The imagery of our lives is what allows our world to go from black and white to a world exploded into a Willy Wonka color phantasm. The way we paint the world with our language is what allows us to connect--two people drinking from the same straw. Two people connected by thirst. Watch Sarah Kay's spoken word poem about Forest Fires. (The title is the link.) Listen to her story and listen to her imagery. Pay attention to how her descriptions speak volumes. The language we use determines the way we feel and understand a piece of writing. Listen to hers. 1. Once you have listened, pull one of her images and explain why you like it. What does it do for you as the listener?
2. Go to a text we are reading in class--Hamlet, Crime and Punishment or As I Lay Dying--and pull an image that resonates with you. Explain why it speaks to you the way that it does.
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The imagery that I am choosing from Sarah Kay's spoken word poem is when she talks about being in the hospital room, with her grandmother being a "sinking ship on white sheets" and the "beeping sounds from the nurses stations". With her imagery, she is able to place in a setting that I am not currently in. Her audience is automatically transported to this place, transported directly into her story. I am pretty familiar with hospitals, not because I have had to stay there, but because I have had many relatives in and out. It is not a fun place to be and her imagery places me back there, which helps with the tone. A hospital room and a forest fire is not good and we get this from her imagery.
The imagery I chose from As I Lay Dying coincidentally has to do with fire as well. The scene I chose is when Faulkner describes the fire in the barn that Darl causes. The way he describes the fire allows me to picture it perfectly. I know exactly what was going on because of the vivid imagery present. He used words that I associate with fire. I even wrote, "Well done, Faulkner!" at the end of the section.
The imagery that i pulled in was when she talked about her grandmother in the hospital. The whole time she talked about this I instantly just had many flashbacks about people I knew. The details she went into in such a short time were incredible. When she talked about her grandmother sinking into the bed like ships on white sheets put the picture into my mind. She also makes it seem like they are not that bad of places. I knew many people in the hospital for many different reasons, and it is not a place you would want to be at for a while. But when she was talking about that, it really hit home.
The imagery I chose was from Hamlet. I chose the scene where Hamlet gets very angery with his mother because of what she has done after her husband died. Anger to me grows like a forrest fire, and sometimes it doesn't go away very easily. This part in Hamlet makes me think of what Sarah Kay said when she talked about the forrest fires.
-Megan Chiara 4/5
The imagery that I am choosing from Sarah Kay's spoken word poem is when she talks about being in the hospital room, with her grandmother being a "sinking ship on white sheets" and the "beeping sounds from the nurses stations". She also mentions watching commercials on the hospital televsion and when mixed with the beeping of nurses stations it creates a theme song for their surroundings. It made me sad when she said her grandmother would tell her she is beautiful, forget her name, then tell her she is beautiful again. She doesn't make the hospital seem like such a bad place. The imagery I chose was from Hamlet. I chose the scene where Hamlet sees his father's ghost. His father tells him to talk to his mother about everything. I think this is a powerful scene because it could be a turning point for Hamlet.
K.Monkowski 1*
I like how she described being in the Santa Cruz Redwoods. It sounded so beautiful and peaceful I could imagine myself looking at a big mountain traveling down a dirt road in a pickup truck myself. As a listener it really made me want to experience this myself. In Hamlet the scene where Hamlet puts on a play sticks in my mind. He is starting his revenge plan,which gets to me most. There is that moment that everyone has that they want to have revenge on someone but can't but he does. To see their faces during the play made him feel good, and its something we all wish we could have done at some time in our past but didn't.
The imagery that resonated with me the most was her grandmother as she lie in the hospital bed, a "sinking ship on white sheets." She then went on to explain her father watching she and her grandmother, his daughter and mom with hands intertwined like tight rope. Her grandmother tells her she is gorgeous, then forgets who she is and then tells her she is gorgeous again. This helps the listener to realize the fact that even though her grandma is dying from Alzheimer's, they are still family and this bond is what keeps them together. She sets a scene that makes you feel as if you are there watching, seeing what is actually taking place. It makes you feel like you are her dad watching this interaction between his daughter and mother.
The scene I chose was from As I Lay Dying. It was the scene in which the family was trying to cross the river and during which, Cash broke his leg. Afterwards, Jewel, Darl and Vernon are in the water trying to retrieve all of Cash's tools while the rest of the family is on the shore. Dewey Dell is wiping the vomit from Cash's mouth with the hem of her skirt, while Vandarman is frantic and pa is fairly relaxed, as usual. This scene just set the stage for the rest of the book and the imagery throughout the scene makes you feel like you are there watching the scene on the shore with the rest of the Bundren family.
