Eavan Boland The War Horse • Tends to use simile. • Boland once said she found simile as an obvious form of comparison‚ metaphor more sophisticated and subtle. • Horse represents spirit of war‚ unpredictability of history • Criticism of our apathy • Images tends to be quite heavy handed • Tinkers horse – language of war‚ loss of war‚ • End of poem more cryptic • Shifts from Suburbia to Contemplation of History. Violence: Her poems often record moments of conflict and violence and more
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Horses of the Night by Margaret Laurence -Chris (15)and Vanessa(6) -Manawaka -"I detested the fact that I was so young" -Chris creates his own fantasy world (ranch‚ racing horses etc.) He tries to sell magazines‚ vacuum cleaners even when he knows he won’t make it to university. He can’t face reality. Also‚ when there is conflict he ignores it and it seems like he doesn’t even notice it. He holds a fantasy in his mind that seems real to him -In Shallow Creek‚ when Vanessa sees the horses is
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I had never ridden a horse before. Trotting away in the middle of a Costa Rican plain‚ I could feel my bare ankles stinging from the stirrup rubbing against them. We had been riding for a solid three hours in the unbearable heat. Suddenly I felt my body falling backwards‚ my horse was running. I grasped onto the horn for dear life. Thinking back‚ they did not teach me much about how to ride a horse before I jumped on‚ so I had absolutely no idea what to do. “Should I jump off?” It seemed like a
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Me Talk Pretty One Day Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris is an account of his life when he moved to Paris to learn a new language from the time when he was still a noob in French up until he could understand every single curse coming out from his teacher’s mouth. This story exhibits an extremely varied level of sentence structure‚ grammar‚ and vocabulary‚ which initiates to the reader’s understanding of the story. Sedaris’ style of writing is more inclined towards humorous‚ witty and straightforward
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Biography Of The Amateur Boxer Pretty Boy Bam Bam Every once in a while‚ a flower manages to sprout through the cracks in the pavement. For the boxing world‚ that flower is Toledo’s very own Pretty Boy Bam Bam. Raised on the rough side of Toledo‚ Ohio‚ it would have been more likely for Bam Bam to drop out of school or join a gang than for him to become a boxing and internet sensation. Born on September 11‚ 2001‚ Bam Bam‚ otherwise known as Wayne Lawrence Jr.‚ shares a birthday with a day many
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only important thing in her life was becoming pretty. On the night before her birthday Shay‚ her friend shares a secret with her‚ she doesn’t want to turn pretty‚ she wants to run away to a town called the Smoke. Tally is confused and upset with her friend and tells Shay that she cannot run away she has always wanted to turn pretty. On the day of her birthday Tally is told by Special Circumstances‚ a special group in New Pretty Town‚ she cannot turn pretty unless she finds where Shay ran away and turn
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Understanding the two texts “My fair Lady” and “Pretty Woman” have greatly developed and reshaped the indepth comparison of the both studied texts. Texts reflect the concerns of in time in which they are written. The fantastic team work of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Lowe made My Fair Lady‚ an outstanding success in 1962. The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle‚ an unmannered cockney flower girl from Covent Garden‚ who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order
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In the song “Pretty Hurts” written by Sia Furler‚ Joshua Coleman and Beyonce Knowles‚ has very serious empowering meaning behind the lyrics. Annotating this song has shown me a clearer view on how our nation and society sees beauty. Inflicted perfectionism upon our young girls and women and how certain beauty is expected from them. There’s way too much pressure on these girls and women to be beautiful. Women need to love themselves and not ponder over what they could be. In the world that
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How does Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts” use metaphors to explain society’s obsession with beauty and conformity? The song “Pretty Hurts” by Beyonce uses metaphors to explain society’s obsession with beauty and conformity. The song is about the effect society has based on way you look. Beyonce’s portrays the judgemental and mean way the society sees celebrities appearance as harmful and hurtful. In the song lyrics there are metaphors. The metaphors compare two things to make the writing have a more clearer
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“anyone lived in a pretty how town” analysis This poem by e.e. Cummings is one of the rear pieces of his work that resembles a typical‚ ordinary poem. At least that’s what its structure reveals – the poem consists of 9 quatrains written with no particular meter and a rhyming scheme of a a b c. Regardless of the poem’s fairly common structure‚ we can easily notice some irregularities in the writing. The one that is most striking at a first glance is the use of lower case letters both in the title
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