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    Task 1 LITERARY ANALYSIS: READING POETRY AND WRITING THE ESSAY Pre-writing exercise 1 • Man: This primarily mean adult male but can designate any human being regardless of sex or age. Wikipedia (2011) • Wall: This is an upright structure of wood‚ plaster or any building material serving to enclose‚ divide or protect an area. Wikipedia (2011) • Berlin Wall: This is the wall that separated East Germany from West Germany. Wikipedia (2011) • Wailing Wall of Jerusalem: It is the remnant of the

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    Shaista Khalid “POEM ANALYSIS” Life leads us to excessive wishes that often result in a man’s downfall. Sir Philip Sidney in “Thou Blind Man’s Mark” portrays his hypocrisy towards desire and shows how it influenced to their downfall and destruction. In his sonnet‚ Sidney uses metaphor‚ alliteration and repetition to convey his feelings for desire. Throughout “Thou Blind Man’s Mark” Sidney uses metaphors that clearly illustrates the effects of desire on ones life. He begins with the

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    "THE THOUGHT FOX" analysis "The Thought-Fox" is a poem about writing a poem‚ it analyses in detail the nature of literary inspiration and literary creation. The action of the poem takes place at midnight where the poet is sitting alone at his desk accompanied only by a ticking of a clock. The image evoked is one of quiet and solitude where the poet is cut off from the world ready to be transported by his literary imagination. The poet’s imagination is like a presence which disturbs the stillness

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    In the article " A Hanging " written by George Orwell‚ the main idea is that warden and jailer in Burma should give prisoners a good time and mood to die or even not to die but with other punishment. Before the hanging‚ prisoners are alive like us. Each time they avoid the puddles and screaming in front of the gallows‚ the author feels an unspeakable wrongness. The author wrote this story with a emotional tone. He tried to pursaude us in a tone and mood but not actual detial. " I saw the mystery

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    Schools are full of unique students with different backgrounds. Teachers are constantly encountering different temperaments‚ personalities‚ and lifestyles. Hanging In: Strategies for Teaching the Students Who Challenge Us Most demonstrates to educators and administrators different ways to handle students who are just not easy to discipline because of personal reasons. Jeffrey Benson gives detailed stories of real life students who were truly challenging to the teachers‚ administrators‚ and other

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    achieved great things eventually drift away. But what if soon after their peak of glory they die. Would the memory of them and their glory live on longer? In the lryic poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Houseman the narrator shows how dying young and at the peak of your glory is better then living to be forgotten. The setting of the poem is in a town and cemetery in nineteenth-century England during the funeral and burial of a young athlete‚ a runner. The first stanza explains the victory of a boy

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    to build a fire analysis

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    Week Dates Assignments 1 Jan. 13 First day of class; review syllabus Jan. 15 What is Literature? Discuss; read “Gravity” by Lee Herrick; exchange names and contact information with several classmates. Response #1: Give me a paragraph minimum detailing your relationship to literature. Jan. 17 Read Intro. Reading a Story pp. 2-17; Read “A & P” pp. 17-22. Response : in a detailed paragraph‚ say what we know about Sammy in this story‚ who he is. Read also pp. 22-23 on John Updike.

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    September 18‚ 2011 To Build a Fire: An in-depth Analysis To build a fire is a wonderfully written story draped in imagery. The author describes the story so vividly that it really brings out the setting of the story. The tone is a somber one‚ and even though it is predictable what will happen the way it is written keeps you interested as to how it happens. Setting and tone are two key elements to this story . Without them the reader is left with

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    issue and theme within a few poems. This idea of choosing work over life is evident within the poems “The Mill” by Edwin Arlington Robinson and “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy. Both of these poems discover what working is to that individual and how

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    poem entitled “Curiosity” written by Alastair Reid is a symbolic poem that uses cats as a metaphor for humans. It relates felines to people in the sense of curiosity‚ and what could be considered actually living life to the fullest. Essentially‚ this work contradicts the popular phrase‚ “curiosity killed the cat” by placing it within a broader context. Instead of discouraging curiosity‚ Reid explains why people should embrace it. In the first stanza‚ the author argues that the cat may have died

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