Frida Kahlo and a Life of Pain Frida Kahlo was a painter who illustrated her feelings. Her paintings are all diverse, but they each allow viewers to have a glimpse into her life. Based on real life events, she painted the biography of her life. Many of Frida's paintings, especially the self-portraits, capture her personal emotions and feelings about an event or crisis in her life: her physical condition, her inability to have children, her philosophy of nature and life and most of all, her turbulent relationship with Diego Rivera. Unfortunately, most of those "life events" were tragic and unpleasant events that brought much pain to her life.
Have you ever thought that joining a fun competition with your best friend could ruin your future with them? I am sure most of us have not had that thought appear to us before. In the short story, “Lysandra’s Poem”, different types of conflicts show up such as: character vs. self and character vs. character. These conflicts are between Lysandra and Elaine; Lysandra’s jealousy towards Elaine; and Lysandra’s inability to forgive. Lysandra goes through several stages once her bet friend beats her in a poetry contest that meant a lot to Lysandra.
Her first book of poems came out in 1968 and her first novel just after her daughter's birth in 1970. Alice Walker's early poems, novels and short stories dealt with themes familiar to readers of her later works: rape, violence, isolation, troubled relationships, multi-generational perspectives, sexism and racism. When The Color Purple came out in 1982, Walker became known to an even wider audience. Her Pulitzer Prize and the movie by Steven Spielberg brought both fame and controversy. She was widely criticized for negative portrayals of men in The Color Purple, though many critics admitted that the movie presented more simplistic negative pictures than the book's more nuanced portrayals.
The journey she takes is her remembering the first time she knew she was dead. Jean Rhys recurring theme of death can be referred to as a motif. Jean Rhys makes creative use of each of these elements in illustrating the speaker’s efforts to identify with her past life, an important motif in “Used to Live Here Once” (Clugston, 2010). Jean Rhys’s work is a reflection of her pain and her battles with the world. A writer of Tremendous originality and wit, she explores her melancholy subjects with heartbreaking grace (Castro, 2000).
Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also had an unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture (Biography.com). The loss of her Close friend Martin Luther King Jr. on her 40 th. Birthday was devastating, and life changing and it affected the way she wrote which is reflected in the poem “Phenomenal Woman” is an inspirational piece of poetry that provides her readers the ability to sense her self-confidence and self -awareness. Angelou's poems celebrate black people, men and women; at the same time, they bear witness to the trials of black people in this country.
Black women have played an important part in African American literature since the beginning when the slaves being brought to America started developing their own culture. African American women not only have to deal with the being degraded for being black, but they also have to deal with being degraded because they are women. They found strength through writing, and let the public know that being a women was hard, and being black in America made it even more rough. In the poem “Poem About My Rights” by June Jordan, and “The Slave Mother” by Frances E. W. Harper, these struggles that African American women had to deal with were pointed out. While these two poem were written in two separate time periods, they both deal with the same issues,
An expansion of this is the black women and problems faced by them in the name of race and ethnicity. In this paper we are going to briefly compare the literary works of Nadine Gordime, “Country Lovers”, and Patricia Smith's, “What it's like to be a Black Girl”. The comparison of African American literary works “Country Lovers”, and “What it's like to be a black girl” dates back to the late eighteenth century. The writings of both the poets strictly tend to focus on the issues
Despite communicating only sporadically between 1959 and Plath's suicide, both women were definitively influenced by their brief friendship, showing in their respective works. I think personal feelings about things like death, trauma, suicide and relationships began to be dealt with in poems would be very difficult to write about. It really made me think as I read the poems the two women had written and to know how they both choice to end their lives. I know that my life is not perfect, and I get upset with others from time to time but I also know that God only give me as much as I can handle at a
Essay Question: Discuss how a poet uses language (techniques) to convey ideas (themes/messages) In the poem ‘Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou. Angelou uses various language techniques to help us understand what she is writing about. This poem explains that the fact she was black, meant that you were treated as lower class. The techniques that helped me understand the poem are Imagery, Extended metaphors and Anaphora. These techniques all contribute to help convey the messages of discrimination and oppression throughout the poem.
Although both authors come to the same concept of self, each author had a different process to get to their own point of Acceptance of Self. The flow and process of these two poems allows the reader to connect to the words and message of these poems. Growing up as an African-American girl my self and not feeling like I belonged in the world because I was much different than the kids around me, when I read the poem What it’s Like to Be a Black Girl it resonated with me, which was the main reason why I choose the theme race and ethnicity. In comparison when reading Child of the Americans, it was more of Acceptability of Self Page 3 a reflection of where I am now as a young African-American who embraces my culture, who now knows where I fit in society. Each of these poems has a strong message that urges all people to just love them selves, to be happy with whom you are and where you come from because each ethnicity has it