Compare Half Caste and Unrelated incidents ‘Half Caste’ is a poem that reflects John Agard’s anger at the way he is being treated as he is mixed race. His poem has repeated images of half things to show this growing dissatisfaction and anger at this. He uses humour to try to engage the audience. ‘Unrelated incidents’ is aimed at challenging the audience’s perception of how dialect influences who we are and what is socially acceptable. Half Caste has a disjointed, irregular structure to emphasise the accusatory tone of the poem and it's subject matter.
This also could be used to describe to describe his view on life seeing that he thought people were “boring” if they were just like everyone else and cared about the little details. The author also uses italics to emphasize words like in this sentence: “I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them”. Just as the Salinger used italics for the same purpose, to show how Holden only cared about the main idea, which in this case was his unrealistic role as the “Catcher in the Rye”. Holden seemed to try to get the point of what he was trying to tell his sister while she kept on correcting him. Another strategy used by the author to effectively
FreeWriting In the article, “FreeWriting”, Mr. Elbow states,” next time you write, notice how often you stop yourself from writing down something you were gonna write down. Or else cross out what’s been written. “Naturally” you say, “it wasn’t any good”. I can definitely relate to the view Peter Elbow takes in his article. Starting an assignment is always the hardest step for me .Like in the very beginning, when you are digging for words to tie your point together; it’s always a struggle building that creative momentum.
Therefore, it is the responsibility of the black people in America to preserve what they still have and to make famous what they has been ignored in the past and have not had opportunities to express.5 The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain The theme here is based on Hughes’ story of Negro poet who admires being a white poet. By a white poet he implies being a white writer or artist. This was manifested at the time when Black community was realizing that it was not very difficult to become like whites or white poets and other artists in American society. During the time, artists such as writers, poets and musicians in the black community were ignored and frustrated by racial bigotry.6 Conclusion Today, there are numerous Black American writers and poets whose works are very popular throughout the world. It is not easy to imagine that just a few decades ago there was such attitudes change.
He is disgusted by human physicality, which leaves him isolated and lonely towards adults and leads him to sexual impulses with little girls (Spring). The narrator ironically describes his as “a very clean man” instead of a dirty old man, but his implications are clear: his obsession with bodily purity has made him more perverted than simple lust life (Spring). Soaphead Church can be labeled as a ‘people hater’ who prefers objects to people. While, writing his letter to God we find him even crazier then before. Morrison not only wants us to see how Soaphead is a bad person but he wants us to see another way to deal with racial self-hatred (Spring).
a) Matisse did not understand perspective b) Matisse preferred flat space, and disliked shading c) his interests were in things other than pure verisimilitude c) he was more comfortable with the two-dimensional plane Answer: (c) 5. (Slide: Cezanne’s Madame Cezanne in a Red Armchair) (fig. 156; p. 116-117) This work illustrates that the artist was more interested in design, pattern, color and the activity of painting itself rather than an accurate representation of the figure. The artist is: a) Pablo Picasso b) Andrea Mantegna c) Phillip Pearlstein d) Paul Cezanne Answer: (d) Multiple Choice Questions without Slides 6. Typically of Japanese art, the Kumano Mandala (p. 112) creates the illusion of space by utilizing: a) oblique projection b) monocular projection c) linear perspective d)
Line 14 “But let the world dream otherwise," Dunbar expresses his anger towards the other countries as they are willing to allow his people continue to get discriminated. His anger is also seen in line 6. Right away at the start of the poem there is use of a personification. “We wear the mask that grins and lies” the mask is given human-like characteristics.Of course there is no actual mask, but the mask can be a representation of a fake personality that is happy or blissful. “It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes” Dunbar uses assonance here.
“Tolerance, what crimes / have been committed in your name.” can especially be seen as a criticism against the various social and legal inequalities perpetrated against many races, religions, and sexes under the guise of ‘Political Correctness’. However, as the point of these focus papers seems to be on interpreting the poem within its historical context, I will leave this tangent short. Levertov begins with “Genial poets, pink-faced / earnest wits…”2 This seems to be a criticism against all poets who write “neutral3” things; poets who do not try to choose a side; poets who do not challenge their readers; poets, even, who rely more upon being witty than on actually saying something. The entire stanza, from “Genial” to “name” seems to imply that poets who do these things are making excuses rather than really putting their ideas forward. However, at the second stanza Levertov moves back into familiar territory, seeming to criticize women who are content to live at home and bake bread4 ; to remain blind to the “nightmare reality5” around them.
The speaker remains unnamed throughout the poem; in the last line the speaker is just “He.” This further ridicules the speaker, by making him generic, or just a typical politician; they all ramble on about nonsense they do not even take time to fully consider. “next to of course god america i” is a poem aimed at revealing the potential of abusing patriotism to sway people’s thoughts. Patriotism can be used to manipulate people into doing things they usually wouldn’t. This implicit theme is enforced throughout the poem by allusions and other literary devices [pic] and suggests that the poem is not actually unpatriotic. The speaker is admonishing people on being wary of how patriotism is used and uses sarcasm to accent his position.
Crooks really resents this fact which has made him cruel, self-pity, gruff and accepting the stage of being less human than the others. As he says "If I say something, why it's just a nigger sayin' it" showing his anger about being pushed to the side. He says to Lennie "You got no right to come in my room.....You go on get outa my room. I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse and you ain't wanted in my room." He continues by saying that the whites believe he stinks and one can interpret this as a way of saying that the whites would find it a disgrace that a nigger should breathe the same bunkhouse air as them.