In the poem, “Wind and Window Flower” by Robert Frost, the conflict of unattainable love is dramatized through diction, personification, and imagery. The poem is about a winter breeze being in love with a flower though they never meet due to the window separating them. He repeatedly comes to the window at night just to catch a glimpse of her since the morning fog is preventing him. “He gave the sash a shake,” (18) shows the winter breeze trying to get the flower’s attention. “But the flower leaned
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Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is a poem describing typically Sundays during the winter season. Hayden begins the poem with the father's getting up in the early morning making the necessary adjustment warming the house for his family to start the day after a long week of work. The element of figurative language that enriches imagery and sounding are an essential element of this poem contributing to the message of “Those Winter Sunday”. The element of figurative language with the use of metaphor
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning interprets the provocative marble statue “The Greek slave” in her ekphrastic poem “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave.” The sonnet describes a figure of a provocative, nude, and shackled woman, displayed on a pedestal. While most academics would suggest that Browning uses the image of chained woman to criticize slavery, however, upon closer reading, we can also find a significant amount of sexual imagery within the poem. Using many metaphors, Browning identifies the shame and persecution
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote the poem “The Cry of the Children” in 1842, after reading about the horrible conditions of children who worked in factories and mines in a commissioner’s report written by R.H. Horne. Browning used the poem to publicly condemn child labor and to help bring about child labor reforms by shedding light on the issue. The poem is written in Browning’s signature singular style, which helps Browning effectively illustrate the reoccurring theme of disappointment and to exploit
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“With us in ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” (Steinbeck 14). In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck two men have a dream. George and Lennie believe they have a future. They believe that they are special, they are different from the other men on the ranch. George describes a dream farm, which I believe is his and Lennie’s American dream. The dream farm symbolizes the quote “The best laid schemes Of Mice and Men often go wrong and leave
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“... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” (Frost, Robert). This excerpt taken from “The Road Not Taken”, shows the choices, and the consequences of those choices. These themes are present in both the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a story of a Southern white teenager, Huckleberry Finn is being “civilized”
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Kashina McGrath English AP Zodiac Book Report The book Zodiac by Robert Graysmith told a story about a man who made anyones nightmares turn into a reality. The Zodiac is very much alike the urban legends, but in real life. Graysmith wrote about the killer that “got off” to killing his “prey” as he referred to it in the book. The Zodiac found pleasure in stalking his victims and attacking them when they least expected it. He would dress up in his paper bag to cover his face, only to kill innocent
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In both passages, the authors characterizes one or both characters as loyal, devoted and a little gullible, which ultimately conveys the theme. In “Mending Wall” two neighbors argue over whether to rebuild a wall between their properties or not. The neighbor who stubbornly believes the wall should not be built believes this because it is a tradition within his family. The opposite neighbor states he “will not go behind his father’s saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again,
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In Robert Frost's symbolic poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" he uses the literary devices rhyme, personification, metaphor, and imagery to convey meaning; he explains how nothing, especially something beautiful can last forever. Ways he shows this is "The first green of spring is her hardest hue to hold" and "so Eden sank with grief". All these express that nothing good can last. Frost uses nature as his theme because the cycle of life and death showed through the season provides imagery that people
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More than three years ago, Rachel Taylor started her great expedition of searching the world for the unknown. The Titanic was found by Robert Ballard and Terracotta soldiers were found by farmers in 1974, but Rachel knew that surely there was more that has never been discovered in this vast world. Her real fascination was emerged in egyptian tombs and myths, so she set out for Egypt in 2030. It was thought that there could still be many smaller tombs concealed under the sandy plains and many believe
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