observations and the feeling of a single speaker. * Narrative poems are stories told in prose. Often narrative poems‚ even ballads have all the elements of the short stories‚ such as plot‚ characters and setting. Poems may take the form of: * Haiku – an unrhymed verse form‚ consisting of three lines. The first and third lines contain five syllables while the second line consists of seven syllables. * Tanka – another verse form. It has thirty-one syllables arrange in five lines (five‚ seven
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In the literary works‚ The Color Purple‚ Woman Hollering Creek‚ and Seventeen Syllables‚ the characters of Nettie‚ Cleófilas‚ and Mrs. Hayashi experience similar impediments via patriarchal dominance in their cultures that limit their ability to move outside restrictive gender roles. In The Color Purple‚ Nettie‚ an educated black woman from the south‚ who travels to Africa to become a missionary‚ highlights the sexual oppression that links African Americans and the African Olinka. The two worlds
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The 1932 poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" is the most famous poem that the doctor/poet William Carlos Williams wrote. It’s in many anthologies‚ where it is often the shortest poem‚ unless the anthology also contains haiku. It consists of one sentence‚ broken up into two-line stanzas. Everything except for the first stanza depicts a concrete image: "a red wheel / barrow / glazed with rain / water / beside the white / chickens." What stands out the most‚ on first reading‚ are the colors - the red wheelbarrow
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bold‚ bleakness‚ and blind” “Fork” by Charles Simic‚ pg. 428. C.) imagery - “The long white river sliding through the emerald shadows of the ancient canopy” “Country Scene” by Ho Xuan Huong‚ pg. 425. D.) diction - “Reflected in his eyes” “Haiku” by Kobayashi Issa‚ pg. 419. E.) personification - “A host‚ of golden daffodils‚ beside the lake‚ beneath the trees‚ fluttering and dancing in the breeze” “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth‚ pg. 457. 3.) A.) simile -
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Pat Tyree uses John Tiong Chunghoo’s haiku‚ “The futon stored away a low table and some plates there – our dining room‚” to inspire his work. The use of an instruction manual implies that the user must build their own furniture‚ and often times the furniture one must build is low quality. This translates the image of a low-income household from the poem; a futon and a low table‚ assumingly a coffee table‚ being used as a dining room table gives the reader an image of a household that has not been
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Literature Literature (from Latin litteraetantri (plural); letter) is the art of written works‚ and is not bound to published sources (although‚ under circumstances unpublished sources can be exempt). Literally translated‚ the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two major classification of literature are poetry and prose. "Literature" is sometimes differentiated from popular and ephemeral classes of writing. Terms such as "literary fiction" and
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Haiku The shinning hot sun Was right on us all day long We had sunburn skin Fish in a big bowl Swimming around and around Do not jump out please It is time for sun Swimming in the pool is fun Splash in the water Splish‚ splash rain is here Something to bring life to all It is needed soon. Limerick There was a boy named Mike‚ Who loved to go on long hikes. He could jog along‚ Singing a jolly song‚ With his big dog named Ike. There once was a
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REL 2300 Fall 2013 Exam 2 (long essay) Buddhism is one of the oldest and most influential religions. Although it originated in East India‚ Buddha’s teachings are found all over the world. Especially in Asia‚ and has even spread to the west. Some of the most popular teachings of nonviolence‚ karma‚ liberation‚ and suffering may have served as foundations for the development of later religions. Such as we find in Confucianism‚ Taoism‚ and Shinto. Buddhism holds strong concepts‚ but has a flexible
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Imagery Consistent with much Japanese art and literature‚ Memoirs of a Geisha includes a great deal of nature imagery. Traditionally‚ Japanese art features trees‚ insects‚ and bodies of water‚ just as poetry (most notably the haiku) often presents images from nature as metaphors for life’s lessons. Golden’s use of natural and Japanese imagery in Memoirs of a Geisha brings his fiction in line with this tradition and gives the novel a decidedly Japanese feel. Sayuri recalls a client who once mentioned
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