Critique Of `` Michael ``

Michael was a homeless, poor and oversized African-American youngster from a broken home. He has no idea who his father was and his mother was a drug addict. He was separated from his mother at the age of seven because his mother was involved in some drug addiction cases. He has had little formal education and few skills to help him learn.

The Book Of Michael, by Lesley Choyce starts off with a boy named Michael getting out of prison, and talking about his false murder conviction. He was released after the real murderer confessed, her name Miranda. Through a flashback we learn that Miranda was Michaels first girlfriend. She made him do drugs. Through another flashback we learn that Michael drifts apart from Miranda and finds a girl named Lisa, who changed his life. Michael’s first girlfriend, Miranda, murdered her. Michaels is very depressed, but one day decides to go back to school, and graduates a couple of months later. As the book comes to a close, Michael decides to get back together with Miranda and live a normal and happy life with

Wordsworth stood on the cliff 'not only with the sense of 'present pleasure'; (63) but he joyfully anticipated the moments 'for future years'; (65). He came back to reality and began to analyze the situation after his reminiscing. Wordsworth realized that he had lost some guidance and was searching for the presence of nature when returning to the Wye. He remembered when he used to wander and roam as free as a roe but as he matured he felt content with tapping into his memories of his youth because as Wordsworth stated, 'That time is past? other gifts have allowed; for such loss, I would believe, abundant recompense'; (83-88). He realized that he was involved with more mature things in life because he had become more intelligent through the years and saw nature in the light of his intelligence. Yet, he insisted that he was 'still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and the mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth'; (102-105) but indeed, in a more composed way.

Ed Strosser is an author and history enthusiast. Michael Prince is also an author and history enthusiast, Michael Prince co-wrote Policy, and wrote other novels such as: Chasing Light, Bones and Totems of Seldovia amongst numerous other titles. Together, both Ed Strosser and Michael Prince are trying to prove that several empires and nations have made some sort of misjudgement that has lead to unnecessary conflict or even their own demise.

When evaluting what Judd said he learned of his father's behavior prior, it comes to show that Michael Senior didn't turn into the is man, but reverted back to the behavior, which he displayed when the children were very young, and before Judd was born. The insecurities that he experiences lead him back to a uncaring personality. Her mother on the other hand, tries to remain positive through out the entire story, siding with her father and defending him. She easily could have encourged Michael Senior to talk with Marianne and bring the family together the way it should have been, but she allowed him to drive their family apart. My doing this, Patrick "Pinch" Mulvaney came to despise his mother and father for what they did to Marianne. He believed his mother stupid and his father cruel for abondoning their daughter

One of the defense mechanisms that were used by Michael was denial. When Michael found out about his diagnosis with young onset Parkinson’s disease, he was in complete shock and refused to believe that he had this disease because he didn’t want it to be true. For example “I clung to fantasies of escape, hoping against hope that somehow my diagnosis would turn out to be a mistake” (chapter 5, pg.147). Another defense mechanism that was used by Michael was displacement. While Tracy and Sam were sleep, Michael would sneak and drink heavily all night then he would take his anger out on Tracy while she found him intoxicated. For example “there were nights that I’d get out of bed after Tracy had fallen asleep and continue drinking. On those occasions

In the first verse, Michael uses a winter coat and cold weather to give an example of the trying times that some people undergo. First he mentions the coat he wears to protect himself from the chilly weather “As I turned up the collar on my favourite winter coat.” Despite wearing the coat, Michael states that the wind still got to his head “This wind is blowin’ my mind.” This personification of the wind is used to illustrate how Michael escaped the physical affects of the cold but not the mental effects. The reason why it affected him mentally is because of what follows, which is the sight of “kids in the street, with not enough to eat”. Michael feels sorry for the kids suffering in the street because he has the resources to survive and they don't. He states that the coat is his favorite, meaning he has multiple coats. The difference between him and the struggling children becomes even more apparent when the audience realizes that Michael is rich and that he has probably never suffered like the kids. He then questions himself saying: “who am I, to be blind?” In this case “blind” is used as a metaphor to show how much neglect the kids have been receiving from him as an individual. Although the kids are there struggling, Michael is probably too caught up in his own world to acknowledge their

Throughout “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” William Wordsworth shows his relationship with nature through his choice of diction, fantastic descriptions, and shifting mood of his poem. There are also many words and phrases that Wordsworth included into his poem that shows how he feels about nature. These phrases are well written, extremely descriptive, and show how Wordsworth is influenced by the wild: “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils", “Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay: ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance”, “The waves beside them danced; but they out-did the sparkling waves in glee”, “I gazed—and gazed—but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought”, and “For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye [...] and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.” Another phrase, which indicates that the flowers were so beautiful that no true poet could be sad in their presence, also builds upon Wordsworth’s relationship with nature. These particular lines in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” show how Wordsworth’s mood shifts from somber and lonely to joyous and content. The lines also show how the gorgeousness of nature sticks with

Coleridge sees the effect the writings of the Romantic Era has on those who are not writers which make the assistance of memory and dreams in the writings much more significant. Along with Coleridge’s significance to the Romantic Era, William Wordsworth also contributed to the movement of memory and dreams in the writings of the Romantic Era.

Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads were published in 1789, with no preface as an “advertisement.” Another Lyrical Ballads, this time with two volumes, a preface, and no poetic diction, was published in 1800. In 1802, another Lyrical Ballads was published with two volumes and a preface. Wordsworth’s Elegiac Stanzas are an internalization of epic. Nature, memory and imagination all play a huge role in the poem, as does imagination’s relationship with knowledge. Wordsworth talks about imagination as an absolute ideal, although that is dangerous because it divorces us from the rest of the world.

Wordsworth describes in this poem that even though many years have went by since he has been back to Tintern, nothing has really changed in his eyes. And when they come back to visit it is just the ruins of it, it is still beautiful to him. When he says, “For the future years. And so I dare to hope. Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills; when like a roe” lines 65 to 67, it tells that the changes really do not affect the way he sees the beauty.

Wordsworth uses simple language in complex sentences to show how he is so in awe of nature that he struggles to find the words to justify what he is seeing. This is most true following the sighting of the “huge peak”. The regression in adjectives and shows us how nature has transformed Wordsworth’s language therefore being presented as powerful for doing so. Perhaps, the metaphorical meaning of the poem - that as humans there are forces greater than us that many, in our proud, self-centred state of mind, do not realise - is being revealed to Wordsworth and causing not only a change in language but in his views of life. This powerful meaning most certainly attributes power to nature.

“In Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth fears the loss of his genial spirit and seems to be worried about his poetic ability. Similarly, Coleridge, in Dejection, admits that his poetic originality is at stake” (Magnuson 15). In the forth stanza, Wordsworth writes, “Nor perchance / If I were not thus taught, should I the more / Suffer my genial spirits to decay” (113-115). Likewise, Coleridge, in the third stanza, writes, “My genial spirits fail” (39). Actually, both Coleridge and Wordsworth admit that they have been facing problems with nature. In the beginning of the third stanza, one can feel the sad tone of Wordsworth’s poem. The poet tells us how he lost part of his feelings toward nature. His ideas become “dim” and “faint.” He writes, “And now with gleams of half extinguished thought, / With many recognitions dim and faint, / And somewhat of a sad perplexity” (59-61). He cannot feel nature the same way he used to do as a child. Describing the way he was as a child, the poet says, “I cannot paint / What I was then” (76-77). Similarly, Coleridge asserts that he used to view nature differently as a child. In the beginning of the sixth stanza, he says, “There was a time when, though my path was rough, / This joy within me dallied with distress, / And all misfortunes were but the stuff”

Wordsworth, like many beggars, is found outside of the house of the protagonist, only he comes with a much stranger request. He asks to look at the bees in the grugru trees of the boy’s yard. As odd as it is, B. Wordsworth divulges in the boy that he is “the greatest poet.” He spends the majority of his days admiring with his gaze the wonders of Nature; an assortment of bugs and even morning glories, and cries over them. We learn, from the curiosity of the boy, that the ‘B’ in the poet’s name stands for Black, and that his brother is “White Wordsworth” and they “share on heart.” White Wordsworth is the name given to the famed poet of the Romantic Age, Williams Wordsworth. Seeing that he calls him ‘White’ based on his skin colour, we can carefully deduce that ‘Black’ is not his real name. It is a name taken on by him. In the face of invasion, Black forsakes his Trinidadian identity and embraces a new, more ‘appropriate’ one, based on a traditional English poet. Like his ‘brother,’ we see the strong admiration for Nature in

Both Shelly and Wordsworth believed in nature as an independent living existence. Wordsworth focused on brood over nature, but in passionate and emotional way. He plunges himself into the very existence of nature. Coleridge’s early nature poetry the moralizing and melancholy mood are clearly visible. Wordsworth influence as well as the influence of German Philosophy. In 1795, Coleridge came in contact with Wordsworth whose influence he most readily revived. What Wordsworth taught him was a much strong and confident acceptance of the faith in the joyousness and joy evoking power of