Throughout the year we've learned different literary and rhetorical devices. These devices have assisted my ideas and enriched my writing. Since the beginning of the year, my writing has progressed tremendously, from the different types of genres we have been taught to write. In my essays, I have added a few devices, but from all of these, imagery has been one of my favorite to use. I selected a piece of writing where I used several imagery examples. In the “Death Forest”, one of my writings, I included
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I walk a fine line (while composing this imperfect declaration of love) between a fruitless attempt at expressing my boundless gratitude and deep affection, while also maintaining the image of that delightfully eloquent man with whom you have come to expect nothing but literary flawlessness. While cynical the beginning of this letter may be, I remain resolute in producing a masterpiece of expression to all but the author's eyes. Furthermore I shall attempt to continually outdo myself by consequently
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You have asked me to write an essay about a poem called “tell the truth and tell it slant “ in my essay i will be talking about why Emily Dickson capitalized improperly, why she used the incorrect punctuation , and why she used a lot of oxymorons thank you for reading my essay and i hope you enjoy. In the first line she says “ tell the truth but tell it slant “ this is also the title ,which means this is very important and she wanted to make sure that the reader saw this and understood
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IHUM 202 Name¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬____________Nhi Tran_________________ Reading Questions “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 1. What do the images used to describe the evening and places he will travel through evoke? What do they suggest about Prufrock’s state of mind? (lines 1-9) Prutfrock draws some basic sketches of the place he travels through. The place appears to be a sketchy, seedy, dark part of a modern city since it is “half – deserted” with some “one-night cheap hotels”. The streets
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Illustrations of power and authority, the dream of the individual to take control despite the existential context of life and death. Blake expresses his concern of social repression and believes instead in the individual’s freedom. His optimism seeps through the violent nature of his imagery to suggest hope in states of anxiety. The composition of Blake’s work has a strong figure to ground ratio. They are usually centrally positioned to highlight the subject matter whilst the surrounding elements
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Love, loss, and moving on: all are connective in the making of a robust relationship, and all are brought through in many book, poems, articles, works of art, or songs. Both “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe and “Remember” by Christina Rossetti have familiar text features and points focusing on the three thoughts above.When analyzing both poems, one can determine the similarities and differences in the themes love, loss and moving on. To begin, the theme of love is recurring in the poems by Poe and
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Poetry is a dead language started sometime in the 18th century by an unknown artists. But xever since that day when he wrote that poem it started something, he laid the foundation and many people like him throughout history has continued his legacy. Now in the 21st century it's like there aren't any left. Where have they all gone? Nowhere there sitting right next to you there eating in the same restaurant as you shopping in the same mall, there just to afraid to come and show there light there story
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"The Floral Apron", talks about the difference between two generations that have grown apart. Marilyn Chin had wrote about a women cooking an old dish that the new generation doesn't know about. The second paragraph was about the women who is cooking some squids for a meal. The process was described as "she wiped her hand on the apron, pierced the blade into the first. There was no resistance, no blood, only cartilage, soft as a child's nose. A last iota of ink made us wince." The newer generation
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Jim Morrison: Inside the Poetry of the ‘Lizard King’ Although all poets have events in their life that inspire their work, Jim Morrison’s unusual writing draws attention to the artist’s unique story and lifestyle. Born into a military family, Morrison encountered a very migrative and unstable childhood, distant parenting, and global events of his baby-boom generation. The iconic frontman’s dramatic, short lived, counter-culture lifestyle echoed these peculiar aspects of his background. These events
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The Ballad based from the Mexican folk tale of Gregorio Cortez called, “With His Pistol in His Hand” The ballad was written by an Mexican American Poet, and musician, and folklorist Americo Paredez. (1915-1999) Paredez was from Brownsville Texas, and is known as a respected Mexican American scholar from the 20th century. Americo wrote the ballad in January of 1958. During the time around the time around 1915 in which Paredez was born. there were tensions and often violent events around the Texas
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