Analysis Of The Poem ' The Fountain '

One of the first memory moments is about him and his dad practicing at the park. They then were talking about football and then Tommy’s father said “Everyone wanted to play offence…” He was talking about how all of his friends and pretty much everyone else who wants to play offence instead of defence. But Tommy and his dad play defence I feel like that brings a connection from Tommy’s dad to Tommy. It adds a person vs. person conflict. Tommy is sad since, he and his father won't have that connection ever again because he is gone.

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.

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.

Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain People often ask what constitutes good art. Who decides whether or not a piece is art and whether it is good art or not? Marcel Duchamp challenged popular notions of his day about what art actually is. Duchamp, a French artist living in New York at the turn of the century, believed that it was up to the artist to determine what art is. Duchamp is most famous for a type of sculpture he created called “readymades”1. Readymades are ordinary functional household objects that have either been joined to other objects, or chosen to stand alone as sculpture. Examples of his readymades include a coat hanger nailed to the floor of his studio, a hat

This part of the story also makes a connection between Tommy and Plinio which that is that they both felt as if there dignity was humiliated in front of Mavis and they tried to out do each other but it all got out of hand causing them both to loose all of the respect that they had. For example Tommy's friends all left and Mavis was bewildered at Plinio.

Miss Ferenczi can be seen as the gryphon to Tommy’s life. He has never seen anything like her in Five Oaks before and therefor she comes off as a mystical character that has popped into his life and has created havoc. Aside from bring excitement to Tommy’s routine, Miss Ferenczi also brings him hope in a way that allows Tommy to believe that there is something else out there aside from this safe and humdrum life that he has lived up to this point. She represents an escape from his routine and gives him the freedom to imagine a more interesting life and gain a new perspective on the

In the excerpt of Cutting for Stone, Verghese recurrently variates the mood throughout his text. Through vivid imagery, Verghese illustrates emotion visually on the faces, as well as through actions of the characters. In addition to imagery, emotions are aroused through onomatopoeic words and aroma. The reader is then struck with a macabre backstory arousing sorrowful emotions within the reader. Verghese uses sensory details, along with backstory to efficaciously expose the reader to the emotional duality of happiness and sadness.

Kate Bagley and Kathleen McIntosh wrote a thought-provoking book that compiles the experiences and struggles of dozens of women within differing religious traditions. Each women’s account is unique in how they choose to deal with their personal realities and how their religions are able or failed to help them cope with those realities. Each woman had to make the choice to either accept their religion exactly the way it is, to reform their religious tradition, or to reject institutionalized religions completely and find their own path to experience the divine. The women I am highlighting demonstrate each response and show that there are multiple ways to encounter the sacred. The women’s story that I am looking at first is Inéz Hernández-Ávila and her struggle to reclaim her Native American and Aztec heritage.

Small town life is in many places. You may not see it, but its everywhere. Newport, Vermont is an example of small town life. Newport has one small hospital, one church, no mall, many small shops, and one small movie theater. The small town life written in on the epitaphs in Edger Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology accurately reflects small town life in Newport, Vermont.

The poem is written in second person with a very conversational tone and structure that invokes imagery of the town itself. The use of second person creates a feeling of closeness to the conversation in the poem. The “you”, while not directly addressing the reader, invites the reader to reflect upon his/her own life in parallel. The conversational tone adds a sense of familiarity to the town for the reader. When physically turned sideways, the poem looks like an open field in Montana: mostly flat, with a few bumps up and down. There are four stanzas, providing a slightly different structure from the simple beginning, middle, and end that readers normally expect. Hugo is quoted saying that “[In] The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir. . . Montana

“Then it all stopped, not overnight, but rapidly enough” (Ishiguro 19). This sentence is an important part of the story because it’s where Tommy becomes a dynamic character; he controls his temper and alters his attitude, ultimately becoming accepted and liked among his peers. By turning over a new leaf, we see this “better” side of him that begins showing up more often than before.

I think your feeling of loneliness and a longing for human interaction are correct. That is what the first part of the poem is literally talking about. Because of the way it is worded, I think it extends from this one person at the side of a lake shouting across to the cliff on the other side and becomes all lonely humans, feeling alone in the wilderness of their inner lives, and crying out for human interaction. What does the fellow in the poem get from his shouting besides the echos of his voice? He gets a living creature all right, who comes out of the rocks at the base of the cliff on the far side of the lake, slips into the water and swims across to him. But instead of a being a human, it is a buck moose which emerges,from the water, shaking

Phil has trouble sleeping and goes for midnight walks to to calm himself. Dans a quiet guy in all black with self destructive tendencies and an abusive mother.

The Trojan War and, more specifically, the Iliad have been engrained into western culture over the last several millennia. There have been multiple retellings and adaptations to Homer’s work, and each re-creator has put his or her own voice into their recreation. England’s John Masefield put his spin on Homer’s epic with his poem “The Spearman” in 1946 which occurs immediately after the World War Two. In this poem, Masefield depicts the events of the Trojan War through the eyes of a Greek soldier. Masefield follows the general plot established by the Iliad; however, Masefield deviates from the epic in a number of ways which could be due to the message the poet is trying to convey about war and connection with people, and the occurrence of the First and Second World Wars during Masefield’s lifetime could be a major influence in the poets reasoning for some of these changes.