example‚ he describes the misery that exists‚ "the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid‚" and doesn’t comment on how awful that is‚ or what we should learn from it‚ or how we should change the misery; his next line is simply‚ "I see these sights on the earth". No moral imposition‚ no call to action. He is simply reporting what he sees. That is the silence he is referring to‚ a silence of judgment or analysis on the events. Whitman‚ a great believer of individualism and trusting
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I SIT AND LOOK OUT Walt Whitman‚ a prominent American anti war poet‚ who lived during the times of civil war witnessed the condition around him with his own eyes and transformed it into literature which still stands relevant to our lives today. The advent of capitalism during this time and its rapid proliferation brought with itself several ramifications. Human concerns were relegated and principles were sidelined. In response to all the atrocities‚ the people looked around and turned a blind
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‘I Sit and Look Out’ describes a dark‚ sad‚ corrupted‚ sorrowful world and shows the realism of the world. It talks about a man who sees evil in the world but does nothing to stop it or extinguish it. He leaves all of the misery and bitterness alone and acts as though he does not witness it. Whitman argues that no one stands up to the injustices of the world‚ to make things right. He is urging us‚ not just to see and hear the meanness and the agony of people suffering in the world‚ but to correct
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his life to the creation of the “single” poem‚ I sit and look out. In this giant work‚ openness‚ freedom‚ and above all‚ individualism are all that concerned him. His aim was nothing less than to express some new poetical feelings and to initiate a poetic tradition in which difference should be recognized. Whitman is almost as blatant as this in his pacing of current experience because in the short poem “I Sit and Look Out‚” he begins “I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world‚ and upon
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Within I Will Wade Out‚ a poem by E.E. Cummings’‚ the speaker seems to emote uncertainty in his actions and decision about the future. Cummings’s poem is a lot about deciding withholds a decision of what type of person and what type of life one wants to live. To the speaker this life is one of spontaneity that follows the movement of nature. In the physical structure of the poem the lines are indented in and out like the waves of the ocean. This water represents nature‚ though the flowers are being
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July 2005 and i was 12‚ my brother was 15. My name is Larson and my brother’s name is Roan. Our parents allowed us to use he pool after 8 p.m but they wanted us in the house by 22:20. Our trunks had lost that piece of string last year but it had never came off. That night me and my brother jumped so fast that our bathing suits came off and we didn’t know it! When we were underwater I could see my brother’s 6 inch dick and he saw my 4.5 inch dick but we never told each other that so I knew my brother
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If‚ ‘I Hear America Singing’ depicts a brighter and more up-beat society; ‘I Sit and Look Out’ describes a dark‚ sad‚ corrupted‚ sorrowful world. Walt Whitman uses sad words describing emotion and just all sorts of corruption imaginable. In this sense the entire poem is a poignant criticism of life‚ with the speaker acting as a detached observer‚ finally leaving it upon the reader to react and judge against the malady of life that the poet shows within the framework of just ten lines. To begin
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man she will so disastrously marry: He was a ride. It was the best way to describe him‚ from the first time I heard of him to the last time I saw him. He wasn’t‚t gorgeous. There was never anything gorgeous about him. When we made love the first time in the field when we were drunk‚ especially me‚ and I didn’t really know what was happening‚ only his weight and wanting to get sick@ I felt terrible after it‚ scared and soggy‚ guilty and sore. It would have helped if he’d been gorgeous‚ like Robert
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Heggel Akame Description Paper English Composition I 10/15/2014 Nature has inspired great works of art throughout generations. Man uses the beauty around him as an inspiration to portray a wonderful environment. Theodore Gericault’s; “Evening: with an Aqueduct”‚ landscapes capturing the vastness of the great out door; Childe Hassam’s; “Surf‚ Isles and Shoals”‚ portrays strong wind blowing from the crashing tide‚ and Giovanni di Paolo’s; “The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise”;
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different. “Another Evening at the Club” the short story by Alifa Rifaat‚ talks about how men would control what is happening in the house and between the married couple. Budge Wilson also discusses this situation in his story “The Leaving” and how the men order the women to what they can and cannot do in and out of the house. While the men believe they control everything‚ the women have thoughts about equal rights and also being able to give there opinion. The husband in “Another Evening at the Club”
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