The poem ¨The Highwayman¨ is about a bandit called the Highwayman. He falls in love with a girl named Bess. The Highwayman tells her that he has a job to do and will bring her back gold. He promises that he will be back by moonlight. A man named Tim who loves Bess overhears their conversation. Tim decides to tell the authorities, who were British soldiers where the Highwayman was going to be. Tim does this because he is jealous of the highwayman and Bess’s affections for him. When the Redcoats come they capture Bess for bait. Bess shoots and kills herself to warn the highwayman that the redcoats are there to capture him. When the highwayman hears what has happened to Bess he tries to avenge her death. While riding to the redcoats he gets shot…
Brooklyn Cop, by Norman MacCaig is a poem about an American policeman and the daily dangers he faces. The cop appears to be a savage yet we are later made aware of his underlying vulnerability. New York’s reputation of violence and crime leads to our awareness of the cop’s fear of not returning home to his wife. ...…
Through the use of guns, Warren Ellis gives an insight into the minds of different men. His use of guns signify the characters rule over others, and throughout the story the reader is subjected to a difference of responses over such control and…
General Idea: A woman is pleading for Zhongzi not to take her virginity due to the warnings her various people have given her about the consequences of its loss.…
Guns are a controversial thing in today’s society. Whether you are for or against them provoke fear in other’s unarmed. Guns are a way that enables anyone to gain power. In A Long Way Gone a memoir by Ishmael Beah he talks about how his early life was in Sierra Leone, where a war was going on during the time. Beah affected by the war, discussing how he felt and still feels today, “That person pointed the gun at the place where I had been shot and pulled the trigger. I woke up and hesitantly touched my side. I became afraid, since I could no longer tell the difference between dream and reality” (15). Beah tells the reader how his mental health has declined as distinguishing the difference from reality and his dreams are not present. This inability…
The imagery of guns is a metaphor that further expands on the power and control that the border guards hold over people passing through. The son describes the weapons in detail: “Her gun was silver. There were several chips in the wood handle and the name ‘Stella’ was scratched into the butt” (King, 138). In a…
In the essay “Shooting Dad” by Sarah Vowell, we see how guns affected the relationship between Vowell and her father. From her childhood to her adult years, she was never a particular fan of guns; since her father was a gunsmith, they never had much in common. Even though guns were not the only thing they disagreed on, it caused a huge disconnection between them because it is something they were both passionate about. As an attempt to be persuasive, Vowell uses anecdotes throughout her essay to illustrate her point, help the audience understand her view on guns, and show the relationship she had with her father.…
In peace like a river, guns are a symbol used for taking authority into your own hands. When guns are used in the book, there is always a sense of power belonging to whoever is wielding the gun.…
There are numerous figurative descriptions of guns throughout the book. For example Marcus Sedgwick writes on page 106 “ Wolff’s gun hovered like a cobra waiting to strike” this is smashing simile and on page 75 he writes “ Fragile as a dream” this is a metaphor not only that but is a sticking and shocking contrast. On one hand the gun is reflected positively, it is shown powerful and dangerous. On the other hand the gun is sensitive and fragile. Some descriptions are hard to interpret and are ambiguous. The revolver is mainly reflected positively and as though hypnotic to believe it’s positive.…
The author describes several points that emphasize a detailed look at gun ownership and attitude towards guns. The author mentioned that 30 percent of adult own a gun and grown up in a household with guns. Three-quarters of them said they had fired a gun before they were 18. He also mentioned that 44 percent of an American said they knew someone who had been shot. Author closes with that gun’s owner are politically engaged on weapon issues and they had contributed cash to the association that take choice on firearm policy.…
The works we studied within Creative Writing were all helpful in creating my own works to submit to the class. Throughout all of the reading, many of the works inspired me in different ways, whether it was short story plot ideas or word usage in the poems. While crafting my work for the final portfolio, I reviewed many of the poems from our poetry packet in an effort to find inspiration and to create new interesting images. I took the most inspiration for my formal poem, which I found most difficult to write. One of the poems that was most useful to me was Jilly Dybka’s “Memphis, 1976.” Dybka’s poem follows the sestina form; I also wrote my last poem in this form, so it helped to follow the form by looking at her poem as an example. Dybka’s…
The article written by Jill Lepore, “Battleground America,” is about the history of guns, how they are used, and how they are viewed throughout the past up to the present. She talks about major gun companies and their effect on the amendment, and how guns themselves do not cause negative harm but the people who own and use firearms for the wrong reasons cause harm. Lepore uses many strong points about gun control throughout her article to present her information for her audience to feel as though guns are put into the hands of the wrong people, and does so by creating enforced credibility in her sources, using negative connotative language, and an informative feeling to her article rather than an arguing stand point.…
“The Gun Joke” by Jamaal May is a poem that became popular recently due to a shooting of a young man that caused national attention. This poem is about how in society today we hear stories on the news about people getting shot by guns and how its something that is too common in our world now. Throughout the poem, May uses examples that people can relate to and understand., repetition of certain words and phrases, along with a chilling dark tone.…
In the United States of America, one of the biggest controversial topics is gun control and how much control is too much control. The fact of the matter is that as a nation the U.S. has the highest death by gun rate among many industrial countries. In Mallory Simon’s article she writes the article through many different perspectives to show how many different people’s lives can be affected by one simple gunshot. In the beginning she writes through an Indian man’s, Amardeep Kaleka’s, viewpoint who has just watched his father be shot and killed on their Sikh temple floor along with five other victims who fell to the gun fire. In her article Simon’s quotes what Amardeep saw saying, “Satwant Singh Kaleka had been shot five times while wrestling…
Working has become part of the norm in today’s society for both men and women in the American culture. People waste so much of their life and time in their occupation, that it seems that is the only part of their life that is significant. Jobs revolve around the world and people are so caught up within them. Human beings are turning away from love and family, focusing on their work and not human life that is meant to be spent with loved ones. This theme of work over family has become a major issue and theme within a few poems. This idea of choosing work over life is evident within the poems “The Mill” by Edwin Arlington Robinson and “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy. Both of these poems discover what working is to that individual and how…