Verse

The poems, “Funeral Blues”, by W.H. Auden and “From Long Distance”, by Tony Harrison are about the feelings of sadness and mourning over the loss of a loved one. Both poems reflect how much death affects people, as well as how people are unable to let go of a loved one. The poet of the first poem is frustrated and expresses feelings of love as well as anger towards the death of his loved one. The second poem is about how the poet’s father cannot forget about his wife and therefore conveys the…

MacBeth is called a Verse Drama. Which means that it is written just like a poem but without rhyming. “Many actors had to have many talents then just acting. Most needed to be able to sing, dance, act, fence, and wrestle.” (The Language of Literature Textbook)Could you imagine Leonardo DiCaprio being asked to do all these things in an acting interview? Most actors had to be very close with their audience members.If those members didn’t like what you did, well you would expect some food flying…

Walt Whitman wrote a poem about making connections from the perspective of a spider and his soul. Using both literal and figurative observations he shows the conflicts each face and how both overcome their difficulties. Why would his soul struggle to make connections? How will observing a spider help with this challenge when both are so different? What has impelled the poet to have an observer watch the spider? What significance does writing in the literal and then the figurative tense have on…

between good and bad poetry. This example supports my assertion that although Moore portrayed humans as incoherent to comprehension, she is establishing advice within her own views of poetry. Another one of her poems “The Fish” is written in a syllabic verse with eight five-line stanzas with the syllabic pattern of 1, 3, 9, 6, 8. This organization supports the poems visual shape of the sea it describes. With this form of syntax, the movement of the poem is emphasized as “one keeps/ adjusting the…

Innocence and Feminity in Salman Rushdie’s, East, West and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows the struggles from childhood while growing up in Iran to the subsequent encounters in Europe. Salman Rushdie’s “East, West” on the other hand uses fiction and reality and blends the two in its most controversial perspective. Despite the difference in style and writing language, the two books are documented in certain themes with complementing ideologies. The main objective…

As depicted by the countless sold copies of this sort, tragedies appeal to the pathos of human pity. Having been distinguished from their beginning in ancient Greece, when authors such as Sophocles and Homer wrote rhetorics that are still being taught today. In fact, famous, talented Elizabethan playwright, William Shakespeare is best known for his tragedies including the acclaimed Romeo and Juliet. Therefore, it is no surprise that he exquisitely produced the play “Othello”, illustrating the…

The idea that parents are to blame for our faults and failings is one that does not sit well with many, but in Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” he goes on to declare just that. From victim to offender, people pass down their faults and wrongdoings from one generation to the next. Human nature will never change, and misery will forever thrive. Not one generation can be blamed for the faults they have, yet each generation passes down their faults and wrongdoings to the next.This means…

The poem “Good Hours” by Robert Frost is a poem that alludes the feeling of solitude and loneliness to its readers. Frost himself faced a great deal of heartbreak in his time. While “Good Hours” is one of his lesser known poems, it is no doubt beautiful and artistic in the least. Much like almost all of Frost’s poems, this poem uses nature to reveal and analyze the narrator’s feelings. Renowned poet, Robert Frost, in his poem, “Good Hours”, describes a scenic walk through a village on a winter…

Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer who has experienced movement from his home to a new place. Rushdie expresses the benefits of migration and how it helps create “hybridity” in a place. Russell Sanders analyzes Rushdie’s essay and has a different opinion. In response to Rushdie’s belief about migration, Sanders’s Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World essay, contradicts the opinion of Rushdie’s essay that migration is bad. Through Sanders’s quotes and information he uses in…

As the economies of developing countries continue to grow and strengthen, multinational companies are beginning to realize the potential in their quickly growing markets. However, the technique to reach these markets is not easily realized to those used to innovating for advanced, wealthy markets in the “developed” world. More difficult still is creating into a product that does well in both types of markets, a process called “reverse innovation”. Unlike reverse engineering, where you try to…