Seamus Heaney

In Robert Frost’s blank verse poem “‘Out, Out-,’” the speaker recounts the story of a young boy who loses his hand, and ultimately his life, while working with a buzz-saw, presumably on his family’s farm. The speaker remains an observer throughout the narrative, presenting the poem in the first person. The use of first-person narration establishes an intimacy between the speaker and reader, so that the reader sympathizes with the speaker and not the “they.” “They” remain ambiguous throughout the…

Politics at it’s finest. Norman Rockwell knew how to explain the American way, the democratic way. By painted Dewey vs. Truman in 1948, Rockwell shows us how politics are in America and how they’ve stayed the same over time. The focal point of the image is a man yelling at his wife, while she looks upset with him. The two are both holding newspapers to represent the candidate they defend. He’s for Dewey, she’s for Truman. The painting shares a time where everyone had an opinion about the…

Frost was himself a farmer all his life, from early boyhood down to his ripe old age. Poetry was his vocation, but farming was his avocation. He combined the two, and this gave him an intimate knowledge of the life of the farmer, and hence arises the veracity and truthfulness of his depictions of rural life. His people are always busy with some solid work, whether it is apple-picking, mowing or mending walls. In After Apple Picking, the man who falls asleep, after picking apples, dreams of…

POETIC ANALYSIS OF “Out, Out-” BY ROBERT FROST In Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out-” Frost uses literary devices to portray the fact that life should be valued. The boy that Robert Frost creates is a hard worker. The boy tries to do the best he can, but because of his age and lack of experience, he is unskilled. His unskilled hands are only trained for work that leads to his painful death. Frost mimics the story of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth through the boy, and the specific way he dies. The…

Introduction This essay is a critical analysis of the poem Shower by the Australian writer Les Murray. Les Murray was born in 1938 in New South Wales/Australia. He grew up in a poor farming family, and his love for nature and the Australian landscapes, which shows in his poetry, developed early. Murray writes about his “love of the land, the tensions between rural and urban life”, and “the struggle for an independent means of expression” (Poetry archive, date unknown)1. The poem Shower is, as…

Receiving Help Sherman Alexie's poem, "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona," uses flashbacks, sensory description, dialogue, and other literary tools to illustrate the importance of reunion. In the story, Alexie demonstrates how the news of the death of Victor's father affected him. He says that even though he has not seen his father in years, “there was still a genetic pain, which was as real and immediate as a broken bone,” (Alexie 11). Victor’s father had died and now Victor has…

Esau was a hunter and Jacob was a cultivator, a grower, a shepherd. Esau was a one day man while Jacob savoured the best out of what today holds and prepares to confront the future with hope. As a farmer who clears the bush, tills the ground, plants the seed on the prepared soil, weeds the grounds and painstakingly watches and waits until his labour is due for harvesting before setting forth the sickle to gather into his barns so was Jacob who could conceive and walk through his goals…

Jesse Stuart was born and raised in Greenup County, Kentucky. His parents were farmers, and they taught him to love the land (University, Lincoln Memorial). He was a teacher, a principal, and then a superintendent all in his home state of Kentucky (Taul, Glen Edward). In "Split Cherry Tree" Dave, the narrator, lives in Kentucky on a farm with his mom and pa, Luster. His father goes through changes in the story from a misunderstanding man to a man who understands the way school are now (Stuart,…

J-Term is a three week process of hands on, career exploration, and internships during the month of January that take place at Lyndon Institute. For J-Term you pick three to four classes that interest you, while some students continue with their advanced placement classes. In some opinions this period of time is a waste but in others they enjoyed it very much. In my own thoughts, I think J-Term has a purpose to teach us that it’s not just about cramming for the A and is more to improve your…

Beowulf Analytical paper In the epic poem beowulf by seamus Heaney, there is a problem in the geatland territory. A monster known as the name “Grendel” is coming into king Hrothgar’s heorot and killing innocent people for 12 years. A nobleman known to name of beowulf hears about the madness that grendel is doing and goes to denmark to solve the problem for the geats. Beowulf challenges grendel, and fights him with no weapons. After beowulf has defeated grendel, grendel’s mother then wants to…