Poetry Analysis Essay – Human Nature by Alice Anderson

Agent Curry Chan Mr. H. English 283 Due date: October 27th, 2009 Poetry Analysis Essay – Human Nature by Alice Anderson Review When the news dawned on me and my classmates that such an essay was expected from us so shortly after the midterm, I was kind of frustrated, but I’m glad to have risen to the challenge. For my book, I looked through many known authors like Maya Angelo and many more unknown poets who kept most of their poems under the titles of â€Å"Untitled†. I went for the little black book, because usually the best things are in little black books. This one was right on the money. A book of poems titled Human Nature by a female poet named Alice Anderson. Rape, lust, consensual sex, and family incest are the†¦show more content†¦Even though he is not her father, her mind cannot stop flashing back to how her father would molest her sexually. It revolves around her purity again in the poem Blue-Blackout when the line â€Å"...he was my first. We both knew it. / We believed it. My whole life / depended on it...† comes up. She clings to the idea that she is a virgin for h er lover’s sake. She does not want him to be tainted like she has been. In my opinion, the most shocking fact I came into grips with was that not only Anderson and her father knew of the incest, but so did the mother and the elder brother. It made me wonder what type of brainwash or control did he have over them to keep them all quiet and ignorant. Then in the poem The Good Christian. The father used religion and twisted it up; tricking his daughter into thinking what he was doing was just. â€Å"And so in church you were afraid. You knew. / That closing your eyes made no prayer come true. / That all sins of sinner were forgiven.† Yet in this poem, she is looking back on her father’s words and recalling when she was in church at how confused she was. No matter how her father was, she was brainwashed into believing he’d be forgiven. Towards the end of the book, as a reader, you may feel emotionless or full of swelled up emotions, making what to burst into tears. You are either filled with sadness or completely ripped away of how you should feel. Just like Anderson as a child, you feel as if you yourselfShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesPHILADELPHIA Temple University Press 1601 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright  © 2010 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Essays on twentieth century history / edited by Michael Peter Adas for the American Historical Association. p. cm.—(Critical perspectives on the past) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4399-0269-1 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-4399-0270-7Read MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesUnderstanding Work Teams 307 Communication 335 Leadership 367 Power and Politics 411 Conflict and Negotiation 445 Foundations of Organization Structure 479 v vi BRIEF CONTENTS 4 The Organization System 16 Organizational Culture 511 17 Human Resource Policies and Practices 543 18 Organizational Change and Stress Management 577 Appendix A Research in Organizational Behavior Comprehensive Cases Indexes Glindex 637 663 616 623 Contents Preface xxii 1 1 Introduction Read MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 PagesDowden gets the balance and the emphasis right. Norman Swartz, Simon Fraser University v Acknowledgments For the 1993 edition: The following friends and colleagues deserve thanks for their help and encouragement with this project: Clifford Anderson, Hellan Roth Dowden, Louise Dowden, Robert Foreman, Richard Gould, Kenneth King, Marjorie Lee, Elizabeth Perry, Heidi Wackerli, Perry Weddle, Tiffany Whetstone, and the following reviewers: David Adams, California State Polytechnic University;