Lucentio

Lucentio is one of the main characters in the play as he plans to marry Bianca. He is a flat character whose traits don’t change throughout the story. Has he still wants to marry Bianca and have success over the other men, who won’t be able to “woo” her. The play moves forward as he disguises himself as Bianca’s Latin teacher so he can get next to her of course. As the play goes on, we learn how Lucentio is working his magic on Bianca as her teacher. The effects of this character have to deal with the other foil character and what they will do. On the dialogue, Lucentio plays as the Latin teacher while his servants play him and they try to talk to Bianca’s father about the marriage. When this happens, the other suitors decide to leave, since they know they have lost the battle over Bianca.

Setting

In Act 4 Scene 1, “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare, Petruccio provides enough descriptive details about the setting of his house along the country side in the play. It must cold outside Petruccio’s house because he is asking his servants to make dinner for his new wife, Kate.
Grumio: “Why, therefore fire, for I have caught extreme cold. Where’s the cook? Is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the servingmen in their new fustian, white stockings, and every officer his wedding garment on?”
Curtis: “All ready. And therefore, I pray thee, news.”
Petruccio is unhappy with his cooks because they do not have his supper ready when he wants to eat. He tells his servants to light a fire because of the extreme cold outside and does not want his wife to get sick. He wants her to be treated right and get perfection. Curtis lets him know that the cooks are already cooking and it shouldn’t be much longer. Kate wants him to be patience and the warm food will come to comfort them. This lets the readers know that the setting for the play is cold right now as the characters are asking for hot food.

Araby epiphany

Epiphany is an break through or realization of some sort, often relating with religious overtones. In Joyce's "Araby" a young boy, who is the narrator, is looking to buy the girl he loves a present. The narrator gets the money late from his uncle, on the day he was suppose to go get the girl a present. When he gets there, there is only 10 minutes left before it shuts down. Without realizing it, he spends double the money on getting in, instead of finding the cheaper entrance. The boy has his epiphany when he is leaving the bazaar.

"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

The narrator is upset about leaving the bazaar with nothing in his hands for his girl. He is full of anger and anguish because he realizes if he doesn't get her anything. There are plenty of boys that will go after her, just like him, to buy her a present of some sort. On his way home, the narrator realizes he was trying to hard to impress the girl and instead of having all his money for himself. He is only left with six pence.

Ciation Exercise

The Metamorphosis is one of the most frequently analyzed works in literature. This elusive story, which chronicles the transformation of Gregor Samsa from a human being into an enormous insect , is renowned for its ability to inspire diverse, sometimes mutually exclusive interpretations. Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, awakes to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin. Initially shocked by the change, Gregor soon begins to worry that he will miss his train and be late for work. This is the fundamental crisis that Gregor, as so many human beings in the modern age, must face. This crisis is the conflict between freedom and one's responsibility to oneself on one side, and guilt and the demands posed by society and family on the other. If escape from this predicament is impossible, then Kafka, with his metamorphosis, provides an impossible escape. By becoming an insect, Gregor gains both his freedom and the right to avoid guilt, since his freedom is forced on him. Gregor dies at the precise moment when the sun comes up. He sees the first light of dawn and dies, echoing the beginning of the second chapter. Gregor's death is the result of his discovery of his identity. At the moment when love, freedom, and art are combined within him, he recognizes the need to finally leave his family to pursue their future. He was driven only by his sense of duty and then guilt, but since his guilt had no real cause, he also could not cling to it for his identity. The Metamorphosis has tended to focus on the psychoanalytic and symbolic, or allegorical, nature of the story.

Sympathy

"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, is dealing with whether the reader should or shouldn't sympathize with the protagonist, Gregor. He doesn't want the reader to sympathize with Gregor because the reader can't relate to Gregor's problems of turing into a bug.

"The cleaning of his room, which she now did always in the evenings, could not have been more hastily done. Streaks of dirt strected along the walls, here and there lay balls of dust and filth. At first Gregor used to station himself in some particularly corner when his sister arrived, in order to reproach her with it, so to speak. But he could have sat there for weeks without getting her to make any improvements; she could see the dirt as well as he did, but she simply made up her mind to leave it alone."

This passage is about how his own sister does not want to approach him because the sight of him upsets her. Because his sister cleans his room and he wants to talk to her but she ignores as he sits in the filthy side of the room. She doesn't even clean that side no matter how dirty it gets. So the feeling Gregor was feeling was probably lonely and hated. No one is left alone in their room and locked in it. She did not see him as her brother anymore but more as a bug, so she left him alone. Since his own mother can not stand the sight of her own son, no reader has experienced his own mother not love him. So we can not sympathize with the Gregor, as his own family does not appreciate him.

