Poem Review: Week 4 Assignment Jenni Janssen ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Alex Vuilleumier January 16, 2012 Poem Review: Week Four Assignment The most enticing poems use rhythm, rhyme, symbolism, which help many readers enjoy them. These three literary elements of a poem make it easier to personalize and help the reader to visualize the picture that is being “painted”. A poem written in first person narration, which also contained persona, rhythm, rhyme and symbolism, is “My Papa’s Waltz”. This poem was written by Theodore Roethke in 1942. “My Papa’s Waltz” was composed about a young boy and his father and written in a very rhythmic form.
Whilst Keller is characterised as reclusive and eccentric, wearing a white linen suit, pince nez, and cloistered above the beer garden at the Swan hotel, he boasts a fine pedigree having Czerny and Liszt as his ‘musical ancestors.’ Goldsworthy characterises Keller’s teaching as eccentric and domineering. In his first encounter with a bemused and outraged Paul, he spends time examining Paul’s fingers, and won’t allow the boy to play, exclaiming, ‘you are not free to play in my home without permission’. When Paul boldly questions Keller’s claim that the ‘little finger is a lazy fellow,’ Keller miraculously, plays ‘an effortless, rippling run of tenths’. Goldsworthy uses sparse, direct dialogue to portray Keller as axiomatic and domineering. Keller’s aphorisms and ‘fragments of folk wisdom,’ such as ‘is water at fifty degrees half boiling?’ (used to castigate Paul for half finishing his Rondo), present a picture of an abrupt, punctilious man with exacting standards; yet Keller can also be viewed as a man broken by the pain of his past, who is more philosophical than ambitious, such as where he explains aphoristically, ‘To search too long for perfection can also
He paints New York streetscapes and mimics the works of artists like Renoir with great aptitude. After proving his talent, Lou puts his artist's tools aside. Sedaris soon snatches up the leftovers, thinking he can certainly do it if his father can, and begins his artistic career. Moment Two: Sedaris soon learns that painting is not his forte, unlike his talented sister. His still life paintings of grapes look like stones, so he moves onto to tracing comics.
In “Tennessee’s Partner,” hidden beauty is shown by Tennessee’s Partner in his sentimental feelings towards Tennessee. As the miners leave Tennessee’s Partner after he has just buried Tennessee they look back and see “Tennessee’s Partner, his work done, sitting upon the grave, his shovel between his knees, and his face buried in his red bandanna handkerchief” (Harte 53). In “The Idyl of Red Gulch,” hidden beauty is seen in the azalea bush that brings the schoolteacher and the drunken man together as well as in the nature that surrounds them. “She noticed, however, that every morning a fresh cluster of azalea-blossoms appeared among the flowers on her desk” (Harte 58). In “Brown of Calaveras,” hidden beauty is seen through small things in nature such as birds and shooting stars.
Music Composition and Composer Paper Mary Wilson ARTS/340 July 29, 2014 Instructor Marva Ballard-Smoot Music Composition and Composer Paper Beethoven, Mozart, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder are musical artist I enjoy listening too. Each of these artists are genius in their own right. I enjoy the piano, horns and violins that can be heard through their style of music. Each composer have their own brand of uniqueness, harmony, tone colors, textures and rhythm that is reflective in music. In Beethoven, Ninth Symphony, in the first movement it starts out slow, soft and low and then there is second movement which has such an outburst of energy and dramatic tone.
Memory, a powerful aspect used in the poems of Gwen Harwood reinforcing her poem’s textual integrity. Personas are shown to use memory as a way to rationalise their inevitable death and combat the reality that time is transcendent. In ‘At Mornington’, Harwood depicts a persona recalling on a vague, imprecise memory from the personas’ childhood. In ‘The Violets’ Harwood uses sensory memory to depict an instance where the persona uses memory to rationalise death and the transcendence of time. She also explores notions of love and friendship through memory in her poems.
‘Music is the key to understanding the main characters in Maestro.’ Discuss. Music is an important part of understanding the main characters in Maestro; Music allows the reader to obtain an insight of the past Herr Keller experiences and leads into Paul Crabbe from the growth of innocence of childhood to a more realistic perception of the bigger world. A recurring symbol in Maestro is the piano, which displays the symbolic meaning of music through-out the Novella. Music brings happiness and joy to characters in Maestro, but in contrast provokes negativity upon composers that associate characters with their past. This is the reason it is evident with Herr Keller the rejection of types of music and composers in the text.
After Charlie recieves his surgery in "Flowers for Algernon" he begins to understand many things he was unable to before. After a night out with his so called friends Charlie writes in his journal about what he has discovered. He starts out his entry with "I feel sick inside. Not sick for like a doctor, but inside my chest it feels empty like getting punched and a heartburn at the same time". Charlie comes to the unfortunate recognition of the cruelness of his coworkers and friends, and how they have been making fun of him all along.
Harwood identifies memory as a key component of human experiences through the use of ‘The Violets’ as an extended metaphor to trigger the composer’s personal recollections. Traditionally associated with death and mourning, the imagery of the “frail melancholy flowers” are alliterated and personified to emulate Harwood’s connection to the past and the loss of childhood joyfulness. This is enhanced by the juxtaposition of “ashes and loam”, the flowers are paradoxically growing among fertile and barren soil, relating to the past thriving through memories and the present time. The structural indentation indicating time shifts throughout Harwood’s flashbacks create a realm of nostalgia and is reinforced by the change in verbal tense “I kneel to pick” and “be comforted”, it accentuates our understanding of the evocativeness of the recalling of memories. The parents
We see how selfish and self centered the narrator is as he has thoughts of, “this blind man” “coming to sleep in [his] house” and telling his wife “maybe [he] could take him bowling” (22). The narrator’s jealousy and lack of interest in Robert’s visit is blatantly apparent. While his wife goes to the depot to pick up Robert