JOURNAL 1 (20 points) In describing the importance of language in creative writing‚ Burroway writes: “If you write in words that evoke the senses‚ if your language is full of things that can be seen‚ heard‚ smelled‚ tasted‚ and touched‚ you create a world your reader can enter.” Complete all three of the following prompts from your textbook. Your purpose here is to practice creating imagery in your writing; however‚ the slightly informal nature of this assignment should not be interpreted as permission
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Beauty‚ Beauty‚ Beauty Shall I compare the poem to a painting? The poem is more beautiful and more temperate. The square paper does inhibit the roam of imaging. And a picture’s life is too short to a date. “The solitary reaper” is the poem. When you taste it‚ you can feel the beauty of picture; when you swallow it‚ you can touch the beauty of rhetoric; when you chew and digest it‚ you can embrace the beauty of solitariness. In the first stanza‚ William Wordsworth depicts a lonely girl reaping and
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English 300 September 25‚ 2014 “In The Park” Poem Explication The Poem “In the Park” by Gwen Hardwood represents the idea of changing identity because of certain circumstances as well as challenging common ideas‚ paradigms‚ values‚ and beliefs which is commonly held amongst mothers in today’s society. Harwood wrote the poem with relatively simple composition techniques but it provides a rather big impact which helps to give
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Mary Crary Reflection Paper 1/15/13 Prof. Martinez INT 130 Linguistic register at funerals: Frozen- When the minister recites a biblical verse such as Psalms Ch. 23 (The Lord is my Shepard‚ I shall not want‚ he make me lie down…). Frozen is a type of linguistic that never changes or rarely changes over time. This does not require turn taking because the minister delivers the verse quite like a prayer. An interpreter would sign this prayer using small‚ slow signs‚ giving the participants time
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Dance 7W Analysis paper 1 4/19/2012 Being a disc jockey or better knows as a Dj‚ dance is apart of my job. Seeing all types of dance to all types of music every day of my life. I have probably seen it all‚ that’s why it is hard for me to talk so passionately about one single dance clip when I have seen so much‚ until I saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KZgCJDQQPM. This video contains the dancing of one of the best b-boyers also knows as break-dancers in the entire world. He is voted number
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Rhetorical Analysis A common conception of the legendary skunk is their rather fascinating ability to deter predators with a horrible smelling spray that blasts anything within ten feet with a repulsive mist. The skunk is a force to be reckoned with and not just for the fact that it can leave you smelling foul for days. Skunks spray when alarmed as a defensive technique‚ in which many predators have encountered these creatures and only the smell tells their story. Robert Connors‚ a scholar at the
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The excerpts from Elegiac Sonnets by Charlotte Smith come across as very sad. From the four separate readings by her it is seemed like Smith was maybe depressed. Beginning with Written as the Close of Spring the beginning is beautiful with talk about flowers blooming and spring. Then‚ begging at line 9 it gets sad. She begins talking about humanity and how frail and fair it is. She is talking about how when we age we loose our youth and don’t bud anymore‚ as flowers do. The next excerpt in Charlotte
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The title of this poem is Annabelle Lee. This story a little creepy and also has love in it. The narrators love for Annabelle Lee is endless for her. He uses imagery to try and make us visualize how he loves her. He also repeats or gives you a hint of how much he loves her. It keeps going throughout the poem. I’m the first stanza‚ the narrator introduces Annabelle Lee. He explains how everything starts off‚ like where they lived and how they lived. He explains how no one could love her as much
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Firstly‚ both Heaney and Waterhouse have used figurative language to animate how the young boy in each of their poems admires his father or grandfather. In ‘Follower’‚ Heaney starts off by comparing his father’s ‘globed’ shoulders to a ‘full sail strung’- across some sort of boat. Other sailing imagery is also used throughout the poem. For instance‚ ‘mapping the furrow exactly’ and ‘i stumbled in his hob-nailed wake’‚ where the poet’s father is juxtaposed with a sea captain and a boat‚ respectively
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Synopsis This poem by L.E. Thayer is very intelligent. Thayer shows in stanza one that there is a hill as the known obstacle and a stone as well that gets in the way. He then has to ascend; he climbs up and overrules adversity‚ which are known in the poem as the hill‚ stone‚ grime and blinding storm. The poem has very obvious imagery‚ just alone picturing the blinding storm in the reader’s brain makes him/her feel as if he/she were in the same situation as the Thayer. The poem also has a good amount
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