Poetics By John Carter

Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gente Into That Good Night and Catherine Davis' After a Time

The book takes place in the wild west of Wyoming. The character of the Virginian is introduced in Medicine Bow when on business. While in Medicine Bow he plays cards with a cowboy named Trampas. Trampas accuses the Virginian of cheating to which the Virginian pulls out a gun in the effort to stop the accusations. This causes Trampas to develop a hatred for the Virginian and that’s when their rival began. Throughout the book there is conflict between Trampas and the Virginian eventually leading to the Virginian killing due to a threat that Trampas made toward him.

Peripetia, or the reversal, is another element of the tragic hero. Such as when an action backfires on the person, much the way that abandoning Oedipus

To be an ethnic American is a culture all on its own. Hunger of memory by Richard Rodríguez gives an insight into the rarely viewed world. A person that no longer falls into either category of family or American community. Such an individual is stuck between two worlds, in which two different cultures collide yet form a rift through family, language and education.

Literature utilizes the readers’ need to connect with a character. More often than not, with authors making their characters relatable in one sense or another that could be transferred into multiple stories. This idea of relatability is the core of the tragic hero, a trope used often in literature including in stories such as Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Shakespeare's Othello, and August Wilson’s Fences. Each from different years, authors, and genres, yet each utilizing the tragic hero to further their individual themes through depicting the greatness of a godlike man and his fall to lowest points within humanity.

In Richard Rodriguez autobiography, Hunger of Memory, Richard himself writes about his educational journey. Rodriguez wrote such book in 1982. The book revolves around the life a young immigrant child, whom has a difficult time understanding how to adapt himself in the given environment. Furthermore, the book navigates the readers though Richards transition form boyhood to adulthood. Not only so, but Richard discusses how the opportunities that were presented to him altered his viewpoints in life as well as education.

Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson centers on the internal slave business in New Orleans as well as the slave market as a place of portrayal and oblique connotations built around the commoditization of the physique of slaves .A significant interest in Soul by Soul relates to the slave pen, where slave bodies as commodities determined the identities of black and white persons. Slave transactions were typically about show and filled with meaning-making, which was itself characterized by cost and worth. The paternalism ideology employed the black persons’ physique and slave transactions to imply that white persons were assisting powerless black people in the slave markets. In essence, the ideology suggests that, contrary to common perceptions, white persons were not separating slave families .The slave market history discussed in Soul by Soul relates to that of the antebellum in the South where slave trade was basically about purchases and sales. Those who owned slaves were consumers in the marketplace. Consumer way of life had structured individual identities. Slave bodies were regarded as items to be rated and assessed and were usually the subject of discussions. Every slave was given a made-up and decorated past. The market culture of slavery in that era was based on fantasy just like the ideology of paternalism. Succinctly, the slave market stimulated the self-definition of white persons from the South.

Troy’s reversal of fortune was a very big one, Troy was a pro baseball player and he had Rose, which made his life great. However as Troy was already old he didn’t have a long career and he ended up being a garbage man. When Rose was asking Troy about how he had a sport career like Cory Troy said,”What it ever get me? Ain’t got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of (Wilson7).” Troy’s reversal of fortune left him very bitter and anger at the world as showed throughout Fences. King Creon also had a BIG reversal of fortune, he went from King of Thebes to losing his whole family in a manner of hours, so it’s easy to say he had a bad day at the

Would America have given up if we never had this pamphlet? In the 1800’s, America was under heavy water because of the revolts we led against the British Government. The colonies militia has lost every war up to point which decreased our moral. It wasn’t until Thomas Paine wrote the famous pamphlet titled “Crisis No.1.” This pamphlet used a heavy emphasis on pathos to show colonist that if they don’t fight then there children will suffer the consequence.

“A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.” Morality is a major theme in John Wyndham’s novel The Chrysalids, but with morality, there is no definitive right and wrong. Human beings, seen as the most intelligent life force, like to believe that morals are easily determined, but that is far from the truth. To act in juxtaposition, to perform acts that the world would deem immoral, requires a certain level of courage that can be found in the character that is Joseph Strorm. Joseph Strorm is acting in a morally-just sense because as acting patriarch of Waknuk, he is making the difficult decisions that in retrospect, will be essential to the survival of the norms. His questionable acts are in regards to to his fear of Tribulation, fuelled by the sense of responsibility he feels towards the citizens of Waknuk. Furthermore, he is driven by his insatiable desire to please God brought upon by his father, and the amount of confidence and trust he places into the Bible and Nicholson’s Repentances.

Reversal is an adverse change in fortune, it can also be an annulment of judgment. Reversal is used in the play in scene 3, when Hamlet has the confrontation of the remarrying of his mother, to his uncle or the death of his father. He has also fallen from his ranking, by wanting to catch his father's murderer. With this he falls from rank, and into madness making the other characters lose themselves. This reversal caused an unhappy turn of events.

Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again” is a poem that could be endlessly applied to where America stands today. This poem illustrates the morals, ideas, and visions set forth by those who found this country and how America has begun straying from those principles. The poem expresses that America is made up of all walks of people and that no man should be crushed by those above him, but rather be given the same opportunity as those above him. Hughes desire to make America great again can be shared in some way or another by most Americans making this poem everlasting. “Let America Be America Again” has the personalization, the language, the connection shared by every American, and the rhyme to allow readers of every race, gender, or religious belief to be brought together as not only people but as Americans.

Aristotle classifies both recognitions and reversals as the greatest point of tragedy in a play or story. Recognitions and reversals are consistently used to develop character, advance the plot, and get a reaction of pity and fear from the audience. Recognition is the act of realization or knowledge or feeling that someone or something present has been encountered before. Reversals are a major change in attitude or principle or point of view. For the main character or hero/protagonist to realize everything that has happened throughout, reversals are used by the writer or writers. Recognition is a device which helps

Not all poems fall into the category of epic poetry or ballads. Some pieces are short and concise rather than lengthy and elegant. A shorter poem may focus more thoroughly on diction, or the author’s specific choice of words, rather than things such as rhyme scheme or meter. Langston Hughes poem “Suicide’s Note” is a perfect example of this. Because it is only twelve words long, every single word is important and chosen carefully. This poem uses many literary techniques, none more than diction, to achieve its purpose. which is to focus on the split-second decision that is suicide.

Ted Hughes was a very well known poet whose best works are considered by critics to be ‘Snowdrop’ and ‘Hawk Roosting’. Hughes grew up in the countryside where he developed a fascination with animals and nature which is seen throughout his poetry. Whilst most of Hughes poetry is based on nature, other poems portray aspects of Hughes’ personal experiences, such as his marriage to Sylvia Plath. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath got married in 1956. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life and after being married for seven years, Hughes had an affair with Assia Gutmann. After finding out about Hughes’ affair, Plath committed suicide in 1962 by gassing herself. Hughes was seen responsible for his wife’s suicide and did not write for years as he focused on promoting Plaths’ poetry. Plath’s importance in his life is shown through the allusion to her both explicitly and implicitly through in poems like, ‘Daffodils’, ‘Wind’, and ‘The Blue Flannel Suit’. Hughes uses linguistic devices such as imagery, metaphor and simile to symbolise Plath within his writing.