Hello All,
For this entry, just post a thesis statement you could use to compare/contrast one literary device across two different works we've studied in class.
Here's the template to use:
While both these works use this literary device in order to express this idea, work 1 uses it like this and work 2 uses it like that.
Here's the template in practice:
While both Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" and Wislawa Szymborska's "Reality Demands" use historial allusions to explore the idea of catastrophe, Szymborska uses those allusions to emphasize a positive acceptance of tragedy while Shelley remains focused on ruin and decay.
Enjoy your weekend !
Oh, and Tina asked what I thought the message of "The Missing Scarf" might be . . .
Since I am choosing to think positively, I'll choose to think the message is to seize the day and enjoy life as I live it (as opposed to spending it worried on events I cannot control).
What do you think?
As in Calvino's "Invisible Cities," James Tate's "Uneasy About the Sounds of the Same Night-Wandering Animal," uses parallelism to antithesis to understand the differnt realities, but Calvino's uses imagary to get visual thoughts of the fake world.
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In both William Matthews' "The Waste Carpet" and Carolyn Forche's "The Colonel" grotesque images are used to show how severe these situations are, Matthews uses this to describe the repulsive pollution while Forche uses it to invoke fear.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to "The Missing Scarf," I also think that the message is to enjoy life and not to let the small things get to you. Even though the video ended tragically, I also think that the use of cartoon animals helped send a more positive and lighthearted message about life.
~Tina Tafoya
While both Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse," and William Matthews "The Waste Carpet" use irony to consider how destruction adds up, Karr uses irony to point out God as the destruction of the world while Matthews uses people.
ReplyDelete"The Missing Scarf," I see it as a message to explore the world. Also, I thought of it as getting out of one's comfort zone and enjoy everyday as much as possible and not letting challenges stop us. It was a funny positive video that carries a lot of meaning.
- Houa Lee
While both Matthews "The Waste Carpet" and Italo Calvino's "Invisible cities", uses imagery and personification to talk about the earth itself and what individuals do to the earth, Matthew's makes his poem specific to America while Calvino sets his in the imaginary city of Leonia.
ReplyDeleteAs in Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”, James Tate’s “Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal” uses parallelism and antithesis to argue how parallel, contrasting worlds are touching and in close proximity; however, the “Invisible Cities” and “Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal” differ in their use of parallelism and antithesis in that “Invisible Cities” other world is similar to our world even though it is packed to the brim with dirt and earth while “Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal” has the other similar to a desert where nothing can be seen, except for sand, for miles and miles around.
ReplyDeleteAbout the clip shown in class, I have to say that I believe that the message was: “Carpe Diem (Seize the Day) and stop worrying so much about the future.”
- Jayme Reyna
While both Italo Calvino "Invisible cities" and William Matthews "The Waste Carpet" use imagery to talk about the destruction that people cause on earth, Italo Calvino uses imagery to show how people don't think about where their trash goes but still gives hope while William Matthews uses it in a more grotesque way and gives no hope for the future.
ReplyDeleteIn Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" and James Tate's "Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal" both uses parallelism and antithesis to depict different realties that share a connection however in Calvino's people do not interact with the parallel world while in Tate's people do cross into the parallel world.
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The message to "The Missing Scarf" was not to worry about every single minute thing and that some things in the future are inevitable. It emphasizes the idea to enjoy today and not worry about tomorrow.
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While both William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” and Mary Karr’s “Disappointments of the Apocalypse” uses both religious and historical allusions to explore and give imagery to how the world will end, Yeats uses his allusions to explain how a religious mystical creature will destroy humanity while Karr uses her allusions to explain how a God is disappointed in the humans and how they destroy their world.
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Absent Friday Class cannot answer the missing scarf question . :(
As in Calvino's "Invisible Cities," James Tate's "Uneasy About The Sounds Of Some Night-Wandering Animal" uses parallelism and antithesis to argue the idea of earth being in control of its own future however Calvino expresses this through the use of an entire city while Tate uses one individual.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to the "The Missing Scarf," I also have to agree the main message the view was supposed to recieve was to realize we should not dwell on circumstance we cannot control and must take life one day at a time.
