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    Remember and Crabbit old woman both portray a sense of persuasion to the reader as they both try and give out a clear and insisting message. They are both written in a first person perspectives which clears boundaries to make the poem more personal and affectionate. Remember is about a person who is dying and is pleading for remembrance. Crabbit old woman is about an old woman who is pleading for a fair judgment of who she really is and that she is not just an old woman but some one with a heart

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    An old woman clutches a tourist’s sleeve and tags along with him. She wants a ’fifty paise coin’. For this she offers to show him ’the horseshoe shrine’. This refersto a legend centred around a horse-shoe shaped depression in a rock about Khandoba‚ the presiding deity at Jejuri‚ who leaped from that rock onto his horse ashe carried his wife with him. This is a legend that the true believer reveres and the sceptic doubts.The tourist moves away as he has seen the shrine already. The old woman ’tightens

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    temple of Kandoba at Jajori and the poem is thus against this setting. "An Old Woman" is a graphic picture of a beggar woman. Having lost the promises of her past‚ she is reduced to her present state. As the speaker views her squarely‚ he‚ in a sort of ’revelation’‚ becomes aware of the decay which has set in her person and which is extended to the decaying tradition symbolized by the hills and the temples. Without using many words‚ the old woman forces the narrator to look at her from closed quarters

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    The poet recalls a visit to an old couple; the old woman is helpless‚ and dying slowly. It is clear from the description that she has no quality of life. She is cared for by her husband who prays for her release from this life. Significance of the title: no definite article emphasises the universal nature of the experience Degradation of the old woman as this suggests she needs help. Simply eating to stay alive. Animal connotations. Simile – like an old horse. Useless‚ fit only to be put

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    Museum of Art‚ the painting that caught my attention the most was the Old Woman (Woman with Gloves) painted by Pablo Picasso in France‚ created in 1901. This painting was located in the The Philadelphia Museum of Art‚ Resnick Rotunda room and apart of the The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection. This painting was painted during Picasso’s Blue Period. The Blue Period is defined as a depressing and cheerless period. During this era‚ Picasso had a love for drawing women‚ prostitutes‚ girlfriends

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    destroyed than in the hands of another person. In "Old Woman Magoun‚" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman‚ the old woman is in that position. She is burdened with relinquishing custody of her granddaughter‚ Lily‚ to the child’s father. Throughout the story‚ the old woman faces an inner struggle over caring for and‚ ultimately‚ losing her granddaughter. She deals with her struggle in a very realistic‚ human response. 	Old Woman Magoun is a woman who refuses to be disobeyed or disagreed with. She

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    Despite “growing old in misery and in shame‚ having only half a backside and remembering always that I was the daughter of a Pope” as she‚ the Old Woman told Candide‚ "a hundred times I wanted to kill myself‚ but always I loved life more…” The Old Woman endured an series of unrelenting episodes which would have made anyone want to kill themselves but at her old age‚ instead of appearing doubtful and full of regret‚ like Candide‚ she looked at the bright side and still had the desire to live her

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    Wise Old Woman Auvaiyar ஒளவையார் Varan S Karunakaran Melbourne [pic] Wise Old Woman Auvaiyar ஒளவையார் Varan S Karunakaran Melbourne Copy Right © First Published in 2004-02-04 Publishers Honey-Stream Contents Preface 6 PUBLISHERS VIEW 8 READERS’ REVIEW 9 1. Introduction 10 2. Wise Old Woman 11 2.1 General 11 2.2 First Auvaiyar 11 2.3 Second Auvaiyar 12 2.3 Third Auvaiyar 12 2.4 Attribution to Auvaiyar 13 3. TAMIL LANGUAGE 15 4. CHILDREN

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    Theme Essay The theme of this Japanese folktale‚ “The Wise Old Woman‚” retold by Yoshiko Uchida‚ helps readers learn a larger lesson about life. This folktale tells the story of a mother and her son who breach a law that “anyone over seventy-one must be banished from the village and left in the mountains to die.’ To do so‚ the son made a hole in the floor of his house where his mother could live in secret. Later on in their lives‚ there was a cruel lord who came to take over the village and if the

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    experience. At every tourist place you will meet a self-appointed tourist guide like the old woman in the poem. They need money and will pester you. They even promise to give you some service in lieu of the money you give them. Generally tourists give them something to get rid of them. SUMMARY The poem begins with a commonplace experience‚ but ends in a revelation. The old woman is not an ordinary woman. She is the representative of the degradation of humanity. She has bullet holes for her eyes

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