In the poem “One dignity delays for all” by Emily Dickinson symbolism is utilized to represent death and the idea of equality. Death alludes to the inevitability of the end of life regardless of one’s status. While the hierarchy of power in the living world is represented by the status of humans, death is the most powerful entity in the universe because it is a gateway between the living and the afterlife. Dickinson implies symbolism in order to create a connection between death and power. The connection
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Already we have seen that the speaker has a very different Sunday experience than his father does, but these lines really start to bring this idea home. We can think of these “chronic angers” in two ways. First, we can interpret them as referring to the people in the house being angry. The other option is to think of the house itself as being angry. If that's the case, then Hayden's giving us a little dose of personification, because he's saying the house has human feelings. It’s possible that the
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One thing that confused me about this chapter is that on page 320, Burroway suggests that statements such as “I don’t like this” count as constructive criticism, but on the very next page, she says that “the more specific the criticism you offer—or receive—the more useful it proves”, leading me to think that specific statements are constructive. “I don’t like this” is not specific at all, so her ideas seemed contradictory to me. Then again, I never saw constructive criticism as “positive suggestions”
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This poem brings to light the conflict between beauty, goodness, and love against the selfishness of the world. The speaker talks to the subject of the poem, trying to convince him almost that he should share his beauty with the world, but it is obvious that there is some resistance to this idea. Another related conflict that is presented is propagation, whose alternative is greatly discouraged by the speaker. The speaker explains this idea that people who are beautiful ‘owe’ it the world to make
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The topic of stereotypes is also explored through literature. For example, in the poem, “Labels”, the speaker describes how she is like a chunk-style vegetable soup; she is made up of many different parts. The speaker is not able to fit under just one label because she isn’t just one thing. But remember not to judge people like you might judge a vegetable soup, just by looking at it, people are more than they appear to be. The poet writes, “Grouping folks together / is an individual waste. / You
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Compare and Contrast between the Raven and Annabel Lee “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” are the two famous poems they are both written by the author Edgar Allan Poe's. Poe's was best known “fiction works are Gothic (combination of both horror and romance), as this two poems are”. Poe’s themes and style of poems deals with questioning of death and lost love. He loved his wife “Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe”. The author’s wife Virginia died because of “tuberculosis”. In fact, both “The Raven” and “Annabel
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Angelou uses similes consistently throughout her memoir to describe her feelings in various situations. For example, Angelou portrays the extravagant personality of Sister Monroe through a simile: “Then suddenly, like a summer rain, Sister Monroe broke through the cloud of people trying to hem her in, and flooded up to the pulpit” (42). In other words, Sister Monroe is similar to a summer rain because of her spontaneous nature. Angelou uses this simile to illustrate the increasing passion Sister
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In the eighteen-hundreds, Thomas Carlyle wrote some letters about Ralph Waldo Emerson. Two of these letters describe him in vastly different ways. One letter was written to John Stuart Mill, and the other to a Mrs. Baring. Carlyle’s point of view and respect for Emerson remains in both, however due to the different audience, his tone and use of language is incredibly different. The difference in audience was the main reason the letters were so different. In the first letter, Carlyle wrote to another
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In the poems "The Little Boy Lost" and "The Little Boy Found" the speaker makes it very evident that people need God to be led out of dark times and places. He shows this throughout the poems by showing how the little boy was in a dark, scary place and was brought out by his "father". The poems can also be alluded to the hymn "Amazing Grace' in which a sinner was once lost and is brought into the light by God. The first part of the Little Boy Lost shows a pitiful, helpless child calling out to
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The use of irony is the two poems “The History Teacher” by Billy Collins and “Outdistanced” by Larry Rubin punctuates the shared theme that history repeats itself, and those who fail to learn from it, repeat it. In the “The History Teacher” the teacher doesn’t teach his students correctly, he takes the violence out of the history making the ‘Ice Age’ the ‘Chilly Age’ (2-3). This exposes the audience to the fact that the teacher doesn’t value our history, despite him being a history teacher. As the
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