metaphors‚ sound effects‚ etc.). Complete a close reading of one of the following poems‚ ensuring that you paraphrase its content‚ the literary techniques used within it‚ and the effects these techniques have on the interpretation of the poem. a. “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath (attached) b. “Hockey Players” by Al Purdy (attached) Your essay will be graded according to the rubric on the back of this page. Please submit your rubric with your assignment for grading. Criteria 4 3 2 1 Unity
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was about to pee. The liquid froze inside when he realized the heart-wrenching sound was that of his mother. Soon it was followed by bawling of his elder sister as he slowly walked back to the source of the cries: parent’s bedroom. There in the bed‚ daddy lay still with eyes wide open; he wasn’t convoluting anymore. As he stood in the door‚ his second sister came running and dropped howling on daddy’s chest. In his seven-year-old life he had never witnessed his mother’s tears; slowly‚ tears trickled
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Gabe. In act (2.2) Rose told Troy that she just want him to love her. Troy had came home and told Rose that he had an affair with another women and had gotten her pregnant then after that Rose didnt talk to Troy for a while. Corey loves his daddy but his daddy Troy just want him to work and does not approve of Corey playing football because he didnt make it nowhere playing baseball. In act (1.3) Troy does not sign Corey football paper because he didnt want Corey to play football. But Corey ended up
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Childcare Center Director Patricia A. Brooks Everest University Childcare Center Director Do you enjoy working with children? Is a question that I like to think of when it comes to working in the field dealing with the responsibilities of taking care of children. Today‚ there are more needs for children to be taking care of and learning about why it is so important to have a good education. I can remember when I was about ten or eleven years
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ABC ’s for the first time. It ’s been a huge part of my life in a lot of different aspects. I learned how to read when I was three years old because I went to a daycare where I was the youngest kid and the only one who couldn ’t read. Reading and writing just stuck with me after that. After I started reading better than my older daycare-mates‚ school was ready for me to conquer. The school put me with older kids right away and I was in English class with 3rd graders when I was in kindergarten. It
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The Poem Daddy‚ by Sylvia Plath describes the author’s relationship and feelings towards her father that have also carried over into all of her relationships with men. In the poem her father is shown to be all powerful‚ Godlike and a “ghastly statue”. She describes her feelings that she must kill her father “Daddy I have to kill you”‚ but at age ten her father dies before she has the chance to do him in herself. Because of this her feelings towards him are left unresolved. These unresolved feelings
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associated with the automatic processes by Reason‚ 1990”‚ I have experienced this from time to time in my life. I am a new mother to a 3-month old son name Greyson and one of my daily routines is to drop Greyson off at daycare‚ attend classes and then pick up Greyson from daycare to head back home. When driving‚ I have gotten to know the route quite well that it is quite possibly I could go on automatic when in reality I shouldn’t. One day‚ I really needed to go to the bank to deposit a check into
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Richey 1 Katelynn Richey Mr Ricketts AP English Literature and Composition 08 December 2011 Term Paper Carl Jung‚ an analytical psychologist‚ stated that “archetypes are a tendency or instinctive trend in the human unconscious to express certain motifs or themes” (“Dreams‚ Health‚ Yoga‚ Mind & Spirit”). In the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams‚ Williams uses many archetypal images and personas‚ such as the tragic hero or the stern father figure‚ to convey the overall
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What was the relationship between Brick‚ Maggie‚ and Skipper? Brick is caught in the middle of a former love triangle in the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Maggie is Brick’s wife and Skipper is Brick’s former lover. Brick can not stand Maggie and is very unhappy with her. I believe that Maggie is Brick’s cover up since being a homosexual was frowned upon in this era he wanted to appear “normal.” Maggie knew that Brick and Skipper were secretly lovers so she confronted Skipper about it and in Skipper’s
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effort to make peace with him‚ even though Gloria believes there’s real peace in the household. Phil goes behind Claire’s back and gets a bike for Luke‚ then really ends up lying about it when the bike gets stolen. Mitchell and Cameron begin daycare classes with Lilly. Symbolic
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