Sarah Kay has a way with words to transform them into images. Right when she starts out on of the first things she says is "Three days ago, I was in the Santa Cruz Redwoods. Tracing a mountain road in the back of a pick-up truck, watching clouds unravel into spiderwebs." I really liked this quote a lot. When I listened to it, I immediately saw Sarah Kay in the bed of a truck driving through a winding path with trees beautiful trees all around as the clouds slowly moved into different shapes. As a listener it intrigued me and made me want to listen on. And before I knew it I wasn't just listening anymore, but I was watching the poem happen in my head.
The imagery in Hamlet i though was interesting is when the ghost describes his own murder. He describes how he went to sleep and his own brother poisoned him in his slumber. This stuck out in my head because not only did he kill him, he went on to marry his wife ,which would be his sister-in-law.
The image that i chose from sarah kays spoken word poem is when she talks about being in the hospital room, with her grandmother being a "sinking ship on white sheets". She is able to make people really imagine what she went there, it was like they were in her place at the time. Being in a hospital isnt fun whatsoever, so she set the tone pretty clear and out there.
The image i chose from hamlet was The scence where Hamlet saw his father's ghost, him telling hamlet what happened and to talk to his mother. I think this scene is so powerful because it was a huge moment for hamlet and it changed everything from that scene to the ending.
Breanna Hartory 4/5
Sarah Kay is someone who knows how to speak and form images in someones head. The image i chose was being in the Santa Cruz Redwoods becuase it seemed so perfect how she desrcibed it and i could just imagine how it would be being there and not here in ohio.
The imagery i chose was from Hamlet. I chose the scene where Hamlet fights with his mom and tells her off but then calms down and talks to her normally and tries to settle it becuase there are times like that i have with my mommy.
The imagery that I took from Sarah Kay's spoken word poem was when she talked about how her grandmother in the hospital was a "sinking ship on white sheets". I dont't know why but this stood out to me the most. I think because she made such a fast transition from talking about Santa Cruz to talking about a hosiptal it took me off guard which made it stick out to me the most. She then relates her grandmother being in the hospital to forrest fires, I think she did this because forrest fires happen fast and spontaneously and the only way to stop them is to put it out and I think she tries to relate that to her grandmother being in the hospital.
Te imagery I chose from Hamlet was the scene when Hamlet was mad at his mother. I chose this because the anger reminds me of a forrest fire like in Sarah Kay's poem. Anger and forrest fires and vicious and can spread faster than you would think.
The image I chose was when she talks about her granmother being a sinking ship on white sheets. She also talks about the beeping sounds from the nurses station. I chose this image because it is a situation I am dealing with right now. My Granmda has been in the hospital for a couple weeks. I could relate to what she was saying. And comparing it to Hamlet would be when his dad died and even though he didn't get to see him in a hospital or anything he comes back to visit him as a ghost so that relates.
A.MacIvor
The imagery I picked was the one of the slicer. It talks about what color the slicer is and how it can "slice and dice in almost every position". This was one of my favorite parts of the poem because it made me realize most males are like that (at least the ones i know). I picked as i lay dying's Cash building the coffin because then were so descriptive they even showed you a picture. I believe this impacts me so much because it worries me when knowing you’re going to be put in the ground for the rest of time but yet, it gives me security knowing that’s where I’ll be for the rest of time.
The imagery I pulled was when she talked about standing on the railroad tracks in the past of where the fires are now. She mentions the moon and the clean air and how beautiful it was; now thinking it’s probably destroyed today. The detail brings me right to those tracks and makes it seem like I was there too. It resonates because it is such a peaceful and wonderful scene set apart from much of the chaos the poet is going through afterwards.
The other scene I chose was from Crime and Punishment. It was a terrible dream Raskolnikov has about the brutal beating of an innocent horse. This scene sticks with me because it is so grotesque and suggests how violent Raskolnikov really can be. This is a foreshadowing of violence and guilt from being part of violence to come. This scene is so descriptive it is almost hard to read because you feel Raskolnikov’s pain and helplessness. The reader is placed in the scene too due to the extreme imagery.
Sarah Kay uses strong imagery when talking about the hospital room with the beeping and noises in the hospital while watching tv. It allows me to think back to how many times i have been in the hospital to visit my mom and how all those noises are so familiar. You cant even turn on the tv because the beeping of the machines and nurses walking in and out. I can really relate to the way she describes the hospital and it brings me back to the emotional times in the hospital.
An image that speaks to me from Hamlet is when Hamlet wants to avenge his father. I feel as if there is always talk about revenge if someone has done something wrong to you or someone you care about. It is almost as if it is an instict that cannot be controlled. This image reminds me of every day life peoples need to want revenge on someone.
