Charles dickens A CHRISTMAS CAROL Ebenezer scrooge… England’s most tightfisted hand at the grindstone‚ Scrooge! A squeezing‚ wrenching‚ grasping‚ scraping‚ clutching‚ covetous old sinner! Secret‚ and self-contained‚ and solitary as an oyster.
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COPING WITH CRISIS Ann Landers If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity‚ it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and‚ when it comes‚ hold your head high‚ look it squarely in the eye and say‚ "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." Then repeat yourself the most comforting of all words‚ "This too shall pass." To forgive oneself in the face of a devastating experience is perhaps the most difficult of life’s challenges
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The Role of the Reader in Analyzing Stephen Dunn’s “Poetry” All roads do not lead to Rome. There are some roads in life that lead to adventure and freedom‚ and others that will turn us into people who sit idly by and passively accept whatever comes our way. One must choose which path to take not only in life‚ but also when analyzing poetry. Stephen Dunn uses his ars poetica poem “Poetry” to point out that while the poet should and does exert some amount of influence‚ the ultimate
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"If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me‚ I know that is poetry" (Emily Dickinson). Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. Poetry is the style of writing which sometimes has a unclear or secret theme. Poetry is often used to express or describe personal feeling or emotions. Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden- Robert Hayden is the speaker in this poem. He talks as the son to the father. This poem talks about the love of son to the father‚ who
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Evaluating Poetry The poem “Gods Will for You and Me” is the good poem and “Pied Beauty” is the bad poem according to Perrine standards. The central purpose of both these poems is to encourage the readers’ individual feelings about God. The poem “Pied Beauty” is extremely didactic. The writer of this poem is preaching God on the reader. They are trying to get the reader to see all of the things that God has created on the earth and how amazing each one is. The whole poem seems to be a continuous
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Growing up in Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country Part of growing up is about discovering different things about yourself‚ and that includes your identity. Bobbie Ann Mason writes about a young woman searching to find herself in the novel In Country‚ while trying to put together the missing pieces of her life‚ which was caused by the Vietnam War. Sam is confronted with the fact that she knows nothing about her father or the war that caused his death. At the beginning of the novel‚ Sam sees her father as
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A Human Fault Revealed People’s eyes are never focused on what is in front of them. Instead‚ their eyes are forever astray‚ looking at their other desires. Yet an irony exists. Even when they obtain their desires‚ they are never content. Never satisfied with what they have. Always grasping with their greedy claws. In the poem “Icarus” by Edward Fields‚ Fields display this human fault perfectly. The story of Icarus has been told in uncountable number of ways. Most are about the love a father has
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The Creation “Then the green grass sprouted‚ And the little red flowers blossomed‚ The pine-tree pointed his finger to the sky‚ And the oak spread out his arms; The lakes cuddled down in the hollows of the ground And the rivers ran down to the sea‚ And God smiled again‚ And the rainbow appeared‚ And curled itself around His shoulder Then God raised His arm and He waved his hand.” The author used plenty of poetic devices in the passage such as alliteration‚ tone and repetition to
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Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley was a rebel from the British upper class. He was married to Harriet Westbrook‚ and friend with Byron. Although he died very young at the age of thirty‚ he left behind him valuable writings. Ozymandias is without doubt a poem of such kind. The poem is an Italian sonnet‚ and describes the remains of a ancient "glorious" ruin seen by a common "traveler from an antique land"(1). The subject of Shelley’s poem is more subtle than it seems. Found in the multitude of Romantic
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The Sound Poetry Circuit: Festivals‚ Networks‚ and Transatlantic Relations There is a photograph ‚ taken during the 11th edition of the Sound Poetry International Festival‚ held in Toronto in 1978‚ that depicts three authors: they are‚ from the left to the right‚ Bob Cobbing‚ Sten Hanson (holding what seems to be a cat)‚ and Henri Chopin‚ or‚ should we say‚ England‚ Sweden‚ and France‚ in what seems to be a metaphorical representation of the theme proposed by the current paper. Either way‚ they
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