...9 August 2010 A Season of Changes In “To Autumn” by John Keats, the narrator uses visual imagery and personification to emphasize autumn’s progression towards winter. By using visual imagery, the narrator captures the season of autumn not only as a time of maturity, abundance, and warmth, but also as a time of death and dying, the cold desolation that becomes winter. The narrator personifies autumn as a woman, allowing the grace and beauty of the season to emanate from the words on the page. Autumn is a season that delights the senses with all of its colorful grandeur, yet autumn is also a season of gray, melancholy days that beg for quiet reflection as winter’s decay invades its existence. Autumn’s passing is gracefully mourned with the knowledge she will return to delight us again the following year. The first stanza uses visual imagery to appeal to the senses of sight and taste. The “seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness” (1) captures the atmosphere of autumn in England. Autumn is a time for the cool fog that often permeates the morning dew as the sun rises. The richly colored leaves of yellow, orange, and red and the cornucopia of the harvest symbolize the maturation of autumn. An abundance of apples on “mossed cottage-trees” (5), “fruit with ripeness to the core” (6), and “plump...hazel shells” (7) tempt the taste buds with an array of succulence that cannot compare to any other season. Autumn is a time to savor the colors, the crisp morning air, and...
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...objective is to look after and satisfy their children and husbands. Larkin shows the reader this through the play by using various poetic techniques in each of the stanzas. In stanza one Larkin talks about how the mothers are getting much older and have left their glory days behind them: “summer is fading”. This is metaphorically telling the reader that they are more than half way through their lives as the good years are now fading away and leaving them. They are now fading into autumn which shows that they are getting older. “Young mothers assemble” shows us that the older mothers have now been replaced by these “young mothers” who are still in the peak of their lives or as Larkin would say, their summer. The theme of the inevitability of change and the passing of time is made clear through this stanza, especially in the first line. Larkin shows this as he talks about the seasons being stages in life as there isn’t anything the mothers can do to stop it happening just like someone getting older. He also shows that there is change in the mother’s lives as they have been replaced by younger mothers. In the second stanza Larkin talks about the memories that the mothers have had of the good old days and how that life is behind them now: “And the albums, lettered” This talks about the memories they have of their summer years in life as albums are things used to hold memories of things that happens in the past which creates a nostalgic feeling in this stanza. The...
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...transitoriness of life and love. The sonnet consists of three quatrains and one couplet at the end. Shakespeare makes use of the lyrical I to express the content and the feeling which are connected to this subject. In the three quatrains there are three prevailing images. In the first one it is the change of seasons, passing times of the days in the second one and in the last quatrain it is the development from fire to ashes. In the first quatrain there are symbols which refer to the change of seasons. "When yellow leaves, ¦.. (l.2) for example symbolizes autumn, "cold and the "bare ruined choirs (l.3/4) refer to winter and " ¦where late the sweet birds sang (l.4) stands for spring and summer. In the second quatrain "sunset (l.6) refers to evening and "death ´s second self (l.8) stands for night. In the last quatrain "glowing (l.9), "fire (l.9) and "ashes (l.10) are part of the prevailing image: a fire which is dying down. Spring/summer, morning/noon and the fire symbolize youth. You are still active, strong and your soul is carefree and not burdened by many memories of things you have lost in your life. Autumn, evening and the glowing of fire refer to becoming/being old. You lose your beauty and your passion, you are not that active anymore and you have a lot of hurting memories of beloved things and persons you have lost. Winter, night and the ashes refer to death. Life is over now and you can not change anything anymore. The couplet at the...
