The Matilija Poppy also known as‚ the Romneya couteri‚ is an erect flower growing up to eight feet tall that is heavy branched and woody at the base. The white flowers are the largest of any plant native to California‚ and resemble fried eggs. There are five to eight crinkled petals per stem with many yellow stamens and a single large pistil. The unique flower was discovered in California in 1831 by an Irish surgeon-botanist‚ Thomas Coulter and the first seeds reached England in 1875 and by late
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Museum report on Poppy by Georgia O’Keeffe Written by Lauren Harmon 1. I visited the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg‚ Florida. My visit took place on Sunday‚ November 16th‚ at around noon. 2. I’m going to highlight Poppy. 3. Painted by Georgia O’Keeffe 4. Painted in 1927 5. It seems as though her intended audience for this painting (and the others in the series) was the general masses‚ people who live busy lives. She wanted people to stop and really see the flowers and notice their beauty
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Sadness in Kate Chopin’s “The Locket” Kate Chopin’s “The Locket” is a short story only four pages long and broken into two sections‚ but filled with sadness. There are many factors in the story‚ from beginning to end‚ that display sad and sorrow that Kate Choplin‚ again and again‚ nailed home with imagery of the setting and personal experiences of the main characters Edmond and Octavie. Sadness appears right from the start in the first section with a gloomy setting of a war being waged and
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The definition of sadness is “feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy”. Everyone experiences sadness‚ In chapters one and two of Gathering Blue Kira personally experienced multiple moments of sadness. In the fiction novel‚ Gathering Blue‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the author creates certain moods in chapters one and two. One mood created was sadness. In chapters one and two the mood of sadness is shown when Kira is thinking about how her mother had died from a disease. After four sunsets and sunrises‚ it was
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upon Christian conversion‚ and specifically the conversion of a culture or empire which is pre-Christian‚ suggested in the poem to be barbaric; a culture or force that has got by on instinct alone and suggestively is ignorant of its destructive nature. The image of enlightenment‚ the discovery of knowledge and the losing of ones innocence also tie in with the Christian theme. A large and powerful force‚ ignorant of its own destructive nature‚ is the first image we perceive from reading the first
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Theme of Stopping by the wood s on a snowy evening The poem “stopping by the woods on a snowy evening” is written by Robert Frost. The poem is set in the woods and the speaker here is the stranger who stopped there‚ admiring what his eyes saw‚ the beautiful view. In the opening stanza‚ the poet wonders about owner of the woods and thinks he knows him. The stranger is in the woods and has a horse who thinks its weird that its owner has stopped in a place that does not have a farmhouse ‚ but
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on the surface. Poems‚ however small or large typically have an ambiguous message. The true beauty of a poem is that they are open for the interpretation. Ellen Hunnicutt‚ the author of the original “Blackberries‚” inspired many others to write poems on the subject of blackberries. Similar to some extent‚ Robert Hass’‚ “Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who has Been Reading Jacques Lacan” and Seamus Haeney’s‚ “Blackberry-picking” share a variety of common ground. Both poems are literally similar
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The Opium Poppy control act of 1942 Tony Curtis Opium is an addictive drug made from poppy plants. It is used both for a narcotic and medicinal uses as an analgesic to reduce pain without loss of consciousness. Opium contains morphine‚ codeine‚ noscapine‚ papaverine and thebaine. The psychological effects of opium have been known since circa 4‚000 B.C. by the ancient Sumerians who used symbols such as ‘joy’ for poppy. In the 17th century opium use in China grew based on the introduction of
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This poem provided an amazing metaphor of the world. It would seem as a puzzling poem for those who didn’t associate the title with the poem. Thus‚ It was a creative way of the poet to summarize the theme of the poem in the title. Additionally‚ the poet was able to connect to the readers with the use of images and comparison between the pencil and the world. Moreover‚ he used the white space to concentrated words and to allow the readers to reflect on the poem. The endings contained the element of
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Sickness in Beauty and Sadness The poet Samuel Daniel said in one of his poems that “love is a sickness full of woes‚ all remedies refusing” (Page 111). The novel Beauty and Sadness by Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata tells the story of a destructive love affair between a married writer and a teenage girl. This love affair continues to haunt both of these characters more than twenty years after their last encounter. In this novel there is the recurrent theme of the role of love as a
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