Canto 1 is a loosely translated epic written by a man over 2,500 years ago. The poem suggests that to improve, the living must look to dead for direction. Song 1 starts the reader off with the speaker’s journey in the Odyssey. The speaker travels to the underworld to speak with a seer named Tiresias, to seek knowledge from the minds of the dead. The speaker moves by a dreary boat that is "unpierced ever/ With glitter of sun-rays" (13-14). Odysseus can communicate with the dead directly but the speaker
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Kath Walker in her poem Color Bar subverts the concept that whites are civilized and blacks are uncivilized by exposing the way white settlers have been treating the aborigines. White settlers who revelled themselves as the civilized race by looking at the aborigines lifestyle
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when he went a visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the poem Facing It. In the poem Facing It, Komunyakka caught my attention because of the title, and how Komunyakka explains the meaning of his title, by the types of speech he has in his poem, and how he describes the wall. Komunyakka’s figurative launuage in this poem drives home the speaker’s feelings and memories that he is encountering at the war memorial, Yusef starts the poem off with an example of visual imagery. He states, “black face
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Margaret Atwood." PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of Poems and Poets. Poetry Search Engine. 20 June 2006. Web. 24 Mar. 2011. <http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-fit-into-me/>. Content Summary “You fit into me” may be perceived as very brief, but the four lines have such a deeper meaning and can be interpreted in numerous ways depending on how you view things. Overall, you fit into is about a relationship between a women and a men. Throughout the poem the speaker is describing her experiences in
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The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling, way down in the valley tonight. There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye, and a blade shining oh so bright. There's evil in the air and there's thunder in sky, and A killer's on the bloodshot streets. Oh and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising, Oh I swear I saw a young boy down in the gutter, He was starting to foam in the heat. Oh baby you're the only thing in this whole world, that's pure and good and right. And wherever
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The Hade kids usually drive because they don’t need sleep as much as we do as far as Me and Jeremiah can tell. Not sure why. I see shadows in the woods when I look out the window and I know everyone in the car see and knows what they are.Yes monsters, but more specifically σκιά lurkers which mean shadow lurkers. They are easy to destroy, but If they get in a group they are nearly impossible to kill all at once. I try to stay awake but my eyes feel heavy. Like something is whispering me to sleep and
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Whether reading a short story or a poem, there is always a story to be found within. The authors of these scripts are able to capture readers with the utilization of characterization, rhythm, or a fairytale setting throughout their narrative. It is imagination that sanctions the reader of these literary forms to be able to mentally visualize what the author would like the reader to visually perceive by use of symbolism or descriptive wording. In the poem “The Road Not Taken” or short stories “A
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Strange The poem “Melancholia” by Kat Strange is a perfect depiction of a girl who views all of her positive and negative moments in her life. At first, it mentions how her youth was a playful time, but then the poem continues with little positivity and a lot of melancholy. When she views her life she is overwhelmed by the amount anguish and grief that she becomes depressed. The author doesn't know whether to feel happy or sad so she's initially in a type of limbo that throughout the poem ends up in
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Tintern Abbey as a nature poem Throughout Wordsworth’s poem “Tintern Abbey,” he uses the image of the eyes, more specifically what the eye is able to perceive. He begins the poem by describing what it is his eyes are seeing as he paints for the reader a picture of where he is situated in nature. Details of shape, color and movement are revealed, yet it is not with the eyes that the scene is made visible to readers, it is with the mind that the trees, rocks and hedge-rows emerge. This plays into
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schoolgirl who steals a piece of gum with another young girl. Her mother finds out and is very disappointed in the girl making her feel very guilty. She tells the story to the teacher expressing her worry and guilt to him or her. This story is written in a poem way, but also sounds like a recount. The author has written this in a smart way by hooking us in at the first line “teacher, don’t scold me.” This immediately catches our attention wanting to read more to find out what happened. Firstly, the story
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