The short stories “The Highwayman” and the “Street of the Cañon” are similar in many ways. “The Highwayman” was written by Alfred Noyes, a writer born and raised in the United Kingdom. With his purpose writing the “highwayman” was to display one of his skills at writing narrative poetry and to reminisce with two of his biggest influences. The “Street of the Cañon” was written by Josefina Niggli, who is a Mexican-American novelist born in Mexico. Her purpose for writing “Street of the Cañon” along with the rest of her novels was to try and relate Mexican culture with English readers. Both of these short stories emphasize the love that two characters can have. Even though both the short stories “Street of the Cañon” and “Highwayman” are about …show more content…
love, character, setting, and style appeal differently to audiences. The short story, “Street of the Cañon” showcases two main characters, Sarita is a rich and sassy girl who is having a party thrown for her turning 18.
Her father, a very wealthy, powerful, and well liked man. The other main character is dashing and flirtatious young man who is from the rival town of Hidalgo, making him unwelcome because of a previous encounter. He is a tall, slender, sly youngster who slowly and peacefully made his way to the party by creeping along the dark streets wearing dark clothing covering his tall and masculine body. The party was for Sarita and her celebrating turning 18. His name Pepe Gonzales. A young man from Hidalgo had deceased while in San Juan and they buried him and when they would not let his bones go back to the people of Hidalgo. They tried to steal them back which caused an uproar between the two towns. Pepe is flirtatious, asking Saritas chaperone to dance with him and again when he asks Sarita if she would walk with him in the square, a traditional symbol of …show more content…
engagement. In the short story “The Street of the Cañon” one of the things that Josephina Niggli portrays is setting. The story is taking place with two different main characters from two different cities. There is the city of San Juan Iglesias and the city of Hidalgo which just so happens to be that the people of San Juan are mad at the people of Hidalgo because of an incident that has happened previously in the story. It is the night of Sarita’s birthday and there is not a soul in the city of San Juan they are all at Don Romeo’s house celebrating his daughter’s birthday. Pepe is slithering his way over through the dark and empty streets to the front door of Don Romeo’s house where he knocks on the door and gets asked to come inside. From that point on in the story it takes place inside of the house until it is time that they find the cheese and Pepe is gone and making his way back to Hidalgo. The style of this short story is not that different from the style of other stories. This was written as a short story that is trying to portray a man and a woman and how the man is trying to get the women to marry him and have to bring peace between their cities but the women does not want to. It is considered a romantic love story that has a party going on in the background but it mainly focuses on the two when they are dancing and such. Then the find some cheese and she realizes that he was really Pepe Gonzales from Hidalgo and she kind of thinks to herself about everything that they had talked about while they were dancing and everything. Even though the main purpose for the short story “The Street of the Cañon” is love and how it is shown throughout the character,setting, and style of the story. The story “The Highwayman” has a different effect on its readers with its different angles of how it shows love,character,setting, and style. The next story, “The Highwayman” has two main characters that are forbidden to see each other yet they still make it possible to be together. Alfred Noyes’ narrative poem “Highwayman” showcases two main characters. Bess a beautiful girl with long black hair that she ties in a love-knot. She also has a crush on the Highwayman who in this story is characterized as a villain but he has some characteristics that make him a good person deep down. Another character that is not as important in this story but is kind of has a major part in this story is Tim, he is the one that eavesdrops and hears everything that the Highwayman and Bess are talking about. He is also in love with Bess so that is why he goes back and tells King George’s men about it and that is what gets both the Highwayman and Bess killed. The second main character that is portrayed in the story is the Highwayman. The Highwayman is a man that is in love with the landlord's daughter Bess but in order to keep what he has and what he is doing he needs to rob places so at night and different times he will ride around on his horse and rob different places. This mainly takes place in a couple of different places the Inn which is where Bess is. Whenever you have a story of any kind one of the main things that is shown is the setting. In this narrative poem there is two different types of settings the big main setting that you have is the Inn which is where Bess is staying and that is the window that the Highwayman is throwing rocks at when he is trying to get her attention. This is also the place where Bess decides to take her own life towards the end of the story. The Inn is located around the area of Britain or England which is why the story has King George and the redcoats in it. Those are the main settings in which this poem takes place and how they have a role in the actual story itself. The final thing that usually gets looked at with stories is the style that the story is written in. The style that takes place in the story of the “Highwayman” is a narrative poem.
