“Space cat on a cloud/sucks a red bubble of smoke/funky like a rose” is an example of a poem the reader has a choice to write by using words provided in a text box before watching the poem. Having this choice serves as a perfect foreshadowing to the meaning of While Chopping Red Peppers written by Ingrid Ankerson and designed by Megan Sapnar. As a father’s idea of “presentation and perfect arrangement,” hinders his daughter from seeking her own identity (Ankerson quoted in Sapnar 00:30.22).
A feminine voice utters, “in the space between my knife and my fingertips there is my father” accompanied by an image of a pepper, a knife, and a cutting board (Ankerson quoted in Sapnar 00:04.20). This suggests the father’s position-- under a knife ready for an incision. The central position of the knife and its bright blade draws the reader's focus furthering the tension
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of the scene (Sapnar 00:04.20).
The pepper moves to the foreground revealing two silhouettes, the feminine silhouette representing the daughter and her submissive stance under her overlapping father’s silhouette (Sapnar 00:07.24). The pepper resembles a heart showing how the speaker will cut off her father's love (Sapnar 00:07.24). The line “like this” as the father teaches how to properly cut peppers shows how he interrupts and meddles in the speaker's life (Ankerson quoted in Sapnar 00:20.37). The slouching image of the girl, shows how constant input discourages her self-confidence (Sapnar 00:26.90). Her father's domineering attitude continues when the speaker showcases a lesson taught by the father, “how to shake hands… firm like this” accompanied by an image of two spiraling figures shaking hands, a metaphor of the daughter’s life spinning out of control because of her father's interference (Ankerson quoted in Sapnar 00:35.85). The screen fades to black revealing
peppers being washed as the speaker says, “the way vegetables are silent underwater” her inability to speak for herself represented by the peppers as her father’s oppressiveness drowns her (Ankerson quoted in Sapnar 00:57.26). The cutting board returns and moves towards the reader, the speaker says, “I’ll chop my peppers thick for my father from whose kitchen I’ll… move a thousand physical miles from,” suggesting that the speaker moved from her father's tyrannical presence (Anker quoted in Sapnar 01:05.90). “I can go some place, and I want my space.” This is an example of a poem the reader might go back to make after While Chopping Red Peppers ends. It represents how the speaker solves her problem of an overbearing father. It also shows how new choices arise because of her decision at the end of the poem.
Two greatly artistic pieces is the song “Chicken Fried” by Zac Brown Band, and the poem “Living Room” by david Yezzi. In this case, though it is a great piece, the song “Chicken Fried” by Zac Brown Band is not as artistic as the poem “Living Room” by David Yezzi. The use of similes, rhyme scheme, diction, symbolism, and just overall theme, truly makes “Living Room” the more artistic piece. Each have their pro’s and con’s, and each have powerful poetic devices, some more than others. Though both pieces have artistic grounds, both have elements that really makes them special, and different from each other.
Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, in their poems “We Real Cool” and “Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict”, are both alike in their idea of dealing with troubled youth. Brooks discusses in her poem “We Real Cool” rebellious pool-playing youth that “sing sin” (Line 5) and “thin gin.” (Line 6) The whole poem centers around disturbed youth. The narrator in Sonia Sanchez’s poem “Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict”, is also a disturbed young woman who is addicted to heroin, and seems to live a rather rebellious lifestyle. In addition, both of these poems use tone via word choice, sentence structure, and meter in order to vividly describe the scenarios in their poems, and to impact their reader. However, both poets use the literary elements mentioned above differently in their poems.
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.
On an everyday basis teens all around the world fight and disagree with their parents. In the passages Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun this very thing is clearly demonstrated. Both stories feature two teenage girls that have lost one of their parents. They both now face the daily struggle of agreeing and relating to their remaining parent. In Confetti Girl, the narrator is constantly overlooked and out shadowed by her father’s favorite thing, books and literacy.
In “Confetti Girl”, the narrator disagrees with her father and questions how much he cares about her and in “Tortilla Girl”, the narrator questions if her mother was taking her into account of her new plans. Tension is shown to be caused in the stories “Confetti Girl” and “Tortilla Sun” due to the parent and narrator not having the same point of view. In this story, a young girl named Izzy lives alone with her mother. One day, the mother surprises her by explaining that she is going to Costa Rica to do some research, and that Izzy is going to her grandmother’s house while she is away.
In the world of teenagers everything seems to come and pass by so quickly. For instance the beginning of senior year. In Spite of being happy and excited were also generally nervous and anxious to see what our future holds. As senior year comes to an end, It then becomes as temporary as the summer sun but also the boundary of our life before we enter adulthood. Even then our future is still undefined.
The most preeminent quality of Sonia Sanchez “Ballad” remains the tone of the poem, which paints a didactic image. Sanchez is trying to tell this young people that we know nix about love as well as she is told old for it. In an unclear setting, the poem depicts a nameless young women and Sanchez engaged in a conversation about love. This poem dramatizes the classic conflict between old and young. Every old person believes they know more then any young person, all based on the fact that they have been here longer then all of us. The narrative voice establishes a tone of a intellectual understanding of love unraveling to the young women, what she comprehends to love is in fact not.
