Analysis Of The Poem ' Adair Billy '

“Life is fine!” is not what one typically announces if their life really is fine (Hughes l.27). Often, people hide behind masks of being “fine” to hide their true issues, such as depression and despair. The poem “Life is Fine” by Langston Hughes as well as “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins tackles the topic of depression. While both poems focus on this theme of depression, they greatly differ in their perspectives and outlooks for the future, one with a suicidal adult as narrator, the other a ten year old child.

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 “Introduction to Poetry” is by Billy Collins, an English poet, and it is about how teachers often force students to over-analyze poetry and to try decipher every possible meaning portrayed throughout the poem rather than allowing the students to form their own interpretation of the poem based on their own experiences.

Billy Collins uses dark rooms, oceans, hives, color slides and mouse mazes to describe his poem “Introduction to Poetry”, but also a way to analyze poetry in general. Growing up, students are advised by teachers how to analyze poetry. The speaker of Introduction to Poetry, Billy Collins, attempts to guide the readers by teaching them a unique and appropriate way to analyze poetry. The use of personification and imagery, by the author, gives the readers a new perspective to interpret and find the significance in poetry. In this particular poem, the speaker does not want the reader to listen to the teachers of the reader’s past, “tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a

Poetry is an abstract art form that gives us insight into the past, present and future, allow us to reflect on our lives and provokes thoughts and emotions. * We are Belinda and Katarina and today we will be discussing the theme of city vs bush in the poems Clancy of the Overflow by Banjo Patterson and The Call of the Bush by Dora Wilcox. *The theme of city versus bush interested us as the general opinion of the preferred lifestyle is constantly changing as time progresses, for example, we prefer today 's city lifestyle compared to the bush. These two specific poems provide information on past opinions and experiences dealing with the treatment of city versus bush.

Alex Kershaw and the Bedford boys is a story from a little town of only 3000 in Bedford Virginia. It 's a small town that never recovered from the Great Depression. Effect of this is most of the young men in Bedford joined the towns armory National Guard unit. Alpha company was one of many company 's threw out Virginia numbering around 7500 guardsmen. In the days to come, it would be decided that the 29th infantry division the "Blue and grey" would land on the Normandy beaches to start the invasion. Alpha company and the boys from Bedford would soon be breaking threw the defenses at "Dog one “Omaha beach.

The Great Migration marked the mass exodus of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north. The migration was sparked by increased racial violence in the South, the promise of better economic opportunities for Blacks, and a strong desire for reinvention. Influenced by the plight of African Americans in both regions, Jean Toomer published Cane in 1923. Using a mixture of poems and short stories, Toomer focuses on the Southern and Northern narrative and ultimately addresses the reconciliation of the two regions within an individual. Many writers that participated in the Harlem Renaissance revered Toomer’s unique approach to the Great Migration. When speaking of Jean Toomer, William Braithwaite exclaimed, “[he] is a bright morning star of a new day of the race in literature” (ix). Though Toomer had a complex relationship with the notion of race and being categorized as a Negro writer, his work in Cane tells the heartbreaking reality of the violence, suffering and social experience of African Americans in the early 20th century. Toomer utilizes three stories, “Becky”, “Face” and “Cotton Song” to tell the story of a “white woman who had two Negro sons” (5). The continued references to religion, violence, nature and the unknown, mark Toomer’s attempt to tell the story of people who do not align with Southern societal norms during the early 20th

You selected a few different poems to interpret this week then my self. You have a marvelous post summarizing each peculiar one. I likewise read Nostalgia by Billy Collins this week. My conception of the author is he practically ridicules the diverse periods of time as they were portrayed. I enjoyed this poem considering the composer certainly drives the point home with this topic. An abundance of humanity complains about past generations although trends were not the greatest it's persistent rebalance of pros and cons about all aspects of life. I couldn't agree more with you that the theme of the poem demonstrates that humanity wishes regression to the way life once

Once Billy becomes capable of time travel and comes into contact with the Tralfamadorians, he simply goes through the motions of life but avoids falling into a defeatist attitude. Under the tutelage of the Tralfamadorians, Billy fashions a brand new perspective towards society and enhances his natural persona, “When Billy accepts the Tralfamadorian philosophy, the passivity that he has displayed his entire life—from wanting to drift quietly at the bottom of the YMCA pool after his father throws him in, to begging Roland Weary to leave him behind—is justified. If the future cannot be changed anyway, why even try?” (Farrell 9). Though the interaction with the Tralfamadorians seems to allow Billy an outlet to construct his own ideals upon the universe, he nonetheless continues along the same path as before. Billy becomes an extremist towards passivity in life rather than utilizing the experience to impart a strong impression

