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“Sonrisas” is a poem written by Pat Mora, a poem which uses comparisons between different societies using various types of figurative language. This poem can be interpreted to be a comparison between the two worlds that the author seems stuck between. This poem uses various forms of figurative language in order to compare two aspects of the author's life.

In "Sonnet 73", the speaker uses a series of metaphors to characterize what he perceives to be the nature of his old age. This poem is not simply a procession of interchangeable metaphors; it is the story of the speaker slowly coming to grips with the finality of his age and his impermanence in time.

The poem “Sonrisas”by Pat Mora is a known poem, about a bicultural woman who finds herself living in two separate worlds, she stands in the middle of a doorway because she can't seem to fit into either one of the worlds being a bicultural character. Pat Mora, the author, is a successful poet who was born in El Paso Texas, she grew up being the oldest of 4 children in a bicultural home. Pat was a former teacher, university administrator, museum director, and consultant. She's a popular writer who promotes creativity and individuality and also incorporates it in her writings. Mora uses metaphors, onomatopoeias, assurance, and imagery to describe

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (“Sonnet 18”) is one of Shakespeare’s most famous poems. It is the model English, or Shakespearean sonnet: it contains three quatrains and a finishing couplet.. The poem follows the traditional English sonnet form by having the octet introduce an idea or set up the poem, and the sestet beginning with a volta, or turn in perspective. In the octet of Sonnet 18, Shakespeare poses the question “Shall I compare the to a summer’s day” and basically begins to describe all the bad qualities of summer. He says it’s too windy, too short, too hot, and too cloudy. Eventually fall is going to come and take away all the beauty because of the changes nature brings. In the sestet, however, his tone changes as he begins to talk about his beloved’s “eternal summer” (Shakespeare line 9). This is where the turn takes place in the poem. Unlike the summer, their beauty will never fade. Not even death can stop their beauty for, according to Shakespeare, as long as people can read this poem, his lover’s beauty will continue to live. Shakespeare believes that his art is more powerful than any season and that in it beauty can be permanent.

Like my abuela used to say “Del arbol caido todos quieren hacer leña.” Meaning the opportunistic people try to take advantage from the misery of others. In the poem “El Sonavabitche” the woman goes to tell the grower to fill up the sewage ditch when she realizes la migra was called by the sonavabitche to not pay the workers. The woman confronts him and forces him to pay. It was satisfying how the women confronted and challenged el sonavabitche.

“Sonrisas”, by Pat Mora, is a delicately written poem that offers a necessary perception of the two lives that almost every adult will live between. True to its postmodern roots, “Sonrisas” is a poem that simply seeks to describe and contrast the dull, formal, and sometimes lifeless experience of the working world with the more exciting, colorful, and warm home experience. This essay will explore the multiple ways in which Mora uses symbols, structure, juxtaposition, sensory images, and other figurative devices to describe the experience and atmosphere of the work environment and home environment and in so doing develop a contrast between the two, as seen from the perspective of a Mexican.

Sontag’s essay “Regarding the Pain of Others” expresses humanities’ obsessive nature to images of pain and suffering. The TV screen turns on. We see footage of Syrian refugees suffering by the hands of chemical warfare. They are helpless. The viewer, knowing he cannot do anything in his power to help, continues to watch as the chemicals are released into the air causing the deaths of thousands of civilians. This “appetite for sights of degradation and pain and mutilation” (97) is caused by the “love of mischief” (98) humans feel when they watch atrocities take place. These gruesome images are watched to create a sense of numbness in the viewer. Today, “mayhem is entertaining” (101) to the eyes of modern culture. Sontag pinpoints that people only care about themselves with a misguided view of “how is this affecting me” rather than the ordeals of others to whom it would easily affect. Generally, we are less responsive or sensible to horrors that we constantly see often such as images of war or chaos. Sontag tells us that an “unwillingness to engage with these premonitory images of nearby war was an expression of helplessness and fear” (100) which results in a “bored, cynical, apathetic” (101) perspective of the situation. There is no hope to end suffering and pain unless the viewer takes action to help change the situation for those facing atrocities on the other side of the TV. We can either stay content in our mass culture of violence through “films, television, comics, and computer games” (100) or we can rise up and use compassion to overcome the hardships of atrocities we see.

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Sonjay was born and raised in New Orleans and Baton Rouge Louisiana. Sonjay has been preforming since she was a little girl, she is an actress, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, songwriter, dancer, choreographer, certified fitness and nutritionist. Sonjay has acted in films and stage plays; Wake Up Mother African, Experience the Black Love Experience, The Thirteen Floor, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, There Is Hope, Beardo, Souly Oakland and Full Circle. Sonjay has wrote and produced several stage plays. She produced her first film in 2013, Experience the Black Love Experience. She has worked with and developed programs for the local Lion Clubs, Girl Scouts, Churches and the YMCA. She uses her talents and gift as a tool to reach out

In modern times, youth and beauty is an image seen everywhere. For example, a Versace billboard, magazine ad, TV commercial, all of which displays images of beautiful people. But what happens when this beauty fades? Shakespeare in his 12th sonnet talks about his experience and fading beauty. The purpose of this poem is to encourage a young man to not lose his beauty to the ravages of time. In order to do this, one must reproduce so beauty will live.

“Sonrisas” is a poem written by Pat Mora. This is a poem which compares contrasting world using different types of figurative language. This poem compares the two worlds that the author and speaker seem to be stuck between. This poem uses various forms of figurative language to compare two aspects of the author's and speaker’s life.

Sonder is the realization that everyone has their own life just as complicated and meaningful as your own. In “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty, Phoenix meets characters oblivious to the true depth of her journey to Natchez. They assume she is an insignificant black woman due to her physical attributes when truth is her character traits point to her being a complex and elaborate character. These traits are Phoenix’s courage, gratitude and dedication to her duty. It’s obvious the white folk don’t think much of Phoenix.

In sonnet 95, the speaker depicts a paternal feeling while speaking to the addressee, where indeed the poet reminds his audience about way appearance can be so deceiving. The young man is relying on his good appearance to veil his sexual immorality. Being that he is handsome and attractive, people are reluctant to disapprove his behavior. In the first quadrant, the poet employs different stylistic devices, which include simile, as the young man is likened to a fragrant rose, and on the other hand, he is compared to a destructive worm, but all his dark side of life is hidden under his good looking and charming nature. What is important about this poem is the manner in which the speaker reminds the young man about his bad behavior and draws examples that makes him feel sorry about what he does behind his good-looking nature. By the use of diction, imagery, diction, images, metaphors and other figures of speech, such as tone of voice, allusions, syntax and structure of the speech, the speaker warns the young man against his sexual immorality, and reminds him that there are detrimental risks associated with his behavior if he does not change.

As opposed to the majority of Shakespeare’s sonnets in the series that are addressed to an unnamed young man, sonnet 60 deals largely with the relentless approach of time and its war against humanity rather than love. In this sonnet, the breaking of the poetic form expected of a sonnet is utilized to not only enhance the specific localized metaphors in the poem, but the overall thematic content as well. By taking the traditional iambic pentameter and presenting moments of disruption, this poem draws attention to the dramatization of Time’s march against humanity, and also to the ability of the writer of this poem who appears in the final couplet. In this paper, I intend to look specifically at the utilization of trochaic feet in order to examine the ways in which the manipulation of metrical devices can create meaning.