Is It Love? “Burning Bright” is a story about an older woman marrying a man young enough to be her son. Marcie is almost sixty. When her husband Arthur died and the local help fell away‚ she endured incredible loneliness at the end of a five-mile dirt track until the church recommended a handyman‚ Carl‚ who could help out on the farm. This silent man from nowhere marries Marcie‚ but remains mysterious. In the twenty-first century‚ seeing an older women and a young man is common. For most people
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Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” and Gwen Harwood’s poem “In the Park” explore the concept of loss diversely. Plath’s poem surrounds the distress regarding the inevitability of aging and its impact while Harwood’s poem explores how the truth cannot be hidden when faced with motherhood. In the opening verses of “Mirror‚” the narrator commences its narration by declaring itself neutral. It announces it has “no preconceptions” and without bias or emotions it will metaphorically “swallow immediately” what
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MISSISSIPPI BURNING Mississippi Burning (1988) is a hard hitting action drama designed to shock and educate the viewers on the topics of racism‚ justice and the law. When three people are killed in the state of Mississippi‚ two FBI agents are sent in to investigate‚ only to find out that people are being terrorised brutally in an unfair justice system. Using tactics that are considered ‘low’‚ they find a way to arrest those responsible in a federal court because the state courts were unjust. The
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The poem “Father and Child” by Gwen Harwood shows Harwood’s father teaching her the concepts of life and death‚ from when she is a young child in “Barn Owl” up to when she is around forty at the time of his death in “Nightfall”‚ coming to accept the idea that life is not never-ending. In part one called “Barn Owl”; she has learnt to accept death as a component of life. The persona of the poem experiences a loss of innocence with the discovery of the tragedy of death. Before shooting the owl‚ the
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The first book burning in history can be traced back to the Qin dynasty in 200 BC (Book Burning: fanning the flames of hatred). People may think that was a long time ago and things like that do not happen much anymore‚ but there are still many book burnings today. Many people try and symbolize burnings for something bigger. Book burnings occur to annihilate the beliefs and vultures of those deemed inferior to society as a whole. In Europe during the middle ages heresy or having beliefs that do not
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"Ideas and the way those ideas are presented are what makes a poets’ work distinctive. Choose 2 poems from 1 poet and describe how they show the distinctive characteristics of this poets’ work. Gwen Harwood skilfully employs language techniques to explore a variety of distinctive themes and ideas in her poems. This is seen in ’In The Park’ where Harwood explores the human condition through the simplistic and dull life of her female protagonist‚ while in ’Prize Giving’ she explores multiple universal
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Antonio Webb Professor Debra Germany English 2336 14 November 2012 Barn Burning In “Barn Burning”‚ a short story by William Faulkner‚ a boy finds that he can no longer be governed by his father’s ideas and tries to prevent his father from doing further harm‚ and leaves his family in the process. Sarty Snopes desire is to break away from the moral deficiency of his family life and live life with some resemblance
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The Violets by Gwen Harwood was written during the late 1960s and was published in the anthology Selected Poems in 1975. As we know‚ Harwood’s poems explore philosophical and universal ideas. Harwood herself says “My themes are old ones – of love‚ memory‚ experience etc”‚ all of which are explored in this poem through the use of poetic and language techniques. Literally‚ the persona of the poem is outside when some aspects of the nature around her‚ like violets and a blackbird‚ trigger a memory from
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“How like a mirror‚ too‚ her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?”(11). She was different‚ and difference was a hard thing to come by. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ Montag lives in a world where everyone is just as lonely and brainwashed as he is‚ until he met her. Through the character of Clarisse‚ Montag finds true love and curiosity. He questions conformity and seeks freedom. Her character gives him the bravery to fight ignorance and find
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"The Burning Bed" A turning point in battle against domestic violence Research Paper Department of Criminal Justice Fall 2013 Introduction Beaten‚ bruised‚ broken bones and black eyes. Humiliated‚ discouraged and emotionally damaged. These are just a few of the things that Francine Hughes went through for over 12 years receiving abuse from her husband‚ James “Mickey” Hughes. Every nine seconds in the U.S. a women is assaulted or beaten (Schneider‚ 2000)
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