Analysis Of The Poem ' Schubert 's Elfking '

“I am not the man I once was…” (Dickens 675) might be the most famous words of Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” Written by Charles Dickens. Ebenezer Scrooge is a horrible man who is haunted by three spirits overnight in hopes to make a new man out of the old miser. Throughout this story, Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by three spirits ,Christmas present, past, and future, and during this time he learns about his greed, what joy he missed on christmas, and that he had a chance to become better.

His feelings of betrayal are translated to his sleep, as he dreams of his dad playing "fiddle and bow" to a "malignant" dance, the intensity of the words, reveal how serious the bond between mother and child are, and how hurtful a brush aside is to a juvenile's spirit.

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 first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

The contrast between the son’s first words with his father and his later conversation emphasizes how rapidly he is growing up. At first, the son lovingly exclaims, “not the same story baba, a new one”. However, towards the end, the son’s affectionate speech turns angry, as he shouts,“are you a god, the man that screams?”

A Story has a third person point of view. This point of view is imperative for this poem due to the fact that the reader needs to see the father’s feelings without the emotions becoming overbearing. The point of view is perfectly shown in the line “Not the same story, Baba. A new one. The man rubs his chin, scratches his ear” (Ln 4-5). Lee switches from what the boy is saying to what the outside source is seeing to more display the third

There are two POVs in the story. The first POV is used for the whole story, including the story of Timofei, the singer, and his son Yegor. The story as a whole is told from the first person point of view. The first

The novels A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, and Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte display a strong parallel in the ways in which they use their different styles of narration in the story to reveal the true inner-feelings of characters. In A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is taught many valuable lessons through the testament of three different spirits, each working to bring out the true emotions of this man. Likewise, in Wuthering Heights, the main character, Mr. Lockwood, is taught stories of his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, through written recollections from the testaments of others, showing the inner-feelings and thoughts of him through diary entries. Although they are written in two different styles, indirect

The poem is depicted from differing perspectives, third and first person, in order to exemplify the differences that exist between father and son. The third person point of view is utilized in the very beginning of the poem in order to help the flow and accentuate the differences in perspectives between the father and the son. As the poem begins, the speaker seems to be recalling and telling a story of how a

The character openly feels empathy for his daughter, and near the middle of the piece the character seems to feel helpless as he describes the way his daughter “seemed to crave a companion, or an activity that would lift her spirits.” He soon discovers musical therapy as that exact activity and it gives him a feeling of hope. He has a way now to open a channel where she can express herself through music “in a way that she cannot express-has never been able to express-in

In her poem, “White Lies,” Trethewey’s theme in the story is discrimination and her struggle with her personal identity in America. Being born bi-racial, Trethewey explores racial identity that she experienced during her childhood. She was born in 1966 in Mississippi to a black mother and a white father. At this time, interracial marriages were not legal in Mississippi and were seen as shameful in society. Trethewey was very light skinned and had the desire to be white. The poem delivers the author’s experience with bigotry while living in the South (Bentley). This created an atmosphere of a racist society where the white community was superior over the African Americans. Growing up during this period, Trethewey felt like a lost little girl struggling with trying to find herself. In The Washington Post, Trethewey said, “Poetry showed me that I wasn’t alone” (Trethewey). This meant that writing poetry helped her to realize that she was not alone in this world of judgment, there were others facing the same issues that she was. The tone of her poem was sadness because of the prejudices she faced. To her, poetry was a place that could hold her grief (Bentley). Throughout her poem, “White Lies,” she desired to tell lies about who she was and how she lived. Her childhood was filled with thoughts and hopes of being white instead of being bi-racial. She states, “The lies I could tell, / when I was growing up” (Trethewey l. 1-2). These lines imply that she could easily lie to cover

Using the carnival as a background is appropriate because it is a time of celebration when everything is in chaos and people have lost their self-control. The carnival may be a symbol of Montresor’s own madness and the crazy thoughts in his head. The carnival usually indicates joyful social interaction but it is distorted by Montresor. Montresor’s reference to the bones and vaults of his family foreshadow the story’s descent into the underworld. The underground travels of the two men are a metaphor for their trip to hell. The carnival is essentially for the living but Montresor takes it into the vaults underground, to the realm of the dead and the satanic. The setting Poe chose for the story adds to the terror. Most of the events of the story runs in dark, damp tunnels piled with the bones of dead people. By taking Fortunato into the vaults, Montresor cuts him off from help. The two characters are underground and isolated.

The melody and mood of Goethe’s poem and Franz Schubert composition ‘The Erlking’ or ‘The Erlkönig’, is a prime example of the Romantic period’s vocal music, as it captures the spirit of the late eighteenth century. The Romantic period was widely known to be a time fascinated with the supernatural, and the recurring themes of love and death, all of which are contained in Goethe’s poem. The Erlking symbolizes death back in that time. Goethe’s poem is based on the theme of the loss of innocence, as shown in the poem when the Erlking lures the young boy and kills him, along with his innocence. Franz Schubert composed his Lied, “Erlkönig“, with the form created for a solo voice and grand piano accompaniment in 1815, from the setting text from Goethe poem. The music was written in 1815 but based on a 1782 poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Overall Shubert has created drama through his use of the melody and mood from Goethe’s poem.

In Oboe Concerto No. 3 in G minor HWV 287 by George Fredric Handel, the listener is subjected to a lengthy journey of sound, in which the mind is stimulated with various parts of music. The four movements express a decent amount of change from the movement before it, which keeps the listener engaged throughout the whole piece. The tempo, which is defined as the general speed of the music, starts off as a nice average speed. It’s not too fast or slow, though it does increase or decrease later in the piece. In the first movement, however, I would guess that the tempo is somewhere between 60 and 65. In the other movements, that number would change because the piece itself changes and the listener gets to experience a nice full range of tempo. This piece also has a very strong beat throughout all four movements, though the meter, which provides the beat, of the last two movements is more complex than it is in the first. In the first movement, the meter sounds like it is a 4/4 with a nice strong beat. The dynamics of the music vary in the movements. The first movement is louder than the other three, while the second movement is quieter than other parts of the music. This provides a great contrast that keeps the listener engaged. The modality (major or minor) is evident in the title; in this case, the piece is a G minor chord. While I wouldn’t say that the music makes me feel sad or stressed, it does make me feel like something very serious is happening. The harmonic tension of