dehydration‚ infection‚ etc… Being that most women of that time spent most of their adult lives pregnant and having multiple births‚ this increased the likelihood of their demise. Bradstreet’s poem was soft and personal. It would seem that she was contemplating the likelihood of her dying while giving birth. The poem was addressed to her husband‚ which makes since as if she were to die‚ she would want him to know her final words and not to mention he would be raising the child alone. Being that Bradstreet
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use different techniques and writing stiles to convey the message. The Song uses a first person narrative stile to convey the traumatic experiences of the soldiers‚ the poem‚ however‚ does not refer to experiences‚ instead it uses strong‚ passionate words that directly refer to the effect of trauma. The beginning sentence of the poem clearly shows the authors stile of writing‚ bringing the audience straight to the point. “War drags men to the very edge‚” . The Song expresses the same message several
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very long nose‚ used to shoot darts at the victims that it comes across‚ and a bunch of spines covering its arms‚ big yellow eyes‚ sharp teeth and skin in a brown and green shade. One can usually discover one of these grossly creatures by hearing the high-pitched cackling that it uses as its main weapons for snatching up children as they are too innocent to realize what the noise is and get too curious. An even more evil species‚ the Bavarian Erkling‚ will not take the child away before it attacks like
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renowned Tulsa native Rock and Roll Hall of Fame superstar Leon Russell‚ for his music achievements as a master songwriter‚ performer‚ and session player‚ who appeared in Tulsa recently to promote his eccentric‚ neo-Gospel hippie-country documentary‚ “A Poem is a Naked Person” mostly shot at his Grand Lake recording studio. The doc screened at a local vintage theater‚ the Circle Cinema‚ and Leon held court performing at a subsequent sold-out gig at the Hard Rock casino at “The Joint” amphitheater in the
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similarities and differences in the way the characters view being alone. First‚ in the poem‚ “The Sidewalk Racer‚” by Lillian Morrison‚ the author addresses the meaning of being alone by being the one and only single engine human automobile. She compares herself as being the driver and the wheel. The author is telling us that being alone is fun. This poem also describes her as being a skateboard. When the poem says‚ ‘I swerve‚ I curve‚ I sway‚” I imagine the author is telling me that she speeds through
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produce poems of your liking. She writes with great understanding of the world around her and also writes about her own experiences with life. You can tell that she puts in lots of time and effort into her work by all of the details she has added in each and every poem that she has ever written.The first poem was a small conclusion about her childhood and all that hard work her family had to go through in order to keep the family safe and healthy.The second poem was more of a motivational poem to show
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Pee Paragraph : I think this poem is trying to tell us that when you have got ups or downs in life‚ you can’t do anything to change what has happened and you just to just carry on. I thought this because when he uses ‘The tide rises‚ the tide falls’‚ it makes me think of something that has ups and downs because the movement of the tides at sea is being compared to how humans like us have similar ups and downs. Sometimes we feel very happy (the tides go up high) and sometimes we feel very down
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prison” ln 25-30). In Lovelace’s poem‚ ’To Lucasta‚ Going to the Wars‚’ Lovelace leaves the safe refuge of his lover to go into the dangers of war. He does so fearlessly with the belief in carpe diem. ’Tell me not‚ Sweet‚ I am unkind‚ that from the nunnery of thy chaste breasts‚ and quiet mind‚ to war and arms I fly(“ to lucasta on going to the wars” ln 1-4). Challenges such as prison‚ or war‚ inspire Lovelace to live more for the moment. The seconded poem I picked is “The Bait” by John Donne
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FELIK’S SKRZYNECKI The poem FELIKS SKRZYNECKI‚ by Peter Skrzynecki effectively portrays his childhood reminiscence as an adult. In the first stanza‚ he demonstrated his admiration for his father as a child and described him with respect‚ knowing that Felik’s Skrzynecki was his adopted father. Immediately‚ we can gain Peter Skrzynecki’s strong respect he has towards his father‚ fiercely emphasized by re-telling what Felik’s Skrzynecki had done for his family. “ Alert‚ brisk and silent
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acknowledgement of the transient quality of human existence. As suggested by the notable Harwood scholar Alison Hoddinott‚ ‘the poet is aware of the hunger of the self for a permanence that will defy mortality and the limitations of the self’. The poem may thus be regarded as a commentary on the eternal pull between that which is physical‚ instinctive and corporeal‚ as encapsulated by the ‘heart’‚ and that which is metaphysical‚ spiritual and celestial‚ as proposed by the ‘soul’. Depictive of a fleeting
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