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    White Things Anne Spencer Deonna Hayes English 1302 Hayes 2 Anne Spencer writes of love‚ friendship‚ self-actualization‚ and the injustices of oppression that block it. Some of her poetry is directly inspired by personal relationships‚ but much forms a controlled‚ metaphorical‚ and seldom overtly angry statement of the value of those who have been oppressed (Johnston). Spencer never wrote a book of poems‚ and her poems were published in the anthologies of African Americans (Johnston). Many

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    1960s. Nelson compares the innocence of nature to the corrupt moralities of humans. The author used words like bloody‚ monsters‚ and killed to create a gloomy and dark mood. The tone is somber. The sonnet is not a Shakespearean sonnet because the rhyme scheme is a-a-b-b-c-c-b-d-e-f-d-e-f. I didn’t find any illusions but there are a lot of hidden meanings within the text. For example the Indian pipe is known as the Corpse Plant. This fungus like organism is opaque‚ and glows like the moon‚ with its

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    you look smarter. Often times it’s like when writers use the correct amount of semicolons. The use of consonance is supposed to match the flow of iambic pentameter which gives it that horse galloping flow to the poem. This poem also follows the rhyme scheme of abab which is also used to help it sound like Shakespearean sonnet. In his work he uses this rhyme scheme to match the style of the Shakespearean sonnet‚ again to make it seem more

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    Although this sonnet may seem like the speaker is criticizing his mistress and pointing out every single one of her flaws‚ he is simply being realistic. Since this is a Shakespearean sonnet‚ it is composed of 14 lines and uses the iambic pentameter form. Lines 1 to 12 rhyme in alternating pairs (abab‚ cdcd‚ efef) and the sonnet ends with two rhyming lines (gg). The speaker begins the poem by refusing to compare his mistress’s eyes to the sun. In the first line‚ he chooses this exaggerated simile to

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    I like the last story that we read called the secret life of Walter Mitty because revealing people to define what situation we are in and why people do not like to face the problem and they choose to avoid . At the end of the story ‚ He realized fantasy won’t happen in real life that inspired me to find the meaning of life . In this story also explored more like if you have a dream ‚ It could be the courages that help you succeed. In the first unit ‚ my favorite character is Charlie’s father from

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    motivation? Fight the toughest situations with pride and dignity. 5. What type of poem is it? Shakespearean sonnet‚ 14 lines long (3 quatrains or stanzas – lines 1 thru 12 and one couplet (lines 13 thru 14). 6. What is the rhyme scheme? ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 7. What is the Meter? Iambic pentameter (meaning five foot or iambs and 10 syllables in each line).

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    Both poets have stylishly fashioned poems which revolve around the common underlying theme of war‚ but each poet has employed different devices of both language or style and form to create poems which‚ while on the same theme‚ relate starkly different messages. “The Dead-Beat” (Poem A) is about a situation whereby a major war is happening and the persona is at lost‚ not knowing what to do – just shooting his weapons around (hoping to kill his enemies) before he himself died whereas “Killers” (Poem

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    “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” By Sir Walter Raleigh Summary: “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is Sir Walter Raleigh’s response to a poem written by Christopher Marlowe‚ “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” In the Marlowe poem‚ the shepherd proposes to his beloved by portraying their ideal future together: a life filled with earthly pleasures in a world of eternal spring. Raleigh’s reply‚ however‚ debunks the shepherd’s fanciful vision. While Marlowe’s speaker promises nature’s beauty and

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    Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas‚ death is something to fight and struggle against as long and as hard as possible until death finally overcomes. Both Dickinson and Thomas paint a picture of the end of life and death by the use of language‚ rhyme and vivid imagery though their interpretation of death differs greatly. In the poem Because I could not stop for Death‚ the main character is met by death on an ordinary day of “labor and leisure” (Dickinson 1890)‚ busy with life she had no

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    Both Heaney and Duffy’s poems explore childhood memory demonstrating the effect that environment and culture can have on recollections. In doing so‚ they both show the pain and delight of childhood experience and the poignancy of losing that innocence. A clear and concise thesis. We are expecting focus to be on ‘environment and culture’ in the poems with comments on the emotional range of pain‚ delight and poignancy to be evident. Duffy uses culture as a context for exploring childhood memory

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