Response to “Counting the Mad” When reading the contemporary american poetry anthology I found myself becoming almost lost in one specific poet. Donald Justice, or more specifically, one of his poems,“Counting the Mad” was a poem that was both the most enjoyable work for me to read and at the same time, the most difficult for me to understand, at first. For myself this poem could be compared to a type of riddle due to its ever apparent ambiguity. At the same time, I believe that this poem takes a satirical perspective of mankind. Justice utilizes the sound similar to that of a nursery rhyme to engage his readers.
The reason for Gatsby to participate in this business was to earn a nice amount of cash quickly to purchase glamorous riches, which was all done to attract the attention of Daisy. But, by Gatsby performing this act, he is cheating and consequently forfeiting his moral values to obtain a great amount of wealth. Fitzgerald’s intent of including this passage was to strengthen his message of how an American
Michael Blasl Introduction to Analytical Writing 10:25-11:20 October 8th 2009 Love on the Rocks: An Ironic Rite of Passage In both John Updike’s “A&P” and Alice Munro’s “How I Met My Husband” the authors use the literary devices of irony and theme in their stories. In the following essay, this writer will analyze and compare both characters rite of passage, and how the use of irony leads them towards their completion of that rite. First, Sammy’s naïve and inexperienced persona cause him to make several poor choices such as quitting his job and force him to see how his actions can have very serious consequences. Second, this writer will compare his rite of passage to that of Edie’s.
The Tell-Tale Heart Assignment: We notice that some details in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” make a literal reading of the story rather difficult. Advance and defend a figurative reading of the story consistent with the story’s details. Poe seems to focus on creating mood throughout his story. Many symbols in this story are interpreted in several different ways depending on the reader. These symbols throughout the story include the old mans eye, the heartbeat and the contradiction between love and hate in which I will be talking about in this paper.
Eugenee Del Rosario Ms. Ivey American Lit April 16, 2012 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald is very clever in the ways he uses and demonstrates symbolism in The Great Gatsby. In the novel, Fitzgerald criticizes the role of money in society. He describes essential traits of human life, especially romantic love and importance of money. There are different amounts of significance and symbolism throughout the novel. Through the use of symbols such as the Valley of Ashes, time, and the green light, he portrays the American society as a corruption of wealth.
“Money, Love and Aspirations in The Great Gatsby” by Roger Lewis attempts to tour the foundations of the characters in the original text by F. Scott Fitzgerald by replicating Gatsby’s world, and adding to it an anthropomorphic sheen that interrupts the novel’s didactic resonance and disconnects love, money, and aspiration. Lewis tries to argue that many of the characters have a sort of “doubleness” about them, meaning they fit two or more opposing stereotypes. Gatsby can be considered a scoundrel with dirty money and at the same time a helpless romantic, for example—he can aspire for love and money, while the journey for each inhibits the other. He asserts that Gatsby is a man aware of his own “doubleness”; disregarding the fact that Gatsby is, in reality, nothing more than ink on a bound stack of paper. Lewis also claims that, since Gatsby “sprang from his own Platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald, 98), Gatsby is “in a paradoxical position” where he “knows everything about [himself] that can be known, and yet the significance of such knowledge is unclear, for no outside contexts exist to create meaning” (47), forcing him to look to the past for purpose.
Compare the methods that poets use to create an interesting character in “Singh Song!” and another poem from character and voice (“Checking out Me History”). Both poems are dramatic monologues and have a conversational tone. The poems are written in free verse and this has connotations to the way that the characters have confusion over their identity. The irregular stanza lengths show the various cultural differences between the poems. In the poem “Singh Song!”, the poet uses repetition to show the persona of Singh as being very personal and intimate when he spends the little time that he has with his “newly bride”.
He believes that what he knows of the world is only a semblance of the truth at best. Reality exists and he is able to intuit its existence, but it is finally beyond his grasp. Despite Bronk’s asceticism, he was constantly sought out by readers and many poets who would journey to Hudson Falls to visit; for young poets, this trip was something of a rite of
Alshammari, Adel English: 1102 08/09/2011 Essay#4 “Adventure” by Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), a naturalistic chronicler of small-town America is famous as short story writer and the novelist. Most of his literal works, especially the short stories are the story of Weinsburg, Ohio and so his “Adventure”. He is trying to depict the influence on love and relationships due to the way we think and perception we create to view it and how difficult it will be if we try to idealise ourself by our philosophy. Anderson born on Ohio, into a poor family, worked for Spanish- American war, even worked as laborer in Chicago, become successful writer and business person but later rejected all his conventional life style for writing and gives us the novel Winesberg, Ohio (1919) which is considered as his master piece in his literal work. Generally his short story are of simple language and he tried to exile the events and incidents of his real life as the story of his literal works.
* “That poet’s use of enjambment gave his lyrics a subtle complexity his competitor lacked.” 27. Meter: * The cadence, rhythm, and lilt of word structure. * The poetic measure of the word pattern. * “Pharoah Monch constantly alters his meter when he mcs.” 28. Fiction: * A story which is made up and based on imagined incidents.