Please share a link to a text that you might like to analyze here. Briefly describe why you chose this text and why you think it might be interesting to analyze. Your response should be three to five sentences long.
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I chose the text, “The Story of An Hour”, because the story consists of Mrs.Mallard’s reaction after getting the news of her husband’s death. However, her grief doesn’t tend to last very long as she realizes that now she can live life in her own terms. I think it might be interesting to analyze this text because her reaction was much different than someone who has lost a loved one, and it would be interesting to deeper analyze her way of coping with grief.
Text: https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/webtexts/hour/index.html
Thank you, Sadika. I’ve read this text. It is quite interesting.
A text I will like to share is a poem by Maya Angelou about being alone.I feel like this poem is amazing because we all think we in this alone when we truly are now we all say “I was born alone I’m gonna die alone”But that’s really not true nobody does anything alone theirs always somebody their!You come up with somebody, you do things with somebody, you never sit there and do something on your own which a lot of us don’t realize but it’s true.In this poem you learn the importance on building bonds and having friends.
Maya Angelou. “Alone.” Family Friend Poems, 2006. https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/alone-by-maya-angelou
Thank you for sharing, Clariliz. I really like this. Poetry is sometimes difficult to analyze, but maybe it has a place for this assignment. We’ll discuss this more tomorrow in class.
An article that I would like to analyze is “The Power of Love.” I found this article interesting to evaluate. The article is about that people’s happiness is based on the love that they receive. When I began to read the first paragraph, I thought that the reading was wrong. However, the rest of the text made me believe in the author’s idea. I want to explore more about how the author persuaded me and made me believed in her credibility.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/articles/200212/the-power-love
Thank you for sharing, Daniela. This is a very interesting article (and I tend to agree with the author’s point).
A text that I would like to analyze is the lyrics to a song called, ” I Am.” By JoJo. I chose this text because I related to the words so much to very personal level myself. This text would be interesting to analyze because everyone has so many point of views and ways of seeing/ or hearing things. I learned and from my own experiences that children learned more from what they see then from what they hear.
“Mirror, mirror on the wall
You seem to think you know it all
Why do, why do I believe?
You tear me down just to laugh
But if I break your shining glass
I’ll just see pieces of me
No, no, no, don’t you dare
Who do you think you are standing there?
I’ll tell you
I am, I am, I am, I am worthy of love
Am I, am I, am I, am I strong enough?
Because it feels like I’m not anything at all
But I am, I am, I am, I am beautiful
Oh, beautiful
Fool me once, shame on you
Fool me twice, that’s what you do
It’s time to change up the game
Can’t be that little girl no more
The one you cut up on the floor
I’m done with all the shame
No, no, no, don’t you dare
Who do you think you are standing there?
I’ll tell you
I am, I am, I am, I am worthy of love
Am I, am I, am I, am I strong enough?
‘Cause it feels like I’m not anything at all
But I am, I am, I am, I am beautiful
There was a time when I let you in
With all the doubt underneath my skin
I think it’s time that I see the way
I am, I am, I am, I am worthy of love
Am I, am I, am I, am I strong enough?
‘Cause it feels like I’m not anything at all
I am, I am, I am, I am beautiful, oh.”
– I AM. By JoJo.
This is a beautiful poem, Nayza. As I wrote to Clariliz (above), sometimes poetry requires more tools that I can teach for proper analysis, but we will discuss using something like for the assignment this tomorrow in class.
A presentation i believe would be interesting to analyse is https://youtu.be/YcFyafNFNjs , the presentation of new iPhone. I would like to analyse and see how marketingly they are manipulating and which mistakes they do in marketing, how they make people believe to buy the product for settled price and all their tricks and good points they do to sell products.
Wow. This is very interesting. There is surely a lot to discuss here. We’ll talk about using this as an option more tomorrow in class.
P.S., You submitted this right before the deadline! Nice work.
https://youtu.be/Hu8gqm7FsuA
I chose this poem because it claims that success is understood only in those who fail. To truly understand and achieve success you have to really desire it and do anything to gain it. One of my favorite quotes is “failure is opportunity in disguise”. Meaning if you never fail in life, you’ll never have the opportunity to succeed. This claim is illustrated in the poem by contrasting an army with a fallen soldier from the other side. If you are always surrounded by success you won’t learn to value it, but those who rarely have it value success the most.
This is a great suggestion, Naioby. I like how the poem is illustrated in the video, as well. I will surely consider this.
something that I would like to analyze is this poem: https://poets.org/poem/modified-villanelle-my-childhood because for me it is interesting how the woman express her feelings and shows her struggles through poetry. I would like to also learn about analyzing poems because it is one of my weaknesses when it comes to writing; trying to understand them is difficult for me.
This is a beautiful poem, Laura. As I’ve mentioned to a few people above, poems can sometimes be difficult to analyze for this assignment, but I will consider including one.