Exclamation

Claude McKay faced extreme racism in the early 20th century yet he fought back and expressed himself with his poetry. Not always exposed to segregation, he was born into a loving family on September 15, 1889 in Sunny Ville, Jamaica. At a very young age, his brother, Uriah Theophilus McKay, began tutoring him in classical literature, communism, and famous writers. Claude spent hours reading William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens in his brother’s library. His neighbor Walter Jekyll also…

Throughout Marjane Satrapi graphic novel, Persepolis, Satrapi demonstrates a variety of artistry in order to bring out emotion and emphasis in the plot. Frames, the outline of a panel, and the images inside them, show these emotions through size and detail of the panel. Similar to film, graphic novels can emphasize what the author wants the formalizer, the reader of a graphic novel, to focus on through the viewpoint of the panel. The details also come into play with the distance from the focus…

The Romantics were obsessed with the natural world. Nature to them acted as a spiritual spring, an eternal source of inspiration from which they drew to motivate their writing. Likewise, Shelley’s Frankenstein shows a fascination of nature characteristic of the Romantic Era. However, Frankenstein’s secondary themes also include the progression of science and technology, as well as exploration and discovery. Shelly unites these two themes with the concept of awe. As Victor Frankenstein…

Especially when we passed by the famous architect Frank Gehry’s art, his proud exclamation of the design influenced my admiration on building structure and expanded to the aesthetic beauty. My imagination of future design started to form in a rotational 3D image inside my mind. Through the ACE mentorship program, my passion in architecture…

Allen Ginsberg began writing “Howl” circa 1954, a time when homosexuality (and sexuality in general), profanity, vulgarity, and illicit drug use were so tabu that even writing about such subjects was considered illegal and warranted arrest. Ginsberg’s poem should be read with the understanding of how progressive, revealing, and dangerous it was within the contexts of society. It shattered walls, gave a voice to the vagabonds, free-spirits, artists, and erotic people of not only America but the…

Two main kinds of modern realism explored in Canada are that which is rural and said to be pioneered by Grove, and that which is urban and claimed to be pioneered by Callaghan. That being said, Sime is a clear contender for pioneering urban realism, because she was practicing it before Callaghan in 1919. The Short story, “Munitions!”, focuses on urban lifestyle, particularly for women, during World War I. This type of realism is largely in contrast with that of Laurence’s and Ross’ works which…

this last stanza I find that Bryon thought of her so much more than just a pretty face. All of her is beautiful and he may be the only one who sees that. Finally after how carefully he described her in a slow and calm way, he ends the poem with an exclamation point as if he is crying for her. She has put him in awe through her love and it is not even directed to him. He needs her balance to keep at ease and she could be the home he always wanted. It is possible that this last line can foreshadow…

The thought-provoking essay “Poetry as a Way of Saying” by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren provides an educational direction for a reader’s comprehension and understanding of the “naturalness” of poetry. They claim in this critical text that “mere immersion does little good unless the reader is making, however unconsciously, some discriminations, comparisons, and judgements” (16). As illustrated in “Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night,” by Dylan Thomas, the raw power and emotion that…

If propaganda, the ultimate form of societal persuasion, is used correctly, a group can instill biased views into a population. The Nazi Party did just that, but they used their influence to start a genocide. Hitler’s knowledge of propaganda gave the Nazi Party a pathway to power. They used it to glorify the party and paint him as a deity. They also released pieces that painted the Jewish people as the enemy to the world’s peace. Hitler believed that it was easier to brainwash the uneducated…

sentiment into then-modern practices much easier, as seedy interpretations of early Gospel text were not new conceptions. For example, the common belief of Catholics at the time that the Jews lacked “righteous[ness]” lacked political context; it was an exclamation which the apostle Matthew used to set apart his local community from Pharisees amidst what Marendy calls “false teachings” (Marendy 291-292). The Gospel of John went a step further, laying down the foundation for many Anti-Semites’…