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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This poem was published in 1978 by Joyce Carol Oates. I chose this poem because it very much speaks about the traditional roles of men and women‚ specifically towards married men and women. We can use Gender lens to further analyze the poem. In the 70’s‚ that was the time where women are fighting for their equal rights similar to men. Now if we compare women today from the 70’s‚ we can really see a very big difference of our roles nowadays. Before‚ women who are married are expected to just stay
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Derek is a fourteen year old boy starting his eighth grade year at St. Pius x school. Derek transferred schools this year because everyone was overbearing him and he didn’t like everyone doing that to him...plus his grades were shiftless. So now we’re here with him on his first day with his new classmates. When he walked in he noticed everyone looking at him. Someone people were excited to see the new student but then their was kids with quirky look on their faces. He said to himself “this is a
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Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992‚ Saint Lucian native‚ Derek Walcott‚ wrote 40 Acres in November‚ 2008. He wrote this poem in honor of the newly elected president‚ Barack Obama‚ and was published the day after the election in the London Times. Walcott introduces the poem with a great deal of imagery and symbolism shown in lines 1-13. “Out of the turmoil” he describes a “young negro”‚ as an emblem‚ with a straw hat and overalls on what seems to be a farm. He describes a crowd
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Task 1 LITERARY ANALYSIS: READING POETRY AND WRITING THE ESSAY Pre-writing exercise 1 • Man: This primarily mean adult male but can designate any human being regardless of sex or age. Wikipedia (2011) • Wall: This is an upright structure of wood‚ plaster or any building material serving to enclose‚ divide or protect an area. Wikipedia (2011) • Berlin Wall: This is the wall that separated East Germany from West Germany. Wikipedia (2011) • Wailing Wall of Jerusalem: It is the remnant of the
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Derek and Danny Vinyard‚ brothers‚looked up to the wrong people. A very right-winged man managed to twist their thoughts and did the same thing to them that Hitler did to the masses. They and their fellows are feeling as a part of a community that is exploited by people who do not have the right to do so: Illegal immigrants‚ the Black‚ the Yellow and all the others who use their minority position to extract rights over the Whites from it - or so they are convinced. So‚ hatred against the "others"
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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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LORD ULLINS DAUGHTER POEM ANALYSIS The atmosphere is one of the distinct characteristics of the poem Lord Ullin’s Daughter. The poem starts with an agitated atmosphere that arrests our attention. A chieftain of the highlands rushes to the seashore with his beloved and orders a boatman to row them across the sea without delay. He promises to give the boatman a silver pound. The chieftain’s restlessness and anxiety are evident here‚ though why he is in a hurry is not clear. It arouses the boatman’s
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In the second half of “Cry Silent Tears” Joe is still getting beaten and sexually abused but goes to school‚ he learns to speak again and makes a friend Pete. But he soon leaves to another school and Joe decided he can trust people anymore because they always leave him. When he finds out Pete is moving schools he can’t take it and run away‚ on the way he runs into a group of boys and plays football with them. They become close and he feels like he can tell them about what happened to him but they
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Poems from diferent cultures During the poem limbo (by Edward kamau Brathwaite) is more of a cultural poem than a tradition. As the poem discribes a stressful and upseting time black people lived through. The way they were moved from Africa to America to the United Kingdom. In between the rows three to six‚ it repeats the same word again‚ this in my opinion indicates the ship swayimg in the sea. The way the humans underneath the half roted lank of wooden felt. This shows that they were kept under
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