My favorite image is when she talks about walking barefoot on the railroad tracks and being surprised by the sight of the moon. I like it because it’s very relatable. My favorite days in the summer are the days when I neglect to wear anything but dirt and new callouses on my feet. The days when you could fall asleep on the grass, but are simply too caught up in running through open fields and corn stalks to do so. The days when you refuse to eat anything except for the fresh watermelon your mom leaves out on the picnic table. And then that sad moment when you see the moon, and you begin to negotiate how long until the sky is too dark for your parents to worry. An image that resonates with me in Crime and Punishment is when Raskolnikov reads about how Marfa had misinterpreted what S. was discussing with Dunechka in the garden. Marfa interrupts the discussion, refuses to listen to Dunechka and even ends up hitting her. This passage speaks to me by reminding me that sometimes there is no perfectly trimmed path and any which way you go you’re going to get pricked and it’s going to hurt. Dunechka’s fate was out of her control. This passage also reminds me not to force judgement before listening to everyone’s opinion with an open mind, and do not act out of rage.
The imagery I choose was when she was talking about the hospital room. She was visiting her grandmother and she describes the hopistal with very detailed descriptons.She says the room had a lot of "beeping," and this gives the audience a good image of what the noises in the room were at this time. She also talks about the nurses stations, and watching the commercials on the tv. I think I like this image because she decribes her grandmother being in the hospital to forrest fires because they happen so fast and unexpected. This relates to the story in Hamlet about how Hamlet found out his father was dead, and it was very sudden for him to find out.
I really enjoyed this performance by Sarah Kay, it's hard to choose one image because I liked so many. One that stood out for me was when she is talking about her grandmother and she says, "My grandmother strokes my knuckles, like they are a wild animal she is trying to tame. She tells me I am gorgeous, watches a commercial, forgets my name, tells me I am gorgeous again." I like this because I can relate too it maybe too easily. I spent days at hospitals with my grandmother as she withered away peacefully though. This description she gave, almost made me cry the second time I listened to it. The story we are reading in class, As I Lay Dying, whenever Cash is heard pounding or sawing the wooden boards, I feel it. Not because the idea of death worries me or brings discomfort, but because it is familiar. I want to be a funeral director, so anything that relates to death, I seem to notice it; not in a gruesome way, it simply is something that I can pick out.
-Erica Jacks
The imagery I choose was Sarah Kay's was when she talked about the hospital room. The way she used imagery of the sinking ship on white sheets brought the audience to the room and by a person by death. I was able to go into the hospital and picture it. The way she goes from the hospital to the forest firer helps the audience emotions go from greaving to anger. Anger because it shows how death can cause pain. In hamlet I cna now relate more to of the anger he felt for his father rather than his sadness.
I found the most interesting imagery in Sarah Kay's poem to be that of her grandmother being a "sinking ship on white sheets" and the "beeping sounds from the nurses station combinding with the sales jingles to create the theme song for the ailing". These descriptions were very powerful and took me to a time where I sat next to my own grandmother's hospital bed with her stroking my knuckles as well. When a few simple words can transport you right into not only her story, but connect you back to one of your own as well, that is when imagery is the most powerful.
In As I Lay Dying, the imagery provided when Darl went mad really spoke to me. He sat in between two state workers on a train, laughing and rambling uncontrollably after setting fire to a barn. I could clearly picture a teenage boy gone mad, with his hands between his knees and rocking himself back and forth,unsure of whether to laugh or just keep talking. This to reminded me of hospitals. In hospital waiting rooms and lobbies you are almost guaranteed to see crying family members, some mumbling to themselves, some trying to laugh away the tears, and some curled up in a ball sobbing. These are all coping mechanisms, just as Darl's madness helped him cope with the death of his mother. The imagery used in the scene when he is being taken away was very brief, yet very powerful .
-EZaranec 7/8
Sarah Kay uses great, strong, and good image when writing. I feel like as if I can picture what she talking about and I think it comes more from when she try to explain or talk about something. I think of my own past eevent that have happen to me and in my mind I invision that. Just like Stephan king said about image. What someone is writing about everyone can see the same thing. But the things around it my be different for each person due to how the think and past events and how the interpret it. In hamlet. I see the part in my head of the part where hamlet walks around for hour in the main center part of the building just thinking or reading. For some reason I can picture that in my mind very very well and it always is the same picture in my mind when we talk about to or read it.
