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    the tide rises‚ the tide falls. The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh‚ as the hostler calls; The day returns‚ but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore. And the tide rises‚ the tide falls. Pee Paragraph : I think this poem is trying to tell us that when you have got ups or downs in life‚ you can’t do anything to change what has happened and you just to just carry on. I thought this because when he uses ‘The tide rises‚ the tide falls’‚ it makes me think of something

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    Charles‚ what a nice name. I wonder if Mr.Charles was an English teacher? In his poem star-crossed‚ Charles talks about two skeletons discovered in Mantua Italy. These skeletons "linked in a lovers embrace" are the underlying theme throughout the poem. At the the beginning of the poem Charles links love to these 5000 year old lovers while at the end he links them to his age. However he incorporates a sense of bias in the poem. "I shall grow old" age is a something that some people embrace

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    honoring of the dead with the family and rebirth. The poem is about the a father that plants a sequoia tree in honor of his recently deceased infant son. Gioia uses imagery in the first few stanzas to emphasize the severity of the father and his families’ grief and despair. In these sections he also reveals the setting of the poem which is Sicily and the reason he chose a sequoia tree. The very first stanza of the Gioia’s poem sets the tone for the poem‚ which was melancholy‚ with the imagery the author

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    Margaret Atwood’s poem The Landlady presents a depressing and frightening experience of one living in a rented room. The landlady is very much the dangerous gaoler of this prison‚ and one who specializes in oppression. The poem is striking in its use of language‚ including imagery‚ sounds‚ and rhythms‚ that vividly portray the feared landlady and the shrinking tenant. The comparison of the speaker’s living situation to that of a prison‚ a place of oppression‚ is the dominant thematic

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    Midterm Break Commentary

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    Seamus Heaney reflects on his own childhood memory in the poem “Mid-term Break”. The reader discovers through reading the poem that Heaney returns home for the funeral of his younger brother’s car accident. The author illustrates the theme grief through diction‚ puns‚ and structure. The diction chosen in this poem are not only for the readers to understand the situation but are also very powerful and meaningful. In the beginning of the poem‚ the protagonist is “counting bells knelling classes to a

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    Two Hands Commentary

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    Alessandra Kortenhorst March 17‚ 2009 English HL Y1‚ E Block In His Shadow In Jon Stallworthy’s poem “Two Hands‚” the narrator expresses a son’s idolization of his father. This idolization is not based upon an intimate emotional relationship‚ but rather‚ on the son comparing himself to his father. His vocation‚ a writer‚ falls short when held against his father’s‚ a surgeon. In “Two Hands‚” a son narrates‚ through metaphors and mood‚ his frigid and distant relationship with his father.

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    Mary Shelley was able to hide highlights of her own society into her book Frankenstein. In Shelley’s time‚ men never listened to women in society and rejected their ideas. This frustrated the women of Shelley’s time and would even be frustrating in today’s time. Women would fight back and Shelley wrote the book despite the social push not to. The Creature represents women in the aspect that they are both ignored and even put down in society. “The whole village was roused‚ some fled‚ some attacked

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    The poem Acceptance Speech by Lynn Powell is about a housewife who feels undervalued by her family and by society. The title of the poem suggests that the character has received an award for achieving something brilliant‚ but in fact she is being sarcastic and conducting an imaginary award ceremony for herself in her kitchen‚ since no one else is willing to appreciate her hard work. The poet uses irony and personification of kitchen utensils and ingredients to add humour to the play. She uses the

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    map of egypt

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    Space Math Differentiation - "Ch..Ch..Ch..Changes" There are many situations in which differentiation has to be performed on formulae in astrophysics. Many objects such as stars and galaxies display ’differential rotation’ which leads to many interesting and unusual phenomena. The formula describing these phenomena are usually ’differential equations’ that relate changes in one quantity to changes in another. Here are some popular equations used in astrophysics whose differentiation

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    Egypt and Mesopotamia

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    Carmen Fajardo Professor Xia History 1 Midterm 1. The Polis is a community of free persons making up a town. Each polis is a political and cultural unit‚ but is a distinct “Greek” culture. The two poleis that dominated Greek life and politics in the classical age were Athens and Sparta but differed greatly in their conceptions of the good life for their citizens. Athens was the center of Greek educational‚ artistic‚ and scientific activity‚ and was the birthplace of democracy. Sparta was a

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