conditions aren’t always in your favor. Life has many ups and downs and can sometimes feel like a downward spiral‚ or even an uphill road that never seems to end. This is what the poem “Uphill Road‚” by Christina Rossetti makes me consider. That even though the path may seem dark and endless‚ there is a light at the end of the it. The road may seem uphill and forever‚ but the easy way out is never the option. “Winds uphill all the way” which was mentioned in the poem reveals and prepares readers
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The poem Interment is a poem about the injustice that was the interment of the Japanese Americans during WW2. This poem use very good metaphors to explain how they were treated. The author use the idea of the people being treated like cattle as they forced into the camps and these metaphors helped to tell what the theme of the this poem is. The metaphors use this harsh way to describe the treatment of the people as without is the theme would not have the impact it does at the end on the reader. The
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1 Poem Compare and Contrast EO4 20/11/13 Word count: Compare and Contrast of War Poems The poems “Dulce et Decorum Est” by: Wilfred Owen and “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” by: Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson demonstrate images of war in many different and similar ways. War is a subject that often relies on many emotions with those directly or indirectly involved in the countries at war. It usually brings tears and memories of suffering‚ loneliness‚ struggles‚ or victories. Such disturbance of
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BAHASA SEBAGAI ALAT KOMUNIKASI Menurut Felicia (2001 : 1)‚ dalam berkomunikasi sehari-hari‚ salah satu alat yang paling sering digunakan adalah bahasa‚ baik bahasa lisan maupun bahasa tulis. Begitu dekatnya kita kepada bahasa‚ terutama bahasa Indonesia‚ sehingga tidak dirasa perlu untuk mendalami dan mempelajari bahasa Indonesia secara lebih jauh. Akibatnya‚ sebagai pemakai bahasa‚ orang Indonesia tidak terampil menggunakan bahasa. Suatu kelemahan yang tidak disadari. Bahasa adalah produk masa
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This poem talks about a path of neglect that a man followed that led to the destruction of his red apple tree. The narrator put too much of his time and attention on his other marvels to not put it into the apple tree as well. Therefore his red apple tree‚ though thought to be inevitable‚ died and filled the narrator with regret. A regret that appears to haunt the author‚ and fills him with sorrow. One of the literacy devices used in “Neglect” is imagery. Towards the beginning of the poem‚ the
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and not a little humiliation to China‚ including its ruler and people. The response to the West However‚ the Opium War from 1839 to 1842 occurred earlier than these domestic rebellions‚ which happened after 1850. Thus first we should review how Ch’ing China responded to the threat from the West. Basically we can perhaps divide this into two stages to consider‚ the first being the Opium War (the First Anglo-Chinese War of 1839-1842)2 and the second the Arrow War (the Second Opium War or the
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Question: Wilfred Owen’s poetry is shaped by an intense focus on extraordinary human experiences. Select TWO poems set for study and explore Owen’s portrayal of suffering and pity. Prescribed text: War Poems and Others‚ Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen wrote about the suffering and pity of war from his first -hand experience at the Somme. He was appalled by the overwhelming and senseless waste of life‚ the “human squander” and detailed its devastating effects on young men. In both ‘Dulce et Decorum
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By analyzing poems you can understand the author and connect ideas of expierences and the future. Looking at Robert Frost’s Fire & Ice‚ and Richard Brautigan’s "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"‚ they both show the theme of past or present with the future. While Frost’s shows his past expierences of desire with how it will effect his future‚ and death‚ Brautigan’s show how today technology is taking over‚ computers are everywhere and one day in the future they will replace our class
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in which the poets convey the horrors of war In the two war poems “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen on “War Photographer” by Carol Anna Duffy‚ the writers convey the horrors in different ways. In Dulce Et Decorum Est” Owen writes from the perspective of a tired worn out soldier. In “War Photographer” Duffy writes from the perspective of a man who captured the war. In the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” the main mood is dark and depressing. Owen refers to diction that allow the readers
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Many famous poets such as Robert Frost and William Shakespeare wrote about love whether it is tragic‚ cheerful‚ or indifferent. Poetry is a way to express emotions with art forms such as allusions‚ imagery‚ and personification. In this particular case‚ love is the common subject poets write about. Although love is most associated with happiness and lustful feelings‚ it can also fade away‚ be hurtful‚ and sacrificial. In “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd‚” a nymph is a fairy‚ a character that
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