Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy writes poetry, which reveal disturbing aspects of human behaviour and the human nature. I will be writing about these three poems, 'Salome', 'Before you were mine', and 'Stealing'. I will be going into deeper meanings with these poems showing what is revealed and how it is revealed. Te three poems all have more than one theme. In Salome, the theme is revenge, and it also has a strong sexual element. The main idea in the text of before you were mine is a sexual element, but one between the mother and daughter which is very disturbing. We can see this firstly in the title, "Before you were mine". The word mine has slight sexual connotations. Also, her name Marilyn is symbolic for the …show more content…
The poem stealing is on the subject of theft but also has a sexual element. In the first stanza, "midnight", and "moon" have romantic connotations, and so does "mate" which also has sexual connotations. Theft is also a disturbing theme as most of us regard theft as being immoral, meaning she doesn't care about right or wrong. This theory is also proved when the poet writes, "Part of the thrill was that knowing children would cry in the morning". She is not amoral, as she knows the difference between right and wrong, "a fierce chill" which suggests a pain in her stomach. This is symbolic for the guilt she is feeling. Overall, the main themes in each of these poems do show disturbing aspects of human nature such as theft and revenge. Each poem is structured differently. First of all, Stealing starts and ends with a rhetorical question, to give the poem shape. In Before you were mine, the poem ends by saying "before you were mine", which also gives it shape. All of the poems have four or five stanzas, which structure the poem as most stanzas have the same amount of
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnet, “What lips my lips have kissed and where and why,” is about being, physically or mentally jaded, and thinking back to the torrid love of one’s youth. The “ghosts” that haunt her are the many lovers of her past; she’s specifically trying to remember them all. She recalls the passion she experienced and how there was a certain feeling within herself. Millay shows this through her vivid imagery, use of the rain as a literary device and by paralleling herself with a lonely tree.
...es her. The imageries of pink Mustang signifies her social class, while “Road” indicates her location as nowhere within a community. The commodification of her body means it can be touched in ways derogatory to her dignity whether she likes it or not because it is a saleable commodity that doesn’t belong to her. Her silver painted nipples identifies silver coins. Silver coins represent monetary value put on her body. Silver painted nipples also mean the attractive way in which a product is packaged. The poem also depicts the defiance of women against how she has been treated. She identifies man as the one that kisses away himself piece by piece till the last coin is spent. However, she cannot change the reality of her location, and temporal placement.
On July 18, 1926, Margaret Laurence was born to Scottish father, Robert Wemyss, and Irish mother Verna Simpson Wemyss. They lived in Mrs. Wemyss' hometown of Neewapa, Manitoba, until Margaret's move to Winnipeg in 1944. Margaret was but 4 years old when her mother died of a kidney infection. It was at this point that her aunt came to care for her and later marry her father. They were shortly thereafter moved into Margaret's grandfathers home. Margaret found living with her grandfather to be a very difficult task, and much of her writing in "A Bird in the House" reflects her relationship with her grandfather using the character Vanessa and her rough, uncaring grandfather. Like Margaret, the character Vanessa is an aspiring writer who is faced with many obstacles in her life. The grandfather-granddaughter relationship is one of the most prominent aspects reflected from Margaret's own life. Vanessa grandfather was oftentimes hard on her and the family, and showed lack of compassion and caring, in general. His rules were strict and always enforced, thought sometimes challenged by Vanessa. Margaret thought this of her grandfather until later in life, again, like Vanessa.
