Response to Literature Poem Analysis Writing Guidelines Subject: Poem Form: Analysis Purpose: To explore meaning Audience: Instructor Sample Poem Read the poem below and think about its content‚ theme‚ organization‚ and use of poetic techniques. Then read student writer Stefano Giagregorio’s analysis. I AM THE PEOPLE‚ THE MOB By Carl Sandburg I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman‚
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The Outsiders there are two such characters that have similarities and differences. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are similar because they have abusive parents‚ and they both have very little values on their life. Additionally‚ they have differences that involve the law and the way they want to die. Therefore‚ Dally Winston and Johnny Cade have huge differences in their lives‚ but also notable similarities. Johnny and Dally both have abusive parents that affect their lives in a crucial way. For
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INTRODUCTION (1 paragraph) Use key words from the essay title in a brief description of what the poem is about. Comment briefly on the themes‚ issues‚ thoughts and feelings the poem explores. Identify the narrator‚ the tone and viewpoint of the poem. STRUCTURE (1 or 2 paragraph) Divide the poem into sections and explain in more detail what the poem is about‚ section by section. Write about the development of ideas and themes from one section to another and one stanza to another. Consider the
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The last day I saw my son his friends were at the hospital. The nurse told me Johnny did not want to see me but I demanded but I forced myself in the room. I do not know why he did not want to see me because I did not do something wrong his dad also did nothing did nothing wrong. Why does he hate me and his dad he never sleeps here too I wonder why. Also why was he gone for a week I am so confused. I knew that me and his dad should be stricter and hit him one more time if he was never home by 9:00
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November 7‚ 2011 Johnny and Ray One wouldn’t think that the lives of Johnny Cash and Ray Charles have anything in common. However‚ after viewing the movies Walk the Line‚ starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter‚ and Ray‚ starring Jamie Foxx portraying Ray Charles‚ their similarities are as striking as their differences. Both of these films are biopics chronicling the rags to riches lives of two of the most influential musicians whose careers began in the
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Frankie Valli once said “You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can’t take the neighborhood out of the guy”‚ This means because he grew up in New Jersey and when he got the fame and glory‚ he always acted as himself with the new jersey accent and toughness towards other. Throughout the 1960’s Frankie Valli was an influential singer because he set the tone with his high voice and incredible singing in the four seasons. He got into music when his mom got tickets to see frank sinatra and
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Work without hope analysis Work without hope was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is mainly about how spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around and the speaker seems to still be stuck in his depression. The first half of the stanza includes a personification In the first half of the poem‚ the speaker identifies that the bees‚ slugs‚ and birds are coming out of hibernation. The speaker seems depressed as spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around
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Johnny the Bagger Ethan Aaron Kiser Indiana University East Abstract This paper covers how Johnny the Bagger‚ an individual with down syndrome‚ left his personal signature on his occupation of bagging groceries. With grasping the incredible difference Johnny made I started to think how I could leave my own personal fingerprint on the customers to whom I come into contact with in my occupation. So I came up with the idea I would take them to lunch and build a
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To analyze a poem stylistically‚ we can analyze the poetic device‚ which is usually deviation and foregrounding‚ that the poet used in the poem. The term foregrounding refers to an effect brought about in the reader by linguistic or other forms of deviation in the literary text (Leech‚ 1985).In poem‚ devices of foregrounding and deviation are always used to draw reader’s attention and impress the readers. In the aspect of deviation and foregrounding‚ there are some perspectives on the nature of poetic
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Although aspiring actors are ubiquitous‚ plaguing the screens with movies adolescent at best‚ there are always those select few‚ who through intrinsic acting skill escape that confine to become legendary actors such as Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp had an interesting childhood‚ but became one of the most famous actors in history and is truly inspiring. He was an odd ball as a child‚ but his personality and devotion to the arts is what made him perhaps one of the most versatile actors of his time.
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