Japanese poetry

Comparison Essay The Road & The Last Day of the World When reading the short stories in parallel to “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, only one truly stood out to me as directly related in theme, portrayal, and literary style. This has to be “The Last Day of the World” by Ray Bradbury. Both stories have deep rooted themes around nihilism and death, but are substantially distinct in their portrayal of these ideas. The premise is the same as the rest of the short stories; it is the end of the world,…

Personal Narrative I could remember the tears running down my face, my heart beating like a drum. The world was slow as I tried to distract my brother as my dad charged out the door. Once he was gone, everything stopped. She is my mom’s mother and the grandma that we call Graham cracker. She wasn’t always around, but now she is attached to my family like glue. The stroke has shaped me into who I am today, because it has showed me sympathy, allowed me to believe people can accomplish anything,…

Dreams in Of Mice and Men Without Dreams the World has no Future According to Langston Hughes, “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Without dreams, a person many times sees no hope in their future. They feel as if they are stuck in that place with no hope of ever escaping. If a person has no hope, they many times see no point in living. Without their dreams they have nothing to look forward to, and nothing to strive for in life. There is…

Tears. Regret. Deaths. We’ve all experienced and felt them. Swallowing Stones ( Joyce McDonald ), is a captivating book that creates characters showing that everyone has their own problems and issues throughout everything. From being a murderer, your father suddenly getting shot right before your eyes, your parents perishing when you are young, and even having an extreme alcohol and cigarette issue. Minor characters even have their own issues they must break through. They each have their…

William Butler Yeats is a poet who is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century (“William Butler Yeats”). “William was born in Ireland, June thirteenth, 1865. He had his first works at Dublin's Metropolitan School of Art while a student there. His early achievements in his life were The Wanderings of Oisin and Countess Kathleen. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for his Literature in 1923” (“William Butler Yeats Biography”). William Butler Yeats was not like most of the…

“Deep, deep deep”: Mary Lavin’s “Happiness” and complicating the Ideal Ireland On St. Patrick’s Day of 1943, former Irish president Éamon de Valera gave a speech detailing the “ideal Ireland.” He pronounced that the Ireland of which “we” dreamed would be a land of “bright cosy homesteads”, with villages that “would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contest of athletic youths and the laughter of happy maidens,” and homes would be “forums for the…

The giver is a sci-fi dystopian book by lois Lowry. It is a book where Jonas, the main character, and other people in his community and the communities around him live in a constant state of no feeling. The don’t remember the feelings of the past. Only one person in the community and the communities around them can feel. That is the Receiver. The receiver’s job is to hold the memories and feelings of the past so the other people of the community can’t feel the hurt and pain they should…

Ginsberg: A Modern Whitman with a Twist Postmodernism, a movement in the late 20th century, followed the Modernism movement during the late 19th and early 20th century. The Modernism movement is characterized as a movement that steered away from 19th century traditions in art, religion and faith, and literature. It encouraged rebellion against the cultural norm, was a change for the believed “outdated” day to day life, and focused on finding the meaning/root. At the time, it was…

One of the elements of mise en scène is lighting. Wong Kar Wai uses different types of lighting to express character’s feeling. For example, the first scene starts from Mr.Chow is walking stairs with low-key illumination. The low-key illumination means “ to produce an image where much of the screen is in shadow ” (Stadler and McWilliam 24). In this scene expresses Mr.Chow’s life of emptiness. Another instance is when Mr.Chow and Mrs. Su go to the dark alleys, the light is a low-key illumination,…

There are two cities who have had a profound impact in my life. Those cities are San Bernardino and Angelus Oaks. Both cities are located in the Inland Empire of Southern California.Both of these cities contribute different feelings and present a separate kind of home to me. When the two cities are compared they seem like completely different places, however they do share some similarities. Although Angelus Oaks and San Bernardino are completely different in weather, scenery, and the sounds one…