Flannery O’Connor was born Mary Flannery O’Connor on March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia, as the only child to Edward F. O’Connor, Jr., and Regina (Cline) O’Connor. Later in 1941, Flannery O’Connor’s father dies of lupus while O’Connor is in Milledgeville, Ga. After her father’s death, O’Connor rarely speaks of him and continues to be active in school projects such as drawing, reading, writing, and playing instraments. Further, in the summer of 1942, O’Connor graduates and enters Georgia State College for Women as a sociology and English major. Moreover, O’Connor took on the name Flannery O’Connor, dropping Mary from her signature. When O’Connor graduates from college, she leaves for Iowa City and applies for several college teaching positions while attending the University of Iowa. Thus, she receives her Masters of Fine Arts in 1947. Although her first story, “The Geranium” was publised in Accent, during the summer of 1946, it was only the beginning of many of her works to be published. Like her father, O’Connor was living with lupus and her first major attack came in December, 1950. However, O’Connor did not allow the disease to keep her from writing and getting her works published. In fact, she got her nineth story , “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” published. Also, O’Connor has won many prizes and awards with her writings over the years. For instance, she was named the Honorary Doctor of Letters by institutions, was the first prize of the O. Henry award in 1957 and 1963 and had previously won second in 1954 and 1955. Moreover, O’Connor died on August 3, 1964 I a Milledgeville hospital. Nevertheless, her stories cont...
Sarah Vaughan, born March 27, 1924, was very talented and everyone knew this. The word was passed along so even those that never went to church knew how gifted she was. The word got around to Newark's Little Jimmy Scott, a jazz singer himself. He remembered the gossip being that Sarah Vaughan could become another Marian Anderson.
In the late 1970's and early 80's, The Great Wall of Los Angeles was hardly a scar, but rather a vibrant rebirth of a poverished, low income neighborhood in the San Bernadino Valley. The community was united and transpired by the colorful creative collaborative work on this long mural that transended the Tujunga canal for almost a mile. Sewn from the creativity and passion for California history, muralist Judy Baca, along with other artist, and the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) began the "beautification efforts" of this otherwise run down poverished neighborhood.
Although the little girl doesn’t listen to the mother the first time she eventually listens in the end. For example, in stanzas 1-4, the little girl asks if she can go to the Freedom March not once, but twice even after her mother had already denied her the first time. These stanzas show how the daughter is a little disobedient at first, but then is able to respect her mother’s wishes. In stanzas 5 and 6, as the little girl is getting ready the mother is happy and smiling because she knows that her little girl is going to be safe, or so she thinks. By these stanzas the reader is able to tell how happy the mother was because she thought her daughter would be safe by listening to her and not going to the March. The last two stanzas, 7 and 8, show that the mother senses something is wrong, she runs to the church to find nothing, but her daughter’s shoe. At this moment she realizes that her baby is gone. These stanzas symbolize that even though her daughter listened to her she still wasn’t safe and is now dead. The Shoe symbolizes the loss the mother is going through and her loss of hope as well. This poem shows how elastic the bond between the daughter and her mother is because the daughter respected her mother’s wish by not going to the March and although the daughter is now dead her mother will always have her in her heart. By her having her
My name is Fatima Lundy. I am a transfer student majoring in English at LIU Brooklyn. I have some questions about my transfer credits and their equivalents. Srividhya Swaminathan advised me to contact you. I would like to make an appointment to see you at your earliest convenience. I am free from 1 pm to 2:45 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays. Wednesdays, I am free before 1 pm and after 3:30 pm. I do not have class on the other days. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
Not only the words, but the figures of speech and other such elements are important to analyzing the poem. Alliteration is seen throughout the entire poem, as in lines one through four, and seven through eight. The alliteration in one through four (whisky, waltzing, was) flows nicely, contrasting to the negativity of the first stanza, while seven through eight (countenance, could) sound unpleasing to the ear, emphasizing the mother’s disapproval. The imagery of the father beating time on the child’s head with his palm sounds harmful, as well as the image of the father’s bruised hands holding the child’s wrists. It portrays the dad as having an ultimate power over the child, instead of holding his hands, he grabs his wrists.
