An Apology for Poetry

When he gets a tour of the house, he finds a shrine littered with poetry and art from their daughter Emmeline. Twain uses this part of the story to poke fun at melodramatic art and poetry. The first painting that huck looks at, titled:”shall i never see three more Alas,” is ridiculed by Huck though he does not know it, he states that it is,”blacker than most paintings,” and the…

British colonizers. Around this same time, surrounding countries had military coups, dictators, and corrupt government developing. The question that remained in everyone’s mind was one of Sudan’s fate. Author’s used this opportunity to write excerpts, poetry, and novels to analyze the Sudanese, their government, and ultimately those who they felt were to blame for the turmoil Sudan and the surrounding areas, the British. One of those authors was Tayeb Salih. Tayeb Salih is a Sudanese writer who…

Phoenix, Arizona” Sherman Alexie was born October 7, 1966, and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Sherman Alexie moved off of the reservation for high school and wanted to take up medical studies, but soon realized that he had a passion for poetry and writing. He has won numerous grants and awards for his writing such as the Sundance Award in 1998 for his indie film “Smoke Signals” and the National Book Award in Young People's Literature in 2007 for his book “True Diary of a Part-Time…

legendary stars such as Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom. However The Seafarer tells the story of a man condemned to a life at sea abandoned by his lord and everyone who isn 't a sailor yet his duty and love for the sea keeps him sailing. This piece of poetry is a true test of abandonment, the evidence is clear right from the get go by stating “the sea took me swept me back and and fourth in sorrow and fear and pain, showed me suffering in a hundred ships, in a thousand ports,and in me.”(2-5) He is…

In his autobiography Doing Battle Paul Fussell writes of his personal experiences which also tie in to several themes touched upon by social historians such as George Roeder in The Censored War. Roeder documents how the participation and suffering of African-American soldiers was censored carefully so as not to offend racists. While photographs showing dead American soldiers were a propaganda staple (as long as not too gruesome and not showing faces of the corpses), photos of black American…

Kanye’s mother, Donda West, was an accomplished English professor who discovered Kanye’s artistic abilities when he was at a very young age. She never failed to support her son’s drive and passion when it came to rapping and poetry writing (Burrell, 2007). She was even persuaded by Kanye to pay “$25 for an hour of studio time” (Chicago Tribune, 2007) for his personal use when he was only thirteen. However, to his mother’s dismay, Kanye made the decision to drop out of college…

Anything that children read is under the term of Children Literature, whether fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama used by young people (Nodelman, 2008:9). Therefore, an author of a great literary work is presented an award which is structured with one organization as the presenter and another financial sponsor organization. I tended in this essay to discuss the importance of the awards to children literature. Criteria judges and procedures associated with winning the prize, is taken in…

NAME: MWANIKI EMMANUEL KARIUKI MATRIC NO: 15AH02458 PROGRAMME: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COURSE: ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGHT COURSE CODE: POS 211 An Appraisal of Plato’s Theory of the Tripartite Society in the Republic and Its Practical Application in Nigeria’s Democracy 1.1. ABSTRACT The purpose of this term paper is to extensively look at the theory of the tripartite society as pro-founded by Plato in his classic book The Republic. The methodology used to tackle the question is critical…

“Slang is the poetry of everyday life and it vividly expresses people’s feelings about life, and about the things they encounter.”(Hayahawa, 1941) There was a time when one wrote passages or pages to express how one feels about something or someone. The beauty was in the praises that were endowed soon after. There was happiness in the flow of honest appreciations whether to praise the good or condemn the bad. Unfortunately, everything these days have narrowed down to “awesome”, “cool”, “bad”, or…

older homeless snail, looking very much like himself, he stopped to say hallo. The stranger was pleased Slug had taken the time and introduced himself as Shelly, which Slug found quite funny since he didn’t have one, he was going to ask if he wrote poetry but decided it was a little early to test his sense of…