Prose poetry

A utopian society was imagined and implemented in the early 1840s in the woodland area of Massachusetts. This was the Brook Farm utopian experiment. This utopian farm was founded by George Ripley and his wife, Sophia Ripley in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, now present-day Boston. Brook Farm was set to be a place of idealism and cooperative communal living. The farm would fail after a series of misfortunes only five short years after its beginning in 1846. The constitution of Brook Farm showed…

In life, popular items become common symbols to people. For example, roses represent love. The novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck uses symbols to tell the story of George and Lennie. George and Lennie are migrant workers who are looking for work on a ranch in Salinas, California. On the ranch George and Lennie must work in order to obtain the farm of their dream, but an obstacle stops them. The symbols of hope, future death, and the weak help develop the theme of broken dreams. Lennie…

Novel Review Of Mice and Men 1. Title—What is its significance? The title, Of Mice and Men, is being referred to one of Robert Burn’s poems, an 18th century Scottish poet. That poem was about a mouse which was carefully building its winter nest in a wheat field but only to have it be ruined by a ploughman, a man who uses a plow. Building its winter nest made the mouse dreamt of a safe and warm winter but faced the harsh reality instead of being frosty, isolation, and even death. The…

Caleb Brewer English 3 “Where is Here” Mr. Yoder In Where is Here by Joyce Carol Oats, there are many different ideas that are all uniquely different, but perhaps none more unique than the idea of “infinity” that Oats displays within the story. There are three main figures in the story that are used to express infinity. The house, the family, and the drawing that the stranger drew for the son. Oats utilize these items to express an interesting idea to the reader such as to enable them to draw…

Defamiliarization in Mohsen Namjoo: A Marcusian Study of “Reza Khan” Estrangement: a short overview Mikics defines defamiliarization (estrangement) and as an example he cites Fredric Jameson, which is his accounts of Studying Gulliver’s Travels. It states: Defamiliarization in Russian, ostranenie: a term from the Russian formalist school of criticism, active in the early twentieth century. […] According to the Russian formalists, literary art devotes itself to the making strange (the…

The band The Maine, formed in 2007 in Arizona, uses contrasting themes of happiness and sadness throughout their album American Candy, from which the song “(Un)Lost” comes. “(Un)Lost” is a song about finding oneself and recognizing the potential in themselves. From the title alone, it can be inferred that the song will discuss themes of being found and becoming lost, and in the context of the song this translates to finding oneself. The parenthesis around the ‘un’ part of the title signifies the…

James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time consists of two letters. The first letter was entitled My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation and the second letter was Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in my Mind. The first letter is much briefer than the second. In My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation, Baldwin wrote to his nephew. He wrote the letter five times before finalizing it. He…

Bishop constantly uses wires, electricity, and storms throughout her poems and especially ones that allude to her sexuality/love life. “Electrical Storm,” as the name suggests, has all three elements, but is different than how some of her other poems have used these elements. Altogether, “Electrical Storm” denotes electricity as a destructive force, a sharp contrast to most of her other work with electricity, but doing so actually expands her motif. While it is true that many of her poems use…

my suite of poetry, Love on the Weekend, explores the feeling of dread and confusion and the anxiety of late menstruation and not ready to have a child, and then contrasts this situation to being in a relationship and ready to have a child. I wanted to portray my take on the Western World’s view on sex, which I expressed through ‘free-spirited’ imagery and a ‘yearning for instant gratification’ tone. I believe that the best words are the ones left unsaid, and I duly feel that poetry reads best…

1. Crane wrote “The Red Badge of Courage” with the intention of refuting the glorification of war. What’s fresh about this book is that Crane uses two type of fictional writing; naturalism and realism. This book is different from other books written about war. 2. I believe that the passage written by Crane deeply describes what the soldiers encountered during the bloody chaotic battle. As a reader, I think Crane’s book is much more interesting, thrilling, and easier to relate to. Crane’s story…