According to Kenneth Burke’s Dramatic Pentad, there are five elements to interpret within a story: Act, Agent, Scene, Agency, and Purpose (Burke, 1969). The Act is what, the Agent is who, the Scene is where, the Agency is how and the Purpose is why. After finding the five elements you then find a pentadic ratio. A pentadic ratio tells you which elements are important for you to understand within the story (Burke, 1969). In the song “Fumble” by songwriter/ singer, Trey Songz I will explain what Kenneth Burke’s Dramatic Pentad is using the five elements and which pentadic ratio is important. The song lyrics are about Trey Songz not trying hard enough to make his relationship work with his girlfriend. In the song, he is now apologizing for breaking her heart the best way he can.
As stated before the agent is who is in the situation. In the song “Fumble” the agent is Trey Songz. The agent is Trey Songz because he is the one singing the song. Trey Songz is a young man from Petersburg VA. Growing up without a father figure he was raised by the women in his family. From being raised by t...
The first four stanzas are a conversation between the mother and daughter. The daughter asks for permission to attend a civil rights march. The child is a unique one who believes that sacrificing something like “play[ing]” for a march that can make a difference will be worthwhile (2). However, the mother understands that the march is not a simple march, but a political movement that can turn violent. The mother refuses the child’s request, which categorizes the poem as a tragedy because it places the child in the chur...
Agent Howard was assigned with Luther Gregory to stop a big drug dealer who has been known to sell about ten to fifty thousand dollars worth of cocaine within a week. The undercover officers first buy three ounces of cocaine from one of the drug dealers and stated he wanted to buy one-half kilograms of cocaine. The officers had were concerned they were going to be robbed because that amount of cocaine cost more than forty thousands dollars, so they planned to do it in a public location. Stewart, a guy who had previous debts from cocaine transactions, thought
The poem “Heritage”, written by Linda Hogan, tells the story of each trait she inherited and the lessons she learned from key members of her family. When analyzing poetry, there are many literary elements that the reader can observe. These elements can range from diction, syntax and rhyme schemes. In Hogan’s poem, there are three literary elements that stand out the most. These are figurative language, tone and diction. By using figurative language, Hogan can better communicate her ideas towards the audience. The use of tone allows the reader to understand the character’s feelings. Lastly, her choice of diction determines how the reader views the story. The author’s use of these three elements allows the audience to connect to the poem because
...ity not only suffer emotionally but candidly express this pain. These artists are able to both present this hyper-masculine image and at the same time reflect on his moral shortcoming. It is this apologetic regretful nature of drug narratives that allow the artists to become folk heroes. By telling the story of his drug dealing past and conveying a sense of regret he reaches out to those in a similar position to himself and in a way is delivering a confession to apologize to the ones that he has hurt.
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The elements in the poem work very well together to help set the theme of this poem. The tone set the overall mood of the poem, so show that it was rushed but not in a chaotic way. The imagery helps to show us little details of the setting, which are very helpful. And finally, the figures of speech, help the reader to compare the scene to things they have experienced in their lifetime to fully understand the poem.
Lucas uses poetic diction to elevate his poetry. With less formal use of language his poem would be reduced to an obnoxious complaint. However, the use of hyphen to connect “leaf-lisp” “cold-tea” and “struck-match-sweet” elevates the diction of the poem and triggers sensory responses; the vision of fallen leaves swirling, the feel of the cold, wet air, and the smell of the sulfur match head mingles with the sweet-smell of early decay (Lucas 2,4). Bibbins uses poetic diction not so much to elevate his text, but to imbibe the poem with more meaning. He uses double entendre and more metonymy when presenting the new girl as “a rail to rail against” which not only describes the way the rockstar views his groupies but also conveys the groupies’ ideas of themselves (Bibbins 11). The new girl’s function is shared in that line; like the other groupies she is with the band for the band members to use as they see fit. The vulgarity and slang in the poem is juxtaposed with the layers of meaning created by Bibbins ingenious word choice and
In the case of this poem she provides examples of loses she has experienced over a large span of time and each loss becomes more personally meaningful and profound for the greater message of the poem. The poem can be considered confessional in the sense that the speaker/poet is writing the poem as a coping mechanism, the speaker is writing to try and convince herself that loss is not great disaster. The line “the art of losing’s not too hard to master” is a twist on the refrain of the poem and in a way is the speaker’s confession; she almost admits her lack of control over loss (Line18). The poem has a Villanelle form with the first five stanzas consisting of three lines with an (a,b,a) pattern followed by a quatrain with an (a,b,a,b) pattern. The two refrains in the poem are more the repeated use of the words “master” and “disaster” than actual repeated lines. Bishop changes the sentences attached to these words throughout the poem, the most consistent being “the art of losing isn’t hard to master” but even this changes in the turn of the poem. The rhyme scheme is centered on “master” and “disaster” which lends meaning to the theme of control, attempting to master control of something uncontrollable will only lead to disaster, without a channel to eventual to acceptance. “One Art” opens with the speaker creating a tone of resignation about loss, almost as
The poem is told by the child’s view and everything is described in order for the reader to visualize what is happening. “The whiskey on your breath/Could make a small boy dizzy.”(1-2), Roethke starts off by describing the father through sense of smell instead of his facial features. Another use of imagery, “We romped until the pans/Slid from the kitchen shelf/My mother’s countenance/ Cold not unfrown itself.”(5-8), the kitchen is a mess and the mother only watches, providing no help. They “romped” until the pans fell, this creates an image of destruction because the dad is drunkenly moving through the kitchen and destroying everything. The mother only watches in despair and she had no power of the actions of the father. “The hand that held my wrist/Was battered on one knuckle” (9-10), the battered knuckle means that the father is violent and giving a strong image of how the father is. Roethke uses amazing imagery in order to make sense of the story. He wants the reader to connect with him and to visualize what he is trying to
Symbolism and imagery help Harwood to achieve the poem’s purpose in creating a sympathetic tone towards the woman’s struggle. The use of rhyming couplets and irregular short sentences create a hectic and disorganised structure and rhythm to the poem, which symbolises the mother’s life. Harwood uses emotive description and olfactory imagery to allow the audience to experience exactly what the woman is feeling. “A pot boils over.
