Lazy Town Poem Analysis

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

The speaker then moves to a restaurant where he picks up a chicken noodle soup and gets his want across to the staff by simply pointing at it. The stanza ends with the line “I am adjusting well to the new way”(10), showing that according to the speaker the new law is working fine for him and he is able to live a normal life. However, with the entrance into the third stanza we begin to question whether the speaker naturally only acted this way towards the phone call and the staff in the restaurant, without using any words or he was actually saving them for his lover. The second reason is more likely to be true, due to his statement in the next verse “I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-nine today. I saved the rest for you”(11/13). Here, the second character is introduced in the poem – the long distance lover. It becomes obvious that the speaker, who is most probably a man, is in a long distance relationship with a woman and the way communicate is via phone call. The speaker tells his lover proudly he has only used fifty-nine words today and has saved the rest for her. This shows the speaker’s devotion towards his lover because he has chosen to use most of his words on her.

This first stanza from the poem, explains the journey of a man driving through a sawmill town and his observations. Murray describes his journey through a small sawmill town in New South Wales whilst using strong, vivid imagery and emotive language.

The use of line breaks and symbolism in the two poems “The History Teacher” by Billy Collins and “Outdistanced” by Larry Rubin punctuate the shared theme that a willful lack of self-awareness can quickly lead to a greater societal ignorance of what should shape humanity.

Youre a wonderful cook, it's true, but if you're good in all this chaos- pure chaos-why, think how fine you’d be, once things were put where you could lay hands on them.” (Bradbury 228)

Wyandotte county is not the ideal place of living. It does not hold value in the sense of luxury, modern buildings, nor economic prosperity at the moment. Do not get me wrong it is not a terrible place either, Wyandotte county is the upcoming metamorphosis. I am honored to say that I group I here, there are so many people that have vision with a desirable amount of talent. I know I am around of the people of tomorrow, the people that have the power to make a change in society and peel the labels and stereotypes of this diversified culture, that is the true value. People come in all shapes in sizes, along with that they all have different interests. I see future athletes playing a couple games of street basketball ball around the corner imitating the greats shouting “Kobe”, while aiming for a three pointer, and the soccer players kicking balls everywhere, on the roofs, under cars, and over fences.

He not only went to the dance with her, but he brought her flowers the next week.

“Something More” by Tracey Moffatt is a formal and stylistic experimentation photography and her work draws on her own childhood memories, popular culture, as well as the history seen in still cinema, art and photography. Apparent in her works are themes such as childhood cruelties in suburban life, the mutiny of stereotypes and relations between white and black Australians. In her works, referencing to the artist’s own life and experiences, Tracey Moffatt draws on her Aboriginal background as a foster child growing up in Brisbane in a foster family in the sixties, avidly consuming images from magazines, films and television.

Poetry is a way of writing that can be easy to very complicated to comprehend. Things that can affect the portrayal of a story through a poem can be determined by the rhythm and meter in how the readers read it, how the poem is structured, and also the use of syntaxes within its lines. All of these elements of poetry could aide in how us as readers portray the theme. In “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt” by David Bottoms there are several differences that reside between the two. The differences between these two poems regarding these elements of poetry are that they are structured completely different, display totally opposite rhythm and meter and the syntaxes they contain are reflected in each poem differently.

In 1913, the Johnsons abandoned the farm and moved to nearby Johnson City. The family house, while comfortable by the standards of the rural South at the time, had neither electricity nor indoor plumbing. Lyndon, like his father, wanted more for his future. In fact, when he was twelve, he told classmates, "You know, someday I'm going to be president of the United States." Later in life, Johnson would remember: "When I was fourteen years old I decided I was not going to be the victim of a system which would allow the price of a commodity like cotton to drop from forty cents to six cents and destroy the homes of people like my own family." The climb out of the Texas Hill Country, however, would be a steep one. School, at first, was a one-room,

Poetry can be divided up into different forms, more easily expressing an author’s emotions and intent with their poetry. For analyzing purposes I chose the poems Self-Help by Michael Ryan, Ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali, Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown, and Emergency by Michael Dylan Welch.

When two people appreciate different values, it will eventually lead to conflicts. If they cannot get to a compromise, as a consequence, their relationship will collapse. The family bond between the father and the brother in “Simple Recipes” is destroyed because of their conflict about values. In the story, the competing values in shown when the two characters unable to identify themselves, in terms of cultural identification. The father, representing the family’s cultural roots, is trying to preserve the Malaysian heritage and culture in his immigrated family, in the image of his anger towards his son forgetting the native language, while his son does not identify himself with the Malaysian roots at all, with his rejection of eating the fish (501). These competing values, consequently, incites conflicts between

In the poem, "Being Connected," the grandpa and the grandson Jordan has a different opinion about telephones than the grandpa does. One of the characters ( which is grandpa) thinks that the telephone should only be used to make appointments and share big news or relay emergencies. The other character ( which is the grandson) thinks the new cellphones are not for just numbers but for games, cameras, and the internet. One day me and my grandson were sitting on the porch after I got off the phone he got the important news when one of his rich friends Ty called to let me know that a newer touchscreen edition of a phone was coming out in one week. "

matter how good the chef (writer) is, without the seasoning (chorus), he is unable to provide that special flavor, that

Oliver Goldsmith uses his poem, "The Deserted Village," to critique capitalist ventures in the midst of English modernization. In his social commentary poem, "The Deserted Village," Goldsmith laments the once-thriving village of Auburn to reflect the newly-adopted business ethos that espouses avarice in English society as it enters the industrial era. Goldsmith criticizes greed because industrial tyrants are quickly ravaging England’s land and displacing citizens into America. The work implies that the short-term consequences of this avarice, extreme poverty and physical decay, and long-term consequences, abandoning rural virtues and pursuing wealth, are two halves of the English industrial problem.