Hazel is a young girl who loves running. She has a big track meet coming up and her competitor is this other girl named Gretchen and her pose this girl named Rosie that’s in Gretchen’s pose and she tries to make fun of hazel’s older but little brother at the same time but Hazel doesn’t let that slide and she says that she looks like an elephant once she said that they all left. Later that day She has her track meet and she entered her brother Raymond also. They line up at the starting line Hazel is super nervous but Gretchen keeps acting like she’s the best when she has never beat Hazel. The race starts and Raymond’s running as fast a cheetah and Gretchen and Hazel were like snails on the take off but Raymond was too far ahead for them to catch
Currently in the United States, many of us are afraid of the future. There have been many recent events that have stirred up fear in this country, especially tensions regarding human rights. In Carolyn Forché’s “The Colonel,” the speaker tells us her story of when she had to deal with the mistreatment of others. The speaker is telling us her story of meeting the colonel to show us the horrible things that have happened in the fight for justice and to encourage us to speak up. She tells us this story because she does not want others to end up the way that the ears did. The speaker wants us to stay strong and fight for justice when we begin to live in a state of constant fear.
This essay will explore how the poets Bruce Dawe, Gwen Harwood and Judith Wright use imagery, language and Tone to express their ideas and emotions. The poems which will be explored throughout this essay are Drifters, Suburban Sonnet and Woman to Man.
Kim Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” portrays a speaker who contemplates the state of their romantic relationship though reflections of their partner’s tattoos. Addressing their partner, the speaker ambivalence towards the merits of the relationship, the speaker unhappily remains with their partner. Through the usage of contrasting visual and kinesthetic imagery, the speaker revels the reasons of their inability to embrace the relationship and showcases the extent of their paralysis. Exploring this theme, the poem discusses how inner conflicts can be powerful paralyzers.
Hazel needed to get food, and he found a farm not too far that had lettuce inside the house. He went to go inside, and a cat found him. He went to run, but the cat was faster than he was. The cat grabbed him and went to kill him and Hazel screamed. The little girl heard him through her window and ran outside to find what it was. She seen the cat holding the rabbit and took it from the cat. She took it inside and let the doctor take a look at it. He had a scratch on his nose and a bite on the leg, but the doctor says the rabbit will live. The doctor takes the girl out and lets her drop the rabbit off. He let the rabbit go really close to his home without even knowing he
“To a Mouse” by Robert Burns events and purposes relate to Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The connection between the title for the book Of Mice and Men, and the actual storyline demonstrates a poem written by poet Robert Burns. Of Mice and Men, written by Steinbeck to represent human life during that period of time, the great depression, and what people had to do to survive during that period of time. The connections between each story help you comprehend the novel better. The connection between the two poems intertwine them for these various reasons. Most notably, dreams that that no longer can happen, power/strength, powerlessness/weakness, and the inability to predict the future intertwines these two stories.
Robert Creeley, a famous American poet, lived from 1926 to 2005. Creeley was normally associated as a Black Mountain poet because that is where he taught, and spent most of his career. Throughout his life, Creeley wrote many different pieces of poetry. Four great poems by Robert Creeley are, “For Love”, “Oh No”, “The Mirror”, and “The Rain”. The poem “For Love”,was written by Creeley for his wife. In this poem Creeley explains, the love someone has for another person, and how complicated it is making his life because the person doesn’t know how to explain their love. “Oh No” is a poem that is literally about a selfish person who ended up in hell, but this poem has a deeper meaning. Part
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal [but] which the reader recognizes as his own." (Salvatore Quasimodo). There is something about the human spirit that causes us to rejoice in shared experience. We can connect on a deep level with our fellow man when we believe that somehow someone else understands us as they relate their own joys and hardships; and perhaps nowhere better is this relationship expressed than in that of the poet and his reader. For the current assignment I had the privilege (and challenge) of writing an imitation of William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 87". This poem touched a place in my heart because I have actually given this sonnet to someone before as it then communicated my thoughts and feelings far better than I could. For this reason, Sonnet 87 was an easy choice for this project, although not quite so easy an undertaking as I endeavored to match Shakespeare’s structure and bring out his themes through similar word choice.
Both Squeaky and Gretchen think that they are going to win the race. This shows that the girls are confident in their abilities in running because of their assurance of victory. Also, the girls may be underestimating each other due to the fact that Squeaky and Gretchen are gifted with exceptional speed. Also, the girls practice a tremendous amount and care about running because it is their passion. Squeaky and Gretchen race against each other in the fifty yard dash, but the results of the race were unclear. Though Squeaky wants to win, she thinks of her brother instead of the race’s winner. Gretchen, who worked hard on this race, will undoubtedly seem bitter about losing, but will help Squeaky coach Raymond because she does not hate Squeaky. Though Gretchen did not win, she was very kind to Squeaky because they exchanged warm smiles after the results came in. Though their hearts were set on winning the race, Squeaky and Gretchen accept their outcome
Chinese is certainly one of the riches tradition of poetry, trace back to the ‘Book of Songs’, which was recorded three thousand years ago. Tang dynasty is widely known as the ‘golden age of Chinese poetry.’ In the Chinese history, there is a famous phrase spread across China called “Tangpoes Songwords Yuansongs” （唐诗宋词元曲）, from that we could observe Tang is the most glorious era of Chinese poetry. However, whenever people made a judgment, there always might be some alternative voice doubt about it. People may questioning what makes Tang poetry unforgettable even passed thousand years long and still alive and well even today? From ancient times to the present, opinion varies. In my words, Tang poetry cannot be done without the three essential elements: booming economy of Tang, political background and the cultural background of the period of Tang. These three elements play an important role in assisting the development of Chinese literature of poetry to reach its peak.
