Japanese poetry

clarifing that he sees America as an integrated democracy. While “as” is repeated multiple times, Whitman also uses repetition with the word “the.” “The” is used at the beginning of 72% of each line in Whitman’s poem. This technique, when used in poetry, is called an anaphora. Anaphora’s are a technique that adds emphasis to the text at hand, and in I Hear America Singing, the emphasis creates the sound of a song when spoken aloud. The harmony that is created with the term “the” shows that…

The Road Not Taken v. The Armful Robert Lee Frost created poetry with mysterious yet clear, heartfelt lessons of choices and struggle, two of which are well shown in The Road Not Taken and The Armful. The two poems perfectly depict some of Frost 's own triumphs, despite the hardships endured, the inspirations channeled from Frost 's wife, Elinor White, and the scenery of the England 's countryside. The moods perceived throughout the works of literature brings mysterious feelings of failure…

Poetry is generally used to tell a story whether it be about love or an epic adventure. Sonnets specifically tend to deal with complications that come with love. Billy Collins however decided to go a different route in his poem “Sonnet.” His poem is a lesson about the sonnet and how he believes the form needs to change. He does this by explaining the different forms of a sonnet, by adding in characters to support his claims, and by using figurative language to emphasize the changes he believes…

Shadows”, is an eloquent commentary on Japanese aesthetics. He describes the beauty in Japanese architecture, pottery, food, physical characteristics and many other details and traditions that shape his country. As the author was writing his book, Japan was beginning to adopt Western technology and values. He emphasizes the introduction of electric lights; how their harsh brightness clashed with the soft shadows and the elemental darkness that created Japanese beauty. He describes the many…

Somber, cheerless, regressive; typical personalities of rural Irish. In“Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics”, Nancy Scheper- Hughes, discovered a great amount of revelations. From questioning mental illness to making connections in human behavior, Scheper- Hughes’ discoveries of rural Irish were controversial to say the least. While some of her discoveries were easy to fathom, others such as the similarities in personalities were not. Due to the fact that I was raised in a diverse and…

Literary Analysis Number Two: Time Unifies Community which Gives Identity Tik tok, tik tok, the time counts down, forever running, never stopping, and never changing. The communities rise, fall, get taken over, change, rise- completing a never ending cycle following to the beat of time. In the book … And the Earth Did not Devour Him, it exhibits the connection, between time and communities, and how these associations have an effect on the individual identities. It can be argued that time…

Mapping Project: Fadlan and Battutah In Franco Moretti’s, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History, in a chapter titled, “Maps,” Moretti notes that “there is a very simple question about literary maps: what exactly do they do? What do they do that cannot be done with words?” and “Do maps add anything, to our knowledge of literature?” (Moretti, Maps, 35). In this essay, I hope to explain the significance of maps in both Ibn Battutah’s, The Travels of Ibn Battutah and Ibn…

Jean-Michel Basquiat was more than an amazing artist, he was a poet, a musician and is his late teens somewhat of a graffiti artist. His art now reflects the gritty and colorful streets of Lower Manhattan in the 1980’s whilst concurrently remaining contemporary and timeless. Basquiats’ Neo-Expressionist art is in the league of Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and other innovative art legends. His character seduced and enamored those around him. He even befriended Madonna. An average…

“The Best of Me will rank with Message in A Bottle and The Notebook, it was THAT good”, says book critic Marie Hashima Lofton. This romantic novel about long lasting love will give hope to the reader. The meaningful theme behind the book, The Best of Me makes it a must read, the heartwarming story line will keep the reader wanting to flip the page. In The Best of Me, the author uses conflict to teach that sometimes being loyal can be difficult. For example, when Dawson the main character…

To begin, the two texts have different ways of describing the setting that led up to the event. In the text “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” the main character, Kenny, describes the day as hot and miserable. This is shown when he says “ I know it was Sunday because I heard Joetta getting ready for Sunday school. He also says to his mother, “ I wish I was back in our igloo in Flint.” These two quotes show that it was a miserably hot Sunday, especially when Kenny says that he would rather return…