Headmaster Dumbledore:
I write you to discuss a matter that has recently consumed my thoughts: how stressed Hogwarts' students appear. Take Harry for example, that bloody scar of his always... being a git and the like. I believe we, as teenagers, require a creative outlet. Thus, I have constructed a plan to include a poetry course in our curriculum. No, poetry is not magical in the literal sense of the word, but when a wonderful rhyme scheme mixes with an incredible metaphor, magic happens. I have compiled three poems that would work perfectly to teach creativity-deprived teenagers how to think abstractly and communicate emotion. The poems are Muggle-written and taught in Muggle schools (although I heard Durmstrang just incorporated "Introduction …show more content…
cumming's poem and Pink Floyd's "Sheep" employ literary devices involving religion to achieve related central themes. "O sweet spontaneous" uses religion as a metaphor: "how/often have religions taken/thee upon their scraggy knees/squeezing and/buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive/gods." Sexual metaphors such as this are present throughout the poem, with philosophers described as "prurient" and science described as possessing a "naughty thumb." cummings' emphasizes the theme of the poem by comparing the forcing of order on nature's freedom with molestation. Pink Floyd also alludes to religion in explore the danger of submission under oppression and control: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want/He makes me down to lie/Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by/With bright knives he releaseth my soul/He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places/He converteth me to lamb cutlets." Through this allusion to Christianity's followers as brainwashed sheep, Pink Floyd establishes the theme of their poem: submission is not the correct response to subjection. This message is especially important for Hogwarts' students to learn, so we can express our anger against the Dark Lord instead of just surrendering to his tyranny! e.e. cummings and Pink Floyd use their poems to criticize authority's attempt to control and civilian's acceptance of tyranny. The comparable themes and use of literary devices in these two works displays Pink Floyd's song's warranted presence in our classrooms alongside "O sweet
I write you to discuss a matter that has recently consumed my thoughts: how stressed Hogwarts' students appear. Take Harry for example, that bloody scar of his always... being a git and the like. I believe we, as teenagers, require a creative outlet. Thus, I have constructed a plan to include a poetry course in our curriculum. No, poetry is not magical in the literal sense of the word, but when a wonderful rhyme scheme mixes with an incredible metaphor, magic happens. I have compiled three poems that would work perfectly to teach creativity-deprived teenagers how to think abstractly and communicate emotion. The poems are Muggle-written and taught in Muggle schools (although I heard Durmstrang just incorporated "Introduction …show more content…
cumming's poem and Pink Floyd's "Sheep" employ literary devices involving religion to achieve related central themes. "O sweet spontaneous" uses religion as a metaphor: "how/often have religions taken/thee upon their scraggy knees/squeezing and/buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive/gods." Sexual metaphors such as this are present throughout the poem, with philosophers described as "prurient" and science described as possessing a "naughty thumb." cummings' emphasizes the theme of the poem by comparing the forcing of order on nature's freedom with molestation. Pink Floyd also alludes to religion in explore the danger of submission under oppression and control: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want/He makes me down to lie/Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by/With bright knives he releaseth my soul/He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places/He converteth me to lamb cutlets." Through this allusion to Christianity's followers as brainwashed sheep, Pink Floyd establishes the theme of their poem: submission is not the correct response to subjection. This message is especially important for Hogwarts' students to learn, so we can express our anger against the Dark Lord instead of just surrendering to his tyranny! e.e. cummings and Pink Floyd use their poems to criticize authority's attempt to control and civilian's acceptance of tyranny. The comparable themes and use of literary devices in these two works displays Pink Floyd's song's warranted presence in our classrooms alongside "O sweet