Margaret Atwood's poem, "The Moment" is a blank verse as you can tell from the lack of rhyming. She used an iambic pentameter, which consists of five iambs that are essentially five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. Therefore, includes a ten-syllable line that is a predominant rhythm.
The tone was referred to the author’s use of words and her writing style to convey the message of respecting nature and don't abuse nature. I believe the tone of the first stanza is optimistic and feeling accomplished. She is describing a hopeful situation in the first stanza of after working vigorously and taking a break. For instance, when it says, "knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this." (Atwood 1).
Moving on
In the Time of the Butterflies is a historical fiction novel by Julia Alvarez based on events that occurred during the rule of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. This book shows the hardships the Mirabal Sisters had to go through while being part of an underground effort to overthrow the dictatorship of Trujillo. It also shows that ultimately, it was their courage that brought upon their own death. Alvarez wants us to understand anyone and everyone has the potential to be courageous.
Ann Rinaldi has written many books for young teenagers, she is an Award winning author who writes stories of American history and makes them become real to the readers. She has written many other books such as A Break with Charity, A Ride into Morning, and Cast two Shadows, etc. She was born in New York City on August 27, 1934. In 1979, at the age of 45, she finished her first book.
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate is the story of an African boy, Kek, who loses his father and a brother and flees, leaving his mother to secure his safety. Kek, now in Minnesota, is faced with difficulties of adapting to a new life and of finding his lost mother. He believes that his mother still lives and would soon join him in the new found family. Kek is taken from the airport by a caregiver who takes him to live with his aunt. It is here that Kek meets all that amazed him compared to his home in Sudan, Africa. Home of the brave shows conflicts that Kek faces. He is caught between two worlds, Africa and America. He feels guilty leaving behind his people to live in a distant land especially his mother, who he left in the midst of an attack.
In a world dominated by religion it was thought that the only place where perfection existed was within God. In some cases, for instance the ontological argument, it was the proof to his existence. But in a modern world the concept of perfection has been distorted and comes with an abundance of seemingly negative consequences, ultimately putting into question whether or not perfection is even possible. In Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake the concept of perfection is constantly challenged in a world run by corporations who are trying to package human perfection and profit from it. The desire and attempt towards attaining perfection brings moral instability and corruption. Even though perfection seems as if it is the ultimate and most excellent way to live, it is always accompanied with negative results making true perfection unattainable. As previously mentioned, the society that is most present in the novel is run by large corporations that attempt to provide a perfect life for the people within the Compounds. The corporations are riddled with immoral actions that are projected onto the lives of the people they are trying to provide for. Jimmy, on the other hand, lacks this desire for perfection and is pleased with his mediocrity; this level of being content with himself allows him to feel and exercise more valuable traits like empathy. Finally, through the novel Crake is slowly trying to grasp at, or create perfection and he is slowly losing his moral grounding. What seems to be a positive goal for man to have is actually the opposite, causing men to lose what makes them most different from animals, leaving them cruel and ruthless.
Do you believe in karma? A lot of people believe in karma and I am one of them. I think that “The Story of an Hour” is about karma because Louise Mallard thinks that her husband Brently, has died in an accident. When Louise found out that Brently was in a railroad accident, she was sad.
Journeying across the immense great planes at the age of ten, Jim was introduced to a new destiny with in the landscape of Nebraska. We saw as he developed from a young boy into a successful New York lawyer. Jim’s relationships throughout the novel, contribute to his transformation as a character. As he transitioned into adulthood, Jim was always referring to the past as an important period of his life; he consistently refers to nostalgic memories from his adolescents. He referrers to his memories in Nebraska as, “In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again” (259). He claims that the memories he developed during adolescents, especially with Antonia, are stronger than any new illusions that could happen in the future. He later states, “my mind plunged away from me, and I suddenly found myself thinking of the places and people of my own infinitesimal past. They stood out strengthened and simplified now, like the image of the plough against the sun” (216).
The Friday Everything Changed” written by Anne Hart describes how a simple question challenges the
In this book, Julie Barenson is a young widow, whose husband Jim died earlier from cancer. Her husband left her two unexpected gifts. The first was a Great Dane puppy name Singer (this gift was delivered the first Christmas after his passing) and the other gift was his promise that he would always be watching over her. About four years after his passing, Julie is twenty-nine years old and is too young to have given up on love just yet. She may be ready to risk caring for someone again but she just can't figure out who that person is yet. She starts dating Richard Franklin, a sophisticated, handsome engineer who treats Julie like a queen. The other person she has an option to date is Mike Harris, the down-to-earth guy who was her husband's best friend.
A tone is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. A tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. The tone in “I Beg of You, Chung Tzu” is a conflicting, indecisive tone. “Do not break the willows we have planted. Not that I mind about the willows... Chung Tzu I dearly love; but of what my father and mother say indeed I am afraid,” says the speaker. This shows that she’s conflicted over introducing her beloved to her family for fear of disapproval. In “Thick Grow The Rush Leaves,” the speaker's tone is romantically yearning and celebratory. She is not afraid to show her feelings for her beloved, and, in the end, she ends up with her
How many times in our lives have we said, “It’s mine” or “I own this?” Margaret Atwood describes in this poem that nothing is ours, everything is the world’s. This poem uses sensory details, personification, and dialogue to give readers a new perspective of NOT our world.
What is tone. It is the author’s attitude toward what he or she is writing about. This poem has a negative tone. It accomplishes this with the following lines. The lines used within this poem are; (Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.) (Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,) (The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere) Each of these sentences helps the reader to hear and visualize the negative tone of this poem. The words fall apart, anarchy, and blood-dimmed tide, are the words that instill the negative tone. These are the reasons why this poem has a negative tone.
Tone is the speaker’s attitude toward a certain subject. Tone is generally conveyed through the speaker’s word choice to create a specific atmosphere for the audience. In “Ambulances,” Philip Larkin uses his choice of words to exemplify the hollowness of life while looking death straight in the eye.
“Great” is a word that you have most likely heard very often in your lifetime. You may have heard a teacher tell you that you have done a “great job!” on your homework assignment, or have been told that you are destined to do something great with your life. You might have even asked yourself questions such as, “what makes a great leader?” or “what makes art great?” In this case, I have come to ask myself what the greatest work of American literature is. Each person has their own idea of what great is and no single work of literature will ever be critiqued exactly the same by everyone who reads it. To me, a great work of literature is one that is able to relate to a person in one form or another. A Nigerian novelist by the name of Chinua Achebe
Iambic pentameter is a rhythmic pattern that has five meters or iambs that consist of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. The rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean sonnet includes pairs of rhyming lines that alternate for twelve lines and then the last two rhyme make up the rhyming couplet (Kennedy, Elements of Poetry 841). Sometimes a poet may chose to write in unrhymed iambic pentameter, called blank verse, as John Keats did in his poem This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable (Kennedy, Elements of Poetry 855).
Tone is an exceptionally important factor in writing. Tone displays the feel and flow of the story told through the writing. The tone in this song is displayed as hopeful and positive. An example of this