Essays Tagged: "Punctuation"

The Chaser

Great idea's and description, work on punctuation"The Chaser"Troops being rushed out to Vietnam by the truck loads, rise in foreign techno ...

(2 pages) 96 0 3.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Art Essays

"The Chaser" by John Collier

Great idea's and description, work on punctuation"The Chaser"Troops being rushed out to Vietnam by the truck loads, rise in foreign techno ...

(2 pages) 86 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

This is an essay about how E.E. Cummings uses form in his poems.

s each, and one line standing alone at the end. This poem is unique in that it does not contain any punctuation other than apostrophes and parentheses. Cummings does not follow the traditional practic ... e capitalization in this poem is quite unusual. Cummings does not have sentences, since there is no punctuation, so almost all of the words are written in lower-case. He does not even capitalize the w ...

(4 pages) 115 0 3.0 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

California and the Propostion 187

need some minor punctuation changes check grammarProposition 187: Don't Mess With TexasIn November of 1994, Californ ...

(5 pages) 88 0 3.5 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

William Carlos.

appearance to the poem. At first glance one might think that these breaks and spaces are there for punctuation purposes. But in fact they have nothing to do how the poem should be read. He uses these ...

(2 pages) 32 0 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Analyisis of Quentin's Section in William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury".

begins to decline; "I pulled her she was limp I lifted her to her feet" (Faulkner 157). There is no punctuation, no apostrophes, no capital letters -- except for Caddy and I -- and various other ungra ...

(3 pages) 53 1 3.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Patterns in the Mind, summative essay on Ray Jackendoff's book on language and human nature.

t. Looking at written language, the same applies. When reading, a person can construct meaning from punctuation, word choice, bold/italicized words, reading in between the lines, etc. We take these bi ...

(2 pages) 23 2 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Significance of Rhetoric in Music.

them: communication, delivery, and effect to the audience.Needs Improvment on:Mechanics - grammer, punctuation, spellingWhen we listen to music, we listen to a voice: a hidden individual, the soul of ...

(2 pages) 67 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Writing With Style- Vonnegut Talks about he writing styles of Shakespeare, Picasso, and James Joyce

Picasso painted then it would be difficult for any one to understand your writing. All the rules of punctuation are broken, having words mean whatever they wanted to mean, and strung them together in ...

(2 pages) 49 1 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Comparison of Dickinson's Poetry.

ies in form, subject, and philosophy.Both poems have unmistakable similarities in meter, rhyme, and punctuation. The meter of each of the poems suggests the influence of many common Protestant Hymn bo ... ner ending in words such as "Sea" and "be". Another similar aspect of the two poems is their unique punctuation. Oddly chosen words are capitalized, and slash marks are used to separate phrases. Words ...

(4 pages) 75 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

This essay is on Toni Morrison's "Beloved" It is an essay on the literary devices used in the novel.

stream of consciousness narration. In the second part of the book, one of the chapters contains no punctuation. This method of writing is better known as stream of consciousness. In this chapter Seth ... y go through. Morrison's most effective device was the flashback technique, and the chapter without punctuation. The flashback technique gave the reader an idea of what happened to the characters in t ...

(4 pages) 74 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Explication of phllip larkin's "cut grass"

In Cut Grass, Philip Larkin uses onomatopoeia, color and flower symbolism, and punctuation to show that death is inevitable, and is unaware of specific circumstances. By contrasti ... tion when approaching death.In using the symbolism of white and flowers, onomatopoeia, and relevant punctuation, Larkin is able to portray death as both eternal and hopeful, and to restore a sense of ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Comparison between Tianamen and Belfast Confetti. By Kala Harvey UK spellings

the poem was a journalist, he was at the town when the bomb went off. He compares all the debris to punctuation.In Tiananmen James Fenton repeated the word 'tiananmen', he did this because he wanted t ... lfast Confetti Ciaran Carson has not used any rhyming words. The entire poem is a metaphor. He uses punctuation to describe the debris. Also the poem does not really have any rhythm. I do not really l ...

(2 pages) 19 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Dulce et Decorum Est : How does the poet use imagery and versification to get his point across?

with the aim to change the way society thinks about conflict.In the first verse, Wilfred Owen uses punctuation to slow down the pace of the poem, imitating the speed at which the soldiers are marchin ...

(4 pages) 74 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The Concept of Art

ESSAY: CONCEPT ART[As published in An Anthology (1963). Errors are corrected and punctuation is normalized.]"Concept art" is first of all an art of which the material is "concepts," ...

(5 pages) 110 1 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man How does the text suggest Stephen's mental language?

ndering them in an objective, external portrait. The use of run-on senteces, many times without any punctuation or break, often written in bad language or poor grammar, are all devices to reflect the ...

(3 pages) 72 1 4.9 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Walt witmons open road and how it represented freedom

ce of freedom. The road is a teacher of the way of life.He has a way with his words he uses strange punctuation." From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines," he often compare ...

(4 pages) 32 1 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Dickinson and whitman

is that they were both lonely. Their differences being their communication, how they wrote, forms, punctuation, and their themes. Walt Whitman was more of a realist, as Emily Dickinson was an impress ... s to fit her thought. She also started the wide use of off rhyme.Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman's punctuation in their poetry also has a dramatical difference. In Dickinson's poems she makes up her ...

(6 pages) 89 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

George Steiner wrote that the translator is the mailman of human thought and sentiment. Examine some of the difficulties involved in accurately translating works of literature.

n accumulate a lot of problems. These include problems with language, such as interpreting grammar, punctuation, words, figurative language and irony, as well as problems with cultural (and sub-cultur ...

(7 pages) 61 1 5.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Analysis of Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

head with the images presented in the poem. Rhythm is created in the placement of certain words and punctuation, causing the reader to read the poem a certain way. The fact that the sentences in the c ...

(2 pages) 93 0 4.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature