In the poem “Self-Pity’s Closet” by Michelle Boisseu, the speaker’s main conflict is self pity, and the author used diction and imagery to show the effects that the conflict has on the speaker. Phrases like “secret open wounds,” (3) show the effects with the word “secret” meaning pain that others are not noticing, which leads up to the speaker getting hurt, but no one indicating to notice it. Another effect is the speaker becoming more self concerning and thinking more about her negatives. This effect portrays through “night raining spears of stars,” (19) because night tends to be the time when people have the most thoughts about themselves and also the word “spears” make up an image of pain piercing through the speaker. “Tangy molasses of
The news is out and Sister Wives star Mykelti Brown is engaged. This makes her the second one of the Brown children to decided that it is time to tie the knot. Her sister Maddie Brown is already married to Caleb Brush. Logan Brown seems close to an engagement, but hasn't proposed just yet. Us Magazine shared the news about Mykelti being engaged. Her fiance is Antonio Padron and fans can't wait to start seeing him on the show.
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
In “Useless Boys” the writer, Barry Dempster, creates a strong feeling of disappointment and shame in himself and society as he looks back on his youth to when him and a friend made a promise to each other to “not be like their fathers”. Dempster expresses a sort of disgust for the capitalist society his world seems to be built around, a life where even if you’re doing something you initially enjoyed you end up feeling trapped in it. The poem is a reflective piece, where he thinks back on how he truly believed he would end up happy if he chose a different path than that of his parents. The author uses simple diction and syntax, but it’s evident that each idea has a much deeper meaning, which assisted in setting a reflective/introspective mood.
In the year of 1912 tarry was raised in a foster home from abandoned parents.As tarry grows up he realizes he’s not normal.16 years later in the year of 1928 he finds a trail which leads to a place called the sold hallway as he looks at a guy in blue and thinks he looks nice.
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal [but] which the reader recognizes as his own." (Salvatore Quasimodo). There is something about the human spirit that causes us to rejoice in shared experience. We can connect on a deep level with our fellow man when we believe that somehow someone else understands us as they relate their own joys and hardships; and perhaps nowhere better is this relationship expressed than in that of the poet and his reader. For the current assignment I had the privilege (and challenge) of writing an imitation of William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 87". This poem touched a place in my heart because I have actually given this sonnet to someone before as it then communicated my thoughts and feelings far better than I could. For this reason, Sonnet 87 was an easy choice for this project, although not quite so easy an undertaking as I endeavored to match Shakespeare’s structure and bring out his themes through similar word choice.
hesis: Spiteful diction is used when describing the speaker’s life, however the tone shifts to something more positive when speaker is describing the story of the man who decides to lead a nomadic life. Although the speaker glorifies the story of man who gave up everything and left, the speaker in the end admits comfort in the security of his established life, suggesting that the uncertainty of a choice can hold a person back from making it, even though it may, in the end, benefit them.
her parents. After I read and re-read and re-read the article “I Stand Here Writing”, it is clearly to see the opinion that the author wants to show us, as a writer, it’s important and necessary to use a different way to think, it will help you to find new characteristics and traits so that we could obtain inspiration to write, and sometimes when we need to compare two things, it help to find new traits and discover the relationship between different experience, ideas that seems unrelated.
