Forward Practice #1 - Narrative The book Nail Soup and The Poem of Stone Soup share similar themes. The book Nail Soup is about a man who wanders around then can’t get back in time. He finds a cottage and asks for shelter for the night. The lady says no, but the man keeps asking. The lady gives up and lets him in. The lady gets hungry and the man helps her make soup with a nail. He tells her about how much better it can be with some items. She fetches the items and he puts it in. She thanks him for teaching her when he left. The theme the author wrote was that if someone helps you, you should help them back. The lady let him in for shelter, but she was very hungry. The man decided to help her by teacher her a trick to cure her hunger. You …show more content…
In Nail Soup, it says, “Although the woman grumbled and complained as much as she could, he was just as persistent as ever and went on begging until at last she gave in, and he got permission to lie on the floor for the night.” and there is another part saying, “The woman had seen and heard a good deal in her time, but that anybody could have made broth with a nail, well, she had never heard the like before.” The first part says that although she kept arguing, she finally gave up and let him in. The second part tells that the man was teaching her how to make broth with a nail because she let him in. If she didn’t, she would never know how to make broth with a nail. At the beginning, he went to the house and asking for things. Then he showed everyone how to make broth with a hard object. Finally, he leaves with the lady thanking him. In The Poem of Stone Soup, it says, “Door to door looking for food, All they got was firewood.” This is telling us that they were looking for stuff, and they got firewood. It then proceeds that the soldiers make soup with the wood and a rock, and they show everyone. They leave with everyone now educated. So it starts off with them asking at people's houses for things. Then they take what they got and showed everyone a trick. Finally, they leave with everyone happy. So, the poem and book have both people needing something, they both get something, then tell a faster way to do
Aldous Huxley and Robert William Service reveal though their works that people often become deceived, which makes them think falsely of reality. The novel communicates Bernard’s thoughts while on the drug soma on the helicopter ride: He “laughed; after two grammes of soma the joke seemed, for some reason, good” (Huxley 105). Huxley’s use of soma as a motif for artificial happiness in his quote reveals that Bernard only seems pleasant and easy to laugh because of a false source of his emotions that cause his “happiness.” Bernard only laughs at the electrocuted animals, the cruel joke by the pilot, because the soma influences his thoughts, words, and behaviors. His deceit, caused by drugs, results in
Some people never get satisfied with what they have. In the stories, "Amir", and, "Gold Mountain Poems", The life lesson is to be happy for what you have. In both stories the main characters are immigrants coming to America. In the story, Amir just moved here from India and is upset with the people. In the poem the speaker is taken to an immigrant island instead of being released to go live in America. In both stories they are grateful for what they have.
All the poems in Kettle Bottom display a powerful message. Some of the poems messages are happy while are extremely upsetting. The readers of these poems are able to learn about the horrific conditions that people in poverty were forced to live in but also about how they made the best of those situations whenever possible. The dangerous work conditions and the inhumane treat of people living in poverty is extremely disturbing and tragic. These poems are able to show first hand examples and experiences of people involved in these situations. Despite all the dark and deaths that the poor experience they still are able to find some light in it all with the birth of new things.
in third person and based around a couple of Bin Men and a couple of
The poem is set out is a peculiar way as it only contains a maximum of
Imagine you were the rose trying to grow in concrete; would you have made it out or die trying or maybe you just gave up. So think about it, what would you have really done? The poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” is about a rose that grew in concrete a metaphor that shows that you have to get past your problems to succeed. And the poem “Mother to Son” is about a mother explaining how hard life is a metaphor. Both poems share the theme of You have to rise above the obstacles, but the way the authors developed the theme was similar and different.
The difference in the time periods of these two poems is crucial, as it severely alters the upbringing of the characters, their social projection, their self-image, and the types of problems that they face. The upbringing of children often has a great deal to do with their mental health and how they portray themselves to others as they grow older. After she mutilates herself in an attempt to make herself look beautiful, others take notice and comment on how pretty her corpse looks laying in the casket. In The Chimney Sweeper, the young chimney sweep finds enough hope in religion to keep him going.
