Simic is not afraid of exploring violence in his poems and this can be justified by his early days. His imagination has the scenes of what he witnessed during the Nazi regime and he seems to be scared of it. However Simic himself justifies his use of violence in the poems, he once said in the interviews, ““Violence is a kind of pathetic, perverted attempt to feel. The poems try to understand its origins, to see its consequences, to exorcise its demons”. (The Michigan Press, 1985) He adds to this, “My subject is really poetry in times of madness.
Satire being irony, or sarcasm used to expose vice or a moral fault had became the idea for the novel. Thus the setting being World War II made the novel purpose even better. The setting is where the achievement lays “that Heller’s achievement lies in his brilliant use of the setting as metaphor or a satirical macrocosm for many of the macrocosm idiocies afflicting the postwar era in general” (Aldridge). Heller uses satire in order to reveal the idiocy of war (Aldridge). Making Catch-22 the remarkable as well as groundbreaking masterpiece it is today.
I feel that the author infused both a topical and a bit of a narrative frame when telling his essay. 3. I would not consider this to be a good profile of Lawrence M. Patrick because although he is the one being interviewed, after reading the essay I cannot get a vivid description of Lawrence’s appearance in my head. I got the sense that he is old because the author stated, that he’s 79, but the author should have provided the reader with more description of his body which endured some much pain. I would have wanted to know what his body looked like after being a human crash-test dummy for fifteen years.
Apocalypse Now (I apologize for the length, but this movie was absolutely amazing in how it made me appreciate something I previously hated, and I was truly moved to write in this length about it.) Unfortunately, upon watching Apocalypse Now, I was compelled to compare the movie to Heart of Darkness, a book that honestly I did not enjoy reading. However, I was pleased to see that Mr. Coppola merely took inspiration from the book, and in fact in a rather intelligent and powerful manner. I don’t like to call the movie “entertaining” given how uncomfortable it made me, but I did enjoy the movie regardless, and it was powerful enough to give me plenty to talk about. The movie contained a number of allusions to the book, such as a first-person narrator who is deeply affected by his experience (Marlow in Heart’s Africa and Willard in Now’s Vietnam) and a character named Kurtz who is worshipped like a god by the natives.
Briana Shaw April 3rd, 2012 ENGL 1101 Kwist “The way it works is, you do the thing you're scared shitless of, and you get the courage after you do it, not before you do it.” Three Kings is an inspiring movie because behind the drama and the comedy is a sincere, important and life changing message; to give. I enjoyed Three Kings because of the comedy and the action/drama, but in the end, the message was definitely the most important part to me. A small group soldiers are on a mission to steal a room full of gold hidden somewhere near their desert base. The map that they found not only leads them to the gold, it unwraps a set a problems that they must solve to get what they came for. The men find themselves making a decision of whether they want to get away with the gold or help change a few dozen lives without the prize.
The author can use allusion to add a new meaning. The three examples display the literary allusion, biblical allusion, and the mythological allusion, respectively. Biblical allusion are very popular, but may not be noticed if the reader is not familiar with stories of the bible. An example of biblical allusion is in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. "Well," said the Lieutenant, who had listened with amused interest to all this, and now waxing merry with his tipple; "Well, blessed are the peacemakers, especially the fighting peacemakers! "
The author really held my attention by using descriptive humorous antidotes and making the essay easy to read. He started the essay off with the attention grabber and then flowed into the rest of his story. By the end I truly agreed with him and actually got a little upset at some of the same issues that I recalled while reading his examples. My online comment would convey my concurrence with the message relayed in the essay. It would go something like this: I completely agree with you, just the other day I was in my car waiting for a red light.
Also if I didn’t say in the essay Toms brother is a big mouth snitch. He is always trying to get Tom in trouble. Honestly I really like this story it is one of my favorites. Mark Twain is a good writer he can put just the right amount of suspense catchy phrases and poetic devises to make the story interesting and it makes the story come to life in your mind. When I read it I was in my own world.
They can be that his stories are amazing, dark and deep. That he shaped the English language we know today, and also that his writing style itself was so beautiful that other writers can recognize that as well. The question I think needs to be answered is: Why is Shakespeare so important, and why is he still relevant today? Shakespeare genuinely tried to write for his audiences. He wanted the plot to strike them even if it didn’t sit well with them.
I really liked this book because it was full of adventure and excitement. Once I started reading it I couldn't put the book down. It made me want to have my own 'Wishing chair' so that I could travel anywhere I wanted to go, even if it wasn't a real place. I liked the made up names such as Chinky, Twisty, The Slipperies, Mr.Grimm, Aunt Quick Fingers, Winks, Mr. Spells, Tricky, Cinders, and Mr. Blacky. The story made me a little nervous at times when I thought something bad was going to happen.