The Power in a Name The term “ethnic” when in conjunction with the word “literature” in the academic discourse community of students‚ often brings out mixed feelings of excitement and dread. On the one hand‚ students understand that they will be getting away from the canonical American literature – which can equal boring in their eyes; on the other hand‚ students interpret the term “ethnic literature” to mean distinctive – which can equal confusing or ambiguous – and perhaps at times not relatable
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Literature and Time "What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age" --- Peter Brodie What the quote above is saying is that literature is left within the time that it was written. So when one reads a piece of literature‚ they read about more than just what the author writes. They also may learn what kind of person the author is‚ or when the author lived. Literature gives readers insight as to what life was like around a certain time period. This can be seen
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Executive Summary Major Research Project ( 2009-2011) Nativism in India: A Study of Modern Indian Literature in the select Indian Languages Submitted to UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION‚ NEW DELHI by Dr. Ashok Babar P.V.P. Mahavidyalaya‚ Kavathe Mahankal‚ Dist. Sangli. (Maharashta) Contents |Chapters |Title |Page No. | |
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The poem Interment is a poem about the injustice that was the interment of the Japanese Americans during WW2. This poem use very good metaphors to explain how they were treated. The author use the idea of the people being treated like cattle as they forced into the camps and these metaphors helped to tell what the theme of the this poem is. The metaphors use this harsh way to describe the treatment of the people as without is the theme would not have the impact it does at the end on the reader. The
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When crime features in literature‚ there are often many ways it is dealt with. In “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes‚ Mrs.Jones was almost robbed by a boy named Roger. Instead of calling the cops Mrs.Jones took the boy home to her house‚ washed‚ fed and gave him money to buy the sneakers that he had wanted to steal the money for. In contrast‚ in Roald Dahl’s “Lambs to the Slaughter”‚ Mary kills her husband‚ Patrick Maloney‚ after he told her he is going to leave her. After killing her husband‚
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Literature is yet another genre that Africa’s intellectual elites struggle to elucidate coherence for dissemination and consumption to ingrain within viable institutions. Modern African literature is considered a byproduct as well as an explicit goal engineered at the Berlin Conference (1884-5) by the imperialist nations of Europe. The challenge for African literature is to be incorporated in the ‘universal’ standards of literary canons without the demeaning criticisms of this controlled universalism
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Lucy poems Lucy poems are the 5 different poems written by WW between 1798 and 1801. They belong to the second edition of ‘’Lyrical Ballads’’‚ which is a collection of both Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s poems. Lucy poems are lyrical ballads‚ they are written in verse and they all tell a story as briefly as possible. Wordsworth wrote them in the simple language of common people and he often used dramatic changes of states and ironic inversions which are also present in the traditional ballad.
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Colorado where he founded the Aspen Writers’ Conference and edited the Aspen Anthology. His poems have appeared in many periodicals‚ including Ontario Review‚ Massachusetts Review‚ Crazyhorse‚ and Southern Poetry Review. Kurt has also edited several anthologies (published by Milkweed Editions.) Currently‚ he lives with his wife‚ Laure-Anne Bosselaar‚ in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. PERSONIFICATION Within this poem‚ there is plethora of personification to convey a certain statement about constellations
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What is Literature? What is literature? Nowadays‚ literature seems to be slowly depleting. Much of this generation’s youth are what we now call‚ illiterate. The advancements of technologies gradually helped the adolescents to become lazier. For example‚ text messaging. I know text messaging is a fun and easy way to communicate with your friends‚ but the amount of laziness teenagers put into it is completely ridicule. Spelling “u” instead of “you” is one example. Another example--by far is the
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outburst of anger or other emotions’. In Amy Lowell’s poem‚ “Fireworks”‚ she uses the noun definition of fireworks to express the figurative meaning of fireworks. Throughout the poem‚ Amy reveals how much she hates this person by using descriptive words to describe the spectacular explosions caused by fireworks. Thus‚ the main idea of the poem is anger or strong feeling of hostility. “Fireworks” is an example of a lyrical poem because the poem rhymes and it has a regular and continuous rhyme scheme
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