Poem Analysis: St. James Cathedral

A less theoretical definition of poetry is, “putting the best words in the best possible order.” A poet may incorporate the theory as follows. The poet may astutely choose words possibly with a double meaning in order to indirectly convey a message, evoke emotions, or to slander. Then, the poet may unconventionally place such words and phrases perhaps out of expected order for the sake of creating a “word picture,” emphasizing the speaker’s feelings, or offering tangibility to the poem. By implementing this idea onto poetic works, the poet will have auspiciously written a superb poem. This theory may be applied to a few of Catullus’s poems specifically “Carmen 5”, “Carmen 8”, and “Carmen 85.” Catullus’s meticulous choice of words and arrangement highlight the central focus of the poem, obliquely criticize traditional Roman law, manipulate the audience’s attitude, transmit the speaker’s emotions, paint “word pictures,” and offer symbolic meaning consequently producing a successful poem.

In reading, Carver’s, short story, “Cathedral” and Mary Oliver’s, poem, “Singapore”, both writers use imagery as an influential role. As well as symbolism to explore the mystery and possibilities that life holds. In Carver’s, Cathedral”, a narrator, his wife, and her dearest friend Robert comes to visit in their home. Robert (who is blind) wife has just died, and he is visiting hiss’s in-laws as well. Just as in Oliver’s, “Singapore”, a business woman is visiting a restroom room in a Singapore airport. We watch a narrator and a business woman’s chance encounters with strangers change their lives forever. In Carver’s, “Cathedral” and Oliver’s, “Singapore”, their characters reveal the challenges of misconceptions in society, but appropriate thinking brings insight.

A true libertine of the Restoration Era, John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester – better known as his literary persona Rochester – is recognized for his poetry that often breaks barriers and social conventions in obscene ways. One such poem that is particularly explicit, some might even say pornographic, is entitled “A Ramble in St. James’s Park.” Including the sex, alcohol, and debauchery that is so characteristic of Rochester, this poem creates a unique balance between depravity of content and elegance of literary form. While there is much evidence that Rochester represents sex explicitly with obscene and shocking language in “A Ramble in St. James’s Park” for the purpose of satirizing both himself and contemporary love poems, I will argue that in doing so, he also makes a broader statement regarding the tension between the public and private spheres of sexuality, specifically representing female sexuality in the public sphere and erotic female bodies as communal property; finally, the lewd language hints at an anxiety about the power of the feminine over men, thus queering gender roles by becoming the abject feminine.

After reading through Cathedral many times, and highlighting multiple passages, I decided the excerpt above is where I found the most meaning, and a great conclusion for the narrator. The fist line, “It was like nothing else in my life up to now.” is the first time we see the narrator show anything beyond ignorance to the blind; there's a feeling of true understanding. He has been presented as a very close-minded person up until now and it seems like he may have just shown his first form of consideration for something beyond his own realm of beliefs. “But I had my eyes closed. I thought I’d keep them that way for a little longer. I thought it was something I ought to do.” I believe this part shows a major theme of this story, that you don't

The Veldt is about a boy and girl who get spoiled by a house. Soon the mom feels displaced and tells the dad that the house should be shut down for some time. The son disagrees about shutting down the house a lot. When they are about to leave the son and daughter convince the parents to play in the nursery for a while longer. When they are playing the call for the parents and lock them in the nursery with a pride of lions.

Explain how a non-capital loss is created and how it is treated for tax purposes.

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

Why is the word “theory” an underrepresented scientific term? Many people define “theory” as a set of unjustifiable assumptions or propositions, whereas others believe a “theory” is a “coherent set of principles used to explain a class of phenomena” (Kingsolver 208). The poor interpretation of “theory” causes an external conflict between people, since people have different denotations for the word “theory” due to the fluctuating amount of scientific knowledge on this term. Although the word “theory” is a prime example of how people interpret words distinctively, people can develop new insights on their previous idea or thought once they gain more knowledge from books or experience and build on to their collection of facts. Barbara Kingsolver and

