Analysis of William Faulkners Nobel Prrize of Literarure Speech

Sentences like “And how the lions in your eyes are all dying” (5) or “But the Egyptians used honey / To preserve their vital organs” (8-9) are perfect uses of metaphors in the sense that they characterize the situation and give the reader a vivid understanding. The ‘lions dying in the eyes of the beholder’ is a way of saying that all the courage, confidence and fire they had burning inside of them before, is now vanishing. It leaves one feeling empty and self-conscious knowing that whoever betrayed them, whether it be lover, a friend or a family member, had the audacity to do it in the first place. Another striking phrase in the poem was when Weslowski referred to the Egyptians using honey to save their most important organs. In a literal sense, the heart is one of, if not, the most vital organs we, as humans, have; it’s what keeps us alive. Speaking in a non-literal sense, the heart is something everyone wants to protect because no one enjoys getting their heart broken. Unfortunately if the occasion arises, one may go to certain lengths to shield what self-dignity they have left, or what pieces of their heart is still there. Half way through, Weslowski speaks about mohawks on skateboards (12), tattoos underwater (13), becoming the bad weather (14-16) or the music (17-19), or even becoming an empty coffee cup (21), he is pinpointing how certain people cope and the varying coping

This piece is a simpler one based off of the concept that words are unfulfilling to the concepts they represent. In As I Lay Dying, Addie states that words are “just words.” Addie developed a disdain for words as she slowly got more cruel the longer she remained trapped in this family. In a certain passage from As I Lay Dying, Tull and some locals are talking with Cash about Cash’s broken leg. Faulkner gives us two different conversation one is boring and mundane and is the one that was actually spoken, while the other is rich in content and opinion, a much more interesting conversation to have, but is only the thoughts of the men. The words spoken were not the true thoughts of the men and the men hold back their thoughts because they are very

Effectively, his deliberate use of syntax creates a structure in his essay which immerses the reader into the passage and allows his message to be conveyed. Often in the essay, he adopts compound-complex sentence structures to maximize his level of description and to fully establish the imagery he intends to create. Moreover, when he establishes depictions of action, motion, and speed, he creates considerably longer compound-complex sentences; using five or more clauses and at least one dash to thoroughly depict action, to eliminate any sense of pause, and to fully intrigue his readers. Such a usage of syntax is also parallel to when he writes that “...it was filled with motion, speed.” His lack of “and” but rather the word “speed” preceding a comma further represents the elimination of a sense of pause and his use of syntax in order to create a sense of speed and intensity. In the last paragraph, he continues his extensive use of compound-complex sentences and he suddenly slows down and ends his final part on shorter complex sentences.

uses the rhetorical devices of paradox, symbolism and the rhetorical appeal of pathos in his novel

In “Shitty First Drafts,” Anne Lamott illustrates the challenges and difficulties writers face while preparing to write their first drafts, by explaining many different examples and how to eliminate those issues and exceed into creating the “Shitty First Draft.” Anne Lamott’s use of figures of speech, narration, and audience appeals, teach the readers how to write their first draft. Lamott’s descriptive writing and use of details allows the readers to experience her struggles and compare that to themselves. “Even after I’d been doing this for years, panic would set in. I’d try to write a lead, but instead I’d write a couple of dreadful sentences, XX them out, try again, XX everything out, and then feel despair and worry settle on my chest like

The Nobel Prize for Literature was not rewarded to the deserving writer. You have awarded Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 13, 2016 degrading dedicated writers around the world. After dropping out of college in the 1960’s to pursue an occupation in which he was already well known as the times “most loved folk poet”, he turned to singing and writing rock-type songs with anti war messages. Whether he did “create new poetic expressions within the great American tradition” he has not proven himself worthy of such a significant award. Such a legendary award offered to many other brilliant writers, should be received by someone who can and will continue to change the world. This award could help out developing writers, developing countries, and should not be handed out single handedly.

