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...
For example, the metaphor; “Every breaths a gift, the first one to the last” (28). The use of this metaphor is to treat every day and breathing moment of your life as a gift. Therefore, your life should not be taken for granted and it is precious. Another poetic device is this lyric, “I believe that days go slow and years go fast” (27), this line is a form of paradox. This form of poetry is used to explain how the long days contradict the fast years and to cherish them. Life goes by in the blink of an eye, and it could have been wasted by regret, not making amends with people once trusted (forgiveness), and holding resentment. In addition, assonance is used frequently, for example, “I believe most people are good” (7) uses o’s is to elongate the sentence and create a slurred, calm feeling when the chorus is sung. Euphony is used in the lyric; “I believe them streets of gold are worth the work” (14), which creates a harmonious tone. The similar words “worth and work” sound the same so the sentence flows better together creating harmony. Finally, there is rhyming in most of the verses’, one of the examples is; “I believe we gotta forgive and make amends” (3), with “ ‘Cause nobody gets a second chance to make new old friends” (4). The rhyming of “amends and friends” aide the verse to become catchy which helps listeners enjoy the
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
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.
middle of paper ... ... The significance lies in the possibility that with the different types of poetry in the narrative, the governor presents examples of the types of poems that should be written by different people coming from different classes. Looking back at the narratives and the significance of the poems in them, it is clear that many of the poems are inspired by nature around the authors. Also, the poems provide more of the voice of the authors instead of just the voice of the narrator and helps present the emotional tones of the characters in the narratives to the reader so that there can be more of a connection to it when it is being read.
...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.
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.
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
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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 ...
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
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.
The choice of words of the author also contributes to the development of the theme. For example, the use of words like "drafty," "half-heartedly," and "half-imagined" give the reader the idea of how faintly the dilemma was perceived and understood by the children, thus adding to the idea that the children cannot understand the burden the speaker has upon herself. In addition, referring to a Rembrandt as just a "picture" and to the woman as "old age," we can see that these two symbols, which are very important to the speaker and to the poem, are considered trivial by the children, thus contributing to the concept that the children cannot feel what the speaker is feeling.
/ 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