Killings Poem Analysis

Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Education at Harvard University with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society. Smith Clint wrote a poem called “Something You should Know.” The poem is about an early job he had in a Petsmart. The poet allows the readers into his personal life, but before he had trouble opening up to people and his work. Moreover, Clint wrote an insight in the poem about relying in anything to feel safe and he says it is the most terrifying thing any person can do.

Matt Fowler is a store owner with some sort of prior education. He is a father of not only Frank, but Cathleen and Steve as well, and is married to Ruth. Frank was going to school to earn a degree during the time when he was viciously and senselessly killed by a man who is older, but definitely not wiser. Richard Strout, on the other hand, dropped out of school at UMass due to grades and is currently a bartender. His priorities weren’t as well laid-out as Frank’s were, and Matt appears to resent two main characters, Richard and Mary-Ann Strout. Matt resents Richard for not only taking away Frank’s chance to live his life the way he was meant to, but also resents Mary-Ann for getting involved with Frank, knowing that Richard has violent tendencies and would get jealous. Matt has changed after the murder of his son, and Richard and Mary-Ann are to blame.

Throughout Dubus’ story Matt is depicted as a family man with a great deal of love for Frank, and his loss is exposed through flashbacks and memories. The pain he experienced becomes focused through his gun, with memories of Frank with Mary accenting his agony and fueling revenge, “He recalled her eyes, the pain in them, and he was conscious of the circles of love he was touching with the hand that held the revolver so tightly now”

Burial Rites, a novel written by Hannah Kent is heavily based on story telling and the effect it has. Through the course of the novel, readers observe the significance story telling has for both the individual and the community. For an individual story telling can make the speaker feel empowered whereas for the community story telling’s main significance is the entertainment it provides. Since Kent’s purpose of Burial Rites is to tell the life journey of Agnes Magnusdottir in an ambiguous light, story telling also becomes important for the reader.

The reader is immediately thrown into the mix of how the family is dealing with their loss and all of the sorrow, pain, emptiness, angst, anger and hatred that is being experienced through Matt Fowler in particular. The story continues in a series of flashback’s and chronologically-inversed narratives that give the reader a little more into the lives of the main character’s as well as the events that took place leading up to and following the funeral; and eventually concluding with how Matt dealt with the whole ordeal and the decisions he made- for better or worse. The story paints Richard Strout as being a jealous, spoiled, and hot-tempered man. Strout saw his soon to be ex-wife with another man (Frank) and killed him without showing the slightest remorse. As the story progresses we begin to see Matt’s plan for revenge start as an idea and eventually come to fruition.

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

In the story Frank is dating a woman named MaryAnn. MaryAnn had just recently split up with her husband Richard. Frank and MaryAnn had started seeing each other about a month after Richard and MaryAnn split. The reader learns early in the story that Richard kills Frank, more than likely because of jealousy. The main conflict of the story is how Matt, Frank’s father, reacts and deals with the death of his son. Multiple times throughout the story, Ruth, Frank’s mom, talks about seeing Richard in town while he is out on bail. During the story, Matt struggles with his anger and remorse that came with the death of his son, as any father would. The turning point of the story is when Matt decides to kill Richard. “She knows I started carrying it after the first time I saw him in town. She knows it’s in case I see him, and there is some kind of situation–” (Dubus). It is at this point in the story where Matt begins toying with the idea of killing Richard. It is obviously something that Matt would not do under any other circumstance, but Richard killed his son. Furthermore, Mat knows that Richard won’t get the time that he thinks Richard deserves. Knowing this kind of justifies his decision in his

It was a hot day in Death Valley. In Death Valley there was Donna, Gina, Jenny. They couldn’t leave Death Valley because their car ran out of gas. So they saw,found a campsite with three trailer’s their and one trailer there was beer, and old can food. Another trailer had old strawberries, and a radio and they touched the radio and strawberries. The last trailer they found a sink and drunk the water first they said “it was hot water.”Then they say “it is the worst water i’d ever tasted but also the best.” Then it all happen they were stuck for days without a phone, a shower,bath.

Within West’s music video, “Monster”, women are constantly placed in the object position in that they do not have an agency or power and are used as accessories to, essentially, attract viewers and sell music. “Monster” was featured in West’s album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. In just five words, the title of the album summarizes the music video of his song “Monster”. Although extremely misogynistic in his portrayal of women in his music videos and lyrics, Kanye does not see a problem with the way his video was interpreted. Though morbid, Kanye intended the song be inspirational somehow. In a book written on Kanye West by Mark Beaumont, Kanye stated:

In the poem ‘Murder’ by David Baker, the author tells of how he survived a heartbreak that was so painful, that he compared it to murder itself. The poet had described the woman as a woman whose beauty was beyond compare. He had loved this woman with all his heart, and when she ended their relationship, it was like the murder of his heart, which was now shattered and aching. Towards the end of the poem, the author comes to a realization with his heart ache. He realizes that he loved her so much, that he has to let her go before holding on to wat they had ruins his life. ‘Murder’ was publishes in 1994 and consists of 519 words, 97 lines, and multiple stanzas filled with the poets’ heartache.

"The Sharpest Lives,” a lyricized poem with a pleasing rhythm to accompany. Coming from the band My Chemical Romance's forth album Welcome to the Black Parade written by the lead vocals Gerald Way, fan speculated to be about a man who had caught his partner cheating on him with his best friend, that sends him on a downward spiral during this period in his life. With the tones of Pessimism, morose, and ribald to help listeners connect to this lyrical sob story. The theme, although life has low points do your best to overcome the doldrums that are dragging you down, is best communicated through the use of figurative language and imagery, which conveys an inspirational message to compel the audience to do what they can to make their lives better.

My life - a decayed cigarette ... My hope - it left the train ... My thoughts- frightened at dawn ...

The “Before They Pass Away” project is led by photographer Jimmy Nelson who travelled the world and documented various indigenous cultures between 2010 and 2013. His project is relatively controversial and is intended to spark conversation about these cultures, as well as remain as a resource over time. Photography can be written off as lacking intimacy and understanding of a society, yet Nelson attempts to go further in his relationship with his subjects, and form what he calls “intimate and unique friendships”. The photo projects, while representing Nelson’s positionality, leave the opportunity for viewers interpretations and personal understanding to be developed. In Wade Davis’s review of Jared Diamond’s book, he discusses the idea which Diamond proposes, that culture is derived from “environmental imperatives”.

The writer of a fiction text uses plot, setting and characters to create imagery and influence the reader's response to how the author wishes the reader to perceive a situation. This can be done through many methods, which include detailed descriptions of any settings, detail of weather, characters stereotypical of society and colour association.

John Nicholson Ireland(1879-1962) was a British composer who was consistently inspired by nature. He was born in Bowden, Cheshire, UK, and was orphaned by the time he was 15. Throughout his life, he frequently visited the Channel Islands where he was moved by the natural beauty. Rupert Brooke(1887-1915) was a poet, born in Rugby, Warwickshire, UK. Both Ireland and Brooke lived in the same time period, and were effected by the same historical events. Britain was knee deep in a world war for most of their adult lives. The war is known to have inspired some of Brooke’s most well known poems, but Spring Sorrow was neither mans most popular work.