My favorite "ism" was Realism and more specifically under the category of realism, regionalism. I enjoy how realism shows things how they really are simply put. Although I enjoyed some of the thought-provoking parts of other isms regionalism was cool in order to see how people from other places and times are similar and different from New England today. One example of this is from the Wonderful Tar Baby Story in which the word Larn' is used. I do not know if I have ever heard someone replace teach and learn for each other while living in New England this then leads me to question whether it is a difference of time or of region. The other category under Realism I also enjoyed was naturalism in how the descriptions in the poems I read by Carl Sandburg are written so, for lack of a better word, poetically. In one poem, Dream Girl, after comparing his dream girl to things present in nature he comes back to reality in that she is only a dream and she may never truly ever be with him.
My favorite writing was The Wonderful Tar Baby Story by Joel Chandler Harris. I remember reading this story in middle school but enjoy seeing realistically how people really are. In this case, the southern dialect of the time is extraordinarily easy to see. Although in places it is difficult to comprehend exactly what is being said I find it to be a fun challenge to figure out what certain things are being said. The hard to read dialect reminds me of the way the character Joseph spoke in Wuthering Heights and how one almost needs to say it aloud to understand what is truly being said by the given character. A rather interesting part of this piece of writing is that there is only a brief insight into what is happening in the life of the storyteller. However that brief insight can show a lot in that storytelling took place in passing stories from one generation to another and that on a more humorous note yams were cooked on the fire to I assume be eaten later.
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