Pleasantville (Utopia) * “Up until now everything around here has been, well, Pleasant.” (big Bob) * The end of the Main street is just the beginning again.” (Miss Peters) * “They’re happy like this.” ( David/ Bud) * “I don’t think we have the right to…” (David/ Bud) * “You’re messing with their Universe.” (David/ Bud) * No real emotions. * Bill needs instructions. * Book with empty pages. * Perfect weather, no rain, just sunny. Pleasantville (Dystopia) * “Well maybe it needs to be messed up.
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”.
A Walk in the Woods Worth a Thousand Texbooks When someone hears the word poetry, they usually think of Shakespeare or Edger Allen Poe. Who’s poetry usually consists of mind numbing metaphors and words that haven’t been used since King Arthur sat at the round table. Personally the only poetry I read, is on Valentine’s day and get well soon cards. Usually when I hear the word poetry, my whole body cringes up like a cat in water, and it’s all because my Senior year of high school we were forced to read the play Macbeth, written by Shakespeare . Now besides not being able to understand one single line within the play without having to use spark notes, I couldn’t find any interest or relate to the play at all.
Compare and Contrast of Robert Frost Poems Jessica Dozier Introduction to American Literature -13 Instructor: Peter Kunze In both poems, “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” they are both discussing a trip that was taking in the woods and both long trips alone in the woods. The tone of both poems to me seems very sad and bitter. But most importantly both poems talk about the things that was seen in the woods and the atmosphere seem to be very gloomy and lifeless in both poems. I could not actually define speakers or the speaker’s age but I am guessing the age to be in the early forties because of the word choices and the more mature tone that is being used after reading it over and over and understanding the point of each poem. “The Road Not Taken” sounds like a decision in life that we should have made better decision on but instead we did things the way we wanted to and in the end if we had taken the other route in life we would have accomplished our goals by now.
Alicia McKeen English 102-701 Intercession 2013 Forgetfulness Reader Response Essay The main subject of the poem is forgetfulness. It seems to have been written by a person who is forgetful, an affliction which may be caused by aging, but an affliction that affects us all to some degree. The author is speaking of memory loss in general but also conveying what he is going through and warning others what is all too soon to come for them also. As my Gram used to say, ‘As I am, so shall ye be.’ He describes how this happens little by little with the smaller things going first. The author’s name of a book, then the title, the plot and so on until you have no recollection of having even heard of the book and progressively until one is practically forgetting their own name.
Levi’s response is,“Why should I wash? Would I be better off than I am? Would I please someone more? Would I live a day, an hour longer?” (pg.40). Levi considered washing a waste of energy and warmth and believed that they are all going to die soon so what was the point of washing himself if that was going to happen.
Let’s get up and be saved.” This is Westley feeling as if he was ready to be saved after waiting for so long. Hughes was hesitant on following in his steps. He disagreed with Westley going up because he was tired of sitting. Huges uses tone, theme, as well as figurative language to explain that although others were being saved he was not happy with his form of “salvation”. “Now it was getting really late.
A line in the Poem “car kept coming up, the car in motion [ (10-11) ]” comes back to the basic reality that my car was sacred to me, with all the music blaring and friends enjoying it. That is what I call being most important. It truly was my sacred
Poems in “Immigrants Chronicle” show that the poet struggles to adapt to changes, in some ways his father also struggles to adapt to changes. Like in “Felix Skrzynecki” when the poet mentions “tried to keep in pace with the Joneses”. It highlights the depth of struggle it had taken for Felix to come to a stage where he no longer feels the need to follow anyone in order to belong. Because he has now found a place to belong his garden. The garden becomes metaphorical as the poem doesn’t just reveal that the father belongs to just the garden but also reveals that the father has found peace in himself, has found peace as he now feels he has found a place in the world around him even though he wasn’t originally from
When life seems to be at it's most stressfull, I try to practice slowing down, and finding thoughts that bring me back to a place where I can be calm. Another lesson my grandfather taught me about life was, that it was okay to accept help from others. I will admit at times he was very stubborn about accepting help himself, yet he was always happy to have someone by his side to help him along the road. I often think back about all the wonderful times I would have missed with my grandfather had he been in a hurry. I would never have heard so many wonderful stories, and I wouldn't have learned many of the life lessons that he taught and shared with me.