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    African Poetry

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    received worldwide acclaim. Their success proved‚ as critics like Srinivasa Iyengar pointed out‚ A shot in the arm of modern English Literature has had to come from West Africans like Amos Tutuola‚ Wole Soyinka and Gabriel Okara. (16) The role of poetry‚ in African literature‚ has

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    Commentary Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is the factual perception on what human’s ignorant minds accept whatever they perceive without envisioning the reality. His use of “dark” imagery illustrates how a person is trapped and isolated in his own “cave” and conceives everything without visually seeing the “light” outside the cave. He conveys the idea that the “prisoners” are stuck and “chained” in their own reality because they were only shown one perspective from “childhood”. Plato wisely suggests

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    Waiting in the Dark : The Suspense in “Wait until Dark” - Aditi Bose "The blinds moving up and down…the squeaking shoes…and then the knife whistling past her ear." This slogan from one of the posters of the film “Wait Until dark”‚ establishes the element of suspense in the film. It released in 1967 with explicit instructions to all theatres to switch off all the lights for the last 8 minutes of the film so that the climax unfolds in complete darkness. There is no doubt that the film

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    Carol of the bells was constructed to be a cheerful and merry Christmas song. It’s fast paced and has many rhymes. The rhyming makes the fast pacing make the song more cheerful and overall a better song. Literary devices used to create this song included personification‚ repetition‚ and rhyme. Rhyme played a big part in this song. Again‚ Carol of the bells is fast paced and rhyming made the song sound better than non rhyming words would. An example of a rhyme is “All seem to say‚ throw cares

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    1914 poetry

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    In the poetry of 1914 there is both crude propaganda and poems that are subtle and deeply moving if naïve. The poetry in 1914 had purpose for why they were written. Some were written with the intent of trying to enlist more men for the war because the authors believed that all men should fight for their country. While others were to show everyone that war is not so glorious and there is nothing sweet about fighting for their country. Either way‚ they all used naïve idealism or sometimes crude propaganda

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    How to Structure an I.B. Commentary (Oral or Written) I. Introduction A. Set the context 1. for a poem‚ some generalizations about the poet’s work and this poem’s relation to the poet’s work as a whole‚ as well as a summary of what happens in the poem 2. for a passage from a play or novel‚ a brief summary of the action leading up to the passage‚ as well as a summary of what occurs in the passage itself B. Identify the speaker/narrator 1. for a poem

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    Angela Viola ENG 102 M/W 3- 4:15 Professor Mirelese A Shot in the Dark Immunization has been deemed the most important public health intervention in history‚ after safe drinking water. It has saved millions of lives over the years and prevented hundreds of millions of cases of disease. There are many legitimate concerns about vaccines safety from parents. Questions arise if vaccines should be state mandated without the choice from parents. Ethically speaking‚ parents need to be aware on

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    Alicia Holliday 4/14/12 Modern Poetry Final Essay Defining Modern Poetry Defining modern poetry isn’t an easy thing to do. Modern Poetry can be defined as having open or free verse‚ borrowing from other cultures and languages‚ formal characteristics‚ and breaking down social norms and cultures‚ among other things. However modern poetry is so much more than that. It’s hard to define the limit of the modern age so writing about modern poets isn’t an

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    A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol is written by Charles Dickens. The book was published in 1843 in the Victorian era. The book was based around a self absorbed‚ miserable and bitter character named Scrooge‚ who detest Christmas and although wealthy he is also miserly. The book’s storyline is that‚ Scrooge is visited by ghosts‚ who reveal to him his future life and death. The horror of finding out that his demise is perilous. This book also shows how poor Victorians suffer and the treatment

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    was born. Racism was a big thing for blacks. They weren’t able to go many places or do many things without getting yelled at. “Sweetness” proposes the impression of how hard it was for an African American family in the nineties. Sweetness and Lula Ann struggle in their everyday life to make it through the day. The narrative is first person point of view and is told by Sweetness‚ a single‚ African American woman. These characters try to function in a world filled with discrimination and hate. This

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