Although, Beah successfully contributed imagery to his writing techniques, a visual pertaining to his experiences is easier to comprehend,…
BGF leader Ray Ray Browing was especially masterful in manipulation. While running a quite lucrative drug smuggling operation via the Columbian drug cartel, he quite successfully sidelined a reputation among local inner city neighborhoods as being an organization that cheerfully gave to those in need. This tactic had a sinister side to it however as there was a cost with dealing with a gang of this magnitude. Valdemar elaborates further on the fact that under the Browning administration, profits were used to pay the grocery and utility bills of the families that resided in the homes surrounding the residences they occupied along with paying neighborhood teens to monitor police scanners and even younger children to report if any strange people…
For example, the poem “Never Here” is a visual poem, and almost takes on the characteristics of a choose-you-own story, as there are 3 parts of the poem that diverge off with arrows. The first eight lines beginning, “When the girl / finally learned” (Never Here 1-2), leads in to two possible continuations of the lines, “Shadow. / They / roosted / in”, and “flesh – feather / and beak. / They lived.” These boxed in lines then branch out to other possibilities, leaving the reader to decide how to finish the poem. I think Choi’s intention here was to involve the reader in the poem in way that feels as if they are part of making the poem, rather than just readers, they can create new lines, and offer a difference perspective to how the poem is read, as there is no correct way to finish the poem. Another of Choi’s poems that makes interesting use of the physical space on the page is, “Tornado.” On the page, the stanzas look like little tornados, they start off wide and become smaller as you move down the page. This poem uses the image of a tornado to depict of the speaker feels as they are revolting against an oppressive…
In poem the imagery job was to put reader in the shoe of the young white narrator. Imagery allowed reader to come to a conclusion of why would narrator think like she did. An example of this were in line nine through ten, where narrator claimed that IQ the African American man had a casual, cold, alertness in his eye as if he planned to may her. Another examples is line twenty six through thirty one, as she explained how man can break her back like a stick maybe for vengeance on people that are breaking his.…
How can a deaf person sing? One might ask this question about Johnnie Ray but yet he did it all. He wrote songs, sang them, and even saw some become big hits across the country. He was deaf, but he still chose a music career and succeeded. Johnnie Ray had to overcome many obstacles to become a successful musician. But how did he do it?…
Imagery has always been a powerful mode of forcing the reader to experience poetry as it was meant to. In "The Blue Heron", the poet, Theodore Roberts, uses a variety of color to engage the audience in the vivid imagery he presents. He tries to create a happy scene in the mind's eye; one of health and untainted natural beauty. He describes the scene with "green lanced through/ With amber and gold and blue", describing the flora and bodies of water that fill the area. He also describes the "roses pinker than dawn", insinuating the rich floral beauty and abundance of nature that exists in the area. Then the poem takes on a more somber tone, with images of "grey ... embers of yesterday" and "grey feather." The toned down, dark colors have a negative effect on the feelings that the reader experiences, and that helps the poet get the sentiments that he means to across. This contrast of the bright colors against the darker colors also signifies how the blue heron is viewed by the poet. He seems to portray the bird as a two faced mystery, showing itself as a mindless creature that barely understands that which is around it, but with hidden grievances against the world. Images of the heron being "still as an image made/ Of mist and smoke" but with "eyes [that] are alive like gems" makes the audience hold a view of the heron as being an animal that holds a grudge against something. Using these powerful, vivid images, not only does Roberts convey his message, but he also forces people to think about how things are not always what they…
As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.…
“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus”(Philippians 4:7). In the novel, A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines, one of the protagonists Jefferson discovers that the combined transformation of death, understanding, and religion can overpower the thoughts of a common man and no matter how much one struggles, hope will always confide them. Told in first person point of view, the author supports his theme by describing the setting of the struggles that the African Americans face after the era of their ancestral freedom, establishing the central conflict of inequality and prejudice. This affects the work as a whole because Gaines’ purpose is to inform readers about the rift,…
