The poem “Silence” by Marianne Moore uses abstract diction to describe the character of superior people. Throughout the poem, a person is recollecting the words once used by their father to describe the character of superior people. Superior people, according to the father, are “Self-reliant like the cat--- / that takes its prey to privacy,” (5-6). They do not parade their business around for all to see. “They sometimes enjoy solitude,” (8), meaning they know the importance of time alone. This verse can also mean that superior people do not feel the need to be surrounded by people at all times, unlike an insecure person who takes pride in the amount of people in their circle. The father’s words then go on to describe superior people as ones
No one can truly understand sympathy until they have suffered. In his The Chosen, a postmodern novel, Chaim Potok surveys the meaning of compassion learned through suffering. Danny Saunders, a brilliant Hasidic Jew, lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn along with his friend, Reuven Malter, in the 1940s. With his photographic memory, Danny aspires to become a psychologist, but he knows that he will have to inherit his father’s position as the rabbi of their community. In addition to this, his father, Reb Saunders, will not speak to him about anything other than the holy book of Talmund. Danny is forced to keep his ideas and experiences to himself, leading to him suffering because of this silence. Chaim Potok’s The Chosen uses Danny’s gradual shift
Shannon L Alder once stated, “Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.” Hazel Johnson-Brown beat the odds that were against her, and became the first African American woman general in 1979. Brown entered the United States Army
how no person is greater than another, like how a King isn’t greater than a subject. However, this quote doesn’t
there are no men but only the great WE, one, indivisible and forever." I think that he disregards this because his motivation is happiness so his life goal is to be happy he is the great one he is not the damned one like they say to him and what they make him
“We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State” (1.16).
Upside-down prestige isn’t calculated by the height of our rung on the social ladder. In God’s inverted kingdom, greatness is signified by our willingness to serve. Service to others becomes the yardstick of stature in the new kingdom” (pg 229).
The speaker glorifies what most take for granted and shows how significant certain objects can be within their own relationship. “ The loud voice is famous to silence,/ which knew it would inherit the earth/ before anybody said so” (2-4). The speaker is able to describe the importance of the inevitability of sound in any silence. To the silence, the sound that is going to be generated within it, both signifies the silences’ end as well as its necessity. For there cannot be a clarity of the sound without first the crushing nothingness of silence. The duality of the two is a perfect example of what the speaker was trying to convey within the opening stanzas of the poem, sound and silence are vague generalities that only matter to each other in their own distinct relationship. Outside of their relationship, sound is not just noise being generated; the message it carries is what is important. However, within the confines of their relationship the fact that the noise is simply sound where there was nothing before is what makes the “loud voice” famous to the
In this novel, Janie do go through “silence” in her marriage with Jody (Major Starks) the man she left when she was married to Logan, he first husband. In the “silence” Janie takes with Jody there were many things that Jody did to Janie. Jody was the boss of Janie and told her what and what not to do. I will give details on how it all started from the beginning of the marriage to the end of it all together.
Susan Cain’s intention in her book Quiet is to convey the struggles of an introvert, to illustrate the importance and impacts of introversion, and to empower the introverts of the world. The author demonstrates this through her anecdotes, opinions, and historical allusions. Susan Cain highlights the importance of introversion in her anecdote about Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks can be assumed to have been an outspoken, brave person because of her courageous refusal to switch bus seats. However, after her death, people who knew her described her as “timid and shy” and having “the courage of a lion” (Cain 2).
The explication of the beginning of the poem is so bizarre. The first verse of the poem talks about the speaker’s loneliness. The speaker woke up from the sleep and he is trying to tell about his dream to his old friend. However, He addressed the darkness as his old friend and started to describe it which he had done before. Also, He is saying that when he was sleeping a vision left its seeds and it was deeply rooted in his brain. In this poem silence is the taboo, what he wants to speak about he cannot. The speaker is mentioning to all enlightened people in this poem. Its theme is man's inability to communicate with man.
Barbara’s immediate response to the news of the apocalypse is silence. She then begins to internalize the reality of the situation by busying herself in gathering supplies. John picks up on her disdain, and understands that, “Her silence is louder than shouted questions. She used to do this when John came home with stitched-up wounds, saying nothing until John feels his skin burn and he has to tell her” (Howley 152).
The novel can be explains as Janie's attempt to find voices, that can speak for her. The conflict of being silenced by another is most illustrated in a relationship between Janie and her husband Jody. Janie leaves Jody because he wont listen to her. As you can see as Jody's power gets bigger and bigger, he forbids her to talk , Janie's silence increases power. This silence function has the process of gaining self awareness for Janie.
In Alice Munro’s “Silence”, Juliet, a single working mother, is abandoned by her daughter Penelope, who left without a warning or a trace to explore her spirituality and start a new life for herself. Juliet is at first baffled and distraught, as she cannot understand why Penelope would leave. She had thought that Penelope had always been very happy at home. Juliet never does hear definitively why Penelope left, but throughout this short story she analyzes why it might be and what it means for her life now. The use of simple and straightforward diction, emotional monologues, and harsh conclusions show a drastic case of how children can grow apart from their parents. These techniques align with Poe’s theory that a story should evoke a unique
In “A Silence that Kills” Lyndon Haviland expresses the idea that the public must confront the social inequities of tobacco use. Haviland believes the communities must communitcate a sence of urgency and engage all Americans in the battle against tobacco use. The author expresses her ideas thoroughly by concentrating on certain fact of tobacco use or second hand smoke affect, the epidemic in out current communities, the silence of the government, and the concern for public health. With the constant repetition of unity and a well-organized, concentrated article, the author easily captures the attention of the reader and the intended American audience. However, the author lacks information on
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ...