Question

You have learned about multiple historical, cultural and literary influences in early 20th century America. You have also read several poems which are representative of early 20th century American literature.

Now you will take this information to create a presentation showcasing both of your chosen poems. You should have at least one image for each poem along with text explaining the ways in which the literary works were influenced by the events of the 20th century.

Answer 1

Hi again, you amazing jelly-being!! How can I help you with this project?

Answer 2

Create a multimedia presentation using a Web 2.0 tool.

You have learned about multiple historical, cultural and literary influences in early 20th century America. You have also read several poems which are representative of early 20th century American literature.

Now you will take this information to create a presentation showcasing both of your chosen poems. You should have at least one image for each poem along with text explaining the ways in which the literary works were influenced by the events of the 20th century.

Choose two poems and create a presentation explaining the ways in which the literary works were influenced by the events of this time period.

"Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by T.S. Eliot

"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

"The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Ezra Pound

"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams

"Languages" by Carl Sandburg

"Fog" by Carl Sandburg

@LeilaniLane

Answer 3

Okay :3
Ill be ready to help you in just a bit
I literally just got back from a trip, 3 hr drive both ways. Lol

Answer 4

Actually i might have to answer this first thing tomorrow
Unexpected plans sry!

Answer 5

do you now ? @LeilaniLane

Answer 6

Sorry Lol
Its just I had to read these poems and find the dates etc.

So I picked:
"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
http://www.shmoop.com/red-wheelbarrow/
http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=2585
http://www.oocities.org/radon220/uconnwork/ENGL109-essay1.htm
http://elliotsreading.blogspot.com/2012/08/why-so-much-depends-on-red-wheelbarrow.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82838997/Analysis-The-Red-Wheelbarrow-by-Poet-William-Carlos-Williams

I really liked this poem, its simple :3
If you need help with the writing part of the assignment, and the data from those sites didn't help just ask :3

Also:
"Fog" by Carl Sandburg
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2192
http://iws2.collin.edu/mtolleson/2328online/2328notesfog.htm
http://www.shmoop.com/fog-sandburg/
http://theintrinsicwriter.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/old-school-sundays-carl-sandburgs-fog/
http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-underlying-image-meaning-poem-fog-by-carl-235741
Same for this one ;)

So, I know most of these sites just talk about what the poem means, but you can use that information to tie into the history of the time these poems were made. What problems were people facing? Does the poem have anything to do with those problems? What was life back then? Does the poem describe what life was back then?

By trying to answer those question should help make the assignment easier. :3 I can provide you with a draft of the project that you can put into your own word and edit if you'd like.

Answer 7

"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams

This poem was written in 1923. World War 1 had recently ended, and the Great Depression was to come less than 10 years after this poem was written. Also 1923 was just the beginning of a time we would later call the Roaring Twenties.

The poem is simple, consisting of what seems to be a sentence broken up into four, four lettered word portions. But, its simpleness is what makes it interesting. It leaves the reader wondering "What exactly depends on the wheelbarrow and why?"

Well, farmers depend on wheelbarrows. They need them to do their work.

Also:

Perhaps it signifies the things we take for granted. Most people don’t think twice about a wheelbarrow, but in fact, much labor could not be done without it. The seemingly innocuous inanimate objects are necessary than we think.
- http://theintrinsicwriter.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/old-school-sundays-the-poetry-of-william-carlos-williams/

“So much depends,” it says, on the object being there, but it also means that so much depends on the reader’s response to what is seen. If one’s response is dull, the world takes on this quality, and the converse is also true. Thus, although Williams believed that the American environment offered a new challenge and possibility to poetry, his deeper meaning was that anything, however familiar or even drab, would become significant and moving when met with a full response.
“So much depends,” it says, on the object being there, but it also means that so much depends on the reader’s response to what is seen. If one’s response is dull, the world takes on this quality, and the converse is also true. Thus, although Williams believed that the American environment offered a new challenge and possibility to poetry, his deeper meaning was that anything, however familiar or even drab, would become significant and moving when met with a full response.
- http://www.enotes.com/topics/red-wheelbarrow

The time period in which The Red Wheelbarrow was written was vastly different than that of today. The poem is dated 1923, and many aspects of life were different in that time. The stock market was beginning its rapid deterioration as the Great Depression approached. World War I had ended recently, so this major transition from wartime boom to terrible depression was magnified.
I do not believe that the wheelbarrow is specifically important to the voice of the poet, but that he writes about the value of the wheelbarrow to the everyday farmer in general.
- http://www.oocities.org/radon220/uconnwork/ENGL109-essay1.htm


Weeeeeee XP Its fun
Anyway I can do the same thing for your for the other poem

Answer 8

I figured how to do it but thank youuu @LeilaniLane

Answer 9

Respond to one of the following prompts in two to three paragraphs.

Citing textual evidence from "On the Pulse of Morning" and "One Today:"

describe some of the challenges facing the American people during the late 20th and early 21st centuries

or

explain the effects of cultural diversity among the American people during the late 20th and early 21st centuries
@LeilaniLane

Answer 10

:3 You want me to help you with that one too lol
Okie Dokie
That's from a different assignment right?

Answer 11

yes

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@LeilaniLane

Answer 13

I've gotta read both of dem
Un momento

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alright

Answer 15

Hm...Okay
So.. I think I tried to help you with this before but, I never actually read the poems.
Now that I have I'm gonna go with:
describe some of the challenges facing the American people during the late 20th and early 21st centuries

I'm going to break this up into 2 short paragraphs

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okay @LeilaniLane

Answer 17

your done ? @LeilaniLane

Answer 18

Whoops yeah! Sorry! That must've seemed super rude. I just was stuck on some homework of my own. :S Ugh, virtual school.
Anywho I might have to use the second prompt actually :/
Sorry. I must seem awful right now lol.

Okay, I'm not sure if you've read the entire poem for On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou but, its really long lol.

So starting off with my sources for On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou:
http://www.enotes.com/topics/pulse-morning
http://onthepulseofmorning.wikispaces.com/On+the+Pulse+of+Morning
http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/project/pulse.htm
http://www.studymode.com/essays/An-Interpretation-Of-On-The-Pulse-163570.html

And then my sources for One Today by Richard Blanco:
http://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2013/01/richard-blancos-inaugural-poem-one-today/
http://watching-tv.ew.com/2013/01/21/inaugural-richard-blanco/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/conversation-richard-blanco-one-today-one-year-later
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/guest-lesson-reading-one-today-and-other-inaugural-poems/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/21/richard-blanco-obama-s-historic-inauguration-poet.html

The One Today poem is really recent. I'm probably gonna compare and contrast these two poems and their ideas in a moment. And lol, this time I mean in just a minute. Really sorry about that. TT-TT

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YAAAAAAAAAAY!! :D :D

Okay so, I'm gonna pin point specific things that those sources mention which maybe helpful in determining the effects of cultural diversity and how those poems fit in ;)

Only the second poet to read at a presidential inauguration, Angelou has said this about her poem: “In all my work, what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.” This piece celebrates that sense of similarity, connectedness, and human solidarity.

Beginning with the recognition that rocks, rivers, and trees have witnessed the arrival and departure of many generations, “On the Pulse of Morning” proceeds to have each of these witnesses speak to the future, beginning with the Rock, which announces that people may stand upon its back but may not find security in its shadow. On the contrary, says the Rock, humans must face the future, their “distant destiny,” boldly and directly.

The River sings a similar song, calling humans to its riverside but only if they will forego the study of war. If human beings will come to the River, “clad in peace,” this ageless body of water will sing the songs given to it by the Creator, songs of unity and songs of peace.

The Tree continues this hymn of peace and hope, reminding humankind that each person is a “descendant of some passed-on traveler” and that each “has been paid for.” Pawnee, Apache, Turk, Swede, Eskimo, Ashanti—all are invited by the Tree to root themselves beside it. Thus united with Rock, River, and Tree, the poem announces, the human race can look toward a future of peace and connections and away from a past of brutality and discontinuity. In the final stanza, this paean of praise is most lyrical:

Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister’s eyes, into
Your brother’s face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.

Like Angelou’s autobiographies and like her volumes of poetry, “On the Pulse of Morning” speaks of survival. Lyrical and inspirational, it calls human beings to have the imagination and courage to build up instead of tear down, and it echoes the titles of Angelou’s other works, especially I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. If all caged birds sing together, this poem asserts, then the human race will indeed survive.

- http://www.enotes.com/topics/pulse-morning

Haha. So I practically posted the whole web page. :3 Wateves, its all important anyway.

