Poem Analysis and Creation Name: __________________ Directions: Silently read the Maya Angelou‚ “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” in your poetry packet. Answer the following questions on the poem. 1. What does the speaker say about the possible fears in her life? 2. Do you see her conquering her fears or denying that she is actually afraid of them? Why would she do this? 3. If she is in fact not afraid‚ why do you think this is so? 4. Should she be afraid of the things listed in the poem?
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Emily Brent’s acts as an egotistical person and as a false Christian. She believes that she is perfect because she thinks that her religion is perfect. Emily feels that she is better than everybody else because she believes that she is a perfect Christian. She is a mean old woman who thinks people who are “modern“ are bad because they don’t have traditional values. “In a non-smoking carriage‚ Miss Emily Brent sat very upright as was her custom. She was sixty-five and did not approve of lounging
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The story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner‚ published in 1930 was about a woman that is lonely that had recently lost her father and is obsessed with a farmer named HOmer. Emily gets too obsessed and poison Homer and kills him. She keeps his dead body and slept with his dead body for 10 years. Then Emily later on dies at the ending of the story. In the story there are three symbols that are important throughout the story. The most important symbols in the story is the strand of the hair‚ dust
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The title‚ “A Rose for Emily‚” is very abstract‚ and the author does not specifically explain how the title pertains to the story. The title begs the question as to what the author meant for “a rose” to signify and what exactly “a rose” does for Emily Grierson. The meaning of “a rose” is not the only thing the author decides to leave up to interpretation. Homer’s sexuality is too a point of debate within the story. When the meaning of “a rose” and Homer’s sexuality is thoroughly examined‚ it is easy
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Love seems to be in our lives as well as in stories in many different ways. In the story The Storm the father and son exhibit a type of love between the two family members. The Horse Dealer’s Daughter show’s us a type of irrational love that can happen between two people. Then there is an obsessive type of love which is shown in the story a Rose for Emily. In The Storm the boy is anxious about getting to his mother’s house on time. The dad seeing this attempts to drive in the heavy snow. Showing
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In his many works of fiction‚ William Faulkner explores the lives of characters who live in the closed society of the American South‚ a society rooted in traditional values. In the short stories "Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily‚" Faulkner explores what happens when individuals lose their connection to this society and its values. Both Abner Snopes‚ a rebellious sharecropper‚ and Emily Grierson‚ an unmarried woman from a prominent family‚ are isolated from their respective communities‚ and both
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In the short story “A Rose For Emily‚” by William Faulkner‚ Miss Emily Grierson is a woman who grew up in a well-privileged and respected family from the South raised by a very strict father. In the story‚ the affects of the death of her father are revealed leading her to be unsocial and hardly ever seen in town until a Northern man‚ Homer Barron‚ comes into town. Emily and Homer have a romantic relationship that surprises everyone around town especially since her father would not approve of them
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Andrew Jackson biography Synopsis Andrew Jackson was born on March 15‚ 1767‚ in the Waxhaws region between North Carolina and South Carolina. A lawyer and a landowner‚ he became a national war hero after defeating the British in New Orleans during the War of 1812. Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States in 1828. Known as the "people’s president‚" Jackson destroyed the National Bank‚ founded the Democratic Party and is known for his support of individual liberty. He died on
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To Create A Poem About Jair Jair Farciert It all begins with a blank canvas‚ copious amounts of emotion and insight‚ and a sixth sense. These are the elements needed to get started on Jair’s philosophy of life and to better comprehend his ideology you will feel what he feels and know what he knows‚ I am deprecating and collecting dust like furniture left out for too long; jaded certain to crash into the refulgence of your eyes. Jair’s personality plays a significant role in his philosophy
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The Emily Grierson’s house is representing how Emily as a social being‚ and mystery. Emily lived as an Aristocrat’s daughter where in her young age everything is taken care of. “It was a big‚ squarish frame house that had once been white‚ decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies‚ set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood
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