...Angelica Martinez Professor Bromley Eng 102 “The Sun Rising” compared to “Last Night” John Donne’s love poem "The Sun Rising" was written from a male’s point of view in the 17th century and Sharon Olds love poem "Last Night" was written in the 19th century from a female’s point of view. These two love poems have different themes on the topic of love and both are very different in language structure, as "The Sun Rising" is more formal and much more complex to read than "Last Night". Despite these differences in writing style, theme and centuries apart, the poems have great use of vivid imagery and simultaneously both use the tone of unhappiness in the beginning. In the very opening Olds uses the word “Afraid” and Donne starts off with “BUSY old fool, / unruly Sun”. Both authors rotate the tone of unhappiness in the beginning to more content and satisfied towards the end. When comparing the two love poems, the reader can see how both have great use of imagery. Olds applies a high-pressure imagery throughout the poem, setting up a tension between submissive and aggressive sensations and images. Olds gives us a vivid image of the sexual intercourse as being very hot and animalistic. She describes it as "dragonflies in the sun /100 degrees at noon /the end of their abdomens stuck together". The animalistic and hot kind of imagery, as a reader gave me a mental picture of the sexual activity being wild and just pleasurable without...
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...trip was to me, and I am hoping to expand my knowledge and understanding of our world today and how it has come about. I am comfortably settled into my hotel. After my long cruise across the Atlantic, I am finally able to write this letter home, and I hope it finds you happy in good health. I wanted to tell you about what is going on here in Paris. I was walking around earlier today and happened across the Salon De 1872 displaying some of Europe’s up and coming artists. I will have to tell you that what my eyes have seen is absolutely amazing. There is an artistic movement going on over here that they are calling impressionist art. As I was viewing the pieces in the Salon, I noticed one in particular that is vividly amazing painting, for the likes of nothing I have seen in the Americas. The painting that has moved me so much and seems so different than anything I have seen before in its style and composition is by an artist name Claude Monet, and the name of the painting is “Sunrise”. This painting displays the port of Le Havre and is set in the morning. I have visited this place personally a week ago, and it is quite lovely. In the background, there are some ships set with their anchors cast into the water. Their silhouettes seem to disappear into the mist, however. Three small boats appear dimly in the foreground, and the water is reflecting the light of the rising sun. So vivid and so moving I feel as though I was still there just thinking about it now. Monet, as he is referenced...
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... |a. |Venus was a thousand years old. | |b. |Venus had rain most of the time. | |c. |There had never been forests in Venus. | |d. |There were no forests in Venus. | ____ 3. What do the details in this passage tell you about Bradbury's purpose? And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives....
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...WESTERN ASTROLOGY Cancer Sun Sign - Zodiac Signs Cancer Sun Sign - Zodiac Signs Cancer June 22 - July 22 Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac, is all about home. Those born under this sign are 'roots' kinds of people, and take great pleasure in the comforts of home and family. Cancers are maternal, domestic and love to nurture others. More than likely, their family will be large, too -- the more, the merrier! Cancers will certainly be merry if their home life is serene and harmonious. Traditions are upheld with great zest in a Cancer's household, since these folks prize family history and love communal activities. They also tend to be patriotic, waving the flag whenever possible. A Cancer's good memory is the basis for stories told around the dinner table, and don't be surprised if these folks get emotional about things. Those born under this sign wear their heart on their sleeve, which is just fine by them. The mascot of Cancer is the Crab, and much like this shelled little critter, Cancers are quick to retreat into their shells if it suits their mood. No wonder these folks are called crabby! For Cancer, it's not that big of a deal, though, since they consider this 'shell' a second home (and they do love home). The flip side of this hiding is that shell-bound Crabs are often quite moody. Further, in keeping with their difficulty in sharing their innermost feelings, it can become a Herculean task to pry a Crab out of its secret hiding place. What to do? Give the...
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...Night time in space It is very easy to get busy up here and forget to “stop and smell the roses” as it were. (I think that is probably true for all of us everywhere!) So after dinner and before bedtime tonight I finally stopped and took a moment to watch the world go by during a night pass. It seems like it has been a while since I have done this. There are always excuses…other things that have to get done, e-mails to write, feet to warm up, too tired, there is always another day...blah, blah, blah. But I put my foot down, figuratively speaking, and took the time. We were passing up through the Atlantic going north across Africa and Europe and arcing down through Asia to come out east of Australia and New Zealand into the Pacific. I do not know exactly where we were but it was already night when I positioned myself at the docking compartment window. I think it was the one facing more starboard. I always get myself mixed up when I go into that module; I can never easily find the hatch again. It is completely night. There are thunderstorms across Africa and lightning is everywhere; bright flashes are going cloud to cloud illuminating the clouds as it arcs from one to the other. It is a private fireworks show. The storm is large and very spread out and at any moment you see 4 or 5 flashes occurring at one time, each one only lasting a moment. The colors range from something orange-ish to blue-white. Some are more like balls of light while others have that characteristic...
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...speaker turns out to be a fleeting joy that he ever can't recapture. What a bummer. Stanza 1 Summary Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line. Lines 1-2 Now I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green * Welcome to Fern Hill, where the speaker was once young and carefree. Plus, apple trees. Sounds like a great place to Shmoop. * He also hung out in his "lilting house." What in the world is a lilting house, you ask? Well, lilting is an old school style of Gaelic singing, but it can refer to anything with a cheerful, happy tone. * So was the house singing? Well, maybe not literally, but with this personification, the speaker is setting the mood for the rest of the poem. Things are good. * He's young, happy, and the pastoral scenery is like a mirror of the speaker's joy. Lines 3-5 The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, * Lines 3-5 look a bit different from the opening lines. They're shorter, but they stick with scene setting like the opening two lines. * Line 3 tells us that the night sky was full of stars, but the order of the words is a little funny. Why? Well, try rereading the line like this: the night starry above the dingle (and as much as you might snicker at that word, a dingle is just a...
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...Oxford University. He worked as a Barrister of Law and was later appointed a Judge of the Court of Appeal, where he remained until his retirement at the age of 67. Synopsis This poem is about celebration. It is a descriptive poem about the changing scenes. It celebrates the richness of the land’s produce and how alive and plentiful Nature is. However, amidst the harsh rain and lashing wind, things are always bright and glorious when the sun shines again. NATURE POETRY SETTING The poem is set in Jamaica. The poet uses nature and describes the weather being hot and wet. The poet also uses trees, bushes, flowers, and fruits to portray nature as alive and abundant. The weather is seen as bright and sunny with flowers in full bloom. If it turns wet with its torrential rain and gushing wind, or when water swirls on the ground and nature is in mayhem, it will all eventually pass. He shares his enthusiasm and gratitude and appreciation for nature as the poem ends. TONE AND MOOD H.D. Carberry uses a joyful and casual tone. He celebrates nature using words...
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...Mood Disorders: Causes, Effects and Treatment Robert Baker Psychology GE1116 Dr. Angela Isom November 30, 2009 Mood Disorders: Causes, Effects and Treatments In today’s society, people seem to have a lot of problems that are classified as mental disorders. These disorders include: depression, schizophrenia, bipolar, and even seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The immediate stigma that is placed on most if not all mood disorders is that they are sicknesses. In the case of depression, this is not to confuse depression, a normal emotion with biological depression, an illness. Further along this line of irrational thought is the belief that they are not treatable and the person affected is in some way, shape or form disconnected from civilization as we know it. In this research paper, we will attempt to destroy these unfair stereotypes on this subject, attempt to rationalize the behaviors, and shed light on treatments for the various disorders. The research gathered will attempt to understand and answer these questions: 1. What are mood disorders and their symptoms? 2. What are the causes? 3. How can the stigma of mood disorders be removed? 4. What forms of treatment are the most successful? What Are Mood Disorders And Their Symptoms? In order to get a good idea of what causes mood disorders, we first must attempt to categorize what various classes of disorders...
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...evening - spending some time in a bar, calling his wife to say he will be home late. Everything is like a blur. He returns to his home, just to find out that the boy and his father is waiting for him. They want to thank him for his bravery and tell him that the dog didn’t die. Stolpestad lives in a little town and he has been living there from his very early years. For him his life is just the same as it has always been. It’s like he is stuck and he doesn’t go any further - it’s the same routine day after day and all this is the main theme. From the very beginning there is a good example on the setting in the story and how he feels about it on page 1, line 2-3: “(...) - sun never burning through the clouds, clouds never breaking into rain (...)”. Here the whether symbolize his mood and days in this town. It says how monotonous his life is and the qoute is an example on how anything never happens; it’s not a really good day and it’s not a really bad day. It’s just the same and it’s boring - like a grey sky. The suffering dog can symbolize the neighbourhood Stolpestad is stuck in. By killing his dog he will also crack those things, which have tied him to this...
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...or seasonal mood disorder, is a type of depression that occurs at the same time every year (Lee, S.A.D.). Although the exact cause for the depression has yet to be found, there are many theories that point to the exact same thing. Most of them, have much to do with the factor of the sun. The symptoms of seasonal affective disorder vary from mild depression to suicidal thoughts, with almost everything imaginable in between (Stein, page 2). Although it hasn’t been established what the exact cause of seasonal affective disorder, there is a wide range of theories that exist. Although Seasonal Affective Disorder has roots going all the way back to 1845, it was not officially classified until the psychiatrist Norman E. Rosenthal noticed that a lot of his cases for depression had occurred only during the months of winter(Waltz, page 1). When he published his articles in The Washington Post, he received thousands of letters from people all over the country who had the exact same symptoms that he found with his own patients in his private study. He went on to release the book Winter Blues: Seasonal Affective Disorder: What it is and How to Overcome it. As for now, psychiatrists treat patients with seasonal affective disorder the same way the treat patients who are diagnosed with clinical depression. The cause of Seasonal Affective Disorder has never really been determined. The strongest theory that has the most support is that the disorder is directly related to the sun. Well, the deprivation...