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...To the boy who breathes ashes and dust, whose eyes contain the most beautiful sunset. Whose smile beams like the moon kissing the skies at cold nights. Whose autumn hair dances waltz in the spring wind. Whose fingers are pointed and long, hand soft as a cotton that I wish to hold forever. The stars and you are the same. You are beautiful but only at a distance. And kissed me like sending a thousand lightning on my spine. I tasted salt in your mouth as if you drank the waters of the ocean; good thing you didn’t drown. My skin had blood marks on because you held me so tight that winter night. But that didn’t matter because I love you. And I mean it. -End- It’s a little bit funny how I cut fringes out of my long hair And I would feel very sad every time I look at the mirror. Like I was carry kettle bells with each of my finger I thought every girl in school was perfect and not fat And I curse myself for not being alike. I wasn’t good with words spoken or written, and I was ashamed of myself every time I stood in front to say , perhaps stutter. I look above with a beaten heart. The stars at night became my mother. My father was the moon. Or so I thought. As days went by, I became even sadder. I kept on dropping hints Of sadness and they fall like nothing. As nobody...
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...orange colored head , perhaps an indication of what is going on in his mind as he was painting or it could be a resemblance of him in his sleep at night . The main theme or point behind this painting appears to send messages to let someone know this person is upset . Many artists write songs , create paintings , choreograph dances to get certain points to someone who has made them upset . Pollock seems to be sending an underlying message to one person , a person who somehow blocked him from his achievements , even though many people are fascinated with this abstract . To the center gearing to the right , is an eye that can be of human form . The rest of the face takes on the identity of an animal , perhaps a wild cat . The selected mixture of autumn colors with hidden images of a cat peaking through to the audience implies this painting applies to Halloween , or fall season . The overall shape of the Halloween colored ball or head has a few stray extensions leading away from...
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... I wasn’t familiar with the area but had traveled through there on several occasions. I got the address from the receptionist and located the place almost instantly in time for my interview. Tennessee weather is sporadic at best. I can remember one year, it was 60 degrees when I woke up to get the kids ready for school and by 2 o’clock that afternoon, it was snowing. The seasons change very abruptly in Tennessee. It has one long hot spell and one long cold spell. There is not a “fall” or “spring” really. You wake up one day and all the leaves are gone off of the trees and it is very cold outside. Leaves hardly get a chance to turn before falling to the ground. Summertime is the worst season of all in Tennessee. The heat is not real bad, it’s the humidity that that makes you feel miserable if you have to be outside. My family went to a family reunion down there in the middle of July last year. It was at Cedars of Lebanon Park. That particular day, the temperature was in the low 90’s but the humidity made it feel like 120 degrees outside and we had...
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...Main module: Declare Jobs As String Declare Date As String Declare Spring As String Declare Fall As String Declare Winter As String Declare Storm As String Declare Monthly As String Declare Season As INT Write “Choose what tasks you need to check!” Write “Spring………..1” Write “Fall…………..2” Write “Winter……….3” Write “Storm………..4” Write “Monthly……..5” Input = Season If (Season < 0 or Season > 6) Then Write “You need to input a number between 1 – 5.” If input = 1 Then call Spring module Else If input = 2 Then call Fall module Else If input = 3 Then call Winter module Else If input = 4 Then call Storm module Else If input = 5 Then call Monthly module End If Spring module: Write “You have selected to view the Sping checklist of your home maintenance.” Write “These are the things you need to check for listed below:” Jobs Write “What jobs did you complete?” Input Job Write “Congratulations! You have completed checking the “ + Jobs + Date + “ Make sure you check that job again next spring.” Fall module: Write “You have selected to view the Fall checklist of your home maintenance.” Write “These are the things you need to check for listed below:” Jobs Write “What jobs did you complete?” Input Job Write “Congratulations! You have completed checking the “ + Jobs + Date + “ Make sure you check...
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...Amazing Autumn The most amazing season of the year is autumn, or as most southerners call it fall. Fall is the time of year when football comes on, the leaves change, bonfires are in full swing, and anything pumpkin and apple is selling. The anticipation of all the little trick-or-treaters, and knowing that family will be around in just a few short weeks makes the heart warm from the inside out. Fall brings Thanksgiving, Halloween, and much more, it also starts to bring everyone’s heart out. Everyone has a bigger heart it seems when fall comes and makes it appearance for a few months, after that it leaves one longing for it until it comes back around. Fall is full of wonderful things that make the season what it is. At the beginning of an East Tennessee fall, all which is heard is “Go big orange!’ All people want to see are the mountains’ trees changing from the bright green and dull green colors into reds, oranges, yellows, and some deep purples. The changing of the leaves’ color and the yelling of Tennessee Volunteer fanatics are how one will know the wonderful season fall is upon us. When fall arrives, Starbucks starts to sell pumpkin spice lattes, and Wal-Mart sells pumpkins to carve. Some will start to see women and men drinking the hot and delicious pumpkin spice lattes and children planning what to carve on their pumpkins. With children planning to carve pumpkins, people will start to see the pumpkins with rather menacing, and some humorous, faces carved into them...
