"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.” - Al Batt Al Batt’s quote "It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action” can mean only mean one thing. It means to stop sitting back and watching what is going on around you to actually doing something about it. Batt uses a serious tone to make his readers think about making a change. His quote sounds a little like a lecture from our moms trying to get us to stop
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1. " I willed my Keepsakes- Signed away" What I got from this quotation was that the narrator is ready to die, that she has cut all ties to this world and is ready to experience the afterlife. Did anyone else get that or maybe get something different? 2. This isn't a quotation but more about the fly in this poem. When I think of a fly I think of the insect that feeds off of waste and/or dead flesh. Could the fly simply just stand as a symbol of death or is there a bigger picture here? I was curious
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“Therapy couldn’t break me. I never learned a word that would insure safety, so I spoke softly and tip-toed often. The door to my room was like a big old coffin, the way that it creaked when I closed it shut. Anxieties peaked when it opened up. As if everything I was thinking would be exposed, I still sleep fully clothed.” This is a verse by Sage Francis from his song The Best of Times. It was the first day of my next great undertaking, college. To many, the first day is full of personal anxieties
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The narrative voices of the male characters found in each piece are announcing their love and affection for a female character. Sir Paul Mccartney performed a song called “Michelle” in which a man expresses his admiration for a woman. In the song, the readers learn that there may be a language barrier between a man who is attempting to profess his affection for a woman, so he attempts to express his feelings with his limited vocabulary. Lines 44-53 of Romeo and Juliet is an excerpt of a play written
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While the speaker clearly states his professional relationship with his former student, he did still love her and has a sense of respect and awe towards her. His descriptions, through various uses of figurative language and syntax, emphasize his attitude of sorrow about her student and love for her because of his feelings of pride and happiness. He did not love her as a lover or father because he was neither; however, it is obvious the speaker enjoyed having his student, Jane. It is also apparent
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“Good dog.” This is how the poem “Dog’s Death” ends which is completely contradicting to the title of the poem. When you see the title “Dog’s Death” you are already emotionally prepared to read something depressing and upsetting. If John Updike chose the title “Good Dog” it would go against the poem itself. The title “Good Dog” would not have been a bad choice for a title it just was not a better choice than the title “Dog’s Death”. The major reason for the title this poem given is the tremendous
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of irony and regret, respectively, cautioning against dangerously reckless behavior that newfound independence allows which would adversely affect one's future. The two poets employ diction to reveal the respective tones of irony and regret. The speaker in “To Sir John” tells Lade that he has been freed from his “tether” now that he has come of age, allowing him to “take [his] fill,” ultimately causing him to “hang or drown” himself through his excesses. The first words hold a connotation of freedom
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I am a tissue. At least, that is what I had been told by the other “tissues” above me. They said that this discovery came from the last tissue to be chosen by the higher beings before he left this place. It is said that he heard one of the higher beings ask for something called a tissue, and he concluded that we were these tissues after he saw one of those beings prepare to grab him. He spread this information to the tissues below him before these gods took him away, and he apparently mumbled something
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disappointment comes into a child’s life. “The Barn” comes from the point of view of a child in the barn on a farm. For this child, the barn was a terrifying scene. With a young imagination, you get descriptive pictures of what they felt. In line 3 the speaker describes the barn as being “musky dark”. “The floor was mouse-grey, smooth, chilly concrete. (5) After hearing those phrases, you start to picture what this barn
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room while the speaker contemplates their message or searches for just the right word is important in allowing the speaker to feel authentically and fully heard. If I completed the sentence of someone speaking it would suggest that their voice was less important, it would suggest that I have neither the time nor the inclination to fully listen to them, and it would likely suggest that I found them in some way lacking in intelligence. By holding the sacred space which allows the speaker to openly share
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