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Need a response paper for literature (page & half.) the attached documents will have the instructions and poem needed to get this assignment done. I’ll also attach two example response papers to give you an idea of how it needs to be done. If poetry is your speciality it’ll be an easy assignment. thanks so much and let me know if you have any questions
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Dr. Wolfgang Lepschy
LIT 2000
March 31, 2017
The Blackberry in “Blackberry Eating”
In the poem “Blackberry Eating,” Galway Kinnell decides to use a blackberry to describe the way that he views words and writing. He deliberately compares blackberries and words in such depth that links these objects in a way that one would have rarely seen on one’s own. Kinnell uses such familiarity and ease when reflecting on each subject that it would be difficult to dispute the similarities. Kinnell makes no mistake in selecting this berry over a cherry or blueberry. A blackberry’s individual precise lumps come together to form the whole berry, much like words must to convey an idea. Additionally, blackberries produce a dark, rich juice, similar to ink on a page. The berries and words also both grow wild and may have sharp edges. All of these minute likenesses come together to truly make a blackberry’s similarity to words more significant than any other arbitrary berry.
Primarily, the many spherical clusters that comprise a blackberry are significant to the choice of this berry to compare to words. After the transition from the narrator reminiscing about eating blackberries to describing their relation to words in the ninth line, the author uses the words “one-syllable lumps” to portray the parts of words. The usage of the word “lumps” directly reflects on the clusters that make up blackberries. In addition, this creates the mental picture of multiple syllables lumped together, like blackberries clusters, to form a whole word. The comparison allows the reader to truly analyze how many small parts must come together to create a whole word. Each syllable of a word creates varying sounds that lump together and produce a network of noises and parts that deliver a word that is discernable and familiar to the human ear.
In addition, the color and amount of juice that blackberries possess is definitely an influential factor in Kinnell selecting a blackberry over all other berries to convey his perception of words. In the beginning of the stanza, the narrator is describing, in great detail, his ventures of eating ripe blackberries in late September. The narrator depicts the blackberry plant itself producing the berries as a “black art.” This phrase refers to the dark juice that is squeezed out of the berry, but also is referring to them as an “art.” The author uses this choice of words deliberatively to show his appreciation for the formation of these delicious berries and their unique nature. Also, this allows the reader to picture a dark, whimsical juice from blackberries. When the word description stanzas are introduced, that mental picture is still fresh in the reader’s mind and a comparison to artful black ink etched on a page may easily be imagined. After the transition of the narrator’s focus to words, he describes his use of words as “I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well / in the silent, startled, icy, black language.” The onomatopoeias and alliteration the narrator uses trigger the thought of blackberry juice. The description of “black language” also helps the correlation between the black ink on a page and the blackberry juice to be formed.
Additionally, the wild way in which the blackberry vines grow, as well as the sharp thorns that they possess, are significant qualities to the selection of this specific berry. When describing the art of blackberry eating, the narrator uses the phrase “stalks very prickly, a penalty” to portray the blackberry vines. The usage of the word “penalty” to describe the thorns on the vines suggests that there is a consequence for eating a delicious berry with sharp edges. The narrator must be careful to avoid the thorns to collect the ripe fruit. This can directly relate to the manner in which words may be perceived. Words can have sharp, hurtful edges. The hurtful words must be avoided in order to receive what you want in life. Thoughts of words are always going to grow wild, but the correct words must be carefully selected in order to not cut ties.
Moreover, small, sweet clusters that comprise blackberries much like sounds and syllables make up words. The black juice that bursts out of blackberries when a bite is taken directly relates to the black ink used to record words on a page. The wild blackberry vines and their sharp thorns are identical to the sharp edges that words are capable of having. Kinnell aptly chooses the blackberry to convey his perception of words.
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Dr. Wolfgang Lepschy
LIT 2000
March 2, 2017
Explication of “A Certain Lady”
Written by Dorothy Parker, “A Certain Lady” is a poem that expresses the heartbreak and distress a woman feels while listening to the man she loves describe his nights with various other ladies. Playing the role of the eager listener, the speaker smiles and tilts her head as she drinks “[his] rushing words with eager lips.” In spite of the fact that what he tells her breaks her heart, for the sake of this man that she adores so much, she will pretend that his words are the most amazing thing in the world.
