longer on this planet. Her memory lives in her artwork and poems and will always be remembered. In her life‚ Anne Sexton endured many pains throughout her life. As a child she grew up in an abusive unstable home. She then became a model‚ but dropped out of school and slowly sank into alcoholism and depression. Then‚ in her mid forties she committed suicide. The struggles Sexton went through influenced her confessional writing style. Her poems represent a seemingly ongoing diary about pain she endures
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When we were asked to write about someone that we admire I instantly thought about my papa‚ Massoud who is extremely accomplished and always has good advice to give. He demonstrates scholarship well because he works hard and values education. He was born in Iran‚ but came to America when he was twenty-eight after finishing college. He graduated at the top of his class and came to the U.S. to finish his residency. Even though it was never easy he worked hard to become a surgeon and to provide for
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After finding out my sister’s husband died I have been thinking about it should be broken to her. I figured it would be best if the news came from me with the presents of her husband’s best friend Richards. I would have to break the news very gently do to her heart troubles. We would not want her to die of grief. It was time to tell her‚ and she broke down in tears right on my arms when I told her. I felt so horrible for her‚ and couldn’t believe the pain she must be going through. She stormed away
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For this discussion‚ I will be analyzing the poem Anne Bradstreet’s‚ “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House‚ July 10th‚ 1666.” Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to publish a book of poetry in the British colonies. Anne Bradstreet goes to sleep one night and wakes up in the middle of the night saying fire. The sound that woke her up was the thud ring noise which was the sound of her house burning down. Anne Bradstreet leaves her house and watches outside her house and all of her
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to Mother as Book is to Child In the poem‚ “ The Author to Her Book‚” Anne Bradstreet refers to her book like it is her child. Just like a mother critiques her child as she walks out the door‚ Bradstreet critiques her book before the second edition is published. The poem is her outlet for her emotions regarding the exposure of the first edition‚ which was published without her knowledge. Bradstreet uses a conceit supported by metaphors throughout the poem‚ to express maternal feelings such as
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This poem was published in 1978 by Joyce Carol Oates. I chose this poem because it very much speaks about the traditional roles of men and women‚ specifically towards married men and women. We can use Gender lens to further analyze the poem. In the 70’s‚ that was the time where women are fighting for their equal rights similar to men. Now if we compare women today from the 70’s‚ we can really see a very big difference of our roles nowadays. Before‚ women who are married are expected to just stay
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Upon reading Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving‚ I gained a better understanding of what love really is. Fromm’s book puts love into perspective. He begins with several facts with regards to the attitude in which people treat love. They are the problems of how to be loved‚ the object to love as well as the confusion between the initial experience of falling in love and the permanent state of being in love‚ which had a great impact on me‚ as far as thinking about what love is. Strangers meet‚ they
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Countless Puritan authors came to an understanding that if something goes against nature we can define that as God’s doing. This idea shall be explained according to Anne Bradstreet’s poems “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet‚ Who Deceased August 1665‚ Being a Year and a Half Old‚” as well as “Verses upon the Burning of our House‚ July 10th‚ 1666.” Bradstreet’s way of mourning implies to whatever God gives He also takes away. The tragedies‚ the death of Bradstreet’s granddaughter
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Lila Begovic Mrs. Williams ENG1DB December 1‚ 2011 Bassanio: The Distasteful Husband Love is a complex topic that grows and matures from the trust‚ loyalty‚ and respect a couple share for one another. In order for two individuals to successfully remain in a loving relationship‚ they must be worthy of each other. The worthiness of an individual is expressed as an important theme in one of Shakespeare ’s famous plays‚ The Merchant of Venice. Bassanio is presented as a character who is the
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Throughout “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro there are some points of suspense and uncertainty as to which direction the story will head. First‚ how the relationship between Mrs. Peebles and Edie catapult Edie to new relationships. Then there is wondering where the relationship between Edie and Chris will head. This causes the short story to have two types of irony‚ situational and dramatic because of the direction the story starts off then changes and ends up. Edie is a fifteen year old girl
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