The relationship between authority, power and the individual is one of the most important subjects when living in society. Martin Espada wrote two poems exploring the relationship between these different components in society: “Why I went to College” and “The Community College Revises its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics”. In terms of form, one poem is an epigram, while the other is free verse. The speaker in one poem is a person speaking about his or her relationship with his or her father, while the other poem presents an objective, dry school curriculum. However, both poems address the subject of aggression and abuse of power. Through different forms and speakers, Espada’s “Why I went to College” and “The Community College Revises its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics” present how people that have power sometimes abuse it to squash other people’s desires. …show more content…
The first poem “Why I went to College” is about an epigram, that is, a short poetic composition that indicates a single thought coming from the ingenuity of a person with great precision. In the poem, the second-to-last and last verses rhyme: “straw”-“jaw”. However, in the second poem “The Community College Revises its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics”, one can see find a poetry of free verse, that is, an open form of poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm. Grammatically, the first poem is expressed in the first person, while the second is in third person. The first is more subjective and the second poem on the other hand is more objective. In terms of form, one can see there is a difference between one poem that is an epigram, has a rhyme and is more subjective, and another poem that is in free verse, does not rhyme and is very dry and
Andrew Simmons published his article for The Atlantic, “The Danger of Telling Poor Kids that College is the Key to Social Mobility” on January 16, 2014, which raises his concerns that higher education is only being promoted as an opportunity to increase their economic status, when it should be an opportunity to experience an education (Simmons). Through the use of students such as Isabella, Simmons disagrees with the way students now look at higher education and blames the educators through the students’ lives for this view. Instead, Simmons views education as an intellectual opportunity rather than a way to elevate ones economic class which is all people see when they see “higher education.” He believes that education, ambition and work ethic is how you have a satisfying life, not with how much you make. He makes the point that when economics becomes the main goal of education it’s all children begin to think about and they might not pursue something that they are truly passionate about or what they want to learn about, which then does not create an intellectually awakening experience (Simmons).
Today’s society sees college as a very fundamental step to obtaining success. Carmen Lugo-Lugo argues that instead of being focused on education, college is beginning to convert into a marketplace and a business. She states that colleges are now more interested in making a profit from their students than the actual education they are there for. Due to this mindset, the flow of the classroom environment and how students treat professors is affected. She also makes it known how prevalent systematic racism and racial profiling exist and tells the readers by her first hand accounts. In her essay “A Prostitute, A Servant, And A Customer-Service Representative: A Latina in Academia”, Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, Carmen Lugo-Lugo uses emotion and language to communicate her claim. Throughout her writing she demonstrates strong emotion-evoking words, and hyperboles.
In his work entitled “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts”, journalist and author Alfred Lubrano poses the question of how receiving education can lead to a harsh reality. Lubrano explains that as a child works toward a higher education, there are certain aspects of life they are forced to leave behind as they enter into a new existence. According to Lubrano’s statement, “At night, at home, the differences in the Columbia experiences my father and I were having was becoming more evident” (532). Additionally, Lubrano states, “We talked about general stuff, and I learned to self-censor. I’d seen how ideas could be upsetting, especially when wielded by a smarmy freshman who barely knew what he was talking about” (533). In answering this question, Lubrano must explore the types of conversations that occurred with other family members, the disconnection from his peers, and how segregating himself from his family
A study conducted in 2003 by Ofsted that involved England, Denmark and Finland, showed England’s national curriculum compared to the other two countries was:
America’s education system has been in a state of distress for the past decade, but garnished headlines recently as the student loan debt crisis reached over a trillion dollars. In conjunction with that, tuition is no longer the only obstacle a student faces when considering their future. As generations come and go, universities have slowly, but surely, been angling their education in a way to favor profit over knowledge. Because of the new direction higher education models are taking, Magdalena Kay questions her readers, “is there a problem with students, with teachers, with administrators, or maybe
“What Is College For” by Andrew Delbanco, shows the need for both a universal college system; one which caters for all of society, and one which provides a liberal education. Delbanco gives many reasoned thoughts on how, and why the college system has become restricted, to purely those of a higher socio-economic background, rather than being exclusive to people of all backgrounds. The idea of college being a platform for people to learn, advance their skills, and become whatever they want to be has seemingly diminished over time. The ideas in favor of such an educational system are put forward, but they are foreshadowed in my opinion, by the notion that people should have the same educational opportunities in life; regardless of their economic or social background. A universal education system is needed for our society to prosper, especially if it provides a liberal education; this is not just for the individuals that make up a community, but for the community, as a whole.
There are lots of things in the poems that are similar and different both of the writers are different and similar in many ways .In the poem’s “When You Are Old” By W.B Yeats, and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” By Dylan Thomas.They have a bunch of similarities and differences.For example in each of the poems the theme of the poems are death and the narrator’s message in the rhyming pattern poems are both similar in the poems ,and the writing style of the poems are rhyme schemes and therefore they use different rhyme scheme in each of the poems.
In the article, “College is a Waste of Time and Money”, Caroline Bird explains why higher education is not always the right choice for students after high school. The author believes that students do not come to the decision to attend college on their own but they are expected to and pressured by parents, advisors, and society. In the beginning of the article the author argues that colleges use techniques to sell themselves just like any
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by
I am going to be comparing two poems in this essay the first poem is
He suggests in order to reverse these trends of colleges, and help restore the freedom in society, the audience should actively come together and require that Congress outlaw discrimination based on college degrees. College cannot truly make all people equal as many people face barriers of achieving a higher education, which then creates a division of class due to a lack of opportunity. Banning the use of degrees to evaluate skill and talent will go a long way toward opening up more genuinely equal opportunities. This amendment would help create more fair opportunities to those who don’t have a degree but do have certain skills. As Blank states “there are far more too many people who “take” French than who “talk” French. There are far too many people who “pass” history than understand it” (Blank 265). This suggests that most college courses don’t really help students actually learn and retain the skills they “master” because students mainly worry about actually “passing” rather than “learning”. Blank argues that this issue is becoming more and more of a problem as it is “converting the educational system into a training facility” (265). In trying to become multi-purpose, dispersed, and culturally aware, colleges are becoming the opposite as they lose the essence of compulsory schooling and become more curriculum based
While for-profit institutions of “higher education” continue to close due to falling profits, pressure from accreditors and federal regulators, and the loss of income through federal student financial aid limitations, many observers and commentators are attentive to the consequences for those students that fall prey to these schools. Few investigate or understand those that are or were employed at such institutions. Just as the students of these institutions were deceived, as an employee of a for-profit school, I was also led astray by such machinations. This is not to say that all for-profit institutions are inherently evil, though many would not exist without preying upon student populations of undereducated adult learners of color from a low socioeconomic background. Although I am not proud of my experience of working for such a school, the experience greatly contributed towards transforming my philosophy on power, race, and class in education.
They will serve as a talisman to protect us from being seduced once again by the rude passions of the masses. In any case, we have learned that this kind of poetry does not deserve to be taken seriously in any meaningful effort to seek truth. On the contrary, one who listens to it must fear for the governance of his soul and must hold to all we have said about poetry. (Plato 89) 4. What is the difference between a..
Now let’s get to the poem structure. This poem has 8 stanzas. This poem doesn’t have a set pattern. This poem has a rhyme scheme in some of the stanza. For example, in stanza 1 it have 10 line.
Not only do these poems share differences through the speakers childhood, but also through the tones of the works.