Diction College Essays Samples For Students

Hart Crane's "To Brooklyn Bridge" is a rare poem that effectively uses diction to convey the immensity of something as large as a bridge. "To Brooklyn Bridge" is much more than a dedication to the famous bridge. The poem's word choice represents the grandiosity of the bridge itself. Its diction and tone combine to achieve a quintessential work that accurately depicts the size and importance of the Brooklyn bridge to New Yorkers and non-New Yorkers alike.

In the first stanza, Crane asks a question in a rather inquisitive tone. "How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest/The seagull’ ...

In this essay we analyze the poem; secretary chant written by Marge Piercy (Meyer 744). Notably, Marge Piercy uses whimsical metaphor in the whole poem to make the audience understand that the worker is a woman who is in an occupation that makes her feel like a machine with just a single purpose in life. Marge Piercy has written this poem in a simple and lucid style that emphasizes playful bizarre; however, in some ways it uses depressing metaphors to depict how the secretary frequently feels dehumanized. Marge Piercy conjures up explicit mental image of a female character with no personal identity but lives ...

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Introduction
ETHNIC CLASHES! A two-letter word that have definitely turned round the history of the diverse societies around the globe. This is in relation to the pathos and various dictions that the authors have expressed in their works of the various articles (mirror on America review pp. 17-18). This is in the overview that it has negative implications on the topic that seeks to address the relevant vital and pivotal issues that have brought millions of innocent lives to a sudden halt. In this essence, there are vivid examples around the globe Rwanda being one of them that faced ...

John F. Kennedy was elected as a thirty-fifth president of the United States during difficult times. Communism, Cold War and all-round manufacturing of nuclear weapons threatened the world peace, while serious political tensions regarding discrimination and inequality in the country were the setting of the Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech, delivered on January 20, 1961. The events and attitudes in the society of 1960s have greatly influenced the way the speech was written. In his address, Kennedy declares the value of freedom and liberty in the times of turmoil, calls for the search of the peaceful solutions to urgent matters ...

Every citizen expects their president’s speech to be a source of inspiration, for a message of hope or simply to get guidelines regarding a national event or an occurrence. In this speech, President Johnson addresses the racial discrimination of his time; he has to choose the right words to deliver his message and meet his citizen’s expectations. President Lyndon Johnson uses rhetorical devices such as diction, syntax and repetition in his speech in an attempt to discourage citizens from discrimination during the process of voting. This essay seeks to explain how President Johnson has employed the use ...

Overview

Thesis: How artistic, revolutionary, exciting and relevant is the play Romeo and Juliet?
On October 10 2010, I was lucky to watch an interesting play entitled Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The performance was in New York City theatre where the cost of the seat was $ 110. I sat on seat number NCT56 and luckily, the person seated on my left was Johnson Lee (NCT56) my former friend in senior level classes but currently working with some local company that organizes events such as football matches and music festivals. On this particular evening, the theatre was full ...

Malcolm X wrote the excerpt Learning to Read during the peak of the civil rights movement that sought to liberate black Americans from racial segregation and gain political and economic rights just like the rest of the American population. At the time the leadership of the black American community and the entire black race needed some kind of inspiration that was meant to guide them. As an influential voice in the black community, Malcolm X wrote his autobiography with the sole intention to revolutionalize his people as well as expose discrimination against blacks, and this led to a couple of ...

For That He Looked Not upon Her: Poetry Analysis

This beautiful use of lyrical self-description often goes underappreciated as does George Gascoigne. George convincingly wrote the lyrics to read as though it was his feelings and situation he was describing. The complex attitude of the speaker in For That He Looked Not upon Her using his form, diction and imagery to evoke the audience to question his enchantress. For That He Looked Not upon Her: was written to entertain Queen Elizabeth and her company during the sixteenth century. The poem appears to be still in its original Elizabethan Era language and not revised in modern language. The title ...

Introduction

As a father of free verse, Walt Whitman breaks the limits of the general poetic form, and in general, his poems are prose-like. Even though he did not invent the free verse form, he uses it effectively in his poem that gains fame among the readers. He uses profound imagery in his poems, including debris, rotten leaves, and everything in nature, especially what he considers as nature, which includes sexuality, including prostitution, and death. He reflects and mirrors the nature and the world around him because he strongly believes there is a symbiotic relationship between poet and world. He rightly says ...