Revised Paragraphy

“Digging” a poem by Seamus Heaney, uses similes and other literary devices to convey the reader that the narrator does not want to become a farmer, but a writer. “The squat pen rests; snug as a gun,” is a simile which the narrator is trying to let the reader know that he is comparing the gun to his pen. That his pen is a perfect fit, just like a gun would be to a gunman. That he is meant to become a writer and not a potato farmer like the rest of his family on the male side. "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap/of soggy peat, the curts cuts of an edge," is giving the reader an image in his mind. This is alliteration because it has a repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. The reader is picturing what the narrator is saying. It gives a more of grotesque imagery and an unpleasant feeling. The use of similes and other literary devices helps the reader understand the meaning of the poem and relate to it by using personal experiences.


First, I fixed the introduction because it was unclear and wasn't concise. So the paragraph has a point and I added more analysis of quotes from the poem, to give further analysis of the poem.

Digging Paragraph

In “Digging” a poem by Seamus Heaney, uses similes to portray the meaning of the poem. “The squat pen rests; snug as a gun,” is a simile which the narrator is trying to let the reader know that he is comparing the gun to his pen. That his pen is a perfect fit, just like a gun would be to a gunman. That he is meant to become a writer and not a potato farmer like the rest of his family on the male side. The use of similes helps the reader understand the meaning of the poem and relate to it by using personal experiences.

Baglady Free Response

In “Baglady” by A.S. Byatt, is about a woman who goes shopping at a prodigious mall in the Far East because of her husband’s business trip. Daphne Gulver-Robinson is the wife of Rollo, who is her husband and one of the directors. She doesn’t know if she belongs with the other ladies and if she should company her husband on this trip.
“Most of the wives are elegant, with silk suits and silky legs and exquisitely cut hair,” that the other ladies going on the trip are beautiful and younger than Daphne. So, she is feeling left out because she thinks she can’t relate to them and they have high standards of living. “She has tried to make herself attractive for this jaunt and has lost ten pounds,” she has even lost weight so she can look attractive for her husband and could fit the mold of the other ladies. She still knows it is not enough to fit in with the other ladies after she sees them.
“She buys a jade egg… and some lacquered chopsticks, and a mask,” she is just buying useless junk to fill the time of two hours, before it is time to go. There is no purpose in buying a jade egg because it is useless back home, it is only a tourist items to have memories of the visit. The mall is guarded by soldiers who keep the poor people from getting inside the mall and make sure no one gets robbed. “The figures about AIDS began to be drawn to his attention,” meaning the men will get only on their business trip and go for cheap prostitutes, since they are away from their wives. So the boss asks all the men to bring their wives on the trip so they can keep their men in check.
In the end of the story Daphne is all by herself since she did not relate to the other wives. She went shopping all by herself as the other women went in a group. While Daphne is shopping for herself, she misplaces her purse and credit cards. Without her identification, she is just like a poor person outside the mall and she has missed lunch and it is the time for the airport car to come pick the wives up. This supports that time goes by unexpectedly in the mall. None of the other ladies will remember her, and she thinks about them forgetting about her. Since she did not fit in with them and will be stuck there until her husband comes to her resume and getting out of the Good Fortune Mall.

Enormous Wings

In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is debating about whether a man with wings in an angel or not. This story is magical realism since it deals with the concept of angels, spider girls, and miracles. Since those things are not possible, it gives the story a magical setting.
The old man with wings is an angel, even if he’s not beautiful, clean, and pure. He is described as an old, dirty man with bird like wings and that is not the characteristics of an angel. The angel use to pick dirt, fruit peels and garbage out of his wings, so he tried to stay clean but he was put in a chicken coop. “The parish priest had his first suspicion of an imposter when he saw that he did not understand the language of God,” the priest didn’t of the angel because he did not speak Latin, which is God’s language. Language is a way of expressing yourself and the angel could not do that because he had a different didactic. So the priest did not believe he was an angel, and more like a man with wings. “He had an unbearable smell of the outdoors, the back side of his wings was strewn with parasites and his main feathers had been mistreated by terrestrial winds,” meaning he was just an regular old man but he had wings because he smells just any man would and he was beaten up by the winds. The parasites suggest that he was too clean and angels are the purest white.
The old man with wings is an angel, “A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat.” Since the angel came to their house the bad didn’t have his fever anymore and was health. The angel seemed to be immortal, “he not only survived his worst winter, but seemed improved with the first sunny days.” That he did not die even after the worst winter came, even though his was in a chicken’s coop where it can get old. The miracles of the angel were: as a blind man who didn’t recover his sight but grew three new teeth, a leper whose sores sprouted sunflowers, and a paralytic who almost won the lottery. So the people lost their faith in him really being an angel because of his pity miracles. It’s up for debate, whether the old man with wings was an angel or not.

Diggin Thesis

In “Diggin” a poem by Seamus Heaney, the narrator talks about his will to become a writer instead of a potato farmer like his father and forefathers. The controversy is whether or not his family will still respect him if he decides to become a writer.

My food is yours

This is Just to Say

I have eaten
your tacos
that were sittin
on your table

you were probably
hungry
since you didn’t
have lunch

Forgive me
They were filling
So hot
And so crunchy.