Carol Ann Duffy shows how the jealousy of Medusa turned her into a powerful monster through the quote, ’turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes’. Medusa's transformation into monster becomes a metaphor for the power of jealousy to corrupt. The theme of jealousy is shown in the rule of three on the first line: 'a suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy'. The rule of three evokes a growing tension and the fact that the word ‘jealousy’ is placed at the end of the line suggests that it is the strongest emotion she is feeling. She says later it was 'as though' her thoughts 'hissed and spat on her scalp.' .The reader can infer that her thoughts sound like a snake hissing which gives the impression that they are angry and dangerous. Also, the fact that the snakes were actually coming out of her head suggest that there were evil thoughts of jealousy coming out her head. The assonance in ‘hissed’ and the onomatopoeia of ‘spat’ emphasises the powerful, menacing tone of the poem. The structure is regular: six lines per stanza and each one perfectly end-stopped but the line length is as jagged like the mood. The rhymes, when they come, are out of step, as in stanza three where 'own' rhymes with 'stone' and in four where 'ground' only half-rhymes with 'down' - echoing the colloquial phrase 'ground down' showing how emotionally exhausted she is. The co...
Welcome to the hottest teen clothing retailer in the U.S. The store Brandy Melville was inspired by two people in love. Brandy, an american girl and Melville, an english boy fell in love in Rome. Brandy Melville was founded 15 years ago in Italy by Silvio Marsan, who started his career 30 years ago,and his son Stephan Marsan. The first store that opened in the U.S. was in Los Angeles by UCLA, there are approximately 18 stores in the U.S. The company sells a wide variety of crop tops, high waisted bottoms and sweaters selling only small and “one size fits all”. Brandy Melville’s target market are skinny girls ages 14-25, stores similar to Brandy Melville are Pacsun, American Eagle, Urban Outfitters and H&M. Brandy sells their clothes from $10-$100.
How Shall I live my life? This a question that continues to rise as Kathleen Moore reflects her experiences and the impacts and affects they have had on her as she lives her life. We are capable of living our life in numerous ways, but how she decides to live her life is by being a part of something that is not only enjoyable but yet fun at the same time, in her eyes. Through her experiences she begins to have a better feel for those around her within the natural wildlife that she embraces as she reads and explores experiences she once read and the horrors of the pollution, which ultimately influenced her decision in moving. It begins to bring back the concept of being a part of something that you love. She felt as if she was part of the nature around her by accomplishing camping trips and hikes so she was capable of seeing the different things that evolved over time, by being a part of it all. She then goes into talking about the war and how that affected the water and the various organisms living within the embankment. Then she mentions how she notices ran down boats and how much
The Atkins’ Diet is the most influential way to shed the fat that people want to get rid themselves from. After years and years of no success, some people turn to low-carbohydrate diet, Atkins’ diet, and many of them receive results that will forever change their lives. This diet reprograms the body to fuel on the unnecessary fat storages that many individuals wish would go away. The Atkins’ diet makes the body use fat for energy instead of carbohydrates that cause weight loss. Although low-fat is considered the best way of weight loss in today’s society, knowing how the Atkins’ diet works with/against the body and peoples experiences from this particular diet will demonstrate that low-carb is the most effective way of dieting.
When narrowing down my selections of books to read and report on, I decided to go back to high school, when I discovered my favorite author. Ellen Hopkins is a New York Times bestselling author, who has written more than 25 books in the Young Adult/Adult genre from 1990 to now. Mrs. Hopkins gets her inspiration for storytelling from her daughter’s life struggle with drugs, family issues, and her intimate life. One novel caught my attention on my class summer reading list titled Crank, which is written by Hopkins. Soon after, I continued to read the remainder of the series consisting of Glass and Fallout. Since I’ve read three books from her in the past, I’ve selected The You I’ve Never Known, to report on.
“Only within the moment of time presented by the present century has one species—man-- acquired significant power to alter the native of his world.” Those were the special words from Rachel Carson. She was a brilliant marine biologist, conservationist, author, and ecologist and published several books throughout her time. Her professional work altered the world for a better understanding to the environmental impact of fertilizers and pesticides. Her thoughts were the start of the Environmental Movement.