“Crazy Horse Boulevard” is a poem by Sherman Alexie. In this poem Alexie goes over a few things like: how many best friends his brother has had and how many he has lost, talks about the loneliest number, he describes how much love he has for his brother, who are the greatest human beings he knows that have ever lived, ironies and lastly he talks about his drafts. What draws me to “Crazy Horse Boulevard” is that it is a really unique poem and different than any other poem I have read for a variety of reasons and not to mention the language in this poem is different than any other poem I have read. For example, it does not rhyme and this it is divided into six different sections, but yet it’s a single poem. Although I have never seen a poem
What if two is actually the loneliest number because after all how many times have you had your heart truly broken by a large group of people” (96). This speaks to me in so many ways because I can relate to what narrator is saying, so it automatically makes me feel like I have some sort of connection with the author and what he is expressing. Another part that caught my attention was when Alexie says, “At the present moment, I have four dollars in my wallet. What if this were my only wealth? At times in my younger life, my entire wealth was less than four dollars. When it comes to love, is there a difference between four dollars and four million dollars” (96)? This specific section really makes me question whether there’s really a difference in the amount of money one has when it comes to love. Although some may say it does I don’t believe there should be any difference because if you truly love each other all that should matter is having one
But what really intrigues me into this poem is the role of the number six. Why is it so important? This poem also informs us of how much he loves his big brother and the importance he thinks he has on this world. He also questions his worth on life. Although I am not sure what this poem is trying to make us feel I think it can try to make us question certain things like is one truly the loneliest number? Or what are we really worth on this earth. What really intrigues me or unsettles me about this poem is that Alexie decided to give the number six an important role in his poem but doesn’t let us know the reason behind it. Although this peom is unique I can ginuenly say that this is now onw of my favorite
Chapter 1 of Steps to Christ helped me to understand that God reveals His love to us by using Jesus as a way to connect to us. Christ was the medium through which He could pour out His infinite love upon a fallen world (White 4). Before this reading, I never really focused on the fact that Jesus basically acted as "God's interpreter" for mankind. Jesus was able to show God's loving character to us by His own behavior and actions on Earth. It amazes me to think that Jesus came down from a place full of glory and riches to a wicked place full of chaos to die for a world that didn't even love Him. He knew that he would be suffering from hatred, death, humiliation, and shame but He still volunteered to die for us anyways (White 4). This reading
When Langston Hughes was given this assignment by his college professor, he used it at a self discovery tool. I think this poem is merely letting him dig into himself to find out who he really is, and what his role is in society.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is an insightful towards the discussion what makes the human life meaningful. The entire story is set in a destructive world that is “barren, silence and godless” (McCarthy, 4). In such a world, survival has become the important task for human beings. The morality of human is naturally exposed to challenges of survival. There are two possibilities occurred in this desperate world: one is the collapse of human morality due to the survival pressure, and the other is the rediscovery of morality through overcoming difficulties. Through the depiction of the journey of a father and his son, McCarthy argues that although individuals know what it means to be good, the code of the good they find it challenging to be good people in such a harsh environment. In other words, not only survival of human beings depends on the environment,
Even though the brother and sister value money differently in “Love”, at the end of the day, the relationship the two have with each other is more important that the money. The theme of love is portrayed through the brother in the story. It is apparent that he loves and cares for his sister very much. In the opening of the piece, it states, “The wanting to give is only learned through the learning to love” (243) and this statement is personified though the brother. He dreamed of finally getting the gold ring at the Flying Horses but when he finally gets it, he gives it up. He loves his sister and valued her happiness so much he gave up his own happiness. Early on, the nephew seems selfish because he spends all of his money so quickly. The nephew’s display of love and kindness at the end proves how mature this boy actually is. The boy was able to understand love in a very mature way and values love over money. In the end, the two realize that money doesn’t buy or prove happiness or love. It is our actions that prove
American Street by Ibi Zoboi is a wonderful book documenting the adventures of young Fabiola, a US born Haitian immigrant who is coming to the US with her mother for a better life. As soon as she arrives in the US her mother is immediately sent back because of her status as a citizen but Fabiola gets to stay as she was born in the US. Though her mother is sent back Fabiola stays and goes to live with her family in Detroit, but soon she realises how different it really is. The family she stays with is her cousins and aunt, her cousins are known as the “Three Bs” and play a vital role in the story. As the book progresses we can see Fabiola’s emotional and social struggles as she finds out about a drug-related death that might be tied to her
Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, tells a story of a man and a boy in a world of cannibalistic humans. The man is on the road with the boy where people are eating each other in order to survive. The boy and the man keep their morality by being humane, not turning to cannibalism even when times are hard. In McCarthy’s novel, the physical and negative geographical surrounding affect and shapes the positive moral traits of the boy, which was a society lacked humanity.