Esperanza’s explains about Sally situation by saying “ Her father says to be this beautiful is trouble” (Cisneros 81). Cisneros uses tone to show that Sally was too beautiful that her father thought she was going to run away. Esperanza’s precedes to tell us how Sally is being held captive by her father. “She can not go out. Sally I mean” (Cisneros 81). Cisneros picks out specific choice of words when she says “ Sally I mean” to show how Sally is being trapped in her father’s house. Esperanza notices that Sally has changed and she wonders why as, she share her questions with the reader when she says. “You pull your skirt straight, you rub the blue paint off your eyelids. You do not laugh, Sally. You look at your feet and walk fast to the house you can not come out from” (Cisneros 82). In this quote, Cisneros utility of imagery helps provide an image in the reader’s head about the way Sally is seen through Esperanza’s eyes and how Esperanza could free her like prince charming saved rapunzel from her
I would like to investigate the many struggles of women, whether it be race that differentiates them or an event that any woman could experience that brings them together. Beauty is not easily defined, and women everywhere struggle with not only pleasing the people around them, but themselves. Wanting to describes themselves and feel beautiful is one of the many struggles women experience throughout their lives. “Las Rubias” by Diana García from Fire and Ink represents a common example of what women of color experience while comparing themselves to the “beauty” of white women. The poem is divided into eight numbered sections, each containing their own experience or thought. This is effective because by the end of the poem, the reader has almost
This is the moment Gary Soto captures in his poem "Oranges". The feeling and power of adolescent love is created using tone, contrasting imagery, and symbolism. First, the use of tone in "Oranges" clearly helps to set the theme of the poem. Children often talk with simple sentences that directly state what happened. The speaker's choice of words and raw simplicity in the way he tells his story illustrates his youth and the honesty that comes with it.
He does this also by describing the knife, in detailing how one must hold it, "not palmed nor gripped nor grasped, but lightly, with the tips of the fingers." In using words like "palmed", "gripped", and "grasped" he successfully develops a mood of harshness, with which he contrasts with the words, "lightly" and "tips of the fingers". The next sensation that Selzer describes "is an entry into the body that is nothing like a caress; still, it is among the gentlest of acts". This line creates a clear and relatable feeling, because he is distinctly relating the act of surgery to intimacy, a passion which many can relate to. Although Selzer states that the operation is not a romantic act, he makes it known that it still has the same closeness. He also describes the patient's body as a "vista [which] is sweetly vulnerable […] a kind of welcoming". This lets the ready know that although surgery is high-risk, it can be beautiful and inviting. Throughout the piece, Selzer also describes many of the senses one feels when doing surgery, to help the reader understand the feeling. He identifies the kind of touch in the line, "It is a fine hour for the fingers, their sense of touch so enhanced." The idea of heightened feeling depicted here creates imagery to help the reader connect to Selzer's experience. He illustrates his vision by saying, "The blind must know this feeling". In figuratively saying
To understand fully the implicit meaning and cultural challenges the film presents, a general knowledge of the film’s contents must be presented. The protagonist, Tita, suffers from typical Hispanic cultural oppression. The family rule, a common rule in this culture, was that the youngest daughter is to remain unwed for the duration of her mother’s life, and remain home to care for her. Mama Elena offers her daughter, Tita’s older sister Rosaura, to wed a man named Pedro, who is unknowingly in mutual love with Tita. Tita is forced to bake the cake for the wedding, which contains many tears that she cried during the process. Tita’s bitter tears cause all the wedding guests to become ill after consuming the cake, and Tita discovers she can influence others through her cooking. Throughout the film, Tita’s cooking plays an important role in all the events that transpire.
...ed by the ancient symbol of fear, conveys the child's panic. The mother's approach is a source of terror for the child, written as if it is a horror movie, suspense created with the footsteps, the physical embodiment of fear, the doorknob turns. His terror as 'he tries to run' but 'her large hands hold him fast' is indicative of his powerless plight. The phrase, 'She loves him...' reiterates that this act signifies entrapment as there is no reciprocation of the ‘love’. It is ironic that her love is deemed 'the frightening fact'. Clearly this form of love will destroy his innocence, his freedom to think for himself, his ability to achieve emotional fulfilment. We sense the overpowering, suffocating nature of this form of love, but also the nature of American cultural imperialism, which is similarly stifling to the development of national identity and fulfilment.
Gina Valdes in her poem English con Salsa used many literary techniques. One of them was humor and throughout the poem it is used greatly. An example of it starts in the beginning where the po...
Furthermore, the text proves that based on the characters’ dialogue – it affects the way they think. The mother refuses to declare her inventions to her husband and instead shows the sketches to her daughters by exclaiming, “[She has] something to show [her]” (88). This indicates that the father doesn’t seem to care so much about his wife’s bright inventions and instead tries to drag on his Dominican Republic side solemnly. He would be shown cast away under the gloomy shadows in the dark