Sharon Olds’ poem "Late Poem to My Father" exposes the profound effect that childhood trauma can have on someone‚ even in adulthood. The speaker of the poem invokes sadness and pity in the reader by reflecting on the traumatic childhood of her father‚ and establishes a cause and effect relationship between the abuse he endured as a child and the dependence he develops on alcohol as an adult. The idea of emotional retardation caused by childhood experiences is not uncommon‚ especially in our
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Poem Paraphrase Paper When Richard Cory entered the business district all of the townspeople would stand aside and watch him. He was trim and clean cut. He was very rich and knowledgeable. He was also extremely privileged. The townspeople wanted to be him. They continue to work their lives away. One day Richard Cory killed himself. This brief summary of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory” does not capture the true emotion and irony presented in the original poem. It excludes many uses of
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1. Paraphrase Entire Poem‚ Stanza by Stanza: I. The dad drank too much whiskey and his breath is making his son dizzy. The son is performing a drunken waltz with his dad. II. Their waltz creates such a commotion in the kitchen that pans begin to fall off the shelf. The mother appears to be disapproving of the situation. III. The father is grasping the son’s wrist. Every time the father misses a step‚ the boy’s ear scrapes along the father’s belt buckle‚ unacknowledged by the father. IV. The father
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Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa include neural explanations and evolutionary explanations. 1st BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION - Neurotransmitters -Serotonin Disturbances in the levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin appear to be a characteristic of individuals with eating disorders. Kaye 2005 found a reduction in the levels of the serotonin metabolite 5-HIAA in people with eating disorders. This suggests that brain serotonin pathways are underactive
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Ron Koertge When my English teacher told us that we had to analyze a poem I was excited to start. Once I started looking at all of the one hundred and one poems‚ I disliked a lot of them‚ when I first stumbled upon the title I thought that the title was way to long and the poem would be boring. When I finally read it‚ I mentally scolded myself for judging the poem by its title. The title is always an important part of the poem and if someone is looking at a list of titles before actually reading
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Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book‚ The Waking. (www.poets.org) One of his poems that seems very personal‚ is his poem “Dolor“‚ which he had written in 1943. Both the English and Spanish definition of dolor greatly describe the theme and mood of Theodore Roethke’s poem. Not only does he use the word dolor for his title but as well in line two‚ referring to the “Dolor of pad and paper weight.” Through out his poem he gives off in great detail the constant mood he is in. He makes you feel his
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The poem “Creep” has a very dark‚ twisted and displaced feel to it and crates an image of a “psychotic” person obsessing and wanting control over a certain person. Part way through the poem‚ the writer says “I don’t care if it hurts / I want to have control” (12-13). This indicates that one of the characters wants control and will do anything to achieve it‚ even if violence actions are needed. This feeling of dark and twistedness is present throughout the whole poem. This gives the poem an overall
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Discuss issues of reliability and validity associated with the classification and diagnosis of phobic disorders (24 marks) The biological explanation for the acquisition of phobic disorders establishes that phobias are caused by genetics‚ innate influences and the principles of biochemistry. This theory recognizes that an oversensitive fear response may be inherited‚ causing abnormal levels of anxiety. This is illustrated in the basis of inheritance‚ particularly the adrenergic theory that convicts
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of how or why leaving people like artists to try to make reason of it. The poems “Thanatopsis” by Bryant‚ “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult‚ and “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas are three poems which speak of death; however they all have different purposes. They each explain and describe death with different points of views. Although all of the poems had different purposes‚ they also had similarities. The three poems are all about the topic of death and how scenarios may differ for different
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The Devouring He sat‚ excited as a fat kid in a candy store‚ anxiously awaiting his anticipated arrival to the great dead sea of salt swallowing sea-serpents. The soaring sky-swan swam slowly to the surface. He descended down the delta cargo-bird. The young lad loved landing at the lake to visit his kin-folk‚ but fate had a mighty miracle in store for the sly son of Dennis. The rigorous trek along the speed-street finally brought Devon Dennison to his destination of the isolate island of Cliftonia
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