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The piano part in “Blue Rondo” is fast and exciting, but that was all it was – it did not seem striking different. As a listener in the 21st century, these groundbreaking innovations in the jazz language seem almost commonplace. Multi-meter works, African and Middle-Eastern influences, and abstract jazz are all commonplace in this age. However, looking to when this album was released, one can begin to see the true genius of Brubeck. While “world music” was existent within the U.S. marketplace…

Articles of Criticism Slam poetry, like other art forms, is subject to criticism. Sarah Kay is no exception. Kay’s poetry has most commonly been analyzed for college classes, as the newer form of poetry is not as widely recognized or studied. The first article I studied was written by Hayden J, and explored the facets of Sarah’s theme throughout the poem, as well as concentrating on the tone of the poem. Hayden starts by talking of the impact of Kay’s performance. Kay’s performance shows the…

Often referred to a "found" poem, William Carlos Williams's piece, “This Is Just To Say,” is said to be an apologetic note left for a loved one. Williams tries to disguise the incident within the poem as something minuscule and nonchalant but deeper analysis reveals this poem is an apology for a graver adulterous crime rather than just eating some plums. It’s title and overall structure sets the initial aura of nonchalance and casualness. Although simple, the diction allows the reader to…

influenced her writing her piece titled, “The Death of the Moth,” which was published posthumously. She explores the life and death continuum while drawing her readers into her own realizations of them using a moth as a tangible subject. Woolf utilizes her levels of language to manipulate her audience to take on the role of what her tone is suggesting and leads them to her ultimate conclusion through sympathetic pathos, juxtaposed diction, parallelism, and her overall appeal to the audience’s…

Poetry comes in many different ways. From the dark and scary ones to uplifting poems and ones about love. Although it can be expressed differently, it is only many poets finding ways to show what means the most to them. This is just one example of a poet who put most of his life experiences and messages he wanted to get across to others; his name was Pablo Neruda. Born on July 12 1904, in Parral, Chile was the famous poet Neruda. Although, at that time he was not yet a poet and still went by…

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton which tells the story of the fall of man as written in the first chapters of Genesis. Milton uses the poem to clarify what he thinks are part of the story in the first three chapters of Genesis. The Bible gives short accounts of the creation, the birth of man and woman, the temptation and the fall of man but Milton tells the story from his own perspective to add to the Biblical version. Satan is an…

Solitude At one point in anyone’s life, no matter how much friends ones have or how deep ones relationships with their love ones are, loneliness is inevitable. Now, how anyone deal with it are different. As for Mark Strand, the poet, he developed this feeling of solitude and integrated it with in his poems, using it as a theme and represent it from three different perspectives in three of his poems: “Lines for the winner”, “Keeping things whole” and “The Remains.” In the first poem "Lines for…

There are many allusions presented to us explicitely and implicitely in this poem. The poets apparent loss of memory throughout the poem implicitely alludes to the speakers decomposing body.In the first line,the speaker refers to himself as “me” but by the second quatrain he refers to himself as merely “the hand that writ” this poem.The speakers memory is reduced further in the third quatrain to “this verse” and by line ten resolves to “when I am perhaps compounded in clay”.The state of the…

In the former ode sight is limited in order to focus on the sound of the nightingale and the image the speaker imagines seeing. The latter, on the other hand, only focuses on sight because of the quality of the object. The urn cannot make sounds or move or provide some kind of smell, so the speaker can only describe it from the visual perspective. These odes create an abundance of believable sensation…

Throughout the final scene of the Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann used sound and music of nature and Nicks voice portrayed his sadness for the passing of his friend Gatsby. The scene begins with the mysterious and profound cry of the breeze traveling through the desolate home of Gatsby. The sound highlights the sense of emptiness and misery felt by Nick for Gatsby’s death. The breeze sounds symbolized the desolate and Gatsby’s empty home, but also the sadness left inside Nick’s heart because the…