Every poem constructs a perception for every reader and most readers will have a different outcome from one another. In How To Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes, the author adds many hidden messages and symbols in the poems for the readers to uncover, and in many times it tends to be difficult. It takes a lot of examination to reveal what the speaker or author is trying to assert. Hayes’ uses many social and historical references such as racism into his poems to depict the anger within the speaker. One of the many themes that prevail in many of his poems is a sense of being trapped such as the poem, “Like Mercy”. The message that Haye’s is trying to portray in the poem is, of a priest serving God, but not agreeing with God at times causing him to …show more content…
As from any reader, perspective is key and is different from everyone else. From my own perspective, I see two sides of who the speaker might be. The poem stated “When I stepped out like a man of God”(10) concludes that the speaker might be a priest which actually ties the whole poem together. Initially, I had thought the speaker might’ve been a man who lost a significant person in his life and blaming God for taking that person away, however it’s the priest who is closed off from the outside and can not judge but simply believe that God’s plan is right, even when it doesn’t seem right. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker referenced the song “I Want to Be More Like Jesus” by Keith Green, the song talks about how Jesus can live with all the sin and how he handles it so well, and Green wants to be like Jesus because he can’t bare to deal with all the sin he’s endured. This song relates heavily to the poem because the priest sees with his naked eye of all the sin that is out in the world and he can’t do anything about it which adds on a lot of weight onto his morals and
Marks, L. (2006). The Loss of Leisure in a Culture of Overwork. Spirit of Change Magazine.
Many individuals would define leisure as time free from paid work, domestic responsibilities, and just about anything that one would not do as part of their daily routine. Time for leisure and time for work are both two separate spheres. The activities which people choose to do on their spare time benefit their own personal interests as well as their satisfactions. While some people may enjoy one activity, others pay not. Leisure is all about personal interests and what people constitute having a good time is all about. Some may say that the process of working class leisure can be seen to contribute their own subordination as well as the reproduction of capitalist class relations. Self-produced patterns of working class leisure can lead to resistance to such reproduction. This leads to social class relations and inequalities, and the fact that it they can never be completely reproduced in the leisure sphere. This film Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community, gives some examples of the role of leisure within a capitalist society dealing with issues such as class inequalities, and how they are different among various societies.
In the book The Giver, Louis Lowry uses symbolism to induce the reader to think about the significance of an object or character in the book. She uses symbolism using objects or characters to represent something when she wants readers to think about its significance. She chooses not to tell her readers directly, but indirectly, by using symbolism. For example, she used light eyes, Gabriel and the sled as types of symbols with different meanings.
Symbols in literacy are tremendously important to make a story more than what it may seem at first glance, but in the story Lord of the Flies symbolism is taken to a new extreme. Nearly everything mentioned in this story embodies something that assists in creating a life lesson from which all people can learn. A symbol is an item or idea within a story that represents a deeper meaning. Throughout this story each symbol has a strong connection with power, the need for authority is blatantly obvious, and is like a reoccurring theme throughout the whole novel. The representation of control over the island is very unique and repetitive; several simple items have an exceptionally commanding role as the story begins to expand. The head of a dead sow placed upon a stake creates an atmosphere of evil that hovers over the entire island and inflicts a certain fear upon everyone. This sow’s head in addition to a conch shell found lying on the island tremendously impact the story. These symbols help to both empower certain individuals and demean other helpless characters, which creates a separat...
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The book The Other Side is about a black girl who sees a white girl sitting on a fence almost every day. The black girls name is Clover while the white girls name is Anne. Clover asked Anne, “why are you sitting on the fence.” “You can see everything from up here.” Anne replied. The fence separated whites from blacks. Clover and Anne’s mothers said you can’t go across the fence.
Henley establishes the sense of suffering that the speaker is experiencing through the use of multiple literary devices. By beginning the poem with images of darkness and despair, Henley sets the tone for
Desire is constantly channeled into another concept instead of naming it directly. This is done so by Sidney to turn an abstract sensation into a solid, concrete object that the audience can better understand. The use of numerous metaphors throughout the poem, including “band of all evils,” cradle of causeless care,” and “web of will, whose end is never wrought,” contributes to a larger metaphor that is in turn greater than the individual. These metaphors contribute to the speaker’s negative view of desire by comparing it to sources of evil and destruction. Through the use of apostrophe in the poem, desire is portrayed as another person, and the reader comes to realize desire’s detrimental nature through what seems to be a negatively impactful relationship between two people with desire playing the role of the manipulator as shown in the line, “But yet in vain thou hast my ruin sought.” Desire does nothing but seek to destroy lives while not revealing its true intentions. Yet, the speaker knows better now after becoming a victim of the concept. By the use of this poetic device, the reader is better able to sympathize with the speaker, assuming he has also gone through a similar situation whether with desire itself or a person whose behaviors mirror that of what desire is described to be in the poem. Desire is an abstract concept that is so different from a person, yet by continuing it through the poem, it serves to draw comparison between the two unlike
After reading the book, The Other Side, one can conclude the story is about two races (black and white) who are divided from each other by a fence. However, two girls, each from the opposite race, meet each other and form a bond. Thus, they use the fence to enjoy each other’s company instead of using it to keep them separated. After analyzing the story, the reader can conclude there is various evidence of symbolism, the audience for this particular story is children, and the tone of the book is inquisitiveness and innocence.
A Divine Image gives human characteristics to the feelings of cruelty, jealousy, terror, and secrecy. The poem begins, "Cruelty has a human heart...
My own personal philosophy of leisure has been shaped by past and present activities I do for leisure and why I do them. To me, leisure is the sense of being free from external stressors that I face in my life such as school or work. The positive outcomes from partaking in leisure are generally overlooked and often underestimated. Leisure affects our emotions, our physical and mental health, and aids in the creation of relationships. In my own personal life, I have done and still participate in leisure as a way to sooth myself or unwind from the stress of school or work. The release of pent up emotions and energy for individuals helps their relationships with others and their overall health as well. When stress is released, an individual is
To begin with, the poet uses personification to send her readers the message. It is giving human characteristics to non-human things. “Because I could not stop for death; He kindly stopped for me” (1, 2). In this line,
Work—just the word is enough to make me nauseous sometimes. Look at the definition of the word: work—effort exerted to do or make something; labor, toil. It isn’t exactly the definition of fun. Okay, granted work isn’t always awful. There are plenty of people who like their jobs, and work can even be fun. But for the most part, we all know that we’d rather be doing just about anything other than working. Luckily for us, we don’t work all the time. No, we sleep, eat, drink, and have fun. How do we have fun? Well, some of us might get our pleasure from eating or drinking, sometimes a little too often. Others of us might have fun spending time with our companions or family, but usually when we think of having fun, we think of actually doing something: playing a game, reading a book, going swimming, whatever it may be. We call these ways that we have fun our hobbies. There are quite possibly an infinite number of hobbies. Who knows how many different ways there are for people to have fun. When it comes to me and my hobbies, however, there is one in particular that stands out above the rest. Fishing is definitely the best way to have fun. Fishing is the best hobby there is.
Moreover, it is the process of starting out to play a few games, then competing for half a season and then adding the full season. Lastly, the individual would go for every season after that once they get a good understanding of playing the sport and picking out players. They take a good understanding of what serious leisure is in most cases. Furthermore, it shows that the individuals are progressing through at a good pace and being able to achieve what they
time to engage in leisure activities such as entertainment and food as well as socializing. Consumers