Final Exam Essay Question The poem I have chosen to focus on is “I was Born into a World” by James Franco. This poem focuses on how humans have successfully changed the world we are living in for the worse. Franco describes how most aspects of his life that he has always thought of as being definite are now starting to disappear in front of his eyes. The way that humans have treated our planet is ultimately resulting in the downfall of its diversity and its beauty. This position that Franco holds is something that I believe both Henry David Thoreau, and David Haskell would agree with. In "I was Born into a World", James Franco is reflecting on how life was for himself while he was growing up. He says that he lived in a world where "The only extinct thing Was the Dodo." This is an example of how drastically climate change has affected the world we currently live in. Each line in Franco’s poem shows how another aspect form his life that he never had to question is slowly disappearing. Franco watched the world …show more content…
In the passage, “Sounds” that we read by Thoreau, he describes how this relationship is hurting the environment. Thoreau also describes how the landscape has been altered over the years due to selfish human actions. He says that, “the country hands a chair to the city” (Thoreau 87). Here, Thoreau personifies the country by saying how its resources are being taken away in order to produce commercial goods. This is the type of human selfishness referenced by Franco that is harming the environment every day. Humans as a whole tend to have little regards as to how their decisions are going to affect the environment. This antropocentricism ideology is a big reason why our world is the current state that it is, and a large contributor to the mass
The modern world is full of social issues and people use all different kinds of way to express the way that they feel and how they see things. Bruce Dawe uses his poem ‘War Without End’ and Christopher Mann with his poem ‘Country Matters’ to convey important messages.
She symbolizes the culture’s endurance and sense of place. In an interview with Karen Zacharias, a professor and writer, Ron Rash says that some of his writing deals with “landscape as destiny”. How you were born affects how you see the world and how you see yourself.... ... middle of paper ... ... Literary Reference Center.
A poem that I have been studying recently is Assisi by Norman McCaig, which I found very interesting to read because it made a statement which relates to our world today even though the poem was wrote about thirty or forty years ago. The poem has lots of ideas including effective figures of speech, good choice of words, important images and irony. The statement that McCaig makes is, where ever there is great wealth it always exists along side great poverty.
"Caribou ghosts & untold stories" by Leanne Simpson is the poem I choose. The main argument the poet discusses is that were all human beings. Things such as race, sexuality, gender shouldn't differentiate us. For example in the past it wasn’t expected of women to get educated and get jobs, but rather be a housewife. Leanne Simpson was referring to that fact now days were slowly becomes more inclusive to different groups of minorities and was slowly removing labels. I plan to use this source because it is an important topic, which we struggle with even today. Society’s standards are slowly changing but people still tend to have the same mentality when it comes to gender roles. The poem is a reliable source, it shows the difficulties of being
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by the name of Langston Hughes. A well-known writer that still gets credit today for pomes like “ Theme for English B” and “Let American be American Again.”
Rukeyser, Muriel. "Thoreau and Poetry." Henry David Thoreau. Ed. Walter Harding, George Brenner, and Paul A. Doyle. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972. 103-116. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Ed. Ellen McGeagh and Linda Pavlovski. Vol. 30. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. Literature Resource Center. Web. 31 Mar. 2011.
In the essay I hope to explain why I picked each poem and to suggest
A poem which I have recently read is: “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen. The main point Wilfred Owen tries to convey in this poem is the sheer horror of war. Owen uses many techniques to show his feelings, some of which I’ll be exploring.
The first poem I think you should consider in adding to your list of poems is “For the Fire”, this poem was about the time I went in to the forest to get some lumber, and during my time there I noticed some of natures creations around me, like the kookaburra and wind that swerved in and out of the trees etc.
The poetry of Brian Turner, Charlotte Mew, and T. S. Eliot all turned poetry from the status of great to world re-making; they transformed the poetry of their era to poetry that could be read decades later yet still have a profound impact on its audience. I believe that world making lies in a poet’s ability to take any situation, any speaker, and any context that is personally important to them, and create a poem that deeply affects its audience--one with the ability to completely transcribe emotion from a text to the heart.
The Poem that relates most to my life is “America” written by Tony Hoagland. I believe this poem has the ability to save America. It was once said “Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It will only come from you.” It all starts with looking in the mirror rather than looking at others. To everyone this is so different because everyone chooses a different path though life. Every story is different but the best part is you get to tell your story and share it with the world.
inspired by this poem because it gives people hope for life and advises readers to be
Frost, Robert. New Enlarged Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems. New York: Washington Square Press, 1971.
A class activity that had me learn more about this theme was writing the poem about humans.
For example, it sparked the idea, or memory of how much I love nature and the outdoors, and the great sense of peace it brings to me. In an instant, it showed me how far had drifted from that mind set. I think that this poem has the capability of bringing attention to viewers of how far away all of us have drifted from nature. I think of last week when I visited Sioux Falls for the first time, I was truly shocked as I looked around and saw a large number of people so focused on their various versions of technology that they didn’t see Gods beauty passing by. I think it this piece presents a challenging new idea that the simpler times are truly gone. I believe that it has become uncommon for people to seek out the sense of peace from nature that the author describes in this poem in today’s era. It is truly incredible to me how we can tread along in the mundaneness of life, and then suddenly an old thought is drug from the dark recesses of our minds and becomes new