Haiku

Question:Discuss the impact of the Tokugawa Shogunate on Japan Introduction: The Tokugawa Shogunate was the last feudal military government in Japan and ushered a new era of growth where Japan was not on the brink of civil war and was rapidly growing.There were many impacts on Japan,firstly there was great cultural growth and popularization of traditional and new cultures,from this there were also social and economic changes.These changes impacted Japan and still has effects on the modern day…

“Down-keepers, Sun-slappers, Self-soilers, and harmony hushers” to describe the group of people she is portraying her speech to. The form of a poem follows a certain pattern, rhyme scheme, meter, or has a certain topic/focus, or all of the above. Haiku, limericks, sonnets, and sestinas are all forms of poetry that use conventional arrangements of meter and rhyme patterns. These two poetry’s have different forms of literature. The poem “For My Daughter” by Weldon Kees is a 14 line sonnet. Its…

A clique is just a group of people spending a lot of time together because they all have something in common. In high school, a person can walk down the halls and through the flood of students and see all kinds of cliques. Each clique has their own drama, their own way of doing things and, their own personality as a group. There are several different types of cliques too such as active cliques, creative cliques, and intelligent cliques. It is usually not very hard to determine what the common…

Introduction Jacob Ezra Katz officially changed his name to Ezra Jack Keats in 1947 (123). The reason for the name change was because of the anti-Semitic attitudes that were prevalent in the U.S. after the end of World War II (122). Keats familiarity with discrimination made him much more sympathetic to others with similar experiences, and it would be these experiences that would cast him into the celebrated role of author and illustrator. His work served to literally illustrate an under…

pleasure, they can hurt and they can heal. We see both food and poetry present during any important gathering. A funeral will have a gathering of loved ones that includes an array of foods, as well as important words spoken, such as the eulogy. Basho’s Haiku poem “Visiting the graves-white haired, leaning on their canes” depicts the somber setting of elders visiting the graves of their loved ones, and it is moments such as this that can be captured accurately with poetry. A wedding too will be…

I was blessed with a reading buddy that sings almost as well as he reads. This semester, my field experience consisted of tutoring sessions with an individual third grader. My partner was Jayden, a blonde hair and blue eyed fellow. I set up lesson plans for twice a week for seven weeks. I got to know my reading buddy and what makes him special. While experiencing sessions with Jayden I learned what he is good at when it come to reading and writing. I took inventory on which preferences he has…

Imagism was a literary movement that began in the early 20th century. This movement has its roots in the artistic world where its main aim was to avoid the old conventions and find new ways of creativity. Poets such as Ezra Pound, H.D. and William Carlos Williams tried to create a way of expressing the imagism in painting through words in poetry. This movement as contemporary art repudiates ‘beauty’ standards, and the Romanticism of the 19th-century while it admires the quotidian, the perceptual…

Terministic Screens in Modern Media The field of rhetoric took a significant step forward with Kenneth Burke’s essay “Terministic Screens”, published in his book Language as Symbolic Action. Burke defined the “terministic screen” as the way different terminologies direct attention in different ways: When I speak of “terministic screens”, I have particularly in mind some photographs I once saw. They were different photographs of the same objects, the difference being that they were made with…

Ellen Hopkins has written a lot of New York Times best-selling novels because she is one of the greatest poem and novel writer of the 21st century. She is most noticeable by observing teenagers and young adults for her novels such as the crank series, burned series, impulse series, and many others. Ellen Hopkins has contributed many wonderful things to literature and that makes her a great writer, but what people don't know is that her life and her work are an also important reason for her being…

The first poem I wrote for this collection was Depression. Originally, it was very narrative so it took a while for me to decide whether to make the basic concept into a poem or story. Eventually I decided on writing a poem as I didn’t have much experience with writing poetry so I saw it as a personal challenge. I realised the original concept was not very cohesive, so I wrote a rough storyline to work through in order to make the piece more cohesive. An early difficulty I had was with…