Summary Of The Poem 'The Unstoppables'

Have you ever wonder how people survive and thrive in Antarctica? In the excerpt from the story Alone by Richard E. Byrd the narrator explains how a man lives in Antarctica for 5 months during the winter alone in -83°F weather. Being alone changes a person’s attitude and state of mind. When you are alone people tend to start to become more negative and have a gloomy mindset.

Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on “the darkest evening of the year” stating the darkness of the mood.

In Julie Sheehan's poem we get a clear message that the tone is sarcastic. The usage of figurative language exaggerate the poem. The exaggeration in the poem makes us believe if this is real “hate” because of the hyperbolic phrases. In her piece “Hate Poem,” Julie Sheehan uses hyperbolic personification, metaphor, and simile to create a sarcastic tone to convey that passionate emotions can be easy to confuse.

In the poem, “Backwards,” by Warsan Shire the poem dramatizes the conflict between the long for the past and the hatred of the present. This poem highlights the rough situation that the speaker is in as well as a need for what life was like before. One can easily see that the speaker in this poem is a child in the family, because of the context of line 3, “that’s how we bring Dad back.” This is referring to the longing for their dad before they were in the situation they currently are in. Although, there is not line to line rhyme scheme the poem is written backwards at the beginning of the second stanza. This is likely showing the reader the need for the past and emphasizing the importance of the current situation. The overall theme of this poem is showing what life was once like and what it is now.

In the passage, the narrator characterizes a young man by the name of McTeague. The narrator reflects his attitude of subtle admiration of McTeague through diction, detail, tone, and syntax.

The Minefield by Diana Thiel starts with a heartbreaking story of a young boy and his friend running between towns ends horribly when they took a short cut to find food. One of the young boys ran off ahead only to accidentally step on a landmine, taking the young boy’s life. The story was being told by a father at dinner to his family, but the father did not seem fazed by the horrific story of his friend. The narrator states throughout the poem, it seems as if the father is still living in the minefield by the anger busts and the bruises he leaves on his family. With the father’s violent outbursts and the way, the author talks about the abuse is both the father and the narrator suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The structure the author used of the poem says a lot about what the author is trying to say. As well as the words themselves. The words and the structure may cause the reader to have mixed feeling about the father throughout the poem, do you feel bad for the father for what he has been through or anger for abusing his family?

This Poem is about the similarities and differences between the life of a Caucasian person and an African American person. The author, Sharon olds, made this essay to compare and contrast both of them. Sharon olds uses a lot of poetic devices, imagery, and traditional racial stereotypes. Sharon uses a lot of imagery in this poem, she uses most of vividly dark and light as well as animal imagery to contrast her two characters. The whole skin of an animal taken and used shows that the boy represents the inside of an animal, and the speaker represents the outside. Sharon olds utilities a lot of racial stereotypes to show the distance between the characters that exists despite the close ties and connection that they share. In many movies the person

Without darkness, there is no light. Without cold, there is no hot. Without villain, there is no hero. Who and what dictates a hero? People try not to fathom whom they consider a villain, a hero in someone else’s perspective.

Allusion: Quixotic Definition: “hopeful or romantic in a way that’s not practical.” Merriam-Webster. Britannica Company, n.d. Web. 12 Aug. 2014. <

The Albatross by Kate Bass reveals a kind of loneliness and sadness to it. The poem doesn't have a rhyme scheme, it just flows as you read. It is split into 3 stanzas and has 20 lines that make up the whole poem. Kate Bass is a British poet that was born in North London in 1962. She went to Edinburgh University and studied chemistry, but later studied illustration at Anglia Polytechnic University.

In Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves, Kirk Savage, through public monuments both real and proposed, analyzes the problems of American society following the Civil War and shows how race, class, and regional relations ended up as they did. Looking Backward, on the other hand, is a fictional book in which Edward Bellamy lays out his idea for how a utopian society could be constructed and run. In the era that Savage describes, more easily referred to as Reconstruction, there were a multitude of social issues facing the American people who were more divided than ever along lines of race, class, and region. Savage identifies some very specific problems that divided Americans which include the general and deep seeded view that black people were lesser and less human than white Americans, the fact that Americans were individualistic to the point that they cared more for themselves and groups they belonged to than society or the nation as a whole, and that the North and South required a mending of relationships after the war. However, Bellamy’s is a system which is purely economic and educational and does not provide solutions to these largely irrational issues and in fact would even be undermined by them given that the system itself is reliant on the fair evaluation of workers’ performance and ability of people to move up in society in accordance with their performance in labor. This means that even if Bellamy’s system could have been fully implemented in America at the time,

The "A Team"is around an affair of sheerans. In Ed's tune, he sings about a young lady who was poor and went down the wrong way. It instructs us to have confidence in ourselves even at the most reduced and hardest of times. He discloses to us that you don't need to get to the most reduced of lows when you are left with nothing. The "A Group" implies the class of a specific medication that the lady is taking. We ought to be appreciative for what we have, This tune truly reveals to us what it resembles to have nothing and attempting your hardest to get some place.

Dan my dearest Honey Pooh Bear, One day we meet thru our keyboards, we had made plans to meet this month but by beng a hero once again, you was taken away from me and never had the chance to finally meet you other then thru our keyboards. You became more then a friend to me, you gave me love, warmth, and you helped me get thru my lonely and dark days, never gave up on me but was always giving me your strength to carry me thru. Our love will be sealed in my heart until we can meet again. I miss you so much at the end of my keyboard, we had enjoyed all our private talks about feelings, our lives, our countries, our needs and most of all our fears. No one can take that from us. When you went into your

Ted Kooser, the thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for his honest and accessible writing. Kooser’s poem “A Spiral Notebook” was published in 2004, in the book Good Poems for Hard Times, depicting a spiral notebook as something that represents more than its appearance. Through the use of imagery, diction, and structure, Ted Kooser reveals the reality of a spiral notebook to be a canvas of possibilities and goes deeper to portray the increasing complexities in life as we age.

Parallel Poem from “Unspeakable”- Cover People Were no strangers to me Been applied countless times Only to be put right back where I was I’ve been judged because of My shininess My shimmer The way I glow And the boldness of my colour Had been taken for granted and lost it all