Poem Analysis Of Sharon Olds Rite Of Passage

‘The Author to Her Book’ is written entirely the first person. It is narrated by an unnamed narrator yet, due to the title, the reader can assume that the narrator is an author, but more specifically the author of the poem, Anne Bradstreet. The poem is written in one single stanza presenting the single idea of the narrator's displeasure with and her inability to fix the book. The title of the poem, “The Author to Her Book”, in many ways unlocks the secret of who or what the narrator's "ill formed offspring" (1) is. Since the title tells us that the author is speaking to her book we know that the offspring, the unnamed child that the narrator speaks to, is a personification of the book written by Bradstreet.

Intro: The film Stand by Me is a coming of age story directed by Rob Reiner, it is based on Stephen King’s Novella The Body. The film is about the transition of four boys from childhood to adolescence and the rites of passage they experience throughout their journey. The film makes use of symbolism in a variety of forms to represent certain ideas and concepts. An example of symbolism is the train tracks the boys take to find the body, this represents the path they take in life.

“A Worn Path” – A Godmother’s devotion. Born on April 13, 1909, in Jackson Mississippi, Eudora Welty was later known as one of the most important American writer and editors in the 20th century. In her short story “A Worn Path,” Welty fabricates an older, thoughtful lady named Phoenix Jackson. Welty describes Phoenix Jackson as having “a golden color” to her skin and her cheeks are “illuminated by a yellow burning under the dark”(p.38) Also, she is wearing a “red rag” on her head.

Do any words come to mind when one thinks of being “Spoken Into Creation”? The anonymous high school author, Ethel Song, writes about his own experiences during his junior high school years were his words were stolen away by his icon of adoration. Song writes about his feelings of weightlessness that came with the nothingness of lost words. The poem expresses his journey to realization. In “Spoken Into Creation,” the poet uses personification, similes, and tone shift to explore the idea that the actions of other people can have a great impact on one’s life.

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear to do something, “like a girl?” Do you find yourself flaring your hands in the air and swaying your hips when you are asked to run? Or do you find yourself throwing a baseball softly and clumsily when asked to pitch? In todays society there is a negative stigma with the phrase, “like a girl,” a stigma that more than often gets looked over and ignored. Always, a company specializing in female products saw the need to call this phrase out for what it is, and to show how it negatively effects as they go through puberty.

Do boys learn differently from girls? Why are there more illiterate boys than girls in the Jamaican school system? Men are from Mars; women are from Venus... or are they? Are the differences between boys and girls really that great? I do believe that the boys learn differently from girls for many reasons studies have shown that boys learn differently than girls.

He uses an agrarian imagery and further he questions whether he has lost his own child, his son due to the distance between them or was the son on a mental plane that was entirely his own and which, the father cannot access. The father uses ‘I’ in these lines admiting his own role in making this communication gap between them. The father and son have become strangers with no understanding of each other. Conventionally, the son’s nurturing is in the very environment and with the values the father provided.

1. The prompt that I chose was the prompt about writing about a sentimental object. I chose this prompt because a sentimental object has a very deep and inspiring reason for why it is sentimental, and this reason changes from person to person. The reason for why something is sentimental to you defines you as a person, and expressing this reason helps me to express what I value and care about. This prompt lets me express myself, and that is why I chose it.

In the middle section of the poem, Stevens establishes the dominance of the artist; the woman is portrayed as the active and significant feature of the poem, while the sea is presented only as a location and becomes insignificant. Referring to the woman as the “maker of the song she sang” (15), it confirms her not only as the creator of art and the maker of her own version of reality, but also relates her to God, the maker of the world. With such a strong focus on the artist, the inspiration in the form of the sea becomes less significant, being portrayed as only the place where “she” exists while singing. The sea is again simply the sea; Stevens echoes the metaphor of the sea representing the natural reality. Although still being necessary

Tangled Love written by Maya Adili FADE IN: EXT. AT THE STEPS OF THE HEALTH CENTER - DAY It's cloudy and windy on a Tuesday evening. My friend Stephanie and I were hanging around with our friends Bryan and Noah around the campus of the school.