Emotion

to poetry. Thoughts and emotions play an important role in not only confessional, but also beat poetry. In Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California” different techniques are used to capture a reader’s feelings. Throughout this poem Ginsberg allows the audience to sense emotions in ways such as using word choice with specific punctuation, contrast of metaphors, and use of active voice. All through Ginsberg’s literary work, “A Supermarket in California”, emotions are fed through word…

We start learning how to really use them. I use a mask to hide my true emotions and show the ones that are acceptable to society. We use the masks to hide all our emotions, Anger, Sadness, Anxiety, Disgust, Embarrassment, Fear, Frustration , Amusement, Boredom, Contempt, Happiness, and Interest. People judge everything and having a mask is what protects you from the…

Music has been around since the beginning of time. It is everywhere you go and it will never go away. Music is a sense of communication, it provides a way to express the emotions one is feeling and it even has the ability to alter emotions and lift one 's spirits. All of the different ways music effects the lives of people today are unique and priceless. Where would the world be without music? It has been scientifically proven that if we are feeling anxious or depressed music may be able to…

Everyone is born with emotions. Everyone can feel happy, sad, loved, and even fear. Although each person is born with these emotions some are more tolerant to certain emotions than others. And that can affect how people are motivated. One emotional appeal that people have tried tapping into and manipulating for centuries is the appeal to fear in order to use as the best motivational force. Fear is the best motivational force and these forces can be found in the non-fictional article “Scared…

Summary of The Futile Pursuit of Happiness In Jon Gertner’s article, “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness”, the author studies the idea that humans wrongly predict their emotions towards certain future events. This is called affective forecasting and proves to be the center of the article. The theories of impact bias, adapting to happiness, and empathy gap relate to the idea of affective forecasting, and provide valuable insight and understanding on its effects on happiness. Daniel Gilbert,…

that just wants to read on. That is the hard part with many visual arguments today. To grab the attention of the audience and keep the attention takes a lot in this high speed world. When you see a visual argument that strikes you with a powerful emotion, captures your attention and holds it, and makes you think more critically, then you have a successful visual argument.…

purpose of this event is to showcase the myriad of talented students who choose to express themselves and propagate positive emotions for the collective good. In the creative process, it seems that much of the lyrics reflect a college student’s emotional challenges in aspects of academic success and social acceptance. As a result, society rejoices in our ability to express emotions and evoke the same in others. The event itself consisted of a variety of songs with mostly the same theme; the…

Music is a wonderful tool for everyone to experience something different. Each person can relate to music in a positive way. Music releases hormones in the body that make you feel good. Something that intrigued me about music is the way it impacts a person’s life. Music is able to touch the lives of many in a way that can’t be described. In my case music was my get away. Anytime I was having a bad day I would turn up my music and sing as loud as I could. In that moment nothing mattered. The bad…

Kershaw distinguishes the destructive poison of envy and how it can easily overtake someone’s life to turn happiness into self-harming. She elaborates upon how this vile emotion can be motivating, forcing us realize our own goals and desires. Envy can strive us to conquer greater obstacles. Envying someone 's accomplishments, appearance, ideas, and confidence can motivate others to try harder and make positive changes that…

Love and hate are two powerful emotions; they can sometimes collide and make us act irrational. The author Carolyn Kizer learns about love the hard way. One of the major themes in “Bitch” by Kizer highlights the inner emotional battle of anger, love for an ex-partner, and desire for reconciliation versus suppression, love for herself and self-control. The poem is a single stanza of 34 lines in an irregular length, with no rhyme, and expresses anger as her first emotion. The reader can assume…