In “on the subway,” by Sharon Olds, the speaker is a white woman questioning her safety with a young black male. This poem emphasizes the current standings of white and clack colored people. The author does this by the use of tone, imagery, and organization. The use of tone in this poem is through the eyes of the woman.…
1 Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1.Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. Yes, in my opinion communication does change us. With communication many things can be resolved, just like many people say,“communication is key”.…
In The Diary of Anne Frank you get a feeling of hope, optimism, even knowing that the outcome is not a favorable one. In Catcher in The Rye it’s almost impossible to miss the sarcasm that is present throughout the book. Every book has a certain attitude about it, its tone, that varies from author to author depending upon the feelings that the author felt when writing that scene. For Anne Frank when writing her diary, she felt hopeful that one day her family would be able to come out of hiding, which explains the optimistic tone of the diary. For Salinger, he wanted to narrate the life of a boy observing and criticizing the world around him, resulting in a tone that is undeniably sarcastic.…
1 Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1. Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. I believe that communication does in fact change us.…
Point of view affects the outlook of the things we view in life such as justice, which is the theme explored in Susan Glaspell’s texts, “Jury of her Peers,” and, “Trifles.” While both texts are comparable in may ways, they have some differences that bring out the meaning of the stories. The two writings may have the same author and tell the same story but they share a different point of view that affects characterization and tone of the characters in both pieces of text. “The way an author or an actor describes or shows what a character is like,” according to Collins English Dictionary, is characterization. In these texts, we see the different way characterization is shown.…
“Another Elegy” is a poem about the relationships in life that happen. In the line “This is what our dying looks like..” gives us as a reader the feeling that we need to believe that when something bad happens, we need to just believe that something that is there. The poem is about someone trying to kill themselves. It happens in the line, “he let the gun go off in his mouth.” Then, all of a sudden, the bad side of the person in the poem comes out.…
The first quatrain introduces the girl being judged for the first time. In the first quatrain, the peers of the girl judge her physical appearance and her car. After the establishment that many others are judging her, it segways to her feeling more insecure. She begins to stop opening up to others. Many people think she’s weird because she’s not like everyone else.…
The style and technique of "Grass" contribute to its overall meaning by add a tone of indifference. Its repetitive writing style and use of metaphors make it seem like over time, people trample over and forget the suffer of humans. They forget the struggle we went through and forget the people who lost their lives to make the world like it is…
The poem "Theme for English B", by Langston Hughes is written in 1951, before the civil rights movement. Throughout the poem, Hughes is very nonchalant as he discusses the theme of racism as well as what it means to be "free". As he discusses race many think he is very "soft" when there was much to be angry about during this time period. I believe the poem is still very effective and the fact that he does not display anger makes it even more significant. Even though he is not angry, he does display other emotions throughout the piece because Langston Hughes writes in a unique style.…
Poetry Analization Essay “Wife and servant are the same, But only differ in the name” (1-2) The poem “To the Ladies” by Mary Chudleigh was written in 1703. When this poem was written, women were considered property of their husbands and they were expected to obey their husbands’ every command. The poem exhibits the fact that once a woman says her vows she belongs to her husband.…
Censorship the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. That are considered obscene, politically unacceptable. In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury used censorship to show how books were not allowed. Montag one of the character was a firefighter who was one to go to people's house and bun the books if they found out they had nooks at their house he soon became unhappy and changed he started sneaking and reading books and was a fool because his wife left him and he got his house burn to the ground and he killed Beatty and a lady who would not let her books burn. In Bradbury's novel, he used tone in several ways to illustrate damage censorship has on society through his use of charged words, his use of historical symbols, and his reflection of historical positive role models.…
Literary Analysis: A Double Standard The poem “A Double Standard” by Frances E. W. Harper was published in the year 1895 where inequality between men and women was in occurrence. This poem describes the concerns within this dilemma. Harper disagrees with the particular laws that represented normality within the community. She tends to feel that women are blamed for wanting diverse perspectives of living.…
The narrators tone in the poem is appreciative and peaceful. The poem contains stanzas, imagery, comparison but…
In “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, the speaker’s identity is slowly developed throughout the poem so that we are not completely sure of the speaker’s identity. The speaker is a black female that while she is speaking for herself, she is also speaking for an entire population of people just like her. People like her who are determined to rise above the historical oppression saying, “Leaving behind nights of terror and fear/ I rise/ Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear/ I rise…” (lines 35-38). The speaker conveys the motif of identity through her use of tone, repetition, and imagery. Tone plays a big role in the development of identity in the poem.…
“Alone” by Edger Allan Poe it’s a poem about a child going through the hardship of life, because people do not understand him and what he sees that others aren’t like him. It’s a lyric poem with one stanza and 3 run-on lines and it has an end rhyme scheme of AA, BB, and the meter of line 1-4 is iambic tetrameter then line 13-17 it changes to trochaic tetrameter and at the end it’s catalectic. But Poe 3 major analysis is voice, imagery and figure of speech that created this amazing poem.…