In the song “Wet Dreams” by Ja Cole, who is a rap artist. He talks about the song “wet dreams” by describing his first time with a woman. He begins out by describing the first time they met in math class. Cole talks about how nervous he is to do the unthinkable with her. In the poem, “Junior Year Abroad” by Luisa Lopez, who is a female poet, she writes about her time in Paris; she tells about how she is alone even though but love can only go so far because she meets someone else. Although these two works of art are different they are found to be very similar.
Ja Cole starts off his song with descriptions of this girl he sees. “She was in my math class, long hair, brown skin with a fat a**.” (Cole). “It started so innocent” (Cole). The innocence between him and the girl is because they started with no intention of doing anything with each other. He sees her but he doesn’t quite get to talking to her. The relationship starts developing when he says “I was a young in straight crushing trying play that s*** cool but he couldn’t wait to get to school” (Cole). He is saying that his new found love for this girl had him happy to be in class every day. He always looked forward to his conversations with her in class. Ja Cole starts writing notes in class with the girl about sex. He tells her “of
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course I have had sex before” (Cole). So he lies about him not being a virgin so he can impress her. “I’m like a pro baby, knowing I was stuntin but if I told the truth I knew I get played out” (Cole). He knew the lie could get her to like him so that’s what he did for love. The ‘Junior Year Abroad” is about a woman who has a lover but doesn’t know if she wants to be with him.
She refuses to show him love. “When I move away and hold the sheet against myself he, sensing what this means, refuses, adamant yet polite, to traffic in the currency of rejection.” (Lopez) She met this new guy and he kisses her hand. “You see, a new boy just a last month had raised my shy hand to his warm mouth and kissed the inside of my palm.” (Lopez) She does not really know what she wants. The kiss has her mind think about worth her really love her lover. In the end she says, “Why should he give up? (Lopez). She doesn’t know why he is still with her after she rejects his
love. There are a lot of similarity between the poem and song. The beginnings are similar “We were amateurs that winter in Paris” (Lopez) and “She was in my math class” (Cole) the authors give us the setting of both these stories. The plots were both about love and the hold it can have over a person.
As depicted in the poem "Kicking the Habit", The role of the English language in the life of the writer, Lawson Fusao Inada, is heavily inherent. As articulated between the lines 4 and 9, English is not just solely a linguistic device to the author, but heightened to a point where he considers it rather as a paradigm or state of mind. To the author, English is the most commonly trodden path when it comes to being human, it represents conformity, mutual assurance and understanding within the population. Something of which he admits to doing before pulling off the highway road.
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.
In Drea Knufken’s essay entitled “Help, We’re Drowning!: Please Pay Attention to Our Disaster,” the horrific Colorado flood is experienced and the reactions of worldly citizens are examined (510-512). The author’s tone for this formal essay seems to be quite reflective, shifting to a tone of frustration and even disappointment. Knufken has a reflective tone especially during the first few paragraphs of the essay. According to Drea Knufken, a freelance writer, ghostwriter and editor, “when many of my out-of-town friends, family and colleagues reacted to the flood with a torrent of indifference, I realized something. As a society, we’ve acquired an immunity to crisis. We scan through headlines without understanding how stories impact people,
In “Useless Boys” the writer, Barry Dempster, creates a strong feeling of disappointment and shame in himself and society as he looks back on his youth to when him and a friend made a promise to each other to “not be like their fathers”. Dempster expresses a sort of disgust for the capitalist society his world seems to be built around, a life where even if you’re doing something you initially enjoyed you end up feeling trapped in it. The poem is a reflective piece, where he thinks back on how he truly believed he would end up happy if he chose a different path than that of his parents. The author uses simple diction and syntax, but it’s evident that each idea has a much deeper meaning, which assisted in setting a reflective/introspective mood.
The poems “Sea Rose” by H.D and “Vague Poem” by Elizabeth Bishop were both written by two women who took over the Victorian era. H.D’s works of writing were best known as experimental reflecting the themes of feminism and modernism from 1911-1961. While Bishop’s works possessed themes of longing to belong and grief. Both poems use imagery, which helps to make the poem more concrete for the reader. Using imagery helps to paint a picture with specific images, so we can understand it better and analyze it more. The poems “Sea Rose” and “Vague Poem” both use the metaphor of a rose to represent something that can harm you, even though it has beauty.
To summarise, the man's attitude toward this relationship is cold and indifferent, which is the opposite of the girl's enthusiasms. Both of them are certain about this relationship, but the girl is positively certain, the man is negatively certain. And this is how Dorothy Parker represented the difference between men and women in the poem 'A Well-Worn Story'.
“Janet Waking”, written by John Crowe Ransom, forms a double sonnet about an eight year old girl called Janet, who has recently received her pet chicken. In the morning of a peaceful day in the outskirts of town, a young girl faces the anticipation of a morning interaction with her new pet chicken. She wakes up from a dream to go into a nightmare after she finds out that her chicken had gone to an eternal sleep. Through the transitions, the visual imagery, the dark irony that forms this double sonnet, a reader can comprehend that death can be a harsh reality to a child that faces it for the first time.
Poetry is a completely malleable form of expression that writers use as an outlet for emotion and advocacy. Because each poet is distinct in form and content, a poet may harbor some characteristics that bare a resemblance to work of another. If there is no room for comparison, a poem may have a literary complement that sets up an interesting contrast between poems, or a poem may reinforce the ideas of another poem. The works of Christina Rossetti and Robert Graves are no exception. Though the two lived in different centuries, they both wrote about relationships between the sexes. Rossetti and Graves’ forms differed even as their contents played upon one another in the poems “No Thank-You John” and “A Slice of Wedding Cake” respectively.
"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.
The song, Hotel California, written by Don Henley, illustrates the contrast between perceptions of California as a place of freedom and reality to show the pitfalls of living in Southern California during the 1970s.
Ade Coker was blown up when he opened the package-a package everybody would have known was from the Head of State”. In connection with Purple Hibiscus, the poem also portrays violence.
Love is expressed differently by all, some like Salamono may tuck it away, only to release it when the lover has left forever. Others , like Marie, choose to boast it to the world without hesitation. This quality is her confidence is herself shining through. She never fails to attest to what she wants “Then she said she wondered if she loved me, and there was no way I could know about that…Then we went for a walk through the main streets to the other end of town” Marie did not want Meursault to simply love her, she just assumed that asking was the best way to assert her feelings. What she wanted was to test if Meursault wanted to stay with her, for all that mattered to her was that...
Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote the poem Tears, Idle Tears explaining his hardships and heartbreak. In this poem, he is talking about a loved one leaving him and a controlling relationship. I know this because he keeps reflecting on the past, he also talks a lot about love and lost happiness.
The world of dreams is a confusing and ever shifting place. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “Dreamland” the reader is brought into his world of dreams and shown not only the odd and boundless landscape, but also Poe’s own feelings toward his dreams and even his waking world.
The author’s goal becomes to overcome all boundaries restraining her from reaching true love. She does not want to become a victim of love for the looks, the soft voice, or momentary love. Her goal is to reach love, happiness to be cherished, her heart to be loved, and overall love becomes part of her forever. Women become afraid of a dead honeymoon, they become scared of lonely marriages. Loneliness-the lack of true love- is a silent killer for most people. Substantiation is important for the author, her demonstrable points can be read at the beginning, middle, and end lines in the