Ideas for a Canterbury-Tales- type poem?
I have a small project that involves creating a poem like the tales in The Canterbury Tales. It has to rhyme, tell a story, entertain, and also teach a moral (preferably related to the seven deadly sins). I am good with poetry, but I am stuck at coming up with plot or storyline. Can anyone give me some ideas to get me started? I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
Do the jester Patchface's poems talk about a sea dragon?
I doubt. Let's rewind a bit and go through his quotes:“I will lead it!” His bells rang merrily. “We will march into the sea and out again. Under the waves we will ride seahorses, and mermaids will blow seashells to announce our coming, oh, oh, oh.”(Spoiler alert)What we do know that by the end AFFC, Aurane Waters has left with Cersei's fleet and that Aurane Waters is a bastard. A Velaryon bastard. Seahorses? Sigil of House Velaryon. Mermaids? Manderly. “The crow, the crow,” Patchface cried when he saw Jon. “Under the sea the crows are white as snow, I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.” Under the sea here, is probably a reference to Hardhome and Night's Watchmen(Crows) becoming Wights. "Under the sea, men marry fishes.” Patchface did a little dance step, jingling his bells. “They do, they do, they do.”Fishes, a reference to House Tully? In ADWD 2: After The Feast, Jon's first POV, Shireen along with her mother, Queen Selyse arrive at Nightfort from the Eastwatch-by-the-sea, the Braavosi banker Tycho Nestoris and lastly, Patchface, as described in the letter by Cotter Pyke to Jon, claiming him to be a simpleton. As the chapter progresses, the scene has the giant Wun Wun in it and in the middle, Patchface breaks into a grotesque dance step:"In the dark the dead are dacning. I know, I know, oh oh oh"Is he trying to convey something about sea dragons? No, not yet. Under the sea, for all I can understand, is a reference to death, or events that will unfold in near future.
Pokemon Makes Me Depressed?
This fixation on Pokemon is just covering up for something else. You really do need to discuss these feelings with a trusted friend, doctor or teacher. Dont worry, youa re not going mad, but you do need a bit of help. Its always harder for boys to ask for help, but you will be gald that you did, I promise you. Your life may seem silly or stupid now, but who knows where the future may take you? As you get new friends, your life takes on a new direction, you wont NEED Pokemon anymore and it will fade off and be a distant memory, Do try to do other things if you can, get out, kick a ball, write a poem, watch a film, anything that distracts you a bit. Good luck
HELP! FOUND POEMS?!? WHAT?
I have a project for school I am working on, and it requires me to create a found poem with exerpts from the book "The Great Gatsby". I have ABSOLUTLY NO idea how to create such a poem. I do not understand :/ can someone explain a FOUND POEM for me, and maybe give me an idea of what I can write it about if you have read "The Great Gatsby". THANKS A MILLION :)
Some questions about ART? Best answers win 10 points!!?
1.What is art? Is it paintings, dancing, fashion, music,...? 2.What is good art? 3.Is all art beautiful? Why? 4.Do some people appreciate art better than others? 5.The celebrated Irish writer, Oscar Wilde, talked about "art for art's sake". In other words, art simply exists to allow people to show off and create a positive image for themselves rather than teach or give the viewer a new perspective in the world they live. do you agree? 6. The conformist fits in with the world around him/her. The unconformist tries to change the world around him/her. Bearing this in mind, do you believe that people create paths for walking or that the walking actually creates the path? Do you belive that sopa operas attempt to reflect real life or that real life attempts to mirror the fictional life in sopa operas? ultimately, does Art attempt to reflect, or project an image of what is real in our lives, or does it try to create or change our perceptions of the world around us in various ways?
How are these two poems alike or different?
I'm writing a 4-6 paragraph essay in which I need to compare and/or contrast two poems. I need to consider the poem's theme and tone as well as each poet's use of imagery and word choice. "My Papa's Waltz" The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt. "Those Winter Sundays" Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? Compare and contrasting is one of my weak points so I'd appreciate if someone help me out here. I don't know what to write for my thesis statement. An outline would also help so I know what I should put in each paragraph so I have a direction to go
What does Persona mean?
From a literary standpoint, it's the character in a story (a lot of times identified as the narrator). When discussing literature, we speak of the "persona" in terms of how we (the reader) perceive a character in a book AS HE/SHE IS PRESENTED TO US. In the real world, it's the roles we play when we are out in public in order to present a public image. It's who we want the world to think we are... not who we really are; hence, the term "putting on a persona." We wear them in public, just like our clothes. My public persona is a hard-working English teacher; my private persona is a little boy who loves nonsense and mischief. You can see, as with many words with multiple definitions, the correlation between the two.