David and Goiath: The Tale of Poetry

So we ask ourselves, how does poetry gain its power? To answer this question, we examine the work of poets Harwood and Plath. ‘The Glass Jar’, composed by Gwen Harwood portrays its message through the emotions of a young child, while the poem ‘Ariel’, written by Sylvia Plath, makes effective use of emotions to convey artistic creativity and inspiration.

From the excerpt, “How David Beats Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell, I found interesting how it says if you can change your tactics opposite to what your greater opponent may be accustomed to, your chance of victory goes up. For example, in the excerpt it states, “What happened, Arreguín-Toft wondered, when the underdogs likewise acknowledged their weakness and chose an unconventional strategy? He went back and re-analyzed his data. In those cases, David’s winning percentage went from 28.5 to 63.6,” (Gladwell, page 3). This drew to the conclusion that when David and the underdogs decided not to play by Goliath’s rule, you can come out victorious against those more powerful against you. This concept is something that can really apply to sports. If you analyze a team and see what tendencies or what makes them victorious and if you then try to disrupt them from their own rules, you can come out winning even if you are the weaker team.

Hockey is one of the hardest sports to play. You can get on a basketball court and know how to run. You can get on a soccer field and know how to kick a ball. You can get on a baseball field and know how to swing a bat towards a ball, but you cannot get on a hockey rink for the first time and not know how to skate. All of these sports are hard, and it takes a while to get good at kicking a soccer ball or swinging a bat. But in hockey, skating is a whole different category that you have to be good in to be good at hockey. What Wayne Gretzky did to the sport of hockey is truly amazing. Wayne Gretzky revolutionized hockey through his amazing skill at the sport, made an impact on the hockey community through his attitude on and off of the rink, and inspired many young players to try be as good as him.

As we examine the heroes of the faith outlined for us in the Old Testament, we would be hard pressed to find a more faithful man that King David. After the death of King Saul, David became the King of the Hebrew people. David, who was meek and pious, steadfastly believed in the true God and tried to do His will. He had endured much persecution from Saul and other enemies but did not become bitter, did not lift his hand against Saul, as he was the Lord’s anointed, but placed all his hope in God, and the Lord delivered him from all his enemies.

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

In both Mesopotamia circa 2100 BCE and Israel circa 367 CE, two very different forms of religion were being practiced. However, key concepts in both religions remain strikingly similar, and in some cases, nearly identical. The relationship between people and their deities is a strong one based entirely on literature, whether that be oral or written. And while this relationship is characterized mainly by love and admiration, fear of and punishment by deities was not an uncommon practice in any religion. The Epic Of Gilgamesh and The David Story both work to prove that the relationship between a people and the divine is characterized by both love for and fear of deities. This relationship based on love and fear directly impacts both the decisions made with the guidance of deities and the punishments inflicted for decisions made without approval of these deities.

When studying any piece of literature there are many different methods and techniques that can be used. The Bible, in specific, is often referred to as a source of moral code, hope, and answers to social, ethical, and political questions. However, this incredibly influential book can also be read as if it were any other novel. The events, settings, and characters can all be evaluated for what they are, forgetting the notion that they are from a religious text. This approach is called narrative criticism. When regarding to the Bible in this way, we do not need to know any historical information or focus on seeking a deeper theological meaning. Instead, the stories are evaluated in terms of how

There are more than 10 million illegal immigrants living in the United Sates, and each day that number is increasing by 1,400 illegal aliens. An illegal immigrant is a foreigner who either illegally crossed an international political border, whether it was by land, sea or air, or whether it be a foreigner who legally entered a country but nevertheless overstayed their visa in order to live and/or work there. The two focal attractions that the illegal immigrants perceive in the U.S are superior job opportunities, and better living for their families. Several businesses in our Nation are eager to hire cheap, submissive manual labor from overseas. Such businesses are hardly ever penalized due to

poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and

As Young argues, the point is not to critique students’ poems for poetic elements of form but to allow students to make a personal connection with the material and to construct meanings in a different way. The benefit of this approach across the curriculum, according to Author, is that students are challenged to think outside the box, which prevents cookie cutter approaches to learning, especially in the sciences where lab reports and essays are written according to a standard formula which over time becomes a mundane and predictable task.

The Simon-Ehrlich wager was all about this idea of Malthusian catastrophe (Regis, 1997). The idea is that because of population growth we are running out of resources and we will eventually exhaust them all and die out. Julian Simon the so call cornucopian doom slayer challenged the Malthusian believer Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Simon told Ehrlich that he could pick any-raw material and and any date in the future. If Simon was correct the eventually price of these resources would decrease or not change more then inflation and if Ehrlich was correct since we are running out of resources the price of these metal would increase. Ehrlich selected five assorted metal which included chromium, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten. In the prices rose Simon

The imagery of “Intellect” is challenging: the poem features a fountain, a wave, the shore, and wings—all in just six lines. This abstract imagery allows us to tap into our own intellect and it leaves room for the reader to interpret its meaning. Let us contemplate the fountain first. A fountain is often used to symbolise the source for something desirable: whether it be a drinking fountain, a fountain of youth, or the fountain of life we come across in Christian doctrine. Often times we crave rules; or we might just crave direction or someone to tell us what to do. Unfortunately, the source of these rules is often society. We choose to listen to the voice of society for direction, instead of turning inward. Perhaps by writing

“The relationship between the energies of the inquiring mind that an intelligent reader brings to the poem and the poem’s refusal to yield a single comprehensive interpretation enacts vividly the everlasting intercourse between the human mind, with its instinct to organise and harmonise, and the baffling powers of the universe about it.”

In the poem “Casey at Bat” and story “David and Goliath,” a comparison of David and Casey shows differences and similarities. The first similarity That David and Casey share is that they are both confident. For example, in ” Casey at the bat” it says “There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped into his place;”. This means that casey was confident that he would get a hit because he step up to the plate simple and calm. However

This essay examines the effects that poetry has on society, both socially and politically. Poetry has been around for centuries, and it is a common misconception that it serves no purpose. One critic in particular, W.H Auden claimed, “poetry makes nothing happen”. However poetry awakens the reader’s eyes and gives an insight to the society in which we live in today, and which has been before us. As evident in Ezra Pound’s work, as he explored the use of imagism to critique modernism and twentieth century, forcing the readers to think more about society as a whole. The purpose of this essay is to show that poetry does make something happen and can have instrumental effects on society, whether it is a poet critiquing society, or simply providing another interpretation. Poetry is a code than needs to be cracked, it is a riddle that makes the reader bring out their true creativity, which is why I disagree with W.H Auden in saying, “poetry makes nothing happen.”