Poetry Essay Examples Page 71

Objective and subjective elements affect our daily motives and actions. Faith, a major concern, both subjective and objective, gives us the motivation to do right and live right. The poem ‘Household Gods’ explores the vulnerability of faith used in poetry in levels of its objectivity and subjectivity. Through the perspective of an objective God, the…

Several of the poems in the anthology convey a sense of alienation; however “An Unknown Girl” by Moniza Alvi and “Into Your Mind” by Carol Ann Duffy are for me particularly clear in the way they describe such a feeling of ‘not belonging’. In ‘An Unknown Girl’, the poet expresses how her culture roots of…

‘The Rest’ is a very striking and emotional poem. On the first reading it puts the reader into suspense. Literally, it may seem like the poet is just watching a woman walk surrounded by ‘trees’ and ‘grasses.’ It may seem bland and emotionless, but symbolically the poet gives us an insight into the theme of…

T. S. Eliot is one of the most famous American poets of the early 20th century. His work is famous for its fragmented structure, many alliterations and an almost shocking portrayal of contemporary society. These key aspects tie in with the Modernism movement which was developing around the same time. This movement was a result…

  This also suggests that emotions can be controlled. Emotions however, can give us truth- for instance, if we see a dead mean and smell his rotting body, we would instantaneously feel sad and have a sick feeling. The fact is that the man has died, and believing that triggers the emotions, thus we know…

Why do you think the TOK course is at the core of the IB diploma program and how do you think it impacts the life of the students? Theory of knowledge is what it means, theories about knowledge. It provides a general picture of how and why people should think or scrutinize about the world…

  Teachers believe that knowledge should be acquired through active class participation and critical thinking. Yet in many Polish schools, students are taught to take the information for granted, memorize it, and to never question the teacher. Secondly, students often use emotion as a way of knowing. For example, the students may be Russian and…

“What Voice at Moth-Hour” is a poem written in first person narrator by Robert Penn Warren, a poem which consists of five four-line stanzas, in which he is principally concerned to explore the origin and nature of a voice, constantly calling him back at “moth-hour” when he finds himself situated in different locations surrounded by…

“… for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits: it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs. ” – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics1 I….

We may live in the same world but we are unique individuals that come from different cultural backgrounds, have different upbringing and personal life experiences. These factors will form our worldview, which is part of us and what we already know. Worldview is important, as it will lead to compromises within our ways of knowing,…