Jazzonia Poem Analysis

K-9 is a wonderful poem that expresses what a day would be like, for a k-9 handler. Not only can dog handlers themselves relate to this poem, but so can every dog or animal lover in the world. The author uses so many descriptive words when describing the dogs, that you can't help but imagine your dog looking right at you while reading. Due to how the poem is written, even those who are not animal owners can find something in this poem to appreciate. These working dogs give so much unconditional attention and love, while providing safety for their owners and everyday people. I highly suggest you read this poem! Not only is it fascinating, but you feel this sense of warmth while reading it. I can almost guarantee this poem

In “The Trouble with Poetry”, and “Introduction to Poetry” Billy Collins focuses on the issue of forced inspiration, and the lack of appreciation readers, and aspiring poets have for the feel of poetry.

Ted Hughes’s “To Paint a Water Lily” tells about an artist painting a scene of nature, and his choice to focus on a water lily. The poem also shows how the artist has two ways of thinking about nature. One way the artist thinks about nature is as a violent and scary thing.The artist also thinks of nature as a thing of beauty and grandeur. Though the artist acknowledges both of his views towards nature, he chooses to focus on the beauty. Through the use of diction and irony the author successfully reveals the artist’s attitude towards nature and his task.

Jazz Jennings is a fifteen year old transgender girl who has spent her life trying to live a normal life. When Jazz was around three years old, her parents started to notice signs that she wanted to be a girl. They spent time researching and found that Jazz had gender identity disorder. The author uses the literary themes, conflict, motivation, and sequence of events to help the reader better understand her story.

The first quatrain or stanza helps describe the setting of the play and introduces the conflict which is one of the main issues. The second describes the young lovers and indicates that they have an unpleasant fate from the start, also it sums up the plot of the play. Also, it includes more detail to follow the first. The third suggests how the feud will end and the last 2 lines reminds the audience that there is more to the play than meets the eye. This helps to outline the main issues of the play such as love, conflict in the form of the feud and triumph. Although the overall theme is a tragic love story, it brought triumph to the everlasting feud of the Montague and Capulet families. These quatrains help the audience to have an abstract

Chris Carmack was once best known for his muscle head character's line, "Welcome to The O.C., bitch!" Nowadays, he's more synonymous with Nashville than Newport, and he's taking that nation vibe off-screen.

In essence, ,,the 6 Gallery readings reveal how Beat and associated artists and audiences also tapped into this residual, insubordinate, and positive sense of jazz and expressed it through their art and lives.” (Whaley, 2004, p. 27) ,,The reading of Howl amplified vibrations sounding back to the jazz of renaissance Harlem, an era in which blues and jazz poets found themselves when much of the high culture’s generation.” (Whaley, 2004, p. 24)

There are many differences that can be highlighted between a hawk and a dog. However, in “Hawk Roosting” and “Golden Retrievals” the use of specific elements helps the reader to understand the characters themselves and how they view the world around them. Respectively, Hughes and Doty each use specific sentence structure, tone, and strong diction to characterize the speakers and present differing views of the world. The use of specific sentence structure throughout the poems further underlines the differences in the two characters and the attitude towards the world. Hughes’s use of sentences which exemplify complete thoughts illustrates to the reader that the hawk will take its time when completing a task and gives its full and absolute attention. The complete

In the poem “Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer”, Mary Oliver analogizes two distinct tones.

Although both stories in the assignment had different backgrounds, both Junius and Ian were affected by their peers quite a lot, for trying to make their surroundings happy. In the stories, Junius was faced under a lot of pressure when his townspeople expected him to deliver a good poem, which he was then uncapable of doing. Then, in story two, Ian also faced immense pressure when his peers had to enjoy whichever folk festival act became winner of the show, but he wanted to choose the correct option without upsetting or dissapointing anyone.

In the poem “Sonrisas” by Pat Mora, the poet uses word connotations, onomatopoeia, and alliteration to convey that some people in this world are more genuine than others. Right at the start of the poem, the author describes “[living] in a doorway/between two rooms.” In the first room, the author experiences “careful women in crisp beige/suits, quick beige smiles.” These two lines heavily rely on the word “beige” and its connotations. Beige means a yellowish brown color and is associated with offices, among other places, thus giving it a connotation of being very standard. Because these women give “quick beige smiles,” the author shows the reader that their smiles are standard and brief. These word further prove that these women do not genuinely

"Harlem Dancer" by Claude McKay written in 1922 during the Harlem Renaissance, a time-period where intellectual, social, and artistic expression reigned. During this time, Harlem was a booming metropolis for young black artists, activist, and people alike. His poem reflects the times, and how they affected the people around him. Claude McKay's poem, "Harlem Dancer", reveals and demonstrates not only the contrasts between youthful innocence and sexuality, but also how the two can coexist.

William Stafford employs sounds and word choice to evoke feelings of a carefree, happy morning. Elizabeth Bishop uses punctuation and allusions in order to pass on how hard mornings are for her.

Young Lucy Pearl in has lived her whole life in New Orleans in a small house, with her mother and father. Lucy just turned 17 and is ready to get out of her parents house and have her adventure with her two friends that she has known for her entire life, Elizabeth Collins and William Campbell. The thing is that parents are not ready to let their only daughter out of their sight, she knows that she is their only kid and they cannot have another child with her mother’s issue but it's not her fault that they cannot have another kid.

‘Nadja’ the work based on magical realism by Andre Breton’s is positioned somewhere amid the story of the author’s own life and a metaphysical historical imaginary tale with a deep indication of all the attributes of magical realism. Nadja is for sure a beautiful love story in its first level, but the underlying major question is regarding the entity of affection. The straight answer is the imaginary magical character, Nadja, a gorgeous and fascinating lady whom Breton, who is in fact the writer and the one who plays the lead character turn into fanatically obsessed with for about ten days.