Head, Heart is a piece of literature that a reader could instantly connect with beginning straightaway in the title. The universal struggle between our ‘head’ and ‘heart’ creates an immediate need for understanding of ourselves. After all, mankind have spent their lives wagering whether the personified logic or emotion wins. Children learn to use these terms to understand themselves, dividing largely significant parts of who they are into two neatly separate categories. We justify an illogical action by saying we were “following our heart” or a heartless decision with we were “using our head.” The head is given a persona as straightforward, strong, resourceful, and mature. The heart is likewise given a persona that is opposite entirely- pondering, …show more content…
fragile, scattered, and youthful. Head, Heart expresses a general understanding of how a conflict might appear if our emotions could, in the literal sense, converse with our logic. The emphasized conflict between figurative characters and provoked thought and emotion indicates this work to be a drama, while the abstract text structure and interpretive quality proves the work to be a poem. To begin, this work proves the genre to be a drama by the conflict between “Head” and “Heart.” While the two characters could be interpreted to belong to the same person, the conflict remains understood as Man vs. Self. While Heart struggles to understand a more melancholy aspect about life and love, the Head maintains the argument that life will go on, and things are meant to pass. While there are no descriptions written directly into the text, reading deeper in, the Head and the Heart are described very well. As Heart pursues the understanding of a great misfortune, Head provides tender care and wisdom expresses parts of the well-known personas. The “Head” acts as a guide, an elder, better-adapted character while “Heart” resembles childlike, innocent character who seems to need guidance. The appearance seems as a parent-child relationship. This piece also proves to be a drama by its way of provoking thought and emotion.
Thought is provoked by creating a dynamic between two parts of one’s self that is a parent and a child in conversation rather than equals arguing about each’s significance. The repetition of H’s throughout the piece indicated that the writer not only intended for harmonious sounds, but for Head and Heart to sound like the two were on the same team for once. Head, Heart illustrates how our emotional side interacts with our logical side in a relatable way. It allows the reader to sympathize with Head and Heart as they both struggle to stabilize Heart. The attachment the reader feels to words such as “ears,” “earth,” and “someday create a more intimate tone that opens way for emotions to be felt. Emotionally charged words such as “weep,” “love,” “feels,” and “want” appear in every line, securing the writer’s endeavor to provoke sympathy and grief for both Heart and Head, mainly centering compassion around Heart. The abundance of loaded words plays a significance in defining this work as a drama. The attachment the reader feels to words such as “ears” and “earth” create a more intimate tone that opens way for emotions to be felt. Beyond the significance of diction, syntax provides a better understanding of how the conversation between the two characters is spoken. The simple, and occasionally fragmented lines involving Heart such as “Heart weeps,” “Heart feels better,” “Help, Head. Help Heart,” …show more content…
forces the reader to hear the words in their mind like a child would speak. Childlike behavior of Heart is a well-maintain quality that provokes emotion, along with Heads parent-like, compassionate nature. Coupled with drama, this work also presents itself as a poem in form. The abstract text structure is a dead giveaway to begin. One sentence or fragment given per line is a technique used by poets to create emphasis. Generally, in other literary forms, the writer does not use only a sentence or fragment then skip to the next line. Not only is this work condensed too significantly to be certain other forms of literature such a novel, but the abstract text structure indicates a poetic quality as well. Fragmentation and lack of quotation is an obvious choice the writer would have not been allowed had this been another literary form. Where the simple, and otherwise boring sentence structure would have been rejected by other literary forms, poems welcome it. There are far too many rules and guidelines in writing stories, dramas, and novels that poems don’t have to adhere to. In this poem, the simple sentences tell us so much more by allowing our imaginations to do the rest compared to a drama or even a short story. This poem tells us a story in 10 lines, an aspect far too liberal for any other form. The flexible, abstract nature of a poem’s text allows for one of the great defining qualities a poem possesses- freedom to interpretation. Along with abstract text structure, poetry is interpretive in the way each person reads it. The head could be the man of a relationship, the heart, the girl. The head could be the reader’s mother or father when he or she was young, being the intellect, to soothe our unfamiliar, deeply felt fears, sorrows, and ignorance of the world. A professional writer might elaborate about why this is directed at Obama or how this encompasses the world of physics, but the great thing is no one is wrong with a great defense. This particular poem is broad is language and simple in structure, which leads to many ideas to be provoked. The abstract nature allows for the reader to think outside of their own immediate understanding of the colloquial and formal meaning of what the Head and Heart might be. Their relationship is debatable. Is Head a generous caregiver or simply interested in the wellbeing in the body in which they both reside? Is Heart as innocent and troubled as it seems or is this an exaggeration to force Head into working a little bit harder to find deeper understanding? They might be on the same team, maybe not. In conclusion, this dramatic poem expresses a general understanding of how a conflict might appear if our emotions could converse with our logic.
