“Happiness” by Jane Kenyon is a poem that uses enhanced language and effective literary devices to elevate Kenyon’s poem above the others on the poetry 180 website. She establishes an allusion to the prodigal son; “... or the way it turns up like a prodigal/ who comes back to the dust at your feet”(2-3). This allows the author to speak to those of a Christian background, but eliminates the poems universality. Furthermore, Kenyon’s use of alliteration when describing the “... clerk stacking cans of carrots”, emphasizes how something so mundane can still bring a person happiness. Similarly, the use of imagery enables the audience to visualize what the author is conveying to create a personal connection. “You made a feast in honour of what/ was
The fourth Chapter of Estella Blackburn’s non fiction novel Broken lives “A Fathers Influence”, exposes readers to Eric Edgar Cooke and John Button’s time of adolescence. The chapter juxtaposes the two main characters too provide the reader with character analyses so later they may make judgment on the verdict. The chapter includes accounts of the crimes and punishments that Cooke contended with from 1948 to 1958. Cooke’s psychiatric assessment that he received during one of his first convictions and his life after conviction, marring Sally Lavin. It also exposes John Button’s crime of truancy, and his move from the UK to Australia.
People push being happy on society as a total must in life; sadness is not an option. However, the research that has conducted to the study of happiness speaks otherwise. In this essay Sharon Begley's article "Happiness: Enough Already" critiques and analyzes societies need to be happy and the motivational affects it has on life. Begley believes that individuals do not always have to be happy, and being sad is okay and even good for us. She brings in the research of other professionals to build her claim that extreme constant happiness is not good for people. I strongly agree that we need to experience sadness to build motivation in life and character all around.
“The How of Happiness” chapter of Sonja Lyubomirsky emphasizes how making the happiness of our life and how it relates to our bodies. I realized the happiness is a part to contribute our life get better. It cannot deficient because it will make my life is getting depressed and sad. The determined happiness makes me surprise and interesting because that is the normal happened around my league. For example, the beauty and material wealth can make us feel happy. Although it is not a long-term happiness, it still can make us feel happy. According from the book, a wise (and rich) person once said, “I’ve never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life…[because] I never thought I would be way happier when I had 2X instead of X.” (p.45) That
Vendler, Helen. Poems, poets, poetry: an introduction and anthology. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1997. Print.
The poem ‘Nettles’ and ‘Born yesterday have many similarities in how they represent the difficulty in a parent and child relationship; in ‘Born yesterday’ the extended metaphor is based around the idea that to achieve happiness one must not thrive for perfection or happiness will never be accomplished. “Nothing uncustomary to pull you off your balance” supports the extended metaphor of how happiness is achieved. Philip Larking (PL) uses enjambment to show that the course of life is continuous and is about “balance”, this metaphor allows the reader to realise that something “uncustomary” will ruin that balance. Thus showing that although the advice is harsh and uncustomary it is the advice of experience and the advice that will allow the receiver
Throughout many of Toni Morrison?s novels, the plot is built around some conflict for her characters to overcome. Paradise, in particular, uses the relationships between women as a means of reaching this desired end. Paradise, a novel centered around the destruction of a convent and the women in it, supports this idea by showing how this building serves as a haven for dejected women (Smith). The bulk of the novel takes place during and after WWII and focuses on an all black town in Oklahoma. It is through the course of the novel that we see Morrison weave the bonds of women into the text as a means of healing the scars inflicted upon her characters in their respective societies.
The chosen poem can speak out too many different people. Patricia Walter titled her piece “Be Happy, Not Perfect”. This poem may draw in a person with its outstanding connection to younger readers all throughout the world. The message in the poem portrays many moods going from frustration to tiredness through a personal level. Walter uses figurative to bring attention to the moods she’s trying to evoke. She lures readers in by changing the mood and tries to keep everyone engaged. Throughout her writing, she hints that the poem can be related to her on a deeper level making the mood stronger and more evident from beginning to end.
After reading “True Love” I have concluded that Szymborska is trying promoting true love to the people who don’t believe, by stating the positive aspects to make people live a happier life. In the poem “True Love” by Wislawa Szymborska, it is obviously talking about true love such as how it happens, and when people are in love or a relationship. She uses a continuous form of sarcasm of people who do believe in true in love, and those who do. This making her a believer, creates an argument about the belief of “true love”. She promotes it by speaking from both sides of the argument including the people who don’t know exactly what true love is. Another method she uses is by expressing how true love happens, involving the emotions and impacts that it can create on a person’s life.
