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In 1988 author Salman Rushdie wrote and published The Satanic Verses, causing outrage in the Islamic community due to the perceived criticism of Allah. Because of this, a fatwa was issued against him by Ruhollah Khomeini and he was forced into hiding, separating him from his his family. During his absence he wrote the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories dedicated to his son Zafar, however by establishing an allegory within the novel, Rushdie transforms a children's fantasy, into a platform to…

This was something far from Walt Whitman’s time gaining him lots of attention. Free verse is defined as poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter and so that is what he did. It was “new, unusual kind of poetry-stripped of rhyme and meter flowing in a free verse.” (Padgett 139) This poetry he invented himself, “he is acknowledged as the innovator.” (Martin 39). As one critic writes describing his poetry, “a short line…

The poems, “Funeral Blues”, by W.H. Auden and “From Long Distance”, by Tony Harrison are about the feelings of sadness and mourning over the loss of a loved one. Both poems reflect how much death affects people, as well as how people are unable to let go of a loved one. The poet of the first poem is frustrated and expresses feelings of love as well as anger towards the death of his loved one. The second poem is about how the poet’s father cannot forget about his wife and therefore conveys the…

Sammy Lew Language Arts November 16, 2014 Haroun and the Sea of Stories In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, through the usage of literary devices, Salman Rushdie explores the freedom of speech in his novel, while metaphorically relating to past experiences in his life. From this, Salman Rushdie narrates the journey of a boy named Haroun, and his quest to reclaim his father, Rashid’s lost storytelling skills, having lost his muse, his wife, Soraya, whom had left him and fled with Mr. Sengupta, the…

According to Dictionary.com, a free verse is poetry that does not have a rhyme or regular meter. This poem is not written in a free verse poem, like Whitman is known for. This poem is written in a rhyme scheme of AABBCDED. This means that the last letter of each line may rhyme with another word in the following line. The rhyme scheme,…

Often dressed with a distinguished beard and hat, Walt Whitman was first a poet before a soldier of the Civil War. A 19th century New York man, Whitman worked many jobs before determining his journey to becoming the father of free verse poetry. When he did introduce himself in his first poetry book, Leaves of Grass, he left shortly thereafter to find his poems as a volunteer medic in the Civil War. His poem, “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field”, introduced in his 1865 poetry collection Drum-Taps,…

to express their feelings and thoughts because it is not possible to predict how productive someone can be; perhaps, they can do remarkable things if they were allowed to. The speaker might be a black slave due to the description given on the first verse of the second stanza “I am the darker brother”, and his tone is bright, optimistic, cheerful and confident. In addition, the poem seems to reflect the end of oppression period because the speaker emphasizes the fact that the reality will change…

Many poets are very different and some are revolutionary. Almost all poets before Whitman wrote with a pattern in their poetry, but Whitman changed that and became the father of free verse poetry. In Dickinson 's poetry it reflects her loneliness in her life and most of the people in her poetry are in a state of want. These poets are very different and have really changed the direction of poetry over time. Whitman and Dickinson poems are similar yet very different at the same time. In Walt…

Innocence and Feminity in Salman Rushdie’s, East, West and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows the struggles from childhood while growing up in Iran to the subsequent encounters in Europe. Salman Rushdie’s “East, West” on the other hand uses fiction and reality and blends the two in its most controversial perspective. Despite the difference in style and writing language, the two books are documented in certain themes with complementing ideologies. The main objective…

“The Writer” by Robert Wilbur portrays the speaker, a father, who sincerely hopes for his daughter’s success in her writing career as well as in her life. As, a writer himself, the speaker silently waits for his daughter in the staircase as he hears her struggle through her writing journey. Robert Wilbur, not only creates the title “the writer” to convey the audiences the daughter’s aspiration as a writer, but to convey that writing itself is a journey. Wilbur seems to direct this poem to other…