There were many describing words and was very detailed. I felt in a way calm reading this poem.| She walks in beauty like the night| Figurative Language:What poetic devices were used in this poem?What did these poetic devices do for the poem? Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings?The poetic device that was used in this poem is a simile. In the phrase “She walks in beauty, like the night”, the phrase states like or as, which is a simile. The poetic device helped express the authors feelings because he compairs beauty and night so you can get a better understanding of where the author is coming from.| She walks in beauty like the night| Emotion:What emotion was the author trying to express?I think the authour was trying to express love and therefore was at peace.| She walks in beauty like the night| Structure:How is the poem organized (lines, stanzas, etc.)?
Her aim is to help the first-generation people recognize the difficulty of being an immigrant in the United States and the challenges their parents face. Due to their lack of verbal proficiency in English, they are often ignored, underestimated, and misunderstood. “Mother Tongue” illustrates the biased nature of interacting with people who are not familiar with the American culture, but are actually part of a smaller aspect of society that adds to the overall diversity of the culture. Essentially, Tan is able to come to terms with her rich cultural history and learns to appreciate her mother for re-structuring her thoughts and outlook on
A Woman’s Duality By Maya Asfour Edna’s self reserved character and the propensity to mask her emotions had a lot to do with her mother’s death when she was at a very young age in addition to not being close to either of her sisters, and that all the girls she befriended happened to be of a self contained type. Edna decided to take her place as a married woman with dignity, thus sacrificing her needs to attain the demands of society. But even though she does not attend to her needs they exist inside of her, causing her to question and desire while her body does what others expect her to do. Madame’s Ratignolle compassionate gesture at the beach provokes Edna to realize that she was brought up to be a reserved woman. The gesture also inspires Edna to speak openly and freely and by doing so Edna feels intoxicated as if she tasted “the first breath of freedom” [VII Chopin].
Monique states, “You know, Alexis, this is what keeps me alive – the power of words. Words live forever they point out the right direction and express feelings simply without removing what complexity exists in them. The words you were never able to find explain your suffering – the absence of those words prevented us from growing together” (14) this quote clearly illustrates the struggle between Monique and her partner Alexis. Due to the absence of Monique’s father and mother, Monique grew as a very lonely child. Now as an adult Monique has a hard time adjusting from only being in her own company to sharing and being with someone other than herself.
And the next word out of anybody and I’ll be their mother too” (Bambara 77). Here she shows that she truly is tough and she is not just talk. The girls back away in fear, too intimidated to respond to her challenge. This story is narrated by Squeaky, whose main responsibility in her family is taking care of Raymond, her mentally disabled older brother. She explains that many people insult Raymond, referring to him as her “little brother,” but she tries to hold herself above the taunts (Bambara 75).
Dale Disney Professor Pucciarelli English Composition: Section 64 21 September 2011 FICTION OR DESCRIPTION There are various techniques to write and share stories. Which technique is best to use seems to be subjective. In both Joan Didion’s essay “On Keeping a Notebook” and Patricia Hampl’s essay “The Dark Art of Description” illustrates this fact clearly. While Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions, personal anecdotes, and imaginary facts to record her life experiences, Patricia Hampl uses imagery and vignettes in her writings, but based on the fact that Patricia Hampl uses less falsehoods in her stories, her style of writing is more appealing to the reader. Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions in her notebook to engage readers into the story of her notebook writings.
The list of her roles implies the many things expected of her. As well, the three different grading systems seem to show her frustrations with multiple standards. Few people see being a typical mother and wife as a full-time job in itself, and it is not unusual for women who are both of these to feel overworked and unappreciated. In Pass/ Fail Pastan appears to be portraying her fears of ether her or one of her children’s fear of failing or passing an exam. The speaker is having nightmares of failing tests.
As such, poetry served as a tool women used to occupy their free and private times with, such as when Anne Bradstreet wrote poems professing her love for God and her husband when her husband, Simon Bradstreet, was away. In addition, it is very likely that women often wrote poems so they could later look back upon them, musing upon the differing thought process between now and then. Looking back upon previous interpretations of certain beliefs or events could have served as yet another entertaining way to consume time. Because poetry is essentially a collection of thoughts, the ability to write poetry served as an easy way to keep the brain stimulated and to keep the most boring periods of life fun, which consequently led women to write poetry in their free time as a form of entertainment. In addition to keeping themselves entertained, women wrote poetry which somewhat served as a diary, to keep track of their daily thoughts with which her social needs wanted to share but could not because of the inability to confide such private and possibly even scandalous thoughts with even her closest relatives.
The lines flow together very smoothly and calmly. A sense of innocence can be heard from this poem. However, even though both poems use couplets to create that sense of rhythm and continuity, the several questions that are asked in "The Tyger" makes is seem more demanding. The lines are still regular and rhyming, but unlike "The Lamb," the rhythm, as well as the consonants, is heavy. This leads into word choice and how they sound.
Mrs Linde has had to work hard and was not afforded love and children which she longed to have. She took care of her mother and brother as her own but still desired more. Once her circumstances had changed she set out to acquire that which she had lost. When Mrs Linde is introduced in Act I, we can immediately see she is a woman who has been through a harder time and worked hard to have a meekly accommodating life. She is more insightful of her surrounding than Nora Helmer.