I think that the end of the poem really points this out with the words “torture of confession out of it” and “they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.” I think that Collins is trying to tell people that they should just read poetry and enjoy it. That people should spend less time analyzing every detail and meaning they think a poem should have. I like the phrase “drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way
The sooner people accept that we are all human, the better. Moving on, the author’s style was unusual, criticizing, and degrading, and the tone was less than likeable. However, it was a direct approach to displaying human faults and how people turn the other way rather than acknowledge them. Lady Montagu, clearly took offense to Swift’s poem and so, wrote her own riposte to put him down for writing such an unflattering poem. She certainly did not “pass in silence without matching wits”(292) with Swift.
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 Raven Paradox and Essay I think after watching The Simpsons paradox of “The Raven” it was some what a good comparison to Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven” but differed in some ways. One of the main ways that The Simpsons paradox differs from Poe’s poem is established in the fact that the two tales are conveyed through different media. Poe’s “The Raven” is purely text. All imageries and tones are left to the imagination of the reader. The Simpsons paradox is free to decode the poem as they desire, and they often kept exactly loyal to Poe’s original text creating a different meaning using only visual effects and erratic voices.
This creates the image that the bullets are humans that are hurting humans which represents war. 'The patroitic tear that had brimmed in his eye Sweating like molten-iron from the contre of his chest,-' One of the most hard hitting and cinematic lines in this poem and really shows this image of a patriotic tear that has brought him here now has no place in the battlefield as it has sweated and evaporated. The Ideas and Themes The main idea in this poem I think is to translate the experience of every new soldier and there realisation of war. The fact that the poem doesn't name a soldier personally is poignant as it shows that it happens to many soldiers. Also the poem concentrates and the negativeness of patriotism as it is what has brought these soldiers here but as soon as it has it, in essence, drops
However, the words that she uses to describe these feelings make her sound like she is obsessed with him: Everything about me hates you (2) The way I hold my pencil hates you (4) My aorta hates you. Also my ancestors (12) Layers of hate, a parfait (20). By the end of the poem, the narrator has made a detailed list of ways she claims to hate her beloved. This list shows that she is always thinking about him and sees him in every detail of her life, big or small. “I Hate Everything About You” by Adam Gontier is a song that deals with the same idea of loving and hating at the same time.
Under every book that was turned into ash was a person that challenged society, and wrote down their thoughts. They took decades to write but seconds to burn. They were burned because people were afraid of knowledge, and understanding. Ray Bradbury used burning and censorship to show us that we really need to think for ourselves. Our world is decaying because we do what we’re told without our own
Stanley pretended not to know what [John] was talking about. And then he grumbled that The Books of Bokonon were filth. And then he insisted that anyone who read them should die on the hook” (190). Having established that the book is clearly made up of lies the reader has to determine if what is being read is truth or foma. “And then he brought me a copy from Frank’s bedside table” (190).
2. “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downward with great weight and pressure toward hell;” (Edwards 47). Both Bradstreet and Edwards diction are based off of the lives or situations they are in. Bradstreet being her puritan based life and Edwards being very angry and vengeful toward the listeners of his sermon or the “unpure” puritans. Concrete Formal: Constituting an
READING ASSIGNMENT: Swift, “A Modest Proposal” -- Read this and annotate “Modest Proposal” using the reading questions below as your guide. (I won’t pick up the reading questions; I will assess your annotation.) John Dryden’s A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire 1693 Excerpt from poet and playwright John Dryden's Discourse concerning the Original* and Progress of Satire [1693]: he presents a partial, historical definition of satire. "If we take satire in the general signification of the word, as it is used in all modern languages, for an invective*, it is certain that it is almost as old as verse....After God had cursed Adam and Eve in Paradise, the husband and wife excused themselves by laying the blame on one another, and gave a beginning to those conjugal dialogues in prose which the poets have perfected in verse." Dryden goes on to say that, contrary to common opinion, the word SATIRE does not derive from satyr, "that mixed kind of animal, or as the ancients thought him, rural god, made up betwixt a man and a goat, with a human head, hooked nose, pouting lips...pricked ears, and up-right horns, the body shagged with hair, especially from the waist, and ending in a goat, with the legs and feet of that creature."