Apostrophe

When writing my Practice Essay in Week One I think I did a good job at the organization of my essay and considering my audience. I wrote about a military experience in my essay, which turned out to be more difficult than I expected because something’s are hard to explain to civilians. I considered my audience by changing the wording so a non military member could understand. Another way I considered my audience was by omitting certain topics completely because they were too difficult to…

Canto VI of the Inferno lends itself well to the traditional format of a lectura Dantis, in which one canto is lifted from the context of the whole work, and considered as a single poetic entity. This canto is one of the shortest in the Comedy: only one other, Inferno XI, has as few as 115 lines. Canto VI can be regarded as a self-contained unit, since it holds the complete description of one circle of Hell, the third, where Gluttons are punished. The action of the canto is symmetrically framed…

The main characters in the book Purity Reigns, by Stephanie Perry Moore, are Laurel Shadrach, Branson Price, and Brittany Cox. The protagonist is Laurel because the book is about her and her decisions. The antagonist is Branson because he is going against her wishes by pressuring her into something she doesn't want to do. Laurel, Branson, and Brittany are all seniors in high school this year (Moore 11). Laurel is a tall, dark haired girl. She is very popular around school. She has the strongest…

At first glance, “You Throw a Stone,” by Juan Felipe Herrera, looks like a piece of found poetry written using the erasure method (a method of found poetry where poets take a piece of literature, usually a poem, and erase most of the words, leaving behind words that form a poem when read in order), but that is not so, Felipe’s words are all his own, albeit written in a creative and unique way. “You Throw a Stone,” is written in free verse, an open form of poetry that allows a poet to write to…

Thwarted in love, or what he thinks is his love for the Countess Olivia, Orsino opens the play with a sweet but cynical speech about the inconstancy of love. He basically says it’s just like appetite—what tastes good for a while then begins to be “not so sweet now as it was before.” He doesn’t compare love to any higher emotion or even hint that it has a spiritual dimension or the possibility of constancy. Indeed, the Duke even suggests that a person in love can become a connoisseur of his or…

Whittier’s poems had ‘made her joyful all the day long because her mind could see all the lovely things which she could not see with her eyes’” (Maskal 138). He inspired so many with his poems and one of which is “Don’t Quit”. This poem is narrated in Apostrophe format, has a couplet rhyme scheme, has a specific diction choice, impacts readers, and can reach all kinds of people. John Greenleaf Whittier has had experience in the writing poems. My Ebsco source is about Whittier’s life. He was…

In this lesson Ms. Formoso was teaching her students about figurative language. Students have read some poems before, and now they will work in small group to complete an activity that involves figurative language. She begins by stating the objective and making sure the students understand it. She then activates prior knowledge, which provides scaffolding and allows the students to engage with the topic. She then guides the students through a discussion about poetry and figurative language. With…

poem in the use of the “I” sound which can be attributed to assonance the consonance is recognisable in the b note that links the word “beauteous” with many other words used in the poem. In line 6 the apostrophe is addressing the reader directly, the word is ‘foregrounded’ and is not only an apostrophe but an imperative as…

with the picture of the “filament.” The repeating word keeps lingering on the image of the spider reaching out. In the second stanza, Whitman introduces us to the image of a soul. In line 6, he personifies the soul by calling it by its name. This apostrophe paints the soul as representing a person that stands “lonesome.” In line 8, Whitman gives a human feel to the soul and uses descriptive phrases like “surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.” (2.2) This depicts the soul as a…

his child- and adulthood? A man who has lived in London, New Delhi, New York and Hong Kong? It are the feelings of just a common man that Dom Moraes - an Indian poet - portrays in his poem ‘Sinbad’. An analysis of the poem reveals that through the apostrophe which addresses ‘Sinbad’ and formal characteristics such as rhythm, free verse and punctuation, the reader gets an impression of desultoriness. This represents the theme of belonging nowhere, travelling and the author’s personal quest for…