Narrative poetry

Crucial Texts (A discussion of important texts A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Bacon Of Studies, amd Sonnet 116 ) Some texts are worth skimming, others tasting, and few worth digesting. However, those texts that create an epiphany moment in one’s life will always be remembered and are definitely worth digesting and revisiting. Importantly, there are three crucial texts that display memorable and digestible content in them. For example, Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare informs one about…

she imagines a future New York City, underwater.” She is actually full of imaginations of which, some are far from reality. “Radtke is not an artist who also writes a little or a writer who scrawls but a master of both prose narrative and visual art. Like memory, the narrative loosens the binds of chronology, playing hopscotch through the author’s girlhood. College, formative years as an artist, and apocalyptic fantasy of her current home in New York. In a way, what she has done in this…

Novels and films both have their own unique benefits and characteristics. Films bring out fictional worlds to our eyes whereas novels let our figment of imagination take control. Both novels and films, have a huge role in showcasing relationships, whether they be positive or negative. The relationships we form influence our decisions and provide us with a sense of belongingness. The people we surround ourselves with are another big influence on who we are as a person or who we can become. “The…

Superior writers use a vast number of well-used elements. It is key to use exceptional elements if you thrive to be a great writer. An example of a writer with higher-level elements is Ray Bradbury. Bradbury has a famous short story called "The Pedestrian." The "Pedestrian" is a futuristic story about a man who is not involved with the world. Bradbury uses setting, figurative language, and symbolism to affect the overall succession of the story. First, Bradbury uses figurative language to…

In films, and in life, events and other individuals can affect and mold one’s character. In literature and film, these changes to an individual’s personality are collectively called one’s character development. Often times the protagonist, as well as minor characters, change throughout the film as a result of life changes, and drastic situations. Other characters, particularly the antagonists of the film, can also have a severe impact on the protagonist’s development. This is exactly the case in…

In Antonioni’s Blow-Up, symbols are a large part of the characterization of the main character Thomas, and play a huge role in the execution of the themes and overall plot. The film is rarely direct, having many scenes and interactions whose intended purpose is complicated and usually hard to decipher at first, leaving the watcher very confused after it’s completion. While many aspects of the film seems disjointed with no connection or meaning whatsoever, most of the meaning is symbolically…

Queen Wealtheow portrays the opposite side of that same coin, as she is anything but animalistic in nature, although she still has very little dialogue in the text. The first time readers actually hear her speak is when she bids Beowulf to “enjoy this drink, most generous lord / raise up your goblet” (1168-9). She functions only as a companion to her husband, King Hrothgar, and to present goblets of mead to important guests. Her distance from the events and main plot lends to her air of royalty…

The novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings tells the story of Maya Angelou’s early life, full of overpowering situations from her childhood. Maya and her brother, Bailey Jr., face many difficulties but manage to come out ahead. Angelou tells their tales with a sense of wry humor, related to the reader through diction and imagery that leaves a lasting impression. One of the first difficult situations Maya faces was a rape when she was only eight. “Then there was the pain. A breaking and entering…

One's ability to see is often taken for granted as it is in "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver. The title suggests that the story deals with a cathedral, but it is really about two blind men; one physically, the other mentally. One of the men is Robert, the blind friend of the narrator's wife, and the other is the narrator himself. The narrator is the man who is mentally blind, and unknowingly describes his own prejudice. Carver writes the husband as a man with a very narrow mind. Two instances in…

Point of View in ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ Edgar Allen Poe's first person narrator in ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ is a strong survivor but being in captivity is driving him insane. In first person the readers become the strong survivor, that is the unreliable prisoner of Poe's famous short story and they get a deeper, and more visceral experience because of it. In first person point of view the reader sees the story through the eyes of the narrator, their view and interpretation of the events.…