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...The theme of the 9th annual Fall Prevention Awareness Day is “Ready, Steady, Balance: Prevent Falls in 2016”. Many states, national organizations, professional organizations, and federal agencies participate and observed this day. The NCOA (2016) mentioned that in 2008 there were 11 states that participated in the event and the number of states has increased to 49 in 2014. During the Fall Prevention and Awareness Week, state’s fall prevention coalitions, health care providers, and senior service agencies hold presentations, health fairs, screenings, and workshops to raise awareness among older adults and their families and caregivers, elder care professionals, and the general public about the seriousness of falls and ways to reduce risks for...
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...all her abundance and variety in the future. The beauty of nature has been extolled in the works of poets and artists. When Wordsworth describes the daffodils dancing in the breeze or when our eyes alight on a painting by William Turner, our hearts are filled with an indescribable emotion. If a mere representation can move us so much, imagine the power of the real thing. If you have seen Massachusetts during fall season when the leaves turn yellow, ochre, and red, you can never forget it in your lifetime. Nature has myriad facets. It keeps changing from season to season, from minute to minute. If the sea was a bright blue in the morning, by noon it has become an emerald green hue. The colors of the sky keep changing throughout the day, from pale pink at dawn to a dazzling blue at mid morning and a bright orange by sunset and purple by twilight. Nature reflects our moods. When the sun shines, we feel happy and hopeful. When the skies cloud over and the rain falls in torrents, we feel pensive. A balmy moonlit night can awaken the lover in us. Such is the transformative power of nature’s beauty. In the movie, ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, the cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lector who is in a maximum security prison tells Clarice Starling, the FBI officer, that he wants to be transferred to a facility where he can have a room with a window that looks out on the sky. Even evil surrenders before the beauty of nature. It has been observed that patients in hospital recover...
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...To Autumn The poem To Autumn by John Keats is a simple poem that describes the stages of fall. The poem is personification of autumn. The poem is a personification of autumn to better display what autumn is. In the first stanza of the poem autumn is personified as the force that ripening and maturing the crop allowing them to grow and mature. For example the 4th to the 7th verse is With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells This displays how the fall is a time of nurture and growth and the ripeness of the flora in the fall that could relate to human life as one grows and matures. He uses this personification to better emphasis the beauty in this stage of autumn. It emphasis the growth of the flora that take place during autumn. It makes in imagery of this stanza more prominent and adds to the beauty one would envision in their head. Imagery in also very prominent in the poem and in the first stanza. In the first stanza every line has some sort of imagery in it. For example the first three verses are Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with him how to load and bless These first three verses display the imagery of the poem and the beautiful sight the author see in the fall. This imagery is placed in...
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...Weintraub, & Rubenstein, 2004). Clinical Issue Falls are significant to the geriatric population this author serves. Falls with injuries have significantly affected the quality indicators of this author’s facility. This in turn has negatively impacted facility’s overall star rating. Falls and falls with injury have also caused a significant increase in hospital bounce back rate; hence affecting the facility’s star rating. Heinrich, Rapp, Rissman, Becker, and Konig (2010) revealed that falls are a relevant economic burden. Wong, Recktenwald, Jones, Waterman, Bollini, and Dunagan (2014) conducted a systematic review of falls. Their study revealed that falls are a relevant economic burden, costing about $13,000 more per patient and 6.3 days in the hospital. Since the facility started using agency nursing staff twelve months ago, the rate at which residents fall has increased by 40 percent. However since implementation of the fall prevention guideline two weeks ago, the facility has experienced a 4 percent decrease of fall incidences. A new Interdisciplinary Fall Prevention Program (IDFPP) has been initiated. The IDFPP is comprised of a Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Director of Nursing, Social Services Director, Activities Director, and a Restorative Nursing Aide. It is geared to improve resident mobility. There is also ongoing monitoring and reviewing of intervention to ensure their effectiveness. Daily, on ground rounds high risk resident’s care directives...
