Class name: English 100 Assignment 1
Professor: Dr. C Riegel
Student Name: Nduka Eluemelem
ID: 200359936
Semester: Fall 2017 October 17, 2017.
Frost At Midnight
In this poem “Frost at Midnight”, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the speaker is in a lonely place around his home at midnight contemplating on his experiences back at school in London. This just portrayed the message of the early romanticism. The objects around him used metaphor for the work of the mind. The picture of fire pushed him into the impression of his childhood, this expression of feeling confined him into his present environment with a flow of love and pity for his baby. He imagined how his child will grow,
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Samuel Coleridge, 1798) (Paragraph 4. Samuel Coleridge, 1798), the appearance of the “stranger” on the grate indicates the coming of someone. Viewing it takes the speaker back to the memory of his childhood when he sat at school monitoring the stranger hovering on the grate and feeling that someone might show up. As this happens, his mind goes back to the place where he comes from, and the old church tower with bell whose sound is the only poor man’s music that rang from morning to evening, all the fair-day. The speaker feels the positive changes that might happen in the future when he hears the sound. He looks out a window, unhappy in the room where he sits trying to read his book but just busy visualizing the nature “muck study on my swimming book” (line 38) when the stern preceptor approaches however, he notices his feeling already gone the half open door and takes a quick look. He notices this stranger desirable “more beloved “than Townsman, or aunt, or sister to him (line 42). This spirit is truly his “play -mate” when they are “clothed alike” both outside loving the prevalent existence of nature. (Nicole Smith, 2011), the speaker reflects on his sleeping lovely child about his childhood concerning his lacks of access to nature, because as he stated, “For I was reared/ In the great city pent’ mid
is saying, and Frosts personal pain that he is suffering from that he ingrains into this poem. The
In the memoir Night by Elie Weisel you get brought into what it was like to be a Jew in the time of the Holocaust and what they had to go through. In the book even though you can see a lot about what was going on during and in the camps of the Holocaust you see that everyone is shocked mainly in the beginning that no one said anything and that no one was saying anything and that they were letting these women,men, girls, boys, babies even just die without a thought from their killer. Hitler and the Nazi they didn't care, they didn't like the Jews and they didn't want anymore of them around, sadly they got close to what they wanted by killing 6 million Jews in the course of just two years. With all the Jews coming in Elie was surprised that no
The tragedy of the Holocaust is the murder of the six million Jews and five million Gentiles. The Holocaust traumatized and changed many people. Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, is one of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust. Elie’s relationship with both God and his father alters tremendously throughout the course of the Holocaust and the memoir, Night.
Certain circumstances can change people physically and even mentally. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the speaker goes through many physical and mental changes in his time in the concentration camps. as Eliezer and his father make their way through the camps his faith starts to leave his mind and he blames God for what is happening to him. Much of his anger throughout the book is directed at God.
When a reader initially reads Donald Justice’s “The Poet at Seven,” he or she might take the easy route and conclude it for what it says, only. If this method were taken, the poem’s presumed plot would have been taken quite literally: the poet is reminiscing about his childhood memories; the poem is sweet, simple, and nostalgic. However, poems are not that simple. They are complex riddles, full of hidden meaning. To truly shed light on Justice’s purpose of the poem, it is necessary to look at the “what-if’s” through its intricate designs of language. The poem’s form is an important start when close reading. Also, to discern the hidden meaning, it is important to consider the specific word choice and how it paints a picture inside the reader’s mind. As a result, the reader will grasp the poem’s true intention. By doing this, the reader will sincerely have an understanding of “The Poet at Seven,” the way Justice probably would have wanted.
I feel like the book Night lets off a very sad a depressing mood. The setting of this book is a various amount of concentration camps that Elie and his dad go to. The main central idea of Night is to explain the experiences in the Holocaust. I personally think that this book is a good book for young adults and not kids because it uses some language and it’s very descriptive.
