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    Monika Pietrzykowska Emily Dickinson and Civil War in selected poems Emily Dickinson was very much affected by the American Civil War. During the four years of conflict (1861-1865)‚ she wrote nearly 850 poems. This number amounts to almost half of her entire works and more than four times what she had written before this period. Emily Dickinson wrote four poems directly influenced by the war: "They dropped like Flakes"‚ "It don’t sound so terrible—quite as it did" ‚ "It feels a

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    The 20 Most Brilliantly Colored Birds in the World Birds are the only animals with feathers. All have feathers and most birds can fly. It is the possession f feathers‚ not the ability to fly‚ that distinguishes birds from other animals. There are about 10‚000 species of birds from all over the world. Here are 20 of the world’s most colorful birds. 1.  Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) The golden pheasant of Asia is a brilliantly colored game bird. It is native to forests in mountainous

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    Jackie Bako Mrs. Boyd AP English IV 15 September 2013 Poetry Analysis Paper Emily Brontë‚ born in Yorkshire‚ the fifth child of six children. Growing up‚ she always had a keen interest in writing poetry. With her collection of different poems‚ "At Castle Wood" was one. In Brontë ’s poem‚ "At Castle Wood‚" she establishes a sorrowful theme through the use of imagery‚ Brontë ’s tone of somber throughout her poem and also her use of end rhyme‚ for the purpose of creating a simple yet powerful

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    symbolize some kind of fear‚ unknown thing or place‚ or a mournful state. Within the world of poetry‚ the contrast of light and dark can be seen in hundreds of poems‚ including "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson and "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost where the darkness symbolizes something much deeper than just fear. Both poems‚ "We grow accustomed to the Dark" and "Acquainted with the night" use the elements of Light and Dark as symbols within the speakers’ lives. In "Acquainted

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    A Walk in a Forest I noticed as I stood in an open field‚ that there was a path‚ seeming to go into a forest. I followed the path into the forest‚ the evergreen trees reached high into the sky and the birds chirped as they perched in them. Through the trees you could barely see the grey‚ cloudy sky and fell the little bit of water still falling from the trees. Little droplets of water dripped off the pine needles and fell to the ground. The ground under the tall evergreens‚ was sound

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    does Dickenson explore the concept of belonging in the poem ‘A Narrow Fellow in the Grass’? Emily Dickenson’s poem “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” explores the concept of belonging through her effective use of poetic techniques. The use of these techniques intrigues audiences to attempt to understand what the poem is about. It is essentially about A speaker comes across a snake in the grass‚ literally. This basically isn’t much but Dickinson examines how a daily occurrence like this might be meaningful

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    Literary Analysis of “A Rose For Emily” The short story‚ “A Rose for Emily”‚ by William Faulkner‚ is told by an unnamed narrator and broken into five sections. The story is not chronological‚ but completely out of order‚ adding mystery and climax. The first section begins with the death of the main character‚ Emily Grierson‚ and relates the thoughts and actions of the small Southern U.S. town. A flawed relationship between the town and Miss Emily is seen throughout the story. The tension between

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    "The Dog and the Sparrow" by Tourgenieff analysis ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Prof: Melissa Eidson 5/28/14 The poem "The Dog and the Sparrow" by Ivan Sergeevich Tourgenieff is an example of the sublime. It has the ability to cause the reader to feel deeply for the sparrow and its bravery and sacrifice. The poem is told in first-person point of view and uses figurative language and metaphors to tell the story. The theme is reverence for the sparrow‚ which like

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    James Audubon and Annie Dillard‚ both writers experienced seeing a flock of birds in flight‚ but Audubon takes a more scientific approach and Dillard conveys a more casual and awestruck message. Audubon and Dillard both share the amazement and awe felt by watching these creatures of the skies‚ but what separates the two pieces is Audubon’s sophisticated diction defines the piece as a scientific documentation of birds in flight by using words like‚ “eminence” and “inconceivable”. Audubon published

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    Robert Frost Poem Analysis

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    What do the speakers of Frost’s poems reveal about themselves through the stories they tell? About Repeated items (theme‚ diction) Tone (through diction) Words (genre‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ imagery‚ etc.) Alliteration (sound created) Rhyme (end rhyme- group ideas‚ internal rhyme- strengthen idea + emphasizes‚ masculine rhyme- rhyming syllables are stressed and feminine rhyme- rhyming syllables are unstressed) Rhythm Structure Prosody- technical aspects of a poem i.e. rhyme scheme‚ rhythmic pattern

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