...ense of guilt or transgression remained important in his more mature works.” (Riede, G, David).The overall poem covers how he really feels about life and that it shouldn’t be taken for granted.
Poem 670 is about the inner workings of your mind. The beginning of this poem addresses everyone. She does that by saying, "One need not be a Chamber....One need not be a House." This is saying whether you are small like a chamber or big like a house you will be haunted in your mind. The phenomenon of haunting thoughts, in your brain, exceed anything externally at that moment. Your mind becomes totally focused on the inner dealings that external people or actions are perceived as ghosts. It is literally an internal takeover of your senses. Anything external from there becomes warped and then a part of the haunting in the tunnels or corridors of your mind. We all know this as being scared or getting spooked.
The poem itself in structured into thirteen stanzas with each stanza containing eight lines. Patterson uses imagery as one of the main techniques to capture the audience’s imagination, with lines like “a stripling on a small and weedy beast” and “where mountain ash and Kurrajong grew wide” giving a description of the character in the first instance and the landscape in the second. The poem is set to a rhythm that is fast pace and builds anticipation throughout using metaphors like “And he raced him down the mountain like a torrent down its bed” and personification such as “the stock whips woke their echoes and they fiercely answered
Why are we here? Where are we going”? (Page 19). One’s life does not have to be great for him to write a great poem, according to that same author, “The trick is to find out what you know, challenge what we know, own what we know and then give it away in language” (page 21). It is basically having a way with words, because I have read poems about people talking about the most ordinary thing and made it sound like gold. That is one of the reasons why I believed writing poems was not for me, I do not believe I have that
Some argue that it is simply a description of a man appreciating nature. Others would tell you that there is a darker and heavier meaning inside, and that the poem is about death.
The Road is a movie with little plot besides a father and a son walking down a road. Alt-hough this movie is very dull it has parts that put u back into watching the rest of the movie. The plot it does have can be divided into acts of violence, selfishness, and mer-cilessness.
In the selection from The Street, Anne Petry uses an in-depth description of the wind’s actions to set the tone for the urban setting of the novel. The wind is the main opposition and harasses the protagonist, Lutie Johnson, every step of the way. The extended use of personification and careful selection of detail allows the author to communicate how the brutality of the urban setting deters Lutie Johnson as she looks for a place to stay.
The first thing that strikes me about this poem is the structure. The poem is very ordered written with 4 lines a stanza and a total of 6 stanza’s. This looks like a professional poem created by an adult, showing experience right away. The syllables are normally 7 per line but there are exceptions to this rule as all of stanza 5 has 8 syllables a line. The first stanza and the last stanza are nearly the same apart from the last line of each differing by a word. This poem uses many poetic devices well to create a vivid picture in the readers mind. There are rhyming couplets, alliteration, repetition, rhetorical questions as well as many biblical and egotistical references to the artist and poet himself. Now we will look at the poems meanings.
The use of repetition within the poem draws attention to important themes associated with overcoming negative pressure. The repetition of the word “it” reduces the specificity of the poem, making it simply about a general battle with mental strength. This effective decision allows anyone to connect with the poem by inserting their unique personal struggles. To emphasize the amount of negativity that is present in the world, Guest repeats the phrase “there are thousands”. This type of repetition reinforces