Pronouns

First-person statements such as, “…I was crying…” promotes readers to connect with the author emotionally. Likewise, March includes personal pronouns to describe family members inserting the names of relatives into her article such as, “My grandfather Gus and Aunt Marie…” Drawing the reader into her personal life allows the author to form a connection with her audience and state her political

Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson Written in 1841, Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson is the tenth essay of his group of works titled Essay: First Series, in which he discussed his views on transcendentalism. Other notable works from this series include Self-Reliance, Compensation, and The Over-Soul. Transcendentalism was a philosophical and social movement that started in New England around 1836, and is a subcategory of Romanticism. Emerson, along with other fellow transcendentalists, believe that nature

the defiling of our bodies and lives in the hand of both the world and of men. Common Truths connects with my other three poems in more than just this theme, although this poem is the only one of my four texts that hardly uses first person plural pronouns. There are only three uses of the word ‘we’, two which do not relate to woman as a whole but rather groups

effect from school. Many kids do enjoy the learning and friendships from school, Holt believes otherwise. Through the use of the wrong choice of pronouns leading to sexisim, no valid information, repetitive emotions, and his content, it goes to prove how inaccurate his point of view is. John Holt overuses the pronoun “he” in his essay. The pronoun can be taken as sexist. Why does he never mention women or say “she”? John Holt mentions that children do not feel like they belong or are welcome

William Faulkner, in his short story A Rose for Emily, recalls the death of Emily Grierson and the events that led up to her ultimate death at seventy-four years of age. Emily Grierson was still unmarried by the age of thirty as a result of her largely authoritarian, strict father who turned away potential suitors with his high standards. When he dies, Miss Emily denies him being dead for three days until she eventually succumbs and allows the townspeople to remove the body. When her later husband-to-be

poem Blackberry-Picking uses very compelling word choice. There are many things I noticed within it that are interesting. First, Heaney uses first person plural pronouns for most of the poem, implying that there was another person picking berries with the narrator. “We trekked…”, “...our boots.”, “Our hands…”, he uses these pronouns a lot, so it is obvious the narrator wasn’t alone. This may be an important, easily overlooked clue to the theme of the poem. The lesson of the poem is, stated loosely

The necessity for companionship is a common motif that has pervaded literature and society itself for many centuries; however, a radically emphatic view toward this unity has the potential to alter our own identities for the worse. Many have come to oppose this view known as collectivism; a primary exemplar for anti-collectivism is Ayn Rand; Ayn Rand was an impactful Russian author who endowed the world with many influential novels throughout the twentieth century. Within each novel, Rand delved

Natural darkness is something many people take for granted and do not consider worthwhile to think about. However, the author of this passage, Paul Bogard, advocates to preserve natural darkness in "Let There Be Dark." Through his use of appealing to emotion, facts, and word choice, Bogard is able to make an emotional plea to preserve darkness whilst also informing the reader of the many benefits natural darkness has to offer as well. Within the first paragraph Bogard has already established a

Henry James constructs an epic novel of romance and mystery, engendering many interpretations of Turn of the Screw. James intentionally creates ambiguity by utilizing an incomplete frame to introduce the atmosphere of a ghost story through its diction, setting, and tone, in order to capture an active reader who must interact with the text. Frames hold a distinct purpose to provide insight and background to the coming story, which James succeeds in, but goes one step farther. James introduces the

feeding birds to illustrate the difficulty created by living for others. The work uses both short explicit metaphors, as well a longer convert metaphor created by the dialogue between the speaker and an unidentified subject. De La Paz, employs subject pronouns such as you, and we, to include this unknown party into the discussion of the birds, and the morning. This leads to the obvious question of who this person is, and thus causes the reader to examine the poem and seek further evidence which may answer