Going through the trouble of dolling herself up, the speaker puts on a “fragrant red” lipstick in an attempt to entice the man. As he goes on to “rehearse [his] list of loves,” she puts on her mask, and she laughs along with him, seemingly urging him to continue speaking. This man, however, does not see how much the speaker loves him and therefore cannot see the pain that he is inflicting on her heart every time he mentions the other women in his life. She has performed her act so often that he thinks nothing differently of her being “gay as morning” and “light as snow.” The speaker does not show her sadness or anger when he speaks of the other women, so he’ll never know “all the straining things” that she has held inside.
Although it is not stated outright, the speaker could assumedly be this man’s wife or even one of his many conquests. In any case, their relationship involves a bit of physical contact, since he allows her to “trace [his] brows with tutored finger-tips.” It is also a little strange how he feels comfortable enough around her to tell her, in so much detail, about these “tales of fresh adventurings.” Would a man feel so at ease as to tell his wife about sleeping with other women? Most likely not, but even so, who could tell? The speaker is very clearly head over heels for this man, and yet this man seems to not even notice her genuine feelings and seemingly takes her for granted. This makes their relationship seem enigmatic and confusing.
The irony added at the end of the poem only adds to the confusion and mysteriousness of the relationship between the speaker and this man. Even though she continues to stress how much she is in love with him, the speaker says that she can “kiss [him] blithely” as he goes out in search of new women to conquer. Then she clinches, shockingly, “And what goes on, my love, while you’re away / You’ll never know.” Thus, although this man has no issue telling her what he does while she’s not around, she does not feel the same. While he has told her of all the women he’s been with, she has not told him anything about the other men that are in her life. The fact that she says “you’ll never know” implies that she will most likely end up taking her secret to the grave.
Need a response paper done for a poem; the required length is only a page & a half. Below are the two poems you need to read and all the instructions needed to work on this assignment. YOU ONLY NEED TO WRITE A PAPER ON ONE OF THE POEMS. I’m providing you with both so you can choose which one will be easier for you. I’ll also attach two examples of a response paper to help give you an idea of what you need to do.
Below is the poems
Barbie Doll
This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.
Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:
You have a great big nose and fat legs.
She was healthy, tested intelligent,
possessed strong arms and back,
abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.
She went to and fro apologizing.
Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.
She was advised to play coy,
exhorted to come on hearty,
exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.
Her good nature wore out
like a fan belt.
So she cut off her nose and her legs
and offered them up.
In the casket displayed on satin she lay
with the undertaker’s cosmetics painted on,
a turned-up putty nose,
dressed in a pink and white nightie.
Doesn’t she look pretty? everyone said.
Consummation at last.
To every woman a happy ending.
Morning Song
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I’m no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind’s hand.
All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s. The window square
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.
Below is the instructions
For the Response Papers #3 and #4, you should explicate and paraphrase a poem or parts of a poem we have come across in the sections assigned.
The word explication is derived from a Latin word that means ‘unfolding.’ When you explicate a text, you unfold its meaning in an essay, proceeding carefully to interpret it passage by passage, sometimes even line by line or word by word.
A good explication concentrates on details. An entire story or poem is usually too long to explicate completely—the explication would be far longer than the story or poem—so you will usually select a short passage or section that relates to the idea you are developing. Ideally, you concentrate on a central line (one stanza or one single sentence or even one single word). In some cases, you could concentrate on the meaning of a recurring word or phrase and explain its significance in the poem, probably by advancing different interpretations of the word or phrase.
For our purposes, you could just focus on a few selected lines as in the Poetry RP Sample #2. Or, if it is a short poem, you could explicate the entirety or most of the poem, as in Poetry RP Sample #1. If it is longer, you can focus on one or two, possibly three, stanzas. That means you should carefully interpret each line (each word or imagery) to arrive at an overall interpretation.
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