...Bradstreet because I have always found her writings very interesting and seeing her concept on life. “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” she writes about how she and her partner will feel about the death of her while giving birth. In that time frame, dying while giving birth was not uncommon and shows the maternal fears, hope and love that may occur while being pregnant and giving birth. I do feel that she is a puritan writer, because she had a way of expressing the Puritan way of life, with how difficult and limiting that lifestyle was, but still expressed her beliefs and intelligence of women. This poem expresses the love for her husband, her children and concerns of giving birth and also explaining to her children that death is also a part of life. Just as she expresses in the poem, “No ties so strong, no friends so dear and sweet, But death’s parting blow is sure to meet.” Anne suffered most of her life being ill, so it’s easy to understand why she would write a poem of such a thing. Whether she was pregnant at the time and it was a possibility to happy in the future or that she just expresses in such a way to her children that death can sometimes happen just so easily. My expression of her being a Puritan writer is because she voices her expression how easily death may or can occur, and explains that, hey, this is part of life. But no matter what happens there will always be a bond between her, her husband and her kids. Just as she expresses: “We are both...
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...miserably, however love does not only happen once in your life. Love happens all time. Just look around and you will see people being happy and smiling, because it is a new day. Love will overcome the most hurtful things in life. So if you are feeling sad or at your lowest point, just remember that life goes on and the existence of love will always be there. Also at lunchtime. The poem “At Lunchtime” was written by Roger Mcgough and it is a poem about love. Mcgough’s poem is based on then-current fears of a nuclear holocaust. So we have to keep in mind that it is right at that point where there was this nuclear war (1967) and therefore Mcgough is talking about how the world is going to end the next day at lunchtime. A lot of people live with this fear everyday and walk out of the house without knowing weather they will survive this day. At any point a bomb could be dropped, due to the fact that they lived in a nuclearage period. They could be killed at any moment, but possibly at lunchtime “that this being a nuclearage, the world was going to end at lunchtime”. We hear about one character in the poem. He tries to persuade people to make love with each other in the bus and her takes their busticket away and encourage people to let go of all their...
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...George and Lennie are both migrant workers in the nineteen thirties who want to buy land of their own. The first example of foreshadowing in Of me Mice and Men is that George and Lennie’s plans go askew. In Robert Burns poem “To a Mouse” has an example of foreshadowing it says “The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew, and leaves us nothing but grief and pain, for promised joy!... This poem was his way of apologizing for destroying the mouse's home. Steineck uses the poem to show that the characters dreams do not end in a good way. The next example of foreshadowing in Of Mice and Men is the death of Curley’s wife's death. Before Lennie killed Curley’s wife he was touching her hair because it was soft. In “Pet it like it was a mouse” it says “Jus’ wanted to feel...
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...Poems were a type complex literature that needed one’s deep knowledge for the language. Being able to use words to describe a feeling; vague, as it is. It wasn’t something people would expect me, Heiwajima Shizuo, to be good at. But, I am, ever since high school. Luckily, no one was able to find out, not even my brother. But, after that person found out, that’s when my fifteen years started. ------------------------------------------------- During the first year, I was reckless as I had always been. After getting home from work with Tom, I’ll write him those shitty poems each and every day without falter. Licking those goddamn post stamps made my tongue itchy, sending those cards with my saliva. Heh, I know that it’ll be disgust him, being the freak that he is. The second year was the same. Reckless. But, I got a little in to it too much that I didn’t even notice my crappy apartment burning, not until I noticed that only the collar of my bartender suit was left. Kasuka was nice enough to buy me a new one, better too, and a frickin’ new set of bartender clothes, as my old ones were burned to ashes. I calmed down the third year, very proud of getting past the boundaries of literature. Three years of writing those shitty poems aren’t for nothing, y’know. On the fourth year, Celty found out about it. And, she encouraged me to send it to a magazine; Even telling me that I can change my name just so I agree to it. She apparently had Kasuka into it too. I eventually...
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...Angelou’s poetry presents the female struggle for identity more effectively than the male struggle? Angelou writes from many different viewpoints, the main one tending to be from a female perspective. The poem ‘men’ focuses on the admiration and vulnerability a woman may feel towards a man – ‘they knew I was there. Fifteen years old and starving for them.’ By saying ‘they knew I was there’ shows the reader that everywhere the young girl goes men are constantly watching her, looking for her even with the age that she is at. ‘Starving’ is a sense of desperation for something, in this case the young girl may want sexual experience this links to a later line ‘it is your juice’ this is also a simile, which may connote to the physical point, referring to a sexual encounter. However, with the sentence being short it shows us that a lack of detachment was there this also relates back to the young girl wanting experience. Angelou portrayed to us the image of a young girl struggling for identity due to want of a man’s touch, making the female struggle more effective than a man’s struggle. Whereas, in the poem ‘Willie’ Angelou shows the struggle for a man’s identity in a more negative view than the girl in ‘men’. During the poem it states that people call him ‘uncle’ ‘boy’ and ‘hey’ this shows us that Willie does not have a true identity to anybody – meaning nobody actually knows him, suggesting to the reader that he is on his own and has no body. This is supported by aneglou saying...