As stated by ushmm.org, up to 6 million Jews were killed while the Holocaust occurred. 1.8 million of the people who died during the holocaust were Non-Jewish. Elie Wiesel writes about his experience in Auschwitz during the holocaust in the book Night. Throughout the book, Elie and his father’s relationship grew stronger and it became more intact. Elie’s mother and sisters were taken away into the crematorium and it was believed they died in the gas chamber. It was only his father and him. They only had each other which grew them closer together.
“A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load - little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it with my own eyes… those children in the flames.” (Elie Wiesel, 24) This memoir, told by Elie Wiesel in his book “Night” and published in 1956, describes his experiences surviving the Holocaust. He and his father are forced to endure extremely traumatic experiences. Throughout “Night”, there are moments that are incredibly powerful. These moments are powerful because it really shows how horrible the Holocaust was, and the terrors not only Elie went through, but that almost all Jewish people experienced.
Last year in English class we were required to read the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel. I have read many Holocaust journals and memoirs in the past, but none of them had quite the same impact as Night. The book opened my eyes to the freedom and the comfortable lifestyle that I take advantage of everyday. It was hard for me to fathom the pain that he and the other prisoners suffered, and the possibility of my entire world changing overnight the way Elie’s did.
Referring to the quote, “never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes,” (Wiesel 34) it is relevant to the struggles faced by the Jewish people during their imprisonment in a holocaust camp, particularly Eliezer’s struggles. When he and his father arrived at their first camp they were greeted by an immense crematorium, with black smoke rising from its chimney. Jews stood in the freezing cold with only the miniscule amount of clothes on them, waiting to be told to go somewhere. Eliezer watched as many small children, as well as women, were herded into the crematorium, and turned into nothing but smoke. He came to realize that this could have easily been his fate, had he not lied about his age. Seeing innocent people turned into nothing but ashes and smoke made him question life itself. He had the belief
Would you be able to forget about people hurting you? I know i would not be able to. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, there are things I will always remember about what happened. In the book the Night, like how Elie watched people he cared about die, how they treated people poorly, and how the Nazis do not treat people that are in need of doctors.
History helps us better understand change and why things are the way they are. We study history because the past has a direct link to our present and ultimately our future.Through the study of history, we hope to learn from our past, and not make the same mistakes again. The holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of others leading up to it, during world war II.The killings took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945, they were organized by the German Nazi party which was lead by Adolf Hitler.The largest group of victims were Jewish people,Nearly seven out of every ten Jew living in Europe were killed.Most of the victims were killed because they belonged to certain racial or religious groups which the Nazis wanted to wipe
Throughout World War II, people endured tremendous loss, leaving behind their belongings and identity in their hometowns in which they were taken from. Jews were forced out of their homes and taken to ghettos and concentration camps throughout Europe. In America, many people along the west coast of Japanese descent were sent to labor camps due to prejudice after the Pearl Harbor attack. All minorities suffered through immeasurable pain, coping through the loss of family members, friends, and their homes. Elie Wiesel tells his story of suffering during the Holocaust in his biography, Night.
The novel Night written by Elie Wiesel portrays a real life experience of the author during World War II. In the book, he demonstrates how his experiences in the concentration camp affected him both mentally and physically. By seeing all the cruelties in the concentration camp, Elie eventually loses his faith towards the God. Elie Wiesel describes what he had seen by “Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever”(Wiesel, 34). Later in the story, Elie Wiesel understood the smoke rising the crematorium comes from innocent people, for the first time he began to question God. He was puzzled by the world and how human beings can be so cruel to each other, and the God he believed in did not do anything to stop it.
In a conversation poem titled “Frost at Midnight,” romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge creates a persona of himself who spends the duration of the poem having a one-sided conversation with his newly born baby. The narrator laments his own childhood, but finds solace in knowing that his baby has potential for a better life than he, since the baby will have a nature-centered upbringing. The narrator contrasts constricted and expansive imagery, enumerated and enjambed sentences, and alienated and familiar diction to underline the differences between his own childhood education, which was spent studying books, and the childhood education he hopes his baby will have. The narrator suggests that nature will offer his baby a childhood education superior to his own because nature will teach the baby to be one with the world, allowing him to feel peace and serenity no matter the circumstances.