The Line of Beauty

out today’s unrealistically high beauty standards. In her song, “Try”, Caillat addresses young girls who struggle to fit in and appreciate their unique beauty. C1: In the beginning of the song, she criticizes the pressure put on girls to look “perfect” by voicing the message they get from the media and from other people. Q1: She sings, “Get your sexy on/ Don't be shy, girl/ Take it off/ This is what you want, to belong/ So they like you. Do they like you?” (Line 7-11)

priority and that she looked presentable. "… lipsticks the color of cherry candy" (Piercy line 4) was given to her so she looked beautiful and concealed any imperfections she had. The "… magic of puberty" (Piercy line 5) caused a fellow classmate to criticize her. Her classmate exclaimed, "You have a great big nose and fat legs" (Piercy line 6). The child suddenly became mindful of her looks and questioned her beauty or lack thereof. Regardless of the fact that she was smart and strong, it was overlooked

In my eyes, the poem conveyed a warning to be wary of allowing society’s materialistic and greedy tendencies to alter my appreciation and view of the beauty of nature. In this regard, line one and two of the poem spoke to me in a personal manner. Already in my life, I have found myself exerting my energy on avarice by focusing on the “getting”. I am not exactly a workaholic, but I find it difficult to part with meager

his love as she insists “Then you’d better think twice” (Line4). The woman is aware that the poet is capable of better-quality writing. This indicates that they have a shared history. It suggests that the woman motivates the poet to write “better” (Line 4) and also she acts as inspiration for the poet. The first and second stanzas complement each other. The fact that the poet uses a different dialogue technique in the second stanza reveals his love for this woman. The poet is willing to terminate

revealing and extraordinary his insight and understanding into humanities beauty. Over a hundred sonnets written by William Shakespeare consistently contain crisp creative words in a fourteen line pattern. The patterns of lines are broken down into three quatrains of four lines a piece followed by a rhymed couplet. These sonnets all have the same meter, first eight lines describing a problem followed by the four lines of response. Shakespeare gifted ability to portrait human personality, character

had his style of writing named after him. Enough with its history, a sonnet is a structured poem that consists of 14 lines. There is no limitation on how long each line has to be in size; but they do all have one thing in common, there must be ten syllables per line. The poem is then divided into three quatrains; which is just a big word for a four-lined unit. The final two lines are

If you were to visit the Dallas Museum of Art, you would find a truly remarkable painting created by an unknown artist entitled, The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception. This particular painting is located in the American Art - Spanish Colonial level in the Dallas Museum of Art and is part of The Cleofas and Celia de la Garza Collection.  In this particular painting, references from Catholic theology are used throughout the entire painting. The painting is a vision of one of Christ’s first disciples

Between the lines of a striking calamity, “Barbie Doll” dramatizes the conflict of society and feminine beauty, particularly on the societal influence regarding the narrator’s symbolic rendition of a young woman’s tragedy. From Margie Piercy, the feminist speaker bitterly narrates the misfortune of a girl’s disfiguring death afflicted by society’s imposed and inescapable standards of beauty, in an attempt to address humanity’s flawed standards of perfection. The speaker’s usage of poetic elements

imagery in her lines to express this message, which is discussed below. In the first stanza of the poem, the second line is an example of imagery. The poet writes, “a darkness was ripped from my eyes” (Oliver 2). For centuries, artists have used “darkness” to portray the image of ignorance or lack of knowledge. A perfect example is Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, where darkness depicts lack of knowledge. Similarly, in this poem, Darkness portrays the image of ignorance. Therefore, the line, “a darkness

is that, there is a beauty to nature more than data and practicality, using words such as charts, figures, as well as add, and divide really give the impression that the astronomer sees things in a very analytical sense. The second paragraph also helps reinforce the part of the theme referring to beauty when using words such as mystical and perfect silence. The unique structure of the poem also helps with the experience you get when reading it. For example, the first four lines of the poem use parallelism