“The Thin Ice” returns the listener to a chronological telling of Pink’s story. In “The Thin Ice” the listener learns about Pink as a toddler. The song describes the affection Pink’s parents have for their young son. A close listening identifies what we later recognize as his mother’s overprotective characteristic. The mother who we can identify from the phrase “Oooo Babe” tells Pink “Don’t be surprised when a crack in the ice, / Appears under your feet. / You slip out of your depth and out of your mind” (Floyd, The Thin Ice). Not only is this an example of the mother’s fears expressed more fully later in the album, but they foreshadow of the unraveling of his life. “Another Brick In The Wall, Part I” identifies the first traumatic event in
In Neil Diamonds song “Sweet caroline” he reveals many things. He does this by using multiple literary devices. He first writes the lyric “look at the night/And it don’t seem so lonely.” This lyric uses personification and its purpose is to describe how the night is so quiet and dark. It also affects the poem by changing/setting the mood of the poem. He then wrote the lyric “Warm, touchin’ warm/Reachin’ out, touchin’ me, touchin’ you.” This lyric uses the literary device of Diction and it was used to replace words so they aren’t repeated multiple times in the song. In this case the words “hands, touchin’ hands” is changed with “warm, touchin’ warm.” Another lyric he wrote was “Hands, touchin’ hands/Reachin’ out, touchin’ me, touchin’ you.”
Richard Leonard Kuklinski, known as “The Iceman” was born April 11, 1935. Kuklinski was a contract killer who was convicted of 5 murders. Kuklinski was given the nickname “Iceman” for freezing a body of a victim to mask the time when the victim was murdered. Kuklinski lived with his wife Barbara Kuklinski and 3 children in the suburb of Dumont, New Jersey. Prior to his arrest, his family was apparently unaware of Kuklinski's double life and crimes. Kuklinski was a contract killer for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families of the American Mafia. Kuklinski favored to murder people with sodium cyanide since it killed very quickly and also was hard to detect. With Cyanide, Kuklinski would simply kill the victim by either injecting the cyanide in them, putting it in the victim’s food, aerosol spray or spilling it on the victim’s skin. After killing his victim, he will dispose the body in a 55-gallon oil drum. Other ways Kuklinski would dispose the body were either burying the body or putting the body in the trunk of a car then having it crushed in the junkyard. Kuklinski says that Robert Pronge, nicknamed “Mr. Softee” has taught him different methods to use cyanide to kill his victims. Pronge allegedly asked him to carry out a hit on Pronge's
The “Miracle on Ice,” where the United States defeated the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York will forever be known as one of the greatest moments in American sports history. This game was about more than just sports though, it signified American strength, even when faced the greatest adversities. The United States was suffering through Vietnam, Watergate, and the wrenching upheavals of the 1960s. Many believe this game was even the beginning of the end for the Cold War. The Soviet Union had won the gold medal in six of the seven previous Winter Olympic Games, and were the favorites to win once more in Lake Placid. The team consisted primarily of professional players with significant experience
All her memories of the night before are starting to come back to her. The line “It’s not enough to face your own regrets” (line 7) alludes to things she may have said or done and now wishes she could take it back. She is remembering the words that she spoke. Or could this be the words that someone else said to her? (Though they’re coming back fast, the things you said)” (line 8). The words that were said and the actions that were done start to come back into focus and the speaker is left to wallow in her remorse. She realizes the words and actions are not something that can be taken back. All the speaker can do is clean up the messes that has been made, think about the words that were spoken and how they led to the end of her
Through the use of a simile, “like a horizon” he argues that the individual’s lifestyle has no sense of change and their day is always the same routine, which evokes the acceptance and no thought for change. The dialogue of the final sestet from the two people conversing outside of the household is deeply ironic due to the detection of disconnectedness from the outside world, indicating the lack of dialogue, as no one is aware of her misery. Dawe uses repetition in this dialogue, “quiet… too quiet” which reiterates the detachment from society and the fragility of our humanity and what has become of us as a whole. Through Up The Wall, Bruce Dawe effectively demonstrates the issues of the complacent society our world has become and how ordinary life has affected individuals in a way that we have become completely detached from our
In the fourth stanza, Clark uses imagery to talk about segregation. She also uses the simile, “I-40 bisected the black community like a tourniquet of concrete,” which means they cut off the flow of traffic and really segregated the black community from everything else. Also in this stanza, the violence of the 60’s was shown through the imagery of the lines stating, “Ambulance siren driving over the house that called 911, diminishing howl in the distance,
In the 1960’s Birmingham, Alabama was a much different place. Strict segregation laws caused anger among the African American citizens of Birmingham, along with most people of America. Many nonviolent protestors were arrested and put in jail, cramming 60 people in a jail cell, which was meant to hold 10 people. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to stop segregation and even went to jail due to a nonviolent campaign. While he was in jail, he received a letter from the minsters of Birmingham claiming his campaigns and demonstrations were unwise. King wrote the “Letter From Birmingham Jail” as a peaceful response. Martin Luther King Jr. uses logical appeal to catch the attention of the ministers of Birmingham.
