Understanding The Poem 'Sloth'

“Grave of the Lizard Queen” [introduces] the reader with the home page consisting of the title, a corpse, and six surrounding objects including the [headpiece] on the corpse [seen in figure 1]. Each object including the corpse’s body making it a total of seven has its own links that lead to short episodes. The short episodes are “displayed” in six uniformed frames aligned in three rows and two columns seen in figure 2 (Carroll /song.html). When the reader clicks a link that directs [him or her] to a new page, there is a similar image of the link above the frames suggesting a connection between the image and the short episode (as) in figure 2 (Carroll /song.html). Although the short episodes of the objects do not contain any narrations or descriptions,

The speaker of the poem, “Weighing the Dog” is the person who is weighing the dog, and then realizes that when he/she left someone, that person means so much more to him.

Jack Finney’s “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket” portrays family as the most vital aspect of life by making Tom Benicke decide between his drudgery for money and closeness of his kinship. Firstly, in the short story, the author uses an idiom to reveal that Tom is acquisitive. This trait of Tom is evident when he says these lines to his wife Clare “You won’t mind, will you when money comes rolling” (Finney). The idiom “money comes rolling” depicts the riches of Tom and his hard work on materialistic things. Tom values opulent life more than family and is highlighted when Tom devotes less time for his wife making him acquisitive. Secondly, in the short story the

The study of any poem often begins with its imagery. Being the centralized idea behind the power of poetry, imagery isn’t always there to just give a mental picture when reading the poem, but has other purposes. Imagery can speak to the five senses using figurative language as well as help create a specific emotion that the author is trying to infuse within the poem. It helps convey a complete human experience a very minimal amount of words. In this group of poems the author uses imagery to show that humanity is characterized as lost, sorrowful and regretful, but nature is untainted by being free of mistakes and flaws and by taking time to take in its attributes it can help humans have a sense of peace, purity, and joy, as well as a sense of

That is all I remember for the next five or ten seconds. I woke up about fifteen feet from the grave. I could see every color of the rainbow. My radio was gone. I looked behind me. The radio was about ten or twelve feet away with the antenna sticking out of the water. I began to yell, “Did anybody get a fix?” (A fix was a flash from a mortar or rocket or whatever.) I could not hear myself yell. After about another twenty seconds or so, I began to hear the men in my squad yell, “I’ve been hit, Sgt. Leland. I’ve been hit.”

The poem I read this week which I would like to discuss and analyze is called Poetry (1975) by Nikki Giovanni. This poem is probably one of the most impactful ones I read because the tone and language that Nikki used spoke to the heart. It has a lot of hidden messages and emotion that we will discuss. The writer made a point that poetry is not a normal story that tells a narrative and ends there, but it is a life experience and life lesson. She stated “ the heart for poetry is joy, if it does not inform then close, off the brain for it is dead, if it cannot heed the insistent message, that life is precious.”

The themes that I have inferred from the short, ten line poem, are as follows: mystery, fear, and comparison. There is mystery because of the last stanza, “For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings wear a human face.” I decided to call this mystery, because how can a mouse have wings-or even wear a human face? I decided fear because of the second to last stanza, “But when he brushes up against a screen/We are afraid of what our eyes have seen.” To me, that stanza radiated fear in my mind. There must have been something terrifying on the other side of the screen to provoke fear. Lastly I decided on comparison because of the first line: “By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.” I think this is comparison because the author is saying that a bat is comparable to a mouse due to

In Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Kingston, the main character Wittman is a highly educated artist who searches to find a way to simultaneously express himself as an artist and fit within a community. When we meet him, he has not yet discovered how to express his art in a way that is acceptable either to the Chinese American or American communities. He is a fourth generation Chinese American who finds himself marginalized by the American community because he is viewed as Chinese, but he is also not accepted by the Chinese American community for his art because it incorporates too much of American culture. Disgusted by his lack of acceptance, Wittman at first wants to withdraw into creating his art just for creation’s sake, but then sees a way to satisfy his artistic aspirations by exploiting the desires of other Chinese Americans who want a culture that celebrates their community. He writes a play that creates a new community that embraces all of the Chinese Americans, but also celebrates all of them as individuals. Ultimately, Wittman uses his own desire to be an acclaimed playwright and accepted individual to forge a new Chinese American society within the play that celebrates everyone’s individuality, highlighting Wittman’s.

Ted Kooser, the thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for his honest and accessible writing. Kooser’s poem “A Spiral Notebook” was published in 2004, in the book Good Poems for Hard Times, depicting a spiral notebook as something that represents more than its appearance. Through the use of imagery, diction, and structure, Ted Kooser reveals the reality of a spiral notebook to be a canvas of possibilities and goes deeper to portray the increasing complexities in life as we age.

            Finally, "The Flea" contains two major unique characteristics. One of Donne's most successful effects is sudden contrast.ii[ii] The insect seems to be no connection with romance, but by sucking blood of two characters of the poem, the flea builds a bridge between the two persons that surprises many readers.

In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a group of Americans and Brits travel to Pamplona to experience bull-fighting and festival surrounding it. Returning from World War I and struggling with injury-caused impotence, Jake Barnes longs for Brett’s love. However, she, already engaged to another man, dismisses his romantic attempts, more focused on the physical parts of relationships, which seem vital to a traditional relationship. Although it feels like conventional intimacy is largely absent in the novel, a close look at marriage and Brett and Jake’s unusually deep affection reinvents the definition of love.

The purple emperor is found in woodlands around Europe and Britain. The purple emperor eats larvae, sap, and dung. The purple emperor’s favorite food to eat is larvae. The distinctive features of the purple emperor include long, curled tongue and beautiful brightly colored wings. The purple emperor is threatened by the human race and animals. These insects have hair.

In the poems Robert Burns’ “To a Mouse” and “The Mouse’s Petition” by Anna Letitia Barbauld, many feelings and emotions about mice are brought forth. While both poems were written by different authors, many of the feelings they share towards mice are common. The analysis of the two poems will help to find the comparisons and differences in theme, political and social issues, diction, and tone. Examples from the poems will help to show the similarities and differences in the two.

The fact that enjambment is used throughout the poem such as in the lines, “like a colour slide or press an ear against its hive” portrays a lack of structure and therefore emphasizes the initial enjoyment one feels when reading a poem before the chore of analyzing it begins. This is also emphasized through the fact that the poem is a free verse poem.

The earliest experience society has with authority and leadership is within their own family. Often times the running of households is compared to the running of one’s country in the sense of each individual’s self reliance, hard work, and personal responsibility. The driving force behind political differences and beliefs can be dictated back to the way one was brought up. The question of how people can analyze the same issue and draw polar opposite conclusions is often the basis for all theories and methods researchers have proposed. The unbridgeable divide between the Republican and Democratic parties in the recent presidential election support the hypothesis of hidden assumptions and frames that dictate how every individual thinks about politics, all being shaped by personal values. The metaphor of America being one big family is drawn into the fact that many consider families to be governing bodies and governing bodies to play the role of parents within a household, thus drawing the conclusion that governing institutions are families in the greater scheme of things. Researchers have discovered two main family dynamic