Many have been killed in both the name of love and hate. Therefore, while these emotions are wholly different regarding the connotation that they purvey to the person experiencing the affection, the depth and breadth of these emotions are eerily similar. In the poem “America” by Claude McKay, the reader is treated to the beautiful expression of both of these emotions in a poem full of frustrating duality and an extremely strong statement about society. The piece is a standard sonnet composed of three quatrains and a couplet written in iambic pentameter featuring the traditional English rhyming scheme. Throughout the poem, McKay ferries back and forth between his intense positive and negative feelings of both America and the American societal norms of the period.
It serves dual purposes and he was aware of what that word would do. It is very sarcastic and pointed. The word tragic acts as an adjective that further expands his use of must. It is a very descriptive word that jumps off of the page and hits the reader in the face. If he were to put the word sad in its place for example, the reader would not get the same effect even though the words are synonymous.
Mythology is often the spotlight of the focus of many poems, and it is approached differently by each author. Anne Stevenson’s “Eros” and Robert Bridges’ “EPΩ∑” are two such works that depict the role of Eros, the Greek god of love, and stress the hardships he endures. However, they differ strongly in the way the information is elicited, the speaker and their basic writing styles. Common to both works is the tone, leading the reader to have sympathy for the god who suffers disconsolately. As both poems state, this is because his accomplishments are often overlooked even when the results are present.
My Lai This photograph was taken from a high angle, portraying the subjects as powerless, emphasizing the obvious, as they are all dead. Everyone in the photo is horizontal, a rarity as people are typically represented vertically. The tangle of bodies creates confusion. Confusion for the viewer to visually untangle the horror that they are looking at and also representing the confusion that the people must have experienced as they were being gunned down. The focal point of this photo is a baby’s rear, drawing attention to the innocent children who were killed in the massacre.
Yes, I believe that the results were pretty accurate. I believe myself to be a very happy person. I have always tried to see the good in things. I have gone through a lot of difficult situations in my life and still have a very good outlook on life. I tell others that no matter how bad things may seem there is always someone who has it worse and I try to think that when faced with trials and tribulations of my own.
Ray Bradbury uses similes and metaphors that paint incredible pictures, telling in his stories of how selfishness and the loss of intellect are great threats to our society. He wrote stories of varying lengths and plots, but his writing as a whole was centered around a warning of how life may someday turn out if certain important things are ignored. Bradbury is known for his very poetic style of writing. Specifically, his use of similes and metaphors is noteworthy. By using these comparisons, he gives readers a clear image of characters, situations, and scenery.
Sharmane Hughes English 101 Ms. Evans 19 September 2012 Assignment #6 Contradicting Denial Tom Junod’s article, “The Falling Man,” debuted a behind the scenes view of how the tragedy of 9/11 affected many different people in various types of ways. Some people were emotionally connected to the tragedy because of the fact that they had lost love ones in the process. Others might be emotionally attached because of the amount of sadness that flooded the United States. Everyone was scared and left wondering what was going to happen next. Junod’s article goes in-depth about the emotions that rose due to the public publishing of a photo that depicted a man on the day of 9/11 descending to his death from the Twin Towers in New York City.
The few words that have harsher consonants tend to be words with more negative connotations such as the word “tangled” as it refers to how everything surrounding this time became a mess and the world and those he knew had an outcome that should not have been. The mixture of techniques used in the poem to create musical language adds to the speaker’s mixture of feelings and allows us to feel his affliction and conflicting feelings. The syntax in this piece is what drives Glaser’s story. The poem is split into three sections. The
When the plague arrived any artists started a darker era for painting. “Paintings were overflowing with tortured souls, death, dying, fire and brimstone”. (www.historyofpainter.com/black_death.htm[->0]) Another way art changed was because of all the death of the artists many people say “the heart of the culture world was torn open”. Other effects of the plague were that darkness was brought to not only art, but literature and music. Artists thought it was pointless to try an bring beauty to a hellish world.
Around the same time hijackers crashed the third airliner into the Pentagon and the fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County.Hearing all these tragic events just makes me shiver. Many people died in this event and even more were leaft with horrible memories that will stay with them all there life. I was nine at the moment. I was watching the news and remembering seeing the two biuldings on fire and smoking all over the place. People were running all over the place scared, terrified, shocked.