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...she went 'round She sank to the bottom of the sea.Chorus Be with me This is a ballad for the good timesSo put a battery in your legPut a rock beat over anythingGet it stuck there in your headYou can be with meI got nothing to rely onI've broken every boneEverybody's stop believingBut you know you're not aloneYou can be with meThis is a ballad for the good timesAnd all the dignity we hadDon't get het up on the evil thingsYou ain't coming backYou can be with meIf you want to beYou can be with me.... James Dickenson http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/be-with-me/ The Song of the Sulky Stockman Come, let us sing with a right good ring(Sing hey for lifting lay, sing hey!)Of any old, sunny old, silly old thing.(Sing ho for the ballad of a backblock day!)The sun shone brightly overhead,And the shearers stood by the shearing shed;But "The run wants rain," the stockman said(Sing di-dum, wattle-gum, Narrabori Ned.For a lifting lay sing hey!)The...
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...Phillis Wheatley was only 12 years old when she first published her poems. Phillis Wheatley became well-known poet, and was not only was she the second published African-American poet nonetheless as she was the first published African-American woman. So the question is how this 12 year old slave girl becomes so gifted in poetry and English writing when it was not okay for slaves to learn how to read and write. In 1971, when Phillis was about eight years old, when she was captured and taken away from her parents, soon after that she was bought as a slave. “The child was a victim of the largest involuntary human migration in history. She had been kidnapped from her family in Africa and forced to spend up to two months crossing the Atlantic. She now faced land again at last (Carretta, 2011)”. “Phillis reached Boston in 1761 at the peak of the annual season for selling imported slaves (Robert). There has been a great deal of confusion about when and by whom the future Phillis Wheatley was first sold in Boston. “The advertisement for the human cargo that included the future Phillis Wheatley first appeared in the Boston Gazette on 13 July 1761, repeating almost verbatim the advertisement from the year before...
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...Love hurts. And we're not just quoting that '80s song. Line 1-2 When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, • Uh-oh. Any time a literary work starts out with a wise man's sayings, you just know that they're probably going to be ignored. If we listened to wise advisors, we wouldn't have any stories to tell. And poems are stories, after all. • So, we've got a young whippersnapper and his older mentor. Stay tuned, folks…. Lines 3-6 "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free." • Well, it turns out that love is worth more than gold. Or, er…the lack of love is worth more than gold. • Don't let the happy tone and snappy rhymes confuse you: this poem is about control. It turns love into an economic calculation, one which allows the "wise man" to balance feelings against more conventional forms of currency (crowns and pounds and guineas are, after all, the big guns of the U.K.'s monetary system). As it turns out, the heart is more valuable than money – which is precisely why the speaker's buddy thinks that it should remain soundly within his control. • Of course, this is also about the lack of control – since we have a feeling that not too many people take this wise man's sayings all that seriously. After all, there's a difference between once-in-a-lifetime When Harry Met Sally sort of soul mates and a passing crush. You might be able to block out true love with work or friends or Dungeons and Dragons...
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...There were random poems thrown sporadically around the book that made no sense and didn’t seem to have an obvious connection to the plot. The poems also did not read well. After going through two semesters of Creative Writing, trust me when I tell you that I have seen amateur writers pull better poems out of their asses than this. I don't know if it was because of my kindle or just the writing in general, but each time I stumbled upon a poem I found myself wishing it would just disappear. It was a good concept, I've seen a lot more Young Adult books playing around with mixes of prose and verse lately, but it wasn't consistent enough to feel like anything other than a poorly planned afterthought. All We Have Is Now is a wonderful Young Adult book, despite the crappy poetry, and it brings to light some wonderful ideas about what people do on their last days and what certain individuals consider to be important. There are some elements of love and friendship, of family and loss, of hope. Overall, I think this book had a magnificent message about what it means to be human and...
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...she wasn’t much of a poet, she couldn’t even rhyme like Dr. Seuss, even though he worded his own rhymes to be intelligible and simple for young children. “Not all poems have to rhyme, newcomer. Poetry has no boundaries, it’s all about on how you flow with your words and how passionate you are willing to portray it,” She gave Mai a coy wink as she walked away to her next...
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...Spoon River Anthology Benjamin Franklin once said “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Franklin is stating that without growth and progress the world would be standing still, not improving or achieving anything. This relates to Spoon River Anthology in the sense that the world is constantly changing and needs to continue to change or we won’t be helping anyone or any situation. In Spoon River there are many themes discussed that help explain the townspeople’s thoughts and roles as the changes happen. Prohibition, women’s rights, racism, Social Darwinism, and progressive reform are some of the themes that are described in Spoon River Anthology. Since I myself am a woman the idea of women’s rights really sticks in my head and seems like a very important and good change for the world. Also Prohibition had a major impact on the world at this specific time period, 1865- 1916, so it is a major theme throughout Spoon River. I am a very strong, independent, smart woman and I still cannot believe women at one time had no rights. Their job was to stay at home, take care of the kids, and provide meals for the man when he got home. This is not in the slightest bit fair. Women weren’t even allowed to vote! The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, states “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or...
