Strange Fruit By Abel Meeropol Summary

Dark humor is something to be expected if you’re planning on reading a Sherman Alexie poem. “A key characteristic of Alexie’s writing is irony, and his dark humor is often buoyed by an exquisite sense of timing” (Poetry Foundation). Through this we are able to assume that his dark humor is perfectly time to lighten up such depressing moods. In “Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World” I believe we are able to get a bit of insight of insight off all the emotions from the following quote, “Those angels burden and unbalance us. Those fucking angels ride us piggyback” (985).

The disappearance of his father makes Sasha question everything he’s known. The setting and characters Yelchin creates make Breaking Stalin’s Nose a memorable work of literature. Eugene Yelchin was born and raised in the Soviet Union before moving to the United States as an adult, and his father survived the Great Terror—a period of great censorship and arbitrary executions in the 1930s. Yelchin pays great attention to detail when describing the setting for the book as the 1930s Soviet Union almost

In the poem, he speaks about racism in the law, as well as how you are treated in society depends on your skin color. The poem is not good to read only because of its subject, however. The use of repetition and symbolism in “Blink Your Eyes” adds more depth to the poem, and highlights the societal issues that the author and others of his race have felt. Use of repetition in poetry directs the reader 's attention to that word or phrase, as Sundiata does in “Blink Your Eyes.” Along with how the stanzas are formed, the repetition used sets a pace to the poem.

Hitler believed, like many other anti-Semites at the time, that the Jewish people were responsible for Germany’s defeat in World War 1. He wanted to “purify” the German race by eliminating all Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, and other groups. Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 and “Fuhrer”, supreme leader, in 1934. He started arresting and sending Jews to concentration camps, where men, women, and even children were murdered. Hitler tried to conquer Europe, and when the Nazis invaded Poland, World War 2 began.

The speaker states, “I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown, / And a delicate face, and could strut’ about Town!” While the victorian society creates the mindset of the people to believe that if you are ruined you are going to have a horrible life, but Hardy insists that those who are ruined do not suffer as much as those who are pure. Thomas Hardy may have put a twist on the poem, to make you believe the one who is “ruined” is Melia, where in reality it is those who still have their virginity. Throughout “The Ruined Maid,” Thomas Hardy displayed anapestic meter, rhythm, closed-form poetry, and imagery explaining the views of the victorian society among those who have become ruined.

“Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear. Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.” (Roth, 1) The Plot against America by Phillip Roth is a story of what it was like for the Roth family and Jews across the country, when an American aviator Charles Lindbergh was elected as the president of the United States. The following excerpt, reveals the psychological state of Philip Roth and how he perceives his childhood.

The large Russian armies that were occupying most of Eastern Europe. “Truman and many of his advisers hoped that the United States atomic monopoly might offer diplomatic leverage with the Soviets. ”(WWII Part 4) In this way, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Japan can be seen as the first of many shots of the Cold War.(The Hiroshima Bombing)

He also points out in his writing that we would not know what good is if we don’t experience bad. Those are some examples of how Dunbar writes most of his poetry on serious

The Scarlet Ibis, written by James Hurst, is a short story that is personally one of my favorites because of its themes of guilt, selfishness, and pride. It contains a multitude of different symbols and uses of foreshadowing throughout to make the story more interesting that makes you think of a deeper meanings behind the story. Some of the different examples of Hurst’s use of foreshadowing and using symbols in the story are doodle’s brother thinking of killing him with a pillow, the coffin, it was a redbird that died, and the Scarlet Ibis. They all have deep meanings, the coffin being a symbol of doodle being face to face with death; foreshadowing his death perhaps (for example), but the main idea of these two points would be the use of the Scarlet Ibis’ death in the story. This was a perfect example of foreshadowing in the story because the beautiful bird all of a sudden died, which is an obvious foreshadowing of Doodle

In conclusion, Mary Shelly uses her great words and flow of her sentences to show how Victor has changed throughout the book. Victor at first seems happy and has a love of nature. In contrast, when the monster completes his revenge Victor is isolated from society and this causes him to have loneliness. Mary Shelly compares Victor to a romantic hero. He has some specific traits that apply both to the romantic hero and himself.

I) Introduction A) Attention Getter: “It is not truth that matters, but victory.” Is one quote from Adolf Hitler. B) Thesis: Hitler made an impact across the world, by beginning with an idea that Jews were the cause to the problems in Germany. From that he made the decision to try to eliminate Jews across Europe then the world II) Body A) Hitler grew up with a normal childhood 1.

During this time, Britain had an agreement with the Soviet Union and the United States and occupied other countries. While in the United States, President Roosevelt froze Japanese assets, suspended relations, and had an oil embargo. Back in Germany, they experimented with the gas chambers, advanced towards Moscow, created the Night and Fog Decree, and forced Jews to wear the Star of David. By this time, more than 33,771 Jews were killed. The Soviets started taking and retaking cities, launching a major counter-attack and caused Germany to abandon Moscow (The History Place, n.d.).

The culture of control the Soviets put on the people of East Germany and the people of the Soviet Union for that matter, was basically forced slave like tactics, which was

The Food Police: Poem Explication While poetry as a genre often evades the approachability of prose, its task at the end of the day is the same: to relay a narrative of truth. One advantage poetry holds over prose, however, is its intrinsic ability—even obligation—to explore the complexity of that truth. In the case of my poem, The Food Police, I attempt to do exactly that, examining the ways in which our interpersonal relationships reflect and are affected by those we hold with food. By setting an emotionally volatile internal dialogue against the backdrop of an everyday scenario, I hope to expose the ways in which negative relationships with food can affect more than just one’s waistline.

Brian Doyle, the author of The Wet Engine: Exploring Mad Wild Miracle of Heart and the short story “Joyas Voladoras”, portrays that throughout the lives of many animals such as the hummingbirds, fast-paced, daring, risky, whales, extended life times, ambiguously unknown, and humans, fortified, but venerable, all have the capability to feel complex emotions. In “Joyas Voladoras,” Brian Doyle indicates that regardless of species, size, and shape, all animals are adequate enough to feel complex emotions. In “Joyas Voladoras”, the sweetness that the hummingbirds craves for is used to represent the desires that humans feel, but at the cost of something else. Doyle expresses that the idea of death comes if the desire or wish of animals is not fulfilled.