Analysis Of The Poem ' A Key Of Salonika ' By Jorge Luis Borges

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

The poem “ Feliks Skrzynecki” communicates to the responders that as a result of the Skrzynecki family migrating to Australia, Peter had lost a significant aspect of his life which was his relationship with his father due to the barriers that had arisen restricting them from proper communication.

The poem “To This Day” written by Shane Koyczan, the symbolism is the black things grabbing the kid. This is showing that words do hurt and it stays with you this is shown through the whole story of the pain and suffering of the kid. This is said " who used to say that rhyme sticks and stones as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called" this is showing word do hurt and the black things grabbing him is showing that like a broken bone it still hurts over time just like words do. With this evidence it shows that if you don't want to be called that don't say it at all.

La Migra (pg. 700) is about two young kids (mostly immigrants) playing a game called “La Migra.” In La Migra there are two roles that can be played, the border patrol officer or Mexican maid. The poem is spilt into two main stanzas; each stanza gives you a different point of view. It allows you do play both roles of this game. The first stanza is focus on the role of the border patrol officer. In lines 4-7 of the poem tells you what the border patrol officer would have on the daily basis. This was a jeep, a badge and sunglasses. In the second stanza you play to Mexican maid/ woman. In this stanza you are powerless because you play the immigrant. It gives you a since of being caught in the act of a crime. In my opinion, I feel the theme of this

Though out this class I learned a lot, I never really read much poetry and did not realize how much meaning poems can have. I am glad that we read so many different types and styles of poems and books. It really helped me get a well rounded understanding of poetry. My favorite unit was the collection unit. The other poems we read taught me a lot about the other topics we touched on as well. Before this class I never really gave poetry much thought, this class opened up my eyes to how important poetry really is.

In “Conte” by Marilyn Hacker, Cinderella shows the reader a glimpse of her life after the childhood tale ends, a less happier ending than the original story implies. She feels trapped in a constant state of misery and boredom in the royal palace. Without life experience guiding her, Cinderella is in a dilemma caused by her ignorance of the potential consequences of her actions. With the use of irony, structure, and diction, “Conte” shows how innocence and naïveté result in regrettable mistakes that create life experience.

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.

This quotes from Elie Wiesel's Night is one of the more famous quote from the novel. This passage occurs just after Eliezer and his father realize they have survived the first selection at Birkenau. This is also one of the first sections that he shows his loss of faith in his religion. This particular passage holds a lot of underlining themes that present themselves again throughout the book. When analyzing the text the first part states one long night this can show the theme of darkness and the terrible acts that happen throughout his time in the concentration camps. Going on with that same section the seven seals come from the Kabbalah, teachings of Jewish mysticism. As a soul takes a mystical journey to approach God and or death, it must pass through seven gates each guarded by fire and

The third stanza recalls the tragedies of the Trojan War in the future history: "the broken wall" (Greek forces breaking through Trojan defences), "burning roof and tower" (the visually dramatic image, where both Leda and Troy have their security violated), "Agamemnon dead" (an emphasis on the cataclysmic chain of events engendered by the rape of Leda and the birth of Helen).

1-5. there was a great cry of the people. . . against their brethren--Such a crisis in the condition of the Jews in Jerusalem--fatigued with hard labor and harassed by the machinations of restless enemies, the majority of them poor, and the bright visions which hope had painted of pure happiness on their return to the land of their fathers being unrealized--must have been very trying to their faith and patience. But, in addition to these vexatious oppressions, many began to sink under a new and more grievous evil. The poor made loud complaints against the rich for taking advantage of their necessities, and grinding them by usurious exactions. Many of them had, in consequence of these oppressions, been driven to such extremities that they had to mortgage their lands and houses to enable them to pay the

There are many forms to write a poem, and two distinct ways are as a sonnet or a villanelle. These two style of poetry have their own way in expressing the author’s message to the reader. In fact, sonnets, according to the text, are “defined as . . . lyric[s] (reference to moods and feelings) poem of fourteen lines. The sonnet will follow one or another of several set rhyme schemes. . . . [T]he sonnet came to life as a vehicle to convey love messages and passions.” By this definition, I can say that sonnets provides the poet with a tool, which they use to share a strong, emotionally based, statement.

First, both of the pieces of writing were both in the perspective of themselves. They both are describing how they were treated during this torture. They both were treated like animals, which causes them to abhor how they were

The insurgents again attacked the Romans…[then] one of the soldiers, awaiting no orders…but moved by some supernatural impulse, snatched a brand of burning timber…and flung the fiery missile…As the flame shot up, a cry, as poignant as the tragedy, arose from the Jews…(Josephus, Jewish War,

Poetry is a reduced dialect that communicates complex emotions. To comprehend the numerous implications of a ballad, perusers must analyze its words and expressing from the points of view of beat, sound, pictures, clear importance, and suggested meaning. Perusers then need to sort out reactions to the verse into a consistent, point-by-point clarification. Poetry utilizes structures and traditions to propose differential translation to words, or to summon emotive reactions. Gadgets, for example, sound similarity, similar sounding word usage, likeness in sound and cadence are at times used to accomplish musical or incantatory impacts.

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” declared by an influential leader Martin Luther King Jr. As a soldier againsts unfairness, King strongly states that people should fight for freedom. Driven by human nature, humans are always chasing freedom. In “A Century Later,” the Pakistan-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker uses the poetic devices of symbolism, diction, and allusion to explore how perseverance drives freedom.