They had to attend poorly equipped schools. It is from this persecution that Mr. Dunbar writes his poem “We Wear the Mask.” It was dangerous for Mr. Dunbar and other blacks to show their dissatisfaction and pain from their abuses. Hence they wore a mask of joy. “This debt we pay to human guile; / with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, / and mouth with myriad subtleties” (3-5). The debt is putting on the mask of happiness in front of their repressors.
As well as when Montresor describes Fortunato especially with “the wine twinkling in his eyes”. How has the author described the characters to make them seem like real people? Through human emotions and the concept of revenge Poe gives these fictional characters a more human thought and feeling to help to convey them as real people. Also, Poe creates Montresor as an “unreliable narrator” to show human flaws. Does the author expect the reader to make an emotional connection to the story?
Here, the enjambment draws attention to the words and helps reinforce the irony. This view point is in contrast to that of “Give”. In this poem the view point is that of the homeless character so we get to see the other side of the story. It is a dramatic monologue in the 1st person so the voice of the character is used to create his feelings and attitudes. For example, he begins by addressing the listener as “dear” in a heavily sarcastic tone we feel is bitter and angry.
Trace one of the following patterns of figurative language throughout King's letter: darkness and light, high and low, sickness and health. King refers to sickness as a metaphor and simile to describe the feelings of injustice. For example, “like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light" (24). And the, “the disease of segregation” (32). Using diseases coupled with the treatment of blacks provide the clergy or readers something they can relate to.
Not only does it point out the natural inclination of people to feel pain as a ripple effect rather than all at once, it foreshadows the suffering that Hester and Arthur Dimmesdale will undergo throughout the course of the novel. It also explains how Hester is able to handle such terrible things as public shaming without crumbling into herself. His use of words such as torture, rankles and extremity increase the sense of drama in this passage. Chapter 4 “The Interview” Page 30 “We have wronged each other,” answered he. “Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.
However, not everyone agrees with the heavy stereotypes laid down by the social order such as male dominance and proper courting. Marie de France is one of these people. She depicts her views of gender expectations through literature. Within the poem Guigemar, Guigemar and his lady fulfill and contradict what would be considered as gender norms within society: female inferiority, traditional courtship, and male dominance. Marie de France does this to criticize and combat the societal expectations and inherent inequalities in Norman England.
“Tolerance, what crimes / have been committed in your name.” can especially be seen as a criticism against the various social and legal inequalities perpetrated against many races, religions, and sexes under the guise of ‘Political Correctness’. However, as the point of these focus papers seems to be on interpreting the poem within its historical context, I will leave this tangent short. Levertov begins with “Genial poets, pink-faced / earnest wits…”2 This seems to be a criticism against all poets who write “neutral3” things; poets who do not try to choose a side; poets who do not challenge their readers; poets, even, who rely more upon being witty than on actually saying something. The entire stanza, from “Genial” to “name” seems to imply that poets who do these things are making excuses rather than really putting their ideas forward. However, at the second stanza Levertov moves back into familiar territory, seeming to criticize women who are content to live at home and bake bread4 ; to remain blind to the “nightmare reality5” around them.
Writing information that touches the reader emotionally, it feels as if Abramsky is trying to make the reader feel bad for the prisoners. Other than just providing an article full of guilt and sympathy, he delivers outside sources and statistics. Overall, I believe that Abramsky uses pathos in an unfair way, and finally logos and ethos in a smart and effective way. First off, in Sasha Abramsky’s, “When They Get Out,” Abramsky uses pathos and appeals to the reader’s emotions by painting a visual of the life of inmates in isolation. He says, “The inmates are often tormented by headaches.
Each inmate has a story and a past that equally goes along with that story, my job is to see past all that baggage and scar tissue and find the soar and try to help comfort them through all the pain. Before my own incarceration I liked down on those who lost their freedom due to their stupid acts, but when it became my turn I realized that sometimes we make those bad decisions out of emotions which can only lead to misguided judgment. Having the opportunity to share my story with the inmates has allowed them to see past me as being a stranger to them, if anything they see me as one of them, someone who relates to their loss and roller-coaster of emotions that are experienced daily while waiting on someone else to decide their fate and
I think that the end of the poem really points this out with the words “torture of confession out of it” and “they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.” I think that Collins is trying to tell people that they should just read poetry and enjoy it. That people should spend less time analyzing every detail and meaning they think a poem should have. I like the phrase “drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way