This section of the poem is deliberately concentrating on describing the journey of a snail and what human emotions, from a human’s perspective, the snail could be experiencing on what must seem an enormous voyage. The second stanza then brings in the eye of the persona whereby he is directly speaking to the reader and explaining that he ‘cannot tell what power is at work’ when observing the snail and it’s trail of slime. This implies that the persona could be in a position of watching the snail in this stanza, for example, gardening. The third stanza then continues with the use of first person and the persona seems to be crouching down, ‘part[ing] the blades’, to observe the snail more closely to admire the ‘slow’ progress the snail has made amongst the grass. Overall, the central theme of Considering the Snail is essentially explained within the title, the persona is admiring and observing the snail’s slow yet purposeful voyage amongst the grass; whilst also considering how the snail must be feeling at such point.
Alexandra Hampton Due. October 3, 2012 English 102 A Fishing Net or the Government John Robinson Jeffers was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended a plethora of universities including the University of Western Pennsylvania, Occidental College, University of Southern California, University of Zurich, and the University of Washington. Jeffers is a very notable poet and began contributing poems to student publications during his years as an undergraduate around the year 1911. He wrote a poem in 1937 titled “The Purse-Seine” this poem was about fishermen using purse seines to catch sardines.
For the authors writing style I have three things that I mainly focus they are three aspects the cliffhanger, point of view, and dynamic characters. Cliffhanger- leaves the reader not knowing what will happen next. One example would be in True confessions of Charlotte Doyle. “A sailor,” he said, “chooses the wind that takes the ship from safe port … but winds have a mind of their own.”(pg 221) In the end Charlotte decides to pursue her life as a sailor
Item by Item comparison of Two Characters Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s novel, Two Years Before the Mast has many similarities to the fictional short story “Harrison Bergeron” which is depicted by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The similarities that will be addressed are those of the characters Richard Henry Dana, and Harrison Bergeron who are both main characters in their respective stories. The similarities that will be addressed are the attitudes in certain situations, bravery, and intelligence. Richard Henry Dana quits his education at Harvard, as a scholar, and joins as a common seaman aboard the Pilgrim to “Cure the weakness of the eyes” (Dana 1). This is a trait in which limited people possess.
He was born in 1807 and was nationally known poet/writer by the 1850’s. Henry’s father was a lawyer and his mother was a supporter of Zilpah Longfellow. Longfellow was a student at Bowdoin College where he graduated in 1825. He then got married to Mary Potter who died in 1835. He then taught at Cambridge University.
Nicholas Photadthong 301119427 English D102W 10:30 Tutorial Poem: Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold Topic: Discuss the situation and setting of “Dover Beach.” Pg. 59 Dover Beach Reminisce In "Dover Beach," poet Matthew Arnold sets his poem in Dover Beach that correlates with the title of the poem. The speaker uses figurative language to set the mood of the poem. This allows the reader to comprehend what is going through the poet’s head as he is observing nature at in it entirety. "Dover Beach" illustrates how figurative language is a useful device to determine the setting and situation, literally and figuratively, in which the speaker is located.
Ucha1 Hugo Ucha World Literature Jane E. Robson May 3rd, 2012 Final Paper Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires on 24 August 1899. Influenced by his English grandmother, who was British, he becomes literate in both English and Spanish. He spent his formative years in Geneva, after his family was trapped there due to World War I. When the war was over and after spent a few months in Spain, he returned to Buenos Aires and worked as a librarian. In 1923 he published his first poetry book, “Fervor de Buenos Aires” by the time he was promoted to the director of the Argentinean National Library.
The author tries to put across his thoughts through using techniques such as juxtaposition, introspective perception, recursion, rhyme, assonance and alliteration. ‘Where I Come From by Elizabeth Brewster’ states the importance of having an identity and that your identity comes from your link to the natural world. The author splits the poem up into two stanzas to show the difference the speakers past and present. On the first stanza, the author focuses on getting the message “people are made of places”, a metaphor, across, leading the audience to catch the central meaning of the poem. Alternatively, ‘Summer Farm’ states that the natural world is fitted and altered to what emotional state one is in.
The form of Thomas’s poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” provides rhyme, repetition, and length that present the concealed theme to fight death. For one thing, adding rhyme to his poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” Dylan Thomas uses this technique of form to offer the dominant idea, fighting death. When Thomas uses rhyme in his poem he provides the audience with words that define the theme. For instance, in addition to rhyming, Thomas uses words metaphorically in each stanza of his work. Metaphoric words are used as a figure of speech to compare two objects, but not taken literally.
Epic’s and ballads, may be looked over as just two sorts of poetry among many. Between the two types of poetry, qualities show the resemblance along with some that set one apart for the other. Both have traits that immediately catch the reader's attention. As in the Epics strong attention to adventure and the ballads rhyme scheme. While both poems have traits that are similar, they have many more traits that differ from each other.