“An Atlas of the Difficult World” After reading this poem written by Adrienne Rich, I found it to be odd yet interesting at the same time. She starts off the poem with “Here is a map of our country” (Rich 3). My first assumption after reading that line in the poem is that she is going to mention certain main factors about our world map. Although, she doesn’t give specific names of what places that she is describing in her poem, it allowed me to imagine and be creative by developing images in my head that she is trying to portray. Once I reached the second line in her poem, I noticed that she uses the word “indifference”.
When the poem shifts from one idea to the next towards the end of the poem it provides a stronger meaning for the reader to understand. For example when the author uses the squat pen resting. If these words were not included in the poem the inference of what this poem is about could alter. In the second poem The Writer it uses metaphor to start the poem and symbol to end it. Throughout the first half of the poem the author metaphors to relate to his daughter and then suddenly switches over to symbols of the bird.
Lovely bride!” bring the story into the present tense and the use of short sentences make the words more powerful. Also the phrase “She hurried at his words…” gives the reader a sense of time- by using a mixture of dialogue and the author saying that someone has spoken gives the poem more depth, showing that some points are more relevant than others. Keats did this as to point the reader at the points which create the story. The phrase “’Hark! ‘tis an elfin-storm from faery land…” has a bit of ambiguity about it.
Often to amateur writers, the process of writing seems like a chore; a mountain of words to sieve through before they can create a comprehensible wall of text. Lamott uses witty lines and anecdotes from famous writers to show that everyone faces the same problem and provides a simple enough solution. In my mind at least, this short piece has enabled me to look at essays in a different manner. That it’s alright to make mistakes and your first draft can be like throwing poop at a blank canvas; you can always clean it up later. In persuading her readers, Lamott uses ethos, logos and pathos to great effect.
Tan Jing Jie 1AD1 Question 7 : Discuss Duffy’s use of the dramatic monologue with specific reference to two or three poems. The significance of dramatic monologue lies in the need for the listener, or reader for most cases, to complete the scene from within, through inference and imagination. Duffy manages to show readers her points of view through employing dramatic monologue in a firsthand narration by the personas. In poems such as Stafford afternoons , Dear Norman and Girl Talking, there is a difference between reality and what is actually revealed by the persona, developing a sense of indeterminacy for the reader to make their own guesses as to what actually occurred in the poems. Themes addressed would include childhood, feminism and patriarchy in these poems.
I feel by using these sources people feel more trusting and secure to side with something that seems more familiar too them. The way that McCooey has written the first half of the article and the quotes that have been placed throughout it I believe the reader would feel quite convinced and one sided. This is until further in the article where McCooey states the other side of the argument. He writes such things, as ‘through such a repetitive revival and putative ‘breaking of the rules’ poetry exists in the public culture. (McCooey 2005, pg.
I Want a Wife In my opinion writers repeat key phrases throughout their writing to get a point across; to show feelings of anger, sadness or happiness. This writing technique is likely to be effective. When you repeat something over and over it is less likely that your audience will forget. Repetitive statements can also let your audience become more familiar with what you are trying to say about your main idea or topic. The tone of Brady’s essay reveals that she is fed up with the dominant attitude of men.
When I got my magna, I realized that I had to draw with expressions to create a story. Soon my drawing matured into something beautiful. I went from the art class's worst drawer to one of the best. My magna also granted the gift of storytelling, as well as the love of reading. Before I could read, people read to me, and I would extract interesting details and use them in my stories.
I also like that you can highlight and move sentences and paragraphs in a way that you cannot do on paper. The downside to becoming so used to the computer working for you is when the computer misses your mistakes. The word processing software is not perfect and often misses mistakes that we over look and assume have been corrected. Another problem is when you are writing on paper and use improper grammar and misspell words there is nothing there to remind you of your mistakes but yourself. Whenever I write by hand I have to think a lot harder about how to spell certain words.
This is done because often with longer poems the reader may begin to lose interest in what the poet has to say. By making the poem shorter the poet keeps the interest of the reader and by making it less wordy his point is easier to see and makes it easy for the reader to see where the poet is coming from. Both Dickinson and Thomas used irony when titling their poems. “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” begins with a transitional word (Because) as if she is answering a question. It is as if she has now found her voice only after death has taken her from the natural world.