-Brianna Bravo
Both “From Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino and “Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal” by James Tate use ambiguity in order to express this idea of unknown worlds. But, Calvino is ambiguous about who and what is below a city, whereas Tate uses ambiguity to show that the characters have entered a different reality in which nothing familiar exists.
ReplyDeleteThe message from the “The Missing Scarf” could be that nothing ever really vanishes completely. Even though life and the world as we know it disappears and ends, there will still be life somewhere else.
- Vanessa Caudelaro
As in William Matthews "The Waste Carpet," Italo Calvino uses a plastic bag as a symbol in "Invisible Cities" to show humanities attempts to hide from their problems however Matthews symbol of a plastic bag is immediately inadequate in hiding humanities problems, whereas Calvinos symbol is sufficient in hide humanities problems.
ReplyDeleteThe message behind "The Missing Scarf" could be that the cycle of life will continue no matter what we do. It is best to accept certain truths about life, such as death, and enjoy the beauty it has to offer.
-Julian Ibarra
While both works use parallelism to show the world in two, "from invisible cities" by Italo Calvino however his two worlds do not connect as in "uneasy about the sounds of some night wandering animal" by James Tate the two worlds do interact with each other.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the video was showing to not think too much about something. Don't waste time on what could happen and focus on what is happening.
-Sydney ericsson
Both the "The Waste Carpet" and "Invisible Cities" use imagery to talk about the earth.Calvino speaks about it just in the city of Leonia while Matthew sticks to America. The video was showing how we should live life to the fullest and not worry about whats coming tomorrow.
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Both "Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animals" by James Tate and "Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo use parallelism and antithesis to show how interconnected life is, but Tate also uses the two to show how disconnected we are from life.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the message behind "The Missing Scarf" is to not worry about the inevitable aspects of life, such as death, but we must be aware of it.
Ariene Edith Gregorio
In the poesy-poems of Calvino's "Invisible Cities" and Tate's "Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal" they both uses parallelism and antithesis to depict different realties that share a connection, however in Calvino's Invisible Cities the characters seem to be isolated by a barer while in Tate’s "Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal" the characters are in contact with the parallel world that has occurred, and this is shown in the interaction with Carl and Harvey after Harvey has gone look for Carl but only finds a voice.
ReplyDeleteIn the short story of "The Missing Scarf" I think the message was that everyone has fears, but if you let your fears dictate the path in life which you are going to take then what type of life are you going to live.
-Alfred Flores
Both Carolyn Forche and Dino Buzzati use synecdoche. In "The Colonel," Forche uses a severed ear to represent a whole body. In "What Will Happen on October 12th?" Buzzati compares a small atom to an entire solar system.
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Whle both Joy Harjo’s “Perhaps the World Ends Here” and Sherman Alexie’s “The Powwow at the End of the World” use ambiguity to explain different feelings towards the end, Harjo uses the ambiguity to explore the unity in the end while Alexie explores hate towards the destruction.
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While both Sherman Alexie’s "The Powwow at the End of the World" and Carolyn Forche’s "The Colonel" use irony to explore the idea of the end of a civilation, Alexie uses the irony to express his personal resentment while Forche uses it to reflect the catastrophic situations those people experienced.
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As in Calvino's "Invisible Cities" and Tate's "Uneasy about the Sounds of Some Night Wandering Animal" both poems use Ambiguity and Irony to demonstrate a civilization not completely aware of the apocalypse that is going on in what was once used to be described as their perfect world. However Calvino uses irony to show a drastic change in their society while Tate uses irony to show a slower change in society.
ReplyDeleteIn the short story, "The Missing Scarf" the main theme was to prove how we as humans should not dwell on trials and circumstances that happen if life because situations will always occur and their is no stopping certain situations from happening.
Elleyse Williams
ReplyDeleteIn both Italo Calvino "Invisible cities" and William Matthews "The Waste Carpet" use imagery to talk about the damage people do to the earth, Italo Calvino uses imagery to show how people don't think about where their trash goes, out of sight, out of mind. however, in the waste carpet, it is depicted as taking over the cities and destroying the world.
