In these lines, we get the first glimpse of where the setting is. The readers get a chance to see the descriptive environment of Italy with the “pleasant garden”. We are also introduced to Lucentio and Tranio in this part of the play where they are visiting this part of Italy because they had that desire to go there.…
While the theories on the artist intent are of plenty, there is no mistaking that this piece provokes deeper contemplation on the depiction of beauty and the power of “ugly” imagery in this painting. One can argue that over vast time periods and amongst culture the defined interpretation of beauty has seen many profound depictions and interpretations displayed in infinite works of “beautiful” art. We must ask ourselves, can only works of “beauty” be aesthetically pleasing to the eye or can we find it in a variety of work through…
Rich-poor, lucky-unlucky, and fair-unfair are the problems of human society at any time due to the fact of imperfections in the world. Armstrong Williams, a political commentator and an author of the book “Reawakening Virtue” emphasized that “We are not equivalent, there are certain fact that are unavoidable.” Some are born with many good opportunities to achieve success; some are born with talent, but some are born with disabilities, lack of chances to obtain achievement (Williams).…
In line seventeen, be can seen in words What and world and happiness and harmony. In line thirty eight, there are words tale, terror, their, turbulency and tells. In line forty five, there are words frantic fire. Words desperate desire, in line fourty seven. Words tale, their, terror and tells, can be found again in line fifty two. In line fifty four, words clang and clash. Words melancholy menace, in line seventy five. Word” muffled monotone”, in line eighty three. Words “human heart”, in line eighty five. And the last, words “ Runic rhyme”,…
It was September 14, 1958. Marcel Williams grew up in Detroit, Michigan, not the safest city, who was a sophomore in Mumford High School. Marcel grew up in a poor family with only his mother and two sisters, so he was always helping out and running errands, therefore he learned to stick up for himself and responsibility. He worked at a 7-11 near his house which was the only income in his family because his mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and his two sisters were two young to work. Marcel didn’t have many friends. In fact, his only friend just moved away, so he didn’t have a very good time at school. Marcel always sat in the back of his classes and was either reading or studying to make good grades to get into a good college. He was great at sports considering he was five foot eleven and pretty muscular, and in the fall he made the football team and became the running-back, and became pretty popular.…
“You can take a boy out of Kentucky, but you can’t take Kentucky out of a boy,” J.D. Vance writes while quoting Mamaw, his grandmother, and the woman who, in the midst of the adversities of his childhood raised him. With this quote the author explains that the hardship of his upbringing and the cultures of Kentucky, no matter what, will always be part of him. In the book “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D.Vance, whom is both the author and the main character, narrates about his own experience growing up in the culture crisis of the social, regional, and class decline that affects many white Americans living in the Appalachian Mountains. The elegy of Hillbillies - world used to describe rednecks, the people who inhabit these places- takes place in Middletown Ohio, and Jackson, Kentucky, two cities that according to the author portray the…
“Introduction to Poetry” Billy Collins S-Subject Poetry P-Paraphrase The poem, “Introduction to Poetry”, by Billy Collins, begins by comparing a poem to a color slide and says that to understand it, you must “listen” to it’s sound. He paints a picture of a mouse finding it’s way through the maze that is the poem, and you groping through the poem’s room to find the light switch (the light switch indicating understanding). Collins says that to discover meaning, you must water ski across a poem, or have fun with it, be whimsical and acknowledge the author. Although most people (they) want to beat the answer and comprehension…
“I know what the caged bird feels, atlas!” (Dunbar). Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” can be interpreted from a multitude of lens; whether seen from a more historical view or an emotional view, the poem conveys a very real and similar message. The poem plays off the idea of being “cooped up” in a cage and longing to escape its ‘cruel bars’ (Dunbar). When analyzing each of the three Professors’ interpretations, they all had a solid notion of what Dunbar was trying to express to his audience. Although, in my opinion, one of the three Professors really summarized the feelings behind the poem: Professor B. Professor B has a stronger interpretation of the text than Professors A and C.…
To introduce the piece two cadenzas inspired by the same melody are performed over a continuous subtle harmony. The piece begins with sustained chords between the string instruments and wind instruments. This gives a relaxed effortless tone to the piece and resembles the calmness and tranquillity of a spring day in England. The violin then enters imitating the lark. The violin plays an ascending pattern with elongated arpeggios. The chords underneath drop out so the violin plays a solo introducing the first theme. The orchestra is quietly introduced and develops the almost folk like motif. A folk dance theme is then introduced led by the clarinet and flute and woodwinds as the solo cadenza is repeated. The full orchestra then comes in however it is still fairly restrained to imitate the English countryside. There is antiphonal exchange between the solo violin playing a trill and then the woodwinds imitating the bird like call. This is followed by the solo violin playing a series of cadenzas over the orchestra which could represent the lark flying over the countryside and rolling hills. The shorter cadenza for the soloist is fairly contrasting in comparison to the rest of the piece. There are two separate melodies competing with one another yet also mimicking each other. There is…
Katherine’s final lecture provides the audience with the closure needed to understand the various different pieces of the play. Similar to the understanding of Diabelli’s waltz, one must examine the pieces of the play in order to fully comprehend the parallels. Both Beethoven and Katherine had to examine each individual piece of what they were studying in order to complete their work. Additionally, the two understood how to make the most of every moment, for Beethoven it was the measures in the waltz and for Katherine it was the trials of life. Finally, the symmetry within each of their stories is impeccable. Beethoven ending a dance with and dance and Katherine closing her lecture with her first lines, great beauty lies the in symmetry. The parallels between the two character’s lives in magnificent, however, they cannot be fully appreciated without the closure of Katherine’s final…
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who lived through slavery, racism and segregation. So this poem is considered to be an extended metaphor where through out the entire poem Dunbar is comparing himself and all African Americans at that time with a caged bird that does not have the freedom to enjoy the nature and does not have the freedom to fly like all other birds meaning white people at that time.…
Theodore Roethke’s “Elegy for Jane” is a poem of a teacher’s reaction to the tragic death of one of his students, Jane.…
I, Emily Marie Williams, believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, that myth is more potent than history.…
Out of a bad situation, you can learn and grow. In all three poems, The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament the main character was exiled causing great pain and sorrow. Through this pain and sorrow they saw some beauty in the situation.…
This passage is a poem written by Langston Hughes and it is called “The Weary Blues”. It creatively displays the expression of the African American’s struggle and perseverance through the use of songs and music. Also, like much of his poems, shows the struggles of African Americans and their strive for equality and freedom. The persona in this poem is describing the experience of listening to a blues musician in Harlem. Langston Hughes is showing the culture of the African Americans through the blues singer and the singer is using his song to express his feelings of sorrow and depression. The theme of this poem is that it presents how sad…