Winter Blues Satire

Laughter is a crucial thing in our everyday lives and is something you will inevitably do when you are reading Shel Silverstein's poems. Have you ever wondered what would happen if Uncle Ben found a mouse in the house or what a woman in a mink coat fought for? In all of his poems Shel Silverstein uses humor to make a connection with the reader. Shel Silverstein was a jack of all trades, not only was he a fantastic author, but he was also a musician! Although in Shel Silverstein's work he does not have a deeper meaning or connection to his life, often times his poems have a moral. In all of Shel Silverstein’s poems, you can see his creative and humorous sides.

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.

This stanza ties in with the first stanza and lets the reader know it is the beautiful love between these two people that is dying on this cold winter day.

The Cowboys take another hit, when they were told that the former Alabama star will sit out the first 4 games of the 2015 season for violating the leagues substance abuse policy. Seriously? I thought we were past all this. When will enough be enough that we continue to put up with all this. These guys have it so good and to risk it all is beyond me and infuriating. Should Cowboys nation be worried. We have taken on white a few "projects" i guess you could call them, but to be honest McClain was one of the ones i was least worried about, The so called "trouble makers" seem to be staying out of trouble (so far). McClain has been arrested several times since entering the NFL. For numerous things from assault to resisting arrest. Just when we thought the coast was clear and he was turning a new leaf, the ball is dropped once again.

In this book, the author Margaret Genevieve West examines various aspects of Zora Neale Hurston’s life and her literary works. West explores how Hurston is reviewed by other literary scholars and many of the essential elements of Hurston’s writing such as Voodoo and a highway of the wilderness is explored in detailed in the novel. This is an authentic source for my paper as the author uses many scholarly articles and books to write her novel. I will be using this source to compare leadership qualities among Moses, Aaron and Miriam. The section Voodoo Fact and fiction reflects well with my paper where the author discusses how the allegory is used in Moses character.

College athletics have amounted to enormous popularity among Americans over the past few decades. This has resulted into increased revenues for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and the participating colleges, which has started the debate of whether college athletes should be rewarded beyond their athletic scholarships. This paper will attempt to answer the question as to whether college athletes should be paid by explaining some pros and cons of this subject.

When someone has a good moment they feel that time passes by too quickly. Cahn did a great job using literary terms in his song Let it snow in order to persuade the reader into his way of thinking. The theme of the song is that when a storm hits it is a great opportunity to spend quality time with a loved one. Repetition, imagery and rhyme are some of the many literary devices in Cahn’s song Let it snow. Now we shall discuss how these devices really affect the song and audience.

The story “A Blizzard under blue sky” by Pam Houston is about a woman who is not happy and very depressed. She makes a decision to go out into the wilderness. The woman believes that this adventure is the best cure for her even if it means death. She refuses to take any drugs that her doctor tries to prescribe her. She suffers from depression. Her friend Alex is very concerned about his friend and wonders why she would go out knowing that a bad snow storm is headed that way. So he offers her something that she can stay warm with, he offers her a heavy sleeping bag that is thickly layered for the coldest of winter days for her

Heartbreaks, we all get them and they hurt a lot. It takes us to an extreme where we would shut down other people or just give up on love. In Midwinter Blues the author talks about how a woman was abandoned in a holiday by her boyfriend or husband. It had really affected her because she states that if a man loves a woman then there is no reason to leave. But through it all, he would forever be the only man that she would love till the day she dies. Towards the end, she uses a phrase that helps us feel what she is feeling. She talks about how she is going to buy a rose bud and plant it in her back door so when she dies nobody would need to buy her flowers. I see this last part as she would rather depend on herself than depend on other people.

“Those Winter Sundays” uses imagery to help set the tone of the poem well, which showed the narrator’s regret over the father’s death. Although the word blueback actually refers to a type of fish, the author chooses to pair the term with “cold” to give a clearer image of the terrible cold in the house (2). The cold repeatedly mentioned in this poem is an extended metaphor for the narrator’s relation to his or her father. Opening the poem with this cold description places the reader’s mind in a sober, if not somber, mindset. This attitude helps the reader grasp the cold sadness of the narrator’s regrets. Contrastingly, the heat mentioned briefly completes the relationship metaphor with showing how the father and narrator’s relationship was warmer than the narrator realized (7). Though the relationship might have

The representation of father-son type relationships in literature is used by authors to give their work more depth and meaning. Three poems that rely on this theme are “My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz, “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. The author’s style in these poems carefully craft poetic language that demonstrates the complex nature of a father-son relationship.

The speaker’s has some images of his childhood years with his father in early Sundays mornings. In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” the speaker’s present attitude is prompted by his Image, Circumstances, and Memory of his childhood relationship with his father’s

Five Sense Poem Winter is white and blue. It tastes like a cold popsicle The scraping of snow shovels on sidewalks and driveways It smells like ginger bread cookies It looks like white frost on the ground in the mornings

Don Delillo utilizes satire of the postmodern novel to critique issues which continue to plague American society. Although Don Delillo’s novel White Noise is complex and full of implicit meaning, the protagonist Jack Gladney communicates the central idea of the narrative, “All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots (Delillo 26)”. The novel does not take on a linear storyline for most of the novel but there is more impact in its collection of vignettes. The majority of the novel portrays Jack’s daily routine which effectively illustrates the pervasive nature of the materialistic society Delillo creates.

Robert Graves is an author who was well known throughout his time for more than just war literature. He served in the military, where he met and befriended other notable poets such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owens. Graves continued to write poetry even after his time being in the war but his war poetry is remembered today especially when referencing the first world war. “ It’s a Queer Time” by Robert Graves is an alluring poem filled with equal parts sadness and satire. Throughout the poem, Graves uses whimsical language and imagery along with rhyme schemes to compose a great piece of literature that puts the reader in a tailspin of both confusion and curiosity when thinking about the war and death.