Songs of Innocence and of Experience

The third stanza is centered on the question of what kind of bodily strength and skills could create the Tyger. The first two lines question “what shoulder, & what art, /Could twist the sinews of thy heart?” (9-10), which are simply asking what strength and beauty could twist the tissues of the Tyger’s heart. The next question Blake asks is “when thy heart began to beat, / What dread hand? & what dread feat?” (11-12). Here, Blake wants to know that when the Tyger’s heart began to beat, did its…

and Trouble: Stories of Black Women, was composed about Myop a ten year old African American young lady whose guardians were poor tenant farmers in country Georgia amid an increased time of racial viciousness. “The Flowers” is a story of losing innocence. The story encompasses certain racial encounters then identifies with a young lady finding a man dead in some underbrush. Toward the start of the short story Myophia is youthful and has faith in her young belonging. However…

evil, isolation and terror on a human being. Authors exploit isolated and grotesque settings, supernatural beings and events, combines romance and horror as well as highlighting overwrought emotions. The ability to captivate reader’s emotional experience through the exploration of human weakness has allowed the Gothic genre to continue into the twenty-first century, modifying to reflect current societal concerns.…

Family and friends don’t reserve judgement, while you are left feeling as if they don’t truly understand the person that they so heavily criticize as, “not right for you,” or “a totally different person than what we envisioned you with”. Lana del Rey’s song “Brooklyn Baby” (Rey) from her album Ultraviolence describes a love that is understood only by the two people sharing it, judged by those around them as too different, Lana del Rey enforces the notion that love,…

children in the classroom. Elkind states, “The factory model of education hurries children because it ignores individual differences in mental abilities and learning rates and learning styles” (pg. 50). As a teacher with a few years of classroom experience, I agree completely with Elkind that education has transformed in to a factory model instead…

The air is electric with excitement; the day is finally here; I am at my first concert, about to experience the band that saved my life. I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household, my mother is an African American convert and my father, a ba’al teshuva, became religious in his twenties. I attended an all-girls Jewish day school on a scholarship from Kindergarten until eighth grade where I was bullied incessantly due to my skin color; furthermore, I was incompetent in my…

In his song "God Bless the U.S.A.," Lee Greenwood sings, "And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me." These words echo the idea that countries around the world hold soldiers in high regard because they sacrifice on behalf of their countries. War is often romanticized in propaganda, and unfortunately, the actual reality of war is not addressed. Soldiers return home from war, and unfortunately, they never feel like…

Sally about how every person at Pencey is a phony. In the beginning of the book, Holden describes his headmaster at Pencey as, ". . . A phony slob . . ." (Salinger 5) Holden may think every adult is a phony but it is quite evident from his many experiences that he is the biggest phony. When Holden is on the train, he starts talking to the mother of a student he knows at Pencey; her name is Mrs. Morrow. The phoniness begins when Holden lies to her about his name. "'Rudolf Schmidt,' I told her. .…

About having a feeling of being trapped in your lies because you don't know how to distinguish the real “truth”. You realize how cruel the world is for trapping you and after realizing that, you feel like you 'lost your innocence'. This is a notable example of what Dorian experience trough out the book. “Caught in a lie. Find me when I was pure. I can’t be free from this lie. Give me back my smile. Caught in a lie. Pull me from this hell. I can’t be free from this pain. Save me, I am being…

Outside knowledge and self-knowledge, while similar, have some differences which set them apart. Outside knowledge can be defined as things you come to know or understand by experiences you have, such as traveling, reading, observing what goes on around you, seeing how others treat you and communicating with others. Outside knowledge influences your self-knowledge, that is, the things you “know” or believe about yourself, such as your character, your values, who you are as a person and how you…