The imagery I chose was when her grandmother was in the hospital. They where talking about beeping nosies in there and how the nurses had to keep and eye on her. It was kinda sad when her grandma forgot her name but always called her beautiful and it always repeated. If my grandma was like that it would be very hard to see and watch her suffer like that and not even know who you are sometimes. In the book hamlet it shows simaritles when the king comes back which is hanlets dad to talk to him and its hard for hamlet to comprehend what he's saying he fogey and in the end he says how he must talk to his mother and this is a pretty big scenes in hamlet.
The one image that really hit home with me in Sarah Kay's poem was the sounds from the hospital making some sort of alien symphony. About 7 years ago (though I'm not exactly sure), my dad was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. The next months seemed like we lived in the hospital, in and out with visits of dad in his bed and enough bone marrow biopsies to last a lifetime. I go so used to the monotonous beeps, whistles, squeaks and other noises that it just became like the soundtrack to my life and the image that Sarah makes in her poem about being in the hospital really reminds me of that.
A scene from Hamlet that really resonated with me is the final scene, in which Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, and Leartes are dead. It goes with the idea of revenge being one of the seven deadly sins and that nothing good will come out of it.
The imagery that caught my attention in Sarah Kay's spoken words poem is her description of the California mountains where her car "traced the mountainside and the clouds unraveled into spiderwebs". I go down to South Carolina and Florida every year and I find the car ride there to be just as beautiful and realizing as the vacation itself. This imagery took me to that place, sitting in the car staring out the window mesmerized by the scenery right outside my car door.
A scene from As I Lay Dying that interested me was the scene were Dewey Dell is in the convenience store and the reader finds out that she is pregnant. I thought that it was clever of Faulkner to describe the scene through the store-owner's point of view rather than Dewey Dell's. The way that he describes the scene makes the reader question who the girl is and what exactly she is looking for until the end of the chapter.
The imagery that I chose was when she described walking on the railroad tracks under the full moon. I found the picture that I had put into my head was a beautiful one. The night time is beautiful when it comes to the moon being the only source of light.
A scene from Hamlet that I chose was the scene where the king and Polonious were hiding in the bush to spy on Hamlet and Ophelia. This scene was described very well as to where in the palace they were and how each view had been seen.
The image I picked was when Sarah Kay talked about a forest fire, when she talked about how the flames where thick, taking over all the trees turning the city orange. I saw this in my head and it made me think of how she could of used the symbol of fire as problems spreading if they aren't solved.
The image I picked from Hamlet is when Hamlet's father's ghost describes his death, murdered by his own brother. He described how he took a nap in the garden with the flowers. I found this scene important because it ties the story all together, it set the topic and changed Hamlet's life.
Wells 4/5
The level of detail in her flashback is incredible, though, the human mind tends to remember everything when in a moment of great emotional power. What stuck with me was when it said her grandmother was a "sinking ship on white sheets". I associate this with When Ophellia drowns in hamlet, a battle with a force far beyond our means to fight it.
The scene that resonates with me is how her grandmother sunk into the sheets, my grandparents are getting to that age, and no one close to me in my family has died yet, I fear the day that I must face this severe emotional pain.
The imagery of the forest fire on the news created the most vivid imagery for me after watching her say, "the flames will paint the nightly news a different shade of orange". The nightly news is something that is casually watched by millions of viewers, who will see the blaze as merely another story in the world, but for her it is a different story and the colors resonate strongly with her because she was just at the scene of the fire a few days ago. This makes the imagery very real and haunting, and for the listener the blaze comes to life and causes it to stand out as a major detail in her story.
A powerful moment of imagery in Crime and Punishment for me would be the description of Raskolnikov murdering the pawnbroker. It is described in such a way that depicted a brutal and gory mess of a murder. Instead of writing, "He took the ax and killed her", Dostoevsky's diction painted a more vivid picture with words such as "gushed" describing the blood, the "blunt side" of the ax he repeatedly struck her with, and her face described as "contorted convulsively". His choice of words makes the killing more realistic, not just an event that occurs but rather one that is experienced.
What stood out to me in Sarah's poem was when she was talking about her father in the kitchen, looking at her and her grandmother on the bed with their finger interlocked. This reminded me of the gap between their generations, being bridged by this encounter, reminding me that there are people in your life that will not be around in it forever, so the time you have together needs to be cherished. It's a cliche, but there's a reason some saying have lasted through the years: they still have relevance.
This situation reminded me of the similar one at the beginning of As I Lay Dying, when Cora and Kate and sitting in with Addie. They both know that Addie is dying, and there's not really much they can do about it, but they sit in with her, trying to comfort her from the sound of her coffin being made outside the window. It's the sound of the sawing and hammering coming in from the window that the passage stood out to me. The fact that Addie is dying is bad enough, but the sounds from the window make this the saddest part of the book for me. I made me feel as if that they were just waiting for her to die, that they had completely given up on trying to save her.
