Fast breaks are five seconds of heart pounding and jaw dropping anxiety. While not everyone likes the sport, it is well known that basketball takes and extreme amount of love and dedication. Edward Hirsh shows this in the poem ? Fast Break? by using literature devices such as vivid words and similes.…
“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.…
Hey Devin,I agree with the things you talk about in your reflection of the story. Now that you said how at first this could have been a poem, I understand what you are saying. I also liked how the author talked about the workplace. That there are people that have serious problems, but sometimes no one is there to help. I didn’t like how if a person is going through something, they should have people to talk to.…
The song “Voices Carry” by Til Tuesday, released in 1985, targets the issue of emotional abuse and how scared the victim has become. The man constantly tells the singer to not talk to loud or people will hear her, that word gets around. She cannot speak up for fear that he will get mad, she cannot cry because he tells her they are bad and a fearful thing. The man she is with only wants her for certain times and only if he can keep her quiet.…
The video “To This Day” by Shane Koyczan based by the poem by the same name, reveals the permanence of the emotional damage of bullying causes the victim. In addition, to interviews with the poet reveal his personal experience of bullying. In this essay it talk about about how he had to be removed from his house for 3 days. After the 3 days they found out that he did not get abused at home. Then when he came back to school after the whole entire school found out about what happened they gave him a nickname “pork chop”.…
1960 ."Yesterday" Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay.…
A material disruption did occur as a result of the poetry slam. Tinker holds, speech, in which, “[A] material disruption of classwork, or a substantial disorder, or invasion of the rights of others is…not immunized by the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech.” Tinker, 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). The students in Tinker, conducted a silent, and passive protest. Id. at 508.…
“Ask Me” by William Stafford is a contemporary poem that compares the author’s life to a river. The reader is instilled with a strong sense of nostalgia, placidity, and introspection as Stafford reflects on his past and the meaning of his actions and life. The theme of this piece is life and its relative pace, similar to a river which is used as an ongoing metaphor Stafford introduces himself early on because this work is a conversation between the author and the reader. In the first stanza, Stafford repeatedly implores the reader to “ask me” (1, 2, 6) about his past and his thoughts. This repetition causes a slight uneasiness in the reader as Stafford is insisting the reader to participate.…
1. Find a link that links to the poem you chose and link it to this document. Create a link by highlighting the word "poem" and clicking on the icon that looks like a chain. When it pops up pate in the link and then hit enter. 2.…
Okay so like if you don’t think I lost my cool yet, here is where you say bye to the Riku who makes sense. Like every other Top 10 Article, #1 never makes any sense cause of random spewing everywhere. Cause Im not even gonna try to keep cool, so be glad Im not writing this at 3AM. But like ugh this man guys. Just this man.…
The poem, Acquainted With The Night, Robert Frost takes the readers on a journey into the gloomy side of the human soul. In a nutshell, it is a description of a short, boring night journey on foot via the streets of a city. However, taking a closer look at it reveals more than meets the eye. The narrator in the poem gives a detailed description of the loneliness he experiences as he traverses the isolated streets of the city at night. Throughout his walks that have seen him reach the limits of the city, and along all lanes in the city, he has failed to find anything that has comforted him as he is depressed.…
Poems exists for sharing an experience, telling a story, and are precious journeys to be shared. In the poem “The Day” by Geoffrey Brock functions perfectly in this way, sharing his view of life by comparing it to a transitory plum hanging on a stem. He describes a scene of a young man trying to capture a ripe plum. He comments on the element of time and truly is a masterpiece for readers. With some similarities to a sonnet Brock raises two components in his poem about life and morality.…
Good morning to all you very enthusiastic listeners! Did you know that belonging is considered a fundamental aspect of being human, that belonging is an ambiguous concept which can offer individuals a sense of identity, security and partnership, and that these idea of belonging have played a significant role in Australian lives for years? From Polish migrants in the 1950s to aborigines over the last hundred years, millions of poets have chosen this concept as a foundation to their work. In fact, one of these poets is a very important aboriginal voice; Oodgeroo Noonuccal.…
On the ad it has a lavender background with white letters going across and on the side of the picture. The color’s that was chosen obviously caught the reader’s attention because the color seems calming and had some…
The essence of ambition is the determination to achieve something; the texts presented define the something as an escape. Growing up in a rural town the future sought out is becoming a farmer, raising a large family, and going to church every Sunday. It is stale, stagnant, and predictable. People want to go beyond the norm, people’s ambition pushes them beyond the borders. The person one sees themselves becoming without changing is the push that forces our eyes down the road.…