Introduction

The current job market shows an emerging trend of replacing the job role of “Training Manager” with that of “Organization Development Manager.” This might be reflective of changing preference in diction, or it might be indicative of a more significant, long-lasting philosophical change in business. As business becomes more complex, the business world must grow and evolve; successful companies must be more flexible than ever before, and the way that companies and employers see their employees is also shifting. Some might argue that the changing terminology reflects only a pedantic shift rather than an actual evolution in thought; however, ...

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Judicial opinion is the element of law that deals with instances that pertain giving opinions about the legal field. In this case, judicial opinion originates from the mind of a person who feels like giving direction about a legal issue. In most cases, the opinions are given by people who are well vast in the legal field. As a matter of fact, judicial opinions originate from the rationality of someone. On the same note, poems are ideas that originate from persons who are well vested in the world of poetry. A person cannot just wake up today and claim to come up ...

Poetry has a special place in the modern society. This is because it is used by the poets to address several contemporary issues in the society. Through well developed themes, the poets get to discuss the issues that affect the humans in the day to day existence. The themes may range from greed, power, diseases, anger, love, punishment among many others. Poets have a tendency to identify a certain theme and then develop it through their choice of word. The end product of this, in most cases, is an arrangement of sentences that must be keenly analyzed in order to make a useful ...

In Black Men and Public Spaces by Brent Staples, author demonstrates order of magnitude of racial discrimination and unconscious prejudice that existed in the society against Black Americans. Author utilizes numerous rhetorical techniques in this piece of work to catch readers’ attention to his viewpoint. He achieves this applying diction, pathos, an amusing writing style. While going through. This article is mainly based diction and it can be seen in following words where he said that, he swung into the avenue behind her or he said that both hands squeezed into his large armed forces jacket. The words swung, ...

Gwendolyn Brooks’s 1959 poem, The Pool Players: Seven at the Golden Shovel, often referred to as “We Real Cool,” describes the daily life and expectations of seven young people. They are school dropouts who spend their days doing as they please with little thought for building a future. Brooks’s poem is short, yet very effective because of her use of diction, tone, form, sound devices, and imagery.
Brooks uses non-standard English as part of the diction and to establish the tone of her poem. For example, the speaker says “we real cool” instead of “we are very ...

The Individuality or ‘Plastic Sheen’

The Individuality or ‘Plastic Sheen’
The whole concept of ‘beauty lies in the eye of beholder’ is not applicable everywhere. Beauty first of all lies in the belief and conscience of an individual which is poignantly reflected through demeanour. And then, the beholder too finds beauty in that individual. When one begins to read The Eye of the Beholder by Grace Suh, it is inevitable to occur in mind that how such an author can fall for the feeling of ‘stark ugliness’ about herself (par. 2). But, then through her realisation of what she really is rather than ...

Analysis of Volar by Judith Ortiz Coffer

Introduction
Volar embodies a story of freedom from the confinements of human life. The author of the nonfiction story narrates of a life imagined in a dream where she was able to live life devoid of the inhibitions brought about by living life as a human being. Throughout the story, various aspects of the language and emotion employed in narrating the story helps the readers steal glances and sneak previews into the author’s desired life. In the analysis of the tone in the story, the paper will highlight the different ways that the personality of the author manifests in the story ...

Many authors choose to write about nature because it is a universal idea and is timeless. Nature is something that is observed and experienced by everyone, and can therefore be understood by almost all people. Tess Gallagher is an author who has a tendency to write about nature, as seen through her poems, “Choices” and “Orange Sutra”. Gallagher’s symbolic use of nature can be seen in the poems “Choices” and “Orange Sutra”. Although the poems “Choices” and “Orange Sutra” have contrasting themes, they both use symbolic imagery of nature to help the reader understand the meaning of the poem.

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Summary: This lesson utilizes two descriptions of the same room from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. By contrasting the words chosen to depict the color of the room in the first and second descriptions, students can figure out the moods involved in the descriptions and indicate how those word choices contribute to those two moods.

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The learner will analyze prose for the ways in which diction ...

