Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep By Mary Elizabeth Frye

What does the word home mean? In the essay “On Going Home” by Didion she recreates her feelings and thoughts about her meaning of home. Family is a big part of one’s life and important one at that and Didion uses it as the center of her work. The work itself is about re- defining what home truly is.

In the book, Mama Might Be Better off Dead, there were two main characters that were crucial to the plot of the story, Jackie Banes and Mrs. Jackson. Throughout the book, I found Mrs. Jackson to have the best connection with public health. Mrs. Jackson was an elderly and disabled women with a variety of health care odds stacked against her. She had numerous health concerns; such as, diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, and an amputated limb (Abraham, 1993). Mrs. Jackson suffered these health issues because she was a poverty stricken women and experienced economically depressed living conditions. Due to her low socio-economic status, Mrs. Jackson did not qualify for full coverage Medicaid because she was not considered in a low enough income bracket unless she put more than half of her monthly social security towards health benefits (Abraham, 1993). As a woman with limited resources, Mrs. Jackson was unable to afford the cost of benefits much less her own survival expenses. The duration that Mrs. Jackson experienced insufficient resources led her to all of her unfortunate outcomes regarding her health. One of the reasons Mrs. Jackson needed an amputation on her leg was due to an untreated wound that resulted from her diabetes. Her diabetes had also gone untreated because she was unable to afford treatment and transportation costs to help her infection heal (Abraham, 1993). In the book, no one cared about Mrs. Jackson and it was because she was a poor

The poem “Mothers and Daughters” is written by Pat Mora. Pat Mora is a contemporary award winning writer, who writes for children, youngsters and adults. She was born in El Paso, TX in the year 1942. She attains a title of a Hispanic writer; however, the most of her poems are in English. In her literary work, one can observe the different aspects of the immigrants’ lives such as language issues, family relationships, immigrants’ experiences and cultural differences (1187).

Through this examination of the differences between past and present, wrong and right, and North and South, by Ray West Jr., the different viewpoints and conflicts that appear throughout “A Rose for Emily” are deeply analyzed. West’s critical assessment divides the characters based on who represents the old ways and who represents the changing times. However, the story shows the South’s fervent desire to keep their lifestyle the same. Emily attempted to hold her love for Homer like the South attempted to hold its love for gentile days before the Civil War. West’s asserts that Emily’s fall from grace symbolizes the South’s fall. The deterioration of Emily and the South during reconstruction parallels the slow deterioration of Emily’s house.

In the essay, “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, she explains that she has six brothers and she is the only daughter. This relates to me because I am also in a Mexican family, however, I am not the only daughter. Cisneros argues that her father wanted her to get married because that is what daughters were meant to do; that although he agreed on her going to college, it was because he was sure she was going to find a husband. Many Mexican fathers today have this mentality that because they were not able to study, their children are not going to be able to study either and they are going to have to work. However, there are other fathers that because of the fact that they did not obtain the education they desired, the only hope they have is in their children; for the children to be better than them, succeed and become a professional in any area they choose. Cisneros spends a lot of time alone and writes her experience as an only daughter in a family full of sons, which is difficult because her father constantly degrades her and doesn’t value her as a writer. Support and encouragement from a parent is very important because that can help shape a child’s life from a very young age.

The need to create distinct human beings affected by culture and society is one of Paule Marshall’s concentrated thrust and perhaps this interest into the interrelationship between character and culture parts from her own background. In this book Paule Marshall focuses on a woman who shares similar aspects of her life, both born in New York, having its roots in the Caribbean and both bringing back to the African past. One as well as the other has struggled as a black woman living in a white society that had weakened her sense of self. The book explores the individual search for identity and also the need for integration within a community.

In modern day society, people fill up their busy lives, trying to balance work, family, and social life, trying to achieve their idea of a “perfect life”. However, some cannot manage to do everything and focus all of their life under one aspect leaving their lives seemingly empty and unaccomplished when they die. Ellen Goodman writes a eulogy to a man, Phil, to satirize the “workaholic” lifestyle. Goodman employees rhetorical strategies to convey her attitude towards Phil, that such a workaholic archetypes have unfulfilled lives, defined by their work.

There are several ways to look at the poem, Lady Lazarus and one of those ways is that it could be looked at suicide and also about someone who is obviously emotionally troubled with this self-fulfilling satisfaction in killing herself. It’s like a prophecy that needs to be fulfilled and she does so every so often; at least every decade. Also, the poem could be said to be about someone with a severe mental disorder which explains the radical behavior of the suicidal attempts every now and then and she takes pleasure in doing so.

On Monday, it was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This day is to reflect on the past, see all the good that has been accomplished, and the work that still needs to be done for minorities. This holiday is very different for white suburban children who simply think it’s a blessing that there is no school, who are completely oblivious to the oppression that African Americans faced and continue to face today. White suburban children have probably never heard of the Little Rock Nine. If they have, it 's because they had to learn about it or take an F. White suburban kids will never face the hatred and discrimination that Melba or the rest of the Little Rock Nine encountered. In the book Warriors Don’t Cry Melba and the rest of the Little Rock Nine had to overcome extraordinary obstacles that white suburban children will never have to face. Nine school children were trying to get an education and were treated inhumanely. The strength that Melba endured is inspiring.

This explains that men are not more that women, and both should have equal opportunities and mutual respect for each other. However, in today’s society women are been oppressed by sexism and racism ideologies, not only based on gender differences, but in skin color, body shape, and culture as well. Furthermore, the short story “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros can be effectively analyse through the feminist lens in the belief of oppression, constructions of patriarchy, and multiple traditions ; to illustrate women struggle in the limitations and restrictions in the search for social acceptance and to bring consciousness that gender inequality is a crucial issue that must be resolved.

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye is written to connect to the readers heart and sense of loss. This poem uses four sound devices, onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme and meter, and repetition. Each device increases the power of each sentence and its meaning to the reader. First, the last syllable of every line rhyme with the next syllable of the next line.

Parent’s Expectation for their Children Parents in the world are all different; they have different personalities, faces, and characteristics. Every humankinds are all unique, but there is one fact that society is in common, people do not want to fail, they want to succeed and that is why that they wish that their children to accomplish something, again that is the reason that all parents tell their kids to study and try to educate them properly. The short story Dear Brother reflects to this, the author Bernice Friesen describes the conflicts between kids and their parents very well like in modern days. The awkward truth is students have to study and work hard to become “successful person” and most students do not like studying in fact some

I chose the poem “There Is No Word For Good” By Mary Tall Mountain. I chose this poem because of how comforting and well written it is, and what a beautiful and meaningful message are behind these such simple words. The author uses many forms of figurative language in her poem such as Repetition, Imagery and Personifications to get her point across.

Have you ever heard about poetry? Poetry is when you express your feelings and ideas by using a distinctive style and rhythm in a story. In my class we do poetry. Sometimes it can be difficult to understand. We also have to know how to read a poem because it is not like a story. What poems do you like? The poems I read were Winter by Nikki Giovanni, The Rider by Naomi Shihab Nye, and The Courage That My Mother Had by Edna St. Vincent Millary. These works are all very different from each other.

If one is aiming to write a poem it is useful to know by detail the basic elements of poetry to understand and control better what and how to say things, they are: voice, stanza, sound patterns, figures of speech and the poetic forms.