Cloud Gate

How does Ee Tiang Hong convey his feeling about the Bougainvillea in ‘To a shrub’ The sight poem “To a shrub” by Ee Tiang Hong is about a Bougainvillea. Ee draws attention to the grace of the flower describing the Bougainvillea; how all the features of the Bougainvillea are all graceful and tirelessly beautiful. Ee uses, poetic techniques; Alliterations and repetition are used for emphasis. Also personifications, metaphor were used to give the Bougainvillea characteristics bringing the poem to…

as a Cloud”, Wordsworth describes how the flowers impact his mood, how it would be impossible to be down in their presence: "The waves beside them danced; but they / Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: / A poet could not but be gay, / In such a jocund company: / I gazed—and gazed—but little thought / What wealth the show to me had brought." Wordsworth also portrays how lonely he was before his discovery of the flowers with a direct relationship to a lone cloud: I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That…

The poem I chose from chapter 4 Images is Sheila Wingfield’s “A Bird” (p. 119). The poem oddly brought back a memory from my childhood. What makes poetry so powerful is its capability to evoke senses like memories and emotions. Images is one of the many tools poetry uses to create a verbal picture. Something as simple as a description of a melted ice cream cone, can remind your favorite or saddest day in summer. The poem is only five lines but the choice of words creates great imagery:…

Always Something More Beautiful, Stephen Dunn, born in Forest Hills, NY. Stephen Dunn was known as an American poet and educator, which all his poems reflect the social, cultural, psychological are of the American middle class. This poem’s title might reflect on the narrator’s life and how beautiful it can be. I got attracted to this poem, because it reminded me when I was at the Regionals for a Cross-Country race and reflected how human’s life can be fair or beautiful. Dunn’s poem contains a…

The poem starts off on a melancholic tone; the opening sentence being ‘I wondered lonely as a cloud’. Instantly readers get the mental image of the lonely romantic, outside the rest of humanity as a cloud floats above the landscape. The tone of the poem shifts dramatically once Wordsworth comes across the daffodils. The daffodils bring him an overwhelming joy, and this remains the dominant mood of…

Wordsworth writes, “Which is bliss of solitude; and my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils,” (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth). Wordsworth creates a tone of sadness but shifts it to a more joyful atmosphere, but as he does he uses author’s diction to draw the reader in, because of this he starts the stanza off with loneliness to a blissful ending from…

Dorothy and William strolling down the lane, raptured by the sun and the beauty it brings. Desiring to put their experience into words, each doing so in their own way. Dorothy penned a journal to give an account of all they saw, William created poems in reflections of the time they spent. The question remains; did William steal the original thought from his sister to create his poems? Did the two work in tandem toward the same goal? Perhaps their works are separate pieces that should be admired…

“It's time I thought of myself” is just one on the many selfish comments Windrider makes in the novel Dragonwings by Laurence Yep. His self-centered decisions caused Moonshadow’s dream to be prolonged, but Moonshadow never resents him for it and instead admires him. The entire book is based on Moonshadow’s admiring perspective, so readers don’t see the self-centered side to Moonshadow’s father. Windrider gives into his selfish desires, ultimately disregarding the feelings of others and…

While those living in more developed nations simply have to turn the faucet handles when they want drinking water or to wash our clothes, for countless of millions more worldwide, this simple act often turns into an ordeal. As such, world organizations from several developed and undeveloped nations convened recently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to identify and target the five most urgent needs currently found in every third world nation--be it Latin America, Africa or elsewhere. Our article below…

Alcatraz Island has a rather distinct past. Even though Alcatraz sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the island seems distant, as if it were miles out of sea. The appeal to Alcatraz is uninviting, since it had played an important role in the history of California. Imagine being imprisoned in one of the world’s most disreputable prisons. However, not only is the island well known as the prison, but it was much more than a prison going back in time. Alcatraz was a prison for the worst…