Analysis Of The Poem ' The Rusty Toque '

The poem “To This Day” written by Shane Koyczan, the symbolism is the black things grabbing the kid. This is showing that words do hurt and it stays with you this is shown through the whole story of the pain and suffering of the kid. This is said " who used to say that rhyme sticks and stones as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called" this is showing word do hurt and the black things grabbing him is showing that like a broken bone it still hurts over time just like words do. With this evidence it shows that if you don't want to be called that don't say it at all.

Ever since the beginning of time, love has played an enormous role among humans. Everyone feels a need to love and to be loved. Some attempt to fill this yearning with activities and possessions that will not satisfy – with activities in which they should not participate and possessions they should not own. In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker encounters an emotion some would call love but fits better under the designation of lust for a woman. In contrast, the speaker of Robert Herrick’s poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” urges virgins to marry, to make a lasting commitment in which love plays a

When songwriters begin to pen the lyrics of a song, I believe their ultimate goal is to transcend time in hopes of reaching listeners for generations to come. J.R. Cash, professionally known as Johnny Cash, wrote a song that did just that. “Ragged Old Flag” is a patriotic song that speaks to every generation. Written in 1974, “Ragged Old Flag” was meant to tell the story of our country. Johnny Cash recorded “Ragged Old Flag” live at the House of Cash. Cash wanted the song to be recorded live because it was raw, untouched, and unapologetically real. The basis of this analysis is to show how patriotism spans generations, but also why a song such as, “Ragged Old Flag” is an important part of patriotism in the United States of America.

Whenever a scene of a movie approaches where a debacle unravels or innocent lives are jeopardized, audiences grip their chairs in anticipation for help to come or for a hero to spring into action and save lives. Similarly, in many circumstances, no matter how dire an event might seem, there is always a beacon of hope amongst doleful situations. From every ending comes a new beginning. The poem, “November Cotton Flower”, written by Jean Toomer, describes (the conditions when slaves were under the Harlem Renaissance) the conditions in which slaves were under during the Harlem Renaissance where there seems to be no prospect for a brighter future for the slaves in the society. Throughout the poem, Toomer develops his theme of hope and desire for a brighter future by exhausting literary devices such as metaphors, structure, and imagery.

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.

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.

“Grave of the Lizard Queen” [introduces] the reader with the home page consisting of the title, a corpse, and six surrounding objects including the [headpiece] on the corpse [seen in figure 1]. Each object including the corpse’s body making it a total of seven has its own links that lead to short episodes. The short episodes are “displayed” in six uniformed frames aligned in three rows and two columns seen in figure 2 (Carroll /song.html). When the reader clicks a link that directs [him or her] to a new page, there is a similar image of the link above the frames suggesting a connection between the image and the short episode (as) in figure 2 (Carroll /song.html). Although the short episodes of the objects do not contain any narrations or descriptions,

A strong masculine rhyme consisting of a single stressed syllable “My Tongue is generations dead, My Nose defiles a comely head;”(5-6) gives a weight to these lines and provides rhetorical emphasis. It creates a break by bonding these lines tightly to each other. Because it is a perfect rhyme, it sounds a bit cutesy and childish, so it creates levity to contrast and enlighten the theme of death. The eye rhyme, “For hearkening to carnal evils My Ears have been the very devil’s”(7-8) creates more dissonance and thus disjunction in the reader. This irritation allows passage back into a state where it easier to empathize with the devil and evil. “More furtive then the Hand in low And vicious venery-Not so!”(11-12) exemplifies an imperfect or partial or approximate or slant or pararhyme which supports the theme of deception and dissent articulated by the words, “furtive”(11) and, “Not so!”(12).

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.

In the poem based on a true story, “To This Day”, by Shane Koyczan a young boy is constantly being knocked down by bullies throughout the school day. The bullying is slowly breaking him down to the point where he can’t take it anymore. The boys’ “broken heart strings bled the blues” because of the continuous bullying. The broken heart is made out of crumbled paper to symbolize how delicate his heart is. The piece of paper breaking from the heart is symbolizing that his heart is shattering into multiple pieces. The meaning of this image is to show that the bullying is becoming too much to handle and he is at his breaking point.

Poetry Analysis: The Weary Blues In the poem The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes, the poet is able to use many sound devices and symbolism to fully develop clear sounds and images that the poem makes. This poem creates vivid images by using similes and personification. In line 13, the author makes reference to the musician playing the piano “like a fool”.

According to American industrial designer Adam Savage, “ one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.” This statement caused me to cogitate the potential aspects that cause one 's shift from childhood into adulthood.Within the four short stories “Initiation”( Plath, Sylvia.) by Sylvia Plath, “Araby”(Joyce, James.) by James Joyce, “ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” (Oates, Carol Joyce.) by Joyce Carol Oates, and “The Stone boy” (Berriault, Gina.) by Gina Berriault, each of the authors conveyed the theme of coming of age to shed light on the varying forces that evoke one’s initiation into adulthood. These different forces lead one to change from who they once were, to undergo a

Poetry from the Victorian Era shifted its focus from the Romantic ideals of nature and imagination to the political and social concerns of an increasingly industrialized nation. As an art form, poetry allowed for critical response to issues that plagued a specific moment in time. Robert Southey 's poem, “The Sailor Who Had Served in the Slave Trade”, presents an important reflection on the cruelty of the slave trade and appoints Christian values as a means towards redemption.

This is a very pretty and well-illustrated document. It has gold outlaying which shows a sense of prestige and power. Moreover, the illustrations are very detailed, I do not know what they represent, but it may have something to do with nature. Beneath the gold “G” seems to have some blue outlining or decorative swirls. I do not know if that was purposely put there or if it was acquired with age. There is a slug at the bottom of the page which can be a representation of wisdom. The slug is an insect that moves slowly and most times we relate those that don’t have the ability to move with speed as those with wisdom. An example would be the story of the tortoise and the hare. So, the snail might be a representation of unforeseen wisdom that this

The title is expressive and yet simple when describing the poem. It gives a nonchalant air, therefore when the reader gets to the “Write break-up letter to lover:” line it is more powerful since it feels unexpected proceeding the task, “Pay phone bill” (Margoshes). The decision to write this poem in the form of a to-do list is an integral part in the way the reader sees the speaker. The very title “Note to Self” shows how the piece is never intended to be read by anyone other than the person writing it. The piece holds the same intimacy as a diary except a to-do list uses much simpler language. It must lack the emotion that a diary would, since it