One image in Kay's spoken word poem that immediately caught my attention was when she said "watching clouds unravel into spider webs". I was taken back to my days as a young child, where I would sit in the itchy grass and stare up at the clouds for hours, worrying about nothing, and only caring about the nature around me. For every listener - including myself - this reference allows for a very deep and personal connection. When Kay speaks of childhood memories that connect almost all of us, she connects to her audience on a profound level.
One of the most striking images in Crime and Punishment, for me, is the scene where Raskolnikov describes his dream. He describes watching the drunk men beating the horse. This is powerful for me in two ways. First, I love animals, and I hate to see them being abused. Secondly, I could feel the horse's pain. It was being forced to do something it couldn't possibly accomplish, and this connects to me on the personal level like nothing else in the book. There are always times when we are asked to do something we are truly not capable of doing, and watching the horse being beaten to death because of this made me cringe. The imagery was so brutal that, in fact, I had to put the book down and walk away momentarily.
The imagery that sticks out to me the most in the poem is when she described the mixture between the hospital noises, the beeps and such, with the commercial jingles. I can literally imagine being in that hospital, hearing those noises. The imagine from Crime and Punishment that sticks with me is when Raskolnikov murdered the Pawnbroker. The descriptions were so vivid and gory. I could see the scene as if I were standing in the room. Because of the descriptive imagery, the scene becomes much more brutal than if he would have just stated that he had murdered the woman with an axe.
The imagery i chose from Sarah Kay's spoken word poem is when she talks about "riding up the winding mountain and watching clouds unravel into spider webs". I like it because it paints a very naturalistic image of the countryside and gives a small look at the beauty of nature. In hamlet an image that resonates with me is when hamlet is dying near the end of the book. It speaks to me because it tells of how short life can be and is a reminder to enjoy all the little things your life.
The imagery that stuck with me the most was the one about her grandmother being a sinking ship in white sheets. this really gave me the picture in my head of her grandmother in the hospitol bed wraped up in white sheets. the sinking ship gives you the imppression that her grandmothers health is detererating, and like a sinking ship there is really no hope. Another example of imagery that really stuck with me was the beeping machiens creating an symphony. This helps put the image of her grandmother being hooked up to all these machiens that are keeping her alive, and like a symphony they all flow together to help keep her alive.
An image that stuck out to me in the poem was the theme song of the ailing (nurse stations blending with commercials). It just stuck with me because one thing I've always disliked about hospitals/nursing homes are all the mechanical beeping sounds. It can be hard to relax when there's so much noise around you and half of the sounds resemble my alarm clock beep. Some imagery that stayed in my head from Crime And Punishment is the infamous horse dream. The detail and hopelessness displayed in the passage really shows what kind of person Raskolnikov is. I'm sure most people's definition of a bad dream is far different; murdering a woman can change that tremendously.
I like when Sarah Kay talked about her being barefoot on the railroad tracks. I got the image of summer and a night's breeze. It was calming and warm to me, and it made me miss those days.
I choose the scenes in the beginning of As I Lay dying. Before Addie died everyone was outside and standing around while Cash sawed and Dewey Dell fanned her mother. I can imagine those days where it's extremely hot, waiting around for something to happen, wanting to get out of the heat but unable to. It was the most realistic thing, i felt, in that book.
The imagery that I chose from her poem is the same one a lot of people picked, the hospital room. It resonates with me because I've been there, as have a lot of people. Being only 18, I don't have a lot of life experience so sometimes it's hard to connect with a majority of poems and novels. But facing the banalities of the goings on at a hospital is something most people have come into contact with, including myself. And fittingly the imagery that comes to mind from Hamlet is also showcased by death. The last scene. It's very evocative of how all of these different people wound up in this room to meet their fates for entirely different reasons. Interesting stuff.
Steven Price 4/5
The imagery that I chose from Sarah Kay's performance was when she described the redwood forests and then the fire that would engulf them just days later. I thought this was powerful because the two scenes she describes are so different but they changed so fast, as with a lot of things in life.
A scene in Crime and Punishment that I thought of was the description of Raskolnikov murdering the landlady. The imagery used was incredibly descriptive and disturbing. It's hard to believe someone could do such a thing to another person. That is a scene that stuck with me after reading.
-Jimmy Rutkowski 2nd period
The imagery that i chosse is when she talks about being in the hospital. when she talks about her grandma being a sinking ship on white sheets, you really can picture that in your head. you can practically see her grandmother in her condition. she also talks about the beeping from nurses stations. You really get a image and you are able to get a sense of the situation. It makes you feel like you are apart of it. choosing some imagery from hamlet is quite hard. The whole play is just a masterpiece and filled with outstanding imagery. when hamlet makes his first siloquy he talks about sucide and decay to make his point using O that this too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew. i like this because it is powerful and you are able to understand the meaning easier throught his imagery.