Most of the sentences are medium-length and they are all logically correct. All of the paragraphs are the same length as well which gives the speech an even and symmetrical look and feel to the reader. Throughout the whole speech there is not a single example of polysyndeton, however, there is a couple of instances where the author uses asyndeton. For example, “It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle… .” Next, there is one concept that is repeated throughout this whole piece, death.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is an outstanding prize that honors extraordinary people for their works in literature. It honors people that have changed literature. On October 13, 2016 you awarded Bob Dylan with the Nobel Prize in Literature. This marks him as the first musician ever to win this prize. Many people agree with your decision, while others are not delighted with this fact. I agree with the committee to honoring Bob Dylan with the Nobel Prize in literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

An anaphora is the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses sentences or paragraphs used to emphasize a point of make it catchy. The anaphora is used in the speech to get the audience to remember what he was about to say. The repetition of phrases such as “I Have a Dream,” “Let freedom ring,” and “One hundred years later,” started off some of the most important sentences in the speech. In this speech it was the biggest key for Dr. King when he was speaking because it added a tone that would rally together the crowd in person, and the crowd listening at their homes. One anaphora that was used during this speech was the phrase “one hundred years later.” King used this when referring to how life has changed for African Americans, since the Gettysburg Address a century before. The statement that followed this phrase was about the struggles African Americans still face to that day. The second anaphora King used was “Now is the time,” the words that followed discussed how African Americans felt they have been treated. The remarks King made contrasted from the dark times of segregation to the good times of justice and equality for everyone. Perhaps one of the most famous phrases “I Have a Dream” is also an anaphora. Dr. King used I Have A Dream when he stated what he wanted to see for blacks and whites in the future. The final anaphora King used in his speech was “Let freedom ring.” King used this at the end of his speech when he called for equality for everyone across the nation. The anaphora was a very effective method in his I Have a Dream speech considering the anaphora I Have a Dream is recognizable

Many persuasive authors, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and John F Kennedy, utilize a variety of rhetorical devices to clarify and balance ideas, and to appeal to human emotions. One of the devices they applied to their literary works was parallelism, which is the repetition of word, phrases, clauses, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or the same meaning. The second device, antithesis, is a form of parallelism that emphasizes strong contrasts. These devices are both used in “Inaugural Address” by John F. Kennedy and in “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”, by Martin Luther King Jr. to accentuate ideas and create a pleasing cadence.

Douglass and Johnson use parallelism, which is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same, and they also use anaphora, which is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, to further their arguments to affect change in their communities. For example, in his speech, Douglass, when speaking about what African Americans do, states “…digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside…” which is parallelism due to the structure of the phrase, beginning with a verb and leading

Faulkner proves us that it is impossible to sruggle with one's own heart . The moment when Sarty decided to choose morality over the blood pool and warned the de Spain's revealed his true character. Though this meant the death of his

Faulkner’s works consisted of many dark touchy topics such as war, racism, mental illness and suicide in all of books, short stories, William Faulkner wrote about almost every part of life, from something that could be absurd at his time, to something real like racism in the American South. Throughout his life, Faulkner was kind of a rebel, notorious for his confidence, drinking, and he would often make up stories about himself. Faulkner wrote from experience and as a person who lived in the south during times of racism, he wrote about a lot of things in the south. To be exact his specific genre or style in which he wrote in is what some call “southern gothic”. Southern gothic is a unique style of writing and only expressed by very few authors. These stories usually take place only in the south and have darkness to them. His stories would use irony to examine the values of the American south. Instead of solely trying to add suspense with the style it is also used to explore social issues and cultural character of the south. Which leads me to one of Faulkner’s first important novels “Sartoris”. In Sartoris Faulkner focuses on a family during the world war era in the south. In the book the Sartoris family is one of the more important families in Yoknapatawpha County where the book is set. The Old Colonel, John Sartoris, represents an old and dying out order dating back to the mid 1900’s. His world revolves around his plantation home, his slaves and his

William Faulkner’s unconventional writing style is widely renowned for his disregard of literary rules and his keen ability to peer into the psychological depths of his characters. His novel As I Lay Dying is no exception to his signature style. This book sets forth the death of Addie Bundren, her family’s journey through Yoknapatawpha County to bury her with her relatives in Jefferson, Mississippi, and examines each character in depth from a variety of perspectives. While this journey wreaks havoc among members of the family, As I Lay Dying serves as a dark reminder that life is to be lived and that happiness is within reach.

Bleikasten concludes that Faulkner, like many of his contemporaneous authors, recognized the inability of language to express beauty, truth, and perhaps womanhood, and so could only explain by not explaining, narrate by not narrating, and write by not writing. I think one could additionally argue that this is why Faulkner does not “write” Caddy, or give her a voice, because language would (apparently) spoil her beauty (which I cannot help reading as an excuse). When Bleikasten insists that Faulkner’s “insistence on his failure was no pose,” I get frustrated with him, because I simply want to ask, “How do you know?”. I already have trouble taking Faulkner’s introductions seriously when he describes the development of The Sound and the Fury for they seem to include much idealization and dreamy hindsight.