The Paper Fan is a piece of art that in its time has been in the presence of princesses‚ ninjas‚ and college students. Taking on several roles both in an imaginary and reality. Each experience aging the paper that stretched across bamboo frame. Opening it reveals a water color and ink print covering the face of the fan. Painted is a family of birds before a background of greenery. Fully expanded the width reached to fourteen inches and standing in length at nine inches. Width shrinks drastically
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Being exposed to different kinds of poetry from childhood‚ I grew fond of it though now I prefer fictional prose to poetry. As a profoundly sensuous form of creative writing‚ poetry both challenges my mind and conquers my aesthetic sense with its subtle wording. But specifically because it is a thought provoking and demanding form of writing I do not read poetry often. Therefore‚ the variety of topics‚ styles and forms of poems collected in Alehouse Journal 2011 disoriented me completely. However
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As I read selected Walt Whitman’s poems I felt as if I was reading unfinished work. For example in the poem‚ “When I Heard the Learned Astronomer” it was very clear on what he was talking about. However‚ it felt to me as if he had received writers block. The poem could have gone on for a couple of more stanzas. I am no poem expert‚ but I feel as if the poem could have gotten into more details about the stars‚ and the astronomer. However‚ that is just me. Another one of his poems‚ “I Hear America
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder was one of the most acclaimed painters of the Northern Renaissance who amazed his viewers with paintings of prosperous landscapes and showing the brighter side of the low class society of peasants by them enjoying the here and now of everyday life instead of them being in the misery of their labor. According to most art historians‚ Bruegel was born around 1525 in Berda which was one of the small neighborhoods in the town of Bruegel. Although there was unknown information
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In the poem “Ithaka” by C.P. Cavafy the poet uses repetition to display the message that although‚ Odysseus’ main goal is to return home enjoy the journey and assimilate what you can along the way. In the first three lines of the poem‚ the poet communicates to Odysseus giving him advice on his nostos back to Ithaka : “As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one‚ full of adventure‚ full of discovery.” These lines show how the poet prefers Odysseus to take his time to “stop and smell the
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“William Butler Yeats deals with an interesting variety of subjects and his poetry is full of powerful images and impressive descriptions. Discuss.” Submitted by Hollie McLaughlin. I very much enjoy reading the poetry of William Butler Yeats. What I like about the poetry is the multi-faceted man who emerges. In Inisfree he is the searching‚ restless 25 year old‚ looking to nature as a kind of redemptive force. In ‘September 1913’ he is the ardent political critic of the soul-destroying materialism
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In his 1923 essay “Ulysses‚ Order and Myth‚” T. S. Eliot predicated that rather than the narrative style of poetry popularized by poets of the Romantic era‚ poets of the twentieth-century would instead employ James Joyce’s “mythical method‚” a technique characteristic of heavy mythological‚ historical‚ and literary allusions used to create a “continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity” (177). Doing so allowed a poem to reach a new universal level of significance regardless of era‚
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Comparing the poem of e.e cummings “next to of course of god america i”‚ and the short story of Annie Dillard in “The Deer at Providencia” both had a similar ambivalent tone. In both stories‚ suffering as a senseless part of life and inevitable death of all beings is highlighted. Both authors question mortality and the unexplainable relationship God has with their death. The poem‚ “next to of course god america I” was written during the first World War. Socially‚ this war was accepted as a part
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Title: “The Thinker” Artist: August Rodin Source: Rodin‚ A. (1902). The thinker [Bronze and marble sculpture]. Paris‚ France: Musée Rodin. The “The Thinker” is a bronze sculpture by August Rodin which is placed on a stone pedestal. The work shows a nude male figure sitting on a rock with its chin resting on one hand as though he was deep in thought. The sculpture was originally made as an entranceway for the proposed Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. The thinker is at its current location the Musee
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As children see this world as safe and harm free‚ little do they know one in ten children will be sexually abused before the age of eighteen (Darkness to Light). Examining how children do not know how much their life is in danger‚ e. e. cummings‚ the author of in Just‚ leaves behind a secret meaning of what is actually being said in his poetry. Leaving the reader to depict what his poetry means‚ cummings uses typography‚ allusion‚ repetition of words‚ and tone to guide his audience to discover the
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