Lynch Mind Reader Poetic Devices

Poetry is known to be a creative thought or impassioned feeling using language and is expressed in many places in the world. A poem can have many different meanings according to how an individual interprets it. Various literary devices are used to bring out that interpretation and the sense of what the person thinks that is going to happen. In the poem “Saturday at the Canal” by Gary Soto and “Nothing Better” by The Postal Service the theme is sometimes in life you may go through tough times but it is up to you whether they will continue. Some literary devices that show the coming up from tough times are figurative language, imagery, and the mood of the poems/songs.

The main ideas that we have read in our readings covered what Women’s Studies is and Dominant Ideas About Women. Three passages that caught my attention out of the 32 passages were “A Work of Artifice” by Marge Piercy, “Gender Inequity in School: Not a Thing of the Past” by Karen Zittleman and David Sadker, and lastly, “Have you Ever Heard of Asian-American Feminists” by Stacey Yap. With these three passages, there was good information for me to interpret and to reflect upon in these readings.

In this poem Execution written by Edward Hirsch tells a philosophical reflection expressed with sadness about a sicken high school football coach who is extremely passionate. The overview of this poem is centered around his favorite word execution. Execution is expressed in multiple ways in this poem. Life was about football for the coach, he would pour in his blood sweat and tears to the game. There was no that he received every inch of effort from his player. Countless hours of preparation, practice, and energy was devoted. You would think working this hard would bring upon serious exhaustion, but the coach was like an energizer bunny, he would keep going. Unfortunately this lifestyle caught up with him, the speaker says he developed cancer. I believe that he spent too much time on the game of football. Ultimately this is what lead to his illness, the neglection of his self for the game that he loved. Details from the poem will be used to argue my claim. These details are relevant to how the coach acted and his philosophies. The significance that we get out of my claim is thought provoking. The type of execution he was preaching to the team went into full effect in the form of cancer towards him.

People use machines to dry the lake, or even flood the valley to their specific needs.

On a ordinary day, and a ordinary date, Zac was dating a girl and they just went out to dinner. He really likes the girl and he didn’t want to get married at the time, but she did. So when she got really personal and asked if he want to get married. Zac just said ‘’No’’ and was saying how he wanted to travel to mexico and go fishing with a pretty girl like her. So they just talked about what they wanted and she realized they both wanted completely different thing. So she just broke up with Zac. He decided to head to mexico that night as soon as possible. He packed up all his things and headed to the coast of mexico. When he got there he went and bought a nice little house just on

As a growing number of teens use technology on a daily basis, teenagers are reading less poetry. Accordingly, they are listening to more and more music. Numerous examples of poetic merit can be found in music at their fingertips. Thus, it is safe to argue that song lyrics are today’s main form of poetry. “Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver and Mike Taylor is an excellent example of this, for it includes figurative language, imagery, and a thematic statement. All of which are elements of poetic merit.

"Grey's Anatomy" is a popular drama doctor show to this day. They had a music event episode where everyone sang and they had two songs that display the symbolic cycle. Both pieces compliment each other because of their similarities in the symbolic cycle, birth and death. The visual display of the songs fit together because of the setting and how the music itself develops throughout each song. These songs were chosen to be in "Grey's Anatomy" because they illustrate real life of losing someone and being blind to someone's pain they try to hide. In "How to Save a Life" and "The Story" the composers develop the theme of life and death.

In order for a photograph to be fully developed and understood by the eye, there must be an element of contrast that can provide the depth and shading necessary for the objects in the photo to seem almost life like. The correct amount of contrast can add dimension, make the photo engaging, and create dramatic effects that reveal the tone of an image. Authors can use a similar technique in their writing to develop a storyline. Using contrast to create a depth of field to the story, adding tones to the characters, and backdrop settings that bring dramatic effect to the point the author wants to bring to focus. Adding contrast to the imagery through the use of wording can reveal a deeper dimension that prevents it from being flat thus keeping

“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.

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In the poem “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps”, Galway Kinnell creates the speaker in a way to really portray what he believes true love to be once “long-married”. The author gives great sensory details, engulfing you into the night that he produced from these fickle meters. The speaker in the poem puts family high on this list of priorities as the author shows a significant amount of importance to them from using a few clever poetic devices. Although Kinnell could have put a little more thought into scansion to create even more of a deeper meaning, this poem is very emotional and touching to the senses as well as giving great morality to what a man

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Jack, a 5th grade boy in room 105, has learned several things about poetry. For example, he has learned about repetition imagery and free verse poems . One thing Jack has learned about poetry is repetition. jack showed an example of repetition with the words “My brain was pop-pop-popping.” Jack is using repetition there with repeating the word pop pop popping on page 35. In addition to repetition, Jack has learned about Imagery on page 26 when he used the words “his long Red tongue big black eyes and his long tail.” he is using the words that help me understand Finally, Jack has learned free verse poems he gave an example of a page 25 for an example the poem You Come Too. In the beginning of Love That Dog Jack didn't know anything about

A dominant characteristic that distinguishes a prose from a lyric are the use of stanzas. Lyrics’ stanzaic quality provides the reader with a visual separation of the poem, yet each stanza is connected and flows into one another. Emily Dickinson’s Because I could not stop for death, demonstrates this concept. In the first stanza the voice introduces the characters “Because I could not stop for Death – He Kindly Stopped for me-”. The second stanza continues to talk about the characters, but introduces their actions and personalities. Furthermore, the third stanza provides the visual description of the setting “We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –We passed the Setting Sun –”. As the reader goes through the poem they can picture a clear sequence of events.

Some of the poems and essays I have read during this class were relatable to me. Being away from college, I have struggled with not being at home. I have become a different person when I am at school, but when I am home, I feel like I am my normal self again. Some of these authors of the poems and essays that I have read throughout this class has struggled with being somewhere where they don’t belong and that they are someone else when they are not home. Unlike the other poems and essays we have read throughout the course. I enjoyed reading the ones about “home” because I actually understood what they are going through and that I can relate. Some of these poems and essays include “Going Home” by Maurice Kenny, Postcard from Kashmir”, by Agha Shahid Ali, “Returning” by Elias Miguel Munoz and “Hometown” by Luis Cabalquinto. All of these poems deal with duality.