Synopsis: A journey through the narrators St. Louis. Response: The stream of conscious like flow of this poem works so well with the form in creating movement. I felt as though I was following along as the narrator recanted their memories of the streets. One of my favorite stanzas is; “ cars loaded wit families / fellas from the factory / one or two practical nurses / black / become our trenches / some dig into cement wit elbows / under engines / do not be seen / in yr hometown / after sunset we…
Vincent’s Bedroom The Dutch artist known as Vincent Van Gogh painted the Bedroom in Arles in 1889. The painting is of Van Gogh's own bedroom, where he had eventually died after attempting to commit suicide. He is thought to have painted it to show his sadness and even reflect his suicide in 1890. In Don Mclean's tribute song known as 'Vincent', the lyrics points out the work of art as the following: “Now I understand what you tried to say to me, how you suffered for your sanity.” The bedroom…
1. Why does the narrator bring up memories of when he was a child? There are several objects in the poem that reminded him of his childlike ways. For example, the blue river was highly admirable to him and the fields is where he would play with butterflies. “These are the same, but I am not the same, But wiser than I was, and wise enough (Emerson 1).” 2. What in this poem could you also compare to with the values of the Native Americans? In this poem, the narrator continual speaks on how sacred…
Cather personally adheres Naturalism in her book O Pioneers! because how She wrote about her and Oscar and Luis’ fight and Emil and Marie’s relationship. Although, Cather prefers Naturalism in her book, the title has a sense of Naturalism. To sum it up I believe Cather uses Naturalism as her life philosophy in her book O’ Pioneers!. However, O’ Pioneers! has the Naturalistic view the title of the book has a romantic view. The Title of the book has the same title as a romantic poem that talks…
uan Ramon Jimenez was an inspiring short and intense personal poet. They were a great inspiration to a generation of spanish writers in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Born in Spain, he went to college, but quit to devote himself to the love and joy of writing. His poems began appearing when he was just 17. He was a master of the new generation of poets. In “I Am Not I”, Juan Ramon Jimenez writes about how there is a real self as well as an illusory self. Juan Ramon Jimenez writes about the self who he…
The poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is very unique in the way it is written. This poem show how the search for love has affect a man life. T.S. Eliot made up a character whose name is Prufrock, and he is a man with an unattractive look that has hard time in a search for love. Eliot wrote the poem in a way the reader can interpret Prufrock characteristics. In the poem Eliot use different depictions and analogies of how to describe Prufrock. Eliot give a few ways of how Prufrock feel…
Remembrance and Recognition. As Camara Laye once said “all dancers have a cumulative tendency because each beat of the Tom-Tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon those who were just spectators would dance too.” People enjoy learning about others and even expressing what their own lives are like. All of the stories, which take place in Senegal and Guinea. Given the region, the writing is different than America’s poetry. The poems in question are “Prayer to the Mask, Letter to a Poet,…
The poem With rue my heart is laden by A.E. Houseman is conveying the past and future. Though the poem might be short, it is split into crucial and profound events in the author’s life as he refers to his memories, as claimed, “For golden friends I had”. This quote reveals that the poet is remembering all his friends as he uses past tense language, “had”. By the use of “had”, we can assume that the poet’s friends are pasted away or not his friends any more. The poet not only states his memories,…
Bill Bryson, author of Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, accounts his arrival in Europe for the first time. Bryson’s accounts explains his enthusiasm at his entry into the continent to his audience, the readers. In order to capture his excitement into his writing, Bryson used some syntax, repetition, and epithet, which in turn deliver his excitement to us through his work. One of the rhetorical devices that Bryson uses to successfully express his experience in Europe is syntax. Syntax…
Elizabeth Gilbert states, “Depression on my left, and loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.” Similarly, in Robert Frost’s poem “Acquainted with the Night,” he uses effective figurative language such as repetition, metaphor, and personification to underscore the constant loneliness and depressed feelings of the speaker. One way the constant loneliness and depressed feelings of the speaker is conveyed through repetition. This is evident…