Alberto Negros Poem Senior

I appreciate the author’s attempt to fully submerse herself back into an adolescent mindset in order to understand the complex issues of masculinity, sexuality and gender

“Negocios”, a story from Junot Díaz’s drown, provides an indepth look into the life of an immigrant from the Dominican Republic trying to make a life for him and his family in the United States. Ramon is constantly faced with difficult challenges but he shows an amazing amount of determination to achieve his goal of providing his family with a better life.

Poetry is often used as a form of writing to express emotions or tell a story. The poems “LA Nocturne: The Angels”, by Xavier Villaurrutia and “Meditations on the South Valley: Poem IX” by Jimmy Santiago Baca, are two distinctive poems. In Baca’s poem he expresses the disbelief and the sorrow of the death of a boy named Eddie. While, in Villaurrutia’s poem reveals an expression of secret desire men have. Baca and Villaurrutia’s poems, both use repetition, imagery and metaphors in their poems to convey their message.

“He wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted to her to be a virgin and not a virgin, all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets-why poetry? Why so Sad? Why the grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone-riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria. Even dancing, she danced alone-and it was aloneness that filled him with love. (O’Brien 435).”

In “The Poem You Asked For” by Larry Levis, he is comparing writing a poem by comparing it to a plant, stubborn person, and toad. Larry Levis, a 20th-century writer is well known for his brevity and surprise approach in poetry. This poem magnifies the complications that authors may face while trying to write something of such importance. The speaker uses an abundant amount of figurative language to personify how writing is so difficult, and can lead to many difficulties and dead ends. The author uses figurative language to portray the theme of difficulties in the writing process such as: difficulties prewriting, writers block, and how hard it is to let go of writing as an author.

Her sexuality is an obstacle that she overcomes by first identifying she does not like men in relationships. To interpret sexuality, Hernández describes finding consonance with a lover as, “he’s a prose poem; I’m a vignette” (Enszer, para. 3). Even though “he doesn’t look anything like me,” he “feels like me” (Enszer, para. 3). Another example of Hernández describing sexuality is how she learned about sex as teenager. Hernández states, “My best friend and I spend our teenage summers reading Judith Krantz novels and watching porn videos from her father’s collection.

Chase Bevil 12-15-16 Adv Lit Brown Tomas Rivera How would a teenager in this present day generation feel if he or she had to work in a field from sun up to sundown to survive? This kind of work for a person is unheard of nowadays, much less from a young boy or teenager. Teenagers complain about having a normal job or convince their parents that they don’t need one. Tomas Rivera was born in Texas to migrant field workers on December 22, 1935.

Young minds are often delineate as stews of hormones and impulse however the choices they make are frequently deeply base on theory and worthy of being treated in a particular way of greater consideration. The poem of “At Sixteen” suggests raging hormones, girls, and everyday life leads to consistent struggle for teens because at sixteen you don’t think as an adult; their minds are immature. The literary elements of this poem such as tone, character type, symbol, mode of criticisms are the key to understanding the poem and a necessary feature of verbal telling storytelling that can be found in a written fiction.

Usually, it is very frustrating when you read something and you cannot grasp what exactly the author is trying to put across. Some authors, like Sharon Olds, use examples of real life experiences to try and explain something that is also happening in real life. After reading the preceding ten lines of the poem, I thought to myself that I had understood clearly what Sharon was saying. However, after getting to the tenth line, I got very confused. This prompted me to sit down, read the poem again keenly while putting down some important notes to fully understand Sharon’s message in this poem, Sex without Love.

Author Jess Addario uses multiple poetic devices to describe how society takes away the innocence from teenagers, and more specifically, girls. First off, Addario establishes a very grim, almost depressing mood for the poem, to emphasize the effects of what

People do not like to accept fact that women have sexual desires and experience sexual pleasure as men do. In the book, Steven, a high school junior said “his male friends always hang out with the freshman girls known as ‘sluts,’ not because they like those girls, but because they can ‘get some” (p. 77). These boys dehumanize the girls that are experiencing the same sexual feelings they are. Instead of females with natural desires, they are reduced to being called sluts and being used for sex. While the girls and boys had equal sexual desires, only the girls’ desires were considered deviant of expectations of their gender expectations while the boys lived up to theirs. By not living up to the expectations of femininity, girls who are sexually active lose their identity as females and are treated first as sluts- as sexual objects with lesser value than a feminine cisgender female who remains abstinent and a good girl in the eyes of

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “I, being born a distressed woman”, introduces a new perspective on trivial concepts such as gender, sexuality, lust, Intimacy and human relationship, ultimately challenging social standards. The speaker brings forth the idea of engaging in intercourse to fulfill her sexual “needs and notions” (2) without being bound to the expectation of forming an emotional and serious relationship. Through insight and logical reasoning, Millay battels pushes beyond social boundaries and standards by challenging the idea of sexuality and as a result of “being born a woman” (1). Millay uses elements of imagery and diction to express human sexuality and insightful reasoning in order to challenge societal standards.

Villanelle That man is respected but he has no name Many people know him as his highness That man has a heart that burns like a flame That man has always had unmatched fame Gee golly he is a sight to witness That man is respected

Comprehensive Changes in Female Sexuality in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” Edna St Vincent Millay’s “[What my lips have kissed, and where, and why],” and “[I, being born a woman and distressed]” In the Victorian era, sex was regarded as a way to continue a family. In the Modern era, this way of thinking was discarded in exchange for a society that thought of sex as liberating and pleasurable. Poets have portrayed this shift in their writing.

This is why adolescence is such a difficult and decisive moment for women. Until then, she was an autonomous individual: she now has to renounce her sovereignty. Not only is she torn like her brothers, and more acutely, between her past and future, but in addition a conflict breaks put between her ordinary claim to be subject, activity, and freedom, on the other, her erotic tendencies and the social pressure to assume herself as a passive object. (348)