Luz Gomez. Ltwr 100. What Work Is By Philip Levine Analysis.

The prospect of labor to earn money is a blessing for many people in the world. In the essay, “Work Is a Blessing” by Russel Honoré, the author makes a point that this prospect is vital for survival. Honoré starts his essay with a story from his past: “We grew cotton, sugar cane, corn, hogs, chickens and had a large garden, but it didn't bring in much cash. So when I was 12, I got a part-time job on a dairy farm down the road, helping to milk cows” (79). Readers can immediately infer that even if Honoré hated the job, it allowed him to help his family.

Construct a close reading of this poem that demonstrates your awareness of the poet’s body of work.

Labor of Love states that a majority of a black woman’s work was molded by her family obligations, yet were vitally diverse from such experienced by white people, regardless of social class and wealth. The updated version reviews such advances and others in the labors and family lives of African American women with a more critical perspective and understanding.

Looking at the insight from historians such as: Roy Rosenzweig, Nick Salvatore, and Lizabeth Cohen, on the history of American labor, we can better understand the issues, challenges, and successes of ordinary Americans during a time when industrial capitalism and corporations took over as the leading principle in American society. The depth of character of immigrants or ordinary Americans to meet the demanding needs of what an industrial society requires is truly amazing. I have reviewed three historical monographs in accordance to their copyright and each describe how persistent ordinary, working class Americans confronted or beat back those demanding needs. The order is as follows: Eight Hours For What We Will by Roy Rosenzweig; Eugene

The poem also uses end rhyme to add a certain rhythm to the poem as a whole. And the scheme he employs: aabbc, aabd, aabbad. End rhyme, in this poem, serves to effectively pull the reader through to the end of the poem. By pairing it with lines restricted to eight syllables. The narrator creates an almost nursery-rhyme like rhythm. In his third stanza however, his last line, cutting short of eight syllables, stands with an emphatic four syllables. Again, in the last stanza, he utilizes the same technique for the last line of the poem. The narrator’s awareness of rhyme and syllable structure provides the perfect bone structure for his poem’s rhythm.

Another example is “Today, the road all runners come” because of road and runner. Rhyme is similarity of sound between words or the endings of words when used at the end of a line of poetry. The rhyme scheme of “To an Athlete Dying Young” is ABAB. This means that the last word of every two lines rhymes. For example, “So set, before its echoes fade,/The fleet foot on the sill of shade,/And hold to the lintel up/The still-defended challenge cup.” This is an excellent demonstration of the ABAB rhyme scheme because “fade” and “shade” rhymes, as does “up” and “cup.”

Why work like a dog so you can pant for a moment or two before you die?” (54). Then when speaking to the runaway slave Thoreau says “But there is slavery in the North, too. Every man shackled to a ten-hour-a-day job is a work-slave. Every man who has to worry about next month’s

With a few exceptions, the poem primarily follows the form of accentual-syllabic verse. The majority of lines are composed of three syllables, most often two unstressed and one stressed. Using a combination of structural technique and descriptive language, Williams emphasizes the action of visual perception.

As the future approaches, automation and technology are quickly evolving and diminishing the amount of jobs available for Americans. American work-life has evolved drastically over the years. Certain jobs are being replaced by drones and robots, leaving many Americans unemployed. It has caused a slight shift in how we work. However, the continuation of work is still alive. In the article “A World Without Work,” (2015) the author Derek Thompson expresses how people are losing their jobs. Nevertheless, they’re using their hobbies and talents to generate money. Someone might sell their poetry and written work when they have lost their job generating income while also fostering creativity. President Nixon’s “Address to The Nation on Labor

She also presents a slight rhythm to the reading that allows for smooth reading. In keeping with her open form, there is no set scheme to the rhyme pattern. However, there is a single ending sound constantly repeated without a set pattern throughout the work. She also connects pairs of lines at random just for the sake of making connections to make that particular stanza flow. At the same time, she chose blatantly not to rhyme in certain parts to catch the reader’s attention.

By reading the poem the readers feel as if they were there, waiting in line, and feeling the rain in their hair. Compared to, “Waiting” by Green Day when they say “Downtown lights will be shining On me like a new diamond” – Green Day. Levine makes the readers realize, that they know what work is, whether they do it or not. Not even realizing it, as the readers keeps on reading Levine makes it so that the audience could have a feeling of what the pain would be if they were the ones waiting by talking about “This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another.” (Levine) as he waits in line. Levine truly makes the reader believe as if they were the ones standing feeling the pain in the lower back, slowly feeling the legs cramp up. In the song “Waiting” the narrator makes the reader picture their ‘glory’ is around the corner by saying “So close enough to taste it Almost...I can embrace this Feeling....on the tip of my tongue” – Green Day. The reader can truly tell from reading the poem and hearing the song that both writers use imagery to make the reader feel how it is to have to wait for something for and at the end you may not really know what the outcome might be. One critic said “the descriptions the poet included which helped set up the depressing, sullen tone and mood, such as ‘feeling the light rain falling like mist into your hair …’” (Seo) Even though the imagery made readers picture something different it draws the reader into

In the poem, “A Step Away from Them” by Frank O’Hara, there are five stanzas of varying length. In each stanza, there is a different amount of indention that occurs, leading up to the fourth stanza, where the indention afterwards stays relatively the same. The poem does not have a very clear rhyme scheme or meter, which showcases the natural flow of the poem, representing its narrative style and its use of stream of consciousness. Going along with the idea of stream of consciousness being present in this poem, the use of transition words also adds to this idea of a narrative style stream of consciousness writing as the transitions help push the reader towards the next line. In this poem, the punctuation and line breaks represent that of a normal conversation that one would have with friends- no real structure or reasoning, for the most part, behind the use of punctuation or line breaks besides to add to the natural flow of the poem itself. In the first stanza, the poem does not contain line breaks or unusual punctuation, but instead is very grammatically correct. However, as the reader gets closer to the fourth stanza, the punctuation and line breaks become more similar to that as a conversation between friends. There are two unusual moments of capitalization in the third and fourth stanzas, “Juliet’s/Corner” (O’Hara 28-29) and “Bullfight” (O’Hara 42), but besides that, capitalization rules are applied throughout the poem.

Examples of this would be at the end of lines 1 and 2 he uses the words “done” and “won”. This is an obvious example of rhyme because the ending sound are the same. Another example would be when he uses the words “still” and “will” at the endings of 17 and 18. This would be a an example of rhyme because the ending sounds are the same. These poetic devices are seen throughout this poem and can also be seen in many other pieces of literature, including The Chambered

He uses a sort of a-b-c-b pattern throughout the poem. For example, in stanza one, line one ends in the word river, line two ends in the word bank, line three ends in the word couldn't, and line four ends in the word sank. Hughes also uses end rhymes to accent a syllable of another word. In line six, his words “cried” accents the word “died” in line eight. These two poetic devices help create imagery to show what Hughes life was like.

In Alan Seeger’s poem, his rhymes always occur at the end of each line in a specific pattern. The rhyme scheme also changes to when they appear, being either