Confessional poetry

Richard Rodriguez, in the chapter in which the quote can be found, titled "Aria", writes repeatedly about the importance of intimacy with public and private language. Rodriguez mentions that intimacy can only be achieved in his life through the one language that he feels as if was a sort of secret one, Spanish. In my opinion, this quote bounces off a highly profound meaning. The reason why I say this is because I find it majorly interesting, the way that Richard Rodriguez sees the opinion of…

Shakairah Arthur Paper #1: The Introduction October 1, 2017 Dr. Dugan Paper 1: Intro In ‘Monument’ and “Myth”, the person being forgotten is Trethewey's mother and Trethewey is the one forgetting her. In “Monument”, Trethewey writes, “weeds and grass grown all around/ the landscape blurred and waving. At, my mother’s grave, ants streamed in and out like arteries, a tiny hill rising above her untended .” This tells the reader that the author has not come to take care of the gravesite. Not only…

The Death of Wedding Vows The black dove much like the black swan is the ugly side of the modern marriage. As people celebrate the decline of the traditional marriage, Mona Charen maintains an unwavering opinion that the ‘piece of paper’ actually matters (226). Throughout the article, it is emphasized that the traditional family is dying and that claiming that it’s just changing is a distraction from the real consequences of the changing societal norms. Charen loosely defines a traditional…

Receiving Help Sherman Alexie's poem, "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona," uses flashbacks, sensory description, dialogue, and other literary tools to illustrate the importance of reunion. In the story, Alexie demonstrates how the news of the death of Victor's father affected him. He says that even though he has not seen his father in years, “there was still a genetic pain, which was as real and immediate as a broken bone,” (Alexie 11). Victor’s father had died and now Victor has…

One the defining tendencies of Modernist writers is the rather melancholy stance they seem to take while pondering the world. They often suggest rather than state, emphasize questions over answers, and generally show rather than tell. All of this reinforcing the deep dissatisfaction they have with the traditions of society. Thus, it is particular interesting to look at a piece of Modernist literature that breaks the typical Modernist mold. For while Zora Hurston’s “How it Feels to be Colored Me”…

Radium girls was a play about a girl named Grace who works at a radium factory. She paints dials with radium paint. She and the two other girls she works with as seen in the play, were given instructions to put the paint brush in their mouth which later becomes the cause of radium poisoning. This caused the jaw of their mouth to slowly rot away and eventually kills them. Grace and Catherine decide to sue their employers for damages and poisoning. The employers were doing their best to hide the…

What is love? Is it a feeling, or is it something much more than that? No one knows what love is or how to explain it, making it one of the most popular themes throughout the literary world. For example, in Ovid’s epic entitled “Metamorphoses,” he uses love many times as a recurring theme, and each time he uses it in a unique way. One of those being the story of Apollo and Daphne; where Cupid shot Apollo with his magic love arrow which caused Apollo to become entranced by the river nymph named…

In Freneau’s poem “On the Religion of Nature”, is motivational and insightful. It encourages readers to see a bigger picture. It’s not just about the beauty you can find in nature, it is about the religion and peace you can find in it as well. He gets his message across with literary devices that speak directly but at the same time indirectly to the reader. The language in this poem makes it clear that Freneau was a firm believer in the ideas and nature of enlightenment. Freneau was against…

The Pardoner starts by depicting the greater part of his little-known techniques in his work. He discloses to the travelers that he generally uses "instability is the base of all abhorrent" as his subject when lecturing, the better to relax the handbag series of his gathering of people. Exhibiting the hard offer, he gives when he is in contact in a town, the Pardoner portrays some of his relics and their healing properties. Every one of the relics is phony, he concedes, yet he couldn't care less…

Dignity is defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary as the quality or state of being worthy, honored or esteemed. John Steinbeck has a way of instilling a sense of dignity in the characters of the books he writes, like Tom and Ma Joad from The Grapes of Wrath and George Milton and Crooks from Of Mice and Men. Throughout these two books, these characters display a high level of dignity through their honorable attributes and independence that many of the other characters lack. Starting off with…