Language As A Powerful Tool

“Island Man” and “Half Caste” are two poems written by John Agard and Grace Nichols. Even though they have different purposes, structure and language, both present the theme of identity. In this essay I am going to be comparing characteristics such as purpose, theme, structure, emotions and poetic techniques in analysing these two texts.

The poem is a reflection on the passing of time and how it changes us. It characterizes autumn as a time of decay and tension and describes some perspectives from the natural world before the onset of winter, including living beings and inanimate objects, to which the poet instills a consciousness. The poet tries to create an atmosphere of monotony and slowness throughout the poem for instance through the assonance of the letter “o”, with words such as ‘moves’, noon’, ‘over’. It is also

Language is an object that is central to human lives as it is perhaps the most significant cultural tool that separates humans from any other species (Evans, 2014). As language is multimodal, it is often described as a combination of words, sounds, gestures and images created by the mind, used in context with the assistance of objects, actions and interactions (Gee & Hayes, p. 7, 2011). The topics discussed in this essay will demonstrate the importance of language as both an object and as a social process, as a teacher’s approach to diversity in the classroom can be either damaging to a student’s educational experience or uplifting and positive.

Throughout history poetry has been written since earlier 2000 B.C. and it was not until the late sixteen centuries, that poetry for Chicanos, (Mexican-American), were getting written. During and after the Mexican-American War of 1848, is when the Mexican-American poetry became popular. However, the real popularity and the creative literature activity among Chicano authors was in the 1960 through the 70’s; l this era being called the Renaissance Era. Chicano's often shape their poetry and solidify their cultural and the struggles of their minority culture. In this paper I am going to compare and contrast two Mexican-American poets. Telling the reader about the different types of poetry each one used, along with ways that they expressed themselves.

Many kids in school are wanting to learn a new language away from their native language but many students are wondering what language is going to help them the most in the future. English is the clear answer for these students that are wondering what new language to learn for a number of reasons. Through different articles through the book “Language: A Reader for Writers” it discusses how language is the most successful and most useful language to speak. College students who want to learn a second language, that have not learned English, should learn English because it is the most widely used language in the world and it is the most useful language to learn.

Personal, historical and cultural context is impossible for poets, like many artist to separate from their work. It in these poems that we the responders learn from their experiences. Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Poems “Son of Mine” and “Then and Now” clearly show personal, historical and cultural context about Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s life. This essay shows how Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poems show her personal, historical and cultural context.

What is the meaning of language? How big the role of language in your life? Have you ever realize the impact of language in your life? In my opinion, language is not as simple as people seen in general. Usually the way people see language just as a tool for communicating with others. For me, behind the general usage of language, it also has a big role in our life because a language has the power to stand and show each person’s identity. Inside the Gloria Anzaldua’s essay “How To Tame A Wild Tongue” and Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” claim that language is an identity. Because they show that language which they commonly use to communicate since the day they were born, showing who are they really are. Language as identity is very arguing phrases, it can be approach from a different perspective. This thing is exactly what are both of these essays are trying to do by approaching differently and using a different tone. Their life and experience give an impact to the way they interpret that language is an identity, and it also seen in each of their essays.

In the essay I am going to compare and contrast the way in which different attitudes to war are presented in the poems ‘Dulce et Decorum est’. And ‘Vitai Lampada’. Both poem are a bout war but they are wrote in completely different ways.

Derek Walcott is a complex individual. Born in Castries, St. Lucia in the eastern Caribbean, he was part of the island’s native bourgeoisie. Due to his training in the English classics, permitted by his respectable class on the island, Walcott developed a deep love for the English canon. At the same time, he affiliated himself ideologically and politically with the Caribbean and its inhabitants. These conflicting attachments manifested themselves in his poetry, in which Walcott writes in both standard English and Creole. In Laurence Breiner’s essay “Creole Language in the Poetry of Derek Walcott,” Breiner argues that Walcott’s blend of Creole and English has one overarching mission: to renegotiate his relationship to his people and their language after abandoning his people for Europe.

​​Audre Lorde is Caribbean-American who lived a rough life. Her poetry explains what she is dealing with, and how she feels with the things she is facing. The two text that will be covered throughout this paper are “Zami: A new spelling of my name” and “Cancer journal.” During the time period of her life she have writing her syntax and structure in her writing, by what was happening in the time era of her life. I will show the time period of her two novels, and her three poems on how Lorde wrote them similar and different from one another. Also will look at, how she changed in her writing. During the close reading of both the text I will bring up the queer theory: gay and lesbian criticism, and a historical survey of literary criticism.

The first poet has a joyful tone when expressing his love of a woman. The poet describes the woman’s teeth as “pearls” symbolizing beauty and purity of the woman. Also, using diction such as “a treasure” the poet is expressing a valuation of the woman’s worth to him. Moreover, the evaluation continues with specific features of her body being compared to rubies for her lips, eyes of “saphyres”, sapphires, and “locks”, hair to gold. Throughout the poem the poet description of his the woman is a bundle of good things. Predominantly

In the short story about the “Country Lovers” and the Poem “What it’s like to be a Black Girl”, the actions of a racial background and ethical dilemmas are both represented and distinguished by the representation of a black female. Which is the main dynamic character seeded in both literary works. Both of these female static characters deal with to some suppressed amount of discrimination from society, because due to their race or as we could say the color of their skin; it is all about the dilemma of being a black female.

Language therefore is connected to a specific space and identity and enlightens the postcolonial situation. The structure of the poem has a free verse, there is no particular rhyme scheme and there is no distinction between stanzas. Additionally, the common themes that are displayed in the poem are typical of the types of themes that can be found in postcolonial texts. These are feelings of cultural and subjective hybridity, not belonging, displacement, unsettledness and alienation. There is also the themes of identity, national racial pride, imperialism, and tradition versus modernity.

Alongside the revolving social orientation of its time, the piece of art which too assumes this very changing element of its time into itself transforms, or metamorphosizes, to reveal its most eternal aspects, and more importantly reveals these aspects to the attentive spectator who is too faced with the revolving social orientation of his time. Practically and in other words, only the poet who is exposed to a large sum of ephemeral art can extract the eternal aspect and can

According to Paul de Man, every text presents a language problem that underlies and determines the interpretation of that text. This is a problem of whether the text should be taken literally or figuratively (rhetority or figurality) and also because all poems/texts have multiplicity of meanings, value and appeal. In order to resolve this language problem, there is the need to create a context which will help in the interpretation of the text. Thus, the linguistic texture of the text involve, all the works of the author or writer in question, the genre of the text as well the biography of the writer can be considered as a means of interpreting the text. In this deconstructive interpretation of D.H. Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers”, a biographical context has been created in an attempt to analyse the text by outlining and matching up incidents and/or events, and characters in the novel which are projections of real life events and people in the life of the author himself. Indeed, there are so many things in “Sons and Lovers” that bear resemblances to