Squeaky has an older brother named Raymond. Raymond has a few problems. People always made fun of him until Squeaky took care of him. Squeaky always just knocked them down and if they didn’t she would just run, Squeaky was fast. She always wins the track meet they have every year. This year she is running the 50 yard dash. Everyone in her neighborhood calls her Mercury because she’s the swiftest thing in the neighborhood. Everyone knows that except for her dad who is way faster than her. She decides she’s going to go on a run with Raymond. While she is running her comes Gretchen and her sidekick Mary Louise. Gretchen asked Squeaky if she is going to be in the race this year and Squeaky said yes. Then Gretchen said I don’t think you're going to win this year. Gretchen starts being a bully and eventually walked off. The next day came and this was race day. Squeaky got there just in time to get her number pinned on and put Raymond in the swing. The race just started and they took off. While she was running she looked over and saw a blur of Raymond. She almost stopped and just watched Raymond run but she focused on the race and she burst past the finish line. She saw Gretchen right with her when she crossed the finish line. Over the loudspeaker you hear them discussing the winner then they say our winner is Miss Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker. She look over at Gretchen and she thinks maybe she can coach Raymond with me. One of the quotes Squeaky used was this, “I always win cause I’m the
Emotions of War War affects everyone differently, creating a different emotion among us all. In each of the poems that we read, the tone is different as the writer wants us to understand the emotion behind it and what they were truly feeling. Some people took war as it was no big deal, while others sat and suffered through the horrendous events and emotions. Even though each poem is about war, they all have their own story. In the first poem, "The Man He Killed" the writer represents all of the men who had to experience war without choice and without understanding its underlying social, economic, or ideological causes of the war.
Some people are born into the world and there are welcomed by a loving family ready to take care of them, for others awaits a life of pain and hardship. Robert Hayden was one of these people. Hayden lived in a very poor part of Detroit where he lived with his foster parents. His foster parents would be fighting nonstop and that took a toll on Hayden as young kid as he was traumatized by the events. Life would get better as Hayden grew older, he was fascinated with literature and eventually went on to become a world recognized poet. Hayden took his poetic talents to work the Federal Writers Project. There, Hayden would develop lots poems, and later would introduce his first ever poetry book called Heart-Shape in the Dust, which was published
Tang Poetry refers to the poetry of the Tang Dynasty, which was the most important part of China’s three-millennial old history of poetry. The two greatest of the Chinese poets are Li Bo and Du Fu. During the Tang Dynasty, every poem was required to have grace, since it was a form of social communication and not art. Both wrote amazing poems describing events in a vivid way. Both Li Bo and Du Fu wrote outstanding poems that evolved around the theme of the aftermath of rebellions.
Only open for a brief twenty three years, Black Mountain College in North Carolina not only became a symbol for progressive education but also brought together some of the most powerful poets in modern poetry. The school, which was one of the only ones in the nation that was open to experimenting with education, attracted many projective thinkers including Charles Olson and Robert Creeley. Together both Olson and Creeley had a major impact on the creation of the Black Mountain poetry movement and influenced what are now known as “Black Mountain poets”. What started this movement above all were the philosophies on form the poets shared and Olson’s essay the “Projective Verse”. This essay was published after Olson’s publication of his poem “The Kingfishers” which had proposed post modernism as an essential new mode of poetic expression with matters constructed on world events. While the “Projective Verse” justified the unique style of “The Kingfishers”, it also created a strong alliance between Olson and Creeley who would turn Olson’s essay into a new style of poetry that would be forever acknowledged as Black Mountain Poetry or the projective poetry movement.
The poem "Richard Cory" is Robinson's famous poem about a man named Richard Cory who was outwardly wealthy and admirable to many. The poem adopts an overly narrative style. Through this style, the poet is able to detail the life and times of Robinson Cory as a loner of the upper social class in America. It is a tale of internal conflict and dissatisfaction experienced by a man who everybody admired. The persona describes him using finest terms such as ‘gentleman' to denote of how people of the lower and middle social class viewed him. In the opening stanza, Richard is regarded as being a "gentleman from sole to crown" (ln 3, Robinson). The statement means that every aspect of his life seemed perfect in the eyes of his neighbors and community.