So this first source basically explains to you everything you need :3
Each of those parts of nature, the Rock, the River, and the Tree are used to represent certain ideas in the poem :3 Maya Angelou gives these parts of nature a voice and there is personification used to make them seem more alive

Also:


Lines: 1-8
In these opening lines, Angelou sets the scene and tone of the poem. She places three objects before the reader: “A Rock, A River, A Tree,” but doesn’t give a specific location. These three elemental pieces seem removed from any landscape, and, from the capitalization of each name, it has been speculated that Angelou intends each to stand for itself in a type of grandeur. The poem goes on to explain that these objects are “hosts to species long since departed,” still surviving though their “tenants” are long extinct, further implying they carry a certain “historical wisdom.” From here the poet lists a few of those creatures known only from their “dried tokens” dug up and reassembled in museums. Their “sojourn,” or temporary stay here, ended in a “hastening doom,” which they had no way of predicting or preventing. “Any broad alarm” of their extinction is now dwarfed by the mountain of history between their time and the present.
If lines 7 and 8 are read aloud, it’s possible to hear the rich sounds Angelou crafts into the poem. The repetition of long vowel sounds and the internal rhyme of “Doom / is lost in the gloom” perhaps reflect the somber mood Angelou is setting while describing these extinct creatures.

Lines: 9-13
Line 9 marks a shift in time, a move from looking back at history to the present. The “Rock” from the first stanza now has a voice, which it is using to cry out “clearly, forcefully.” It offers the reader an invitation to climb up and get a better perspective of where America might be heading in a journey toward a “distant destiny.” But like a teacher the Rock warns against seeking any shelter or hiding place behind it in the darkness. “Shadows” have long been the places that cause fear, where bad things lurk under beds or behind closet doors. They are also, literally, the absence of light: within shadows it is difficult to see clearly. For the religious, light is divine; for philosophers it is knowledge. Believing this, divinity and knowledge are absorbed by the stone but absent in its shadow.

Lines: 14-18
In the third stanza, the Rock continues its lesson, addressing the reader directly as “You, created only a little lower than / the angels.” Here the poet seems to close the gap between man and heaven, the stone again raising the reader. This Rock has seen dinosaur come and go, and now humans, who, it notices, “have crouched too long in / the bruising darkness / face down in ignorance.” Angelou’s verb choice “bruising” in line 16 may describe how a shadow casts a blue-black mark across a face, reminding the reader of conflict and its dark wounds. The speaker suggests humans have been hiding, not looking up toward the light, afraid of what they might learn.

Lines: 19-23
Angelou ties the third and fourth stanzas together with the line “Your mouth spilling words / Armed for slaughter.” She may have broken the line here to force the reader to pause in the white space between, to guess “what kind of words?” before finishing the sentence. The harsh words “spilling” from humans’ mouths seem to be pouring out of our control, “armed for slaughter,” ready for a fight with anyone listening. But the Rock warns again, summarizing “stand upon me; / But do not hide your face.” People may wear many “faces” — student, laborer, wife, father — that are different, but they all provide an identity and a sense of individuality.

Lines: 24-26
With the beginning of a new section, Angelou introduces a new speaker, the “River,” which, in a song, invites the reader to come closer and “rest here by [her] side.” To get to the River, the reader had to cross “the wall of the world,” which may be some real geographic feature, or just representative of a boundary or obstacle on humankind’s journey.

Lines: 27-34
The River compares each person in America to “a bordered country / perpetually under siege,” relating the troubles of an entire nation back to its million voices. The River explains what the country has done wrong: gone to war for money, polluted waters with machines and factories, ignored the needy. Angelou describes the toxic waters as a “current of debris upon [the River’s] breast,” giving nature gender and perhaps reminding that it is “Mother Nature” who is being destroyed. There is a place for Americans to rest on her shore, but only if they “study war no more.”

Lines: 35-40
If people come “clad in peace,” the River offers them a song: a gift the Creator gave before the tallest tree ever broke soil as a single shoot. “I and the / Tree and the Rock were one” once, the River explains, in a time before recorded history, in a time before man began drawing boundaries and daring others to cross these lines.
“Cynicism” is the belief that people are motivated by selfishness, and the “bloody sear” across their brows may be a reminder of the mark Cain was cursed to wear for his selfish act — the murder of his brother. “When you yet knew you still knew nothing” perhaps means a humbler or even wiser time; Plato said “True wisdom is knowing we know nothing.”