The name Ray Allen carries influence and speaks volume. Ray Allen should be awarded the most valuable player award for when he matched and broke the three-pointer record for NBA basketball and also for having his own foundation. Ray Allen is paving the way for young men and women.…
There are lots of poetic techniques used is this poem, such as: similes; metaphors; personification; onomatopeia; rhyme and rythm. A simile is a comparison of somthing using 'like' or 'as', for example, "as green as emerald" (p85), "as white as leprasy" (p90), "listens like a three years…
Part I. One of the elements that could be found at the crime scene are two circles of salt (Holmes, 2002). The investigator should be well aware that the circles of salt, or any amount of salt found at a suspected ritualistic crime scene, would be a sign that a satanic sect of a devil worship cult could be involved (Holmes, 2002). Bowls of salt of different colors may also be found around the altar. The colors of the salt, as well as banners and other symbols, all have specific expressed meanings (Holmes, 2002). For example, the color black expresses darkness, evil, night, Satanism, or occult and the color blue expresses tears, water, sadness, and pornography. Another element that should be looked for are candles, candles compromise an important role in satanic ritual(Holmes, 2002). As stated in the Holmes text, black and white candles are used by Satanic sect members(Holmes, 2002). Never more than one whitecandle is used(Holmes, 2002). Furthermore, wax drippings found at the ritualistic crime scene may serve as proof of Satanic involvement (Holmes, 2002). If the candle wax is found in colors other than black or white, then It can be assumed that the participants are part of different types of worshipers (Holmes, 2002). The third element that investigators should seek is the different Satanic Symbols (Holmes, 2002). Drawings of a hexagram or the inverted pentagram may be present at the crime scene(Holmes, 2002). The pentagram or hexagram is always enclosed by a circle, which serves as a protective device from harm and danger from the demons(Holmes, 2002). The satanic alphabet may also be present, with the letters drawn on the ground to spell a prayer, statement, or warning (Holmes, 2002). One type of pedophile is the situational type child molester, within this category falls the Morally Indiscriminate Child Molester (Holmes, 2002). The morally indiscriminate child…
In conclusion, the author uses all these devices to form an emotio=al aspect of his writing to convey us to feel similar emotions to what he is writing about.He uses a lot of emotional words in his poem to make us feel the hurt about how lies can crat bigger lies that not only harm you but everyone around u as well.In this poem, he mostly uses mood, tone, metaphors, and exaggerations to pass on that emotional aspect of the…
In the poem "when god lets my body be", e. e. cummings uses archetypal images to suggest that life is a never ending circle. His images display the idea that even after death you are still left on the earth circulating through nature's cycle. To establish this idea at the beginning of the poem cummings creates the image of a tree growing from the soil of the narrators' dead body with the line, "from each brave eye shall sprout a tree." Trees are evocative of eternity- forever growing and always creating new life through their fruit. As well the tree gives that idea of dynamic life. In the line "the purpled world will dance upon Between my lips which did sing," a connection between nature and man is drawn. The narrators' lips and mouth were the center of many of the vital components of her human life. The mouth is how one eats, speaks, breathes, romances and communicates. The idea of flowers, a common symbol for the better land, now "dancing" over what was a fundamental part of her life as a human creates the image of human life and natural life being part of an intertwined cycle. The next line "a rose shall beget the spring that maidens whom passion wastes," displays the image of a rose which symbolizes fertility, resurrection and passion. The narrators' body has created the new life of the rose through the fertile soils her body created. Now with her creation another life, the life of the maiden- also symbolizing fertility and passion- is waiting for her chance to continue the circle of life. Towards the end of the poem there is an image of a bird. This represents that although the narrator is now just part of the soil she feels that she is free and without limitations. The poem is ended off with the line, "and all the while shall my heart be With the bulge and nuzzle of the sea." The words "with the bulge and nuzzle" finish with emphasis that, like the never resting tides of the sea, you go though immeasurable stages of…
Another, sensory detail that he used in this poem was…
To begin with, E.E cummings used visual techniques, by one of the poem which is set of parentheses the shape which supports the poem. First in terms of punctuation, the exclamation point is used to emphasize the leap, and the semicolon suggest a continuation of the accion. Second the shape and spacing creates the visual technique (doc B). As a result, E.E cummings creates meaning by using Auditory techniques, Assonant vowel and…