Valentine ‘Valentine’ is a controversial love poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the poem the poetess compares love to an onion and she does that by using a variety of techniques such as imagery‚ symbolism‚ word choice and structure. All these techniques justify why Valentine is an unusual love-poem as they help the poet express her different point of view. Overall‚ the poem is unusual as its title mistakenly leads the reader into thinking that the poem will be typical. I felt deeply moved
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. Saint Valentine‚ officially known as Saint Valentine of Rome‚ is a third-century Roman saint widely celebrated on February 14 and commonly associated with "courtly love."Although not much of St. Valentine’s life is reliably known‚ and whether or not the stories involve two different saints by the same name is also not officially decided‚ it is highly agreed that St. Valentine was martyred and then buried on the Via Flaminia to the north of Rome.In 1969‚ the Roman Catholic
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times in this book. Multiple times Ender worries that he is like Peter‚ his brother. Ender’s sister and friend‚ Valentine‚ assures him that he isn’t like Peter and that he is better than Peter. While Ender is a combination of both personalities‚ his personality fits Valentine‚ since he was incredibly remorseful when he killed the Buggers. Ender‚ while resembling both Peter and Valentine‚ is also different than both of them. Ender is like Peter in many ways. Ender is very violent towards people he
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Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his short stories and poems which includes his acrostic poem “A Valentine”. As previously stated‚ “A Valentine” is an acrostic poem in which each line corresponds to the letter of the name of who it is about (1st line 1st letter‚ 2nd line 2nd letter‚ 3rd line 3rd letter‚ etc.) This spells out the name of his Valentine‚ Frances Sargent Osgood‚ of whom the poem is about. There are clues scattered throughout the poem in which the reader must figure out to discover the name
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People are always changing‚ so even one of the worst criminals around could end up becoming one of the best people around. Jimmy Valentine was a very good bank robber; he could break into any safe with ease. Now‚ Jimmy Valentine has changed his name to “Ralph Spencer‚” but not only did he changed his name he changed his life. Jimmy Valentine did many things that changed his lifestyle; he gave away all his tools that he used to break into banks‚ he planned to get married‚ and he broke into a safe
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Claudia Rankine was born in 1963 in Kingston‚ Jamaica‚ and studied at Williams College‚ then took an MFA at Columbia. Since then‚ she has had great success publishing collections of poetry‚ anthologies‚ and has received many awards and fellowships. She is currently the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College as well as a chancellor in the Academy of American Poets. To say that Ranking has reached a bounty of success in her life is an understatement. In Citizen: An American Lyirc she presents
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where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously stitching uppers‚ and escorted him to the front office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon‚ which had been signed that morning by the governor. Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four year sentence. He expected to stay only about three months‚ at the longest. When a man with as many friends on the outside as Jimmy Valentine had is received in the "stir" it is hardly worth while to cut his hair."Now‚ Valentine‚" said the
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known for their wit‚ wordplay‚ warm characterization‚ and clever twist endings. In 1909‚ he wrote “A Retrieved Reformation‚” whose title is an example of the literary device‚ alliteration. The short story is about a cunning safe-cracker‚ Jimmy Valentine‚ who decides to give up his thieving to lead an honest life‚ but is still dogged by a persistent detective‚ Bill Price‚ who is hunting him; however‚ when Jimmy rescues a little girl from a safe with his burglar’s tools‚ Detective Bill Price pretends
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Plato ). In the story A Retrieved Reformation Jimmy Valentine is a crook living around the 1890s with a quick-tongue and a great set of safe cracking “tools” . After the governor pardons him from jail‚ he goes back to his old game of cracking safes; with the threat of detective Ben price on his tail. Once Jimmy finds a new life in the city of Elmore‚he marries a young woman named Annabel Adams‚ and he changes into a moral character. Jimmy Valentine was dedicated to a moral life because he demonstrated
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Jack was a person who did not get into a lot of trouble. Then‚ he started hanging out with his new neighbors‚ he kept getting in lots of trouble‚ such as riding a bike down the roof and having an electric chair and almost sitting in it. Jimmy Valentine the main character in “Retrieved information” was walking down the street of Elmore when meeting the love of his
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