Lost in death valley In the action of live or die Donna tries to start the car it starts then they drive until they see trees they start driving towards them the the car breaks down but for good this time. So Donna said “it looks like we’re walking from here” .And they do they finally get there there’s a couple of cabins Donna breaks into a a old smelly,cabin in search of food and water.…
In the following story I will be drawing a parallel between the poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou, and the upcoming Homecoming football game between Lane and Curie. In it I will be demonstrating why I believe that both lane and Curie are caged birds. My piece is titled “Escaping one's Cage”. Escaping One’s Cage. Before the game even began you could see the growing anxiety on the Lane Tech football team, they were about to go out representing their entire school, in front of an immense crowd in their own stadium.…
However, a reader may not wonder if the poem is about what is wrong with the prairies, but perhaps what is right with them. The poem could be concerning how those living on the land edited the area to make it such a beautiful…
English Essay “How do stories teach us about other cultures or our own?” Through non-fiction stories an individual is able to gain understanding into their own culture as well as the culture of others. Stories are able to tell one about their culture as well as boarded their awareness of other cultures in several ways. The poem The Man From Snowy River by Banjo Patterson and Guo Nian a Chinese mythology story, outline similar ideas including traditions, beliefs and learning about the past as well as their respective cultures. The Man From Snowy River captures the essence of Australian culture in a rural context from the perspective of the Man from Snowy River.…
American based poet, Galway Kinnell was born in the year 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. Growing up Kinnell was a very shy and introverted child who often turned to American literature and poetry to escape daily life (Poetry Foundation). Kinnell, who spent two years in the United States Navy then went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a Master’s degree from The University of Rochester. During the times of when he was most active writing poetry was during and after the civil rights movement in America. Kinnell was also part of many groups that supported voting rights of blacks……
In “The Prairie” Bill appears to be a child trapped in the body of a strong, tall, and bold man. From the narrators point of view Bill is deemed childish and imprudent since he is always oblivious of what is happening around him. The narrator describes Bill as a simple-minded person who has a hard time trying to comprehend the circumstances that they are facing. This could be substantiated through the following quotation: “Bill isn’t the sharpest tack in the drawer. He’s been that way pretty much his whole life or at least since I’ve known him, which is close to the time he left the womb.”…
Almost every person in America has known a person with cancer or has even undergone it themselves. For me, it was my grandmother. I experienced watching a woman I looked up to was deteriorating in health. While I was too young to fully understand the effects it held on my family, I could detect how everyone was acting differently. Thankfully, my grandmother survived, and she shares her story of survival to this day.…
1. The visual images in the excerpts from Don’t Let Me Be Lonely serve as reinforcement to the messages that the poems are trying to convey. For example, in the excerpt about the American flag, where Rankine inquires about the whereabouts of another person’s American flag, the image with the excerpt reinforces this idea of total patriotism. In the image, a man holds a flag that covers most of his face and his body, perhaps capturing the idea of the excerpt; that a person must no longer be an individual and that they must be an total “American”. Rankine also uses the image of a blank TV screen throughout the book, perhaps symbolizing the disillusionment that American felt over what they had just witnessed with 9/11.…
“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.…
Being fairly young, I could not interpret the lyrics; to me it was a joyful and patriotic song. Furthermore, as a young adult I can now interpret the lyrics and convey the meaning behind this poem. The poem starts in a joyful tone with the speaker stating, “this land was made for you and me” at the end of the first four stanzas (Guthrie 4). Guthrie uses imagery such as “endless skyway,” “golden valley,” and “diamond deserts” to give the reader a beautiful joyful image of what there is awaiting in the journey (Guthrie 6, 7, 10). Towards the end it changes tone to disappointment.…
Keanah Santiago The Poem That Ruined My Life It was a dreary Saturday morning in England for all but me. Today my friend Marie de France was asked to be a court writer for the court of Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, and she chose me as her lady in waiting. We were walking in the marketplace when we got this news, and Marie was ecstatic. No one knew why they chose Marie, some say that Eleanor wanted to have someone in the court who had a french background besides herself.…
The theme of my poetry is the beauty of nature. I chose this topic because I truly believe that the nature in this world is beautiful. I’ve visited many places free from human interactions, and one thing is the same about all these places. It’s a scene you can never forget. Although these places are undeniably beautiful, people still feel the need to colonize these places.…
Please note that while the cover is simplistic, it is intended to be as such. The novel contains a multitude of vintage photographs which are both creepy and shrouded in mystery. This was the theme I tried to capture with this CD cover. Analysis: The first reason as to why I chose this song is that the music/beat is uplifting and almost innocent, in a sense.…
Stories such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “The Hunters of Men”, and “Civil Disobedience” all have a connection with the fight to gain civil rights and equality. Much of that still carries on into the 21st century we live in today. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a woman takes matters into her own hands in order to save her child, showing her strength and bravery that many women in today's time possess as well. “The Hunters of Men”, a short story written by John Greenleaf Whittier, is considered to be a public attack on slave hunters. The public attacks against their government and the way people were treated didn't stop there, in “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau made sure to show that the people had more power over the government than they thought.…
(Line 11-14) interestingly using a futuristic lense to open up the world that African Americans experienced. This quote describes an experience that many may not experience, and his poetry allowed people to experience his feeling firsthand. Lastly, “Besides, They 'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed --” (Line 15-17) is key.…