Easter Island I was born today. My bones quarried at Rano Raraku near the northeast end of my homeland‚ Easter Island. My makers were small‚ with deep tawny skin that gleamed with moisture under the sun as they carved the gentle curves of my body. As I lay among the rock‚ an unmoving piece of stone that stretched across the land to the creatures that constructed me‚ I observed the thriving life around me. I was surrounded by trees‚ some whose unbranched bodies shot into the vibrant sky‚
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“Easter Wings” George Herbert (1593-1633) George Herbert’s poem is a clear example of Visual Poetry. The poem consists of two ten-line stanzas of varying line lengths. It draws much of its power from the appearance of the poem as a shape‚ in this case‚ a pair of wings viewed sideways‚ and sandglasses viewed straight on. These images emphasize the speaker’s desire to rise to heaven to be with the Christian Saviour. The sandglass has a direct connection with the title of the poem. To Christians
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scheme in each stanza is ABCBDD. Commentary One of the most unusual features of Yeats’s poetic career is the fact that the poet came into his greatest powers only as he neared old age; whereas many poets fade after the first burst of youth‚ Yeats continued to grow more confident and more innovative with his writing until almost the day he died. Though he was a famous and successful writer in his youth‚ his poetic reputation today is founded almost solely on
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W.B. Yeats was born in Dublin‚ Ireland. He was a lonely and unhappy boy‚ because of which he began to day dream and write escapist poetry. Yeats grew up as a member of the former Protestant Ascendancy at the time undergoing a crisis of identity. In 1889‚ Yeats met Maud Gonne‚ then a 23-year-old heiress and ardent Nationalist. Gonne had admired "The Isle of Statues" and sought out his acquaintance. Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with her beauty and outspoken manner‚ and she was to have a
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1. This poem suggests that politics are not important. Does the poet convince you? Write a paragraph in response‚ with reference to the text. 2. Yeats uses symbols to express some of his most profound ideas. What symbols in this poem appeal to you? Use reference to the text in your response. 3. ‘Yeats is yearning for order‚ and fearing anarchy.’ Discuss two ways in which the poem illustrates this statement. Support your answer with reference to the text. 1. This is a political poem. What kind
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The amazing Easter Island is an ancient civilization that started in 700 ad. It slowly grew into a great civilization in that time. The lorax is a movie about a man cutting down trees. It too was a great civilization but it was fictional. How do these two come together you ask hopefully u well know the answer to this question. First‚ the lorax is a fictional movie and book created by Dr. Seuss. It’s a story about a man that sees an opportunity to make money by cutting down trees and making thneeds
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Anabella Morabito 02/27/2015 Resisting Violence - Engendering Easter To speak of a reconstruction of Easter in which we engender Easter and begin to construct an event which truly represent a resistance of violence‚ marginalization and death‚ entails that we understand the main characters involved in the first encounter with the risen Christ. This deconstruction of what has come to be understood by Easter must take into consideration the figure of Mary of Magdala if it is to ever give new life
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‘In Memory of C. Tallis and R. Turner’ In this essay I will discuss the effects of W. H. Auden’s poem ‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’ upon the tone‚ and the foreshadowing of plot line of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement. The poem and the novel are both elegiac- it is the contribution of the poem to Atonement at the crucial point before the deaths of the characters Robbie and Cecilia that begins to set the tone of elegy within the novel. This acknowledgement of death and mourning brings a sense of impending
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Both The Lorax and the story of Easter Island are examples of how people in a society can damage the environment and end life as we know it. The Lorax messages were how terrible our environment is in today’s society and also included a life lesson. The issues expressed in The Lorax are water and air pollution‚ deforestation‚ and overpopulation. And in the Easter Island story‚ the natives showed many examples of what could happen if we use up all our resources and do not take care of our environment
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to some of the energy crisis. I believe that wind and solar power will only continue to grow in popularity as time goes on. James Tera‚ I would agree with you and disagree with you to a point. You stated that you don’t believe the people of Easter Island understood that they were exploiting and depleting the island’s resources at an unsustainable rate. I would agree that they did not understand or realize they significance of how quickly they were depleting their resources. However‚ were I
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