Swimming through the river, like a red bolt of lightning, the salmon tries to find the place it was born at so it can spawn. It has learned this through the species’ trial and error, which is acquiring knowledge, one of the most important parts of a journey. As we’ve seen through many journeys, such as the poem by CP Cavafy “Ithaka”, and the migrations of animals like salmon, beluga whales, and horseshoe crabs, the journey is the most important thing out of an adventure. Although the destination still matters, the journey is where you gain all of your knowledge and your important items from. The journey matters more than the destination when you gain as much knowledge as possible, but keep the destination in mind to keep you moving forward. The definition of a journey is, “The act of traveling from one place to another while acquiring as much knowledge as possible.” This …show more content…
The poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson, “Your World”, is the story of how big you make your world, do you want to stay in the corner all your life or do you want to go out and explore what you do not know? “Your world is as big as you make it. I know for I used to abide in the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressed close to my side.” (1-4) The author’s world was as small as could be in the beginning of the poem. This was when she didn’t want to get out and explore, but when she went out and explored, she came back happier and changed. “But I sighted the distant horizon where the skyline encircled the sea, and I throbbed with a burning desire to travel this Immensity . . . Then soared to the uttermost reaches with rapture, with power, with ease!” (5-12) She changed when she went on the journey. This also goes back to the hero’s journey, we see the calling, the transformation from the known to the unknown, and the return of the character, but she is
Throughout all texts discussed, there is a pervasive and unmistakable sense of journey in its unmeasurable and intangible form. The journeys undertaken, are not physically transformative ones but are journeys which usher in an emotional and spiritual alteration. They are all life changing anomaly’s that alter the course and outlook each individual has on their life. Indeed, through the exploitation of knowledge in both a positive and negative context, the canvassed texts accommodate the notion that journeys bear the greatest magnitude when they change your life in some fashion.
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
Moose wanted to carry the football so that he could be noticed, “ And dreamed of racing down the field with the ball in the end zone, while everyone in the bleachers screaming his name.”
A field guide to getting lost’ is a book written by author Rebecca where she talks about life and all of the events large and small that can change how a person views the world. Through the words on the page the reader gains an idea of how Solnit thinks about the world and how her past has shaped her. Solnit is a wanderer who is always curious about what lies beyond the next horizon. The theme of wandering, and of the eternal quest runs throughout the first story and Solnit makes it clear that curiosity is the main factor that has shaped her outlook on life. Journeys of discovery are important in helping humanity discover themselves and it is this self discovery that Solnit focuses on in her stories.
A journey is something that comes in many forms, such as physical or mental. Any journey can be beneficial even life changing, though sometimes it might take a huge toll on someone. After going through a journey it strengthens a person and they learn that they have more power than they ever thought possible. Life is the ultimate journey that everyone experiences.
This darkly satiric poem is about cultural imperialism. Dawe uses an extended metaphor: the mother is America and the child represents a younger, developing nation, which is slowly being imbued with American value systems. The figure of a mother becomes synonymous with the United States. Even this most basic of human relationships has been perverted by the consumer culture. The poem begins with the seemingly positive statement of fact 'She loves him ...’. The punctuation however creates a feeling of unease, that all is not as it seems, that there is a subtext that qualifies this apparently natural emotional attachment. From the outset it is established that the child has no real choice, that he must accept the 'beneficence of that motherhood', that the nature of relationships will always be one where the more powerful figure exerts control over the less developed, weaker being. The verb 'beamed' suggests powerful sunlight, the emotional power of the dominant person: the mother. The stanza concludes with a rhetorical question, as if undeniably the child must accept the mother's gift of love. Dawe then moves on to examine the nature of that form of maternal love. The second stanza deals with the way that the mother comforts the child, 'Shoosh ... shoosh ... whenever a vague passing spasm of loss troubles him'. The alliterative description of her 'fat friendly features' suggests comfort and warmth. In this world pain is repressed, real emotion pacified, in order to maintain the illusion that the world is perfect. One must not question the wisdom of the omnipotent mother figure. The phrase 'She loves him...' is repeated. This action of loving is seen as protecting, insulating the child. In much the same way our consumer cultur...
“Poetry tries to get at the emotions of situations. It's the most direct form of communication we’ve got.” (Gary Hyland) Poetry is our most direct form of communication because it attacks emotions to get its message across, author to poem, and poem to reader with figurative language of hyperboles, similes and personification. Tugging at heartstrings of emotions to connect the reader to its passages. “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins and “What You Are Doing Now” by Gary Hyland, are two “poem on poetry” poems written in free verse using those literary devices.
Life carries us like a river just as our mother carries us as babies. In the poem "The Rio
The poem On Girls Lending Pens that is written by Taylor Mali tells that a boy forgets to bring his pen for class, so he has to borrow one from a girl beside him. However, he does not expect that girl has too many pens to pick from. It seems that the girl cares too much about her stuff and makes the simplest thing more difficult to deal with. At the end, the boy decides that he would rather come unprepared than borrow a pen from the girl. It is a very humorous and rhymed poem. Through different poetic devices, it shows the theme of being prepared.
Getting somewhere is not just the destination, but even more so the journey. The goals are our destination and obstacle and temptations litter the voyage. Like Odysseus, achieving these goals is not a cinch. Obstacles must be faced or avoided, and temptations should be resisted.
In addition, the experience/knowledge gained makes the journey more important than the destination. The poem “Ithaka” by C.P. Cavafy, talks about how the voyage to Ithaka is the
1) The theme that I will explore for the two independent pieces, will involve the theme of simply finding who you really are. As a viewer we should see past the complications of the obstacles we face in our day-to-day lives, for our eyes should only then become fixated on the endless possibilities of the time we have left within the intersection of time and space. The viewer can than grasp each of the moments that are left, so they can imagine beyond the emptiness - alone to see a sense of self-discovery in the very center, only pondering on the isolated sense of power we hold as humans to create a new life of belonging. Also, the depiction of having a positive approach to life’s challenges is essential to explore life and work
Did I Miss Anything? is a poem written by a Canadian poet and academic Tom Wayman. Being a teacher, he creates a piece of literature, where he considers the answers given by a teacher on one and the same question asked by a student, who frequently misses a class. So, there are two speakers present in it – a teacher and a student. The first one is fully presented in the poem and the second one exists only in the title of it. The speakers immediately place the reader in the appropriate setting, where the actions of a poem take place – a regular classroom. Moreover, the speakers unfolds the main theme of the poem – a hardship of being a teacher, the importance of education and laziness, indifference and careless attitudes of a student towards studying.
For centuries, many have argued over which is more important: the destination or the journey. Willa Cather once voiced that, “The end is nothing; the road is all.” What she means is that the journey is more important than the destination. The road taken to the destination is more important because it can give people useful skills. It can also give people important life experiences. The journey makes people who they are.
The poem “Warned’ by Sylvia Stults, first seems to be about the ways human are hurting nature. However, when we look at the poem through the lens of John Shoptaw’s essay “Why Ecopoetry,” we see the evidence that this is an ecopoem and is asking people to take action to protect the environment. The poem is about the destruction of earth. The poet also tries to raises some awareness about the environment. Additionally, the internal meaning of the poem is that we, humans depend on the world’s resources, therefore we should take care of the natural world.