The first descriptions in the poem are of savagery‚ the thing‚ rough and crudely done‚ cut in coarse stone‚’ these are to signify how imperfect the object is‚ made by an imperfect being thus indicating the objects inferiority. But‚ conversely these images could also indicate a certain sense of simplicity within the object; it is not needlessly ornate. The next are of disdain for the object‚ spitefully placed aside‚ as merest lumber‚’ the attitude of the collector lends to the idea that they prefer
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Chrystos “No Public Safety” English Essay Test Chrystos’s poem “No Public Safety”‚ about the mentally disabled Native American homeless woman named Anna Mae Peoples‚ is a voice of being not only bodily assaulted with drugs and forced “treatment”‚ but also with being assaulted with words. In her poem that author provides a sharp critique on the implications of poverty‚ racism and sexism. The plot of this poem is a life of a Native American homeless woman who is chronic paranoid schizophrenic
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Listening report Christy Nov 20 The documentary ‘Faking the Grade’ (2013‚ SEP 5‚ DOC ZONE‚ CBC player) mainly discusses the external and internal factors that explain why students cheat during their tests‚ and explores how schools react to cheating and what we can do to change the current situation in order to cultivate a culture of honesty. To begin with‚ the documentary briefly introduces current phenomena that a considerable percentage
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Mallory Goss English HL Mrs. Riggs October 2nd 2012 Poetry Analysis The poem “The Geranium” by Theodore Roethke tells the story of a bachelor‚ formerly a party animal‚ now a lonely‚ aging man‚ through a sustained metaphor which uses the speaker’s geranium as a symbol for the disregard of his own health. The plant is never well‚ nor is he‚ due to the speaker being as inconsiderate to the geranium as he is to himself. With imagery‚ alliteration‚ and symbolism‚ much is learned about the speaker
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“Vacillation” is a poem by William Butler Yeats that explores the source of joy and how it can only be achieved if one understands what grief is. The poem begins with the speaker using extremities to question what exactly joy is. In the second stanza of the poem Yeats introduces a mystic tree that is half burning in flames and is half abounding with foliage. In the third and fourth stanzas the persona advises the readers to gather all possible materialistic wealth‚ destroy it‚ lament over it‚ and
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A Commentary Reading : How Hardwired is Human Behavior? The article‚ written by Nigel Nicholson‚ is a very interesting read. The author talked about evolutionary psychology and how it affects the thinking and feeling as well the social living of human beings. It says that evolutionary psychology "offers a theory of how the human mind came to be constructed and that mind is hardwired in ways that govern most human behavior to this day". Human behavior is the way it is today according to evolutionary
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Poetry Commentary In the poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends”‚ which poetic techniques does the poet Shel Silverstein use to make the work so moving? The poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein signifies the passage of life. The poet uses a sidewalk as an extended metaphor to describe the dark and dreary ways of life. The end of the sidewalk is supposed to represent heaven or the end of the passage. His purpose is to teach the reader about the steady pace in which one walks towards his or
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“The Need of Being Versed in Country Things” Commentary “The Need of Being Versed in Country Things”‚ by Robert Frost‚ illustrates the scene of a useless barn on abandoned land that nature has unexpectedly welcomed. Through effective use of concealed conceit in combination with personification of the farm elements and the inconsistent rhyme scheme‚ Frost exposes the nostalgic human yearning to control and impose meaning in life and conveys that nature holds more power over the will of mankind
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WD Commentary Emily Dickinson’s main purpose in poem 355 is to describe an indefinable depression. She creates a melancholy persona to depict the chaos and despair she feels because of her condition. Her poem is structured around her uncertainty towards her mental state. Dickinson‚ in the first two stanzas‚ eliminates possibilities to what she may be feeling. She analyzes that “it was not death”‚ “it was not night”‚ “it was not frost”‚ “nor fire”. The poem appeals to the human sense of touch‚ as
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October 3rd‚ 2014 Commentary: The Send Off This poem‚ written by Wilfred Owens‚ describes a group of men going off to war‚ hence the title‚ “The Send Off.” Throughout the poem there is a gloomy and rundown attitude‚ coupled with matching descriptions‚ which is a drastic change to the earlier patriotic jingoistic poems about the war. In this poem‚ a more realistic‚ dismal attitude towards going off to war is taken. With elevated language and the haphazard rhyme scheme within the short stanzas‚ the
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