intense‚ deeply personal and quite disturbing. Plath has a dark mind filled with doubts and demons of all shapes and sizes which provides rich imagery to draw from. The best poems to describe the disturbing experience are ‘Child’‚ ’Black Rook in Rainy Weather’‚ ‘Morning Song’‚ ’Mirror’ and ’The Times are Tidy’. The poem ‘Child’ is exceptionally disturbing. This poem is very personal and although it is primarily a happy poem about her child there is an intense underlying sadness and emptiness. In this
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black with rain.” In A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway‚ Hemingway utilizes the weather to portray the effects of war. Rain is one element that Hemingway highlights in the book to emphasize the war. He describes the setting in detail to emphasize how much of an impact it has made. In the novel‚ Hemingway’s usage of rain symbolizes death and despair. In the first chapter of the novel‚ Frederic Henry immediately begins describing the setting around him‚ using rain as one of the principal motifs. For example
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1776 is filled with umpteen details that help make the book more clear and visible to the mind. Starting on the first page‚ there are stellar details describing this halcyon setting. “The day was cool‚ but clear skies and sunshine‚ a rarity in London‚ brightened everything‚ and the royal cavalcade‚ spruced and polished‚ shone to perfection”(3). Weather its gossip from General Howe (267) or about a play teasing famous leaders (75) McCullough leaves out no juicy fun facts from that time period that most
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so we all wanted to do a bit of site seeing. We went to some ancient cathedrals‚ churches‚ and even an antique shop that was so large that it would take a person a week just to see everything that they had to offer. The rest of the week the weather held out for us‚ so we were in the fields for today’s detecting for pieces of English history. We would go from one field that had been the site of a medieval village at one time‚ to another field that had been the site of a Roman Villa‚ and then
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pursuit in the twentieth century. Employing metaphors and simile‚ she exemplifies women succumbing to restrictions and boundaries placed upon them in their education. Wolf utilizes metaphors describing her thoughts and manifests what men had done to those thoughts. On a bank with willows in fine October weather‚ she compares her contemplation to “the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water.” Like a fish being caught‚ reflections are processed the same way letting “its line down
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Rachel Carson’s writing style is descriptive and imaginative‚ which is hard to get across in such an informational and dense book‚ yet she does. The reader can see her emotion on certain topics through her writing‚ such as when she is describing the first reptiles on earth as “gigantic” and “terrifying”(23) or as a sunfish as “grotesque”(233). Her imagery also comes through in the book like when she describes the accumulation of sediments on the ocean floor as “the steady‚ unremitting downward
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In Memory of WB Yeats‚ discussing how far you find it characteristic of other WH Auden’s poems you have studied W.H Auden’s “In Memory of W.B Yeats” is an elegy to commemorate the life and death of a great poet‚ W.B Yeats. However‚ Auden adds another dimension to the poem by incorporating political references significant during the age of oppression and turmoil of the impending war and the extent of effectiveness of poetry at any point in time. In this poem‚ he utilizes techniques and themes commonly
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What Techniques Does Tennyson Use To Tell The Story Of Mariana? Tennyson uses place and setting‚ time‚ characterisation‚ imagery and form to tell the story in his poem Mariana‚ based on the character of Mariana from Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure. The poem is about the character Mariana‚ who after losing her dowry in a shipwreck‚ her lover Angelo leaves her. In the poem‚ we see Mariana slowly coming to terms with the fact that Angelo will never be coming back to her. Tennyson uses place
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this report we will be exploring Grasslands‚ define abiotic and biotic‚ we will see where Grassland I located and see an example. We will describe the structure of Grassland: listing both the abiotic and biotic components of Grassland‚ we will be describing the function of the ecosystem. How do the abiotic and the biotic components interact in biochemical cycles? Describe both the carbon and nitrogen cycles‚ describe the disturbance and recovery: describe one natural and one human caused disturbance
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The years that through my petals come and go.” (Longfellow’s lines 1-4) Following that Longfellow talks about the hazards snow can bring. I block the roads‚ and drift the fields with snow; I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen.” This is describing how harsh snow can be by blocking off the roads. However with snow cones ice and the ice spreads across the ground below the snow. After his explanation of the snow Longfellow talks about the rivers freezing slowly through the day and night by
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