The poem "Tenement Room: Chicago" is simply about the same thing as its title says‚ a tenement room in Chicago. To show the mood of the room the poet uses imagery. When the poet uses imagery‚ he uses words to create mental images using the five senses of seeing‚ smelling‚ hearing‚ tasting‚ and touching. The poet here tries to show how the room and everything in it is broken‚ beaten‚ and old with visual imagery. In the second stanza the port goes on‚ object after object‚ describing each. In verses
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The Act of Revenge In Edgar Allan Poe ’s "A Cask of Amontillado" the readers learns of a man who seeks vengeance on an acquaintance‚ named Fortunato‚ who irreparably insulted him. "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could‚ but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge." (391) for some unexplained injustice. Montresor wants revenge for Forunato ’s wrongdoing‚ but he does not want to be punished for what he will do to Fortunato. Montresor ’s desire causes him to thoroughly
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Immediately repulsed and frightful of what else or who could be lurking around‚ I quickly shut my door and locked myself in my home until sundown. At dusk‚ a group of angry colonists paraded my street and beheaded the effigy in front of my house and then proceeded to throw stones through my windows to break into my home to then loot my property. I am now terrified for what my future holds and am kicking
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granted by the American Government. Blacks were treated as something less than a human being‚ something like a product; this product was sold and traded around the country‚ and was the basis of the entire country’s economy. Working in the fields from dusk to dawn not only hindered African-American’s physically‚ but also exhausted them in the social and mental aspects of life. Slavery affected the lives of African-Americans in the South and the North by hindering them socially‚ mentally‚ and physically
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The short story “Becky” by Jean Toomer utilizes female imagery to illustrate gender roles and societal expectations during the 1920s. This type of imagery and its impact on the reader’s understanding of this relationship during this time frame is significant because many aspects of gender roles are still relevant today. One of the first bits of female imagery that contributed to the relationship between race and gender in this short story was “taking their [Becky’s community’s] words‚ they filled
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characters and setting the readers are drawn further into the suspense. Beginning with the descriptions of the carnival‚ usually a joyous time‚ it is not so joyous but mostly dark with the vision of “[dusk] one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season.” (Poe page 2) By using words like “dusk” and “madness” Poe takes away from the light atmosphere of the carnival season‚ and gives it a dark twist. Even the narrator‚ Montresor‚ is given an air of madness when described as “putting on
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SECTION D: LITERATURE Syllabus for TERM I (SA I) FICTION TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA -A J Cronin Two Gentlemen of Verona is a touching story of Jacopo and Nicola‚ two brothers aged 12 and 13‚ who do odd jobs and live a hard life themselves to sustain and treat their elder sister Lucia‚ who is suffering from tuberculosis of the spine. A J Cronin uses the title of William Shakespeare’s famous play‚ The Two Gentlemen of Verona in an ironic manner. Cronin’s portrayal of these modern "gentlemen" of Verona
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may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys‚ but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes. The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds‚ And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. 2. Poem published: October 1917 3. Facts about Wilfred Owen: * Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier‚ one of the leading poets of the First World War.
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The Great Gatsby and Money Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" (1925) also shows what Dreiser calls the "impotence" of money. But it shows money’s other side as well. It is perhaps the most effervescent‚ champagne-fizzy vision of wealth ever realized in literature. It is the delicacy and fatality with which both visions are balanced that makes "The Great Gatsby" unique‚ and makes it literature’s most haunting study of money. Literature after "Gatsby‚" in what Harold Bloom calls the "Chaotic Age‚"
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Reuben‚ Paul P. "Chapter 9: Anne Spencer " PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. WWW URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/spencer.html (provide page date or date of your login). She is no pleader of causes‚ choosing rarely to comment on the race issue in her published poetry. Yet her biography reveals a wide acquaintance with civil rights leaders‚ literary dignitaries‚ lecturers‚ and other prominent citizens‚ black and white‚ who would appear
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