Good morning/afternoon Mrs Morgan and fellow class members. Good poetry makes you think and feel about issues and ideas raised by the poet. Judith Beveridge explores the beauty of nature and man’s relationship to it. Judith Beveridge shows the cruelty of humans towards animals and nature in her poems. The first poem I have chosen to talk about is “The Shark”. This poem is about a bunch of fishermen on a boat‚ who catch a shark and later discover that the shark has eaten a young boy. “The
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Visualize Poetry Through the ages of poetry‚ many poets have been making images with the expressions that they use to become leaders in creating the art of language. Several authors of the poems that we study daily use personification to make animals and objects do things that people do everyday to give the poem a twist. Poets also use imagery to give their readers a good portrait of what they are trying to describe. “Southbound on the Freeway” by May Swenson and “Once by the Ocean” by
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Judith Butler questions the notion that certain gendered behaviors are a result of learning the performance of gender behavior‚ that which is associated with masculinity and femininity. She argues that it is a social construction that is only true to the extent of it being performed. Gender as defined in Undoing Gender is a “practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint‚” which is within a social context. The stylization of the body‚ gestures‚ movements and enactments create these
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Not Waving But Drowning (Poetry Analysis) In the poem by Stevie Smith‚ Not Waving But Drowning there are a number of elements that are intriguing and to the reader. The poem is mostly spoken from a narrative point of view‚ but it may infer a first person perspective because it centers on a man who is apparently misunderstood by those around him‚ including the speaker that recalls the tragic scene. The poem paints a conflicting image of a man that has fallen to the sea because despite his
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The notion that gender is socially constructed is an idea that Judith Butler argues against‚ instead she suggests that gender does not exist. Butler states that gender cannot exist until performed‚ these acts that are performed are merely repetitions of pre-established behaviour. Instead we impersonate what we believe to be gender and gender appropriate‚ these gender conventions that are impossible to maintain as every person is different. (Butler 2009) It is these learned behaviours that establish
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Brayden Lantz February 1‚ 2015 Mrs. Blackey--Period 7 Poetry Analysis Revision: "Buffet Etiquette" The speaker of "Buffet Etiquette" by Hieu Minh Nguyen is troubled because of his lack of his Vietnamese ethnicity due to the "melting pot" of American culture. As a child‚ the speaker was heavily influenced by his native culture‚ but‚ over the years the he has become more integrated with U.S. culture‚ which has thus caused him to lose identity of himself‚ and even become a stereotype for Asian Americans
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English 113 9 November 2012 Poetry Analysis by Rudyard Kipling “If” As I analyze this poem‚ I get a sense of life’s challenges and how someone can overcome those who refuse to take accountability for their own actions. Considering the poem using point of view‚ I wonder whether it is being told from the point of view of Rudyard Kipling or not. Is “If” the story of Kipling himself? Is it an ideal he aspired to or something he attained? If he did attain it‚ is it something he attained and
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POETRY ANALYSIS: DESIGN Robert Frost’s poem Design seemingly disputes the question whether there is a design to life; yet‚ he is not able to establish an answer. Despite the comlexity of his poem his implied message is rather simple. Frost’s statement clarified human’s eagerness to finding a meaning to life and an essential background and reason to events‚ regardless of how small and insignificant they might be. His work states an advice not to interpret too much into insignificant conincidences
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C. Wright Mills A.L.H C. Wright Mills There are many people who have contributed to the current view of sociology. C. Wright Mills is one theorist that has greatly influenced personal views of sociology all over the world. His theories of “The white collar”‚ “The power elite”‚ “and “The sociological imagination” still apply in today’s social situations because they include situations dealing with the American middle class‚ higher authorities‚ and human behavior‚ which can “help
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"Offering Truth" was painted by Kendra Runnells. This painting has a lot of life lessons and meaning. The colors in the painting give off a sad and dark feel‚ but one can see another person giving instead of receiving and it also shows that it is sometimes better to stand alone than to go along with the crowd. Throughout the painting one can see darkness and sadness. It appears to be raining. When it rains‚ it sometimes makes people sad. It also makes things really dark‚ not just the sky‚ but also
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