The Different Perspectives of Poetry “There are no facts, only interpretations.” - Friedrich Nietzsche. According to Nietzsche, poetry is how people interpret a situation. For example, some people have different perspectives about being in captivity. Although “Untitled” by Tupac Shakur and “Thoughts in a Zoo” by Countee Cullen are both about being in captivity, the poems deal with the idea of being in captivity in extremely different ways through the use of similes. “Thoughts in a Zoo” by Countee
environment. Despite all the activity, the JSAC is a relaxed space created for, and by students and it is a great space to spend time in between and after classes (JSAC). Unfortunately, even though Augusta University has such a diverse student body, people tend to seek out those that are similar to them ethnically and culturally. This can lead some to feel trapped in their social circles, lost in the crowd, or alone and uncomfortable in a new environment. Adrienne Rich describes this feeling as “bumping
A Streetcar Named Desire is a book that occurs in the 1960s, New Orleans where an agrarian southern culture meets the new industrialized southern culture. Different people have different view on slavery. They begin to grow and divide into two separate cultures: Old Agrarian South and New Industrialized South. The attitudes of many white southerners didn’t change regarding African-Americans. Before the Civil War, many southerners supported things like slavery, segregation, states’ rights, and state
settling within a separate environment apart from their origins; culture and adopting the colonial mentality which is imposed upon them. There is a negative portrayal of the colonial mentality that manifests onto the African society. There are three major categories within these two texts displaying the characters that forget that they play these roles within society as puppets of colonialism, those who rebel against the invading culture that seems to threaten their sense of identity and lastly those
2010 The Odyssey Greek gods and goddesses are very important in the Greek culture. There are a few Greek gods and goddesses that play very important roles in The Odyssey. They are Athena, Zeus, Poseidon, and Circe, and Calypso. The relationship between the mortals and the gods are very interesting. Everything that happens in this poem, dealing with the mortals, is related to one of the gods. Without the gods, Greek culture and literature would be nothing. Zeus is the king of the gods. All of the
Cultural Encounter in Ana Menendez’s In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd People emigrate from one place to another for different reasons. Some people leave their homelands by choice while others are forced to leave it due to different reasons. Some of these reasons are political, where a person leave his country to find freedom in another. There is a lot of literature written on this subject worldwide which tries to analyse and reflect upon the conditions of such people, and how they are received in
Houses representation of the power and wealth of the Anglo-Irish Ascendency as they sat in between the poverty-stricken, colonized, Catholic Gaelic Irish and the people who colonised them: the English in the two novels ‘Castle Rackrent’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’ . Irish Gothic authors have been very interested in the identity conflicts and social status of
allows for multiple ways of expressing different perspectives and feelings. Experiences encountered will be defined by the ways people interpret each situation, and language provides a vital means of shaping the basis of people’s thoughts. The relationship between Christa and Mr. Blum, in which their German culture connects them, as well as the relationship between Tan and her mother, strengthened by their use of language, can be compared because their culture bounds them together to provide a connection
The Indians and the Europeans When people come into contact with new cultures, they do many positive things such as trading goods and sharing ideas. However, new people can also have a negative effect on the cultures that they are meeting. Along with violence and forced relocation, another one of the negative effects of the Indians meeting the Europeans was disease. Prior research has suggested that during the period of time from which the Spaniards were leaving Mexico smallpox had caused a mass
author, stated in her short story, Everyday Use, “Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. “You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts.” Each person’s identity is shaped from a culture that is built with the offering of everything in his or her surrounding environment. Culture is one of the most important factors, though there are many other contributing factors, that can influence someone’s perspective on the world because all of their opinions, decisions, and morals are all