The image I chose from her poem was the hospital bed scene where she described her grandma as a "sinking ship on white sheets" it shows how her grandma's health was failing in the bed right there.
The image from Hamlet I chose was the play he put on the show his uncle he knew he had murdered his father. To me it showed how deeply he wanted the king to be scared of him. It also shows how far some people will go to get revenge.
The imagery from the poem that stood out to me the most was when she talked about holding her grandma's hand saying she tried to remember "open highway" while in her grandma was dying. I think it captures that feeling of loss you get where all you have left is memories of happier times, as well as the feeling of not wanting to spend another second watching some one you love lay in a hospital bed perfectly. It was also something I felt I could actually relate to.
The image in Crime and Punishment that stood out to me was during the murder of the pawnbroker, after he has killed her and is trying to remove her purse from her body, which I actually found more disturbing than the actual murder. The way his actions and her body are described I could picture it vividly.
Nicole Rouge 7-8*
The image I chose was Sarah talks about her grandmother being a sinking ship on white sheets. She also mentions the sounds that were coming from the station. I selected this image in the poem because to me it was what stood out most and i could only imagine dealing with that. The closest comparison i can think of is in our current book Hamlet when his father dies. Then we find out he has come back to see Hamlet as a ghost.
The imagage i chose was the hospital bed when she says her grandmother was a ship sinking in the white ship. i chose that because i think it is a very strong statement and paints a strong picture in your head. it stood out very well and at the same time was easy to understand. I chose hamlet when the fighting scene occurs and they all die and are like sinking ships in the play and the guy that wants his land back gets it back easly without having to "sink the ship" or do anything to them.
My favorite imagery from Sarah Kay's poem is when she describes herself in California with the full moon and the crisp air. This just makes me imagine the wonder of nature and how amazing it can truly be when one really stops to enjoy it. As a listener it makes me feel just as if I was standing with her on those railroad tracks.
Another example of imagery in Crime and Punishment when Raskolnikov had the dream of the horse being beaten. This imagery portrayed the brutality and inhumanity of the beating of the horse and the cruelty of the whole act.
Jennifer Sens 7/8
The imagery I chose from the poem was when she said “My grandmothers body is a sinking ship on white sheets” to me it means a lot because I’ve been in the same place watching someone you love die, this seemed like an amazing imagery of death and how it feels to watch someone die. For the reader I think it describes it perfectly that feeling, Watching a beautiful ship sinking into death, just like watching a life that has been built up for so many years, stop. The imagery from “crime and Punishment” was when Raskolnikov was accused of his crimes of murder he said. “His legs felt suddenly weak, a cold shiver ran down his spine, and his heart seemed to stand still for a moment, then suddenly began throbbing as though it were set free. So they walked for about a hundred paces, side by side in silence.
The man did not look at him.”
In this when he talks about his heart being set free, it resonates with me because I believe whenever we hold on to something for so long, it holds us down. And though we are scared of being found out, the truth always ends up setting us free.
When Sarah Kay is talking about the spokesman on CNN, when she said: "Controlling something this big is impossible.", it made me think about life. Life is so insanely gigantic, that it is impossible to control. You can only guide your life in the right direction, but whatever happens, happens. That's life.
In Hamlet, the driving theme is revenge. Hamlet wants revenge on his uncle for killing his father. Eventually it consumes him entirely. It shows how holding grudges can become your entire life. Forgiveness is always the best route to take.
The imagery that really stuck out to me is when she tells of her grandmother stroking her knucles as if to be taming a wild animal and says she's beautiful, then forgets, then says it again. This is very saddening and makes me feel for the speaker. Knowing your grandparents are suffering from Alzheimers would be a very hard kick to your emotions.
Imagery I can pull out of Hamlet is when Hamlet see's his fathers ghost. It is a happy moment because Hamlet is reunited with his father but it angers the reader because you discover the truth to his death.
One of Sarah Kay’s imagines that I liked was when she was explaining about how a forest fire would be burning in the red woods painting the sky with a different shade of orange while she is in New York watching TV on something other than that news. I like this imagine because it not only paints a picture in your mind but it also provides a allusion to what is happening in our world in which people do not care what happens in the world. In Crime and Punishment one image that resonates with me is the scene where Raskolnikov tells Sonia that he was the murder. I like this scene because it shows the guilt Raskolnikov starts feeling as he see the ghost of lizaveta the person he killed in Sonia’s face which is extremely interesting the way the imagery is used to portray this.
