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The poem from the movie 10 Things I Hate About You of the same name uses multiple uses of the appeal pathos in order to empathize with the character Kat Stratford. She is also able to tie in ethical appeals when reciting her poem to her class as well. A combination of these appeals, as well as her emotion during the movie, is targeted toward the character Patrick Verona and the movie audience. Considering how the movie ends I would say she was successful when using these appeals. 10 Things I Hate About You is based on the famous Shakespearian play Taming of the Shrew. It all starts out when new student Cameron James wants to date Bianca Stratford. Only he isn't able to because Kat and Bianca's father doesn't allow them to date. But, after …show more content…
Bianca begs her father to let her date he says she can only if Kat dates. Which is not very likely since Kat isn't one to hang around boys. So, in order for Cameron to date Bianca, he enlists Joey, who also has a romantic interest in Bianca, to find someone to pay to date, Kat. That's when they find Patrick who could be considered a "bad boy". During the duration of the film in Kat, Patrick, and Joey's English class they are asked to write their own rendition of a Shakespearian sonnet. Kat later finds out that Patrick only dated her because he was being paid causing her to fill with hatred towards him and prompting her to base her poem off of him. She presents her poem to the class and goes on about all the things she hates about him, but she eventually says how she actually doesn't hate him one bit. In the end, Kat and Patrick end up together as well as Bianca and Cameron. Kat is effectively using pathos while reciting her poem not only with its context but allows with the emotion she displays while reading it.
Since she talks about what all she hates Patrick in her poem, the audience of the movie feels what she feels because of what has previously occurred and how she is saying how she hates these things. Because it is hard not to agree with her because all the things she claims to hate are true to Patrick's personality. But at the end of the poem she says "But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all" (10 Things I Hate About You). At that moment, her emotions peak and she is on the verge of crying which makes Patrick feel even more terrible for what he did than before. She also uses a little humor throughout her poem for example when she says "It even makes me rhyme" (10 Things I Hate About You). It makes cents for her to put this in here because a sonnet is supposed to rhyme and it goes with her irascible personality. And her putting that line in her poem probably made a few people in the movie audience giggle. Overall, this poem was very effective in using the pathetic appeal because of the content of the poem as well as Kat's emotion while presenting it. Because they go hand in hand as in the poem would be nothing without Kat's emotion as wells as Kat's emotion would be nothing without the
poem. As well as using pathos Kat also effectively uses the ethical appeal when reciting her poem. First off she is able to establish credibility because her poem is based on a Shakespearian sonnet. This gives her credibility because Shakespeare is a well-known and well-liked writer. That being said anything based off of what he is written is going to be more credible than something someone just free-writing on their own poem and it not being based on anything. She also shows character because she was the only one to volunteer to read her poem out loud to the class despite her teacher's reaction after she volunteered. This is an excellent way to show that Kat pulled off the ethical appeal very well. Because almost everyone has been in a class where they were forced to speak in front of it and it is not a very well-liked task. Although this doesn't happen often at all when it is a poetry assignment Kat offering to recite her poem is still a daring and admiral move. But, not only did she offer to read her poem she was the only one to offer to read it. In the end, Kat successfully implemented ethos when she delivered her poem. She was effective when doing so because she based her poem off a Shakespearian sonnet instead of just free writing her poem. Even though her assignment told her to do that it still gives her mounds of creditability. She was also effective when she was the one and the only person to volunteer to read her poem in front of her English class despite her teacher being off-put by her. This proves that she has character because most people do not have the guts to go in front of a classroom and read a very personal poem the way she did.
Keller used a variety of methods in her speech. The majority of her words used pathos. For example, Keller said “The future of America rests on the backs of 80,000,000 working men and women and their children. We are facing a grave crisis in our natural life. The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.” Here, she used pathos to elicit a scared or angry response fr...
One aspect of this poem that makes it effective is its structure. It is one continuous sentence, only separated by semi-colons and commas, and it does not follow the rules of line breaks or stanzas. The reader can imagine that a mother is listing the do’s and don’ts of being a woman in a never-ending manner. Repetition is also an important and effective part of this piece because not only does it create a rhythm in the composition aspect but significance in the purpose. Many new statements after the semi-colons begin with “this is how.” Some lines that impacted me were “this is how you smile to someone you don’t like too much; this is how you smile at someone you don’t like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely” (105) Women are taught to always be polite and smile, as a way to cover up any emotions or gestures that might suggest otherwise. Women are not praised for expressing how they truly feel because their voices are not important enough. This is one of the most powerful lines in the poem to me because I struggle with saying what I am feeling and thinking too much of what others will think of me if I decide to say
From the beginning of Kat’s life, she was at odds with her environment. When she was a child, she was Katherine, a doll like representation of what her mother wanted her to be. As a teenager she was Kathy, a representation of what she believed others wanted, “a bouncy, round-faced [girl] with gleaming freshly washed hair and enviable teeth, eager to please and no more int...
The themes and values present in The Taming of the Shrew for the appropriation to be successful needed to be evident in 10 Things I Hate About You. These included romance and marriage, the importance of money, social order and status, patriarchal values and finally transformation.
