A Poet: A Brief Biography Of Melanie Martinez

Melanie Safka grew up in a time of violent political upheaval. Melanie first encountered prejudice on the playground in her hometown of Brooklyn as other children teased her for her unusual last name. Melanie was close to her uncles who often participated in civil rights protests. In 1963 JFK was assassinated. The young Brooklyn native graduated high school in 1964, the same year as the New York Race Riots which by their end had caused hundreds of injuries and 450 arrests. As she took the international stage in 1969 with Bobo’s party people continued to fight for civil liberties after the victories of the civil rights movement. She was one of three solo women to perform at Woodstock in 1969. And in 1972 as Watergate broke in newspapers the “Female Bob Dylan” received Billboard’s no. 1 Top Female Vocalist award. As a young woman in the spotlight and a leader in the culture surrounding folk music, she cared deeply about the social issues of her time and her "urgent ballads (that) bind you to her with invisible threads of emotion." (Edwin Miller, Seventeen Magazine) reflect that. Keenly aware of her ability to affect change, the long-haired girl was constantly concerned with what she could do to help those around her. Using various literary devices Melanie Safka expresses in her music a fear of losing herself to fame.

The comparison of Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez and Graduation by Maya Angelou are the two characters that went through a similar education while growing up from elementary to high school. Rodriguez and his family moved in a neighborhood where they were only near the Caucasians. All of their neighbors were Caucasian including, Rodriguez and his siblings went to a Catholic School. While he was learning in school Rodriguez loved to read and wanted to become a writer when he grew up. After graduating from high school he attended the University of Stanford. In contrast, Angelou had viewed the African Americans and Caucasian going to different schools. Some were mixed with both ethnicities in school, however, the students that went by a religious school that Angelou did. In the same way, Rodriguez and Angelou have similarities due to the observations in their education established with their school district on learning the ways of religion, leadership, and friendship.

Abandoned by her mother at three-year-old, married at the age 19, three children at the age of 26, and with only a fifth-grade level education. My mom was in prison for a month after struggling to cross the Mexican border into the United States. My mom came to American seeking a better future where my siblings and I did go hungrier to be able to survive. The poet is describing the word “Migration” that takes a different method in relating what is crossing the border as well as tense perceptive effects that occur when it comes to crossing the border. Rosa Alcala’s poem has persona, metaphor, images and figures speech the author can illustrate the feeling of the poem as attentive vagueness.

happens to her. Throughout my paper, I hope to analyze the poem, and ultimately gain a

The book in Contempt was written by Paul Hawken. Paul Hawken is a famous environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author on the subject of corporate sustainability. In his book, Paul Hawken charges business and industry as, one, the major culprit in causing the deterioration of the biosphere, and, two, the only institution that is large, pervasive and powerful enough, to really lead humankind out of this situation. The book focus on the total of damage to the ecosystem and the risks that it poses for mankind. Environmental risks comes from in the extinction of many different species, and many species have already become extinct due to human. All and every species is a part of the ecosystem and each species play a role in the global system. When

Akin to intersectional romance fiction, poetry is equivalently as radical. Poetry magnifies the significance of language as a revolutionary tool, one that liberates women and cultivates an environment in which women are free to address their aspirations and anxieties while condemning the ideals of a society that operates under the canons of male chauvinism. In a collection of letters published as a tribute to the late Audre Lorde in Off Our Backs, a feminist newspaper journal written for women by women, one anonymous contributor discusses how Lorde “encourages all women to find their own means of expression, their own poetry to value and to use” (Tyler 32) in her piece “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”. In the piece, Lorde discusses how for women, poetry is not a nonessential indulgence, as Caucasian men throughout history have suggested through how they render poetry as an opportunity to “cover [a] desperate wish for imagination without insight” (Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” 36). Lorde contends that poetry is a “vital necessity of [the] existence” (Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” 36) of women because it establishes the infrastructure on which women “predicate [their] hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action” (Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” 36). Lorde’s text motivates women to exercise “the power of the word, a freedom for women greatly feared by…patriarchal society” (Tyler 32). Lorde states the poetry

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Hi, I’m Melanie, my family may look perfect from the outside but you don’t know the least of it…..

Born on May 10th, 1968, Vanessa Place is a novelist, poet and lawyer. She is has multiple occupations. These occupations include, CEO of Vanessa Place Inc, co-director of Les Figues Press, contributor to Xtra Art Quarterly and The Iowa Review, as well as an occasional screenwriter. Place is also a pioneer of sorts. She was one of the first poets into conceptualism. Place wrote Notes on Conceptualisms, a book of notes that define and are examples of what conceptualism consists of.

Today you must elect a poet from the group of finalists to be Australia’s official Poet Laureate. Although the position of Poet Laureate is commonplace in other countries, including England and New Zealand; Australia’s last Poet Laureate was a convict turned freeman by the name of Michael Massey Robinson. To be poet laureate the poets writing must be influential and meaningful. The role of a Poet Laureate is important as they raise awareness about important social and moral issues in their own unique way . The poet I know is the best for the position is Luke... more commonly known as Luka Lesson; he is a young slam-poet born in Brisbane to

What themes and ideas does Gwen Harwood explore in her poetry and how does she communicate her ideas to the reader

In this essay I am going to compare and contrast ‘When we two parted’ a poem of George Gordon, Lord Byron’s written in 1815 and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s ‘Love’s last lesson’ written in c1838, both poets are British and of the romantic period.

Born as Ray Mendoza on July 2, 1951, was born of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent. She was given the name Sylvia Rivera by a local community of drag queens and spent her career fighting for solidarity between transgender people, queer people of color, homeless people, and sex workers. Sylvia Rivera was one of the “street queens” living in New York, and is known as one of the most famous street youth who fought back during the police raid at Stonewall. Modern day, Rivera has come to personify the aspirations and flaws of the modern gay liberation movement.

Melanie Martinez got her fame after being a part of Team Adam as a contestant on The Voice in 2014. Though she didn’t win, she was signed by Atlantic Records releasing the first part to her album Cry Baby in August of 2015. It wasn’t until November of 2016 that Cry Baby was finished after adding a few more songs, including “Mrs. Potato Head,” Melanie’s favorite song. Her music can best be described as dark and honest; specifically, the song itself and the music video to “Mrs. Potato Head” addresses how society’s idea of pretty affects women.

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