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    Kira Swearingen Ms. Petronella English 1320 21 February 2015 Close Reading- Song of Myself by Walt Whitman In Walt Whitman’s poem‚ Song of Myself‚ I found different key pieces of Whitman’s diction and language to be more in depth and not so cut‚ black and white. This poem really makes you think by giving you different perspectives of life to wonder about through the use of his words. I have gotten the impression that Whitman really values himself and his beliefs of a good world and being alive in

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    Timothy Huebner 3rd Period IB English A1 HL COMPARE AND CONTRAST WILLIAM BLAKE AND JEAN RHYS ESSAY William Blake‚ with his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience‚ and Jean Rhys‚ in Wide Sargasso Sea‚ utilize extensive symbolism and imagery in their respective works. They use imagery related to nature to symbolize Heaven/Hell or good/evil. They also use this imagery to emphasize the morals of their literary works and indicate‚ in the case of Wide Sargasso Sea‚ how the current events would

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    Blake’s use of the pastoral in Songs of Innocence and Experience Put simply‚ Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience juxtapose the innocent pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression. The collection as a whole‚ by means of paired poems in Innocence and Experience (The Lamb‚ The Tyger; The Ecchoing Green‚ The Garden of Love/London; The Nurse’s Song (I and E); Introduction (I and E); The Chimney sweeper (I and E)‚ etc) explores the value and limitations of

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    A Song of Ice and Fire is a progression of epic dream books composed by American author and screenwriter George R.R. Martin. He started composing the arrangement in 1991 and the main volume was distributed in 1996. Initially visualized as a set of three‚ there are presently five distributed books in the arrangement with two more arranged. There are likewise three novellas which go about as prequels to the books‚ with a few more arranged‚ and three different novellas comprising of excepts from the

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    Song of Roland The Song of Roland‚ or La Chanson de Roland‚ is an anonymously written poem about Count Roland and his King Charlemagne. The story takes place in the eighth century A.D in Spain and France‚ but the poem was not composed until sometime during the eleventh century A.D. According to tradition‚ Roland was the nephew of Charlemagne and possessed the sword Durandel and the horn Oliphant. This epic French poem tells a story of betrayal and revenge with poetic imagery. The Song of Roland

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    inequality that exists in the world and begin a conversation of change. William Blake had the idea to leverage his printing business (instead of a newsroom) and experience as a poet to begin that conversation with his collection of poems entitled Songs of Innocence. Focusing on “The Little Black Boy‚” “Holy Thursday‚” and “The Chimney Sweeper” satire is his weapon against the vastly unequal social scene in England around the turn of the 18th century. In “The Little Black Boy‚” Blake attacks two

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    and continued to grow through millennium until the collapse of the Han Dynasty in 221. When China reunified it experienced political‚ social‚ and economical changes over a period of 700 years and 3 dynasties. Those dynasties were the Sui‚ Tang‚ and Song. The Sui Dynasty‚ founded by Yang Jian in 581‚ was responsible for unifying China for the first time in 400 years. The capital was re-established at Chang’an .Yang Jian turned Chinese religion from Confucianism to Buddhism and Daoism. The strength

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    Comparison of Tang and Song Poems In The Attitudes Towards Others As history moves from Tang to Song‚ the Chinese view about “others” undergoes great changes. This was reflected in the poems describing warfare at that time. The literature of both Tang and Song dynasties has signs of racial chauvinism. However‚ the Tang poets also expressed ambivalence about fighting the other and questioned the righteousness of war‚ while this ambiguity is hardly found in Song literature. The Tang was a

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    Olivia‚ I shall be speaking today about the protest song - ‘I was only nineteen’. Firstly‚ let me tell you exactly what a protest song is. Protest songs have often proven to be an effective tool in creating awareness of social and political topics. Some of the most popular protest songs have changed the history of the world. ‘I was only nineteen’ was written by John Schumann and Trevor Lucas produced it. The song was released in March 1983. The song was released during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam

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    Walt Whitman has a variety of Poems he wrote. There were a few that caught my attention “Song of Myself‚” “Out of the Cradle…” and “The Wound Dresser.” These three have a lot of details and I will be Discussing them adnbreaking them down on what details they go into. They are all different poems and have a unique meaning. The First one “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” this poem was written in 1859 and incorporated into the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. It describes a young boy’s awakening

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