In the beginning of the poem, Bradstreet is sleeping during a calm and quiet night, and then suddenly, she wakes up by “thund’ring noise / And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice” (lines 3-4). She then sees that her house is burning in fire. Terrified, she cries out to God and prays so that God would help her. Her house eventually got entirely burned up, and Bradstreet ended up homeless, but she did not lose hope. She began to pull herself together and realized that God took away something that didn’t belong to her anyway.…
Here is a quick summary of the whole book. A guy named Boy Willie and another guy named Lymon came to Pittsburgh from Mississippi looking to sell watermelons. He had a truck full of them. The two go into Boy Willie’s uncle, Doaker house (It’s around 5:00 in the morning).…
Instructional Outline: Lesson 1: Instructional Goal; Historical context and introduction to the Beat Movement: Day 1: 3-5 Min: Attendance and daily tasks, Bell Ringer Bell Ringer: Answer the following questions: · Can poetry help us in a personal way? · What ways can a poet affect society, if at all? 5 Min: Discuss as a class 3-5 Min Student will be informed of the end of unit project.…
"The Fireplace Sweeper" involves six quatrains, each after the AABB rhyme conspire, with two rhyming couplets for every quatrain. The main stanza presents the speaker, a young man who has been constrained by conditions into the unsafe control of stack sweeper. The second stanza presents Tom Dacre, a kindred stack clear who goes about as a thwart to the speaker. Tom is vexed about his present situation, so the speaker solaces him until the point that he nods off. The following three stanzas describe Tom Dacre's to some degree prophetically calamitous dream of the stack sweepers' "paradise."…
To many, the words “Individual” and “Community” seem to oppose each other. However, the word individual is derived from the Latin root individuum meaning “an atom, indivisible particle” which shows how a true community is able to function — as one. Slam Poetry, Flag Football, and Experiential Learning all represent a personal connection between an individual and their community. When a slam poet takes the stage, whether it be in front of a thousand people or in front of one person, and clutches a microphone they become the voice of a community.…
Finding Your Roots Most families aren’t aware of where they truly come from. Ancestry can take a person way back into history, relating them to someone they can’t even imagine to have been connected with. History can unravel not only relationships, but also genetic dispositions, and even historical findings.…
Exercise 1- page 98 Who would have thought that a simple hike through the woods would result in a classic emblem of Americana? Beginning in the mid 19th century, people from all over started coming to Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee to see "Rock City" and experience its natural rock formations. In the 1920s, a businessman named Garner Carter began developing Lookout Mountain into a residential neighborhood called Fairyland, but his wife had other plans. Frieda Carter began exploring Rock City- now her property- and turning it into an elaborate rock garden. Recognizing the potential profit of his wife's ornate garden, Garnet opened Rock City to the public in 1932.…
Love. Some say it's one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It's one that can overcome anything that one may face in the harsh challenges that life presents. Many would urge to say that love is nothing more than a feeling that one has when find a so called "soulmate" however that is only a mere definition of what love is and can be. The love for another person is one all needs in life.…
[ Beat Begins ] - - [ Normal Rhyme Scheme ] I do this, to be this, to be me, to be free, to see that no matter what happens, I can get a pen and paper and save the rest for later. I enter a zone where I do not want to be disturbed, I will not be heard. Hellbent on putting these ideas into words.…
Rap: Unfortunately, Not Poetry “Hip-hop lyrics–not just my lyrics, but those of any great MC — are poetry if you look at them closely enough,” said Jay-Z, one of the most prominent rappers known and respected internationally (Sanneh). On the surface, rap and poetry can be compared quite easily; they both can have similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and rhyme patterns. However, even though rap and poetry may share these things, they are different because of the topics each speaks about, the inclusion or exclusion of music, and the writing rules that apply.…
Imagine living in a world of oppression, a world in which people deny others their food, their water, their identity, and ultimately their right of life. Imagine living in a world of starvation, a world in which people fight their own family members over crumbs of bread. Imagine living in a world constantly filled with horror, a world in which death can strike at any moment. And finally, imagine that, at a point in history, this world did, in fact, exist. The Holocaust, perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany during World War II, remains one of the most infamous genocides in human history, resulting in the death of approximately six million Jews.…
Cancer is something that can affect anyone’s friends and family, sometimes they are able to win the battle against the cancer. Cancer is a life-threatening disease that is difficult to combat, and many people lose their lives to the disease. In fact, cancer is one of the most common deaths in the United States. There are many tactics that can be implemented to fight against the cancer, but in the end these methods can often be proved to be useless, causing the battle to be lost. The author, Edward Hirsch, of the poem “Execution” writes in remembrance of his coach, a strong and stubborn man, who spent to much time wanting to win at the cost of his own life.…
Most of today’s society has had an experience like the character in Carolyn Kizer’s poem “Bitch”, by meeting an ex-significant lover/partner when visiting a local place. The awkward first moment while making eye contact with one another just like a past experience, often creates a challenge about the appropriate way to act. Especially, if the past experiences was not pleasant and/or was full of male dominance. Carolyn Kizer shows this in her poem through the theme, which is, you should never chase after something that was never really yours to begin with and is more harmful than rewarding. Beginning with the title, “Bitch”, most readers will associate this word to have two possible meanings.…
Love Love is a tremendous aspect of our everyday life. We hear love in music, we watch shows over love on television, we witness love in our everyday lives, and we feel it ourselves with the special people close to us. I believe love is necessary for humanity. Love offers us a purpose and motivation to please the ones we prominently admire.…
The father of the Black Arts Movement is Amiri Baraka. He got this name because he wrote so many essays, poems, and plays about racial issues in Harlem. In the time there was a lot of racial injustice of African Americans civil rights. Baraka’s most known piece that he has written is his poem called “Black Art.” His works such as “Black Art” and many others have been centered around the lack of civil rights for black people.…