Essay The Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy The poem is written in the first person. Duffy gives her lover an onion in which represents St Valentines Day. The onion is a gift rather than a card or a rose‚ Duffy uses this unusual gift but in fact it’s a statement of love. The onion a (metaphor) is a strong ugly vegetable‚ not only does it show love but can show the inner beauty with in the onion itself. There are good points and bad points in love however there are consequences of what love can
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1:30 Dr. Jacob Lewis 010559587 “A Challenge to a Lover Who Has Offended Her” Even though a man can do much harm to a woman’s ego‚ mind‚ and body‚ there is always something about the man that can lead her back into his arms. The poem “A Challenge to a Lover Who Has Offended Her” by Veronica Franco demonstrates just that. Franco goes on to describe how she has been lied to and cheated on by the love of her life. Yet‚ towards the end of the poem‚ instead of describing how she wants to tear him limb
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“Between a Woman and Her Doctor” “Between a Woman and Her Doctor” by Martha Mendoza is the author’s personal experience of a complex abortion while dealing with the difficulties of legal disputes and limited medical assistance during an emotional time in her life. Mendoza uses the expressive purpose as she writes her story to express her depressing and frustrating feelings she has during the death of her child as well as the challenging time as she tries to obtain a dilation and extraction procedure
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depicts Valentine in prison as he awaits his execution for his defiance of Claudius II. (A third story describes how Roman sons and daughters were kept separated in youth.) III. Origin of Valentine’s Day Story Three Roman boys and girls were kept apart except when in their teenage years‚ they were allowed to participate in the festival of Lupercalia. (In conclusion…)
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by Seamus Heaney and “Stop All The Clocks” by W. H. Auden are beautifully opposite poems about family and love. By using two opposite themes‚ imageries and rhymes‚ both poems bring to reader different feeling. The first similar thing between “Digging” and “Stop all clocks” is their theme. Both of them talk about their personal experience. However‚ the reader still can find the difference when they read these poems. In “Digging” by Seamus Heaney‚ the readers can see the multiple themes. The first
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about was‚ Valentine was a priest who had worked in Rome during the rule of Emperor Claudius the 2nd. The emperor made a rule up that states‚ soldiers could not get married‚ and as he thought this made them weaker. Valentine did not like it so he performed secret weddings for couples. Later on‚ they had caught him and sentenced him to death. Before the time came he had died‚ he wrote a letter to an unknown women he himself had strong feelings for. The letter was signed “from your Valentine.” February
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comparing and contrasting two poems from the Reconstruction Era and the Blacks Art Era. Both these poems are about the pain of being a woman. The Reconstruction Era was just after the Civil War and the country was struggling to find its way again and where everyone fit into society. The Black Arts Era was a time also dealing with social upheaval. There was a strong struggle for African Americans to gain their civil rights and to finally been seen as equal. Both of these poems show the sorrows and hardship
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The History of Valentines Day The story goes that when the Roman Empire wars broke out married men did not want to leave their families‚ younger men did not want to leave their sweethearts. As a result of the low enrolment of men to fight the wars‚ Claudius the Cruel ordered that no more marriages or engagments should be celebrated. A priest‚ named Valentine‚ defied the order and married young couples in secrtcy. When Claudius discovered what had happened‚ he had Valentine dragged off and imprisoned
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Compare/contrast In Dudley Randall’s poem “Ballad of Birmingham” and Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to son” are two poems of two different mothers wanting the best for their child. In the poem “Ballad of Birmingham‚” Dudley Randall illustrates a conflict between a child who wishes to march for civil rights and a mother who wishes only to protect her child. Much of this poem is read as dialogue between a mother and a child in a way that paints a picture of both character’s feelings. “Ballad of
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Robert Browning’s poems ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’ are both about psychotic men who kill their lovers. However‚ the men differ in their motives as Porphyria’s murder could be considered to be done out of love whereas the dukes murder is one of jealousy. This heavily influences our feeling towards the two men‚ as the duke is a bitter misogynist compared to Porphyria’s ‘Tender murderer’. Dramatic monologue by definition is a piece of performed writing that offers great insight into the
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