Realism. Bob Marley

Bob Marley is the best modern example of realism I think there is. His lyrics were straight forward and spoke of many problems from political to racial. Bob marley wanted the people of Jamaica and Black people around the world to hear his music and realize the problems around them. A song that a found particularly "real" from Bob Marley is the Song "War." This Song is actually a speech from the Ethiopian Ruler Hailie Salassie mixed with a little bit of Bob Marley's lyrics, but it captures Bob Marley's Realistic thinking.

"Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
-Everywhere is war -
Me say war.
That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
-Me say war.
That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,Without regard to race
-Dis a war.
That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained
-Now everywhere is war
- war."

Dark Romanticism. Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen's Poe life is a lot like his writing. Reading about his life you come across many misunfortunate events (his father abandoning him and his mother, his mothers dies) and many travels. It seemed like he was a man on the move with sorrow following him. Edgar Allen Poe's life is his writings, shady. Even Poe's death is a mystery. They think he might have been alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, suicide, or tuberculosis.

Dark Romanticism. The Raven

The Raven is a really good poem. The thing that stood out most to me was its amazing rhyme scheme. Reading the poem you just flow through reading the text in a way that sounds sorrowful and catchy in your mind. The part that stood out most to me was the part were Poe's yelling at the Raven ( the raven represents the sorrow that is over him) to go away. Get out of his life, he doesn't want to deal with it anymore.

-"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul has spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

What I found anti- trascendental was the sorrow and saddness of the poem. Throughout the whole poem you can tell Poe's spilling his heart out. you can see the words: evil, demons, and devil all throught the story.the Transcendentalist believed that all people are good and everythings ok, but people like edgar Allan Poe knows that lifes not that great and bad things happen.

Dark Romanticism. Hop frog

The story hop-frog is great because of its revenge plot. The king and his men were complete jerks and treated the dwarfs as if they were nothing but amusement. I thought it hilarious when the dwarf set the king and his men on fire. I imagine the whole event being very funny. All these monkey looking like people dancing all around all of the sudden get thrown up into the air then cast on fire.

What I found Romantic about Hop Frog was that how everyone has a little evil in them. The nice little dwarf can even pull off something heinous and cruel if someone drives him to it.

" In less than half a minute the whole eight ourang-outangs were blazing fiercely, amid the shrieks of the multitude who gazed at them from below, horror-stricken, and without the power to render them the slightest assistance."

The King and his men got what they deserved. They were cruel and evil to Hop frog and his friend Tripetta and got what they deserved. This story also is Romantic because it shows the evil all around. Everywhere you go there's someone getting someone back.

Realism. The Battle with Mr. Covey

The story of the Battle With Mr. Covey is about Fredrick Douglas as a slave when he was a yound man. The story takes place on a plantation were the slaves never get any break but on Sundays. "it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow too hard for us to work in the field." So on this plantation one of the over-seeers named Mr. Covey just has it out for young Fredrick. While working on the wheat fan Fredrick starts having what sounded like a heat stroke and when Mr. Covey came to assist he kicked and told him to get up and keep working, once on his feet Mr. Covey hit him in the head with a hickory slat busting open his head making him bleed everywhere. Fredrick then starts running to the masters house to seek protection from the master, but the master basically gives him no help because Mr. Covey is a white man. The next day when Fredrick returns for Mr. Covey starts running at him with a whip and Fredrick hides in a corn field. Then Fredrick goes into the woods where he meets one of his fellow slaves going to his wifes home a few miles away. This fellow slave named Sandy is kind've like the old wise man. He advises Fredrick to pick this root and carry it in his right pocket and all times and he can prevent ever being whipped. Not really believing it but wanting to satisfy the old man Fredrick goes and picks the root. When returning to the plantation he saw Mr. Covey and he did nothing, but it was Sunday. On Monday morning they asked Fredrick to clean the stables out when doing so Mr. Covey came into the stables grabbed Fredricks legs and tried to tie him up Fredrick immediatley sprang up and begam fighting with Mr. Covey another white man tried to break it up but then he kicked him right in the ribs, and when Mr. Covey called for help no one answered. The Master let it happen because Mr. Covey had it coming and deserved it. So after that day Fredrick never got whipped anymore, but got in a bunch of fights.

Throughout the entire story Fredrick talks about how Mr. Covey was a slave-breaker. And how slavery kills the spirit inside you. "I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! " This quote is a good example of how Fredrick describes the feeling of slavery.

The social issue that Fredrick Douglas is trying to solve in this story obviously is slavery. Slavery is a horrible system that breaks every natural law that man deserves. In Fredricks Douglas's story he really gets across the horrible image that is slavery.

Realism. A Story of an Hour.

In the book A Story of an Hour there is a wife Mrs. Mallard who has just found out that her husband had been killed in a train wreck. Her sister had to tell her becuase they were scared she would have trouble taking the news with her bad heart problem. When Mrs. Mallard finds out about her husbands death she goes into her room and starts to thing of life after her husbands death. At first she seems to be sad and unsure of life after his death, but then she can't help but think "She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" So even though she's sad she kind've feels realived because now she can live for herself and not someone else. Once she calms herself she goes back into the living room and when she walks in the room her husband walks through the door, it turned out he wasn't even near the accident. Being so shocked she fell down and died.

I think what problem Kate Chopin was trying to solve witht his piece of literature is that wemon should live for themselves and not for there men. Instead of worrying their whole live away about others wemon should try to nurture themselves the way the nurture others.

Dark Romanticism

I think I fall more on the Dark Romanticism side. Though I do believe in some things the transcendentalist think. I like the transcendentalist thought that god speaks through people but I don't think he speaks through everyone. There are a lot of evil people in the world and i think the devils inside of them.