Analysis Of The Poem ' The Diamond Of The Ocean '

The 10-play cycle, Gem of the Ocean, written by Frederik August Kittel, better known as August Wilson, takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 1839 Wylie Avenue. The play is centered on a young man named Citizen Barlow. Before he traveled from the South to the North, Barlow once worked at the local mill and stole a can of nails. Another man was accused of stealing the missing material and was to be arrested but instead chose to end his own life; rather than be known as an “unjustly identified as a thief.” Citizen Barlow is a new fellow in town and learns of Aunt Esther’s talent of cleansing souls. The anxious Barlow sets out to find, the 287 year old, Aunt Esther for guidance because his past is haunting

Throughout history, authors have used poetry as a way to express themselves and how they think or feel in an artistic way. There have been poems written about almost every feeling a person has ever had which is why poetry is so popular, because it describes feelings in a way many people cannot. In present day, people from all around the world look back at old poetry and try to define the true meanings behind poems using literally elements and context clues to aid them, this is known as explication. The writing named “Boat of Cypress” is a famous poem written long ago by an unknown author, and composed about a woman full of misery and despair from her personal point of view. Throughout this poem, the readers

There is nothing worse seeing your child go through a wrong situation and trying to save them or losing a kid when you haven’t see there eyes open even worse having a dead body over your hands. In the “Children of the Sea” parents rick there life for their kids. Through her portrayal of Papa, Madan Rodger, and Celianne, Edwidge Danticat shows in “Children of the Sea” that parents will sacrifice anything for their children.

In the play “Gem of the Ocean” Aunt Ester is the one character that is comfortable with how much freedom she has. Even though she has had an upsetting and hard past, at this point in her life she has

“Gem of the Ocean” the ninth play of a total of ten by August Wilson that is about the African-American life in the 20th Century and which main theme is the actual nature of freedom. This play takes us back to 1904 to the District of Pittsburgh, where African-Americans are allegedly free but continue to face systematic oppression. We see that as we are told how many of the characters remain employed by the tin mill but still remained in debt which continued to keep them down in the North just as slavery did in the South. The play was set in 1904 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, when there was a massive migration of laborers from Eastern and Southern Europe and also from the American South regions to the Industrial Revolution’s centers of industry such as Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Detroit (Wilson, 2003).

August Wilson uses a woman named Aunt Ester as the main character in five of his ten paly in the Pittsburg cycle. “Gem of the ocean” is the first of the plays that we actually see Aunt Ester and she becomes more that just a voice the reader. “Gem of the Ocean” is a play depicting the life of newly freed slaves living in the Hill District of Pittsburg, centering on how one woman, Aunt Ester, helps people that are in trouble, either legally or spiritually. Aunt Ester is the main character in many of Wilson’s play. She is an older woman that is more like a spiral healer than just a resident of the town. She uses her life skills and teachings to help the residents of the town during times of disturbances in their lives. Aunt Ester is more than just a woman living her life; she takes great pride in helping others and is trying to pass the knowledge that she has gained throughout her life along. Her role and actions in Wilson’s plays are the backbone of what of what he is trying to portray to African American men and their loss of their heritage.

In the second stanza, as the poet invites us to “imagine the drip of it”, I find that the sound of the words here are so cleverly evocative that they even make me thirsty! The sibilance of the “small splash”, and the pleasing clanging of consanants in “echoing”, “tin” and “mug” deliver such a strong image of water that is so needed after the image of the “crack[ed].. pod”… It is significant that the poet describes this sound of water as the “voice of a kindly god” because it emphasises to us that very often the people in such a situation (where water is so scarce), view the advent of such a commodity as a kindly act of god. What else is there to do when you have no possibility to improve your situation? What else is there to believe when you

I think that this poem mostly portraits death. I feel like this poem is really dark. Towards the end though, the girl in the poem showed some signs of hope. My butterfly will be black to represent the darkness in the poem. Also I will add a black Star of David to represent hatred Nazis had for Jews and the hatred Jews had for Nazis. I will also include a grey skull just as a representation of death. Then I will have surrounding pictures of poor Jewish kids that had to suffer during the Holocaust in the background. It wasn’t until the very end she actually show signs of hope. Most of my butterfly will be black because I need to the main of focus to be that in this poem there was no bright side. It is death, fear, and sickness wrapped in a little

