the stories‚ “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost because the comparisons between these two stories are uncanny as they both use symbolism in two distinct ways. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a poem and “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys is a short story that details a journey‚ which can be physical‚ mental‚ emotional‚ or even spiritual. Once you embark upon a journey‚ you are guaranteed to learn something along the way‚ but it is up to
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Anthem Theme Essay This wonderfully crafted novel‚ Anthem by: Ayn Rand suggested many ideas concerning how effective and “perfect” utopian societies are. In the story our protagonist‚ equality‚ lives in a utopian society in the future however the societies technology isn’t very futuristic. All of what we have know has been stripped from the society to the point where they don’t have electricity and they use candles for light and primitive ways of farming instead of more productive ways to mass
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We are all torn between wanting to stand apart and wanting to fit in. How is this conflict explored in 2 poems and one text? (800 words) An Amerian psychiatrist‚ William Glasser‚ once said: “We are driven by five genetic needs: survival‚ love and belonging‚ power‚ freedom and fun.” As humans‚ the impulse to search for acceptance is present in our nature; however we are also driven by our desire to be unique. It is this conflict between wanting to stand apart and wanting to fit in that shapes our
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John Donne’s Songs and Sonets include love poetry with very different attitudes towards the relationship between men and women. Four such poems‚ "The Sun Rising"‚ "Song"‚ "The Flea"‚ and "The Undertaking"‚ show very contradictory views of what love is and should be. Each of these poems give a diverse even conflicting view of love because they represent the different kinds of love a person encounters throughout their life; starting with young infatuation love‚ moving to bitter love‚ changing to physical
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Ashlyn Eisenga April 28‚ 2013 Anthem Essay: Literary Elements Anthem A genre is a category of expressing oneself in writing. According to Wikipedia’s list of genres‚ the genre of Anthem can be viewed as speculative fiction. Fiction is a writing about things‚ events and characters that are not true. Ayn Rands uses dystopia as her fictitious genre. The Wikipedia also goes on to say that Dystopia is a community that is in some important way‚ undesireable or frightening. Dystopian societies
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it’s "sweet and fitting to die for ones country". Youth are misguided about the belief that it is right and just. However‚ it is primarily their decision to go to war if that is what they believe in and fight for their country thinking that they’re helping to achieve dominance for their belief. The poem‚ Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen effectively conveys his message about war through poetic technique and language. This enhances the poems quality‚ showing the pointlessness of war‚ the injustice
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Wilfred Owen’s poetry revives the horrors of war and displays the inconsistency of war as it dehumanises those who fight‚ therefore giving our humanity to death. War is portrayed as pitiful‚ futile and damaging which thus reveals the true aspects of war rather than the propagandist’s view that displays war as heroic and honourable. This was achieved through Owen’s extensive use of visual and aural imagery‚ which is evident in his poem’s Strange Meeting‚ The Next War‚ and Insensibility which all expose
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To write a comparative poem between two poems Limbo and Caged Bird are two very similar poems. They are mainly about one matter-freedom of captivity. Freedom is what the poems characters desire and hope to have. Freedom is their need and wants to be joyful and happy. I have picked these two poems‚ which link in many different ways‚ because they have interesting descriptions of the scene and tell us what the atmosphere is like. Furthermore‚ the authors‚ Braithwaite and Maya Angelou have used different
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even though Wilfred Owen was not alive until many years after this quote that he embodied this quote about poets and their poetry. Poetry throughout the ages has been one literary device that has neither changed nor conformed to the whims of society. Poetry has been a device to recount history‚ express emotion and bring about change; thus poets being agents of change. Wilfred Owen‚ a brilliant poet was amongst those who initiated anti-war writing amidst a country being fed propaganda. Owen brought attention
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In Anthem and The Giver they both rebel. Equality likes a girl named Liberty. This is extremely against the rules because “boys are not allowed to take notice of girls and girls are not allowed to take notice of boys (pg. 38).” Also‚ “We shall go to this Council and we shall lay before them‚ as our gift‚ the glass box with the power of the sky. (pg. 61)” They have disobeyed the council again because they made this “glass box with the power of the sky”‚ which is a light bulb. They want to present
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