SOUTH AFRICAN SLAM POETRY Healing and entertaining people through rhythmic storytelling are the corner stone of slam poetry. Slam poetry is a type of type poetry where people read their poems without props, costumes or music (A Brief Guide to slam poetry. 2004). It is usually original work that talks about themes and subject that people can relate to. Invented in the 1980s by a Chicago construction worker named March Smith, it started as a form of storytelling and they used rhythm to make it entertaining
Comparative Poetry Essay “Love After Love” and “The Fist” both by Derek Walcott Ali Saleh English IB HL January 18, 2015 Throughout Derek Walcott’s poems he guides the reader through an emotional struggle he faces in life and one issue that he can relate with the reader is the struggle of overcoming love. Both “Love After Love” and “The Fist” reveal Walcott’s writers’ craft that allows the reader to fully understand the situation that Walcott is in and how he is trying to draw to a conclusion
retrieve Dante and act as his guide through Hell and Purgatory. Since the poet Virgil lived before Christianity, he dwells in Limbo (Ante-Inferno) with other righteous non-Christians. As author, Dante chooses the character Virgil to act as his guide because he admired Virgil's work above all other poets and because Virgil had written of a similar journey through the underworld. Thus, Virgil's character knows the way through Hell and can act as Dante's knowledgeable guide while he struggles alongside
CREDIT FOR ALL CLASSES ESW IB Lang and Lit ← Paper 1 Sample TextsExaminers comments for Sample Paper 1 Essays → Paper 1 Sample Essays Posted on October 18, 2012 by tonyapaul Please read the Paper 1 Sample Texts before you read this post. Then try to write your own analysis and compare it to the following HL samples. Paper 1 HL Sample 1.1 (birds) In this comparative commentary, Cranes by Jennifer Ackerman and To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant will be compared and
History & Class Consciousness: Preface by Georg Lukács (1923) Thursday, February 3, 2011 History & Class Consciousness: Preface by Georg Lukács (1923) Share History and Class Consciousness Preface THE collection and publication of these essays in book form is not intended to give them a greater importance as a whole than would
tyrannous reign of man is finite, the unknown artist 's craft survives as a means to honestly depict the past. Shelley, as a poet, commiserates with the unknown artist, and argues that their endeavors of creation are alike. Thus, Shelley asserts that poetry not only stands the test of time, but also uses it to reveal truths of mankind. It 's a common misconception that Shelley was inspired by the head of a statue of Rameses II (the Egyptian king known, at the time, as either Ozymandias or Young Memnon)
purgatory and heaven is one of the worlds great poems, and a prime example of a most splendidly realized integration of life with art. More than being merely great poetry, or a chronicle of contemporary events, which it also is, the `Comedy' is a study of human nature by a man quite experienced with it. The main argument I will make in this essay is that Dante's `Comedy' is chiefly a work of historical significance because in it lies the essence of human life across all boundaries of time and place. I
HISTORIC POINT OF VIEW: 1830-1880 In the nineteenth century, America was seen as the land of promise, the land of future. Travellers, like Alexis de Tocqueville, arrived to find "the most unequivocal proofs of prosperity and rapid progress in agriculture, commerce, and great public works. (Democracy in America, 1835)" They saw a nation in full enjoyment of prolonged prosperity. The nation territory now comprised thirty-one states, with a population of approximately twenty-three million people
the primary and the secondary methods to be considered in designing a qualitative study. This discussion does not replace the many excellent, detailed references on data collection (we refer to several at the end of this chapter). Its purpose is to guide the
E SSAYS ON TWENTIETH-C ENTURY H ISTORY In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig Also in this series: Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in