The emphasized conflict between figurative characters and provoked thought and emotion indicates this work to be a drama, while the abstract text structure and interpretive quality proves the work to be a poem. Head, Heart is abstract, interpretive, and relatable in the way it uses terms in which we are familiar and fond. This work uses a relationship all people have among themselves, challenges that the Head must face with the Heart. Though being mostly opposite, and in some cases against, one another, this work puts the Heart in the Head’s care to guide its understanding so that it might heal. It is a unique approach that the reader can imagine as a conflict inside themselves, or in other people. After all, we all have the Head and the Heart within
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The archetypal tragedy of two star-crossed lovers, separated by familial hate, is a recurring theme, which never fails to capture the minds of the audience. It is only at great cost, through the death of the central characters that these feuding families finally find peace. This is an intriguing idea, one antithetical. I have chosen to analyze both Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet and Laurent 's West Side Story. The purpose of this essay is showing how the spoken language is utilized in these different plays to meet differing objectives. The chosen scenes to further aid comparison and contrast are the balcony scenes.
With an evident attempt at objectivity, the syntax of Passage 1 relies almost entirely on sentences of medium length, uses a few long sentences for balance, and concludes with a strong telegraphic sentence. The varying sentence length helps keep the readers engaged, while also ensuring that the writing remains succinct and informative. Like the varying sentence length, the sentence structures vary as complex sentences are offset by a few scattered simple sentences. The complex sentences provide the necessary description, and the simple sentences keep the writing easy to follow. Conversely, Passage 2 contains mostly long, flowing sentences, broken up by a single eight word sentence in the middle. This short sentence, juxtaposed against the length of the preceding and following sentences, provides a needed break in the text, but also bridges the ideas of the two sentences it falls between. The author employs the long sentences to develop his ideas and descriptions to the fullest extent, filling the sentences with literary elements and images. Coupled...
words so that the sound of the play complements its expression of emotions and ideas. This essay
The last poem “The Fish” illustrates the sorrow of life itself. The skin, the blood, the entrails, everything of the fish depicts vividly and dramatically. The poet seems to share the same pain with the fish observing the scene and enjoys the detail just like enjoying an artwork. The poet lets the fish go because she is totally touched by the process between life and death; she loves life but meanwhile, is deeply hurt by the life. In the poem, the fish has no fear towards her; the desire to life is in the moving and tragic details when faces the
In these essays, the authors are telling a story about the characters life. The stories are directed towards the audience to express the kind of pain and suffering the characters went through to learn and apply what they had been yearning for.
Effectively using these elements in a piece of literature enhances the reader’s curiosity. One prime example of such usage of these elements is seen in Kate Chopin's writing. Her use of foreshadowing and use of emotional conflicts put into few words in the short piece "The Storm" adds an element that is alluring, holding the reader's interest. In this short piece of literature, a father and son, Bobinot and Bibi, are forced to remain in a store where they were shopping before the storm, waiting for the storm to pass over them. In the meantime, the wife and mother, Calixta, whom is still at home, receives an unexpected visit from a former lover named Alicee. The two have an affair and the story starts to come together. The story shows us how we tend to want what we beli...
One of the most analyzed plays in existence is the tragedy Hamlet, with its recurring question: "Is Hamlet’s 'antic disposition' feigned or real?" In truth, this question can only be answered by observing the thoughts of the main characters in relation to the cause of Hamlet real or feigned madness. In the tragedy Hamlet, each of the main characters explains Hamlets madness in their own unique way. To discover the cause behind the madness of Hamlet, each character used their own ambitions, emotions and interpretations of past events. Characters tried to explain Hamlet's "antic disposition" by means of association to thwarted ambition, heartbreaking anguish, and denied love. In the workings of their thoughts, the characters inadvertently reveal something about their own desires, emotions and experiences to the reader.
Emotions are a vital part of what makes human’s separate from the rest of the animal world. They run how a person thinks, acts, and processes information. In Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing, the characters let their emotions get the best of them and this causes much conflict to arise in the play. The friar, being the only character to stay coolheaded helps to develop the plot of the play with the marriages as well as to aid the theme that using emotions to problem solve leads to disaster whereas using logic causes desirable results.
To start off, this short story is packed with an abundance of symbolism that further highlights the emotions that Mrs. Mallard was feeling after hearing the devastating news of her husband’s death. Although she is instantly overcome with grief upon hearing the news, there were ‘’patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds…” (Chopin 476). These patches of blue sky represent the plethora of opportunities that await Mrs. Mallard now that she has been given a fresh start, with total and unrestricted freedom. Shortly after, Louise begins to comprehend how her husband’s death has in turn completely changed her life for the better. In addition, Mrs. Mallard’s heart troubles also bear a symbolic significance. Her physical heart complications symbolize her discontent with her lack of freedom in her life and marriage. In contrast, when Mrs. Mallard initially realizes the liberty and independence that she now possesses, “her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood w...
Some may say love is just an emotion while others may say it is a living and breathing creature. Songs and poems have been written about love for hundreds and thousands of years. Love has been around since the beginning of time, whether someone believes in the Big Bang or Adam and Eve. Without love, there wouldn’t be a world like it is known today. But with love, comes pain with it. Both William Shakespeare and Max Martin know and knew this. Both ingenious poets wrote love songs of pain and suffering as well as blossoming, newfound love. The eccentric ideal is both writers were born centuries apart. How could both know that love and pain work hand in hand when they were born 407 years apart? Love must never change then. Love survives and stays its original self through the hundreds and thousands of years it has been thriving. Though centuries apart, William Shakespeare and Max Martin share the same view on love whether i...
The classic play Romeo and Juliet by the famous playwright William Shakespeare is one of the most beautiful love stories of all time and has captured and inspired readers everywhere. Regardless of the fact that it was written in the 1500’s, it is still being performed and extolled today. There is a multitude of reasons for such continuance of the play. First of all, its everlasting themes of love and hate enable people to deeply relate to the story. Secondly, its memorable characters deeply imprint on the minds of readers. And lastly, above all, is its magnificent language which many writers today regard in awe. These three elements make the acclaimed play, Romeo and Juliet, one of the most timeless stories of our lives.
When placed in a situation out of one’s control, the individual freedom of choice is apprehended, often leading to cognitive dissonance followed by a resolution in which an ultimate decision is made based on a consolidation of personal ethics. However, such resolutions are not achieved easily. In both William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet and Aeschylus’ classical trilogy The Oresteia, the progression of human morality is examined through the protagonists, who are subjected to psychological conflict as they struggle to consolidate their own sense of morality in their pursuits of vengeance.
The author uses imagery, contrasting diction, tones, and symbols in the poem to show two very different sides of the parent-child relationship. The poem’s theme is that even though parents and teenagers may have their disagreements, there is still an underlying love that binds the family together and helps them bridge their gap that is between them.
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.
In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, protagonist Hamlet, experiences many rises and falls throughout the play that have a major impact on his mentality decline. The way in which readers interpret the character, Hamlet, can vary in many ways. For instance, Hamlet delivers many soliloquies throughout the work, giving readers a better insight of his state of mind. Additionally, two significant soliloquies in both Acts II and III show a clear view of Hamlet’s mental and emotional state.