Essay about "the soldier" and "colonization in reverse"

Fernando Masante Ayala

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Essay about the analysis of “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke and “Colonization in Reverse” by Louise Bennett.

Society uses poetry to build their brain, express what they feel by showing care and emotions. Writing poems and feelings are not as simple as they seem, they can be classified in many different aspects as the structure of the text, images and other stylistic devices to communicate their purposes. The purpose of this essay is to analyse the way the authors implement a purpose, the language they use, and how the lector receives images of what they are reading. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate how poems may have similarities and differences even though they have different points of view by the authors.

 The purpose of the poem is important to know it because in that way the lector may identify some of the feelings or conditions in which the author of the poem was involved. The poem of Louise Bennett “Colonization in reverse” is about Jamaicans that feel proud because they are “colonising England”, this means that Jamaicans are looking for a better expectative of life, so they are forced to leave their home town to cross the sea and arrive to the huge island named England. Jamaicans had different opportunities there in England, some will get right down to work but some will make it to the dole. We can see how the purpose is showed at the end of the poem by wondering something that says “But me wonderin how dem gwine stan, Colonizin in reverse.” This means England brave the worst, and face war but the question is how they will manage colonizing in reverse. The poem “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke is about how special is England, this poem ignores every negative aspect this country have. The purpose of this poem is to persuade the reader to analyse only the positive aspects that a person living in England may enjoy.

The images of a poem can be perceived while reading the stanzas, this means that while the lector is reading he will imagine things that involve using the five senses that the human body have. In the poem “Colonization in reverse”   in the phrase “I feel like me heart gwine burs´” the reader may imagine a heart pumping very fast, the human sense used here was the eyes with the memory as the brain probably shows a heart pumping very fast seen on the T.V last week, another example could be “or all day long she sits on Aunt Fan’s couch and reads her romance book” here another time the brain plays a role con the images, now the reader would probably imagine a person sitting on a couch reading a romance book. The “Soldier” may also give some strong arguments for what images in a poem means, “Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. “ in this phrase the reader may involve the smell of fresh water and all the nature that surrounds the river, also the lector may feel some heat as it is talking about the sun that England have, for instance, another example could be “Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; “ in this sentence the reader may receive some good smelling of the flowers.

The language use by the authors may be depending on their nationality, the poem “Soldier” it is more likely to be written by someone whose native language is English as Rupert Brooke used many complicated words that an A2 speaker may not understand that quickly as he does. By the other way the language used by Louise Bennett in “colonization in reverse”  is the opposite as the soldier because now the one who wrote the poem is an A2 English speaker, so now a native speaker would have difficulties  to understand the English she had.

In conclusion, there are many different ways to compare and contrast different poems, some of them will have some similarities but some of them don’t. “The Soldier” and “colonization in reverse” are written in the same language, have similar images and both are poems, their purpose are likely to be similar when referring to England, and their differences come when the author try to explain the point of view England.

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Formal or daily English?

English now in days is changing, now we dont have the same formal English as the one spoken on the past, personally I being trying to improve my language because I recognize that my daily language is very far from the formal English  language I should have.  I will try to improve structure of ideas by working on Tell Me More program, I hope that for the end of the this semester my toefl score will improve up to 550, in the same way I will be doing some meetings with my English profesor

Spread of English around the Globe.

Topic: The History of the English Language

 Audience: People who want to learn about how English was developed.

 Purpose: To inform people why this language is the world language in the actuality.

 Tone: Formal

The History of the English Language, by Lucy Rucker.

“English language seems to be the more complex of the other languages of the world” (Rucker)The Old English itself was a reflection   from the Anglo-Norman-French. Still ancient English is spoken in other forms of words, since the old English would be rather difficult to read and understand now we have progressed through the years.

Then Middle English derived between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. Grammar had changed along with the spelling of the words. Actually there are some words that disappeared across the time because they don’t have any meanings.

