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The impact of technology in our lives today
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Impact Of Technology On Daily Life
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Deborah Landau’s “You’ve Got to Start Somewhere”, is a lyric poem that tells the story of a speaker realizing how much technology has changed the way we look at the world. It takes place in the city as the speaker is observing life around her, and realizing how disconnected people actually are from the world, this is ironic because all people want to do in this day and age is be connected. The speaker talks about the future of human relationships through nostalgia and urges for a change. The first thing a reader notices about any poem, or text, is the title. The title holds a general overview of what the text will be about. “You’ve Got to Start Somewhere,” implies that there needs to be change made; further reading into the story gives you …show more content…
/ The gorgeous art of breathing.” This is the ultimate form of nostalgia, because the earth started out simple and only the basic components of we see as nature existed. Nature, or what is natural, is perceived in culture to be better. Using this in comparison to cellphones and computers gives technology a negative connotation, it makes humans seem almost like robots, in the sense that there is no longer anything natural in human interaction. The speaker references other aspects of nature, for example in lines 10 to 14 where she states “I wanted to eat an apple so precisely/ the tree would make another/ exactly like it, then lie/ down uninterrupted/ in the gadgetless grass.” The speaker easily could’ve said “down in the grass,” but she specifically chose to include the words uninterrupted and gadgetless because is highlights the problem, the problem being technology in comparison with …show more content…
The first time the speaker says “I had the idea,” she is talking about a sudden urge to sit down and observe the world around her. The second time the speaker says it, she is referring to the solution to her problem, it is an action, she has had the idea to “Put down the phone (19).” The third time the speaker says the line “I had the idea,” she is thinking about how life could be. The three parts that the poem is divided into is the speaker’s progression of thought. The first part identifies what the problem is, the second part offers up a solution, and the final part is what the speaker believes will happen or at least wants to happen. The poem ends with her wanting the future to be a certain way, her ideal future parallels what the past was like. One of the most important elements in any text is the setting. The setting of “You’ve Got to Start Somewhere” is on the streets of a city. This is not a random placement; the poem would not have the same effect anywhere else. The city is often a place where culture can be clearly defined and viewed. If one wanted to observe a rapid change in culture over time, the city would be the best place to do this because it is the hub of technology and advancement. It is easier to see the impact of technology somewhere like New York City, in comparison to
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During the first part of the short story the central theme is “ideas”. The character by the name of Vashti is a mother, her son Kuno wants her to visit him, he wants to see her face to face and he also shares that he wants to travel to the surface of the earth. She is disturbed by the idea as she explains to him that his idea is out of the norms of society and not acceptable. The most interesting aspect of this piece of the novel is that when she is encountered by nature (stars, the surface of the earth, and the Himalayas) she states that those things are not worthy because they give her “no ideas”. This society has completely separated and isolated themselves from the natural world, after destroying it of course, but nevertheless not even the site of these things excites thought in the mind of Vashti. Is it the nature of humans to separate themselves from the natural world or to live in harmony with it? By separating themselves from nature they have isolated themselves from each other, and yet however the machine has provided them with devices to communicate with each other which hints that even the most minimal of interaction is still part of human nature and without it life is
In August of 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment became an addition to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Shortly after that historic day, Crystal Eastman wrote a passage named “Now We Can Begin.” In her writing Crystal Eastman elaborates about the struggles of women fighting for equality in that era. The main equality right Crystal Eastman mentions in her message is women being capable to make their own occupational choice.
“This is Our World” by Dorothy Allison is an essay that brings her own personal views to art and the impact that it has had on her life. She brings descriptive language to describe how the art can be compared to writing. The author persuades her audience that writing is more than just writing and it can be an eloquent and beautiful piece of art.
as a thematic statement for a poem that offers a new way of thinking, a
On Thursday, December 10th, I attended a poetry reading by Elizabeth Willis, the author of Alive: New and Selected Poems. Alice Quinn, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America opened the night by describing poems as “sonic reinvention of the world.” Willis read six poems: Plot, Friday, Species is an Idea, Bell Crew, Golden book of birds, and Alive. Out of all six poems, my favorite was Plot, which she read at the beginning. In this poem, she numbers all the events in the person’s life – she names many female names, possibly of those whom the main character had dated in the past. “What comes first?/Memory or Forgiveness?/Pen or paper?/Renaissance or reformation?/Me or You?” When she read this part, I could not help but
The novel, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other (2011) written by Sherry Turkle, presents many controversial views, and demonstrating numerous examples of how technology is replacing complex pieces and relationships in our life. The book is slightly divided into two parts with the first focused on social robots and their relationships with people. The second half is much different, focusing on the online world and it’s presence in society. Overall, Turkle makes many personally agreeable and disagreeable points in the book that bring it together as a whole.
Sometimes in life we encounter experiences that alter the way we view ourselves and the world around us. These happenstances can be as informal as meeting a new person or as simple as stumbling upon a new book. These unexpected twists of fate can now and then make one reconsider who they are and what actions they put forth into their everyday life. My life altering chance encounter was with a 1999 novel written by Catherine Ryan Hyde titled simply, “Pay it Forward”.
It is not enough to write a poem. What is a poem without a topic? A poem need not be about some vague topic. Although I thoroughly enjoy the Robert Frosts and Langston Hugheses of the world, their search for knowledge through the stanza, their exploring social construct and humanity through anaphora and rhyme and meter, it is not enough for me to write a poem about these topics. No, I have something else in mind, something brewing in my head like lines about racism and womanhood were brewing in Maya Angelou’s. Something so scientific and wonderful and sinister, and I am scared because it is spilling out of me at an increasing rate. And it begins:
Let us begin by recognizing that one comes to a poem--or ought to come- -in openness and expectancy and acceptance. For a poem is an adventure, for both the poet and the reader: a venture into the as yet-unseen, the as-yet unexperienced. At the heart of it is the notknowing. It is search. It is discovery. It is existence entered. "You are lost the instant you know what the result will be," says the painter Juan Gris, speaking or and to painters. But what he is speaking of is true of art in general, is as appropriate to poetry as to painting. What he is reminding us of is the need to remain open to discovery, to largess--the need to give over our desire to define, to interpret, to reduce, to translate, We need to remind ourselves, in short, that in a poem we find the world happening not as concept but as percept. It is the world happening. The world becoming. The world allowed to be--itself. Another way of putting the same thing, this time from the per-spective of thinking (the perspective of the mind in its engagement of the world), would be to say that the poem is an enactment of thinking itself: the mind in motion. Not merely a collection of thoughts, but rather the act of thought itself, the mind in action. The poem is not trying to be about something, it is trying to be something. It is trying to incorporate, to realize. Not ideas about the thing, writes Wallace Stevens, but the thing itself. As Denise Levertov has said, "The substance, the means, of an art, is am incarnation--not reference but phenomenon."
Perhaps the first and most obvious step would be to read the poem. Just read it. As in: begin reading and don’t stop, fee...