Comparing Cultural Practices in Literature Every culture has its own practices‚ which are what makes them unique. By reading literature that is based on a culture different than the readers‚ he or she can learn about these different practices. The following short stories show some of the different practices of three different cultures: Chinua Achebe’s “Dead Men’s Path‚” Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Yellow Woman‚” and Jean Rhys’s “The Day They Burned the Book.” Contrasting the cultural practices seen
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The two poems that I chose by Langston Hughes where “Mother to Son” and “I Dream a World”. These two poems really stood out to me because they had a powerful message. The poems actually made me feel something‚ it moved me in a way no poem or story has ever. Both poems made me realize that you should not give up in life‚ just keep pushing toward success‚ and to go down the right path to succeed in life. The poem “Mother to Son” is a poem where the mother who is also the speaker of the poem is trying
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hooked onto the poem and want to read it. One of my favorite poems is “poetry.” Poetry is a poem about poets using poetry to express themselves and not to impress anybody. She uses metaphors to show what poetry is‚ she says “A poem is pure energy.” These types of metaphors help the reader picture what the poems trying to say. She also uses personification to also have a better understanding. Another one of Nikki Giovanni’s poems is “women.” I think that this poem talks about a woman
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T.S Eliot’s ‘ The Journey of the Magi ’ and Seamus Heaney’s ‘ A Found Poem’ both details a man questioning the role of belief. In ‘Magi’‚ the speaker is one of the three wise men experiencing an arduous journey. In the ‘ Found Poem‚’ the speaker questions his own loss of faith during the mass. Therefore‚ both poems display divinity and hardships. Both T.S Eliot’s ‘The Magi’ and Seamus Heaney’s ‘A Found Poem’ both explore the journeys physically and mentally of men who are struggling with faith.
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Charlotte Dymond and John Lomas. Charlotte Dymond and John Lomas‚ are two poems which share several techniques. They also‚ however are different in many ways. This essay will explore their similarities and their differences and explain reasons why the two ballads are different or similar. For example‚ both poems have a theme of murder. Ballads normally have a sad or shocking story‚ so this is very common. In both poems the murderer is always hanged after murdering another person. In Charlotte Dymond
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Wars inspired many writers to write poems during and after the wars. Some poets fought during World War I and World War II. We can define a war poet as person who participates in war and writes about his experiences. The war poems I read from WWI and WWII are kind of related. In this essay I will do a comparison of two different poems from each world war. "Wirers” is a World War I poem about a soldier that was going to fight at WWI. The soldier had to overcome many obstacles to get to a barbed wire
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Both Okita’s poem and Cisneros’s short story show the cultural heritage and physical heritage and physical appearances do not determine what it means to be an American. They are American according to where they live‚ but the way they look they are either Mexican or Japanese. We cannot assume we know where someone is from based on their looks because most times‚ we’re wrong. In the poem “Mericans‚” it is about a Mexican girl who moves to America with her grandmother. Micaela’s grandmother does not
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really interesting to see their true meanings. Love poems are challenging to figure out if they truly are love poems‚ and once I figured out how they were‚ it was neat to see the true meaning of that poem. The poems “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” and “Shall I Compare thee to a summer’s day?” by William Shakespeare have a common theme but are very different in their approaches. The first thing that I noticed with these two poems was that they are both sonnets‚ they both have fourteen
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Americans know about the events of September 11th. Many poems‚ songs and books have been written about it. Brian Doyle talks about people jumping from the twin towers in his poem “Leap.” Billy Collins also talks about individuals in his powerful poem “The Names.” Both of these authors wrote poems about a very powerful event in history that have both similarities and differences. The two poems differ when it comes to the imagery used. In the poem “Leap” the imagery used makes you feel sick to your
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essay number one I am going to discuss the changing views of man’s place in relationship to his God and to his earthly existence as shown in the Puritan poetry by Taylor and Bryant. Using the poems "Huswifery" and "To a Waterfowl" to discuss the views mentioned earlier. Both of these poems are very interesting poems and also are the use of nature in them that both the poets use. They are both religious in there own way by the way mention God or the Lord doing something for the creature to help them.
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