Analysis Of The Poem ' David Sedaris '

David Sedaris is a popular comedic autobiographer who delivers intelligent and slightly embellished satirical content inspired from his memoirs and personal experiences. Sedaris’s short story “Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities”, is a magnificent mastery of his humorous writing style. The story is about David’s experience of him and his sisters being forced to take music lessons because of their father’s maniacal obsession to start a family jazz band. David eventually finds himself taking guitar lessons with the unique individual, Mr. Mancini, a midget. David and his teacher have a unique dialogue and references towards his guitar, which makes David feel like an outsider and uncomfortable, keeping secret “screwball” thoughts to himself. His guitar teacher’s disdain for him coupled with lack passion and interest ended his brief uninterested flings with the guitar regardless of how his father felt. People will honor an individual’s interest if the person means that much to them, however, there is always an end to the humor if the interest is not reciprocated. Sometimes an obliged imposition can create situations that make the imposed feel like an outsider in their own way. Personal interest and identity may not be the standard or acceptable in the positions they were forced into therefore, as a response, a superficial persona is created to camouflage true feelings. If the passion for a subject is nonexistent to someone,

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.

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

In the article of David Sedaris “Undecided”, he is very critical about the unsure voters in the American elections. For Sedaris, these undecided voters are usually the ones who have a decisive vote in an election without knowing who they voted for. His mother didn´t have any political knowledge and rely on David to vote for a candidate for her. Sedaris compares the election with choosing what to eat. If you were offered chicken or a platter of broken glass in it, which one would you choose? For him is not confusing, candidates are very different from each other, so it is ridiculous to be undecided. The percentage of people in the United States that are undecided or do not vote is big, but even that, I believe we have a very active voting population.

In the interview with the Dutch host, he explained how his obsession was “out of control” until he got into writing and learned to focus more on his diaries than on his crazes. He asserts his need for constant “order in [his] life.” A clear sample of this cleanness and order compulsion was when he said, “That’s the only way I’d allow a dog in my house, dead, in a box,” referring to the dog in a showcase in his Sussex home. Additionally, in the same interview, he’s shown picking up trash from public places to establish a cleaner and more perfect world (Brands, “David Sedaris”). Another instance was when he mentioned that, he “rewrite[s] 18 times” in his interview with Jonathan Ross in the UK (Ross, “David Sedaris Interview with Jonathan Ross”). I understand that he is a writer and needs to make his works publishable but it doesn’t deny the fact that it’s still a huge number. He also explicitly stated these characteristics in Me Talk Pretty One Day when he pointed out that he wanted to “create [an] identity for [himself]: David the hard worker, David the cut-up” (171) in his French class during his stay in

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.

In the poem ‘Murder’ by David Baker, the author tells of how he survived a heartbreak that was so painful, that he compared it to murder itself. The poet had described the woman as a woman whose beauty was beyond compare. He had loved this woman with all his heart, and when she ended their relationship, it was like the murder of his heart, which was now shattered and aching. Towards the end of the poem, the author comes to a realization with his heart ache. He realizes that he loved her so much, that he has to let her go before holding on to wat they had ruins his life. ‘Murder’ was publishes in 1994 and consists of 519 words, 97 lines, and multiple stanzas filled with the poets’ heartache.

Poets have the power to present their perspectives of the human experience through their poetic voice. Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, and Bruce Dawe, all Australian poets have all expressed common ideas expressed by their unique poetic voice.They also speak for those who have no voice, such as the soldiers in Bruce Dawe’s poem Homecoming and in Gwen Harwood's poem Mother Who Gave Me Life where she gives a voice to the Mothers. A key theme resinating through all of these poets poems would be their common ideas on society and the role of a mother.

ghlighted moments throughout his life. Sedaris purpose is to take situations which would typically seem unfortunate and envision them in a humorous, self-depreciative lens, conveying that people should try to laugh about the predicaments instead of feeling depressed. His generally apathetic tone appeals to anyone who ever felt like they were outcasted or have been in an awkward situation.

But I also realized I could relate to Sedaris in a sense that I had been through similar situations in my own life. I always enjoy reading things in which I can personally relate to because for me it keeps me interested and sometimes I have difficulties finding something that I really enjoy reading. In my opinion I found David Sedaris to be a bit cynical and to be not much of a people person which I find it ironic for him to work at a place filled with so many people. That is another reason in which I can relate I also am not a very big people person for me I find places pack with people to be stressful and anxiety riddled. Everybody is frustrated and at which point I pick up on other peoples frustration and it frustrates me more. I’m also not too fond of the type of people who act in absurd ways and are too inserting into other people’s business or even when you can tell they are making you and or others uncomfortable by invading personal space and sometimes blurring the line between playful banter and borderline sexual

Sedaris essay is simple, incisive, and flows well. Its sarcastic, humorous tone is used across the essay and the use of all three rhetorical appeals, pathos, logos, and ethos make it even more interesting to read.

Humankind is devoid of concerns towards the world that shelters them. In e.e cummings poem “Pity this monster, manunkind” is satirical criticism towards how people are evolving only to damage nature. The theme of the poem is opposition, and the author structures his poem’s form, content, punctuation and tone to complement his claim. In this poem, the author expresses his point by stating mankind is self-centered, he defends nature and natural life, and that it is useless to believe that mankind will make adequate changes to benefit nature.

Robert Frost takes our imagination to a journey through wintertime with 
his two poems "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". These two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in the snow covered woods and awakens us to new feelings. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They show how the same setting can have totally different impacts on a person depending on 
their mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of simple stanzas and diction but they are not straightforward poems.

Initially, Collins demonstrates how one can weigh a dog’s weight with his method. Concrete diction in the first stanza, such as, “ small bathroom”, “ balancing”, and “shaky” suggest the uncomfortable nature of his intimate relationship with his pet. Although Collin is unappreciated for the gritty toil determination, he praise himself to applauded that “this is the way” and raising his self-esteem by comparing how easier it is than to train his dog obesity. In addition, the negative diction used to describe Collin holding his dog to be “awkward” for him and “bewildering” for his pet. This establish he rather force love rather willing show patience. When holding a pet on scale, there is less hustle because he secures the dog’s position by carrying it. Where as when he orders the dog to stay on the weighing scale with a cookie, his dog only followed him because of the expected reward.

Sedaris writes a minimum of drafts twenty drafts. Sedaris will work on a draft, read it, fix the draft, read it, and the cycle continues until he satisfied with his work.