Lines: 41-49
Using a list — or a litany — to create a wide panoramic scene of diverse peoples, Angelou introduces the reader to a new speaker, the Tree. It seems everyone is here to listen, regardless of culture, occupation, which gender with which they fall in love, or to which God they pray. This diverse list works to welcome any and all to the foot of the Tree, much like the engraved invitation at the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.”

Lines: 50-54
In this short stanza the poet repeats again the invitation to “plant yourself beside the River,” the entire mass of humankind welcome to hear the song. The Tree has many symbolic meanings, not the least of which is the concept of extended family — or “Family Tree.” A tree also has roots that stretch into the very earth. In these symbols Angelou is reminding the reader of their place both within their family (blood relations and other) and within nature.

Lines: 55-63
Calling Americans “descendants of passed-/ On traveler” the River asks the reader to consider both their own past and the past of the country as a whole. There is a reminder that all Americans are immigrants, that they are “just passing through.” Angelou follows this up by directly addressing the Native Americans, those who lived in this country centuries before Europeans ever arrived: the Pawnee tribe, Apache, Seneca; the people who first named the rivers and trees and mountains. These people who once rested with the River were “forced on bloody feet” by the visitors in their land to work and mine.

Lines: 64-69
In these lines Angelou advances the poem through another list of diverse people, the rhythm of the names keeping beat, Arabs and Eskimos sharing company in the same breath. She begins the list with people who came to this country to escape religious persecution or find a better life for their family, and concludes with those who were forcibly uprooted and “bought / Sold, stolen, arriving on a nightmare / Praying for a dream.” This “dream” may be a reference, or allusion (a reference within a literary work to another work), to Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” sermon, which became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Lines: 70-79
In the second section of the poem, the stanzas become longer, building in imagery and force. In lines 70-74 the poet returns to the comforting refrain “root yourselves beside me.” The three voices — Rock, River, Tree — may be a single “I,” the whole of nature speaking. Back in lines 55-56 Angelou writes “each of you / has been paid for,” and a similar statement is made in line 74: “your passages have been paid.” Who’s paid for these passages? What have America’s ancestors done to insure the journey? Regardless of origin, the Rock/Tree/River asks humankind to “lift up [our] faces / For this bright morning dawning for you.” These lines mirror the second stanza, where Angelou offers images of shadow and light. This is also the first indication to the poem’s title, perhaps working to create an overall theme or mood of dawning hope. Yet Angelou also cautions that the hardship that has led to this new day should never be forgotten: “wrenching pain, / Cannot be unlived.” She warns that America must learn from its dark past so that when new problems arise they can be overcome; “if faced / With courage, [history] need not be lived again.”

Lines: 80-83
Following this revelatory stanza, where the three voices merge in a call to a bright new morning, this shorter stanza closes the entire second section on a quiet, consoling note. The lines become short — most less than four words — the poet perhaps wishing to slow the pace before the complete stop of the section break. For the third time Angelou invokes the refrain “lift up your eyes.” The dream the slaves prayed for might be alive again if a new generation “will study war no more” and instead “give birth again” to a peaceful world.

Lines: 84-92
Beginning the third section with a single addressing line, Angelou maintains the encouraging, powerful tone of the Rock/River/Tree, yet the speaker is not specifically identified. She asks America to “Sculpt [your private need] into / The image of your most public self.” This is an elusive line in its generalization, perhaps telling instead of showing, but if it is broken down into its parts, a central tension reveals itself. The line asks the reader to sculpt or transform their most private needs into something that can be shared with others, the personal made public. Angelou doesn’t develop further what “private needs” may be, but most critics have speculated a reference to the most basic human freedoms. In this sense these lines are a call to action, an encouragement to emphasize the importance of human rights. Whereas before Americans are asked to lift up their eyes, line 87 asks the same of their hearts, the center of all life and emotion. There are “chances / For a new beginning” if people can divorce themselves from fear and unchain themselves from their violent ways. “Yoked” refers to the wooden harness which keeps an ox secured to the plow it drags, a heavy bar across the animal’s shoulders and fastened with straps around its body.