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...and in groups is essential to correct written expression. The sports fan must understand terms like shortstop, quarterback and center in order to follow the description of a game. Similarly, those who wish to speak and write standard English must master the concepts that we will cover ahead. 3 Section 1: The Sentence The basic unit of speech and writing is the sentence. A sentence is a series of words that form a complete thought, for example: Birds fly. Samuel Johnson's father ran a bookstore. My two black cats enjoy lazing in the sun. A complete sentence has two main parts: subject and predicate. 1.1 The Subject When we speak or write, we speak or write about something. The subject is what is being spoken about. For example: Birds fly. (the subject is "birds") 4 Samuel Johnson's father ran a bookstore. (the subjet is "Samuel Johnson's father.") My two black cats enjoy lazing in the sun. (the subject is "My cats.") The main word in the subject (usually a noun) is called the simple subject. The main word with all the words that describe it is called the complete subject. For example, in the second sentence above, the simple subject is "father." The complete...
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...successfully portray the theme of materialism and emptiness of the American Dream (Daisy in this story), I changed the plot of the original story. Instead of Daisy saying she did love Tom in the original story, in this creative writing, she says she never loved Tom. However, with the dialogues that constantly allude the downfall of Gatsby and the employment of the distinct characteristic traits of the characters, readers can indirectly get the sense that Daisy’s actions are not true. For example, Tom’s calmness sharply contrasts with his real characteristics, which the reader may feel odd about and wonder about what his true motives are. Also, Daisy's sudden change in the mood after the mention of money shows how materialistic Daisy is. ! ! In addition, near the end of the story, short descriptive words clearly capture the mood that Gatsby is in. This is because terse and short wordings can better deliver the setting or the message, than do long descriptive words. Readers can more easily understand what the author is trying to convey through short wordings. Also, when the readers get to read the short...
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...The Paradox of Death Death comes to us all one way or another, there is no escaping death. Our natural life’s cycle must take its course. The core focal point of this exposition is to compare and contrast the symbol of death and impermanence in the poems Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson and Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas. Each poem offers a different perspective towards accepting death. In one literary work we have someone who welcomed death submissively, in contrast to another literary work where the author is willing someone dear to him to fight against death. Together the two literary works incorporated the same theme with dissimilar points of view, ranging from the way they utilize their respective literary devices such as personification, point of view, symbolism, figure of speech, tone, mood and imagery. The unconformity of the poems “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” overshadows the parallel theme of death connecting them. The first poem I’ll discuss will be the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, which is written in the using a meter form. In agreement with Karen Silvestri, “meter in poetry is what brings the poem to life and is the internal beat or rhythm with which it is read (Silvestri, 2014)”. “Poetry is meant to be recited and the number of beats per line of spoken poetry determines the name of the rhythm, though not often seen, rhythms are named...
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...Write your name, period number, and the correct answer for each question on your answer sheet. Take your time and choose your answers carefully! | | | Tone, Style, and Mood | 1. | The footsteps were coming closer. I knew I had to get out of there fast. Looking desperately around, I finally spotted a small window at the end of the room, a beacon of light in the dark, rancid basement. I sprinted and leapt up to grab a ceiling pipe. Thankfully, the pipe was close enough to the window to allow me to swing my body through. My enemy was making his way down the hall, bursting open door after door. I needed to break through this window in two tries to make it out in time. What is the mood of the passage? | | | | A. | timid | | B. | cheerful | | C. | sorrowful | | D. | daring | Write your response here: | I was having a crazy dream. For some reason, my face was covered in sticky honey, and a bear was charging toward me! It pounced on me and started licking my face! Yuck. I quickly jerked awake to escape, but for some reason the licking didn't stop! I also realized that something small was running back and forth across my chest. I opened my eyes, and there staring back at me was a puppy! "Awesome!" I yelled. I've wanted a puppy for so long, and here was this adorable brown creature looking up at me. I suddenly realized that today was my birthday! I looked at the doorway and saw my mother smirking at me. "Happy Birthday...
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...painted nothing but the plain shades of white and black. It may come off as the stereotypical room of a teenage girl with only a glint of herself shining through. Her friend Josephina lies on the bed snug as can be as Ophelia talks. Ophelia’s delicate hands slowly unfold like blooming Easter lilies as she whispers the stories of her covered up past. Her beige lips moved as she would stop and start, hesitant to finally reveal the secrets she’s kept so far away. This is the exact moment that Josephina finally realizes one thing quietly inside herself. This is the exact moment that they aren’t just friends hanging out for the first time outside of work, but they’re now best friends. It was from this exact moment that Josephina began to think of Ophelia in a new, inexperienced way. She enjoyed listening to her friend’s rich, full voice that left her ears ringing. When Ophelia would begin to laugh faintly, trying not to wake her parents, at one of her corny jokes, Josephina would hear it like grand music that only gets stuck in your head. The night went on and Josephina couldn’t help but notice all these incredible things about Ophelia. She looked deep into Ophelia’s eyes and felt just like she was underneath of the clearest water in Hawaii with the sun rays shining through the water making tiny crystals. Those two friends conversed for hours, talking about gloomy things, but Josephina never failed to lighten the mood with a joke....
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