Mackowski forms a layer of images in her poem, with each image interacting with the other to tell a story about the mind. This juxtaposition of images is very clear in the second sentence of the poem. She uses the phrase, "It rests on the head" (Line 3) to create an image about the location of our mind being inside our skull and then immediately follows this with the phrase, "like a bird's nest, woven of twigs and tinsels" (Line 4) to give an overall physical description of the mind itself. The "twigs and tinsel" comparison allows the reader to picture the mind as being made of billions of neurons.
Mackowski's imagery is not limited to visual imagery alone, but she makes usage of several forms of imagery in her poem to show the connection between our consciousness and physical sensations. For example, while writing "The pile of fallen leaves drifting from the brain to the fingertip burned on the stove" (Lines 6-7), she uses tactile imagery to explain how our brain is the central component of our body and all the nerve signals travel from the brain to each part of the body, with these signals defining our experiences. The image formed by this metaphor is that when we touch a hot thing, our first reaction is to move away from it. This is because the brain instinctively sends a signal to our body part saying it do so. Similarly, in the next phrase she invokes an auditory image by writing "to the grooves in that man's voice as he coos to his dog" (Line 9). Once again, this directs the reader to think of how our physical actions, in this case our ability to speak, are governed by our consciousness and mind.
After talking about the physical aspects of consciousness, Mackowski turns her attention to the mental aspects of consciousness, our thought process. She depicts our mind as a "compacted galaxy" (Line 16) and then compares the actions of the mind and the thoughts being generated inside it to "its constellations trembling like flies caught in a spider web" (Line 16-17).
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes is a story about Arthur, Lee and Joanie, love triangle, I believe. Arthur called Lee looking for his wife Joanie. The young girl with Lee is Joanie. Arthur goes on and on about his mistrust of Joanie and Lee tries to convince him otherwise. ... Shortly, he calls back and says that Joanie just came in, which was impossible because she was still at Lee's house. ...
The story consists of three characters; Arthur, his wife Joanie, and his employee, Lee. ... One night, Joanie leaves the house and does not return for some time. ... As it turns out, Lee has been sleeping with Joanie for quite some time, and continues to lie to Arthur as to her wear-about (Grodin6-7). ... Joanie and Arthur can never experience true love as husband and wife due to her adulterous acts. ...
Consciousness: a definition A. Consciousness and Control Nature of consciousness Degrees of consciousness Modes of consciousness Natural state of consciousness o Sleep o Dream Altered state of consciousness o Meditation o Hypnosis Psychoactive Drugs B. ... Consciousness and Control Consciousness - is a psychological and physiological state in which we are aware of our sensations, perceptions, feelings, thoughts, etc. consciousness is awareness of something, including oneself. ... James (1890) defined consciousness as a stream i.e. consciousness is continuous, can chan...
In his book, Kegan provides his theory of adult developmental growth, describing each stage of a person's consciousness, how we think and understand. Taylor (2008) refers to Kegan's definition of values of the Socialized Consciousness model as "I know what's right, generally because my parents, religion, or cultural group have shown the correct way. ... Instead of being absolute, values may be "situational, " meaning it's not a simple black-and-white decision. " I distinctly recall the beginning of my adult development transition from socialized consciousness to self-autho...
Freud challenges Descartes and says consciousness is less reliable than we think. Human beings cannot learn everything from consciousness. ... Some physical and somatic processes break our consciousness and not self-evident. ... Challenging Freud points out that id, ego and superego with interactions of consciousness and unconsciousness, "I" cannot be a first principle for consciousness. ... According to Freud the gaps of consciousness are a result of these interactions. ...
One may realize that their relationships have been, up unto the point of their new-found consciousness, superficial and self-serving. ... This consciousness does not allow the unnatural idea of work to mold with their natural desires, happiness, and the need to feel human. ... Consciousness is, therefore, from the very beginning a social product, and remains so as long as men exist at all. Consciousness is at first, of course, merely consciousness concerning the immediate sensuous environment and consciousness of the limited connection with other persons and things outside the individual who...
Learning of Consciousness Sigmund Freud was a psychologist that created the first psychodynamic theory. ... Freud created the theory of three levels of consciousness, psychosexual stage of development and mechanisms that described the image about human personality. ... First off, the three levels of consciousness include id, ego and superego, which was Freud's view of how people 's awareness levels operated. ... But those levels of consciousness are hard to apply to people. ... In conclusion, Sigmund Freud's three levels of consciousness, psychosexual stage of development and d...
The Tragic Consciousness of Hardy's "Novels of Character and Environment" Hardy is a great English writer. ... The central task of this essay is to define the tragic consciousness, which is the key, from three aspects: tragic consciousness of society, tragic consciousness of fate and tragic consciousness of life. ... It forms the tragic consciousness of society in his works. ... Tragic consciousness of fate There is a pronounced fatalism colour in Hardy's works. ... Tragic consciousness of life Hardy's tragic consciousness of life comes from his knowledge of the state ...
Blade Runner and Human Consciousness The movie Blade Runner represents a number of philosophical views regarding the consciousness, intelligence and sense of identity of Artificial Intelligence, referred to in the movie, as replicants. ... If this view of consciousness is applied to the replicant nature in Blade Runner, than replicants acquire a sense of consciousness. ... In the movie Blade Runner, replicants are people, with a sense of identity, and profound consciousness. ... It is natural to compare the ideologies of consciousness to the species of human beings and no other. ... ...
