Prokofiev and the "Fantasy on Japanese Woodblocks" by Alan Hovhannes. I felt different about both pieces‚ but I did see a couple similarities. And that’s what I’m going to explain about in this essay: both the differences and the similarities of the two pieces. I’ll start by explaining how I felt about both pieces. The "Gavotte" had a very calming affect on me. For a minute I felt as if I was in the wonderful jungle sitting and listening to a peaceful waterfall and finding peace to my soul. But it
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"Hitcher" By Simon Armitage‚ "Education For Leisure" By Carol Anne Duffy‚ "My Last Duchess" and "The Lab" by Robert Browning are all poems that deal with violence or the prospect of violence. ‘The Laboratory’ is a dramatic monologue about a woman who has discovered her husband is having an affair with two other women. She is plotting to poison both of the mistresses. My Last Duchess’ is also a dramatic monologue in which the Duke is telling his new bride father’s representative about a portrait of
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“Parents rarely let go of their children‚ so children let go of them” - Paulo Cuelho. The two poems: Seamus Heaney’s “Follower” and Chrissy Banks’ “The Gift” each hold a different perspective on the relationship between parents and children. In his poem‚ Heaney reminisces on his childhood spent on a farm following his father‚ while Banks writes as a mother from suburbia being cared for by her adolescent son after she has an accident. Both “Follower” and “The Gift” portray a character’s realisation
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the speaker talks about is making a decision and not achieving what she desires. At first‚ her fear is making a decision. She realizes that if she does what she has on mind‚ there are two possible scenarios: she could win or she could lose. “If I should fail‚ what poverty!” – “And if I gain‚—oh‚ gun at sea‚” The poem gives the impression of a speaker who thought in everything before jumping into a choice. “To know the worst is sweet”. She predicted her worst case scenario and decided that she could
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Reflections Two poems I find similar in meaning are “Untitled”‚ by Peter Meinke and “Mirror”‚ by Sylvia Path. The connections of the two poems are that both of the speakers are reflecting on themselves through poetry. Although they two poems have similarities; they are also different in many ways as well. The poem “Untitled” is about a father recognition of how badly he treats his son. I think in this poem the father is full of remorse and regret. Seems‚ as if‚ the speaker feels guilty or
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Authors of poems 12 Angry Men and “Democracy” ‚ Rose and Hughes agree on the importance of democracy. While Hughes is contributing that Democracy although is a fair way of government‚ it is not present in our everyday lives. Rose suggests that Democracy is a smart‚ fair way of government but shows how it is present in his drama and that people should take advantage of its perks and freedom that other forms of government don’t have. What is a Democracy you may ask? Well‚ Democracy is truly
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In looking at Kipling’s poem White Man’s Burden and Johnson’s response poem Black Man’s Burden‚ one can find several contrasts and very few similarities in the perspectives of these two men and what they believed was our nation’s rights when it came to spreading Western culture and beliefs. The white man’s burden and The black man’s burden are both different viewpoints of the ways of Imperialism‚ such as positive consequences ways and negative consequences. The poem by Kipling‚"The White Man’s
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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He used sex‚ violence and moral hypocrisy as themes in many of his poems. Browning‚ like Charles Dickens‚ filled his literary works with people from all levels of society and he also included characters that were immoral and evil. According to The Literature Network‚ “Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues covered a wide array of subjects‚ from lucid dreams to the nature of art and even the meaning of existence.” His poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess‚” are similar in that they both
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Furthermore‚ the diction to the poems it is a first person and third person perspective. Both of the poems make you feel their struggle and what they’re going through. The words each author use is repetitive and they use it for a specific purpose. In “Work Late Tuesday Night” the women in the poem constantly keeps using “I”‚ “to”‚ and “too”. She uses these words in order to show an excessive reminder of being a working parent. She uses “I” to show that she’s in charge of what she’s doing and that
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