I am a rock When reading or listening to poetry, the main objective for me is to feel moved. Happiness, longing, sadness are some of the feelings that can be achieved just by listening to others’ words. It is within these words that creates another world, or separates us from our own. Words all have a certain kind of attachment to them, so if used properly an author can stimulate a reader beyond belief. Simon and Garfunkel were just those kinds of poets. Their words were able to stimulate an emotion with most of their readers. Simon and Garfunkel are one of my favorite artists, and in my opinion one of the most influential lyricist of their time. In their song, “I am a rock”, they are able to make you feel and question for someone who avoiding emotional attachment, and instead of questioning what it might be like, using their words to but you in their place. From the first stanza of this song, you get put into a scene. You know almost immediately that it is about someone, and it is the middle of December, but without stating the obvious, it paints a more illustrated picture for you. The first line states, “A winters day, in a deep and dark December” and I could almost immediately feel a cool breeze around me. When I normally think of a winter’s day, I think of people playing in the snow, and having a good time. This may be because I grew up in Southern California where there has been a lack of snow, but in my head, that is what I imagine. Having them state, in a deep and dark December, turns my attitudes to the more pessimistic way of looking at things. The image of children playing in the snow in my head has now turned to cold and dark emptiness. Reinstating my idea of emptiness, the next line follows with the simply statement, “I am alone”. Personally, I hate being alone. So to have the opening words place us in a deep and dark setting, and then state that you are alone, automatically puts me in a negative mindset. Then to further instate his isolation in the next stanza the narrator admits to being the source of his seclusion. The narrator claims to put walls around him, but then goes into it more to say, “ A fortress deep and mighty”.
The majority of the occasions occur in the month of December, which implies it is winter time, at least in most places. The poem depicts a scene that is loaded with darkness that is just intensified by the season, seeing as how the winter season is chilly, and can be somewhat grim and dim. The poem additionally has a component of unhappiness which winter can furthermore
The poems make for a simple addition to the narrative and allows for a much more meaningful experience for a reader and makes for a much more engrossing story, thus adding to the experience as a whole.
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.”
The cost of paying private companies to house inmates is much cheaper than doing so in public prisons. Private prison employ staff at a lower rate and less benefits than public prison means more money is saved for the government. They also have access to cheaper goods and services, unlike government ran prisons.
Poetry is a versatile avenue from which waves or ripples can be made potentially. A writer of poetry has the ability to make their readers feel a while wide array of emotions and situations synonymous with the human condition. I, at first, was completely turned off to the idea of poetry at first because all I was exposed to early on by way of poetry were bland professions of love or lust or seemingly simple poems I was forced to process down to a fine word paste. Edgar Allan Poe was interesting, but it was a tad bit dry to me. But, after reading poems the Harlem Renaissance gave me a bit of hope for poetry. To me, the poetry written during that time period has a certain allure to it. They have serious depth and meaning that I, myself and empathize
Cassandra Clare once said, “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” This is in a similar fashion to Naomi Shihab Nye’s perspective on poetry. Though people may like to pretend that poetry is not a part of everyday life, this is simply not the case. Poetry can be found all around, throughout the world, and everywhere you look. Poetry is not simply the act of stringing words together into lines and those lines into stanzas. Poetry is the beautiful way of thinking with a pen. Poetry allows one to express every feeling in the world in a few simple lines and stanzas. Throughout our lives, we are taught that poetry is for the weak and frail, for the depressed and the unhappy. But poetry speaks to all people at all times. I agree with Nye’s perspective on poetry because
Zito, M. (2003, December 8). Prison Privatization: Past and Present. International Foundation for Protection Officers. Retrieved from http://www.ifpo.org/articlebank/prison_privatization.html
The third priority of refugees is the relatives of those who are already settled into the United States. These refugees may have a smoother ride into the United States and the process of getting naturalized into citizenship. The U.S. based relative must also file an "Affidavit of Relationship" to be processed by the Department of Human Services (Hicks, 2015).
