Stanford and University of California alumni Sandra Lim reads from The Wilderness on April 7, 2015, at Prairie Lights. As an alumna from the International Writing Program Lim was making her return back to Iowa City after 11 years. In The Wilderness Lim reads a collection of poems about love, spring and one poem that caught my attention was about the individual struggle of one's body within one’s mind. The poems are open to many interpretations but that is the way that I chose to interpret that poetry in particular. The interesting thing about Lim’s poem is how describes the body parts in some of her poems. It is very vague. It almost makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable but at the same time, I really like her style. The way she describes…
“Frumsceaft” is a song that is written by an uneducated cow-herder who amazingly sang a song in Old English. The cow-herder’s name was Caedmon. He produced “Frumsceaft” after he had left a place where everyone was singing songs. He left the place because he was disappointed in himself because he had not thought of a song to sing. Caedmon was lying in hay in a barn when he had a dream of an angel. The angel gave him a song to sing and told him to go back there. Caedmon went back after writing the song that the angel had told him and sang the song about the beginning of the universe. The poetic structure of “Frumsceaft” parallels the theme of praising God. The theme of praising God is also emphasized through the use of kennings and alliterations.…
Certainly, one of the goblins’ treachery effects is the loss of the notion of time for Lizzie (V.449) and it previously happened to Laura (V.139). Despite having being attacked by wicked creatures, Lizzie walks home happily. The bouncing of the coin is like a victorious hymn for her, the proof that she has confronted and overcome temptation. She conserves her kind heart and thus her purity and vitality, which make her run home.…
This is a clear example that dreams will not always become reality. In Jay Gatsby’s case, his dreams overcame him. He dreamt of Daisy and their perfect future, he made this his goal and only goal. He started evolving his entire life around it by buying a huge mansion across the bay from the Buchanans and throwing huge parties on the weekends. The line between reality and dreams was blurred and Gatsby started to mistake his dreams for reality. Once his dreams were crushed his reality was crushed and Gatsby’s emotion caught up to him and inevitably led to…
Max’s book is all about finding a little beauty throughout his deep and dark past. During Max’s book he wrote “when I was hiding, I dreamed of a certain man. The hardest was…
Meeting Vera, you are amazed at her energy. She is confident in herself as a young woman, as leader, and a game changer. Her Afro centric demeanor and her outspokenness are part of the driving force that makes her to decide to paint landscapes with poetry instead of a paintbrush. She was born in Malawi then later moved to Botswana as a young adult, youngest of two girls – she was always the outspoken one. Never one to back down from the status quo, refusing to confine herself in the boxes provided by society and more often than not was misunderstood because of it. “I speak my mind mostly and sometimes this might be a problem to soft spoken individuals thus my weakness.” She says, without a blink of apology in her eyes.…
In Sister Maude and Rossetti poem investigate an unpleasant relationship between two sisters though Mew investigates a relationship between a spouse and wife whose relationship is spoiled by the wife's trepidation of men. Both lyrics have been composed as an astounding monolog keeping in mind the end goal to investigate the sharpness and disappointment felt by the characters from their…
From the beginning of the poem you can see the cottage maiden was in love with the Lord she calls him ‘a great Lord’ and asks herself ‘Why did a great Lord find me out to fill my heart with care?’ She’s admitting he filled her heart with care, but by asking why, she’s saying he hurt her. She also says ‘O cousin Kate my love was true.’ Here she’s expressing her sadness and the feeling of betrayal she has for her cousin she also says ‘If you stood where I stand, I would have spat into his face, and not taken his hand’ She’s telling her cousin she’d never have done it to her, she’d have told him to go away regardless of his money and status. I believe she’s trying to tell her cousin she would have loved her enough not do gone with…
Since my early childhood I always rolled played as a doctor, modeled by several physicians in my family. Earned the highest marks in high school has been instrumental in my acceptance to medical school. Graduating from the most well known Medical school in Iraq, the Faculty of Medicine, Anbar University, I was ranked the 6th out of 50 total graduates.…