Todd Solondz's film, "Happiness", is one not commonly seen in modern motion pictures. In the now comfortable atmosphere of film where gorgeous under-aged, under-weight, budding actors and actresses monopolize the scene, "Happiness" seems to be a fresh change brought to the screen. However, this change is not one that drifts away from reality like many others are doing, instead it focuses on what other films overlook and often purposely ignore. The human dark side, their disgusting behavior and socially disturbing taboos. The thing that really grabs my attention about this movie is the reality of it, even though I sometimes want to look away. Instead of glamorizing human evil by having the latest teen star run around killing people in a mask, "Happiness" confronts the issues that plague common people living common lives. Sure, it's twisted, but Americans go to movies to see stories through the eyes of others, seeing more realistic ones changes the perception of their views and really makes them look around and question everything they see.
Miss Julie by August Strindberg was published in 1888 yet was soon censored for it’s, what was then, ‘scandalous’ content with its frank portrayal of sexuality. In the preface of the play, Strindberg refers to Miss Julie as a ‘man-hating half women’ who seems to be the result of a power struggle between her mother and father. Miss Julie is already the dominating figure within the play showing a disregard for gender and class conventions, these themes and the idea of a power struggle that forms tension between characters should be drawn upon when taking a directorial approach to staging the play.
Tinsel is cheap, flashy, decorative material that is used to spruce up a christmas tree. Parker establishes the idea that a woman's poetry must be just pretty words and empty thoughts much like tinsel is just a decorative material that can be easily discarded and doesn't have any other use. Through Parker’s symbolic and metaphorical structures we often get deeper insight into society's misogynistic innerworkings which is very typical in her works. Further, Parker’s unique voice can be attributed to her use of traditional rhyme schemes to convey deeper meaning in her poetry. Parker uses the rhyme scheme ABAB repeatedly in her poetry which gives a positive and cheery feel to her verses but also contrasts the deeper meaning of the poem. For example, in the epitaph poem, Parker uses a traditional rhyme scheme which creates a nursery rhyme like setting when the poem is actually talking about death and society’s shallow views of women. This clash in structure and theme creates a memorable and thought provoking effect which is very prominent in Parker’s
Linda Pastan’s poem “The Obligation to be Happy” reflects her dissatisfaction with being a house-wife and feeling that her true talent wasn’t being shown. She is Jewish and grew up in the Bronx and writes about how this affected her. She put writing on hold for her family, but soon started up
With reference to the text, discuss Mustafa Mond’s statement: “ The secret to happiness is liking what you have to do.”
“Evangeline: A Tale of Arcadia” is a beautiful book, with wonderful imagery that speaks of love and the heartbreak it may bring.” Experiencing tragic endings in love with both of his deceased wives is what kept Longfellow writing. Knowing of the heartbreak love can bring when the one you love is taken away from you quickly is one of Longfellow’s specialties because of the depressing loses of his loved ones. The ability to relate to what Longfellow wrote is what his fans loved the most about him. From the deep love that was felt to the horrid heartbreak that was brought. Longfellow was a writer who wrote with so much emotion that you felt as if you could feel the passion he wrote with, it felt as if you were in the poem. “ Longfellow played an important role not just in helping make poetry respectable, but more broadly in refining and cultivating middle-class readers.In the gentle hands of Longfellow, readers could be introduced to the finer things in life – domestic sympathies, noble aspirations, spiritual consolations, the glories of high culture – without ever being made to feel intimidated or inadequate. A peculiarly American mixture, Longfellow was both a patrician and a populist, an artist of elite social backgrounds whose writing reverberated with the masses” (“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” Historic). New poetry was brought to Longfellow’s era
David Myers says in the article 'Don't Worry You Can Be Happy'; by John B. Thomas. 'Happiness relies largely on things unrelated to money, such as meaningful activities and enriching relationships.'; With that the article states that with the following ten steps you can improve your happiness. One: learn to like your self. Two: take control of your destiny. Three: practice expecting the best. Four: become more extroverted. Five: try acting happy. Six: consider new work. Seven: Sleep, sleep, sleep. Eight: Foster close relationships. Nine: Tie the knot. Ten: have faith. So with all of the ten steps you can see that with a little faith and following these steps you could 'Be Happy';.