A person should be loved for who they are and everyone should have the opportunity to be themselves. Another poem, “The Wound-Dresser”, goes against the two first stories that I picked. This poem talks about a medic in the war and you get a sense of how gruesome war really is. This medic is just as important to the men carrying guns. The man recalled his horrific memories of seeing these injured soldiers and how hard it was. I believe that this man understands that being a soldier isn’t the only way to be a hero. That being a man doesn’t mean you have to physically strong and go into battle. That you can be a man others way, and to be your true self. The final story I am going to analyze is the story of “In the Trenches”. This story shows the struggle of men in the war. This idea of you can’t show pain, fear, etc. As a man in the story, Fry, is struggling with his feet. As Fry sits down to rest his feet the captain walks over. The captain looks at Fry and says, “Here, sergeant, stick a bayonet up his behind, that’ll make him move”. It seems common for men to endure these brutal remarks. In reality, people don’t understand the lasting impact that people’s words
The speaker opens up the poem by speaking in first person and saying “In the privacy of my mind/ I give vent to rage, lies, / envy, and vices of every kind”. (1-3) The speaker’s mind is like a safe haven and she can go there to be free and private with her thoughts without anyone knowing her true identity, almost as if she is trying to hide from the public’s eye. In the second tercet she mentions that she is filled with joy and is safe because the forbidden part of her nature is explored and no one can see or knows. In Duality the speaker also mentions that her mind is a wall that conceals her. This statement represents the speaker’s secrecy to keep her thoughts guarded and protected. Throughout the poem the speaker goes back and forth contradicting her façade with her inner thoughts. This technique makes the reader not only confused about the true identity of the speaker but also hungry for more information as the character in the poem isn’t thoroughly revealed and brought to light. The lack of information from the speaker and the nature of her thoughts can make her seem as a dishonest and evil
“A Story about the Body”, a prose poem by Robert Hass, is literally about a man who supposedly loves a woman but then finds out about her health conditions and then changes his mind. This poem, when I read it, was more like a short story than a poem. The poem uses imagery and a variety of adjectives which allow the reader to put themselves in the story as if they were watching it happen.
The poem, “After Great Pain”, by Emily Dickinson, is one that conveys an inner struggle of emotion and the process that a person goes through after experiencing suffering or pain. Through this poem, Dickinson utilizes physical reactions to allude to the emotional pain that can make people feel numb and empty. Included in this poem is an array of literary devices, such as oxymorons, similes, and personification. These devices help show how death and grief can be confronted, whether it be by giving into the pain or by regaining emotional strength, letting go, and moving on with life. As we work on the project, we discuss multiple aspects of the poem and how the structure and diction alludes the meaning of the poem.
Panty Pulpers is a group started by Drew Matott to bring attention and awareness to sexual assault victims. Matott went to college to become a professional print maker, but found a love of making paper. He blends his paper making with art therapy and social activism in many of his projects. Matott said that he wanted to make his work “more than a substrate”, and he certainly does, with projects like his Combat Paper Project is emotional, when veterans cut their uniforms to pieces and write letters or paint on to the paper made, is defiantly a work of activism. The same goes for Panty Pulpers, when victims of sexual violence are given the opportunity to cut up the clothing from a traumatic event, then make write poetry
It’s been a long debated subject of whether LGBT+ rights were civil rights or not. From being able to be gay and serve in the military, and to simply get the right to get married, it’s still a long road ahead, but the LGBT+ community has fought long and hard for simply rights that straight people already have. Torture, electroshock therapy, basic human rights being ripped away, and the feeling of being safe walking out of the house every day are all things LGBT+ community members have to worry about and have lost.
Sylvia Plath’s confessional poem is a free formed twenty line poem consisting of ten couplet stanzas which illustrate death as a state in which our imperfections are ignored. The subject of the poem is a woman who has been ‘perfected’ in death, having been released from her own personal suffering. For Plath death seems to be an achievement and just like the woman in the poem, Plath feels she will ultimately become ‘perfected’ when she too is dead. By not using the first person, Plath causes ‘the woman to become depersonalised’ and as a result the woman is distanced from the reader. This could possibly foreshadow how Plath herself, was withdrawing from life and people as she became more engulfed by depression and anxiety.
October 27, 1932 is the exact date that the one and only Sylvia Plath was born on. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She kept a journal of her poetic work that she started at an early age. As she grew older and wiser, she worked at Mademoiselle magazine as a guest editor while she was attending college. She found her self in a rough obstacle during that time and tried to take her life by overdosing on sleeping pills. After getting the proper treatment at a mental health facility, she went back to school to finish her degree in 1955. “Plath herself had suffered a serious breakdown and attempted suicide between her junior and senior years in college”(Baym). She met Ted Hughes, who she married in 1956, at Cambridge University in England.