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
In the 1920’s Sandburg began one of his most ambitious projects including his study of President Lincoln. Lincoln was an idle to Sandburg and Sandburg admired what he did. Sandburg’s early writings dealt with his belief in social Justice and equality and were written in such a way that they barely resembled what most people thought of as poetry. Sandburg’s early poetry not only tended toward unshaped imitation of real life but also copied other poets as well. Now to think that Sandburg Would steal work from other poets is outrageous, people just don’t know good poetry when they see it.
But now, he is confronted to the monotony of pumping gas the small town where he was born. Updike does not take "good or bad" judgement on Flick's situation. He only uses some images to portray a dark, dingy world of the present and contrast it with the bright, shining glory of Flick's past. Some poets can made wrong judgements about the character of a story but John Updike doesn’t do that and that is why I loved this story The imagery is evident in the first two lines of the poem, where the avenue "bends with the trolley tracks and stops, cut off." We already can see that Flick's future has been cut short.
Syntax 1) Kennedy used these short paragraphs because they offer natural pauses so his audience can process and reflect about his main points. 2) A high proportion of the sentences are on the short side because Kennedy wants to give time to the audience to process his thoughts and he wants his ideas to be understood. 3) Complex sentences suggest hidden energy because they emphasize the main idea , capturing the audience’s attention and making them want to keep listening. 4) The use of opposites suggests that Kennedy isn’t only referring to one specific group of people , but to everyone. This makes the speech more interesting and holds back the audience.
Comic set pieces with caricature-like characters get stale before they've begun, and he spins them out as if he was being paid by the word. A certain kind of broad, formulaic humor obtains, probably what he needed to write for newspapers at the time, but it seems out of place amidst his more mature writing. Whereas the parts where he is achingly funny tend to have a certain realness about them - Clemens is making observations about things trivial and profound that he
Dawe uses television jargon to further elaborate how consumerism has dehumanised humanly values. “Right between the Carol Burnett and the David Nixon show they fell in love.” Through the use of television and consumer jargon along with the satirical nature of the poem, we understand how consumers have been impacted through the media. Through the poem Dawe allows us to see how the predominance of the media has impacted the values in relationships. “But the course of true etcetera, Etcetera.” Through Dawe’s use of the word “Etcetera” he shows us how love is no longer relevant in between relationships. Therefore, the media dehumanises the quality of humanly values and relationships.
A Different Language The language of poetry is not the same language that is written in novels or short stories; it is a language where even the smallest word choice can change the piece entirely—and that is the point. Rather than just simply stating a laundry list of blatant descriptions, the poet may “sneak in” tiny words to create a picture of the central character instead. John Updike’s poem, “Ex- Basketball Player” and Robert Hayden’s poem, “Those Winter Sundays” are both prime examples of how subtle, yet powerful word choices can be just as effective, if not more effective, that explicitly telling us who these characters are and/or how they feel. In his poem, “Ex basketball Player”, Updike doesn’t dive right into a vivid description of his main character, but instead uses certain words for the reader to use in order to infer characteristics about an ex-basketball player who sells gas because he never lived up to his potential after graduating high school. Likewise, Hayden doesn’t key us into physical attributes
Both sources 1 and 3 immediately engage with their reader’s attention by using varied sentence lengths. Source 1, ‘Britain’s big problem with water’, has varied sentence lengths to put across various views. Long sentences such as ‘The North and West normally get plenty of rain ... receive less than parts of the Mediterranean’ are needed so they can state the factual content of the article. Short sentences are also used in the article, but are built to emphasise previous points such as ‘But it’s true’. By using varied sentences the writer, ‘Geoffry Lean’ effectively intrigues the reader to read the entire article and not bore the reader with a crammed factual article.
Notably, Harrison also had a few change in pronouns which complimented his rhyme scheme and used repetition of the phase 'let me'. In contrast even though both the poems seem to have a slight similarity in terms of how the imagery was conveyed. There seems to be a significant difference in the intent of the imagery. A fine example is the final stanza of Long Distance where there was a change in pronoun from 'I' to 'you', which Harrison used to show how the son was still trying to connect with his father by somehow creating a bond. This clearly creates a sad image that the only connection that Harrison has left with his father are the
He has emphasized on the different problems they face, and how they are spoken to be inferior and of lower class by the closed minded hypocritical people. The language has been written in away that a non-native speaker would have sounded as if an illiterate would write like this. The poem starts by sarcastically ‘apologizing’ for being half-caste, ‘Excuse me standing on one leg I’m half-caste’. He is not really apologizing. This is satire; although the poem starts by apologizing for being half-caste, Agard means exactly the opposite.