Poetry Explication Guidelines The following can serve as a general outline for your explications. You will have to add and organize your own subheadings‚ or you may have to delete some sections. You may also use other orders of ideas that may suit your particular content. Just be sure your explication is thorough and organized. I. Introduction a. (Include such items as what is the poem title‚ who is the author‚ and where did you get your copy? What is the theme and subject of the poem
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Ted Kooser‚ the thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner‚ is known for his honest and accessible writing. Kooser’s poem “A Spiral Notebook” was published in 2004‚ in the book Good Poems for Hard Times‚ depicting a spiral notebook as something that represents more than its appearance. Through the use of imagery‚ diction‚ and structure‚ Ted Kooser reveals the reality of a spiral notebook to be a canvas of possibilities and goes deeper to portray the increasing complexities
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I’ve been working as a teacher for a year and four months now. Yet my understanding of being a teacher is still evolving day by day. I realized that how I understood this profession was not yet substantial until I was immersed in the actual teaching scenario. I realize that the books‚ lectures‚ and inputs given by my college professors‚ when I was just an education student‚ are just spectacles of what is in store for me. When I ask my students what course they are planning to take up‚ they tend
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Patrick Primeaux Dr. David Pulling English 1002 March 13‚ 2013 Describing Linda Pastan’s “Pass/Fail” This poem was written in a style using free verse. This means that there is no rhyming repetition and it sounds pretty much like a speech given by a person. The author of this poem‚ Linda Pastan‚ wrote this poem in 1975 to give the reader what she experienced through images. In this case‚ the images portray the worries of taking an exam and how to study. An (image) is a way to express to the
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Francesca Sciamanna English 473: American Literature Since 1914 Dr. Leone S. Hankey Midterm 1 May 2014 20th Century American Literature as a Representation of the Natural World Perhaps because America began as pioneers in the wilderness‚ its literature has a strong tradition of “nature writing”- works grounded in ideals pertaining to the natural world. As witnessed through the work of Native American writers‚ the Transcendentalists‚ and in this case‚ the Modernists nature writers of the 20th
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Explications are something everybody has for their self and have for other‚ my explications for my self is to stop getting in trouble and stop having a bad attitude. The sacrifices I will have to make in order to reach my expectations is give up the friends I hang out with and give up my recces and lunch so I can study and get make up worked turned in. One example I expect from myself it to stop getting in trouble because‚ the attitude I have won’t get me far in life because when people tell me
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Is it Just a Wheelbarrow‚ or Something Far More Significant? William Carlos Williams’ “Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem that was written by the late author back in 1923. Eighty years later‚ a parody of Williams’ poem was written by F.J. Bergmann and it was titled “An Apology”. Although Bergmann’s poem was written just to ridicule Williams’ poem‚ the similar form of imagery used in both poems possesses more meaning and is more complex than they might seem at first sight. Also‚ the comparison of the
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A Dill Pickle Explication The short story A Dill Pickle was written by Katherine Mansfield. It takes place sometimes in the early 1900s in some kind of Japanese themed restaurant. There is one main object throughout the story that is important to the plot‚ and that is‚ like the title suggests‚ a dill pickle. The story is about a woman named Vera‚ and a man she has met there that she has not seen in years‚ and one of the stories he tells her is about how one time during lunch while he was in Russia
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he will never have the opportunity to begin again. This decision will be final and will change the path of his life forever. . At this point I would like to address the choice of gender. I will refer to the traveler as him throughout the explication because that is my impression of the traveler due to the fact that he is in the woods alone and because the poem has a more masculine tone than I would expect from a female speaker. Being that I am also male‚ I find myself relating to him and his
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A Rose for Emily Explication “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; only Miss Emily’s house was left‚ lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores.
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