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  Christina Woodson Professor Mannone English 211 2 February 2022 Whitman Answered The Call Ralph Waldo Emerson was a renowned essayist whose works continue to astonish world readers every day. He was an advocate for the ideas of self-reliance, beauty in nature, and treating this life as a gift in all ways possible. Though he was able to convey those ideas thoughtfully and persistently in his essays, there came a time when he wanted and encouraged a new voice in American Literature. In his essay, The Poet , he beckons that there should be a new poet who is “The sayer, the namer, and represents beauty… a beholder of ideas, and an utterer of the necessary and casual.” Walt Whitman began writing Song Of Myself a little over ten years later, immediately portraying a direct answer to Emerson’s request. The influence of Emerson is scattered throughout the whole poem and is a work that is consistent with the ideas that society should consider and take more into consideration. Through di...

Christina Woodson Professor Gleason  Poetry  20 May 2022 For The Love Of Community: T.S. Eliot’s Alienation And The Community It Molds The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot is a poem that entices readers with the second point of view questions it swiftly presents, a forward from a book that questions human existence, and literary devices that deliver for an unsettling and isolating setting. In this poem, the author states a clear question about the effects of globalization. Some of these questions are already answered by the isolating tone conceived in this poem, which furthers and strengthens a sense of community in the newly alienated world. While the poem is distinguished lonely and leaves audiences feeling the despair that Prufrock makes them feel in his monologue about his isolation and how it is relatable to audiences.  Let us go then, you and I, (Eliot, Line 10).  In Dante’s Inferno which is quoted right before this line, Dante takes the reader...

Christina Woodson Dr. Penner English 207 21 October 2021 Loss Of Faith in Young Goodman Brown Nonconformity is a recurring theme in literature deriving from the Puritan times. When looking at why it is because the Puritans had a society that was highly contradicting itself. The short story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, tells a definitive horror story that critiques Puritan times and how they impacted individuals’ Christianity. The story is a tale that exposes the Puritans from a negative point of view by Hawthorne. What occurs to the titular character through his night in the forest is one that ultimately tests his faith, but does not rob him of his Christianity completely. Taking one night in the forest, represented by the devil and all the evil in the world, he stumbles upon some of the holiest people in his town. The revelation is shocking and disturbing and shakes Goodman Brown of his courage at points, but never robs him of his faith. Though the night drastically ch...

  Christina Woodson English 380 Professor Saunders 10 March 2023 Post Modernism in Jaime Becerra’s King Taco Postmodernist theory is a literary convention that encapsulates metafiction, and intertextuality and thematizes both historical and political issues. In Michael Jamie-Becerra’s King Taco, he uses settings, contextual reliance, diction, and even existentialist questions to drive this poem toward finding meaning when none can be found. The poem takes on elements such as Marxist critique as well, as the whole poem is riddled with questions and ideas that ultimately relate to economics. It presents itself as a simple day, influenced by the woes of capitalism, but with strategic critiquing, any reader can infer many deeper meanings to the existential whimsicalness that is this King Taco worker.  The first introduction to this poem is the title, King Taco, which begins to enact a stipulation for readers who can contextualize this place. King Taco is located in East Los A...