Modern English is what we like to use more often now in days, in the same way depending on where you live, words can still mean different things. The North, South, West as well as the East have their own system of words. Just as the British have their own dialect and words to use, so it is possible to find two persons that speak English and maybe they will not understand each other, this can be a result of a frustration to those who try to learn English as another language. This happened to me when I went to USA, even though I knew that every single word I was using were correct, they do not understand me because of my Mexican style of speaking, in fact they do understand me, but they had to make a big effort.

English has come all the way from England and through the centuries to come, it will continue to change. Now imagine how the language will be in the future, and how people will see our English as a primitive language. English is a challenging language and will always be the most changing, I believe in our history and in our future.

Topic: The History of the English Language by Laura Howard.

Audience:  Interested people who want to learn how they English was created.

Purpose: Demonstrate how English was changing across the time.

Tone: Formal

The History of the English Language by Laura Howard

 Do you know how English came to be the English that you speak in these times? Well, the English language is one of the most popular languages on this Earth, and then the Mandarin Chinese. In fact, the English language is the default language of the internet , and also it is the most studied dialect of the world, also this dialect have 418 million people studying the language. English is spoken by some of the mother countries across the globe including Canada, United States, England Australia, and many other countries.

Mentioning a curious fact would be that the English language did not start on England! It started on what it is now Germany.

To understand how the English language came to be, we must divide the history in categories that are: Old English period, Middle English period, Early Modern English and English today

Old English period:

The old English was originally spoken by the west Germanic people such as the Angles, Saxons and the Jutes, who invaded Britain in the 5^th Century AD. The Jutes invaded first, occupying the north of England, this invasion pushed the native Britons to the North and the West.

Middle English period:

Here we have something interesting, an invasion of the Normans in 1066 dramatically changed the language. This event mixed French and English together. However, in the 14^th century the English became the dominant language again, but know with a lot of French words included in the dialect. However if you read Middle English you would have some problems because of the degree of difficulty.

Early Modern English:

1500-1800, Europe brought many Greek and Latin words to the now flourishing English language. Another factor that affected the influenced the development of the English is the Great Vowel Shift, this brought a change in pronunciation of words that began at around 1400.

The final factor of this period is the invention of printing press, this were cheap to produce, which mean a significant opportunities for people to read.

English today:

English today, as the name says, is the language we use now in days, this English is changing and will continue changing.

Topic: The History of the English Language by Ray Cook

Audience: Students who will like to learn more about their mother language

Purpose: Show the different important events that changed the English dialect

Tone: Formal

English is considering as the global language. This can be an interesting fact when you realize that this dialect come from the North West Europe.  Only Mandarin Chinese has more speakers but is confined largely to mainland whereas English is spoken as a first or second language in every part of the world.

Now talking about the origins of the English language

 The prevalent story is that in the wake of the demise of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, Britain was invaded and colonized by Germanic peoples from Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. These people speak many different languages and they settled in some parts of English.

Whichever the truth is, by the middle of the first millennium of England had been settle by the Anglo-Saxons. The language spoken was not homogeneous, there were a number of different dialects as the history and many periods testify. The Old English period has left its marks is some parts of our latest English now in days.

The Middle English is still a Germanic language, that’s why all the basics and much of Middle English vocabulary is Anglo-Saxon, as well as the Modern English.

Shakespeare’s English

By the 16^th century we have what is recognizably Modern English as typified by Shakespeare.  Of course, English, like all languages, has changed and will continue changing, but this English essentially is the same language that the one of the past. Shakespeare added to the dialect and idiom of English so many different things, that even today we are quoting him daily.

The rise of the British world dominance from the 17^th century onwards spread English to the New World and the Antipodes, there is no doubt that the English is the global language because of the dominance all over America, on the same way, the simplicity of English with its limited inflection and gender neutral nouns makes it a relatively easy language to dominate.

Modern English is fully replete with thousands of words derived from other languages which it has gathered easily throughout the world.

With this, I can conclude that speaking English is a very good advantage and to be fortunate indeed to be part of the most “powerful” dialect in the globe.