Bacon’s tale of the New Atlantis is a “blueprint” of the results of the Christian Reformation and Luther’s new view on how Christianity should be interpreted and understood. In addition, Bacon lived at the beginning of the Renaissance - a time of “new” change, change in thought, beliefs, and enlightenment. In particular, Bacon created an ideal world to reflect this “new world” blueprint, showing both the highs and lows of such a new world. This essay is a literary review of The New Atlantis (1627). To complete this review the following literary elements will be used: tone, ...

When attempting to influence an audience it is important for the speaker or writer to establish the relationship he or she has towards the audience from the beginning. Whether reading or listening, the receiver will establish the speaker’s virtue and goodwill towards the audience. Nevertheless, it is important to note that a messenger may also perverse this in order to use this in his or her favor. For example, Brent Staples, in his essay “Black Men and Public Spaces”, presents himself as a literate yet dangerous interlocutor. One can see this from his paragraph, due to his use ...

The poem, Money, by Dana Gioia, talks about a subject that preoccupies the hearts of many. She describes the many names used to refer to money and at the same time gives the different emotions that money elicits. Gioia describes the satisfaction that is derived from money, while at the same time, brings out the frustration that lack of it or misuse can breed. Her poem is full of descriptions and comparisons, using common money-language that is identified with many people. Through diction and figurative language, Dana Gioia communicates and infatuated tone and conveys the theme that money is ...

During the sixties, the civil right movement has spread, throughout United States, recognizing awareness everywhere in the world, as the Black Americans’ socio-political and economic revolt against the white treatment. Years after the end of slavery in United States, the status of the African Americans knew little changes, as they had no democratic rights, such as the right to vote, and they were publicly humiliated and brutalized, while the segregation still disallowed them to enter restaurants or other public spaces, despite the avid work of activists as Martin Luther King Jr. (Malcolm X “The Ballot or the Bullet”). Blacks ...

Is Walt Whitman's poetry devoid of structure or shape

Walt Whitman is the typical poet that composes his poems based on the traditionally recognized forms of poetic structure and prose. His poems are unique and often appear to be unorganized in the most unorthodox of ways. Because of this, his poems might depict a lack in structure or pose. However, according to the fundamental forms of poetic structure, most of his poems do have a structure and shape needed to qualify them as poems. They are not easily recognizable, but that does not warrant their absence. Structure in poetry is inclusive of the arrangement of lines or stanzas that is ...

1. In a sentence or two, list the terms in the poem that are now mere memories in technology. Then indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree that the various electronic “languages” are incompatible with each other. Is this incompatibility as frustrating or as possibly dangerous as the human situation in which people cannot communicate with one another?

In the poem 16-bit Intel 8088 Chip Bukowski mentions computer terms that were obviously new at the time when the poem was written but now they are not up to date anymore (e.g. Commodore 64, IBM PC, Kaypro, Osborne, ...

Analysis of the following poems: William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us;"

Emily Bronte, "Often rebuked, yet Always Back Returning;"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses" and
Emily Dickinson, "I heard a Fly Buzz-when I died"
Good poetry, like good music transcends time. The poetry of these five poets are legendary; they share one common thread, the mastery of using diction to stimulate the senses.
One cannot study British Literature without encountering William Wordsworth. In his sonnet, yes, it is a Petrarchan sonnet, "The world is too Much with Us," he politely expresses his disgust with man’s deviation from nature. Wordsworth begins his sonnet by saying that worldly advancements have ...

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman is one of the most notable poetic pieces by Maya Angelou that celebrates womanhood and femininity highlighting the qualities necessary for a woman to be termed as phenomenal. In my opinion, Maya Angelou uses the poem to espouse her belief in inner beauty as the key behind what makes a woman be dubbed as phenomenal (Cullum 27). Her poem takes a critical stance at the biased perceptions bestowed on women by the society regarding what beauty is. I believe her work is based on the contemporary’s society obsession with thinness and a pretty face as the true quality of a woman’ ...

