Everybody has their own individual thoughts and preferences to their favourite part of the day and within this poem Billy Collin goes into detail about why the mornings are his favourite. The major themes within this poem are morning, happiness, tranquillity, routine and coffee. Billy Collins uses imagery throughout Morning to convey the theme of happiness. One example of this are the multiple images conveyed throughout the poem, particularly within the third stanza. “This is the best – throwing off the light covers, feet on the cold floor, and buzzing around the house on espresso –“.
I could only read a line but slowly, I felt the words slip away from my head, leaving only a blur in my head while trying to memorize the words. But even when it was blurry, the feeling of the line blazed as if it was stamped there with fiery steel. It’s such a pleasure to be able to crush the books with such wild devotion, it felt like I was going to go insane…everything was so bright and beautiful that I wasn’t even able to think about anything else. I couldn’t help myself from feeling the excitement of doing it again tomorrow. Guy Montag Today… Dear Diary, While I was walking home, I felt a sudden calm of something around the corner, moving in the starlight towards the house.
This scene is like a celebration of happiness, dancing in the street, impossible things are happening, his dreams are coming true, it’s like a fantasy. The words in the song are a great reflection of how Tom is feeling. They capture how he is feeling euphoric after being with his girlfriend and how she is making his dreams come true. When looking at the lyrics it says in the first two lines “what I want you’ve got and it might be hard to handle”. This is true about Summer she is hard to handle because she seems alright now but she changes.
The characters of the play are until then very cheerful and resonant; they will quiet down for the first time on page 5, when Sheila decides to raise a drink for Gerald, followed by a rather romantic moment topped with a wedding ring. I believe Priestly wrote this in order to set the relationship between Sheila and Gerald, so that although this part of the Act is still void of tense feelings, when these do eventually come, there will be more wood for the fire so to speak. The tension however only truly begins when Mr Birling decides to speak to Gerald in a way described as “Confidential” on page 8; we are instantly able to observe an uneasy reaction in Gerald which is described as “rather embarrassed” as he is unable to make a comprehensible reply to the
Project Two Part One (Similar use of Elements of Form) Laurie Walsh The best element of form to achieve what the author is thinking and to get a better description of their emotions at that moment in time is Internal monologue. I personally picked this element, because it helps me as the reader to have a better understanding of how the author is feeling, and gives me a sense of how there voice sounds. Ti’yana Hall’s “I’ve Gone Through the Fire” she quotes ”Wow, grandma is really staying the night with us. I was thinking this was pretty strange, it was one of the many times I felt so happy and surprised” (para. 11).
Every serious story led to another joke that kept begging me to keep reading. He was very straight forward with the things he said and thought, and made comparing his stories to everyday life scenarios a lot easier and helped me to learn to laugh. I really enjoyed my time reading Me Talk Pretty One Day. I’ve never laughed so much and haven’t wanted to put a book down. This is definitely a book that I would recommend.
Use the poems we read in class as your models to follow when you write your own. Remember, this is a "write-like" poem, so you should try to write like the authors of the poems below. Your poem should pose a question/situation/problem, a turning point, and a resolution - just like the sonnets did that we read in class. Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime
Kiesha Stombaugh Professor Vanderwalker English 101 T/TH 2 P.M. September 14, 2013 Rough Draft #1 MUSIC Music is everywhere you go no matter where you are there is always music. Best way to start the day is your alarm going off playing a song that you like, makes you want to get out of bed and start dancing, what better way to try and wake up then dancing. Music sets my mood every morning, as soon as my alarm goes off I get up and want to start dancing. Music is a great way to start my day. It is a very big part of my life and has made me the person that I am today.
Writing a reflective essay Appointed with the overwhelming task of writing my first ever reflective essay, I sat motionless, as still as a statue, as my weary fingers hesitantly hovered over the inanimate buttons of my precious keyboard. How would I commence? How would I conclude? Thoughts maniacally rampaged their way through my mind as I envisioned the long tedious journey ahead of me. As my deadline approached me, the days begun getting aggressively shorter.
Heaney structures his poem into almost one long verse, with the break in the verse occurring as the poem takes on a more ominous feeling, symbolizing that the moment of realisation, the climax, is drawing near. The leading verse captures the childhood frivolity of the speaker’s younger years, and also the sense that this naivety would continue on forever, a life of never-ending gaiety. The fact that there is not even a blank line signifying the second part of the verse suggests that the speaker’s loss of innocence comes suddenly, perhaps as an unexpected shock. The mood captured in the poem is at first one of ominous foreboding, but quickly becomes quite joyful, creating an atmosphere of excitement before returning to the original darkness. Through Heaney’s use of various imagery paired with an impeccable choice of vocabulary, he attempts to create a not only a picture of the events taking place in the reader’s mind, but also an almost musical piece in which the listener’s senses are ignited.