Analysis Of The Poem ' The ' Arms '

Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Education at Harvard University with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society. Smith Clint wrote a poem called “Something You should Know.” The poem is about an early job he had in a Petsmart. The poet allows the readers into his personal life, but before he had trouble opening up to people and his work. Moreover, Clint wrote an insight in the poem about relying in anything to feel safe and he says it is the most terrifying thing any person can do.

“Once upon a time there was a wife and mother one too many times” (Godwin 39). This short story begins with the famous opening, once upon a time, which foreshadows that the story line will be similar to a fairy tale. It raises expectations for the story that all will be magical and end happily. A typical modern-day fairy tale is that of a distressed character who overcomes an obstacle, falls in love with prince charming, and they ride off into the sunset; living happily ever after never to be heard from again. Godwin however, puts an unexpected twist on “A Sorrowful Woman”. This short story is a tale about what can happen when everyday roles take over our identity. Ultimately, this short story challenges societal expectations of marriage

Nevertheless, the protagonist showed satisfaction, she described how even the smell was parsimony to the orange and pine - "I found it reassuringly seasonal, like the smell of oranges and pine needles" (Munro 2). However, she is forced to work with her mother in the kitchen, just because she was a woman and had to learn and make the woman work inside the house, "I hated the hot dark kitchen in summer "(Munro 14), that is what she meant when she had to do something she did not enjoy. The woman as opposed to the man had a restriction of what work could be performed and was suitable for her, just as in story, she could not realize her desires because even if she helped her father even so her help was nothing compared to the help from his brother who was a

Poetry is a beautiful way to express the subtext within it, using literary devices which enhances the poem 's beauty. Poetry is considered to take distorted ideas and transforms it into beautiful words. Therefore, resulting the harsh truth being displayed in a form of a poem for readers to sink into another point of view. These creators called poets, are a group of people with a wide variety of experiences that an average person does not usually experience. They can create a more unified meaning in their masterpiece, without taking up 300 pages to exhibit their meaning, and still hold different interpretations by different readers. Poets are known to uncover the truth, which could be their experiences or reality based ideas, by beautifying the reality with literary devices to make it more relatable and enjoyable but still hold that very core of the meaning behind the poem. Poetry is a powerful vessel, between creator and reader, to change a person’s outlook of life or one’s surroundings. A poem can change moods, enhances one’s personality, gain a sense of people knowledge and become a bit more sensitive around one 's world. Even if poets are not aware of the power poetry holds, they still do it to convey an experience, a lesson or a journey. All of this relates to 'Love and Roses ' by Tracy Marshall, where the speaker is telling the reader a journey of their blinding love. The abusive relationship exists in the speaker 's life but is distracted by the idea of the

Standing at the top of the stairs, the savory scent of baking biscuits drifted up from the kitchen below. She could understand why Fiona’s traveling salesman always picked this room. The luscious aroma filled the house with mouth-watering delight. The growling of her stomach led her to the dining room where she slid into a chair at an already empty table.

So began a thrice-daily ritual on the raft, with pumpkin pie and spaghetti being the favorite subjects. The men came to know louise’s recipes so well that if louie skipped a step or forgot an ingredient, Phil, and sometimes Mac, would quickly correct him and make him start over.” Instead of just saying “they were starving” Hillenbrand instead talks about how they fantasized about Louie’s Mother's cooking. She uses detail of the cooking to develop how hungry they are and to show the lack of food they have. I know when I'm hungry I often think about my mother's mash potatoes and ham, and how she puts everything together and cooks.

Jesmyn Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones features an underprivileged African American family from Mississippi, highlighting different challenges and plights that they faced prior and during Hurricane Katrina. The family members endured different life challenges ranging from poverty, loss of parents, neglect, violence, and sexual abuse. The story is set in a town known as Bois Savage within a locality named the pit deep in the woods, a family property, to signify its isolation from other and the low economic status. Throughout the story one character, the narrator, Esch stands out as she tries to navigate through life in a patriarchy world or rather surrounded by men. This paper analyzes the character of Esch Batiste, highlighting her struggles and transformation from the beginning of the novel to the end.