With a main problem that there is a robber or bad guy that is in love with the landlord's daughter. This poem is kind of a tragic romance story because of how that they both end up dying and how she was dying to be able to save him and then he dies because he realizes that he can’t save her and that his life is over. But at the end of the story it kind of has a sweet ending to it with both of them ending up dying they are able to be with each other and it kind of goes along with the storyline of what has happened in the story “Romeo & Juliet” where they had fallen in love but are forbidden to be with each other and they just want to be together. That is the main style that the poem “Highwayman”
follows. Since both of the short stories “The Highwayman” and “The Streets of the Cañon” are about love and express it throughout character,setting, and style they get different audience appeal and you can see some of what people do for love. Pepe Gonzales takes the extent of love to a whole other level where he risks his life just to be at Sarita’s party. Bess, who decides to take her own life in the end of the story showing her love that she had for the Highwayman. This is just two of the ways that different characters have shown their love appeal for someone else in a story. Even though neither of the characters got what they had wanted in the end.
“Crazy Horse Boulevard” is a poem by Sherman Alexie. In this poem Alexie goes over a few things like: how many best friends his brother has had and how many he has lost, talks about the loneliest number, he describes how much love he has for his brother, who are the greatest human beings he knows that have ever lived, ironies and lastly he talks about his drafts. What draws me to “Crazy Horse Boulevard” is that it is a really unique poem and different than any other poem I have read for a variety of reasons, and not to mention the language in this poem is different than any other poem I have read. For example, it does not rhyme and it is divided into six different sections, but yet it’s a single poem. Although I have never seen a poem like this, it’s pretty straight forward.
In the poem “To Whoever Set My Truck On Fire” by Steve Scafidi, it talks about how he got his car caught on fire. It is a free verse and it’s in one sentence. I really like the poem because it shows characterization, how he feels about his car being on fire and uses similes. For example, in the poem, the poet wrote “the innocent numbers of neighbors to memory and maybe/ you were miles away and I, like the woodsman of fairy tales, / threatened all with my bright ax shining with the evil” (30-32). The poet described his action similar to that woodsman of a fairy tale which is easier for the reader to understand his action.
“A Fire Truck” is a display of excellent poetry writing. Although a passing fire truck is a menial topic and the poem itself is brief, Richard Wilbur is able to brilliantly recreate this ordinary event through the use of rhythm, sounds and figurative language. The author captures, absorbs and retells this event in a way that the readers could almost physically experience the passing of a fire truck as did the speaker.
The poem is a combination of beauty and poignancy. It is a discovery in a trajectory path of rise and fall of human values and modernity. She is a sole traveler, a traveler apart in a literary romp afresh, tracing the thinning line of time and action.
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
At the beginning of the poem, the audience is able to witness an event of a young boy asking his father for story. While the father was deemed a “sad” man, it is later shown that his sadness can be contributed to his fear of his son leaving him. The structure then correlated to the point of going into the future. The future was able to depict what would happen to the loving duo. The father's dreams would become a reality and the son's love and admiration would cease to exist as he is seen screaming at his father. Wanting nothing to do with him. The young, pure child can be seen trying to back lash at his father for acting like a “god” that he can “never disappoint.” The point of this structure was not really a means of clarification from the beginning point of view, but more as an intro to the end. The real relationship can be seen in line 20, where it is mentioned that the relationship between the father and son is “an emotional rather than logical equation.” The love between this father and son, and all its complexity has no real solution. But rather a means of love; the feelings a parent has for wanting to protect their child and the child itself wanting to be set free from their parents grasp. The structure alone is quite complex. Seeing the present time frame of the father and son
The poet begins by describing the scene to paint a picture in the reader’s mind and elaborates on how the sky and the ground work in harmony. This is almost a story like layout with a beginning a complication and an ending. Thus the poem has a story like feel to it. At first it may not be clear why the poem is broken up into three- five line stanzas. The poet deliberately used this line stanzas as the most appropriate way to separate scenes and emotions to create a story like format.
This poem is divided into six stanzas with four lines each. The poem opens with “When the black snake flashed on the morning road” (1-2). The narrator uses “when” to signify the beginning of the story and introduces the snake as the main character. Labeling the snake as “black” gives it a dark and sinister appeal. The word “flashed” is used to demonstrate how fast the snake moved, and how quickly this event occurred. “Morning” is applied to the time of day that this event occurred. The narrator sees the snake quickly flash across the road. This sets up the scene in our minds. The “truck could not swerve” (3) implies that this was an accidental death. The poet uses “truck” to suggest a big vehicle that is unable to make quick moves or sudden stops. The narrator sees the snake flash across the road, into the path of a big truck that is unable to stop or swerve. “Death, that is how it happens” (4). The word “death” is italicized, emphasizing its importance. The p...