The imagery from Sarah Kay's poem that really caught my attention is the one where she talks about her grandmother in the hospital. She says "sinking ship on white sheets" to describe her grandma while in the hospital and those words are so deep and you can tell how emotional they are. The audience can then feel the emotion too and understand what she is talking about. This one imagery from this poem really sticks out to me because it brings memories of my own grandmother in the hospital. It takes me back to that place where I felt just as emotional and upset just like she did.
The imagery I chose for a text we are reading in class is from Hamlet. I chose the part where Polonious is giving Laertes the inspirational speech before he goes to school. I chose this specific part because it reminds me of something that my dad would say to me before I head off to college.
An image that sticks with me was the image of "celluloid flames." I think it's easy for people to see something tragic in the media and say "well, that doesn't affect me." However, it DID affect Sarah Kay; that could have been her. So, that image reminds me of the random chances in life, both the good and the bad, and how even though something may affect you directly, it can affect you indirectly.
An image from "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner that stuck with me was the coffin of Addie Bundren. It's creation was so meticulous and exact, but at the same time, it was made of old, cheap wood taken off of a barn. I think this contrast mirrors closely the feelings that all the family members have for eachother; they act like they care, but it doesn't generally seem like they do.
The sinking ship in white sheets is a particularly interesting image to me. I think of a black, toy ship being swallowed up in an unending white sheet. It is not a startaling or posotive image; it is neutral on its own. However, when used in relation to degrading health it becomes a visual representation of losing a loved one. It conveys hoplessness and permanant loss because of the contrast in size. The sinking ship either becomes infintessimally small or the sheet infinitely large when used together and this is why I think of it as a toy ship. The smallness of the ship is what strikes me most.
In As I Lay Dying the scene where Addie dies and Dewey Dell sprawls over the bed is also a powerful image to me. It is a similar representation of hopelessness in trying to hold onto a loved one who will not stay. Dewey Dell is grasping at the wind here as she seems to try and hold onto Addie's life for her. Though both these images are not inherently startaling they are both stand out to me.
The imagery i picked from the video of Sarah Kay's was about her grandma "Sinking ship on white sheets". When this caught my attention it made me think of how she was there for her grandma holding her hand while her grandma was possible dying. Her grandma possibly wasn't in good health and she wanted to be there for her through the tough times.
From Sarah Kay's spoken word poem I liked she talks about being in the hospital room, with her grandmother being a "sinking ship on white sheets". I enjoy how she painted the picture of the hostpital in our minds in order for us to be able to come to the same place she was at the time.
The scean I choose from Hamlet was when Hamlet was plotting his revenge toward his father. This can relate because I see people in everyday life oftn planing and wanting revenge for stuff.
The imagery that I'm choosing is when she talks about her grandmother laying in the hospital bed and how shes like a sinking ship. This reminds me of my grandpa when he was in the hospital. I chose an image from Hamlet when the ghost talks to him and it changes the story from then on
The image I like the most is when she says "I was in the Santa Cruz redwoods, tracing a mountain road in the back of a pickup truck watching clouds unravel into spider webs." This summer I went to California and was blessed with the opportunity of seeing the redwood forest. From her words, I get a very clear image of these giant trees and white clouds rolling through the sky. In my own personal life, I witnessed these trees and clouds so it is easy for me to picture this.
In Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the scene that most resonates with me is when Raskolnikov murders the two women with the axe. When he kills the old lady, the imagery Dostoyevsky employs is fantastic. When Raskolnikov kills the Alyona Ivanovna, he strikes her twice in the head with the blunt side of an ax. The details and imagery in this part of the book helps the reader picture the brutality of this scene. The reason why it speaks to me is because of the great detail Dostoyevsky put into his writing.
Joey Marincek
I liked the imagery of how she saw the "clouds unravel into spider webs" because I always like staring out the window when I fly in an airplane. The comparison between the clouds and spiderwebs give the otherwise-too-abstract-pieces-of-white a comprehensible texture. People never catch clouds and stroke them in their hands so no one knows what they feel like but everyone knows what a spider web looks and feels like. Also, the word "unravel" gives motion to the clouds that sounds similar to the way steam, the closest thing to clouds nearest us, swirls. The connection bridges the gap in the listener's mind between the tangible and the elusively wispy intangible.
The imagery describing the river scene with the wagon going under was very vivid for me. The plot deliberated over that same setting for long enough that I could picture every aspect of the surroundings. When Faulkner described the process of meticulously searching to river floor to find Cash's tools I could imagine the sway of the brothers under the water's immensity. Most people enjoy watching the way rivers move so the imagery connected with people's come knowledge of rushing water.
