Triumph And Bigotry

He uses vivid words and feelings. He describes one feeling as “the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.” Some of the more impacting words include decayed, depression, bitter, hideous, iciness, unnerved, and sorrowful; these all give off a gloomy attitude. They are all descriptive words that cause a negative effect upon the reader.

Key Word Recognition. Find in the poem the word or phrase that best corresponds to the following English words or phrases. [Note to teacher: List eight to ten words.]

We live in a world full of different species, and many discoveries have been made regarding our ancestors and how we have gradually developed into the humans we are today. Evolution is important because it explains that two very different species could share a common ancestor and that they have evolved as time has progressed. Nonetheless, race is defined as the classification of a person’s physical characteristics and has been an ongoing issue since Western European exploration and colonization of America. It’s possible white Europeans needed a justification to enslave blacks, but it does not justify the atrocities they committed.

Vocabulary – insist, vision, speechless, rapid, flee, comprehend, outrage, sob, melody, suspect, settle, peculiar, passage, blame, conclusion, tension, scornful, brooch, elated, remarkable, exhausted, vivid, vanity, surface, steep, homely, enormous, gaze, displace, melancholy,

A poem has the potential to capture a large varied audience. It can communicate a multitude of feelings and can highlight struggles in our humanity. Roberts and Zweig when describing poetry state “the more experience you have with poetry the more you will develop your own ideas and definitions of just what poetry is” (642). Readers of poetry will argue extensively over poetic devices and themes because poetry evokes such strong emotions and ownership. As I read the Jeffrey McDaniel’s poem “The Grudge” there was little doubt in my mind that his purpose was a truthful look at the struggle of resentment. A poet may use several poetic devices to communicate his theme. Each reader recognizes the devices that become important to their understanding

Our society has had a negative view on the lower class and this has led to oppression. The higher class oppresses us, the middle class. The lower class experiences an even higher level of oppression all because of the class system. Ignorance of the class system leads to even higher levels of oppression. The middle class outnumbers the higher class but because of ignorance, nobody speaks up about the oppression we all face. The power is in the minority upper class. The higher up you are in the class system, the more importance you have. Society negatively views the lower class, the lower class is seen as expendable and the higher class is seen as of higher value.

For example, Owen conveys “ He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning” (line 16). This constructs an extremely horrific image in the reader’s mind that helps the reader better understand the horribleness of war by displaying a tragic event Owen experinced. Another representation of this is when the poet states “Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” (lines 22 & 23). This additionally recreates the horrors Owen went through as a soldier in their mind. Furthermore, the horrific imagery present in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen assists the poet in educating the readers that war should not be

“ Racism is man’s gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason,” said Abraham Joshua Heschel, scholar and philosopher. This quote from Abraham means that racism and hatred aren’t doing anything but hurting us in the end by causing wars, arguments, and hurt feelings. Hatred can be seen in everyday life and in every single person on Earth, but can’t be stopped because you can’t change people’s feelings. Hatred is also shown in To Kill a Mockingbird, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Merchant of Venice, and in the Holocaust.

Such as, repetition in poetry is a powerful device to create a deep emphasis and emotional effect on a meaning. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” produces an emotional appeal of passion toward the readers about fighting for life. “Do not go gentle into that good night” is the title, but also repeated multiple times in the poem to put a deep emphasis on fighting to live against the inevitable death. Every day, people hear and see repetition all around as “commercials repeat sales and slogans to intensify what they’re saying and to burn them into our brains” (Wilson). In this poem, the repetition of phrases burn into the memory of the readers and help the reader understand the deeper elements of the

As denial begins to fade away, we are struck with the sour sense (alliteration) of

Select a particular idea or theme and/or an aspect of form and style and analyse the way it or they is/are depicted in Archibald Lampman’s poem, “In November” and one other poem. You may use:

Dying metaphors. A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically "dead" (e.g. iron resolution ) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness. But in between these two classes there is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. Examples are: Ring the changes on, take up the cudgel for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles' heel, swan song, hotbed . Many of these are used without knowledge of their meaning (what is a "rift," for instance?), and incompatible metaphors are frequently mixed, a sure sign that the writer is not interested in what he is saying. Some metaphors now current have been twisted out of their original meaning without those who use them even being aware of the

The reader can hear her voice through her descriptive words, it shows how the author feels. These descriptive words show us the voice and the voice seems sad and lonely with no help in sight. “Her body was wrapped round the pain as a damp sheet is folded over a wire.”(Woolf pg.124) This synonym also shows how much pain Mrs. Grey's body is in that she feels like her body is being bent in half and weak. The synonym shows the reader of the essay that it sounds sad and painful. Also when Woolf used the word “marionette” you can kinda hear the voice of pain and how she feels like a puppet and not being able to do much at all. When woolf compared Mrs. Grey to a rook on a barn door with a nail through but still leaving I could kinda hear some determination from the essay because it shows how she's been through so much and lost so much but made it through it and still leaving.

‘Shadow’, ‘stain’, ‘struck’, ‘scalded’, form a semantic field of darkness representing the sinister figure of war in Lament. These words help build the atmosphere and create a guttural tone conveying feelings of anger and affliction, almost like a cacophony of lines, resembling the harsh and discordant roars of the battlefield. Correspondingly, Duffy also uses vocabulary like ‘explode’, ‘pain’, ‘nightmare’, ‘tears’, to transmit feelings of grief and discomfort to the reader. However, Duffy expresses her feelings through the persona of a photographer in the third person, where his reactions to the photos are described. Contrastingly, Clarke is more direct, as she laments in the first person for a list of animals and people hurt in the

Alliteration (the use of several words together that begin with the same sound or letter in order to make a special effect) - howling, and half hid, cradle-hood and coverlid, great gloom, sea-wind scream, being made beautiful, like the linnet, live like, linnet from the leaf, hatred driven hence, recovers radical, bellows burst, bridegroom bring, find a friend