Robert Olen Mr. Pagel ENGL 1010 February 11, 2012 "homage to my hips" Lucille Clifton was a woman of great pride in herself as well as her heritage. The poem "homage to my hips" was not the first poem that she wrote honoring certain assets that involved her physical appearance. Mrs. Clifton also wrote the poems "Homage of Mine", and "homage to my hair." The poems were written in the sixties, but not published until later after a public reading in New York, where Random House ask Lucille to submit a manuscript of some of her works. There are plenty of examples in the poem that portrays the struggles of the time for women, not to mention her struggling nationality that has been fighting for equal rights for over a century.
The poems “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley and “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning are very different. However they do have something in common – both poems are representations of ones power. “Ozymandias” represents power as poem shows that human life is insignificant compared to the passing of time, even for egotistical kings such as Ozymandias, time is very powerful. “My Last Duchess” represents power through the narrative technique, which makes it seem as if the Duke is speaking directly to an audience, powerful as it captures the reader. Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" is about a ruined statue of a powerful ruler who once controlled an ancient kingdom.
Literary Critique Ellen Hopkins - Crank Ellen Hopkins manages to twist the deep pit in your stomach and make you feel emotions you might not know you could feel, with her book, Crank. I whole-heartedly give this book a ten out of ten rating. The novel Crank is written in free verse poetry, which is a different style than what I am usually attracted to, but I found that it took the story to a whole new level. Although, it is a work of fiction, Crank is loosely based on the true story of the author’s daughter, making it all the more haunting. Kristina Georgia Snow and her alter ego, Bree, start at the beginning and lead you through the chilling story of her downfall due to her addiction to crank, better known as crystal meth.
Lets dig deeper into those little things that make her one of the most profound poets in American Literature. Emotion is used very often in Nikki Giovanni's poems. Three poems stood out the most in terms of emotions. They were "Blacksburg under siege: 21 August 2006"(1), "I am the Ocean"(55), and "We are Virginia"(107). The first and last poems evoked sad but happy emotions towards the end of the poem.
‘More often then not set texts for high schools seem overly familiar... literary criticism is never static... What seemed important to say about a work twenty or fifty years ago will seem obvious or irrelevant to us today” - Elizabeth Lawson Gwen Harwood, is a poet who utilises themes and ideas that can be extrapolated and made relevant to any context. Harwood’s poetry addresses concerns of human endurance through reflections on different contexts and their interpretations in literature, music and religion. In doing so, she takes what is often personal, private and time bound and makes it universal. She probes fundamental concerns of human existence relating to life and death, and the transient nature of mortality, the innocence and vulnerability of childhood and the perpetual strain between the personal and the universal. She is able to achieve this in Father and Child, Mother who gave me life and a Valediction through allusions to music, juxtaposition, symbolism and imagery which help construct meaning and a sense of intimacy.
NAME Teacher CLASS DATE Literary Analysis on “A Rose for Emily” For as long as anyone can remember, great authors have come and gone making their marks in history. In the most recent of those centuries, we have been blessed with the sensual vividness of remarkable writers such as Flannery O’Conner or Edgar Allan Poe. However, being perhaps the most provocative writer of southern sensibility, William Faulkner certainly stands out from the rest. Though he has written numerous novels and short stories, his most famous would have to be “A Rose for Emily.” Being a model expression of American Gothicism, “A Rose for Emily” uses strong characterization, a stimulating mystery, and an ironic twist at every turn. Perhaps one of the most interesting things I find about this story is the unique use of characterization.
Lastly the actual phrases represent a feminist perspective, all phrases are extracts from some of the most renowned feminists to date, these include Harwood has written the poem under the pseudonym of Walter Lehman This suggests that Harwood had a considerable political temperament as well as an ability to poke fun or mock the social constraints of her time. Her point was about editors' prejudice against women poets, thus emphasizing her intelligence at the time, and the frustrations she must have felt within her context. In “Triste, Triste”, Harwood explores the tensions between the creative spirit and the limitations of the temporal. The concept of the artists’ imagination as a separate entity, able to transcend the
Both poetic personas are adults, but one is the adult child of the mother being praised while the other is the adult parent of the child who was hurt. While it can never be assumed that the poet and the poetic persona are the same, in these poems it is generally accepted that the poet and the persona are the same. This contrasts with Robert Browning's dramatic monologues. Now taking into consideration the structural element of mood in the two poems. "Nettles" reveals its true mood in the last half of the poem: And then I took my billhook, honed the blade And went outside and slashed in fury with it Till not a nettle in that fierce parade Stood upright any more.
Maia Seguin ANNE BRADSTREET PURITAN POETRY ESSAY Setting sail to a new world of unknown dangers, the puritan colony was the first colony to part from the English church because of different opinions. In this grand adventure was a women by the name of Anne Bradstreet, the first published female poet. Some may say that she is one of the most important figures in literary history. Not only was enduring the hardships of this new world a great achievement but Anne faced the discrimination of others for being a women poet. Day after day she was forced to burden the cruel thoughts of others opinions of being inferior because she was a women and a women with her own thoughts at that.
It can be in the use of the iambic pentameter, or it can be free verse. It can be rhyming, and it cannot. It is so complex, that it is amazing when a poet has the ability to create a poem that wrenches the heart, yet brings it joy and relief at the same time. Emily Brontё is a very talented poet with amazing ability to make her readers feel her poem. Emily Jane Brontë was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England.