"What lips my lips have kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay While reading "What lips my lips have kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, I realized many things about myself. The first thing was that I, after thinking I would never be able to decipher one word of poetry, actually could. I also found that I was able to enjoy it. Another thing was that the narrator (whom I felt was a woman- no man could portray these feelings like a woman) and I had strikingly similar feelings. There happened to be many other amazing findings, but these two were the first and most important to me. Yes, learning that I could truly enjoy poetry was an amazing, but also, a highly involved discussion. One I would rather focus on at another time. I would, though, like to elaborate on the profound similarity I felt in with the feeling of the narrator. There have been many times in my life where I have done something that I am not proud of. (Most of these dealing with the men in my life.) Instead of working out whatever or whoever the issue might have been, I push it as far away into my memory as possible. This way I don¡¯t have to think about it. This tactic works very well. I truly don¡¯t remember faces, names or dates of these men. Then there are those days, those rainy lonely days, when these memories or as Millay refers to them, ¡°ghosts¡± come ¡°tapping at my window and wait for me to give them a reply.¡± It is these kinds of days when the ¡°ghosts¡± force you to reflect upon them and don¡¯t lea...
In her essay, “Momma, the Dentist, and me” Maya Angelou describe her insight in remembering an incident of racism. The incident refer to a time when a white dentist named Lincoln did not treat her tooth ace just for being colored “Niggah.” In America no one should be allowed to be a form of prisoner, because of their native skin color. Americans should be held accountable for their actions whenever a color person are in need of help their social life. There should be laws ordinances to prohibit persons from confronting -either verbally or physically -color people for not being a Caucasian person. This conflict in rights between those held by color people and the American people those held by, because American refused freedom rights, endanger lives, and economic issues.
Edna St. Vincent Millay grew up in a small town in Maine. She was always encouraged by her mother to pursue her writing and musical talents. She finished college and moved to New York City where she lived a fast pace life pursuing acting and play writing. Her liveliness, independence, and sexuality inspired her writing styles and gave her poetry a freshness that no others had. She is famous for writing sonnets like “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why.” This poem holds many metaphors and symbols pertaining to how certain seasons make people feel. She compares the feeling of nature with her personal feelings of being alone after having so many lovers.
The premise of the novel (Year of Wonders) could be seen as the antithesis of a journey as the villagers voluntarily agree to undertake a quarantine, which means they literally cannot go anywhere. In what way does this text represent a journey?
In “A Rose for Emily”, Charles Faulkner used a series of flashbacks and foreshadowing to tell Miss Emily’s story. Miss Emily is an interesting character, to say the least. In such a short story of her life, as told from the prospective of a townsperson, who had been nearly eighty as Miss Emily had been, in order to tell the story from their own perspective. Faulkner set up the story in Mississippi, in a world he knew of in his own lifetime. Inspired by a southern outlook that had been touched by the Civil War memory, the touch of what we would now look at as racism, gives the southern aroma of the period. It sets up Miss Emily’s southern belle status and social standing she had been born into, loner or not.
BIOGRAPHY: According to the entry « Eudora Welty » found on Wikipedia, Eudora Alice Welty was an American author and photographer, well-known for working on the South American theme. She began higher education at the University of Wisconsin, then went to New York, where she studied at Columbia University until 1931. Unable to find a job on the East Coast because of unemployment due to the Great Depression, she went back to her her native city Jackson, Mississippi. She started to publish short stories in magazines from 1936 and rapidly acquired notoriety as a short story writer, managing to carefully describe the culture and the racial issues of the South. Each publication of her short stories collections was considered as a literary event. In 1956, her novel The Pounder Heart, adapted by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, achieved great success on Broadway. In 1975, her enchanting novel The Robber Bridegroom became a musical. In 1973, Eudora Welty received the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter. Three years earlier, she published a collection of photographs that she had taken herself in the years 1930 and 1940, One Time, one Place: Mississippi in the Depression: a work intending to depict the harsh living conditions in Mississippi during the Great Depression. In 1984, at the request of Harvard University Press, she put on paper a lecture that she gave the year before to the students: the work became a bestseller. She died of pneumonia in 2001.
The editors Gary Gallagher and Alan Nolan intend to construct, through essays from various authors, a meaningful explanation of the Lost Cause as a myth. Gallagher and Nolan build on previous literature in engaging various aspects of the white South's response to defeat, and the attempt to create a past that is suitable for the South. The book takes the views of nine historians and offers different relationships between the Civil War and the Lost Cause.
Words: Were the words in this poem difficult or easy to understand? Was there any word or phrase that was powerful to you?
The poem “The Old Maid”, by Sara Teasdale, takes place on a sidewalk on Broadway. The speaker in the poem is a woman walking with who you can infer to be her fiancée and she is describing a brief encounter she had with another woman in the car driving by her. The speaker describes the woman as “The woman I might grow to be,” She then notices how her hair color “…was as mine” and how “Her eyes were strangely like my eyes”. However, despite all these similarities the woman’s hair compared to the speaker’s was “…dull and drew no light”. Her eyes also did not shine like the speaker’s. The speaker assumed that the reason for the woman’s frail appearance was because she had never had the opportunity to know what it was like to be in love. In the last stanza, the speaker no longer looks upon the old maid but to her lover and knows that even though they may look similar she will never be like her.
In the epic poem Odyssey by Homer the main character Odysseus is seen as a person who deceives others and tells lies to them. Odysseus has deceived many people in the past years in search of his wife in the last twenty years. He deceives many people and to his wife Penelope as he disguised himself as a beggar. He tells his wife lies like the way he disguises himself and also lie to the cyclops about his name. Odysseus was a person who fool people very much and tell them lies about himself on who he really was to his very own family.
Have you been successfully to disguises your identity to survive in a dangerous situation, to achieve a goal, or to test who can trust? You probably have not. In “the Odyssey”, Odysseus survived in the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus as he claimed to be called Noman. Athena disguised herself as a shepherd to achieve the goal of helping Odysseus defeat the suitors. Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, disguised himself as a beggar to find out who he could trust. These are some examples of how disguise has been used to help Odysseus get back home safe and help him get rid of the suitors.
“Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield tells a story of a lonely, English lady in France. Miss Brill is a quiet person who believes herself to be important. The whole afternoon at the gardens, Miss Brill does not converse with anyone, nor does anyone show any inclination to talk with her. She merely watches others and listens to their conversations. This provides her with a sense of companionship; she feels as if she is a part of other people’s lives. Miss Brill is also slightly self-conceited. She believes that she is so important that people would notice if she ever missed a Sunday at the park. It does not occur to her that other people may not want her to be there.
As far as what was important to me in the experience of the poem, I felt that the fact that I could actually relate was important.
The article discusses the role of change agents throughout change processes in communities. It highlighted their roles as a critical factor in social intervention. It mentioned that change agents might be trainers, counselors, teachers, consultants, or other helping workers. Mainly, the article focused on possible interventions available to change agents to help poor communities to improve their conditions. One of the major points discussed in the article was the power relations affecting each aspect of life among poor community members; there are political, social, and economic forces and elements have to be considered for their importance to get practical results of change efforts. The author aimed to examine the relation between authority position and potential influence on one side and how change agent uses personal skills.
“In what ways does the poet draw you into the world of poetry? Detailed reference to 2 poems”
This poem just shows how great the talent of Walt Whitman really is. All of the imagery and structure of this poem are astounding. Like I said this was one of Whitman’s most famous poems and I can see why. Just reading the poem without looking for any hidden meanings is a refreshing experience. This is a great example of what the reader can find when they truly study the work and find alternative meanings behind a