A.
The incorporation of many allusions to other texts breaks with poetic conventions inasmuch as poetry is traditionally based in telling the story of a character or a group of characters in a straightfowards fashion that does not refer to things outside the story except in a referential sense. This would be the case in most epic poetry, like the ´Iliad´ or ´Paradise Lost´.
B.
The poem distorts the traditional meaning of poetry in the sense that traditional poetry is based in the epic form, where clearly delineated characters are set out in some traditional heroic or tragic scenario. Prufrock´s existence is opposed to any real heroic or classic tragic plot.
Is this the excerpt you are referring to?
<span>In a smithy
one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam-
the way they make soft iron hale and hard—:
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
</span>
If so, the use of the epic simile in this excerpt helps the reader understand how hot the spear actually is.
As you may know, nonverbal communication is communication
that happens without words. Nonverbal
communication can be anything from eye contact (or lack of eye contact) to
facial expressions and gestures. When
one views the speech that President Kennedy gave at Rice University, he can be
seen to frequently use his right hand to point down toward the podium or to
pound his fist into the podium. This
nonverbal communication—the gestures President Kennedy makes with his right
hand— communicates a determination and confidence that reinforces what he was
communicating in his speech that the United States was determined to go to the
moon and confident it would do so.
Concerns about the adoption of Western culture among youth and adolescents.
Response to the article "Western influence on youth today"
Dear Editor,
In reading the article and evaluating the influence of Western culture in our society, especially among young people and adolescents, I could not help noticing how it can be harmful to our society.
With the intense adoption of factors of Western culture by our youth, I am concerned that our own culture and customs are abandoned and forgotten over time. With that in mind, I believe that the best way is to make the concepts of our culture attractive to young people in our society, mainly through articles and artistic presentations, which not only show the value of our culture, but show young people how important it is respect and admire cultures from other regions without abandoning ours.
Denisa Lopes.
Califonia June 9, 2020