The house had an unusual smell to it that Bryan couldn’t quite his finger on it. Miguel had never minded any of the people in the village had always believed the story ever since they were a young child, but there showed no evidence of this so called “Witch”. old lady on the corner of Babylan St. because he always knew it was just a folktale,so they wouldn’t go into a stranger 's house.

Sarah slugged through the early morning work and realized-too soon- that she needed to make a trip to the house. She made her way, clasping her arms around her for warmth in the cold November morning. Painted Girl’s borrowed sweater did not help dissipate the cold air, and neither did the lingering whiskey in her system. A light shone in the window illuminating Grandfather and Dingle, who sat at the table together eating pie. She watched as Dingle grabbed a juicy strawberry from Grandfather’s pie and nibbled at it greedily. Grandfather must have finished his hunt early, Sarah realized. She had hoped to avoid Grandfather today but nature called. There was no choice, either the woods or the house. Sarah did an about turn and went for the

Life is an extremely unfair situation for Liz, as well as her best friend, Marlee. Life is supposed to be happy, and easy for children, but instead for these children, as well as all the other children in the book, The Lions of Little Rock, life is tough, and you had to be careful, especially if you were colored like Liz. This book is alike the to poem Black Fists in the Air because both are extremely against segregation. Furthermore, the mood of the book and the poem are close to the same. Both are sort of dark, ad the narrator, and the people in this book seem depressed. Finally, both the poem and the book use comparisons to show how unfair discrimination is. The poem Black Fists in the Air, and the book The Lions of Little Rock are both very similar in many ways.

This paper focuses on exploring the styles and techniques used by Siegfried Sasson in his war-poem The Rear-Guard. This poem is about the negative effects of war on the minds of soldiers and the events happening in the battle field. Sasson is commonly known as a war-poet as he experienced them personally being part of Royal Welsh army. In this paper the techniques of foregrounding i.e. deviation and parallelism are used to make the implicit meanings explicit, used by the writer. Stylistics analysis is done using the technique of foregrounding. The analysis shows that the horror and brutality is shown by making readers part of poem, it means that the style used is autobiographical which shows the dangers and experiences faced by soldiers

During the Victorian Era in 1837 the period that was ruled by Queen Victoria I, women endured many social disadvantages by living in a world entirely dominated by men. Around that time most women had to be innocent, virtuous, dutiful and be ignorant of intellectual opinion. It was also a time associated with prudishness and repression. Their sole window on the world would, of course, be her husband. During this important era, the idea of the “Angel in the House” was developed by Coventry Patmore and used to describe the ideal women who men longed. Throughout this period, women were treated inferior to men and were destined to be the husbands “Angel in the House”.

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.

animalistic predator as Rachel maintains the same physical alertness to the owl as she did to him. The positioning of the owl stands in directly for Harry in the form of familiar imaging as the owl is side lit and angeled just has harry was in the scene prior. As the scene prose close up shots of both an owl and bunny reveal another fairytale like moment in the storyline that is reminiscent of a fable. Cutting back to Rachel the scene ends with her in a medium shot relaying a parable like message of the world hardships for “young things”. Overall, “very little real world pretense was used as sharp lines symbolic detail through technical elements where used to create “highly” detailed and “stylized” environment in which the “expressive power” was achieved to depict the symbolic depiction of good versus evil through cinematic use of staging, lighting, and shot scale.

Sally stopped at the door to Mary’s bedroom. With a breakfast tray in her hands, Sally carefully opened the door and set the breakfast on Maria’s table. When Maria woke up, Sally got her ready. This was Sally’s daily routine, even in Monticello, Virginia. Sally Hemings was one of Maria’s favorites. Sally had always taken great care of Maria and together, they had a strong bond.