A Commentary on “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost As the poem opens‚ we see a very formal phrase “something there is”‚ and rather formal diction. However‚ the language is natural in the sense that it does not rhyme. Also‚ we have a sense that there is a tumbling forth of ideas about the things that want to destroy a wall. We see this from the phrases‚ “that sends…and spills…and makes gaps.” Some invisible force exists that doesn’t love a wall. So the speaker is setting the tone and implying
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Commentary on Cronbach’s ‘The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology’ In this paper Lee Cronbach delivers his visionary presidential address to the American Psychological Association (APA)‚ calling for the unification of experimental and correlational psychology in which he argued that psychology continues to this day to be limited by the dedication of its investigators to one or the other method of inquiry rather than to scientific psychology as a whole. He discusses the two streams on branches
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Commentary on “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezequiel The poem “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezekiel is an account of how the poet remembers his mother being stung by a scorpion when he was young. However‚ he does not write about his own feelings or reactions; we realize he is merely the narrator. Most of the poem is in the third person‚ as Ezekiel reports on what other people do and say and he uses various images and senses to make us visualise the scenes. The poem is written
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“MAUS” Commentary: Page 82-83 ‘’MAUS’’ is a two part story written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman. He started working on the book in 1978 and the first part was published in 1986. Spiegelman retells his father’s story within his own life story. In this graphic novel the author Art Spiegelman uses very original and interesting ways of designing his story in order to show the past and the present. By using different illustrations for the past and present‚ Spiegelman can display more easily the
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Poem Commentary: Before Summer Rain A storm can provoke many emotions in a person. Rainer Maria Rilke in his poetry cleverly insinuates themes of nature‚ religion‚ and childhood‚ from a personal aspect to a collective one. The poem‚ Before Summer Rain‚ describes the narrator’s experience of the encroaching storm‚ as he/she stares out of a window. Rilke‚ in his poem‚ Before Summer Rain‚ evokes emotions associated with witnessing a storm and how these feelings compel him to recollect his childhood
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John Downe utilizes logic‚ emotional language‚ and his credibility to persuade his wife to come to the United states very effectively. The most effective of these are his emotional appeals. Downe uses a lot of emotional language to persuade his wife to feel a certain way about coming to the United states; he wants her to want to come. Downe also appeals to his wife’s emotions by explaining that he misses her as well as their children in paragraph two. Downe addresses his wife as "Dear Sukey"
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The Serial Podcast as a Commentary On Surveillance and Ideology This past weekend my fiancée and I both began and finished listening to the first season of the Serial Podcast. I think a little background on this is necessary before continuing on my broader analysis. The program is a weekly podcast which focuses on one particular narrative. In this case‚ a murder in 1999 in which a 17 year old Pakistani male‚ Adnan Syed‚ manually strangled his ex-girlfriend‚ Hae Min Lee in the city of Baltimore after
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"Out‚ Out" - commentary "Out‚ Out" is a poem by Robert Frost about a tragic event. Frost conveys the theme of his poem in the form of a story: a boy is working with a buzz saw‚ when he cuts his hand off with it when his sister calls him for supper. The loss of blood results in his unexpected death‚ and his family returns to their daily lives. The tragic event shows the boy’s sudden and premature loss of innocence‚ While narrating the story‚ the speaker implies that he sees the
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In the first passage‚ the Okefenokee Swamp is described with a wide variety of diction. Its features are mentioned with a neutral tone and simply describe what the place looks like. In the second passage‚ Okefenokee Swamp is portrayed as an unpleasant setting with many disturbing features. Each passage describes the area with a different purpose and a different view. The first passage from the Encyclopedia Britannica has an objective tone‚ while the second passage has a detestable tone and is
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In Westminster Abbey Let me take this other glove off As the vox humana swells‚ And the beauteous fields of Eden Bask beneath the Abbey bells. Here‚ where England’s statesmen lie‚ Listen to a lady’s cry. Gracious Lord‚ oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake‚
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