-Kamen Sarratt
As in Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” and James Tate’s “Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal”, Calvino uses parallelism and antithesis to deceit different realities that share a connection. But while Calvino uses a lot of visual and auditory imagery to engage the reader, Tate uses irony and ambiguity to show that the parallelism isn’t exactly clear between the two realities.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the message of the “The Missing Scarf” I think it is that you shouldn’t waste your time trying to fix things you cannot control.
Martha Martinez
As in William Matthews "The Waste Carpet" Italo Calvino use the trash and the simple teach bag in "Inviasble Citites" to symbolize the things we Dont want in life and try to avoid but "The Waste Carpet' and "The Invisiable Cities" differ in the use of the symbol trash bag because Metthews trash is grotesque and sweeping out while Italo is nice and spotless.
ReplyDeleteAs for the video "The Missing Scarf" I thought I there to make people realize that there are things in life that dispear and we should go out looking and wasting our time but enjoy what we have while were still here.
Rosalina Machuca
In both Calvino "Invisible Cities" and William Matthews "The Waste Carpet" use ambiguity and imagery, to convey the message of the end of the world. Both works the author delivers the message of how civilization treats the world. Both conveyed a path of destruction because of the individuals itself.
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While both Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” and Dino Buzzati's "What Will Happen on October 12th?" use irony and imagery to depict two different realities that share a connection, Calvino uses these devices to show that the connection is that Argia is under are feet, and Buzzati implements these devices in order to show that the common denominator is that this other universe is the same, however further along than our own in more ways than one.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to "The Missing Scarf", I believe there were a few messages that could be found.
1) We should not spend our time worrying about small things that do not really matter. (Albert looking for his scarf).
2) We should not waste the precious time we are giving worrying about events or incidents that have not and might not take place, we should live in the now and not worry so much thinking "what if". (The problems of the owl, beaver, fox, and bear).
3)When we help people, it is not a waste of our time. We can learn something about ourselves or life and grow as a result of being compassionate. (Albert realizing the scarf does not really matter after he helped all of those creatures).
-Madison Alaine Tingey
As in William Mathews "The Waste Carpet" Italo Calvin uses trash and the simple plastic trash bag in "Invisible Cities" to symbolize that humans often miss the big picture. We dispose of our unwanted items, but never think or realize where they go.
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*Dalia Pardo
DeleteIn both Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities", and Dino Buzzati's "What Will Happen on October 12th" they use imagery and irony to show how mans on greed and ignorance can lead to our own destruction, but Calvino focuses more on environmental destruction then Buzzati who focuses on man's ignorance.
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* Dalia Pardo
ReplyDeleteIn both Italo Calvino "Invisible Cities" and William Matthews "The Waste Carpet" use personification and imagery to express how the world is coming to an end using a trash bag as a symbol. Italo uses the trash bag as a symbol in a spotless way while, Matthews explains his trash in a very grotesque way.
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In "A Song on the End of the World " by Czeslaw Milosz and "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost use antithesis to convey the message the world will eventually need and that is inevitable.
ReplyDeleteIn the '' Missing Scarf'' I believe the message is let us not be wrapped in our own problems all the time . MALLORY MOORE
In the poems "A Song on the End of the World " by Czeslaw Milosz and "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost, the authors use irony to show that the world will end on any ordinary day, and we can never really tell or sure how it will happen, but Frost uses symbols to that you cannot have too much hate or too much apathy in your life, and Milosz uses a great amount of imagery to convey his idea of irony.
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While both Italo Calvino "Invisible Cities" and James Tate's "Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal" uses parallelism and antithesis to represent different realities that share a common ending of the world. However in Calvino people do not experience the parallel world while in Tate's they describe the characters coming across the parallel world.
ReplyDeleteAs for the message behind "The Missing Scarf" I believe it is trying to say that anything can happen that's why you shouldn't worry or think about negative thoughts and live life to the fullest while your still here.
-Sergio Mendez
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