The poem Education for Leisure is extremely effective in many ways - Discuss Education for Leisure The poem ‘Education for Leisure’ is extremely effective in many ways. The poet has effectively used poetic techniques to show his/her attitude towards the speaker in the poem and has also given impressions of the speaker. The impressions that are given of the speaker are those of a murderous person who is full of menace and insanity. One of the ways that this is shown is in the first stanza when the words ‘something’ and ‘Anything’ are used in the sentence ‘Today I am going to kill something. Anything’. This is because it tells the reader of the murderous intentions the speaker has. ‘Anything’ is a one word sentence and as it is short and straight to the point it suggests that the speaker is desperate for a victim. The first stanza also suggests that the speaker has a disturbed mind because to him/her the action of killing something is what happens in ‘an ordinary day’. In the second stanza, the speaker kills a fly and in doing so he/she is reminded of a Shakes...
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
...y examined for the beauty and grace of God. In this poem, however, the fly is a messenger to the speaker. The fly's presence both comforts and informs the speaker about death and the appreciation of life. By choosing this creature, Dickinson portrays the beauty in every living thing: even the pesky fly has a purpose and a place on earth and in life. The poem also explains what the dying is experiencing, but it strays away from describing pain and fear and concentrates on how the speaker pays close attention to those that will continue to live. The speaker hopes to leaving something significant behind other than just material goods. She also notices that in the surreal moments before death, the stillness in the room encompasses everyone and everything, including even the air that fills the room. These elements work together to expose the beauty and serenity of death.
An unknown author once wrote “Never take life too seriously; after all, no one gets out of it alive”. When reading this quote, there can almost be an immediate connection between two very good works of writing: Macbeth’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” speech from Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, and the poem “Out, Out --” by Robert Frost. Both allude to the idea that a single life, in its totality, denotes nothing, and eventually, everyone’s candle of life is blown out. However, each poet approaches this idea from opposite perspectives. Frost writes of a young, innocent boy whose life ends suddenly and unexpectedly. His poem is dry and lacks emotion from anyone except the young boy. Whereas the demise of Shakespeare’s character, Macbeth, an evil man, has been anticipated throughout the entire play. Through these writings, we are able gather a little more insight as to how these poets perhaps felt about dying and life itself.
Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1. Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. Communication may change us in different ways. Communication is talking to other people around them, as well as listening. Discussing an issue or a reaction to a piece of writing is communication. An argument that you had and still is bothering you is communication. A discussion with a friend or parent can change us in different ways as well. 2. Provide an example of each poetic device from any of the assigned poems. For each quote, explain the author’s intended meaning. What is the author really saying? Figurative LanguageQuoteMeaningMetaphorPoem: And so of larger Darknesses Those Evenings of the BrainWhen not a Moon disclose a sign Or Star come out withinQuote: “Books are the mirrors of the soul”A dark sky with no moon or stars.Poem: Adjusts itself to Midnight and Life steps almost straight.Quote: “Failure is the condiment that gives success its
Jawanza Abdul-MajidVT1800132English I Part IIAssignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1.Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. (20 points) Does communication change us? Yes it does. Communication can either make situations work out, come to an understanding, or create a disagreement. There are many ways to communicate. You have different ways of talking to people such as: your mother, father, brother, sister, boss, teacher, and police. It is known that you wouldn’t talk to your manager the same wayyou talk to your friends. It’s more than just communication though, emotions are involved, as areactions and body language. The biggest area of communication worldwide is social media. A lot of people join as one on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Talking to certain people can have you up or down, ready to love, or ready to fight. Communication has come a long way. You can call, text, talk face to face, use sign language, or write a letter out. 2. Provide an example of each poetic device from any of the assigned poems. For each quote, explain the author’s intended meaning. What is the author really
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Billy Collins, the speaker of Introduction to Poetry, attempts teach the readers by guiding on how to appropriate and analyze poetry. Collins use of personification and imagery, gives the readers a different perspective to interpret and find the significance in poetry. In this particular poem, the speaker does not want the reader to, “tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it,” (Collins 13-14) but the reader should relate to their own personal experiences to the poem and what the author is conveying. Collins believes poetry should be studied in the right way else they lose their beauty.
Why are we here? Where are we going”? (Page 19). One’s life does not have to be great for him to write a great poem, according to that same author, “The trick is to find out what you know, challenge what we know, own what we know and then give it away in language” (page 21). It is basically having a way with words, because I have read poems about people talking about the most ordinary thing and made it sound like gold. That is one of the reasons why I believed writing poems was not for me, I do not believe I have that
The purpose of therapeutic recreation is to enable all individuals to achieve quality of life and optimal health through meaningful experiences in recreation and leisure. In this paper the definition of therapeutic recreation will be discussed as well as what should be included in the definition and what should be rejected. This definition will mainly focus on health and use the Health Promotion Model to further explain my choice to focus on health and well-being. I will also be discussing the importance of inclusion in therapeutic recreation for different learning styles in many environments, and the significance of diversity in the community and what we hope to achieve by being fully inclusive.
There are those who take it a step further and say that this poem addresses suicide. Nature-lovers see it as a piece that trumpets nature and that scorns civilization (take that, civilization!). You probably have your own idea of what this poem means. This poem is meant to reflect those moods and sentiments when a person wants to relax and do something that he or she enjoys or likes doing but is forced to work on their tasks as they are more important at that point of time and they need to be done within in stipulated time frame or before a stated
In the third stanza the speaker looks toward the future, “Tomorrow,” when to one will object to his dining with the others. A change comes in the fourth stanza when this hopeful tone switches from hopeful to a near mockery. This shift is characterized by the word “Besides.” This structure creates a chronological state of events. With the poem organized this way the reader can realize that the black...
Death is regarded as something malicious, but that is not always the case. In the poem
Let us begin by recognizing that one comes to a poem--or ought to come- -in openness and expectancy and acceptance. For a poem is an adventure, for both the poet and the reader: a venture into the as yet-unseen, the as-yet unexperienced. At the heart of it is the notknowing. It is search. It is discovery. It is existence entered. "You are lost the instant you know what the result will be," says the painter Juan Gris, speaking or and to painters. But what he is speaking of is true of art in general, is as appropriate to poetry as to painting. What he is reminding us of is the need to remain open to discovery, to largess--the need to give over our desire to define, to interpret, to reduce, to translate, We need to remind ourselves, in short, that in a poem we find the world happening not as concept but as percept. It is the world happening. The world becoming. The world allowed to be--itself. Another way of putting the same thing, this time from the per-spective of thinking (the perspective of the mind in its engagement of the world), would be to say that the poem is an enactment of thinking itself: the mind in motion. Not merely a collection of thoughts, but rather the act of thought itself, the mind in action. The poem is not trying to be about something, it is trying to be something. It is trying to incorporate, to realize. Not ideas about the thing, writes Wallace Stevens, but the thing itself. As Denise Levertov has said, "The substance, the means, of an art, is am incarnation--not reference but phenomenon."
The first stanza of the poem starts out narrative but then alternates from narrative to a father speaking to his son in the second stanza. The “son” in the second stanza must go on a journey where he will encounter beasts his father admonish him about (lines 5-8). The reader immediately understands the task is not an easy one...
In this essay, the role and benefits of Physical Education and School Sport will be identified from in and outside the school curriculum. The benefits that pupils have gained from the national school curriculum, what has changed from the past to present day in schools and how it has affected Physical Education in School Sport will be discussed. Also, mental and physical health benefits that occur from Physical Education will be mentioned in this essay along with what the teaching standards were like and how Physical education has changed such as different teaching ways.