The narrator wanted to be like Dr. Bledsoe for the fact that he was a well accomplished man and head of the college that he went to. In attempts to save the reputation of the college, Dr Bledsoe sent the narrator to New York City, as a way to punish the narrator for hurting his ties with the association Of Mr. Norton, a white man, and the college. Dr. Bledsoe sends him to New York City, making him believe that he wants him to take time off and gives him recommendation letters to give to the employers on NYC. Dr. Bledsoe also instructs him not to read it. He then reads it after Mr. Emerson's son reveals to him that the recommendation letters aren't in his favor. Dr.Bledsoe has written in those letters that and remove the narrator far away from there.the narrator is permanently expelled and cannot return back to the college and he had to protect the college, A man that the narrator trusted, turned out to be duplicitous and deceiving of his true intentions. At this point readers can see how the narrator was controlled by Dr. Bledsoe and was simply disposed of because he was seen to be of no more use to one of a higher authority.This is also seen in the novel when the narrator meets Brother Jack and joins the Brotherhood. As the narrator associates himself with the Brotherhood, he finally receives all that…
Hope your weekend was a good one. Watched Selma, it was slow in spots but otherwise pretty good. Picture this, an old white man writing a poem about Selma and it's really not bad.…
Whether lavish and extravagant, or humble and mundane, they’re something that everybody has, but not everybody gets. Dreams are often sought after with such great desire for the possibility of it coming to existence, that all rational ideas are pushed aside and reality is warped. The essence of this is perfectly captured in Jay Gatsby’s character of Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby and can be likened to Laura Wingfield of Tennessee William's, The Glass Menagerie, and the narrator of Hunger in New York City by Simon J. Ortiz.…
Within the time period of the 1930's, many non-white people kept themselves isolated from others and stayed out of trouble, to avoid the risk of being lynched. Segregation, isolation and racism was a normal lifestyle led by those who were black; one of the characters that embodies this theme in the novel is the character of Crooks. Other themes of the novel are the American Dream; which is never achieved by any of the characters, this suggests that Steinbeck believed that the dream was unbelievable. This is the same belief which Crooks has. Friendship is another important theme, as the reader sees the desperation Crooks has for friendship and the affect of loneliness has had on him. Steinbeck set the novel in Soledad, California, 1930's during the Great Depression. This is an ironic setting because the term 'Soledad' means isolation and loneliness in Spanish, reflecting the life led by Crooks. Also the reader follows the protagonists Lennie and George as they struggle financially. In addition unemployment rates were high and pension rates decreased; making life hard especially for the middle class. Many men left their families and travelled across the country to find work and support their families. But life was harder for black men as they were seen as savage animals and were not wanted; reflecting the hardship of coloured men in the 1930's. The title 'Of Mice and Men' was taken from a famous poem written by Robert Burns. The meaning behind the title is that 'the best laid plans often go awry'; this is a pessimistic phrase that associates with Crooks. This analysis of Crooks will show how Steinbeck presents Crooks as a lonesome and a lack of social interaction with the other white characters in the novel.…
A narrator, by definition, is how an author chooses to portray information to readers in their work. An author’s choice, in how to tell a story is ideal to the effect it has on readers. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway tells the entire story as a first-person, peripheral narrator. Fitzgerald purposefully chooses Nick as a partially removed character, with very few emotions and personal opinions. By doing so, readers experience the same ambiguity of other character’s thoughts, are carried smoothly throughout the plot, and Nick’s nonjudgmental character lets readers form opinions of their own.…
Mrs. Louise Mallard is a repressed married woman that has a heart condition and the reaction to her husband's presumed death is a sign that she is unhappy. After hearing the tragic news she goes up stairs and looks out an open window and notices "new spring life", the delicious breath of rain", and " countless sparrows tittering in the eaves." As she looks out the window among the storm clouds, she stares at patches of the blue sky. "It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicted a suspension of intelligent thought." Louise is not grieving over the death of her husband nor is she having negative thoughts about her future. She is realizing that she will have freedom through her husband death and whispers over and over, "free, free, free!" Her unhappiness is not with her husband, it is her rankings in society and becoming a widow is her only chance she has to gain the power, money, respect, and…