Lines: 93-101
The sections are shorter and more frequent as Angelou nears the end of the poem. In the fourth section she returns to the locale of the second stanza, perched on the back of the land looking out toward the future. “The horizon leans forward,” providing room for “new steps.” This metaphor of taking steps may mean literally to walk forward as well as take “steps” or actions to ensure that past mistakes are not repeated. The speaker now reveals itself as the voice of America, the “Country” and all the trees, rivers, rocks, people, and animals of which it is composed. “Midas” in line 100 refers to the fabled king who could turn any substance to gold with his touch, including, he regretfully discovered, those he loved, leaving him with a castle filled with lifeless riches. A mendicant is a beggar; like the privileged standing next to the homeless before the Tree in line 47, all are equal in the larger “pulse of this fine day.”

Lines: 102-110
In this closing section the title of the poem reveals its meaning, the theme of a new dawn for humankind coupled with the pulse that courses through America’s common veins. The lists of various peoples earlier in the poem now become the simple image of family: when people look up and out at their future, they are looking at their “sister’s eyes” and their “brother’s face.” Whereas most of the poem asks the reader to rest and listen to the wise teacher, these last lines implore speech. A “simple” lesson, Angelou refrains certain lines as many as four times throughout the poem, the tone taking on an almost lulling, song-like effect. The first step to this new day is a simple but meaningful action. Look up and out and say “Good Morning.”

- http://onthepulseofmorning.wikispaces.com/On+the+Pulse+of+Morning

And

Her poem has successfully portrayed a sense of diversity. Many lines in different stanzas are related to diversity. Stanza four and five, states, "The singing River,and the wise Rock. So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew, the African, the Native American, the Sioux, the Catholic, the Muslim, the French , the Greek, the Irish, the Rabbi, the Sheik, the Gay, the Straight, the Preacher, the privileged, the Homeless, the Teacher. They hear. They all hear the speaking of the tree." They are united by nature, but different due to their culture. In stanza six a lot about diversity has been acknowledged. The people who once helped Maya, do not anymore. It also says that we arrived from the Indians.

In the course of history, elements of society have changed. Examples through Maya's work are, "The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here... Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my Back and face your distant destiny." (stanza 1). The dinosaur, as you well know are now extinct. They have left their "dried tokens" or their fossils here when they were once here. They left them here for us to find. For the different groups to find. The dinosaurs were "lost in the dust..." and it was hard for people to find, but now over the years, the dinosaurs fossils have been found. Also the slave black African Americans have come from the ancient homeland of Africa. The slaves were once hear and now the United States passed a law that slavery was to be abolished. Over time people places and all things have changed, for both good and bad.

Equality, is an important concern in the world today. "Women, chidren, men, Take it into the palms of your hands..." (stanza 8) Our society can be a loving one with equality for men, women, blacks, and whites. Rich or poor we all have the same opportunities in our country. No matter when in history we all appear. People think that people that are not like them come from other planets, but we are all members of this planet. No matter how strange we appear to be to others. "History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not to be lived again. "(stanza 7) We learn from the past. The discrimination should not happen again, nor the inequality.

Maya was successful in relating her poem to diversity, change over time, and equality

http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/project/pulse.htm

Answer 20

So, those sources are basically everything you need :3 I'd just use the older poem because, there's much more richness in that one

Answer 21

Identify five examples of the use of logos, ethos, and pathos in the speech. First, cite specific lines from the speech. Then, indicate whether the lines are an example of logos, ethos, or pathos. Finally, explain the impact the lines are intended to have on the audience. One example has been completed for you.

Evaluation of a Speech Worksheet


Lines from the Speech

Logos

Ethos

Pathos

Impact on the Audience


Example:

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. x Kennedy lets the audience know that they are facing a battle that has been around for hundreds of years.
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@LeilaniLane

Answer 22

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Un momento

Answer 23

Actually I might have to do this one later also
I've got some projects for my classes that I have to do first
And some studying :/

Answer 24

Alright @LeilaniLane

Answer 25

Sorry that I've been really busy and haven't been able to provide much of my own ideas and input. TT-TT
But the inter-webs is a wonderful tool. ;D

Here are a couple sites that will help:
http://pathosethoslogos.com/
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-ethos-logos-and-pathos.html
http://courses.durhamtech.edu/perkins/aris.html
http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/ethos-pathos-logos/

Very interesting topic! I usually am more of a persuasive, emotion evoking person myself. :3

Answer 26

Can you help me @LeilaniLane

Answer 27

I sure can try! But maybe you should repost/ post the question so then we aren't spamming this one