February 13‚ 2011 “Promises Like Pie-Crust” Christina Rossetti’s attitude towards marriage and singleness is clearly demonstrated with her carefully chosen images. She writes flawlessly about the cons of relationships‚ trust‚ and general heartbreak. She writes so well that what she says even applies to things that may have happened in the reader’s life‚ thus giving the poem even more meaning than ever‚ bringing it to a much more personal level. She gives the reader something to connect
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sometimes. Having mixed feelings about someone that you know makes you sit and stare at them when you are together as if you are a creep or something. Well‚ just imagine yourself staring at the most beautiful girl you or the world has ever seen. Christina is a beautiful girl not only through her appearance‚ but also through her patience and kindness. Christina’s hair is light brown color and it kind of reminds me of the color of a sunbeam that passes through my bedroom window in the morning. As
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AS2 Assignment 1 Compare the poems Remember and Funeral Blues on the their poetic form‚ structure and language In this assignment I will be comparing the poems Remember by Christina Rossetti and the poem Funeral blues by WH Auden. I will show some intensive points of comparison in the form‚ structure and language used and how both poems deal with love‚ tranquillity‚ peace and death. Both poems are about the feelings of love and death. There is a universal feeling between love and death‚ as
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unrealistic constraints. They essentially impose restrictive barriers to dedication and commitment because they tend to break easily and only bring obligation and pressure with the effort to keep such promises. The poem‚ “Promises like Pie Crust” by Christina Rossetti shows this through her negative perspectives toward promises. Such views lead her forsakes relationship. For Rossetti‚ promises break‚ lack liberty‚ and are blind to future. First of all‚ the speaker denies promises due to her distrust
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what they were forced to endure. Writers like Christina Rossetti depict the consequences
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Take “A Birthday” by Christina Rossetti. By close reference to the text‚ show how the persona’s mood is indicated through the opulence of the images chosen In the first stanza‚ Christina Rossetti creates a mood of happiness and love. She describes her heart as “a singing bird” and this is forms an image of simple‚ natural joy. She moves on to say that the bird is in a nest which is a safe‚ warm place. The nest is in “watered shoot” which suggest development and growth. The connection between the
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Buffalo ‘66 (Directed by: Vincent Gallo) Buffalo ‘66 is Gallo’s ode to his childhood and hometown. Like most artists he writes from what he knows. Having moved to New York from an early age (around 17)‚ for his directorial debut he went back to the city where he grew up‚ and even shot scenes in his real parents’ old house. Buffalo made him what he is‚ and still resonates deeply in him. He had enough emotional distance when he made the movie to be able to find the humor in it‚ but watching the movie
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Birthday by Christina Rossetti Everything in the first stanza speaks of the happiness Rossetti sees around her‚ and the repeated expression ‘My heart is like . . .’ stresses this joy‚ but she says at the end of the first stanza that her “heart is gladder than all these” which implies that what the poet is feeling is more than she can put in words. The persona compares her heart to the “singing bird” to bring out how overjoyed she felt. This may imply that the author’s heart had the same energetic
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On April 19th 2010‚ Christina Romer (head of Barack Obama’s council of economic advisors) had given a speech about the state’s economy. She has specifically targeted the undeniably high rise of unemployment. Christina Romer explains how the unemployment rate is producing severely below its capacity. Other economist like Romer has proposed that the cause of this long-term unemployment is due several potential structural factors such as… “skills mismatch‚ skill erosion among the long-term
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English Literature: Poetry Introduction and analysis to the two poems ‘Remember’: This is a beautiful poem written by the poet Christina Rossetti. Rossetti is known for her contrasting themes of love and death she puts into her poems‚ ‘Remember’ is no exception. It is quite obvious that Rossetti is talking to a loved one in the poem‚ most likely a lover. From researching‚ I have found that Rossetti wrote this poem when she was still in love with Charles Cayley‚ and also the fact that there
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