Double entendre

The Deception of Veracity Is there really a black culture? Black culture is impacted on an individual and a societal level, but external sources (media) have planted their roots in the definition of what it means to be black. The difficulty that black individuals face of distinguishing between appearances and reality is vividly presented by the songs “Bitch Bad” by Lupe Fiasco and “Thieves In The Night” by Black Star. Although these songs both emphasize how this theme causes a corrupt cycle that…

“When love is not madness it is not love.”(Pedro Calderón de la Barca). Emily Dickinson is considered to be a very influential poet of the twenty first century, though Dickinson’s work was not recognized in her lifetime.That said Dickinson poetry projects many different symbolic meaning onto the reader which are not clearly comprehended, her poetry in my opinion seems to have characteristics of religious believes and a mad obsession with death. Emily Dickinson is arguably the most famous…

Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry combines myths, fairy tales, historic stories, Bible, legends, horrors - the wide range of cultural and family heritage, mythological tradition and autobiographical transaction. She celebrates them all, discovering the truth which hasn’t been completely unveiled. Her poems demonstrate a female mindset, in a way that personally connects her with myths, history, fairy tales. The World’s Wife collection of poems starts with “Little Red Cap” which is about a…

The song trying to be cool by the indie band Phoenix was an important hit in 2012. The band originally comes from France and the writer is Thomas Mars. Trying To Be Cool became one of the most popular songs because of its meaning, swing and lyrics that all represent a very trendy stereotype of how a man ‘hits’ or seduces a woman. Throughout the song Mars uses literary devices such as metaphors and symbolism to describe how he entices a woman. Most importantly, it shows the struggle he has in the…

"The Prisoners of War,” a relatively short poem by Tom Disch, written in 1972, is riddled with imagery and deeper meaning. Even in the opening line, Disch cuts to the point. “Their language disappeared a year or so after the landscape: so what can they do now but point?” (line 1-3). Here it does not take much to get an interpretation. He is saying that our society has lost something. We have lost our “language,” meaning our ability to have intimate face-to- face conversations. That…

For example, unresolved inquiries raised by the narrator leave both Orpheus and reader bitterly disappointed. For example, in the third to last stanza, just before the double-death, the narrator says, “Was it he, or she, reaching out arms trying to hold or to be held, and clasping nothing but empty air” (Ovid 236)? This quote offers an interesting question. Naturally, readers would gloss over the extent of Eurydice and…

Alternatively, sexuality is taken as a simultaneous site of pleasure and danger for women. The double entendre found in Sringar Lavani or kalbelia performed by women allows lyrics to be read as depicting both the pleasures of sex for women. Importantly, such cultural studies create possibilities for more complicated analyses of women’s sexuality. The studies reviewed indicate that South Asian sexual praxis is produced by and through a variety of factors, although it is clear that not all…

McLuhan’s concept of a “global village”, a world of collective consciousness brought about by communication technology, was still in its nascency. Achieving collective consciousness required the rubbing of many shoulders.[does this double entendre work/translate?] As such, I believe my arcade was a prototype, (one of many), of McLuhan’s vision of the future. When I entered the arcade arena, I stepped into a synergistic, semi-virtual world and communed with its congregation of members.…

While the amount of symbols and signifying settings Houston draws to the attention of the reader is extensive, potentially the most important lie in the naming and setting of Lady Audley’s Court. Houston goes on to say the court is a “visual double entendre” of how “Lucy is courted and becomes the ruler” [emphasis added] and how it also is the “legal court pitting Robert Audley versus Lady Audley” (Houston 21). We are shown by Houston that within this dual meaning of court, Robert Audley’s…

By definition, lucid dreaming is being aware of dreaming while dreaming. Perhaps a double entendre but, perhaps, this closely explains the meaning without confusion. Coined long ago, the word "lucid" is used in the sense of mental clarity. Almost anyone, with knowledge obtained by doing, can live through lucid dreams. Not in any way dream control, lucid dreams have little or no control on dreaming. Nevertheless, lucidity in a dream will probably improve the ability to methodically affect the…