While reading the poem “Introduction to Poetry,” Billy Collins sends a message to the readers that they should be patient and impartial when it comes to analyzing a poem in order to see the true meaning behind the without being over analytical. There is a revieting situation that takes place because Billy Collins is delivering his message to all readers about the way that one should be able to read a poem. This poems educates the reader on how to be able to read and plunge into a poem, through using many techniques like mood, tone, and literary devices to do so. In the first two lines Collins demands that we tackle a poem with a invigorating eye. There should be an exploration of what the poem means to us. How does this poem apply to our

Cai Guo-Qiang compares his works as the poppy flower. He uses gun powder to make the explosion projects. Gun powder can be dangerous. Gun powder is uncontrollable. But he has been working with the materials for a very long time and he knows well how to manage it. The way he makes his arts are reliable, cool and can harmful. While he is making his arts, most of the times he doesn’t feel like to end until he sees everything is perfect. He also compares drawing as lovemaking meaning that he has to take his time slowly and gently to make everything faultless. His arts are beautiful, the lines, the shapes, the colors were all well made. According to Qiang “Artist is not about what you say but it is about what you don’t say.’’ In my opinion, I think he is trying to say that artist is about what you accomplish, the works that you made, the imagination you put into your arts. In addition, in the video he described the exhibition space and the first time he saw it. He has also showed an installation in Washington, D.C that expressed the power of destruction and the beauty of destruction.

"Alexie asks three questions across all of his works: ‘What does it mean to live as an Indian in this time? What does it mean to be an Indian man? Finally, what does it mean to live on an Indian reservation?’” (Basso). Indeed, he does, but does that necessarily imply that he does a good job of it? Certainly, he moves us beyond the many ridiculous stereotypes of Native Americans, that they’re alcoholics and lazy, that they all live on reservations and receive special treatment from the government, that they’re all chanting medicine men waving rattles (or giant black dildos) in teepees while their child roams through the woods, high on the peace pipe, searching for a talking elephant while mom is trying to figure out ways to use every part of the buffalo. These ridiculous stereotypes and generalizations are ripped apart in Alexie’s work, to great praise. And yet his work is left wanting. He wipes away the generalizations passed down by generalization, bringing Native American characters into the modern world, but ignores what makes each tribe different. Sure, he guides us to the realization that they aren’t all liquored up, and that the rate of Native Americans who achieve a secondary education continue to rise, and only 22% of Native Americans live on reservations, but he doesn’t point out that there are 566 federally recognized tribes. He doesn’t even give any specific detail about his own tribe, the Spokane, which he most often uses as the background of his

Yeah man it's going to be so hard to follow up this song, lets look at this, he took some dance manoeuvre which seems to be popular and sung about it, When you listen to this song do you feel it's emotion and how beautiful the instruments and the vocals do you shiver with excitement no you fucking don't because it's a shit song for people with low musical standards, this guy is a talentless chuckle fuck.

Etty Hillesum was a young, Jewish woman who resided in Holland during World War II. She was a progressive woman, “Defying the gender stereotypes of her time and place, she had worked steadily for years and years to cultivate the sort of richly faceted identity that few women of her time achieved” (64). And despite coming from a Jewish lineage, she never closely observed the religion instead, chose to forge her own religious path. She began writing diaries documenting her daily life as a part of her recommended treatment plan by psychoanalyst friend, Julius Spiers. Throughout her works, she began pondering many of life’s questions. She came to believe that thoughts of anger, sadness, fear, and grief were not a good use of precious time. “One must not cling to moments of malaise and prolong them needlessly, because in so doing one may prevent the birth of a richer moment” (38). She appeared to become more enlightened as her diaries continued. “All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbor. Because I and my neighbor and everyone else do not have enough love” (39). During her time going back and forth between Amsterdam and Westerbork, “She became the ‘Thinking Heart of the Barracks’ because she had acquired the strength to take the most wrenching truths and yet remain certain that life is full of meaning and beauty” (58). As what looked to be the end for her and her people, she learned not to be afraid of

With the three poems “next to of course god america i”, “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls”, and “[Buffalo Bill’s] e e cummings paints a very grim picture of American ideals and shows his disdain for much of the cultural identity that Americans share. In the poems “next to of course god america i” and “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” he lampoons politicians and a certain class of women. In “[Buffalo Bill’s]” he declares a cultural icon to be “defunct” and within the other two poems he calls out many other American institutions including rabid nationalism, the protestant church, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. On top of everything that e e cummings sees as wrong with America, he also characterizes the average American as extremely gullible and easily fooled by exalted members of society as seen in “next to of course god america i”, “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls”, and to a lesser extent in “[Buffalo Bill’s]”. The poem “next to of course god america i” is a parody of a speech one would expect to hear coming from a politician, except in this speech the politician comes off as incomprehensible and comically patriotic. The way that the speech consists almost entirely of allusions to national anthems and other platitudes in an attempt to win the favor of the common man is a harsh critique on the state of American politics as well as on the average voter. Similar to this, the women in “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished