“Never Ever” is a poem written by Brenda Shaughnessy about employees working at a restaurant. Born japanese but raised in California, Brenda Shaughnessy is a 46 year old lady and author. Brenda attended the University of California, where she got her Bachelor’s Degree of the Arts in women’s studies and literature. No biographies about her that have been published to this day include information about her childhood, however after that, she has won many an award for her publishings. From watching an interview or two with her, she seems to be very passionate about what she does and does not do it solely for money. “Never Ever” was written in 2015, which was most notably known for being the year that homosexuality was legalized. Other political
Life for most homosexuals during the first half of the Twentieth century was one of hiding, being ever so careful to not give away their true feelings and predilections. Although the 1920s saw a brief moment of openness in American society, that was quickly destroyed with the progress of the Cold War, and by default, that of McCarthyism. The homosexuals of the 50s “felt the heavy weight of medical prejudice, police harassment and church condemnation … [and] were not able to challenge these authorities.” They were constantly battered, both physically and emotionally, by the society that surrounded them. The very mention or rumor of one’s homosexuality could lead to the loss of their family, their livelihood and, in some cases, their lives. Geanne Harwood, interviewed on an National Public Radio Broadcast commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, said that “being gay before Stonewall was a very difficult proposition … we felt that in order to survive we had to try to look and act as rugged and as manly as possibly to get by in a society that was really very much against us.” The age of communist threats, and of Joseph McCarthy’s insistence that homosexuals were treacherous, gave credence to the feeling of most society members that homosexuality was a perversion, and that one inflicted was one to not be trusted.
Night Waitress by Lynda Hull is a poem that describes the feelings of a waitress that works the night shift of a diner Reflection of “Night Waitress” “Night Waitress” by Lynda Hull is a poem that describes the feelings of a waitress that works the night shift of a diner. The speaker obviously belongs to a lower social class, in the way of income and her occupation. Much like the character in this poem, the speaker in “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake works long, hard hours as a chimneysweeper. These two characters are both related in their ways of life and their classes in our society.
The man who she was with was about to eat an elephant ear, which is fried dough. A harsh comment of, “you don’t need to eat that” (P. 221) was mutter towards the guy. This gets her questioning who really needs to eat an elephant ear, what gives a person the right to dictate whether or not someone needs to east something or if a skinnier person were to eat the fried food, would it be any beneficial? It isn’t until paragraph 3 where we start to see the sarcastic approach to her main point by stating that she has “never been discriminated against”. She uses the phrase, “I have never” several times implying that she indeed has experience all of the things that she’s denying. People think that just because she’s a white middle class woman that she’s never been discriminated against. That’s another reason why she uses the phrases “I have never” many time throughout this essay. “I have never been called crude names, like, “fatso” or “lard-bucket”. . . My nickname on the school bus was never “Bismarck”, as the famous battleship.” (P. 222) This quote implies that she has been called these names before and it obviously had some sort of impact on her life. I see this as using sarcasm to mask the fact that she was is and fed up with the way society views plus sized
She Kills Monsters has a lot of obstacles that characters have to overcome during the play. From accepting each other for who they are, overcoming struggles and shaping their identity even more. I created a poem about acceptance and how you just be yourself no matter what people say. Be imaginative because it leads to the best outcomes. Shape your identity into something you are proud of.
Poverty is often taxing to one’s life in multiple ways, some of which include mind taxation, stress taxation, emotional taxation and of course money taxation. Mother Theresa once said “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty”. How would you find time to look for the one that would make you feel special and wanted, while having to live in situation which doesn’t forgive free time? “Night Waitress” by Linda Hull is poem that looks at daily life of a waitress who struggles to answer just that question.
The song that I choose is one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite singing groups. The name of this song is No Scrubs by TLC. I have always liked this song since I was little and would listen to it with my friends. Believe it or not this song actually helped me out when picking out a boyfriend. The lyrics to this song are quite simple I’ll explain what they mean to me.
In Lynda Hull’s poem “Night Waitress,” a women describes her feelings while she covers her usual night shift at a diner. There is a definite struggle within the speaker. The first struggle the speaker leads the reader to is that she is not very religious. The speaker addresses her mother saying “praying to her god of sorrow and visions who’s not here tonight…”(6-8). The reader gets a sense that the speaker is also rather lonely. The speaker address a man in the diner who catches her eye. She then explains to the readers that she wouldn’t mind letting him touch her. However, it seems as though the man st the jukebox who the speaker notices is looking for something more serious. The songs of “risky”(17-18) love he plays on the jukebox do not please her. The poet Lynda Hull gives the speaker a sense of hope for what she longs for. The speaker seems to be happy however it seems she also has a struggle with the way she looks. She speaks about countless body parts, her face being the most important. Within the first lines she says, “I’m telling myself my face has character, not beauty” (3-4). Readers will get a sense that the speaker seems to be reserved in public in hopes that someone will
Robert Creeley, a famous American poet, lived from 1926 to 2005. Creeley was normally associated as a Black Mountain poet because that is where he taught, and spent most of his career. Throughout his life, Creeley wrote many different pieces of poetry. Four great poems by Robert Creeley are, “For Love”, “Oh No”, “The Mirror”, and “The Rain”. The poem “For Love”,was written by Creeley for his wife. In this poem Creeley explains, the love someone has for another person, and how complicated it is making his life because the person doesn’t know how to explain their love. “Oh No” is a poem that is literally about a selfish person who ended up in hell, but this poem has a deeper meaning. Part
In the world of teenagers everything seems to come and pass by so quickly. For instance the beginning of senior year. In Spite of being happy and excited were also generally nervous and anxious to see what our future holds. As senior year comes to an end, It then becomes as temporary as the summer sun but also the boundary of our life before we enter adulthood. Even then our future is still undefined.
The poem I focused on was "Lucinda Matlock" by Edgar Lee Masters. The reason I chose this poem to write about was that it stuck out to me not just from how well written it was, but because I know someone who I care for deeply that can relate to this. I am very interested in this poem because elderly people are the most important to our society and losing them is one of the hardest things. This relates to our world today in so many ways because again as I have said losing an elderly family member leaves us all to morn. What we need to understand is that they lived a very fulfilling life and they were ready to go so why become depressed when we can be happy that they are in a better place finally to sleep
the prediction that sex would be illegal in the year 1984. In the story Winston
Sylvia Plath’s confessional poem is a free formed twenty line poem consisting of ten couplet stanzas which illustrate death as a state in which our imperfections are ignored. The subject of the poem is a woman who has been ‘perfected’ in death, having been released from her own personal suffering. For Plath death seems to be an achievement and just like the woman in the poem, Plath feels she will ultimately become ‘perfected’ when she too is dead. By not using the first person, Plath causes ‘the woman to become depersonalised’ and as a result the woman is distanced from the reader. This could possibly foreshadow how Plath herself, was withdrawing from life and people as she became more engulfed by depression and anxiety.
The poem "You will never see me fall" by Joyce Alcantara reviews a few rhetorical devices and poem characteristics such as analogy, mood, imagery, theme, and tone. Joyce explains the struggles and hardships of life and how happiness is not easily obtained without a strong will or tragedy in a world governed by society. I feel that a shadow is needed for the sun to shine, you can only acquire happiness in exchange for struggle, agony and hardships that you must overcome yourself by refusing to lose and mentally sustaining the fight against life in order to accomplish your wishes as there will always be another purpose in life.
The three poets convey the feelings of seriousness, happiness, and failure. In the poem “Simile”, Scott Momaday explains how people and the actions we do are similar to animals in which the comparison was towards deer. In “Moon Rondeau” by Carl Sandburg he illustrates that working together in a relationship, you may be able to accomplish a task and generate a strong bond. In the final poem “Woman” by Nikki Giovanni she displays how one may want to grow and be someone special to your significant other but they may not care of what their other may want. The three poets are illustrating the theme of humans being similar to animals in which case they either work together or they just ignore each other within the literary similarities and differences of the three poems.
The Plot and Setting in Never Let Me Go greatly differs from novel to film, chiefly in the first scene. The first narrated line is Kathy introducing herself