My parody is about when I ate my roommates’ lunch one time since he had left it on my desk and went out to grab a drink. His tacos were all gone by the time he got back. I had just returned from class and I had missed lunch too, so I finished his lunch. The form of the poem is the same as Williams with 3- four line stanzas and also syllables. The punctuations for the poem only come at the end. The poem has mocking tone because I wasn’t really sorry when I ate his lunch because he has finished some of my food one night. But that is how roommates are with each other, so their needs to be communicate with us. The original poem has a similar tone compared to my poem. Getting the form down was easy, but getting everything you want in those 12 lines isn’t, but it is worth putting in the effort to have a great poem.

The Wild Swans

In “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats is about a narrator who feels lonely and wants to fly away from his problems and become a swan.
“Are nine-and-fifty swans,” meaning there is room for one more swan in the group. Because swans usually fly together in even numbers because each swan has mate and the narrator is feeling left out because he doesn’t have a mate and his life isn’t going that well.
“I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, / and now my heart is sore,” the narrator is putting all his feelings in the swans. The swans symbolize the freedom that he doesn’t have and wishes he could get by watching the swans. The swans are able to do fly around and do whatever they wish with their time as the narrator has to deal with his life. When the narrator doesn’t notice, all the swans fly away. Leaving him to wonder where they have flown off too and left him by himself.
In “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks is about a young generation who thinks they are invisible and are able to do anything they want. This poem is really short compared to Yeats’ poem; Brook’s poem only has 10 lines to Yeats 51 lines. The poem uses “we” several times to portray the deadly sins the young group of boys are breaking. The author also uses “thin” and “jazz” as verbs in her poem to symbolize then invisible of the group of guys. In her last line, “We die soon,” symbolizes the mindset of the guys; as it won’t last long before they have to get jobs and enter the real world.
Andrew Hudgins writes a parody of the “The Wild Swans at Coole” and “We Real Cool,” which is called “The Wild Swans Skip School.” Hudgins is mocking Yeats by letting him know that swans aren’t anything more than simple birds. “We beat wings. / We fly rings,” as the swans are just regular birds and they don’t symbolize anything that Yeats is looking for in his life.

Digging

Digging by Seamus Heaney uses many forms of imagery to convey the message that the narrator will not be like his father. Heaney uses similes, metaphors, and symbolism to distingish his poem.

“The squat pen rests;/snug as a gun,” is a smile comparing how the pen fits in his hand like a gun. That he is meant to be a writer. As a gun perfectly fits in a shooters hand, so does the pen for the narrator. His father is a potato farmer and he doesn’t want to be a farmer.

“Bends low, comes up twenty years away/Stooping in rhythm through potato drills,” this symbolizes the stop of patriarchy in his male figure as he’s going to stop the family tradition of potato farming. He has fear of ending the “power” of the family business. “I carried him milk in a bottle…he straightened up/to drink it…slicing neatly, heaving sod,” is comparing himself to his father. He juxtaposed to compare his sloppy work to his fathers neatly; perfected work and he will worry that he will never catch up to their standards.

“By god, the old man could handle a spade/Just like his old man,” which continuously discusses how talented his father and grandfather were with the spade on the farm. He feels that he is not qualified to work in the field, but more fitted for his pen.

Heaney uses a metaphor to end his poem. “The squat pen rests/I’ll dig with it,” compares that the spade is their strength, and his weakness. So he will never able to work in the fields like his ancestors.

Osymandias Free Response

Osymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelly is one of the best poems I have read and analyzed during my first year in college. How it relates with the struggle of power from the beginning of time. The poem uses three levels of narration to get its meaning through. The three different story tellers are the traveler, the statue, and finally the king’s voice.

The use of verbs help the reader understand what the statue goes through. “Half-sunk, a shattered vessel lies,” demonstrates the power of the statue when the King was in control. Since the statue is half sunk now, it represents the power lost by the king. The kingdom went to ruins just as he ruled over the sand now.

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings,” the voice gives the king power which he once possessed. The last couplet tells the reader that the king is nothing more than a mere half sunk statue. The fight for power will continue.

Poetic Form Sonnet 73

Sonnet 73

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by-and-by black night doth take away,
Death's second self that seals up all in rest,

Interpretation

I can see my life coming to an end.
As the sun sets in the west.
Night after night his youth fades away.
Death is the last step to finish life.

In Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare is an appropriate poem to discuss poetic form. I will analysis his second quatrain and how it uses poetic form. The iambic pentameter is the following: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This is an Shakespearean sonnet which has three quatrains followed by a heroic couplet.

The writer is portraying the image of death in his sonnet. "See'st the twilight of such day," prefers to seeing the end of the day, which will turn to night. The life of a young man is coming to a sudden end because his life is meaningless. His youth goes away day by day, since he is not taking advantage of his life.

The rhyme scheme also portrays a dramatic effect with the change of day to night. It refers to night as death's second hand man, also their is a lot of emphasis dealing with youth and death. The commas used in the quatrain help the reader understand the meaning of the poem.