They must write in such a way that helps the man. “The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.” The writing must help him get through life, so to speak. Faulkner believes that this is what any writer’s duty is. In conclusion, Anne Dillard and William Faulkner have their own distinct responsibilities as writers. Dillard believes she must make her writing interesting, if it is dull people won’t read it.
It is looking at and reading how others write, and at the same time comparing it to the way you write. It is also working with their ideas and seeing how you can, in a way make them your own. Active reading is holding others writing up to a light as if to see the good and the bad and figure out how their writing works. It can also mean criticizing them, not always negatively but in a way that you can learn more form their writings. “To write well - to express your idea efficiently and clearly - you need to observe how others do it.
Who’s ever approach we apply, we must include the reader in our writing process. They need to have a sense that we had them in mind when we were creating our works. In “Writing for an Audience”, Linda Flower states there are three areas a writer needs to consider when addressing their readers, “the reader’s knowledge about the topic, his or her attitude towards it and his or her personal or professional needs”. (Flowers, 88) Compared to Howard Zinsser in “Simplicity”, who believes American writing is cluttered. As a society we tend to use “meaningless jargon” (98) to fill up our pages, talking around what we truly want to say.
The purpose of this canon is to teach society about the evolution of literature and civilization over the years. However, as society grows and evolves, the Western Canon, too, should be re-examined to include more modern texts, such as rap. Rap is today’s modern poetry. It is defined as “the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts”. It can be clearly seen that rap meets this definition.
Remember to use specific examples from the text to support your points. Look at the deeper meaning of the poem. What is the poet trying to tell the reader? How does the structure of the poem affect the reader’s understanding? Incorporating sources into your paper: o The in-text citations for the works from the textbook should be formatted as an indirect source.
When a writer writes analytically, they go into more depth of the original text. They tell us the reaction of the writer, and even begin to explain the writer’s thoughts. It’s simply a way of exploring what certain piece of writing means. This form of writing was introduced to simply get the reader to look at the material from a different perspective; to get the writer to thinking a little more in depth. When a writer reads text, they begin to make claims of their readings.
Browing presents her poem in first person, making it clearly connected to her directly. She uses I and my, making it personal giving the sonnet a sense of identification. When looking at the sonnet strictly on a feature basis, it is seen that there is rhythm, a stanzaic pattern, imagery, connotation, style etc… these are presented in different ways throughout the sonnet, for example when speaking of the rhythm it follows a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. The stressed syllables being the important, and most effective ones. Instead of using synonyms for the amount of times she put love into the sonnet, with the repetitiveness it is clear the kind of message she was trying to put across.
Overview and Context The poem might be viewed as a literary exercise in logic as much as a ‘love’ poem’. Marvell’s speaker uses a tripartite structure to follow his argument to its conclusion, effectively forming a ‘syllogism’. This poem is also a prime example of the ‘sex-death’ juxtaposition (which critics such as Roland Barthes have explored in more detail), also a marked characteristic of Romeo and Juliet. Whilst many students will be able to understand the ideas contained within this poem, a very rough ‘translation’, such as the one which follows, may be useful. Click on the images to enlarge them.
Use the poems we read in class as your models to follow when you write your own. Remember, this is a "write-like" poem, so you should try to write like the authors of the poems below. Your poem should pose a question/situation/problem, a turning point, and a resolution - just like the sonnets did that we read in class. Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime
Both authors used detailed description that allowed the reader to portray drastic images that allowed the reader to feel as if he or she was living in that time era. They both created a tone of stern deep content that allowed the reader to feel the seriousness of what the author was trying to express. The symbols that were used by the authors were imperative to conveying understood emotion that the authors were feeling throughout their poetry By utilizing their words through poetry instead of a short story form, it put a stronger emphasis on the realization of the history within diversity that continues to still place an impact on the American population today. As the young struggle to find their identity as described by Smith, the older struggle to find where their place is in this world by preserving heritage as described by Morales (Clugston, R. W. , Chapter 12). In similarity, all humans struggle to find where they belong within their identity in this world no matter what race, age, or ethnicity you are.