Poetry has a way of making us feel every range of emotion, in some cases better than other forms of entertainment. Unlike a novel, which gives a wide field of vision on any subject, poems have a more focused look mostly on the raw emotion of any one topic. Understanding poetry is an art onto itself, to be able to peel back the words and feel the emotions within them is truly its own work. Harder yet is the ability to dissect and explain these ideas to another person (in this case through an essay)and have them feel and see the poem and the topic it brings to light in the same way that you do. The poem that we will explore is powerful and thought provoking, because it brings the ugly subject of oppression to the front of your mind and forces you to engage in a conversation that you have no control over. It makes you feel hopeless and angry at the same time. In the poem Unwanted by Edward Field we are going to explore the parts of the poem but mainly we will
The author uses repetition on line seven and twelve, Shuttle states, “I am trying to love the world”. When the author first included this line in the poem my first thought was she clearly has something against the world. Upon doing further research,
She does a great job at using both of the appeals in “Still I Rise”. Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, an educator, and a poet. Maya Angelou’s constant use of “I” or “my” in her poem is her greatest use of ethos. This poem is her story so she is telling it from experience. For example, when Maya says “Does my sassiness upset you?” (Angelou 5) she draws in the audience by speaking of herself. She lets the audience know that this is a real thing. Another way that Angelou draws in her audience with ethos is when she says “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.” (Angelou 39-40) That quote gives Maya Angelou credibility because she knows the hardships of slavery and racism because of her ancestors and culture. The second and most effectively used rhetorical device used is pathos. The entire poem draws in the audience emotionally, even from the first sentence. I believe she was so great at using pathos because it was from her heart. She lived through it, she went through the pain, and she overcame that pain. She was passionate about what she was writing and you could absolutely feel it just by reading it. A great example of pathos and one of my favorite “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.” (Angelou 21-24) Maya’s use of words in this stanza appeals to the audience emotionally. While reading it, you feel like those things are directly happening to you. The other use of pathos that is effective is when she claims that she will rise. It appeals emotionally because it gives the audience hope, strength, and determination that they can rise. The more it’s repeated, the more effective it is. The more you say it, the more that she and the audience believe that it is true. The last example of how this poem appeals emotionally is when she says “Does my
10 Things I Hate About You takes William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Taming of the Shrew and manages to make it relevant to a modern audience. The story remains the same with the younger sister, Bianca, not allowed to have a relationship until her older sister, Kat, does. They did maintain several original scenes and even used several direct quotes from the original play. The writers have eliminated some of Bianca’s suitors and changed the way Kat is tamed to appeal to a modern audience. Shakespeare would have agreed with the casting of the movie. This movie may turn Shakespeare’s work into a teen comedy but it maintains many of the elements that made the play such a hit.
An essential step in analyzing a poem is to provide a structural outline of the poem. Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “The Author to Her Book,” can be divided into seven sections. First, line one provides the general description of how she views her creation. She repeatedly speaks directly to her work in apostrophe, as if it were her own child. Second, lines two through five depict how she feels embarrassed that her private works were published without her consent and before she was finished editing and correcting them. Then in lines six through nine, Bradstreet equates the embarrassment she feels due to her as-yet-unperfected work to the shame a parent feels due to an ill-tempered child. She continues in line 10 through 14 to tell her desire to erase any error in the poem, but in lines 15 through 17 she realizes that this cannot be done because it is already in print. Finally in lines 19 and 20, a mother’s unconditional love shows as she sends her child away with admonitions. In the end, Bradstreet leaves her child with the thought, be known for your own value.
... was meant to serve as insight as to how Brooks used the tone to create a mood that was inconsistent with an overlying theme of self-pity. She has a way with words, and I feel that this ballad is very representative of her skill as a writer.
4. In lines 85 to the end of the poem is where we can find the true meaning of the piece. After what seems to be a very bi-polar first part, the speaker finally settles with being one of a kind. She claims that “song has touched her lips with fire/ and made her heart a shrine;” and feels as if she has this special gift (poetry) that she hopes will be remembered forever.
connected to her. During her monologue, she sets a comoic and ironic tone. She trys
her for always going to someone else to talk to. This anger goes back and forth throughout the whole poem. The negative tone lets the reader almost feel what Amy and her husband are going through.
She only allows her to see her worth in having a clean home and a satisfied man. She never once tells the girl to follow her dreams or even talk about what they are. The mother only keeps on instructing her on even the simplest things like smiling : “...this is how you smile to someone you don 't like too much;this is how you smile at someone you don 't like at all;this is how you smile to someone you like completely...” this poem is filled with the phrases “this is how”. “ don’t do this”, and “ be sure to..” the speaker does not even give the girl a chance to speak her mind or form her own thoughts. The young girl was only able to get one sentence out the whole poem : “...but what if the baker won 't let me feel the bread?”
She says “writing can be an expression of one 's innermost feelings. It can allow the reader to tap into the deepest recesses of one 's heart and soul. It is indeed the gifted author that can cause the reader to cry at her words and feel hope within the same poem. Many authors as well, as ordinary people use writing as a way to release emotions.” She makes plenty points in her review that I completely agree with. After reading the poem I think that Elizabeth Barret Browning is not only the author of her famous poem, but also the speaker as well. She is a woman simply expressing her love for her husband in a passionate way through poetry. In the 1st Line it reads “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” A woman drunk in love she is, and next she begins to count the numerous ways she can love her significant