Compare Qiuyu Yu’s work with Jay Chou’s “Blue and White Porcelain,” which is a real song talking about different Chinese historical events and cultures. The song has a sense of rhythm and tries to spark people’s attention toward traditional Chinese culture. For example, the song goes: Blue carp leaps vigorously onto the bottom of the porcelain bowl And, you leap into my mind while I was signing it You are like the art of making porcelain wares, remaining as a mystery in the kilns for thousands of years And are extremely smooth and exquisite as the fine embroidery Outside the curtain, the plantain leaves have aroused a bit of rain while the knocker is arousing the copper green And I have aroused your attention while the way is leading me through the small town of Jiang Nan And now, your face fades in and out every now and then in my splash-ink painting. (Lines 8-14 trans.). The song tries hard to cover many traditional Chinese cultures such as Chinese calligraphy, Chinese porcelains, and Chinese old towns. However, it can be noticed that this song is too artificial. Although this song has the perfect rhythm of it, it cannot detailed …show more content…
The author uses special writing strategy that he puts his strong emotion in sceneries and recalls the old times. For instance, the author describes, “as I gazed at the shore, I noticed that the trees had stopped moving against the graying sky. Looking out the other window, I was surprised to see barges overtaking us. Just then the radio crackled to life” (Johnson). The author uses the dialogue to present his perspectives, he puts deep emotion in this essay and uses exquisite writing style. However, although the article successfully sparks people’s emotions, it fails to analyze the historical reasons and decreases its credibility and its argument
Hemingway presents takes the several literary styles to present this short story. Hemingway’s use of Foreshadowing, Pathos, Imagery and Personification allows the reader to enter the true context of the frustration and struggle that the couples face. Although written in the 1920’s it the presents a modern day conflict of communication that millions of couples face. At first glance the beautiful landscape of the Barcelonian hillside in which Jig refers to frequently throughout the text appears to have taken the form of White Elephants. The Americans’ response to Jigs’ observation was less than enthusiastic as he provides a brief comment and continues on with his cerveza. This was but the first of the many verbal jousts to come between Jig and the American. The metaphorical inferences in those verbal confrontations slowly uncover the couple’s dilemma and why they may be on the waiting for the train to Madrid.
...ss, and some contradictions between modern life and traditional life as modernism elements. The so called modern-time is compared by the late traditional aspects of life. Change is a way, a progress, and even an irony that is shown in the text. There is only one truth ruled by the aldermen maybe as capitalists that an unchangeable figure does not admit it. All this shows the complexity of modern urban life; and disillusionment.
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In the story “Popular Mechanics” the author, Raymond Carver, demonstrates how the feelings and actions of the characters set the plot and the conflict. The author shows how the feelings and actions led to the conflict and tragedy at the end by positioning words in a way to demonstrate the dark and eerie plot. The author manipulates words to exhibit the feelings of the mother and the father. Carver maneuvers how each of the character’s actions also contribute to the conflict at the end. The actions and feelings of each character play an important part of the plot.
Age of Realism is a literary period that took place in the 19th century. Before Age of Realism came the Age of Romanticism and the Civil war in 1861-1865 triggered the change. Thus it can be said that the Civil War had several effects on the writers in that age. So, in order to understand the way those writers thought, it is necessary to mention several events like the Age of Realism itself, the Civil War and the writers and their lives. After those books are analyzed, there can be seen solid evidences about those effects. For example, the thought of free slaves, which was the one of the main reasons why the Civil War happened, has effected Mark Twain as it seen in his book, Tow Sawyer. Also, most of the writers of the time was alive while the war took place so they have experienced its hardship. Furthermore, it is seen that not only the experience but even the stories were quite effective on the writers; Stephen Crane wrote a book about the Civil War he wasn’t even born yet at the time, and there is William Dean Howells, he was in Paris, far away from America, while the Civil War was occurring. The way they were affected by the war was quite obvious. The romantic novels started to be realist, optimists became pessimist and there was even a naturalist one, Stephen’s novel “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets”.
By using a lot of exceptional and moving metaphors like “Words are blades of grass pushing past the obstacles, sprouting on the page” (93), underline her impressing skills in turning images into words. The tone of the essay is enthusiastic and compelling, Anzaldua asks the readers to believe in themselves. Anzaldua even connects her native language with her adopted one, in her current essays.
The nineteen twenties was a remarkable period in the field of American art and literature. A renaissance was clearly taking place in the field of the short story also. It is no exaggeration to say that there has never been a time in the history of American literature when the short story writers have shown more interest in their craft. These writers moved away from the traditional plot line and introduced a flexible form which could accommodate any situation. It is not that the short stories during this period are formless, episodic, or casual. On the contrary, they do have a distinct structure, though not one as tightly organized as in the traditional story. In fact, the writers during this period wove their material into a symbolic design. Instead of rounding off an action definitively, they revealed its meaning through a casual glance, gesture or remark. Such a form of the short story works through indirection rather than explicit statements. The innate and ultimate value of these stories lies in their chaste compactness and inclusiveness. Words in these stories are not used as self-contained units. They are not even a means to convey information. In fact, they only create amplitude, where everything is, and nothing is explained. This characteristic of purity in the narrative prose is the hallmark of the American short story of the twenties.
Several literary devices are implemented in the novel to convey the author’s experiences and feelings, thus contributing to the overall appeal of the writing. In his younger years
Philip V. Bohlman is a professor of music and humanities at the University of Chicago. He has already had many books about ethnomusicology and anthropology published. His 2001 ethnomusicology book ‘World Music: A Very Short Introduction’ examines the effects of musicology, anthropology, sociology, history, and political science on what we call ‘world music’.
When one explains his or her ingenious yet, enterprising interpretation, one views the nature of history from a single standpoint: motivation. In The American Revolution: A History, Gordon Wood, the author, explains the complexities and motivations of the people who partook in the American Revolution, and he shows the significance of numerous themes, that emerge during the American Revolution, such as democracy, discontent, tyranny, and independence. Wood’s interpretation, throughout his literary work, shows that the true nature of the American Revolution leads to the development of United State’s current government: a federal republic. Wood, the author, views the treatment of the American Revolution in the early twentieth century as scholastic yet, innovative and views the American Revolution’s true nature as
In Yeh-Shen, the cultural aspects, such as her name, the theme of fish on her shoes, along with her attire help represent the Asian aspects of this version. Similarly, the father in the story has two wives, showing us that China’s laws about marriage are much different than the United States’ laws. In addition, Yeh-Shen shows themes of love, dead advising the living, and good versus evil. The archetypes in this version help convey the traditional story of love and a happy ending by the hero or heroine.
Out of times of societal conflict, art arises like a phoenix from the ashes left in the wake of injustice. A piece of literary art entitled Red Scarf Girl, is a memoir of author Ji-Li Jiang’s life during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The novel details her youth during the rise of communist China and is directly inspired by events that transpired in Jiang’s life. As evidenced by Jiang’s, Meeropol’s, and my art, one can see that art is often motivated by the creator’s desire to shed light on wrongdoings gone unnoticed by the masses.
...e employment of poetic lyrics. Jay’s creative Chinese style pop music attracts millions of people all over the world, because a lot of audiences appreciate a simpler and more graceful music in modern time, such that more musicians emerge out who favor in applying Chinese elements in their songs. This new Chinese theme, created by Jay Chou, will develop and fuse into the western music in the future.
The cool breeze off the lake brings me back to the present, as a duck with a blue bill paddles past on the way to another place. I want to follow.
Theme wise, we simply feel in love with Gong Xi Fa Cai, as the game is absolutely loaded with