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“But mousie you are not alone your planning may be in vain, the best plans of mice and men often go Ary.” A line from “Of Mice And Men.” A poem by by Robert burns which’s theme is Even the best laid out plans fail and we should show sympathy for the ones whose plans do. When John Steinbeck wrote his book OMM, he had Robert Burns Poem in mind and here's why.
The Mayhem Poets Review To successfully entertain college students is a glorious feat. It is hard to capture their attention with technology and social events distracting them. However, on January 28, The Mayhem Poets were able to amuse their crowd at Schwab Auditorium. Scott Raven, Mason Granger, and Mikumari Caiyhe (M.C.) connected to their audience through spoken word, song, poems, and acting.
Baldwin is using the words “ innocence” and “ innocent” to signify ignorance, in some cases, especially when referring to people. I think the irony isn't exactly direct he does mean innocent in a sense, in saying that these people just don't really know anything. They're ignorant to the black experience and to what racial inequality still pervades. They're "innocent" of knowing anything, they're naive and ignorant. He does imply their culpability and guilt when he ties them to the country, which "set him down in a ghetto", condemning the group of "innocents" and their country.
Treatment This poem, “Silent Treatment”, is all about the apathy that individuals possess when dealing with the urban poor or suffering in general and I like it because it successfully managed to convey the theme without many mistakes. Although there are mistakes they do not really take the reader away from the mood, tone and setting created by the poem. I will be going into what, for me, makes the poem good, as well as the mistakes that I noticed and lastly the overall effect it had on me.
The poems Tiananmen by James Fenton, and A Piece of Red Cloth by Cui Jian are examples of protest poetry, created around the time of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in 1989. Within both of these texts, the idea of government control and censorship are interesting and significant. These ideas are shown through the use of imperatives, and second-person pronouns in Tiananmen, and metaphors and dialogue in A Piece of Red Cloth. Government control and censorship are still relevant and significant, and still affects people in today’s society. Both of these poems were written around the time of the Tiananmen square massacre - A Piece of Red Cloth during the student protests, before the massacre, and Tiananmen after the massacre.
“Incident” by Natasha Tretheway brings to life the horrors African Americans faced during the time the Ku Klux Klan was rampant in the United States. Fear and secretiveness was an everyday part of African American lives. They were unable to live like white Americans were due to the racism they faced. This poem, however, symbolizes the idea that life continues through the fear of it crumbling. The narrator is still alive to tell his or her story; therefore, this is evidence that life continues.
PROLOGUE I express appreciation to Charles Dickens for utilizing some of the prose from his novella, A Christmas Carol, written in 1843; and to William Shakespeare for quotes from his play, Julius Caesar, written over 400 years ago. My story is similar to Dickens’ and profiles a rancher I knew in the Cheyenne River country east of Buffalo Gap. He was a cantankerous old cowboy who spent seven days a week in the saddle and only took a day off on rare occasions to come to town to do business with my dad at the bank and throw down a couple beers at Frenchie’s saloon. Whether or not he ever suffered from delusions I don’t know, but he may have, because during his life he encountered everything else.
“Something Dark hiding in the Innocent” Kiki Pertrosino’s “Nursey” is you would think an innocent poem, but it is far from it. When you look at the title “Nursey”, you think of nursey rhymes like Snow white, Alice in wonderland, or any other fairy tale. Very sweet, very innocent, and happy ending but this poem is the exact opposite of all those things. Even though Pertosino poem isn’t your typical “nursey”, she did add elements in the poem that are connect to nursey rhymes. In line 1-2, Pertosino talks about where the speaker/speakers are entering a magical like fairy house and sit down to have some tea.
‘Nettles’ is a poem written by a British poet and author Vernon Scannell, in the mid-1900’s. It is based on a strong parent-child relationship, a realization that there is no complete protection that a parent can provide for their child despite their devotion and love. ‘Havisham’ is written in the late 1900’s by Carol Ann Duffy, a Scottish poet and playwright. The protagonist is taken from a Charles Dickens character, Miss Havisham, from the book Great Expectations. It looks at the mental state of anger and bitterness of Miss Havisham when her fiance betrays and abandons her on her wedding day.
The poem, “Incident” by Cauntee Cullen, is a depressing ballad that addresses the issue of racism African Americans are subjected to in United States. The poem is narrated through an African American male who is reminiscing about childhood experience of riding a bus Baltimore, Maryland. During the ride, the young happy boy encounters another boy the same age but he is white. The speaker flashes a smile however than grinning in return, the boy abhorrently calls him “nigger.” Subsequently the speaker mentions that the incident in the bus was the only memory he can recall throughout his seven month duration in Baltimore.
The Pardoner was the Summoner’s companion (Pg. 885, Line 625). This is shown in line 671 when it says “with him there rode a gentle pardoner” (Pg. 886). He is said to be “gentle” (Line 671) and he had no beard (Pg. 887, Line 691).
Silent but Deadly Victor Wang Ms. Babcock ENG 1D1 May 9th, 2016 All that is left behind is a suicide note and a playlist of songs – no clear explanation – only a boy named Sam left clueless and drowning in melancholy. In Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff, the unexpected death of Hayden leaves a searing and unbearable hole in Sam’s mind. Not only was Hayden Sam's best friend, but he was also his confidante. Sam lived a life where his wellbeing was cemented in a foundation based on more of Hayden than on himself.
Racing faster, Escape disaster, Partners in crime will leave their mark We make our own way, No thoughts of yesterday, Black hearts of chrome and battle scars (Chrome and battle scars) Oh. The legacy, Born from a dream, On leather wings, Rose from the streets, With our hands on destiny, We came from nothing, But promise one thing, We'll change the world with these guitars, So listen closely, And don't stop working,
Reflective commentary: “TSN” is a poem composed of four different sections of verse; three ballad stanzas, a section of blank verse followed by a rhyming couplet and finally four stanzas of free verse. The first three sections of prose are written in predominately consistent meter, alternating iambic tetra- and trimeter in the three ballad stanzas, and iambic pentameter in the section of blank verse and the rhyming couplet. “Predominately” as there are some substitutions within two of the ballad stanzas (despite the poet’s best efforts). More specifically two trochaic substitutions, “Monarch”, and “Dire”, and an anapestic substitution “absolute”.
