Poem The Pink Warrior

her sing. She was the best Tex-Mex singer and the first women to ever be

saw her as being a determined individual that knew what she wanted. Everyone saw the same

The poem Hurt Hawks by Robinson Jeffers is a very spiritual poem about a man who finds an injured hawk that will never be able to fly again. The narrator mentions in the poem that he would rather kill a man than a hawk because a hawk has never done anything to him, but there are many people who have done things to hurt him. He takes the Hawk home with him for about six weeks until he realizes that the Hawk would rather die than not be able to fly. He shoots the Hawk and see his spirt fly off. He mentions that the Hawk not only symbolizes other hawks dying but men as well.

had a wide-range perspective. She fought for what she believed in, never giving up, dying for her

Melba Pattillo’s Characterization “You are a warrior on a battlefield for your lord. God’s warriors don’t cry, ‘cause they trust he’s always by their side’ (Beals, pg. 57). In the memoir Warrior Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, Beals tells the story of her experiences at Central High School in Little Rock, Arizona. Beal uses imagery to show what her and her fellow friends suffered through during their time at Central. The Little Rock Nine had many hardships through their experience at Central High with the harassment, threats, and abuse on not only them but also their friends and family.

“Attack” The poem “Attack” is about how the war is from the inside of the battlefield. The poem explains the battlefield like it is a terrible place to be in and experience. It explains war as this living hell where there is nothing but fire, smoke, loud noises and gunfire. The planes roaring as they hover over the battlefield and lower to the ground to drop bombs and gunfire, body parts are flying over the fields, tanks are slowly creeping over the hills, the only expressions on the soldiers’ faces are anger and fear; it’s chaos.

“ Weapons Training” is a piece of war poetry written by Bruce Dawe in 1970 as a reflection of his own personal RAAF training. This poem is a dramatic monologue spoken by a drill sergeant who is training recruits that are about to go to the Vietnam war. Bruce Dawe had experience with the military life, he had served in the Royal Australian Airforce from 1959 to 1968.

And the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A worldfilled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things, and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be as one."

Maxine Hong Kingston once said, “I 've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories. This quote expresses Kingston’s fervor for writing and storytelling outside of her short story “White Tigers from the Woman Warrior”, which emphasizes the importance of literature, which is her art, by retelling her own childhood as the “fairy tale” of the Woman Warrior, Fa Mu Lan, and connecting it back to her own life. The introductory paragraphs, coupled with the word carving scene and the concluding final paragraphs, evoke Fa Mu Lan and present Maxine’s life as analogous to Fa Mu Lan’s life story. While it is understood that they did not know each other, Maxine complicates this “relationship”, for lack of a better word, by using a first-person narrative as opposed to a third-person narrative while retelling the “fairy tale”, which in turn complicates subjectivity of Maxine, and the relationship between Maxine and Fa Mu Lan. Moreover, the words in the word carving scene in the middle of the “fairy tale” are double symbols of suffering and of perfect filiality, which is a trait common in Chinese culture. By and large, these early on passages, and each section from there on, and the word cutting scene, utilize the literary devices of point of view and central symbol to influence the audience to acknowledge Maxine 's claim that Fa Mu Lan is her model, and that she, Maxine, is fruitful in taking after her case since they both have words "at their backs."

The forms used in “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” is closed form as it contains a rhyme scheme of ABAB alongside an iambic pentameter. The poem “I Shall Paint My Nails Red” consists of a free-verse, as there is no standard as well as no iambic pentameter/rhyme scheme. In terms of enhancement of meaning, both closed and open form allows for variation. For the closed form poem, the meaning is enhanced as it allows for a better flow and generalization of the meaning of the poem, which is youth being the greatest period of time for one's life, therefore should make use of it as later years deteriorate. For the open form poem, the meaning can be grasped as, through constant repetition of “Because”, it may show the author's progression/recounting of thoughts throughout the poem. The differences in each are that closed form allows for a more philosophical approach whereas open form allows for a more modern and individualistic approach.

To Stalingrad. But we found no heroes. Only sheep for the slaughter. I hid and I cried

So she was different from everyone and

is like no other woman in the book or indeed of her time and by

blind canyons along the way, but her zeal and determination to always find a irreplaceable way

How is the theme of war portrayed through imagery in the poems Lament by Gillian Clarke and War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy?