Strophe

In the poem, “Theme for English B”, by Langston Hughes, Hughes speaks about how Harlem has brought all cultures together and how the city gives people a voice when they feel like they don’t have one. Hughes does this by using visual imagery and painting a picture of the unity that Harlem makes when bringing cultures together. He also uses structure to emphasize how stepping into Harlem allows for people to have voice and, finally Hughes uses metaphors to compare Harlem to the famous melting pot that America is, to show that we are all united as one. Hughes paints a picture of what a colored person likes along with also suggesting that a white person likes these things too. For example, in the stanzas twenty-two through twenty-six, he says. “ I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. “I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records- Bessie, Bop, or Bach. “I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like the same things other folks like/ who are the other races.” (22-26) Hughes paints the vivid image of what a colored person enjoys but also shows that as a reader, we can also picture a white person liking all of those things listed too. This is seen clearly in stanza twenty-five, “I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like the same things other folks like/ who are the other races.” It is clearly seen in this stanza that Hughes is saying a colored person is not different from a non-colored since both of them can relate to liking the same music, and wanting…

When considering the tone of “The Road Not Taken”, it can be said that, even though the narrator wonders what the other choice would have resulted in, he seems content with the original choice made. The tone of lines nine and 10, which are written “Though as for that the passing there/Had worn them really about the same,” (Frost, 2016), could further suggest that the narrator believes that both of his choice options were nearly compatible, leading to the realization that the right choice was…

“[R]omanticism means, to most students a unitary shadowy phenomenon which can be extrapolated as forming a middle ground bounded by six poets: Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats and Shelly” (Aers et al. 1). This paper deals with a work by the firstly named author: Blake. It is about the poem “The Chimney Sweeper: A little white thing among the snow” from 1794 from his collection of works named Songs of Experience. The poem is a companion poem to the formerly written “The Chimney Sweeper:…

In “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, the speaker’s identity is slowly developed throughout the poem so that we are not completely sure of the speaker’s identity. The speaker is a black female that while she is speaking for herself, she is also speaking for an entire population of people just like her. People like her who are determined to rise above the historical oppression saying, “Leaving behind nights of terror and fear/ I rise/ Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear/ I rise…” (lines 35-38).…

Parcae. 338–342 Nascetur vobis expers… Moving beyond the praise of the newlyweds, the Parcae now begin to prophesy, telling the tale of the child to be born of the union. As had been foretold by Prometheus, the virtutes of Achilles will outstrip those of his father, but Catullus will have the Parcae describe them in ambivalent terms, with successive strophes growing darker and more blood-soaked. Achilles is here described in terms reminiscent of Homer’s ‘swift-footed Achilles’. The reference…

Since the 50 men were considered jointly as one actor, the overall effectiveness of the group was vital in procuring the judge’s vote to actually present the play to an audience. In addition, the odes that the chorus sang during the strophe and antistrophe and these brief interludes provide the smooth transition between any two different scenes. The type of mask they wore fit and enhanced the drama’s atmosphere, and their movements and gestures were symbolic in transmitting the feeling and…

is revealed in his belief that he is greater than the gods, and he is capable of establishing his own destiny apart from the gods' control or help. To explain, Oedipus is given away at birth because of his fate to murder his father and marry his mother. Later on, Oedipus leaves his home in Corinth and kills his real father, without knowing.As well as murdering his father, Oedipus becomes involved in a unintentional incestuous relationship with his mother. Oedipus’s decision to leave Corinth…

Two main types of lyrics are the personal and the choral lyric. Personal lyric was developed on the island of Lesbos. The poet and musician Terpander, who was born on Lesbos but lived most of his life in Sparta, is considered the first Greek lyric poet because he was the earliest to set poetry to music. Terpander was followed by Alcaeus. He used political, religious, and personal themes in his lyrics and invented the Alcaic Strophe. Sappho, the greatest woman poet in Ancient Greece, invented the…

“Ode” comes from the Greek word aeidein, and translates to “sing or chant”. Odes are a type of traditional Lyric poetry originating in ancient Greece; their special characteristics make them different from other forms of poetry. Ancient Greeks were known for their inventive skills in Art, philosophy and music. Music was a part of their tradition and this helped the development of odes. Pindar was a lyric poet who wrote choral poems in a specific format. These types of poems became known as Odes…

Literary Analysis “It seems the more we talk the less I have to say, let's put our differences aside, I wanted to make you proud but our differences got in the way” is being sung in the opening strophe of the song Good Enough by Lifehouse. This opening part of the song shows a strong emottion that not only teeenagers, but also adults suffer from, even more, they want to prove to someone that is very important to them that they're more than what they really think they are. The song says that it…