Activists and Native Americans: Two different Points of View N.S Momaday and D. Brown both described a similar landscape, but in a different way. They both use imagery, similes, assonances, imageries, etc.… to convey their overall idea about the landscape. Momaday, a Native American from the Kiowa people, describes the land as a beautiful and peaceful place. Brown is actually trying to show how the government took away the land’s beauty by describing the place as more desolate. Momaday’s text is very complex.
What is poetry? One could argue that poetry can serve any number of purposes to a reader including a release of emotions, an exercise of the imagination, or pure and simple entertainment. But one of the most important functions of poetry, at least as viewed by many poets themselves, is that of a lesson on the natural world, life, or human nature, with the poet himself behaving as a teacher or prophet. Many of Robert Frost’s poems focus on the idea of man learning from nature through observations and experiences. His poem, “Mending Wall,” is an excellent example of such a poem.
Mary Jane Butac Ms. Sandra Carvalho English 1A 8 October 2014 Rhetorical Analysis: Momaday's and Brown's Perspective on Similar Lands Native American writers N. Scott Momaday's and Dee Brown, in their descriptive passages"of similar landscapes, paint two conflicting portraits of a similar landscape. Momaday's purpose is to portray the beauty behind his sacred ancestral home for what it is, while Brown's purpose is to portray a ruined land that is no longer what he loved. Momaday invites his readers to admire his homeland, while Brown drags the readers into an atmosphere that's unpleasant. The two writer's vastly different perspectives of similar landscapes are revealed through their use of contrasting diction and imagery. Momaday and Brown used conflicting diction to create different views on similar landscapes.
Bri’Onna Frank AP Literature 5th period 11/15/11 Poem Analysis The poem “Lost Brother” by Stanley Moss is about the juxtaposition of the human race and nature, and reveals that even with varied traits and genes/cells, we are all bonded with life. The speaker in the poem is an individual who identifies them self with nature such as an environmentalist. An individual who looks to protect the land, even after “four thousand eight hundred sixty- two years,” though once destroyed they are emotionally “pained.” The diction provided implores the identity of the speaker being contrasted with that of trees, such as “our mother”, implicating they are of the same being. The speaker is addressing other environmentalist with the purpose of imploring them to enjoy the nature around them before the land and they too are “cut down” by a “bag of wind”. This implicates a theme of life, in the sense of living life to the fullest before it is too late.
“A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life” Discuss this statement with reference to at least two Sassoon’s poems. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life. A War poem is a poem that is written on the subject of war. It is applied especially to those in military service. The nature of war poem is to show how horrible and disgusting war is.
Jacob Blau October 1, 2011 Nicole Merola English 101 Using a Pangolin as the Explanation of Grace The Pangolin is a poem about an animal that is not very well known, one that the poet, Marianne Moore, has an affinity for. She finds admirable characteristics in this wild creature that others might find ugly or foolish. There was, of course, a reason why she so frequently used animals in her poetry, and a special reason why she chose the pangolin for this poem. The Pangolin is not only a beautifully crafted poem about the physical attributes and the mental characteristics of a pangolin, it also uses the pangolin as a source in the attempt at explaining grace by observing it from a number of different angles of the meaning. It is obvious that this strange animal fascinated Marianne Moore and her delight in it is one of the major elements that informs the poem.
It also shows the importance of number statements such as enumaration of days and birds. Strong communication among the native americans is given by spreading of stone’s stories and the idea of “new world” interpreted oppositely that there is a statement about story of another World. And telling the stories are repeated many times.This can be called as cycling of the time. In the second part of Native American Literature, there are oral selected poems for american studies. With the help of those poems such as Deer Hunting Song and Formula to Secure Love, learners can catch the same ideas .Generally repetitions are really important part of oral tradition.
A literary commentary of “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke is an English nationalist and patriotic poem. It glorifies the heroism of the English soldiers who fought during World War 1. Figurative language and symbols help establish the reader’s understanding of the two main ‘themes’ of the poem: patriotism and transformation. The title of the poem - “The Soldier” raises many questions – the reader is unsure of what the poem is going to be about, although, we expect it to refer to violence and war directly. The use of the definite article “The” makes the title more specific to one soldier, as opposed to “A Soldier”.
Both Bishop and Lowell use symbols to convey the relationships between humans and nature. Personification is a most useful method to describe the animals as the animals in their poems are said to represent Bishop and Lowell. They admire each other’s writing and writing techniques, and that makes them unique in the literary world. Poems are very delicate and personal works of literature. All poets go to great lengths to achieve the results they desire when writing a poem.
The theme of time and the inevitability of ageing was a subject that interested Shakespeare greatly. This is most clearly seen in Sonnet 12 where Shakespeare grapples with the impermanent of time and mortality. Here he explores how times transience effects all things. The most interesting thing about the poem to me is his use of nature to describe the passing of time.He uses nature both metaphorically and literally, to describe both the effects of time on nature and to draw barrels from these effects and apply them to human experience. One of the most interesting uses of this is when he recounts how the 'lofty trees' when 'barren of leaves' cannot serve their purpose in shading the livestock.