The poem makes an almost undecipherable, literal tone within the sound of the rhyme scheme, also creating calm peace with a mostly unpleasant situation. An example is the reoccurring line, “I have a rendezvous with Death” (Seeger 1, 5, 11, 20). The word “rendezvous” is a nice word where a person would meet somebody out of free will, even like two lovers seeing each other. Regardless, death is the unknown for many humans to fear. The narrator has arranged to meet with an experienced person known as death.
Writing the poem in ballad form gave a sense of mood to each paragraph. The poem starts out with an eager little girl wanting to march for freedom. The mother explains how treacherous the march could become showing her fear for her daughters life. The mood swings back and forth until finally the mother's fear overcomes the child's desire and the child is sent to church where it will be safe. The tempo seems to pick up in the last couple of paragraphs to emphasize the mothers distraught on hearing the explosion and finding her child's shoe.
The Poet begins with the Rocky Mountain Newspaper reporter Jack McEvoy being informed of his twin brother’s suicide. As two of the detectives from the Denver police department who also worked with Sean McEvoy in the Crimes Against Persons unit inform McEvoy of the incident, he immediately has doubts about his twin’s alleged suicide. Seeking to better understand what his brother did and what the Denver PD says his brother did, Jack McEvoy decides to write a story for the paper about his brother. From this point on McEvoy began to learn about evil in a new way.
As stated by Ed Sheeran, “Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes. But it’s the only thing that I know. When it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes. But it is the only thing that makes us feel alive,” love is like a torrent of darkness that hurt, or it can be a ribbon of rest that can heal. Love is like the branch of the two sides, where alleviation or devastation can be reveal. Likewise, Alfred Noyes’ written poem “The Highwayman” and Tobias Miller’s dramatization “The Highway Man (Original with Poem)” both depicted love as a powerful emotion through their poetic languages, style, and events. The poem “The Highwayman demonstrated the vengeful power of love through Tim’s shoes and illustrates how it can affect his emotion. On the other hand, the dramatization, “The Highway Man (Original with Poem)” depicted love as a powerful and eternal promotion that will heal one’s
The Taxi, by Amy Lowell, is an Imagist poem that relies heavily on imagery, rather than abstract ideas, to reveal meaning to the reader. The author uses free verse to allow the images and lines to speak for themselves and stand alone as individual lines. By doing so, each line offers its own tone and meaning, which then adds to the overall feel of the poem. Lowell wrote this poem to a love interest, clearly stating the meaning of the poem. She speaks as if the reader is the one being called after. The reader is entranced in her short poem filled with imagery to set the mood; the dire, last goodbye that seemed to separate the two forever. The poet's love for this person was also shown in her other works, and has made it very clear that there was a connection (Highleyman). This connection reveals the theme to be that she is lost without love. Before breaking the poem down into fragments for a line-by-line analysis, it can first be analyzed as a whole.
In the of the story, it started when Connie went to Pepe’s place for consultation. The problem of Connie is how to remove her other navel. Because if she (if ever) give birth, where would the other umbilical cord be connected. Connie told Pepe the story about her child hood times. Pepe talked to Señiora de Vidal, and verything that Señiora de Vidal told Pepe exactly the opposite of what Connie told Pepe. Some things that Señiora de Vidal told Pepe, was that Connie only have a navel, her navel was not really two. Also the age, which Señiora de Vidal said that Connie was just 18 years old. And she was not just got married that day, but she was married almost a year already. Pepe know that Connie hide from her after hearing that Señiora de Vidal ordinary that her father was in news and that controversies often comes when her father is in the government. Connie’s mom told her not to be affected with the controversies. After that, Señiora de Vidal also told Pepe that her daughter likes Paco. Pepe knows Paco because they were classmates during they are in Grade School.
The two roads presented in this poem represent difficult decisions we are faced with in life. He uses the relationship between the paths and real life decisions throughout the whole poem. This is an example of extended metaphor, which is used to help the readers understand the analogy between the two. The man in the poem said: “long I stood” (3), which lets us know the decision was not made instantly. It was hard for the man to make a final judgment.