Apostrophe

Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” explores a mother’s complex emotions towards her newborn child after giving birth for the first time. Although motherhood is often regarded as a joyous event that gives a woman’s life purpose and meaning, “Morning Song” instead depicts motherhood as a complicated event fraught with uncertainty and fear, but also with love and affection. Rather than expressing overwhelming love and happiness, the mother in the poem feels distant from her child and gradually learns to…

Petrarch’s Canzoniere is a volume of 365 sonnets and songs that explore the poet’s desire for a woman who is beautiful but chaste, and therefore unattainable. The speaker’s inability to attain the woman’s love is a common thread weaving throughout these sonnets and songs and gave rise to the concept of Petrarchan love, a theme that many poets have since emulated. Sir Thomas Wyatt’s sonnet Whoso List to Hunt and Sonnet 67 by Edmund Spenser are adaptations of Petrarch’s Canzoniere sonnet, Rima 190…

Edward Estlin Cummings, a 20th century poet, painter, playwright, and novelist, impacted literature greatly. Nearly all of his poems challenged the accepted rules of writing through formatting and grammar choices. The topics of the poems created the most controversy, especially the poems he wrote focusing on nature, religion, and his sexuality. Due to his strict religious upbringing, Cummings conveys his inner strife and difficulties forming connections through his eccentric writing style.…

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy” quotes Proverbs 31:8-9 (New International Version, Prov. 31:8-9). This maxim has been accomplished by people throughout all of history. One example of such a person is Anna Akhmatova, a 20th century Russian poet who lived through Joseph Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union, a time period characterized by severe oppression and a persistent…

Introduction to “Yo no fui, fue Teté” “Yo no fui, fue Teté” is an attempt to invade the consciousness of those living on this side. The same people who everyday leave a wound in the mind and subconscious of many individuals socially “unfit” in the gender-binary. Thus, excluded from the social discourse as inorganic creatures that for the lack of a proper categorization are so-called “del otro lado.” That border, which divides, us, those of this side and those of the other side, is what the poet…

Beata Koszyk Eng.12 Prof. Edris McPherson Self Assessment Essay My name is Beata Koszyk, better known to others as ‘B’. I have a lot of outdoor hobbies like, kayaking, canoeing, fishing and camping. I was born in Poland, but moved to the United States at an early age. After finishing high school, I went to a Cosmetology school and I got my license. Then I decided to go to a Real Estate school, where I got another license. But I still felt a void and wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my…

Sonnet VI Michael Drayton’s sonnet number six describes a setting of the world where many women paint the streets. Drayton in line 1 explains that these women are “paltry, foolish, painted things” describing them as meager or of no importance where as they try to by foolishly painting themselves with make-up like children playing adults for a day. These women surround coaches on the streets soon to be forgotten due to the fact that no poet has ever written about them in a sense that gives a…

Intro. While Shakespeare’s Hamlet intrigues readers with a captivating story line, with further analysis of his rhetoric, readers can glimpse at his outlook on some of the many facets of humanity; specifically, revenge and misogyny. Theme Intro. To begin with, revenge is a very predominant theme in this play mainly because of the importance given to it through the main character and many of the foil characters. In particular, however, Hamlet’s own need for revenge reveals a great deal about…

The oral analytic rubric is composed of five individual grading aspects. Each of these aspects plays a major role in grading an ELL student’s oral language. The five grading components are comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. To begin with, in order to develop an effective academic speech, comprehension is an imperative learning skill. One prime example of how crucial comprehension is by following a doctor’s direction concerning the steps needed for the consumption of…

diction and tone be calm in order for him to accentuate peace, in other words he must lead by example. If he were to be using biting diction during the entire course of his speech he would contradicting his preeminent theme of Ahimsa. Gandhi also uses apostrophe to bring forth positive feelings of unity…