Prose poetry

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…

E.B White and Richard Rodriguez are both accomplished writers with the particular ability to examine and simplify some of the most complex concepts. White’s “Once More to the Lake,” and Rodriguez’s The Hunger of Memory analyzes another perplexing notion: identity. Though they both agree that a person’s identity is molded by their experiences and circumstances, White uses his childhood memories, relationships, and extensive figurative language to describe his identity, while Rodriguez takes a…

The poem ‘Do not go gentle into the good night’ explains what a man is going through as he watches his father die, and what he wishes to tell him. To say ‘not go gentle into the good night’ is explaining how to die with purpose, to not simply just die, but to die with meaning. Dylan Thomas used strong words and sentence structure to get his point across and show a powerful theme. When I first saw the title ‘Do not go gentle into the good night’ I thought it meant fighting till the end. I…

Piercing as the music described in it, the poem “A Musical Instrument” investigates the concepts of human nature and growth through the use of imagery, symbolism, and various literary devices. At the heart of the poem, Browning explores the need for humans to use their beastly nature to create a force greater than themselves in order to achieve growth. The impact of the actions of a seemingly indifferent, careless god on an unassuming reed creates a dichotomy throughout the poem, one that is…

Gabriel Garcia’s work proves his ability to deliver message through writing. Through “one hundred years of solitude” he creates a reflection of the society. The roles of men and women are well defined in the novel. There is a significant contribution from women, and hence they are a reason why the novel is a success. This article focuses on literary theory, and it analyzes works done by other authors which critic Garcia’s novel mentioned above. The main theme of this piece is the role of women…

The leash, is a poem about a man and his dog outside taking a walk. During their walk he analyzes his surroundings and describes his journey. /After the birthing of bombs of forks and fears/ as he is describing the horrible event that took place makes you think he may have survived a war? OR a metaphor of a tragic that took place in his life. In this poem he describes the tragic events but does not exactly say the event that has taken place. /The country plummets into a crepitating crater of…

Poems frequently use words that can have multiple different meanings to provide readers with various ways to understand the poem. When only looking at the basic definition of a word it does not allow the reader to completely grasp all of the ideas represented in the poem. In the poem “because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, the word death has numerous meanings that provide the readers with insight into the intended meaning of the poem itself. To thoroughly understand the use of…

Juan Luis Vives wrote ‘De Institutione Feminae Christianae’ in 1524 to impart his, arguably modern, views on the education of Christian women onto his audience. Born in Valencia in 1492, Vives was a Spaniard and as member of a Jewish family he was well educated. He attended the University of Valencia before moving to Paris where he gave private lectures and began writing Treatise of his own. This particular source was written for Catherine of Aragon, and was the first of its kind to address…

Throughout the past couple of weeks we’ve read and analyzed the works of many poets, but Jamaal May and Sharon Olds were definitely the most interesting writers I noticed. May and Olds are both award-winning American poets with very different styles that made their work stand out among the rest. Later on I noticed despite the contrast in their styles two of their poems had a common theme. Jamaal May’s “There are Birds Here” and Sharon Olds’ “The Death of Marilyn Monroe” manipulate and rearrange…

Farm City Connecting to Themes in 13 Ways of Seeing Nature in LA “Farm City” is a personal narrative written by Novella Carpenter chronicling her experience as an urban farmer in a run-down, impoverished neighborhood in Oakland. She relates her experience with farming and interacting with the people in the neighborhood, as well as the ways in which her farm, her neighbors and her neighborhood interact. Carpenter effectively uses narrative to display some of the main concepts relating to urban…