The Poet's Occasional Alternative By Grace Paley Summary

For Art, this barrier is his fragility and silence. His inability to speak symbolizes how others refuse to understand him. Those characteristics make it more difficult to be friends with him than it would be to befriend a flesh-and-blood person. In Art’s case, his condition of inflatability engenders a dislike of the unfamiliar in others. For this reason, it is easier for someone to merely make assumptions based on Art’s outward appearance and behavior than to put in the effort to foster a real relationship and become informed on his condition.

Indifference is the lack of interest, concern, or sympathy for a subject. It is one of the many problems man suffers from today. Both Niemoller and Wiesel’s works talk about indifference. They discuss apathy, about the lack of interest for your fellow man. Niemoller 's poem, “First they Came…” and Wiesel’s speech, “The Perils of Indifference” are quite similar in terms of the message.

Rhetorical Analysis Persuasion is the result of the combination of components driving an audience to support a position. While some techniques are effective, they can be misused, misguided, and misunderstood, generating a lack of application to society. Following the foundations of persuasion, one must develop their own credibility, use logic, and emotions. In Kobutsu Malone’s article “Narcissism and Spiritual Materialism: The New Age Legacy”, there is a noticeable lack of the rhetorical strategies, ethos, pathos, and logos, belittling the persuasive effectiveness, as well as the poor utilization of kairos and style reducing the strength of his overall argument. Within the article Malone expresses his desire for the New Age to stop materializing

In his short story “The Pie,” Gary Soto recreates the experience of his guilty six year-old self through the use of cachet word choice and contrasting subtle and stark imagery. Soto uses articulate diction to gracefully illustrate the feeling of guilt and the pleasure derived from it that he encounters after the stealing of the apple pie. He explains that he felt an almost inhuman, burning desire for the pie when “stood before a race of [them]” and “nearly wept trying to choose” one. The “juice of guilt [that] wett[ed] his underarms” is, in a discrete manner, warning him of the repercussions that will arise as a consequence of his evil deed, but he does not heed to it and soon winds up “work[ing] [his] cleanest finger into the pie.” He plunges his last bit of purity and innocence into sin even in “the proximity of God,” which shows how innocent and naïve most children can be. He experiences utmost pleasure while eating, as he later states that he “felt like crying because it was about the best thing [he] ever tasted.” As he retrospects on the terrific taste of the pie, the ‘pleasure’ aspect of ‘guilty pleasure’ is revealed to the reader.

Most people don't know that eating food releases a sensation in the brain, and thats why people are so quick to fall in love with food. A food that has consistently wowed people with its delicate taste is the Maine lobster. Although many people enjoy it as a meal it has continued to cause controversy because of its inhumane way of being cooked. In 2004 David Foster Wallace argued that those who eat lobster overlook that it is a living creature “Consider the Lobster”. Throughout the article Wallace used rhetorical techniques to argue his point.

This is because the poem doesn't say anything to clearly show his understanding of poetry. Billy Collins "Introduction to Poetry" was a confusing poem attempting to explain how he understands confusing poems. Instead of explaining what the different aspects of poetry mean and how he views them, the poem makes the reader guess at what his poem is trying to say and there is no clear statement on Billy Collins understanding of poetry. "Introduction to Poetry" states," I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out or walk inside the poem's room and feel for s light switch." This part of the poem uses the idea of going into a poems room as a symbol for looking deep into the poem to find it's true meaning.

If this poem is read literally, it is incredibly repulsive, as it talks about eating tongues and hearts in a cannibalistic nature.When read figuratively, however, the poem is seemingly understandable and somewhat humorous. The speaker uses a tongue and a heart to characterize her sister’s and brother’s issues with the speaker. The “small bones and gristle” (3) of the tongue indicate a sharp speaker, capable of conceiving sarcastic retorts. This description sounds harsh, and causes the reader to feel uneasy. She goes on to say, "it will probably grow back" (6), indicating that even if her sister’s attitude is resolved for a little while, it will come back.

Together, it helps prove the tenant in the poem was being mistreated. The sentences are very short to create urgency. The tone is very indignant and the author uses a euphemism to show that the tenant wants to act violently towards the landlord. ”You ain't gonna be able to say a word / If I land my fist on you" ( 19-20). Finally, the use of irony is embedded throughout the poem.

Hindering Self-development Through Tone Shifts And Characterization Filling Station and A Miracle for Breakfast by Elizabeth Bishop. In Filling Station, the author is quick to judge the station and the men, which eventually leads to her realizing there is much more than despondency, filth, and carelessness. In Miracle for Breakfast, she hopes of receiving crumbs from a rich man’s breakfast. Bishop uses similar tone shifts, and characterization to show how less fortunate people realize and appreciate miracles more than those who are very fortunate but do not appreciate them. The first comparison between the poems is the use tone shift.

T.S. Eliot uses literary devices such as repetition, allusions, and imagery to characterize Prufrock as being lonely and socially anxious, while also being a procrastinator and having low self-esteem, which overall conveys his indecisiveness and inability to act on what he thinks is important. The first part of the poem from lines 1 to 23 illustrates Prufrock’s loneliness and isolation from the rest of society. T.S. Eliot begins the poem with an allusion to Dante’s Inferno.