TABLE OF CONTENTS ART AND ANXIETY 3 INTRODUCTION 3 BUFFET AND THE AGE OF ANXIETY 4 Who was Bernard Buffet? 5 Bernard Buffet and Anxiety 5 Paul Gauguin and Postimpressionism 7 Who was Paul Gauguin? 8 Paul Gauguin and Anxiety 9 CONCLUSION 13 ART AND ANXIETY INTRODUCTION If we look the word anxiety in the dictionary‚ probably we will find something like the following definition: “Feeling of worry‚ nervousness or unease‚ typically about an imminent event or something
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Charles Drew (1904-1950): Charles Richard Drew was a physician‚ researcher‚ and surgeon who revolutionized our understanding of blood plasma. During World War 2 alone‚ his work allowed blood storage for transfusions that saved many thousands of lives. Drew was born the eldest of five children on June 3‚ 1904‚ in Washington D.C. His father was a carpet installer and his mother was a school teacher. Dr. Drew an excellent student and athlete‚ graduated from Washington Dunbar in 1972. After graduating
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In the poem “Love Poem With Toast”‚ Miller Williams uses imagery to illustrate the complex relationship between two characters. Starting off in the very first stanza‚ William writes a very bland line‚ “Some of what we do‚ we do to make things happen‚” making this line seem lifeless and distasteful. It’s later accompanied by the lines “the alarm to wake us up‚ the coffee to perc‚ the car to start.” This helps support the very first line in showing the reader that their lives are very routine-based
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The following anthology travels through different time periods and proves that mental illness has been a problem throughout history. The next nine poems will describe the way mental illness impacts lives‚ whether through personal struggles or the influence other peoples has on a person. While the poems in certain time periods are not necessarily about the effects of mental illness they show how the use of poetry has been an outlet for people for centuries. People are constantly affected by other
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land. They are both written in first verse. “The Storm” is based in America and “Storm on the Island” is set on a small island in Britain. A main difference in these two poems are the people who are targeted: the victims of the tragedy that occurs in their respective towns. The islanders from the “Storm on the Island” poem are prepared‚ (“We are prepared: we build our houses squat”)‚ as if they were expecting the storm‚ even though “the wizened earth” had never
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tone‚ which has the tone of the poem spilt out across the words written down which holds an encoding. The encoding or message is what the poet truly wants to get across to you from the particular speaker or mask they are behind. In the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling‚ he masks himself with the face of a father reaching out to his son. He characterizes what would make the ideal person‚ making them seem almost holy‚ if they could accomplish all tasks addressed in the poem. Evidently‚ Kipling tries to rely
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it or on the use it is given. Verse 500 illustrates the previously mentioned ideal of Pre-Raphaelite women when describing Laura’s long loosened hair as “locks… like a torch”. Life out of death is a Christian concept exploited by Christina in the poem. For Christians‚ Christ’s sacrificed himself and his own life in order to make salvation possible for the humankind‚ and by those means eternal life comes out of death‚ in the same way that he resurrected after his death. In like manner‚ Laura’s rebirth
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unrealistic and unachievable‚ creating an insecurity in the realm of teenage girls‚ respectively. The girl throughout the poem deals with the constant struggles that comes with being a girl in society. A classmate of the girl tells her “you have a great big nose and fat legs.” (line 6) At a young age it is indoctrinated in the brains of children to criticize others. Beginning the poem‚ the words “girlchild” (line 1) appear bringing the idea that she is still a child but must maintain a certain dynamic
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another goal that needs to be accomplished-- things that fuel our determination and strengthen our resolve. The two poems‚ “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress Toward” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes are good examples of how poetry‚ too‚ can speak to a reader’s heart and mind and fuel their determination. “Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress
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When we hear about death we imagine something scary‚ such as The Grim Reaper. In our minds The Grim Reaper is a tall‚ dark figure who’s wasting no time on bringing you along with him. However in the poem I’m going to talk about in this paper views death in a different perspective. In Emily Dickinson’s poem‚ Because I Could Not Stop for Death‚ the speaker describes death as a gentleman‚ and how he took her on a nonstop journey. Besides death being talked about as a person‚ the speaker also goes through
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