Maximum level inmates only make up two percent of all inmates in private prisons a great shadow to nearly thirty percent in public prisons. As in traditional prisons, those inmates are held up in solitary confinement, suicide watch, as well as death row. Medium level makes up forty-three percent in private prison, as compared to thirty-eight percent in the public sector, these inmates are just kept a good eye on and only allowed in certain areas of the “yard” a place to get some fresh air, shoot some hoops, and pump some iron. Finally, minimum security level inmates, the remaining fifty five percent, compared to the public sector that houses only twenty percent these are inmates that have been deemed as low flight risk, so they have adequate socialization among other inmates as well as guards. The average private prison typically runs at eighty-three percent full capacity while the public prisons are usually thirteen percent over capacity. The number one reason that private prison run at such a great capacity is the fact that average inmate sentence is only eleven months in comparison to the public counterparts where inmates are held for an average of twenty-seven months. The other reason that private prisons run so smoothly occupation wise is that these private firms as stated before can hand pick who they want in their prisons. While public prisons are left to pick up the slack which ultimately leads to their overcrowding and safety
Privately owned prisons began to emerge in the mid-1980s. These prisons emerged because of the ideological imperatives of the free market, the huge increase in the number of prisoners, and the substantial increase in imprisonment costs. (1) Proponents of privatized prisons put forward a simple case: The private sector can do it cheaper and more efficiently. Corporations such as Correction Corporation of America and Wackenhut promised design and management innovations without reducing costs or sacrificing quality of service. (1) Many interest groups comprised of correctional officers, labor works, and a few citizen groups strongly oppose the privatization of the prison system. I will identify four of these groups that oppose private prisons, describe what each has sought to accomplish, and how they have gone about it and to what extent they have been successful.
Private prisons were made because of the overcrowdings in public prisons. These prisons are run by main corporations that are getting paid by the government to bring in prisoners and make sure they are in a good and stable environment. They are owned by correction corporations of America (CCA), Management and Training Corporation (MTC), and The GEO Group in which combined they own over 200 facilities. Private prisons do not help Americans, but it benefits the government in many ways and that is one of the reasons why the private prisons are still open. These private prisons bring profits and helps the government save money. If the government helps fund private prisons, then they should also implement labor laws to improve an inmate’s ability
In my own perspective I view poetry as one 's way of expressing how they feel or how they perceive things that had happened to them, or what they have seen or heard about. I have found that my perspective of poetry doesn 't divagate too much in comparison to the perspective of others, when a woman named Kasopay speaks her thoughts of poetry “I think poetry is the language of the heart. Poetry is very manifold and with it, it is possible to write down every kind of mood and feeling. The most poems are timeless and have a deep message. With the different variations of interpretations get everyone an own access to the poem. Poems are often drawn of the life and this worldly wisdom makes them important for other.” I agree with her in that we both
poem gives you the feeling as if you were part of the poem or the
Poetry must be music in the form of words. Some poets believe the definition of poetry is in the music it creates. "Smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong." Alexander Pope believed that a poem must be pleasant to the ear. A poem must follow certain rules. A poem can never "ring round the same unvaried chimes" and "[drag] its slow length along." Poems must "[whisper] through the trees" to please the reader's ear. For a poem to create music the poem must follow certain rules. What is the usefulness of a poem if it doesn't communicate any emotions to the reader in the end? It is nice to hear pleasant sounds but the goal of a poem cannot just be to produce pleasant sounds.
In conclusion, I feel poets mainly write poems to express feelings, thoughts, and messages to the world. It’s an easy approach for them to use this writing technique as a way to articulate different aspects which could be improved in this world. I think what attracts people to poetry is writing which relates to each person in their everyday life no matter how it could be portrayed by. For some people poetry could be a relaxing thing or it could be something which cheers someone up, but people look to poetry to get a deeper thinking in life rather than a simpler thinking. This is clearly evident through authors, William Wordsworth and William Blake, and their poems “The World is too Much with Us” and “The Tyger.” Both poems related to one another one way or another, and they depicted different messages and themes which do relate to real life situations.