Lit and Performance

While some poems focus exclusively on a personal or private experience, others reflect on the place of the individual in the larger human community. In the work of at least two poets, explore the ways in which poems have conveyed the poet’s sense of the world beyond the private sphere.  As an Arabic who is born in the United States and have a diverse family with a heavy sense of culture environment, Naomi Shihab Nye has lots of experiences that can reflect the idea that though people have different identities, they are still all humans no matter what. More specifically, in her poems ‘My father and the Fig Tree’ and ‘The words under the words’, she expresses the idea that all humans try to adapt to different environment, even though it can be difficult.  In the poem ‘The words under the words’ Naomi has a detailed description of her grandmother’s life in the U.S. After reading this poem, it appears to me that Naomi tries to emphasise the idea that humans can adapt in a...

no specific rhythm scheme Mention Allah Her grandma’s perspective of the modern world Culture: My grandmather’s Days made of bread, around pat-pat and the slow baking. She’s familiar of her country: she knows how often mail arrives, how rarely there is a letter. She alone, no connection. She misses her husband. She talks about god.

Blood  “A true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands,”  my father would say. And he’d prove it,  cupping the buzzer instantly  while the host with the swatter stared.  In the spring our palms peeled like snakes.  True Arabs believed watermelon could heal fifty ways.  I changed these to fit the occasion.  Years before, a girl knocked,  wanted to see the Arab.  I said we didn’t have one.  After that, my father told me who he was,  “Shihab”—“shooting star”—  a good name, borrowed from the sky.  Once I said, “When we die, we give it back?”  He said that’s what a true Arab would say.  Today the headlines clot in my blood.  A little Palestinian dangles a truck on the front page.  Homeless fig, this tragedy with a terrible root  is too big for us. What flag can we wave?  I wave the flag of stone and seed,  table mat stitched in blue....

The language of a poem is often that one thing compared to another. In the work of at least two poets you have studied, explore how poets have made their subjects come alive through different means of comparing them. In order to express her will of being unnoticed and Nobody, Emily Dickinson uses multiple strategies in her poem 'I'm nobody, who are you?' to do so. First of all, by setting different types of the tone of the stanzas, Dickinson expresses her own opinion of being Nobody and Somebody. After interacting and knowing that the reader is also Nobody, Dickinson expresses a happy emotion by using an exclamation mark, saying 'Then there's a pair of us!'. By showing the excitement of finding that the reader is also anti-social like herself, she shows happiness in this stanza. And right after she brings up the excitement, she infers the public as 'them', which shows how she does not like the idea of being exposed. In the second stanza, Dickinson main...

1. I'm nobody! Who are you?: There are two stanzas, a relatively short poem. There are four lines in each stanza. Because of her anti-social personality, this poem reflects her own feelings of being unnoticed. The rhyme scheme is AABC DEFE. There is a contrast between Somebody and Nobody. The important words are capitalized. 2. Hope is the thing with feather There are three stanzas four lines for each stanza The simile used to describe hope as a bird all positive about hope. 3. Tell all the truth but tell it slant  There is only one stanza There are eight lines in this stanza. She criticizes how people are not willing to tell the actual truth Slant means that people need to indirectly face the truth. 4. A bird, came down a walk Five stanzas four lines in each stanza It describes how the poet sees a bird. Throughout the poem, the poet describes the bird's movement and details. All positive and vivid.

4  Select a passage from the concluding chapter of a novel you have chosen to study and show how acting, staging effects and design can combine to make it an effective ending for an audience. - discuss how the how the chapter ends : How Desiree is depressed because of the news she hear about Daniel marrying Andrea. Desiree comes into Daniel’s room and thinks about stabbing him, then she gets kicked out of the hotel. The wedding begins and Desiree enters. She falls and sees Daniel ignoring her, then she is being stepped on and dies.  - the performance should focus on the scene where Desiree is suffering at the hotel when she first sees Mathilde ignores her and then Daniel ignores her. The stage should be in a black box theater where Desiree lays in the middle of the stage and Daniel on the left, Mathilde on the right. - Lighting should be white, spot lights on the three characters. When Desiree says ‘where did I lose my red comb?’ The color of the light should be red whic...