What Sarah Kay just spoke about was eye opening, to say the least. For me, when she speaks about the how close the narrator was to this fire, missing it only by a few days, it spoke to me about how easily life can be sucked from the earth, but also how easily it can be given. Just like the great Phoenix metaphors goes, something must rise from the ashes this fire created.
In "Hamlet", one scene (that I was proudly able to understand without translation) I liked was the battle near the end of the play. Revenge is a big theme in this book, and it seemed that no one ever got to forgive anyone, and I think that is a big issue with the play. Forgiveness is one of the few ways society keeps moving, and without it, the world would most certainly turn to chaos.
A.Hetzel 3rd
The piece of imagery I selected was when she said "sinking ship on white sheets," referring the her grandmother. This allows the reader to understand her grandmother is in the hospital bed and isn't doing well. Most people intelligent enough to read this have been to a hospital and can understand this bit of imagery.
The bit of imagery I selected from Hamlet was the closing scene in which everyone dies. This proves truly how short life is, especially because of the quest of murder prior to forgivenss. It shows that one should avoid grudges and bad relationships.
The part from the poem i chose was the hospital room because this part she describes so many things to almost create its own personal atmosphere this also can go along with the book hamlet we are reading where in the end where all the commotion is happening shakespeare creates the theme or atmosphere of organized chaos while everyone it slowly dying its almost at a stalemate and ina way gives the scene its own personal background music through the use of steps in the scene in this case in the poem when shes adding these pictures into our heads to create the music in the hspital room
I chose the part when she talks about her grandmother being in the hospital. They part was very easy to imagine and had great detal. My grandma past away a few months ago so I know what that is like. She uses great power with things like the beeps and showing sounds. The part that connects to hamlet is that her grandma is dying and hamlets dad died to so they feel the same pain. He didnt get to say good bye to his dad but he came back as a ghost
The imagery that i got out of that was the when the grandma was in the hospital. While she was saying all the visions of the bed and stuff i had memories pop into my head of when my grandma was in the hospital.As I read the poem and read when she was talking about "beeping sounds from the nurses stations" put not only the sound but the picture in my head. The other thing that I want to talk about is in Hamlet. When the play in Hamlet is happening I can see the whole thing play out in my head.
The imagery i choose is when she talks about her grandmother being in the hospital and i have flashbacks of my experiences in a hospital. The imagery and tone makes the mod sad.
The imagery i chose from hamlet is when he sees his dads ghost. I feel there is nothing more emotional then hearing words from the ghost of a loved one.
The imagery i choose is when she talks about her grandmother being in the hospital and i have flashbacks of my experiences in a hospital. The imagery and tone makes the mod sad.
The imagery i chose from hamlet is when he sees his dads ghost. I feel there is nothing more emotional then hearing words from the ghost of a loved one.
I chose the part when her grandmother is in the hospital. It reminded me of my past experiences in hospitals, whether they were good or bad. The imagery from Hamlet I chose was when he realizes his uncle's guilt of killing his father when he's watching the play. I think that's the best feeling in the world when you finally catch someone in a lie and they don't know that you know the truth.
I like how she described the clouds unraveling into spider webs. I like this one because I can imagine what she is talking about easily because of her descriptiveness of imagery.
This description allows the listener to imagine the image easily.
2. What resonates with me is the scene from Hamlet that describes Hamlet stabbing Polonius from behind the curtains. This resonates with me because it is descriptive on how Polonius dies. With this image, I can remember how Polonius died.
The imagery I found in the video and in Hamlet is the connection between the serene and peaceful forest that in one minute can be set ablaze and "paint the nightly news a different shade of orange" and the society in Hamlet. The characters in Hamlet seem classy, royal and kind to an outsider looking in. However, the lives of these characters can be turned upside down quicker than a forest is burned down from a fire. Her description of how quickly the forest is burned down reminds me of how quickly news and rumors spread through out the city in Hamlet.
Sammi P 4/5
I really felt the imagery Sarah Kay gave when she was in the hospital, where her grandmother was "stroking her knuckles like a wild animal she is trying to tame. She tells [her she] is gorgeous." This reminds me of the similar action given to me by my grandfather when he was in the hospital, a few days before dying, and stroked my hand and mumbled something unable to be understood, as his disease has taken away his speech. However, this event is something I will treasure, as it is one of the last times I saw him alive.
One image that really resonates with me is when Cash was outside building Addie's coffin, with Addie there watching. That saddens me, as no person would want, let alone ask for their child to build their coffin within view of their death bed, yet Addie seems to think of this coffin as her grasp on life, her final foothold.
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