In the first stanza of the poem, Swells, Ammons makes a connection between swell and memories. Swell is the vehicle and is use as a way to describe the substance of a particular memory. Memory plays a role as the tenor. The speaker believes there is a correlation in terms of the size of the “Swell in the ocean” with the importance or impact of the memory; as the swell increase in size, so will the memory significance. The stanza then goes on to create an image for readers with the words, “Information of actions summarized (surface peaks and dribbles.” One possible reason the lines are written in this way is because the words create an imagery of contours and functions of a human brain. Certain sections the human brain can retain information and condense data into its most useful aspects.

Audre Lorde, a well-known poet, utilized her poetry to call attention over the political issues of class, feminism, sexism and racism for decades. These political issues are the symbols that transformed her into someone who is not just a woman, but a person whom clarifies these issues using poetry as a voice to define herself as a Black lesbian woman and an individual. The poem “Coal” is a poem that represents her ideals and her feelings towards being a voice among other feminists. It also shows her struggle as an individual that is caught between the issues of feminism coinciding with race, class, and sexism, which is also known as Intersectionality. Because of the attention being called from Lorde’s poetry, people should continue to recognize this political issue and utilize it to spread awareness of the prejudice and marginalization of today’s society.

Shielded from the atrocities of slavery during her childhood, Jacobs depicts family life among slaves as one that remains intact in a “comfortable home” (29) through the example of her own family. Each member held limited rights along with the ability to work and the privilege to use their earnings as they pleased. It is not until the death of her mistress where she finally begins to feel the effects of slavery in the sudden separation of her family who are “all distributed among her [mistress’s] relatives” (Jacobs 33). The separation of family is one of the most integral subjects of her narrative since “motherhood [plays a great role] in her life” (Wolfe 518). Jacobs appeals to the emotions of her female audiences by contrasting a slave mother’s agonies in her separation from her children with the “happy free women” (40) whose children remain with her since “no hand” (40) has the right to take them away. The separation of families in Douglass’s narrative does call for some pity but the event is not as tragic in comparison to

The Fish is a narrative monologue composed for 76 free-verse lines. The poem is constructed as one long stanza. The author is the speaker narrating this poem. She narrates a fishing experience. The author is out in a rented boat on a body of water, presumably a lake. She tries to describe the fish to the fullest, which appears to be the purpose of the poem, without saying either the specie or an approximate age. The narration gives the impression that the fish is slightly old. There are a number of reasons as to why that fish got caught by the author, including time of day, the weeds weighing it down, fish’s age, and the fact that it has been previously caught five times.

Wise turtle woman I live in a house of creativity The shell upon my back Housing dreams and wings No one can see but me The shell may not be pretty Like soft silk furs or scales But it reflects the stories without edits The divots, the scars, the pride Move faster they whisper

When I was looking through 17th-18th century European artwork in the Norton Simon Museum, there was one piece of art that really stood out to me. That beautiful art piece was the Bay of Naples by Claude-Joseph Vernet. This piece stood out to me because of the beautiful scenery that is displayed and the deep serenity the piece gives me when I look at it. The Bay of Naples is a painting of a landscape that captures the daily life of the bay. The materials used for this painting was oil on canvas.

At times, it is important to pay homage to those creative forces that sprinkle themselves about, flavoring the word with their collective, sparkled-exhale. In dreams and in life: they measure up with the wing-ed folk, who spin threads from clouds and articulate well in the throngs of folklore. You know of whom I speak: those particular few who do not trudge through life but float! Glide about the Northwind, transforming the universe with their vibrant, breezy shine! Sighhhhhhh. Of course, they do not know it, see. Double magic.They are haggard messes, just like you and me, working to deescalate the chaos and remove the grip of cultural forces from about their necks. They find themselves pushed against every wall of purpose, avoiding the thumbtack.