Blogpost #5 Poetry Sounds

The sounds of poetry provide the poem with a lot of meaning and emphasis on different aspects of the poem. Sound is the musical quality of poetry and it can be identified and created through techniques such as rhyme, caesura, and meter. Different literary devices such as alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia provide the poem with much more meaning and emphasis on different aspects of the poem whether it be in the beginning of the poem or at the end. Two poems that I can identify and analyze the sound used in each would be Fast Break by Edward Hirsch and Traveling through the Dark by William Stafford. These two poems are analyzed and written in very different moods and speeds. Fast Break is a very fast poem considering its use of words such as "spinning," "racing", or "gliding." Its use of descriptive words such as these provide the poem with a much faster motion and allow the reader to be more influenced and also allow him/her to read at a faster pace. Edward Hirsch has made his poem extremely descriptive and the reader can easily picture two teams on the court playing basketball. William Stafford on the other hand has very slow and monotonous descriptions in Traveling through the Dark. Stafford describes this poem in a very slow and dead tone when it describes how the deer has fallen on the ground in the dark and is automatically killed by the car. He uses words such as "dead", "stiffened", and "red" to describe the deer and also show examples of the monotonous tone that Stafford likes to use.  

Blogpost #4 Symbol/Theme

Symbols and Themes are also parts of a novel, play, or poem that use certain objects, places, events, and even characters to help portray some certain part of a novel or play that is repeated several times and the author wants to put emphasis on that certain object because the author wants to point out its importance. The Author sort of challenges and tricks the reader into finding certain themes or objects in a novel and play and the author wants to basically see if a reader can point out them. Symbols can be a wide variety of things such as a rose in The Scarlet Letter or a dagger in Hamlet. Also, symbols could connect with setting because a symbol could be a setting of a play. For example in Hamlet, Shakespeare makes the setting of Denmark act like a symbol for Hamlet the character by personifying Denmark as a home for Hamlet that has been corrupted with the new arrival of King Claudius. Shakespeare makes the setting the symbol to challenge the reader into figuring out whether the setting could be a symbol or not. Shakespeare has many tricks and challenges to the reader in all of his works. The theme of a novel or play is a little bit more complicated because it discusses the summed up version of a novel or play. The theme is basically like a symbol because it is repeated through out the play or novel but it isn't easy to find. Also, different people may not be able to pick out the same theme for the novel or play. A theme is an emphasis on some aspect of a novel or play that is repeated and it is emphasized through the diction and dialogue.

Blogpost #3 Setting: An essential element in a play or novel

Setting is described as something that indicates the time and place, or the when and where. This description is accurate from the fact that setting is always essential in understanding the play or novel. The readers need to know the time and place so they can help visualize the play or novel and see how other necessary components fit in with the setting. If they visualize the setting whether it be in the 1900's or the 1700's, they can use their knowledge of history and figure out what components or objects were used during that time period and they can relate. The play or novel is understood through its setting and not only do readers understand more, but the characters can relate and if the character knows the setting, than they can teach more to the audience. Also if there was no setting than the play or novel would be confusing and readers wouldn't be able to relate. Authors purposefully base their play or novel through the setting by making up the setting before they even make up the characters. A setting is like a base or fortification for an author and the ways that the author writes. For example in Hamlet, Shakespeare right off the bat identifies the setting as being in Denmark and then the discusses the importance of the characters and their roles in the new setting that has been made. Shakespeare has key ways of introducing the setting and describes the setting through dialogue.

Blogpost #2 Character

Character has been exemplified as an essential ingredient to both plays and novels. Characters make a play or novel through a character's conflict, temptation, struggles, and successes which are all explained clearly through dialogue and the author's ability to express the character in ways that the reader can follow and understand. The most important idea about character is the ability of an author to express and explain the intentions, personality, and dispositions of a character in an author's novel or play. Without a good examination and explanation of a character in a novel, the reader will be confused on where the main point stands and since the character connects to the plot, the reader will also be confused about what events or conflicts need to be discussed in the play or novel. An example of a great character is Hamlet who is exemplified by Shakespeare in diction as an interesting but intriguing character who makes the play become more realistic and also a reader can follow the protagonist and understand more about the plot. Hamlet, the protagonist, has a unique disposition and personality that Shakespeare clearly portrays in his diction about how Hamlet has two conflicting personalities and has conflict/disagreement with the antagonist who is King Claudius. Shakespeare exemplifies Hamlet's every move and disposition which allows the reader to follow the protagonist and also help the reader learn more about both the antagonist and the plot. Character is an essential theme to both novels and plays and help allow the reader to understand and relate to certain issues in the novel or play that need to be discussed to learn more about the plot.

Blogpost #1 about Plot

Plot provides a realistic sense of order and planning in a play or novel because the plot is a series of events or occurences that happen and the authors must plan to arrange conflicts and resolutions to provide the reader with a sense of balance during the play or novel. For example, referring back to Hamlet, Shakespeare definitely uses a plot to plan a series of events that happen during the play and Shakespeare even uses Hamlet the character to help exploit and explain in dialogue what the whole plot is about and what it means to have a plot in a play. Hamlet explains through dialogue the plot of the story by portraying the conflicts and complications that are occuring in Hamlet's life with his father, his uncle, and his mother. Hamlet explains the plot to not only be what happens during the play but also the conflicts and resolutions and how Hamlet interacts with other characters. Another example of displaying of plot is in Pride and Prejudice, where Austen also portrays plot through her characters and how they basically explain the plot with their complications and conflicts exemplified through their actions. Plot is a necessary theme to format a play or novel 

blog about turnitin essay

I thought my essay was presented very well but I think I definitely could have changed certain parts of my essay that would make the essay flow so much better. I think certain parts in which I compared Horatio and Hamlet were very intriguing but also not fully developed in my analysis of their interactions. I discussed Hamlet's deep thoughts and reactions to certain events and how that is intertwined in his use of diction. Also my explanation of Horatio's straightforward diction could have been analyzed in more depth, but I feel that overall my essay was very decent and there are definitely areas to improve on.

Intro Paragraph to Essay: The Second Coming vs. Ulysses

The anarchy and aging of civilization portrays the use of time and its impact on old establishment. In both The Second Coming and Ulysses, William Butler Yeats and Alfred Lord Tennyson portray the use of aging and decaying in time to explain how these detrimental topics destroy the old establishment that is discussed in both of these poems. Lord Tennyson exemplifies the old established idle king, Odysseus, and how time has affected this aged king in which he contemplates his existence into the later periods of his life, and he also feels nostalgic about his experience in the Trojan War. William Butler Yeats also portrays the affect of time on an establishment or institution in which he describes the slow decaying and aging of a civilization and how this institution has become an anarchy. Yeats and Tennyson personify time in their poems and portray its detrimental affect on institutions created for the sense of governance and order, and ironically decaying is apparent in both institutions.