In “The Harlem Dancer,” Claude McKay describes a woman who is performing to a crowd of youths through the eyes of an audience member. The narrator seems to be explaining everything that has to do with her body and appearance, rather than what she is actually thinking. He later realizes that she is unhappy while performing, though it is still unknown as to what the dancer is thinking. The use of tone and diction reveals that she is actually distancing herself from her reality due the traumatic experience of her ongoing objectification and victimization of predation.…
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. It was 1894 when a legendary poet was born in Cambridge Massachusetts. How did E.E Cummings use visual and onomatopoeia to create meaning? Today I am going to talk about how E.E. cummings uses sight and sound to create meaning.…
E.E. Cummings creates meaning by using visual and auditory techniques to support the meaning of his poetry. First of all, E.E. Cummings uses different visual techniques to create meaning in his poetry. For example, in (Document A) he is isolating the words to show the…
“The world is mud- luscious and puddle - wonderful” (E.E. Cummings). Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. He was a painter and a poet and he studied in the University of Harvard, where he was fascinated by two schools of art Impression and Cubism. How does E.E. Cummings use vision and auditory to create meaning?. E.E. Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual techniques and auditory techniques.…
On October 14th, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Rebecca Haswell and Edward Cummings gave birth to Edward Estlin Cummings. However, the world would ultimately know him as E. E. Cummings, the poet that wandered away from the norms of modern society and made astonishing innovations in the realm of poetry through his experimentations with syntax, grammar, punctuation, spacing, and typography. Like every notable literary figure, E.E. Cummings applied his life experiences and influences to his work, helping establish him as one of America’s most distinguished modernist writers. Cummings grew up in a wealthy family that held strong liberal and tradition opinions that influenced his early works. Edwards Cummings, a Harvard professor and Unitarian…
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” This quote from E.E. Cummings himself illustrates just how Cummings incorporated his curious and wondrous personality into his poems. Like no other poet before him, Cummings took it upon himself to create his poems into not only a literary masterpiece but a visual masterpiece as well. Poets leading up to Cummings took a serious, more contemporary approach to their work. Cummings quickly flipped that idea on its head with works such as Tulips and Chimneys, 95 Poems, and is 5, which shows a playful and experimental side of poetry that had never been done before.…
You control me, own me, stripped me of my freedom, beat me, skinned me all so I could wash your clothes, plow your fields cook your food when I am free I am not free as the scars remind me daily of the unjustified action to any human being was carried out by you, the white man. So why are your upset that Nat Turner and his supporters killed nearly seventy five when you the white man have killed hundreds if not thousands of men, women and children of slavery. Mentally and physically you enslaved me until 1865. The Insurrection response was more of a character identifier something like a Shakespeare “where cometh thou.”…
Poetry Explication of “Richard Cory” The poem titled “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson is about a wealthy man who was happy about money, but he was actually depressed and wants to take his own life. The author.…
Yanjie Hong Amy Murray Twyning Reading Poetry Essay 2 4/23/2015 The Complexities of identity in Terrance Hayes’s Poems Essentially, the emblematic portrayal of the African American male persona in Terrance Hayes poems is evidence of the experiences that people of color have in their routine lives. Evidently, his interview in the New York Times where lengthy conversations ensue, details emerge of how problematic his life in college and Japan was due to his dark skin (Burt).…
The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by ee cummings describes the life of the residents of a small picturesque town, most notably the life of “anyone” and his female counterpart “noone”. “noone” and “anyone” are used by cummings to create a generalization of the main characters in order to tell many stories with one poem. The women and men of the town “cared for anyone not at all”, and instead “sowed their isn’t they reaped their same” (2). This line refers to the adults bearing and raising children because to “sow” means to plant and to “reap” is to harvest. By sowing and reaping the children to be “their same” the children are raised to be without individuality; in other words, they are all alike.…
Bob Dylan’s Lyricism: A Countercultural Perspective Abstract: Bob Dylan, a songwriter, poet and a 2017 Nobel laureate in literature is often portrayed as the guiding spirit of the sixties counterculture. Dylan’s politically committed songs in the 1960’s articulated a vision of society that was radically different from the existing political realities. The paper highlights the cultural resonance of Dylan’s radical lyricism amidst the countercultural era. It depicts the close affiliations that existed between Dylan’s songs and liberation movements of the times.…
From the title we can infer that the poet is imagining something "If" it were changed to be a certain way. In each stanza of the poem, he compares the positive in life to the negative to come to the conclusion that if it were not for the negative, the point of life would be empty and everything would be ordinary. In Edward Estlin Cumming's poem, "If", he uses diction, shifts, and anaphora to create a peaceful tone. I chose this poem because I strongly agree with Cummings belief that without the bad and the differences in the world, no one would be their true self, only what society wished them to be.…
Cummings takes on the words of “anywhere” and “whatever” giving the readers of a universal imagery. The point is connection with his lover and that is the most important part in all he does during his time of ‘what’ and ‘where’. The fourth line brings in paradox for anything done by him is not only his ‘doing’ however, but his lover’s ‘doing’ as well. Cumings is hitting us with a paradox to show as if he wants us readers to understand that language is always subject to change. “...your doing,my darling” notice how the words of ‘doing’ and ‘my’ are squished next to each other, creating a tension to the readers the idea of unity again, how the two lovers are together.…
Parents will take into consideration of using rhyming names or alliteration to signal that they are part of the same unit. This automatically labels the twins as two parts of one whole set, which is a social reinforcer of ego and identity fusion. Reinforcement and social cues often act as guides by which people shape their behavior, which then becomes internalized into…
The introduction of this thesis includes background of the study, the reason for choosing the topic, research question, objectives of the study, significance of study, limitation of the study and organization of thesis. The background of the research deals with the general information, then the reasons for choosing the study are about the reason why the research is needed to be conducted. Then, the specific questions of the research are formulated in the research question. Then, based on the research question, the objectives of the study are performed. They are to identify the stylistic of A.E Housman Poetry “the recruit” and to identify the issues behind “the recruit” poem.…