|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 2651 - 2660 of 7924 matching essays
- 2651: Nature Imagery in Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"
- ... human decay and natural beauty, she declares, We need to grasp our lives inseparable from those rancid dreams, that blurt of metal, those disgraces, and the red begonia perilously flashing from a tenement sill six stories high. (I) Therefore, the speaker does not embrace a moralistic belief toward the city's horrid characteristics; instead, she tries to reach a holistic understanding of her own and her lover's "lives inseparable" from the city's various aspects. If she focuses more on Manhattan's "rancid dreams" than "the red begonia," this only makes the flower's precarious existence stories over the speaker all the more precious and notable. The flower obviously represents the type of beauty that could be able, even in Manhattan's hostile atmosphere, to survive. The semblance of the begonia, nevertheless ...
- 2652: Analysis of Langston Hughes'"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "I, Too," and "Mother and Son"
- ... faith that their is more. Langston Hughes saw the beauty of his people in their journey of persistence and patience to achieve equality. He celebrates the physical beauty of African Americans as he tells their stories of hardships overcome, battles fought, and battles lost. He applauds their spiritual beauty as he depicts stories of patience, poise, and serenity through calm and troubled times. Without poems such as these, readers would not be able to see such dedication, physically and spiritually, put forth by so many people during such ...
- 2653: Analysis of “The Vietnam Wall”
- ... The Vietnam Wall” is a picture poem, meaning the way in which the lines are written and spaced, the poems appearance bears resemblance to the shape of the wall. The lines of the poem are short in the beginning, longest in the middle and again short at the end. This not only resembles the shape but is also the manner in which names appear on the wall. Throughout the poem Rio uses many similes and comparisons For instance when conveying the ...
- 2654: Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
- ... the meaning Housman has behind it. Anyone who reads Housman's material has to read it very carefully the first few times and really analyze what the meaning really is. When Housman uses the small, short, and choppy words to illustrate or explain something, he is trying to explain it elaborately. That is very effective for this poem because the athlete lived a short choppy life, yet, be it for only a moment, he lived elaborately. Works Cited Bache, William. "Housman's To an Athlete Dying Young." The Explicator, 1951. (185) Henry, Nat. "Housman's To an Athlete Dying ...
- 2655: Poet's Use of Mockery As Diction in Poem
- ... Poem The poet's use of mockery as diction conveys his disillusioned attitude toward the men that plan the battles without actually fighting in them. Using the words “If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,” to describe the majors allows the reader to picture the majors as old, fat, out of shape men that spend their days “guzzling and gulping in the best hotel” safe from any danger. Fierce, bald and short of breath give the reader a negative feel for the majors as they are not described in any positive manner. These terms cause the reader to feel disgust for the majors. The poets use of ...
- 2656: Prose and Style in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
- ... this particular passage, there are eight simple sentences, seven compound sentences, and five complex sentences. The sentences in the beginning tend to be quite long and complex. However, towards the end, the sentences become quite short. There are many prepositional phrases which contribute to the description of the passage as well as many adjectives and adverbs. Lawrence's style also includes many examples of parallel structure. Some of these include, “...the ... five when Lawrence lists a blade of grass, a tree, and everything in order of smallest to largest. Rhythm and sound are also evident in Lawrence's style. In the second paragraph, Clara's several short thoughts characterize the complexity of the situation and the confusion in Clara's mind. In speech the cadence could be broken down as follows from lines twelve through fourteen: In the morning it was the ...
- 2657: Analysis of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poetry
- ... the opinion of many that Coleridge as Poet is almost equally an evanescent shadow; and though the many are in this quite mistaken, they have some excuse for thinking thus, because his fulfillment falls far short of his promise. Due to Coleridge's complex styles of writing, the concept and meaning of his poems can be taken in more ways than one and are often criticized by the individual reader, but ... and "The Nightingale". The list is not complete; there are shorter pieces which might be added; but these are the most substantial and the best. "The Eolian Harp," composed on August 20, 1795, in the short period when Coleridge was happy in his approaching marriage and is moreover in substance his first important and at the same time characteristic poem. The natural happiness of Coleridge, which was to break forth from ...
- 2658: Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
- ... the meaning Housman has behind it. Anyone who reads Housman's material has to read it very carefully the first few times and really analyze what the meaning really is. When Housman uses the small, short, and choppy words to illustrate or explain something, he is trying to explain it elaborately. That is very effective for this poem because the athlete lived a short choppy life, yet, be it for only a moment, he lived elaborately. Works Cited Bache, William. "Housman's To an Athlete Dying Young." The Explicator, 1951. (185) Henry, Nat. "Housman's To an Athlete Dying ...
- 2659: Concert Report
- ... of Roman Greek. However, the instruments and the make up were classified into five groups, Violinists, keyboards, brass section, drums and percussions. They have performed in a style of a full orchestra and played many short classical pieces. There were fourteen violinists, two keyboardists, eight brass players, one drummer, two percussionists, six guitarists, and one bassist. In my opinion, most the musical pieces were symphonic. The tone quality of the music ... was when each of the musicians were introduced to the crowed that is sitting and listening to the concert. When the musicians were introduced it was planned that each one of them will get a short amount of time to play a solo for a few minutes. As they went in order and played there solo’s now it was time for the drummer to be introduced. The drummer was introduced ...
- 2660: Motown’s Evolution and with Emphasis on Its Women
- ... was not her style. Mabel never really wrote songs. When she was signed to Stax the method of writing went like this: Isaac Hayes would sit at the piano and play, Mabel would start telling stories (not singing) and David Porter would start writing lyrics derived from Mabel’s stories that would fit the music. The first “band” that Berry signed to Tamla was the Miracles, formerly known as the Matadors until Claudette Robinson joined at which point Berry thought they needed a less masculine ...
Search results 2651 - 2660 of 7924 matching essays
|
