page 16‚ “ ‘Muck fires don’t go out. They’re burning all the time.’ ” As you can see‚ the muck fire in Lake Windsor Downs has always been a problem‚ and since there is a problem‚ there has to be a solution. In this case‚ the solution is to create a swamp to try to flood out the fire. “ ‘We said‚ ‘Why don’t you pour water on
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to escape‚ Beowulf tears the monster’s arm off. Mortally wounded‚ Grendel slinks back into the swamp to die. The severed arm is hung high in the mead-hall as a trophy of victory. Overjoyed‚ Hrothgar showers Beowulf with gifts and treasure at a feast in his honor. Songs are sung in praise of Beowulf‚ and the celebration lasts late into the night. But another threat is approaching. Grendel’s mother‚ a swamp-hag who lives in
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original Beowulf‚ Grendel’s mother is described as “that swamp-thing from hell‚” (Lawall 1213). Dean Traylor states in her article‚ “Beowulf: The Movie versus the Poem - The Changing Face of Heroism‚” “Unlike the poetic version‚ Grendal ’s mother in the movie (played by Angelia Jolie) is a sultry temptress whose beauty and sex appeal are more powerful and dangerous than her demonic traits‚” (Traylor 2). In changing the appearance of the swamp hag‚ again the fear that the poem placed in the reader is
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Ah Goong He is a free man hired as a railroad worker in Maxine Hong Kinston’s The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains‚ who is the Grandfather of the narrator‚ leaving home several times to work in America. He lived and took “the Chinaman’s chance” to work for the love of his wife and family. Bak Goong He is a Chinese labor in Maxine Hong Kinston’s Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains‚ who is the Great Grandfather of the narrator‚ coming to Hawaii as a tough worker in land. He
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------------------------------------------------- Sundarbans The Sundarbans (Bengali: সুন্দরবন‚ Shundorbôn) is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world.The Sunderbans is a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering parts of India and Bangladesh. The Sundarbans National Park is a National Park‚ Tiger Reserve‚ and a Biosphere Reserve located in the Sundarbans delta in the Indian state of West Bengal. This region is densely covered by mangrove forests‚ and is one of the
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The Devil and Tom Walker A few miles from Boston‚ in Massachusetts‚ there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay‚ and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp‚ or morass. On one side of this inlet is a beautiful dark grove; on the opposite side the land rises abruptly from the water’s edge‚ into a high ridge on which grow a few scattered oaks of great age and immense size. Under one of these gigantic trees‚ according to old stories‚ there was a great
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AP Literature Poetry Essay Prompts (1970–2011) 1970 Poem: “Elegy for Jane” (Theodore Roethke) Prompt: Write an essay in which you describe the speaker’s attitude toward his former student‚ Jane. 1971 Poem: “The Unknown Citizen” (W.H. Auden) Prompt: In a brief essay‚ identify at least two of the implications implicit in the society reflected in the poem. Support your statements by specific references to the poem. 1972 NO POEM 1973 (exam not available) 1974 Poem: “I wonder whether one expects
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that he must take revenge on this witch and go to the mother and kill her. So Beowulf travels to the "lake that burns like a torch" (Beowulf 35) seeking the swamp hag. He finds Grendel’s mother in her underwater home‚ the "she-wolf" (Beowulf 36) dragged Beowulf down into the murky water to the battle hall where Beowulf then decapitated the swamp hag with a magical sword. Beowulf takes Grendel’s head to Hrothgar to prove that he has avenged the deaths and kidnappings. The revenge has ended between
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to walk into the swamp carrying the child is wrong because to take your own life and your child’s life is not the right thing to do.
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“A people without the knowledge of their past history‚ origin and culture is like a tree without roots” - Marcus Garvey. The Harlem Renaissance was a period of time in which racial pride and culture were thrust away in favor of a more traditional style of art. However‚ during this time‚ racial pride was best expressed through folk art via the means of relatable structure‚ understandable word choice and everyday subject matter. Common poets of the time chose not to imitate the formal and restrictive
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