt as if I could relate to how Jordan will feel when he grows older and understands what it means
'The Story of Tom Brennan' follows the lives of the Brennan family after the events of a fatal car accident, which shows how Tom the protagonist struggles to cope with his past. Similarly the song 'Father and Son' is a representation of an escape, as a man seeking to flee a life he finds suffocating, and the film 'Dead Poets Society' also explores two protagonists faced by challenges of moving into the world and dealing with issues of fear, growing up and following their dreams. All these texts reflect the experiences, ideas, knowledge and beliefs that are evident in society,and reflected throughout these texts. J.C Burke emphases many themes through out 'The Story of Tom Brennan' such as fear, relationships and growing up. These thematic concerns are echoed in the related texts therefore linking the texts and reflecting how texts may represent society.
Explore the ways poets present their feelings about relationships Both of these poems (Remembrance and 04/01/07) are both about death and loss in relationship, in 04/01/07 the loss is a mans mother and in Remembrance the loss is about a women’s lover who has died quite a long time ago whereas in 04/01/07 the man has just received a phone call from his brother informing him of his mother’s death therefore for the brothers just finding must then mean that the death has happened very recently compared to Remembrance because your first and automatic emotions towards a death are different to the ones after it sinks in for a while. For example one of the first emotions you will feel when you know of a death of someone near to you would be something like shock or a sudden rush of sadness but as time goes on the feelings change more over to the side of grieving and just missing the person in general. Firstly Ian McMillian presents his feelings from the get go of a very strong and emotionally tight relationship with his mother, we can clearly see this because as soon as he hears the bad news from his brother it immediately affects him and also quite strongly. “And I feel the tears slap my torn face.” This shows that he was very fond of his mother hence this sudden and strong reaction to the news of her death you would expect this from her son but this would not happen in all cases in which maybe the mother and son did not get on, he would still be sad that his mother had died but he may not of necessarily cried. In Remembrance however the way this poet (Emily Brontë) presented her feelings about relationships slightly differently due partly to the story told in her poem and the way that it’s written portrays different feelings.
But, rarely addressed is the fate of individual that is now deceased: where they are, what they are doing, and where one can find them. This very concept is what American poet Donald Justice attempts to detail in his poem “On the Death of Friends in Childhood.” The poem is rather short in length but there is much more than meets the eye upon initial glance. Through heavily counterpointed and irregular rhythm and meter, careful diction, and imagery, Justice is able to make a profound statement about a less grim side of death. When children die, it is unexpected and is accompanied by an odd feeling of truncation: they never gain responsibility, never marry, never grow old, never get a job, never get sick, and never lose their innocence. We remember them, as they were, children on a playground.
Devin Dufrene Essay 4 April 14, 2009 Failure Failure! Some students are afraid of it, Then again some students are given grades and passed anyway. Students should not be given grades and diplomas if they did not learn the necessary information and earn the grade. In this essay I will respond on how I agree with Mary Sherry in “In Praise of the F Word “on how students are hurt later in life First, if student doesn’t learn necessary information in high school he or she will not be able or having a lot off trouble in the after life with college or there new job. In example, if a student gets by in his English class not caring and not trying to learn, but his teacher likes the student so he passed him, when that student goes to college he will have trouble because he doesn’t know how to write a correct essay because he was given the grade.
Shanniqua Sheffield Ms .Montalvo AP Language and Composition 9/22/09 Joining the Church 1. In this essay the reader is able to tell that this is written by an adult reflecting on his younger life by how childish the author does certain things to prevent the worse. The author says that he was twelve when the depression in his mothers life began. He thought that depression would kill his mother and everyday he didn’t know if she was going to live. He came up with rituals and did certain things to see if that would work and the day he messed up things went wrong.
He voices his opinion on how high school was, how high school is now, and how it could make or break your next four years from all the upsets, hardships and bullying. Fifty years ago, things were way different than how they are today. Kids had to go to school and were respectful to their peers or they would get in a huge amount of trouble, kids were expected to help their parents around the house or does some yard work outside. Nowadays kids do nothing and expect so much in return. If they do not get what they want when they want it, usually they will pitch a fit or they will not speak to their parents and the end result of that situation is the kid ends up getting it.
Within the first stanza the poet uses specific diction to convey the theme of the poem. While mid term breaks are classically viewed as a type of holiday Heaney describes the potential start of his spent in the “..college sick bay, counting bells knelling classes to a close.” The sick bay connotes a sense of isolation and Heaney identifies the sounds of the bells “knelling” the classes to close, introducing the idea of death. Without the association of the college sick bay and the poets perceptions of the way the bells sounded the reader could not perceive the darkness that can be found in the tone of the poem. In the third line of the tercet he uses diction further by referencing specific time, “At two o’clock our neighbors drove me home.” Normally we don’t recall precise time unless the event taken place is specifically memorable making this a realistic dimension of time and life, a message that cannot be conveyed through a mere snapshot image. Thus Heaney repeats this methodology in line 14 quoting the exact time the ambulance arrives.