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Poetry is one of the most powerful tools in conveying many different things such as love, fear, common sense, and characters perceptions of what is wrong or right. This allows the audience to be able to make connections with the perceptions of different characters. One very great poet who is able to do this is Edgar Allan Poe. It was his background that made him the poet he is known widely to be today. From the very early stages of life till his death, Edgar Allan Poe had been going through very…

The poems I experienced reading during this class allowed me to understand poetry to a newer level. Prior to this I feared poetry and reading it based on experiences of high school and the disaster of trying to learn, here I was able to bring myself to accept and actually understand what I was actually reading. I was able to relate or understand the writer’s link to personal experiences into my own life. This experience was more enlightening making the learning process that much enjoyable;…

1. Campbellesque fiction, named after John Campbell the blending of a good story and correct scientific knowledge, in a way that neither overpowers the other. This type of fiction demonstrates a sort of realism that makes the entirety of the story seem plausible, achievable, and after a decade no longer fictional. According to Isaac Asimov, this was the death of this era of science fiction. Science fiction moved in this direction due to the premium on quality writing placed by John Campbell…

Music and Poetry are first cousins. Poetry is mostly private, quieter, and all around more reserved, while Music is the popular relative who strives to be heard by everyone and anyone. However, the intentions of both are identical; to invoke a certain feeling in the listener. A chorus and a stanza are one in the same, they both capture moments of the writer’s life or their emotions during a situation. Emily Dickinson, a 19th century poet, privately wrote almost 2,000 poems, all of which reflect…

Effrosyni Adamopoulou published a paper creatively titled “New facts on infidelity” in 2013. The paper, as one might suspect, is a short article detailing new, empirical facts about infidelity. It glosses over the brief economic examinations of infidelity in the past, and addresses what has been lacking in these past examinations. Adamopoulou makes several statements about infidelity; one that it is an activity that peaks in the summer, two that in America men and women cheat about equally, and…

The science fiction book that I read is Armada by Ernest Cline. After reading his first book Ready Player One I had really high hopes for Armada. Ready Player One is a big nerd adventure kind of like Willy Wonka but in a different setting. Armada on the other hand is more of a stereotypical save the world, find your dead dad, and get the girl type. Armada has many fun elements. Ernest Cline's works are based around nerd culture like video games, comic books, and 80s tv shows. Armada is no…

“In science fiction, we dream”-Ray Bradbury. It’s as easy as that. An author can’t just sit down and write a science fiction novel. There needs to be some kind of inspiration there for the author to spill his or her words onto a page. They use their knowledge of sci-fi along with literary tools to make a great story. In my opinion, science fiction is simply something that makes us expand our minds to think about the unbelievable. It is an escape into a world where we can stretch our…

Lakeisha Williams LITR322 Natascha Gast March 29, 2015 Research Paper Week 8 The Black Experience Through Themes of Nature in Jean Toomer’s Poetry I have had the opportunity to read such great works from fantastically relevant immortal poets such as, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost, just to name a few. But there is one, Harlem Renaissance poet Jean Toomer that intrigued me, not only because he was a talented poet but also because he was an African American poet. Now, being…

The readings this week are “Poetry is not a Luxury” by Audrey Lorde and James T. Stewart’s “The Development of the Black Revolutionary War”. In the text, Audrey Lorde discusses poetry. Not poetry in terms of rhyming words or specific stanzas, as white literature frames it, but poetry as a mode of communicating and accessing our emotions. Stewart discusses the revolution of black arts. Not in general terms but in a way that African-Americans saw themselves and clearly understood that this new…

Every single story, poem, and piece of literature has a central theme supporting the story it is telling. Great literature typically focuses on themes that allow us an inward look into human nature. Some common themes often portrayed might include: the loss of innocence, insecurity, isolation, as well as relationships issues such as: emotional abuse, infidelity, and communication struggles.When reading Gilman’s “The Yellow Paper” and Shaw’s “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses”, it becomes…