Dom Cobb puts a team together of various skilled operatives and they work together to go deeper into Cobb’s unconscious mind. They are found through friends of Cobb’s and put through semi trial runs before officially joining the team. This team is composed of Cobb, Arthur, Ariadne, Saito, Eames, Yusuf, and Mal. Arthur is Cobb’s right hand man. Ariadne is the architect of the whole operation. Saito is a respectable Japanese man who hired the team. Eames is the dream-world impersonator as described by Amy Biancolli. Yusuf is the chemist that creates the sedative, which allows the team to be unconscious for a large amount of time and is also the one driving the van. Lastly, the biggest influence of all the characters is Mal. Mal is not an actual living being, but she is merely a memory in Cobb’s mind that he cannot get rid of. They lived life together, constantly dreaming ...
/ We’re up all night [until its dawn]. / We’re up all night to get some. / We’re up all night to get lucky” (Pentatonix 4-5.27-35). This verse means Pentatonix worked so hard to get where they came from so they are going celebrate to the fullest. The third verse is from “Digital Love”, “Last night, I had this dream about you. / In this dream, I'm dancing right beside you. / There's nothing wrong with just a little bit of fun/ We were dancing all night long. /Oh, I don't know what to do / About this dream and you / I hope this dream comes true” (Pentatonix 7-8.42-48). This verse is about hoping to have fun with your dream love. Then the fourth verse is from “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”, “Work it harder, make it better / Do it faster, makes us stronger, / more than ever hour after / Our work is never over” (Pentatonix 10.55-58). This verse means that Pentatonix will always improve in the craft and that the process of that improvement will never be
A common technique of Byron in this piece is to insert himself within the story and speak directly to the reader (see poem). He includes many tangents, on which he either makes a sneering, yet humorous comment (see poem), or adds in his own experiences or feelings about the topic at hand (see poem). Many times these tangents seem unrelated to the text, (line 1700ish) and only serve as a chance for Byron to say his piece on something he finds interesting or relevant in placing himself as distinct from the rest (line 697). These lines of humor are made more apparent through the rhythmic nature of his rhymes, and the placement of the individual lines (line 320-2). He tends to follow up a serious event or thought by a more trivial and light comment, making the first serious thing seem less heavy (line 752).
A well-written poem is built out of levels. Each level alludes to the next until the ultimate discovery of the poet's message. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T. S. Eliot, provides a perfect example of a well-crafted poem comprised of sequential levels, also known as a framed story. At the level just below the very surface, the poem obscurely tells the story of a failed lobster prophet, resurrected from the dead to warn other lobsters of the cruel fate that awaits them in the event of their capture. In the course of the story, the lobster prophet falls prey to the harvest of a lobster catcher and is then sent to a restaurant as food. While in the tank with the other lobsters, he reflects on and laments his life. This interpretation serves as a vehicle for presenting the true message of the poem, which exists on the next level, to the audience. The story of the lobster represents Eliot's own fear of people overlooking the messages he attempts to convey in his poetry. Even though he has learned this lesson from previous poems, he feels an attempt to save his future poems is futile in the same way as one lobster saving another is futile.
Towards the beginning of the poem, the author Jungmin used an aggrieved and ambivalent tone throughout the story to make the reader have sympathy for the speaker. She successfully creates this tone by using words such as sinking, wrong, clumsy, alien. These words from the poem are very relatable to people in real life when they are in a dark spot in their life, thus making them feel sympathy for the speaker in the poem. By creating this common place between the reader and