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...Our Great Adventure Jeanna Zentgraf DeVry University, ENGL 112 Professor Hale March 6, 2011 Our Great Adventure When some friends of ours offered us a piece of property in Tennessee, we jumped at the prospect of moving to the mountains. For us, moving to the Tennessee Mountains was to be a great adventure for my family, but with all of the problems that we would encounter; it turned out to be something that we wanted to forget. We were moving to the mountains to start a family adventure. We were looking forward to being able to see the seasons change with the vivid fall colors and seeing snow for the first time. My son was thrilled about living in the woods and being able to see the wildlife, such as deer, come into our backyard. We just knew we were going to enjoy living in a small town where everyone knows everyone. The town was so small, that it only had 600 residents. This was going to be a new experience to build our new home ourselves, with the help of a contractor. Right from the very beginning we started having problems; we couldn’t seem to get anyone who wanted to work with us. There were so many things to have done that we didn’t even know where to start first. We had to have the land cleared, have a septic system installed, to build a 20 x 20 metal garage and have a well dug. By now with the weather getting colder our tiny camper wasn’t sufficient for the winter, so we decided to order a manufactured home. Since it was starting to get cold...
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...Task: Write a fictional narrative with one scene The grass beneath his paws was cold, as it was always this time of year. Autumn's refreshing draft of cool air filled the valley, kissing the river in front of the Husky. The shades of orange, red, and brown around him were typical of course, but there was no harm in hoping these colors would not accompany the fall season this year. The feeling of vibrant energy with dull decay had always struck a chord in his chest. "Is this really necessary Jack?" he shouted further down the river bank, glaring down a red fox pawing softly at the river's current. "Calm down pup, this'll only take a minute if I can just lay a paw on a single fish," Jack shot back quickly with obvious frustration stemming from his voice. His fur was already drenched at his previous attempts, but this did not stray him from his persistence. The Husky had already begun lying down on the bank's shore, paying little attention to Jack's assurance of success. He let out a sigh and licked his front paws. He'll never learn, why does my closest friend have to be the only fox around who can't even catch the smallest of fish? The sound of a splash rang out down the bank. He rolled his eyes knowing this couldn't possibly be the sound of a fish having been caught, but the sound of Jack slipping into the stream. Frustrated at the sound of Jack's obvious failure, he stood to his paws once again, bitter his rest was interrupted so soon. The pack had ordered them...
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...Halloween is a time of celebration where people wear costumes and party while in masks every once a year. It is a traditional holiday that takes place in most countries around the world. Halloween’s tradition began in Northern Ireland and Modern Britain, and it has spread to most of the countries all over the world. To some countries, Halloween is a formal holiday while to others it is still an informal break. The popularity of this festival continues to increase year after year. Media outlets such as radio, television, and movies have helped the festival to grow into America’s second largest commercial holiday. This growth contributes to bringing in an estimated revenue of around $6.9 billion dollars annually. Most people spend the day watching horror movies, visiting important attractions, theme parks, and having snacks at Halloween theme restaurants. I interviewed an American citizen who has quite a lot of information concerning other countries and his country’s Halloween parties. His name is Trevor A. Jonathan, and he was born in the year 1976 in California, United States of America. He joined Harvard University in the year 2002 and undertook a Bachelor of Arts in Development Studies where he graduated in the year 2005 and joined the United Nation’s travel team. He has participated in a few countries’ Halloween’s holiday such as Russia, South Africa, Brazil, and China during his travel assignments around the world. a) What do you know about Halloween? Halloween...
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