Mccaslin Interruptions Poem

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

Conventional wisdom has it that racism is subsiding, but in fact, racism has increased. Danez Smith writes not an elegy for Mike Brown, as a response to the murder of an African American boy, unarmed, shot by a white police officer. The poem compares black life value to white life value. Smith ties racism to militarism by referencing the Trojan War and demands the same consequences brought upon by white death for black death. Desperately and mournfully, Danez Smith exposes the difference in the value humanity places on White lives in comparison to Black lives.

An example of Krakauer’ use of interrupters is, “Here, on a low, sun-scorched rise dotted with collas and indigobushes and twelve-foot ocotillo stems, McCandless slept on the sand under a tarp hung from a creosote branch” (Krakauer,

Memorable ideas are evident in Harwood’s poetry. In her poem, “At Mornington”, she considers the philosophical idea that the passing of time leads to gaining of wisdom. Harwood shows that growth and development are a critical part of defining our individuality. She has effectively used poetic techniques such as construction; vivid imagery and the context of her own life to explore this idea and contributed to the textual integrity of the piece. External contextual readings and values of the poem have illuminated the significance of the piece in asserting the value of friendship and relationships, and presented various ideas such as the inevitability of death, the significance that past events and memories play in shaping present perception as well as the defining of individuality through growth and development. Together, this contributes to the memorability of the poem.

It’s hard to find the space to think in a world increasingly dominated by digital media. With “The Thinking Life,” Forni provides a remedy to this ‘age of distraction’ and looks to rediscover the art of serious thinking. The wisdom of classical philosophers like Socrates and Plato is channeled by Forni, as well as everyday situations, in order to explain how we can successfully think our way through an increasingly complex world and live a better

Challenges facing the American people during the late 20th and early 21st centuries are diversity of races and nationalities racism and animosity is still a dominate thing in America today. Not just with the blacks but with the priests, whites, Germans the Muslims the gays the Jews and the French. So many that their starting to go disregarded which is explicated in the poem Blanco wrote “one today” (Paragraph six) Hear: squeaky playground swings, trains whistling,

The complexity of Theodore’s poem and its profound sound makes most readers straggle distinguishing between the opposite interpretations of the poem. The reader’s personal experience has a great impact on interpreting the

n the introduction of the poem the writer mentions that the poem is meant to relate to the speakers experience with encountering nature. With much thought into this idea, could you not say that you could relate this poem to the experience of the way society is changing today. In our lives we get use to certain people that we could never "unnoticed" them, but there are a couple of others that we may not even bother with or notice they are there. In the first stanza they question the appearance of the fellow and in reality that may be them questioning the appearance of some people in their lives.

In Margaret Morse’s essay “An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television,” she investigates the similarities between the freeway, mall, and television in regards to communication within and between surroundings. Although different in the visual aspect, they serve analogously to create a “nonspace,” a disconnected realm of time and space wherein distraction occurs due to the appearance of an “elsewhere” (Morse 193-194). A sense of “derealization” comes with the constant warping of space, and people end up living with the continual communication of ideas. The mobility of communication then inhabits the nonspace, integrating a constant connection with an elsewhere.

“In truth, I’ve found that any day’s routine interruptions and distractions don't much hurt a work in progress and may actually help in some ways. It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into and oyster’s shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. And the larger the work looms in my day—is that I hafta instead of just an I wanna—the more problematic it can become. One serious problem with writers’ workshops is that I hafta becomes the rule. You didn’t come, after all, to wander lonely as a cloud, experiencing the beauty of the woods or the grandeur of the mountains. You’re supposed to be writing, dammit, of only so that your colleagues will have something to critique as they toast their goddam marshmallows there in the main lodge. When, on the other hand, making sure the kid gets to his basketball camp on time is every bit as important as your work in progress, there’s a lot less pressure to produce. (232)

In Matthew Olson's Contradictions in the Design he articulates discrepancies, uniquities, and hardships that arise in everyday life through poetry. The poems follow all different formats and have distinct narrative qualities however, they all provide commentary on life in some way. “Prayer for an unremarkable day” is right in line with many of the poems from this selection of works thematically, however the literary elements employed by Olsen set this work apart from many of its counterparts. Few poems in Contradictions in the Design are as full of images and are as descriptive as “Prayer for an Unremarkable Day”. By using concrete imagery the intent of the work is greatly amplified by contrasting commonplace images with those of destruction and disaster.

peyton has this girl that he loves but not only is it a girl she has a penis witch makes it even better her names is bella machalk she has the biggest penis out of any of his friends, not only is her penis the size of chris she has a vagina that holds more meat then every single fuckin arbys in america. so one day peyton decided to go over to her house becuase he got the booty call as he told his groos faggot of a friend chris, peyton knew that right when he got that call he was gonna get some good dick in his nice tight sexy lubed ass hole. he got to her house and right when he walked into the house he knew that he was gonna get some hardcore fuck. he walked in on her and she was already naked but the best part was that both of her parents where in the room too, he didnt even get into the bed and get him own penis out to jizz, he jizzed right in his pants but thats no worry becuase he loved the feeling of jizzing and cumming on himself as he did it

The tone is of this poem is sentimental and reflective in the sense that the author is looking back at this memory. At the end of the poem the he switches to a more guilty tone as he questions how he treated his father who made so many sacrifices for him. In the beginning of the first stanza, the author combines visual and tactile imagery when he uses “blueback cold” to describe how the sky looks as well as how he feels. The auditory imagery is the statement “the cold splintering, breaking” that the boy hears when he awakes. This noise is the result of the houses heating system. It starts when the boy’s father puts coal in the furnace and as it burns, the heat goes through the pipes to the radiators in order to warm the house. The splintering

The short stanzas containing powerful imagery overwhelm the readers forcing them to imagine the oppression that the speaker went through in

The two disciplines of mechanics and music are often viewed as contradictory as the freely flowing and emotional music contrasts with the predictable and emotionally frigid movement of machines. In the poem “Machines” by Michael Donaghy, he tries to show that there are more similarities than differences between the two and that they are both a parts of life. He relates this to the human experience and crafts the theme that to find balance in life, a person must keep moving forward.