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    Assignment 2 – Focus on the learner LEARNER’S PROFILE Sonia Meirelles is a 27-year old Brazilian student‚ in the Intermediate English class‚ who has been studying English for 13 months (since August‚ 2011). Sonia has a degree in Biology and used to work as a biology teacher in a regular school‚ however she is currently unemployed. She then decided to start taking English lessons‚ so she could have more chances when trying to find a job. She enjoys the English classes as she believes

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    seemingly hidden meaning. The waterfowl could just be everyday common people and the hunters be their rulers or prospectors. Bryant had written many outstanding and successful poems in is poetry writing career. Bryant’s most well known poem would be “Thanatopsis” with his second most well written poem being “To a Waterfowl”. In this poem the waterfowl which seemingly represent the people of this world are just on a journey trying to get by the obstacles that come about so that they can complete their journey

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    Tree” William Blake “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” Christopher Marlowe; and “ The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” Sir Walter Raleigh “Dover Beach” Matthew Arnold; and “The Dover Bitch; A Criticism of Life” “Ozymandias” Percy Bysshe Shelley “Thanatopsis” William Cullen Bryant “Death‚ be Not Proud” John Donne “Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day” Edna St. Vincent Millay “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” William Shakespeare “Invictus” William Ernest Henley “The Road not Taken”

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    story offers great insight into what elements of life the Anishinabe people valued in their society. Johnston captures this genesis story originally shared from generation to generation through the oral tradition of story telling. The purpose of my explication will be to analyze this text in a way that will display how the Anishinabe people viewed their environment‚ both living and non-living aspects‚ and relationship to their creator. I was motivated to choose this course of discussion due to the several

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    ESSAI Volume 7 Article 22 4-1-2010 An Explication of a Poem: W. H. Auden ’s "Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone" Scott Hixson College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: http://dc.cod.edu/essai This Selection is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. It has been accepted for inclusion in ESSAI by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. For more information‚ please contact koteles@cod.edu. Recommended

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    Tourism 7 4.4. Slavery-Heritage Tourism 7 4.5. Prison tourism 7 5. Motivation factors vary from person to person. 7 5.1. Belonging to a particular community and education 7 5.2. Concept of Schadenfreude 8 5.3. Condolence and Valediction 8 5.4. Thanatopsis 9 6. Motivation and Influencing factors towards visiting Alcatraz 9 7. The island Alcatraz and its development 10 8. Alcatraz‚ the transformation from a high security prison to a tourist destination 11 9. Conclusion 12 10. List of references 13

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    What did American Romantic poets use as a literary model? a. Poetic traditions established by European Romantics 7. What did Dark Romantics explore? a. The psychological effects of sin and guilt as well as the conflict between good and evil “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant 1. In the beginning of the poem‚ who/what does Nature speak to? a. The person who thinks about Nature 2. According to the poem‚ what should people do when they feel afraid? a. Go into Nature and listen to what Nature

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    forefront of nineteenth century literature. William Cullen Bryant sees death through an organic lens in his “Thanathopsis;” on the other hand‚ Edgar Allan Poe focuses on the horror of death in his short story “The Masque of the Red Death”. In “Thanatopsis‚” Bryant meditates on the topic of death as an organic process and conveys to the reader that death is not to be feared. “Ashes to ashes‚ dust to dust” is a common saying at funerals. What the saying means is from the earth people came and to the

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    Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry I. 17th Century Metaphysical Poetry: http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/period/metaphysicals.html http://www.unm.edu/~aobermei/Eng221/metaphysicals.html What is metaphysical poetry? What are its (6) characteristics? What is Platonic Love? How does this concept play into metaphysical poetry? Who first coined the term “metaphysical poet”? What have critics said about these poets? II. Cavalier Poetry: http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/cavalier.html

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    American Romanticism 1798 - William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads‚ a landmark of English Romanticism (traditionally considered the beginning of the English Romantic Movement) 1817 - William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis 1828 - Noah Webster publishes a landmark dictionary of American English 1833 - John Greenleaf Whittier publishes Justice and Expediency‚ in which he calls for the abolition of slavery 1841 - Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his first collection

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