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...size When we turn off the light Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way To make everything right Is for God to just reach out And turn off the light! Sheldon Allan Silverstein This poem was selected by me for many reasons. My faith in God makes me believe that when we look at people without judging, or with the light off, that everyone is the same. When reading this poem I thought about all of the people I know in my life, how they all differ, but how they are all important and the same to me. Each day I try to look people as though the light is off, how God looks at them, and make sure that I do not judge. The style of this poem is shown in many ways. The author writes the poem without any stanzas and uses traditional form. The phrase “when we turn off the light” is repeated multiple times throughout the poem. In addition, after light is mentioned at the end of a line, the following sentence rhymes with the word light. The tone is consistent throughout the poem. Using complete opposites show the reader exactly how different people are. A Wounded Soldier -Gary Ferris A wounded soldier lies alone in bed, While a million thoughts run through his head. He remembers the day when he was strong. When greatness seemed where he'd belong. He's not sure what landed him here. But his soul is troubled...
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...New England, the 1950s. Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke), a lonely and painfully shy teenager, who is under pressure by his stern parents because he must live up to his older brother's reputation to attend Yale and become a lawyer, arrives for the new semester at the Welton Academy for boys. This semester begins during an orientation gathering with a speech given by the stern Headmaster Nolan (Norman Lloyd), who states the academy's four pillars: Tradition, Honor, Discipline, and Excellence. Todd meets Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard) an ambitious student whom becomes his dorm roommate. Later in his dorm, Neil is ordered by his grumpy and domineering father (Kurtwood Smith) to drop an extracurricular class in order to maintain good grades so the boy may become a doctor much as he has done. Neil is under pressure from his stern father's will. Also, Mr. Perry tells Neil that Mrs. Perry also wants him to become a doctor, which further worries the boy. A little later, Todd tells Neil that he is in a similar situation with his parents involving his older brother who also attended Welton a few years ago, graduated, and attended Yale Law School and became a lawyer and his parents want the exact same thing for him. But Todd does not have the courage to tell his parents that he instead wants to be a writer, not a lawyer. During the first day of classes Todd and Neil experience the various teaching methods which include speeches by the trig teacher, as well as the Latin teacher, and the...
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...that it would have took days to find him, if he wasn’t washed to shore (236). Again, the main conflict was all of them dieing, they all died in a unique way. Like when a bear clock was dropped onto Blores head, this isn’t something you could do in the city and not get caught doing it (232). Also since nobody was around the island, except for the 10 people, nobody would be worried about them being there, and nobody would be worried that something was happening to them. Plus since there are 10 characters, they all think that hey are to a relaxing vacation, so it helps to build up a lot of suspense (1-42). And Then There Were None, the author had the perfect amount of characters to go with the plot. Agatha used the 3rd Omniscient point of view, to get around with all of the characters and what they were thinking. She had the right amount because of the “Ten Little Indians” poem (31). The poem talks about 10 little indian boys who all die, but they all die in a unique way. The ways that the 10 little Indians die, are the same idea of the ways that all of the 10 people died. Like when Vera died, the poem read “One little Indian boy left all alone, he went and hanged himself, and then there were none”, the way Vera died was by hanging herself (245). If the author would have had less characters, there wouldn’t enough. Yet, if there was more characters it may become too long, and never ending. Again using 10 clueless characters helps build up the suspense of what is going to happen...
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...starts to lose certain characteristics that it once had. Your skin is no longer tight like it used to be, now it loose and starting to wrinkle. With mental age (without disease ex: Alzheimer’s) I believe your mind gets wiser. You have lived a long life and most have been through many trials and tribulations that they have learned from. You have seen it all and done it all, to me older people give the best life advice, who better to get WISDOM from than a person who has lived through and experienced so much? 2. The Golden Girls shows an accurate and positive image of aging because it’s about 3 widows and a divorcee who are still able to live a happy life even in their age. Eventually all marriages will end in death or divorce so for someone to see that they can still live a happy and healthy life is good. The Golden Girls shows an accurate and positive image of aging because it’s about 3 widows and a divorcee who are still able to live a happy life even in their age. Eventually all marriages will end in death or divorce so for someone to see that they can still live a happy and healthy life is good. The Golden Girls Excerpt from the article HAS 50 BECOME THE NEW 30? By Frank Rocsi People these days are living longer than ever. And as they go through their longer, fuller, richer lives, they're taking better care of themselves and aging gracefully, so much so that even at 50 years of age and older - once upon a...
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