In the poem, “The Hand”, it talks about a teacher questioning a kid, basically asking what he wants to do with his life, and if he was going to give it what he’s got or not. This was a question for the kid to answer for himself, no one else could answer it for him. In the reading, “A Model for High Schools”, it talks about kids dropping out of their original high school due to, drugs, violence, lack of care, lack of teachers caring, etc., but later in life a school opens up that gives those kids
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The three poems “Cinderella” by Sylvia Palth, “Snow White” by Andrea Budy, and “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton are all infused with twisted fairy tale characters, feminist themes, dark emotions, and death. Each of these poems contains literary devices that construct and present the overall meaning and characterization of the fairy tale characters. The poems are distorted versions of the original fairytale stories in which the authors attempt to portray as dark with haunting tones of sorrow and desperation
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Lit Device #4 - Repetition Repetition: “Literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.” Example: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known”(386). Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Context: In A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, Charles Darnay is condemned to death because of the Evremondes’ bad awful reputation among the common people in France. Living up to his
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Hang’s description of the Russian landscape is often devoid of color, which symbolizes the emptiness and mechanical state of her life as an exported worker. During this time of her life she has ceased to fight and resigned herself to her empty, lonely life of work. The weather in the USSR is oppressive. A “net of grey clouds” (37) hangs over the Kiev sky. This “net” illustrates that Hang is trapped in this life and this grey, hopeless world. The trees are leafless and barren silhouetted against this
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On the remote island of Shalott, embowered by four gray walls, lies a legendary castle, where the Lady of Shalott spends her days weaving a magic web. People pass the island all the time, but have never set eyes on the fair lady, occasionally, her mystical songs will drift to the people working in the nearby islands. She is encumbered with a curse that forbids her from looking outside, thus she views the world only through the shadows in her magic mirror. The lady represents the artist, above ordinary
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Robert Frost’s poem, “Home Burial” is one of his earlier works. In it, he uses a dramatic lyric form that brings forth the emotions being felt by the husband and wife. It is a sad poem that is focused on two tragic events, one that has happened and one that is foreshadowed to happen. The first event and the key to the poem are the feelings of a couple towards each other in dealing with the loss of a child. The second event is the foreshadowing to and the end to a marriage. The poem also focuses on
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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words” (Robert Frost). The quote is especially true for the Shakespearean sonnets which are traditionally about love. People can express the thought of love through words on a page. In the Shakespearean sonnet, “Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art”, the author, John Keats, expresses his love towards a woman named Isabella Jones. At the time, they were just friends, but Keats wanted their relationship to go further
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Poetry can have different meanings depending on the reader. I will be analyzing the poem,“I’m ceded - I’ve stopped being Their’s -” by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s poem demonstrates the speaker growing through life by the form, theme, and word choices. Maturing is shown within the poem by the words “I’m ceded” at the beginning of the poem then, the words “I choose” at the ending. The form and punctuation Dickinson embraced in the poem also shows the speaker growing through life. Dickinson’s poem
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In the words of Kurt Vonnegut, “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ‘It might have been.’ ” In the poem, “Those Winter Sundays,” Robert Hayden reflects on what might have been. He remembers his failings as a child. Specifically, Hayden reflects on his unappreciativeness towards his father. Towards a man who did his best to give him a good life. Since Hayden deeply regretted his ungratefulness towards his father as a child, he used imagery, personification, symbolism, and other devices
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feminism, sickness, love, and Puritanism. Anne Bradstreet is considered a feminist in today's world, even though she herself never stated it. Anne Bradstreet, through her writing in "The Prologue," demonstrated that women are worthy enough to write poetry, or to write in general. Men believed that women were not supposed to write or do anything out of their "domestic duties". Bradstreet believed that men and women had their separate duties, but
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