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    (woo! )And I know your taste isA little bit (mmm) high maintenance (ooh)Everybody else basicYou live life on an everyday basisWith poetic justice‚ poetic justiceIf I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room‚ would you trust it?I mean I write poems in these songs dedicated to youWhen you’re in the mood for empathy‚ there’s blood in my penBetter yet where your friends and them?I really wanna know you allI really

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    Writing Critical Analysis Papers1 A critical analysis paper asks the writer to make an argument about a particular book‚ essay‚ movie‚ etc. The goal is two fold: one‚ identify and explain the argument that the author is making‚ and two‚ provide your own argument about that argument. One of the key directions of these assignments is often to avoid/minimize summary – you are not writing a book report‚ but evaluating the author’s argument. Potential points of criticism Sometimes it can seem intimidating

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    Critical Analysis of “The Ideal” and ‘”Mistakes of Past” From learning to ride your first bike or to going to the movies with your old friends‚ memories of the past are special things that are both everlasting and very important. A theme of James Fenton’s poem “The Ideal” is to live by your past because it cannot be changed‚ erased‚ or forgotten; it makes you who you are. One of the major literary devices used in this poem is rhyme. There are three rhymes in total and he rhymes the second and fourth

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    Work without hope analysis Work without hope was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is mainly about how spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around and the speaker seems to still be stuck in his depression. The first half of the stanza includes a personification In the first half of the poem‚ the speaker identifies that the bees‚ slugs‚ and birds are coming out of hibernation. The speaker seems depressed as spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around

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    Leah Baker English Comp 1210 Critical Analysis September 28‚ 2011 Critical Analysis of an Ineffective Essay Author‚ Harriet Davids‚ of “The Extended School Day” believes all elementary schools should adopt an extended school day policy. Davids main ideas focus on the safety of the children‚ whether it be in the care of a nanny or home alone‚ safety is the number one priority. Davids not only states that an extended school day will be beneficial to the parents and the students‚ but also the

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    Analysis of a Poem When You are Old‚ by William Butler Yeats‚ represents and elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. Basically‚ Yeats is showing that as the woman gets older‚ she is alone‚ but she does not have to be lonely. She will always have her memories for companionship. "When you are old and grey and full of sleep‚ and nodding by the fire" (l.1-2) depicts the woman in her age‚ needing to nap more frequently

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    Irfan Khan 260215802 September 3rd‚ 2009 Mime 221 If by Robert Kupling Analysis Robert Kupling addresses the qualities which adhere to manhood in this poem If‚ wherein he identifies certain specific criteria as metaphors for achieving things desired in life. The poem consists of four verses‚ each eight lines long. Each specific verse held in it a very different interpretation in responsibility‚ and each prose deals with a separate yet equally important detail that one would need to encounter

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    analyzing is a poem by Lorna Crozier called The Child Who Walks Backwards. Throughout my analysis I will look into parental abuse‚ underlying meanings in the lines in the poetry‚ as well as connections I can make personally to the book. I think it is also important that I bring forth essential messages in the words and statements of the poem. The main theme I will choose to focus on is that abuse does not only happen at school or back alleys‚ but that it happens in homes as well. This poem is told from

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    Kelly Johnson English 82 (8002) Professor Jones 18 April 2012 Critical Analysis Final Draft Essay Alice Walker an African American novelist was born February 9‚ 1944 in Eatonton‚ Georgia as an eighth child. In 1961 Ms.Walker attended Spellman College‚ where she became active in civil rights. She then attended Sarah Lawrence College where she received her B.A degree. Walkers writing career began in 1969 at Jackson State College

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    Analysis of the poem‚ “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou’s poem‚ “Still I Rise” may contain different meanings depending on the reader who interprets it. It is a poem that talks about keeping one’s head up no matter how hard the situation they come from and not being affected by the problems on the side. Maya Angelou was part of a generation wherein the black race was still seen as “inferior”. During that time‚ the “truth” is usually kept hidden favoring the more superior groups of people. Hence‚ the

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