This very well-known poem ‘Sanctuary’ was written in the early ‘50s by Judith Wright. Judith was a prolific Australian poet, critic, and short-story writer. She was also an uncompromising environmentalist and social activist campaigning for Aboriginal land rights. She believed that the poet should be concerned with national and social problems. The poem ‘Sanctuary’ was written as a great expression of environmental concern from her. The poem begins with a shocker. Sanctuary, implicitly, is a place of habitation which is safe. However, the first lines of the first stanza, “The road beneath the giant original trees sweeps on and cannot wait” represents a contrast. Here the road is used metaphorically to symbolise today’s modern developments taking place at the cost of all round natural destruction. The poem then unfolds the gloomy mood of the poet in the description of dangerous driving in the night on the road through the Sanctuary to the city: “only the road ahead is true.” In the last line then she is simply sarcastic: “It knows where it is going: we go too.” In fact the road never knows where it is going, but we know where we are going! The poet subtly asks: do we know where we are going by destroying our own habitation, native forests, plants and animals?

“I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal. I cannot be comprehended except by permission.”. (Giovanni,1). Nikki Giovanni is an infamous poet who expressed African American excellence in her writing. In 1972, Giovanni issued a collection of poems called My House, which aimed its attention to children. In the collection was a poem named in Ego Tripping illustrating African ancestry and excellence. The poems title figuratively suggests Giovanni tripping over her own extremely large ego. However, the title of the poem does not relate to the poem itself. Moreover, the poem was published in a time where racial tensions inclined after the civil rights movement.

During the Victorian Era in 1837 the period that was ruled by Queen Victoria I, women endured many social disadvantages by living in a world entirely dominated by men. Around that time most women had to be innocent, virtuous, dutiful and be ignorant of intellectual opinion. It was also a time associated with prudishness and repression. Their sole window on the world would, of course, be her husband. During this important era, the idea of the “Angel in the House” was developed by Coventry Patmore and used to describe the ideal women who men longed. Throughout this period, women were treated inferior to men and were destined to be the husbands “Angel in the House”.

If you were to glance over the words you may mistake the sirens of hospitable hosts. But it is the words recited throughout the poem that express the sirens true intent. The sirens vocabulary consists of beautiful lies and unnerving truths. They invite the sailors to their "peaceful home...to be at rest forevermore." When the sirens continue to reference "evermore" it becomes obvious that the sailors are not meant to leave alive. Sailors are continuously told to "look down" as if this is a form of hypnotism. While hypnotized they will come willingly into the sirens death trap. A more modern example of repetition creating an eerie mood would be The Shining. Instead of "rest forevermore" being repeated the movie repeats the phrase "come play

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” declared by an influential leader Martin Luther King Jr. As a soldier againsts unfairness, King strongly states that people should fight for freedom. Driven by human nature, humans are always chasing freedom. In “A Century Later,” the Pakistan-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker uses the poetic devices of symbolism, diction, and allusion to explore how perseverance drives freedom.

Addiction and substance abuse is a crime that has plagued the U.S. ever since the early 1900 's and from that point on has been an uphill battle for the U.S. to stop. But even with everything the U.S. has tried nothing that has been done has even made a dent in the drug war. Drugs just continue to hit the very streets that innocent people live on. Today people walk right outside their house and just around the corner, there is some guy that has the ability to sell them drugs. That is why the war on drugs in the U.S. has failed miserably because the number of people and high schoolers that are using drugs is still increasing, drug tests do not do anything to discourage using drugs and almost everyone knows how to cheat the tests, and legalizing drugs, such as marijuana and other low level drugs, would allow the U.S. to have more control over drugs in the end.

‘Norham Castle Sunrise’, first painted by Joseph Mallord William Turner in 1798 as a young man of 23 years old. Having first visited the castle in 1797 Turner proceed to paint Norham Castle various times through out his career. It can be seen through this series the way in which his age impacted upon his perception of the scene, his final painting, completed 1845 when Turner was in his 70s shows the transition of the atmospheric value and presence that now features, i will be writing on this final painting. Normah Castle, the subject of this particular painting is located on the River Tweed, on the boarder of England and Scotland, painted in the medium of Graphite, watercolour on paper. ‘Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog’, painted by Casper David Friedrich in 1818 as a mature man, aged approximately 44 years old, Friedrich painted this piece in the final third of his life, it is believed to possibly have been Colonel Friedrich Gotthard Von Bricken, of the Saxon infantry, it is most likely this man was killed in 1813 or 1814 in service of King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia in the Battles against Napoleon, there for this painting may be serving as a patriotic tribute. The inspiration for the painting was that of the Elbandsteingebirge, in Saxony and Bohemia.