In the second stanza it is the semantic field of cold: ‘winter’, ‘ice’, ‘naked’, ‘snow’. All these lexical items give us a feeling of cold which evokes loneliness, unknown, fear.
Ice is prone to being friable which is a prime example that indicates its relatability to the girl in the poem as she was also very vulnerable and fragile. The young girl in the poem showcased a state of fragileness “in tears” because when an individual is dealing with sorrowful circumstances if another thing equally as disconsolate was to happen there mental state of mind would typically break. Not only that but, ice is also an ideal symbol for representing the hardships the girl was going through as it is a form of pain and coldheartedness. In this piece of literature, the verse “The first ice of human hurt” supports and reinforces the theory of ice symbolizing pain. The extremely cold temperature of ice placed on humans can essentially inflict an unpleasant thrilling or sharp ache all throughout the body. Even though this is the literal effect of ice causing pain to the human body, when one interprets this definition to the phrase “The first ice of human hurt” it can be insinuated that the girl felt a resemblance between the sharp and thrilling discomfort of ice with her breakup. Perhaps not physically but the author certainly tried to convey this idea of sharp pains being inflicted on her emotionally. Many more verses throughout the poem had the word “ice” embedded into them which display different yet similar variations of the main concept they are symbolic to. Thus, it is safe to place
“You know …red bean ice”. The word red bean ice had been mentioned three times. It shows how it is important for Nancy’ mother. The red bean ice represents the memory of Nancy’s father and her life in Hong Kong. Nancy’ mother said there is no red bean ice also means they do not have the life which she wants. Therefore, the hope of this old lady is go back to China and live with Nancy’s father. Even she is that old, she does not forget the red bean ice. It proves how she insists her dream. To sum up, the characters in both stories have a hope and they insist hardly at the end of their life.
To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed
The use of conversation and the thoughts of the narrator reflect the poet's own thoughts. In line thirty to line thirty-five, the narrator questions the purpose of a wall. He has an open disposition and does not understand the need to “wall in” or “wall out” (line 33) anything or anyone.
However, when the responders’ delves deeper into the poem, it is clear that at a allegorical level the wall is a metaphor representing the barrier that exists in the neighbours’ friendship. The first eleven lines of the poem if rife with imagery that describes the dilapidation of the wall. The first line of the poem emphasises that “something” exists that “doesn’t love a wall”. This personification makes the “something” seem human-like. The use of words such as “spills” and “makes gaps” convey an image of animate actions and create a vivid impression of the degradation of the wall. Nature, presented in the form of cold weather, frost and the activities of creatures, also seeks to destroy the wall. The idea that walls are unnatural and therefore nature abhors walls is portrayed in the phrase “makes gaps even two can pass abreast”, which metaphorically indicates that nature desires for man to walk side by side with no barrier between them. When the two meet to fix the wall, it is a metaphor that could be interpreted as the two repairing their friendship as “To each the boulders have fallen to each” which shows that faults in their relationship lie on behalf of them both. While they are mending the wall, a light-hearted tone is established. This is shown through the inclusion of the metaphor “spring is mischief in me” which shows the neighbours having fun together in repairing the wall,
Immigration is a controversial topic that has impacted our society for decades perplexed by policies media coverage, perceptions based on one’s own lack of knowledge, personal experiences and a host of other factors that influence how our society views immigrants and immigration policies. The United States is a diverse population of people and filled with experiences that come from various walks of life that contribute to enhancing our social culture, economic development, and cultural acceptance.
Industrialization after the Civil War impacted society, economy, and politics significantly. It appears as though one element enormously affected the other. For instance, the financial strain between the North and South extraordinarily affected to the political pressures that were available. Despite the fact that society overall began getting more agreeable as the economy began growing up noticeably more effective and stable, there was much rivalry in the work place because of the expanding number of settlers and immigrants from Europe and Asia going to the United States to work.