There are two stories, written 36 years apart, with very different main themes. The first story is “Inherit the Wind,” a play written in 1955, which is a fictionalized story about the State vs. John Scopes Monkey Trial. In “Inherit the Wind,” the “criminal” is Bertram Cates, who taught his high school students text about evolution. In a world like Hillsboro, where nobody speaks against God or the Bible, this is considered a terrible sin. The second story, The Wretched Stone, a picture book written in 1991, is about a crew on a ship. They find a stone and become infatuated with it, and don’t help the captain navigate a brewing storm. The main theme of “Inherit the Wind” is the importance of free thought, while the main theme of The Wretched
Both authors use figurative language to help develop sensory details. In the poem It states, “And I sunned it with my smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.” As the author explains how the character is feeling, the reader can create a specific image in there head based on the details that is given throughout the poem. Specifically this piece of evidence shows the narrator growing more angry and having more rage. In the short story ” it states, “We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among bones.” From this piece of text evidence the reader can sense the cold dark emotion that is trying to be formed. Also this excerpt shows the conflict that is about to become and the revenge that is about to take place. By the story and the poem using sensory details, they both share many comparisons.
Poetry is a literary form of art in which poets express their emotions and opinions about the world. There are many forms of poetry and goals that poems wish to achieve. Some poems exist merely for the reason of entertainment and release of emotions, but poems should exist as a form of art that is trying to achieve something or get a point across. Poems typically have an overreaching theme and can “speak to each other” or in other words can relate to one another. For one to understand these themes and connections among poems one must use a method of closing read. Among the many poems that have been explored in my jazz literature course, two poems standout “Black Art” by Amiri Baraka and “A/Coltrane/Poem” by Sonia Sanchez. Both poems “speak
Symbolism and imagery help Harwood to achieve the poem’s purpose in creating a sympathetic tone towards the woman’s struggle. The use of rhyming couplets and irregular short sentences create a hectic and disorganised structure and rhythm to the poem, which symbolises the mother’s life. Harwood uses emotive description and olfactory imagery to allow the audience to experience exactly what the woman is feeling. “A pot boils over.
What struck me about these two poems in particular is the universal truths they reveal, firstly in “The Eye,” how one learns to hate, and then resent and in “A Poem to my Husband from My Father’s Daughter,” how a woman come to terms with her father’s legacy.
The Theme of Loss in Poetry Provide a sample of poetry from a range of authors, each of whom portrays a different character. the theme of loss in some way. Anthology Introduction The object of this collection is to provide a sample of poetry from a range of authors, each of whom portray the theme of ‘loss’ in some way. The ‘Loss’ has been a recurring theme in literature for centuries, from.
When humans and nature come together, they either coexist harmoniously because nature's inhabitants and humans share a mutual respect and understanding for each other, or they clash because humans attempt to control and force their ways of life on nature. The poems, "The Bull Moose" by Alden Nowlan, "The Panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke, "Walking the Dog" by Howard Nemerov, and "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, describe what happens when humans and nature come together. I believe that when humans and nature come together they either clash and conflict because individuals destroy and attempt to control nature, which is a reflection of their powerful need to control themselves, or humans live peacefully with nature because not only do they admire and respect nature, but also they can see themselves in nature.
Frost begins the poem by relating the damage that has been inflicted upon the wall. The stunning image of the force "that sends the frozen-ground-swell under it and spills the upper boulders in the sun, and makes gaps even two can pass abreast" shows us that something natural, beautiful, and perhaps divine is taking place (2-4). From the very beginning he suggests that living without the wall is something positive. As the poem continues, we are introduced to two farmers engaged in the annual task of making repairs to the stone wall which separates their properties. In lines 14-17, Frost gives us the description of the neighbors meeting to walk the line, each picking up and r...