Elizabeth Bishop What I admire about the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop is her combination of precise‚ imaginative description and thought provoking insight. The poet closely observes and vividly describes the world around her. Her famous eye for detail and original imagery gives her poetry a strong visual quality‚ drawing the reader into the world she describes. However‚ what makes her poetry particulary appealing to me is her desire to probe beneath the surface of things. We see how her close observation
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ethnicity‚ age‚ or religion. Everyone will suffer from loss at some point in their life. In “One Art” Elizabeth Bishop gives examples of how a person can suffer from loss. “I lost two cities‚ lovely ones.” (Bishop Line #13) This an example of loss because loss doesn’t always have to be humans. She lost two great cities that she became ever so close to. “The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” (Bishop Line #1) This explains that you can lose anything at anytime. Whether it is big or small losing something
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we are introduced to the main character‚ Billy Pilgrim. He is an average guy‚ who has no special qualities‚ however‚ does have the ability to travel through time. My interpretation of the reading and Billy’s time travel is that he suffers from a traumatic mental illness‚ which could have led‚ him to hallucinate his time travels and alien abduction. There are two connections I found that could have encouraged Billy’s behavior‚ becoming a prisoner of war during his service in WWII and his aircraft
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Their burning fire is a very common feeling that anyone can relate to. The extremely hard to resist desirer for revenge is that fire. The men refer to themselves as “The Regulators.” The leader of the men is a man named William but better know as Billy the Kid. Add horses and guns to all this and you have a classic movie called Young Guns. The film Young Guns is entirely about the notion that retaliation is a must‚ even when one is against all odds‚ these brave men fight to avenge a friend’s death
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Billy the Kid has a lot of history surrounding him. Some of it true and some left unknown. People like making his story more elaborate or more heroic than it might have been. But in reality Billy the Kid wasn’t as big of a figure as most stories make him out to be. Yes‚ he was a very good shot and had plenty of run ins with the law‚ but how people personify him range from fact to fiction leaving one to question many of the accounts made of him. Billy’s actual name growing ups wasn’t actually Billy
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Social conventions In the movie‚ Billy Elliot‚ we witness how the community stops Billy from forming his own identity in this world of miners illustrating the social conventions in a community restricting individuals from transitioning into the world. Billy’s father‚ boxing instructor and his brother are all against him in the journey of becoming a ballet dancer as it is against the community. This happened in the 1980s‚ when the London mine workers were striking against the forced closure of the
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In the poem‚ “One Art‚ written by Elizabeth Bishop‚ the poet writes about how losing is very easy and does not take much to accomplish. In reality‚ we lose things all the time without much realization. Even when we do notice we have lost something‚ it continues to have little effect on us. Bishop uses form‚ tone‚ diction‚ and imagery in her poem to convey that losing is an art all its own. “One Art” is a villanelle poem‚ that contains end rhymes. The use of rhythm gives the poem an upbeat feel
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Billy Elliot The experience of moving into the world can have multiple consequences. This is highly reflected in Steven Daldry’s direction of the film Billy Elliot (2000). The protagonist‚ Billy Elliot and his father Jacky Elliot go through many experiences that consequent in growth and change‚ barriers and obstacles as well as making decisions. The experiences of moving into the world can consequent in growth and change. The jump cut between Billy dancing around the boxing ring and his opponent
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Bonney‚ was an infamous wild west gunfighter who participated in New Mexico’s Lincoln County War and is known to have officially killed eight men. His first arrest in 1875 was for stealing food‚ the second for stealing clothing and firearms five months later. Following his second arrest‚ he escaped from jail and fled from New Mexico territory into
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The ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop is a very interesting poem. It is fairly short and devoid of strong emotions. To give a brief synopsis of the poem‚ a third person omniscient narrator is describing a father and his ‘several quick and saucy sons’ running a filling station. She moves from describing them to describing the station itself‚ complete with furniture‚ a ‘dirty dog’ and plants. The poem then changes tone to reflection of why the station is the way it is‚ and is concluded by a
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