A logical dissection is a composed clarification about how an essayist (or speaker) endeavors to change the psyche of his or her group of onlookers. A compelling explanatory examination shows a full understanding of the interchange of the expository triangle. The reason for this task is to deliver a relative logical dissection of three articles on the same subject: one sourced from corporate media, the other sourced from the free or option press and the other distinguished from the nearby articles. These articles are Drug war and class war, America's amazingly oblivious voters, and The Slippery Slope Begins.
Drug wars and ...

The opening line of Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" is a startling one, "I caught a tremendous fish" as the poet beams with pride at its size and her accomplishment. She clearly has the intent of keeping her catch alive as she continues, "and held him beside the boat/Half out of water, with my hook/fast in a corner of his mouth." She conveys the main parts of the scenery very well -- boat, fish, water, and hook.
Her description of the setting is visual. Her diction relates a sense of ease as she continues: "He didn't fight./He hadn't fought at all." She depicts ...

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" Hamlet is a coarse and barbarous play.One might think the product is a work of a drunken savage's imagination."—Voltaire <http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-quotes-about.htm>
After being considered to be Shakespeare's well-known, most popular and most loved play for some time, many persons would tend to disagree with Voltaire's quote. It can be assumed that Hamlet has retained its popularity for a decent period of time because it deals with very topical and interesting issues. As it relates specifically to Act 1, Scene 2, many critics dispute the significance of this scene to the overall development of the ...

Introduction

This is a speech where the speaker persuasively requests the citizens to elect him. After reading it, we realize that it qualifies to be rhetoric hence we can analyze it rhetorically. Concerning the rhetorical situation, the occasion that leads to the opportunity or need for persuasion in this speech is campaign. Therefore, the historical occasion is the campaign by various politicians hence Roversi’s objective in this speech is to persuade citizens to elect him as their country representative. He establishes his personal credibility, confidence, and character in a convincing manner. This is what is termed as ethos. In addition, his ...

William Carlos Williams’s poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is a simple, image-based poem in which an unknown speaker describes a red wheelbarrow and chickens. The simplicity of the poem, which is demonstrated by its length and subject, combine with the statement made in the first line of the poem to realistically depict a slice of reality.
The structure of the poem helps to establish how a reader should view the poem. It is comprised of four stanzas with two lines each. The poem is made up of only one sentence which is not capitalized at its beginning. This sentence is broken up ...

“My Father’s Love Letters” is a poem by Komunyakaa. The poem reveals a rich concoction of emotions that runs through the persona and the father. From the poem, it is evident that the persona is a child who is helping the father to portray his emotions to the mother. It is evident that the mother is not with them but probably gone away from the family. One of the reasons that emerge in the poem is that the father was brutal to the mother, which made her go away. The sex of the child does not emerge in the poem but ...

“.stare down from an enormous sign. These unblinking eyes, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, watch over everything that happens in the valley of ashes. The commuter train that runs between West Egg and New York passes through the valley, making several stops along the way. One day, as Nick and Tom are riding the train into the city, Tom forces Nick to follow him out of the train at one of these stops. Tom leads Nick to George Wilson’s garage, which sits on the edge of the valley of ashes. Tom’s lover Myrtle is Wilson’ ...

Revenge is one of the most powerful feelings that people can experience in their lives. It is not surprising that writers, film makers and other representatives of the art actively use it in their work. In the past we can find such works as Shakespeare's Othello and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and the recent film V for Vendetta continues developing on this theme. By analyzing these stories, we can see how depiction of revenge and, consequently, its perception by people has changed over time. In each of these plots there is a character that is so absorbed by this ...

American history has had a number of poets who have had an impact on the direction the course of poetry has taken. Most significant contributions were done by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman in the last century. This was the period referred to as the Conflict and Celebration era. Their style of writing poetry was different from how people used to write before. They abandoned the traditional style to begin a much more modern style in the expression of American ideas in a unique way. There are slight differences as well as similarities in the two poets’ works that warrant our discussion.

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Michael Pollan’s article “What’s eating America” is an extremely interesting publication, which covers a lot of aspects of modern agriculture in the USA. The main focus of the article is corn and its role in American agriculture. Michael Pollan is convinced that today’s American market is filled with corn, a plant, which does not have any rivals. The author of the publication believes that such tendency can negatively affect our world.
In my opinion, this article can be interesting for a variety of people, because Michael Pollan speaks about things, which in one or another way affect all ...