Poetic Analysis "Fern Hill" Summary: "Fern Hill" is a poem about the realization of life and mortality that appears after an unexpected experience occurs. The speaker is moved to a greater wisdom about himself and the world around him. [pic] Dylan Thomas’s poem "Fern Hill" represents the passage of one mans life from boyhood to adulthood and the realization of his mortality. The speaker in this poem uses expressive language and imagery to depict a tale of growing up. The use of colour adds life
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The Elements of Fiction Plot‚ Setting‚ Character‚ Conflict‚ Symbol‚ and Point of View are the main elements which fiction writers use to develop a story and its Theme. Because literature is an art and not a science‚ it is impossible to specifically quantify any of these elements within any story or to guarantee that each will be present in any given story. Setting might be the most important element in one and almost nonexistent in another. Just as a Crime Scene Investigator cannot approach a
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Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell The short story‚ Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell was written about Orwell’s experience in the early Twentieth Century. At that time India was ruled the British. While he was there‚ he had to do something that had caused some ethical conflicts in him. Orwell’s job was to kill an elephant that had ran rampant in lust throughout a village in Burma. “It had already destroyed somebody’s bamboo hut‚ killed a cow and raided some fruit-stalls and devoured the
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Shooting an Elephant In the short story by George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant" the author unveiled to his audience the bureaucracy and his struggled with himself. As in so many other countries‚ bureaucracy and prejudice maybe found. However‚ in East Burma those days it was regiment. it appeared to be do as one says or pay the consequences of not doing the preferred choice. In this story‚ George Orwell‚ served in a top position in Britain as a police official. Throughout his years in his position
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The book The White Tiger is by Avarind Adiga. This book is about a man named Munna‚ which translates to “boy‚” who takes on the name Balram‚ which is given to him by one of his teachers. He tells his story to the Chinese Premiere‚ Wen Jiabao over the course of seven nights via email. His story is that he wants to make a lot more money than he does working in the family tea shop‚ which is what his caste‚ the Halwai‚ does. He overhears two men taking about how much money that drivers make while
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“Shooting an Elephant” Response Orwell did not get along with the Burmese‚ nor did he like them because they would make fun of him and enjoyed insulting him while on duty. As for the British Raj‚ he felt as if the Raj was a cruel and aggressive government ruler and that his hatred towards him was so great that he would “drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest’s guts.” (pg.3). Therefore Orwell being a white man has a great conflict with the Burmese. In paragraph 2‚ he began to talk about how
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Rilke or William Blake’s poems smells murderous carnage. The pure evil‚ counted in the black and white of the snow and blood curdled at the foot of an injured horse or a tree in a midnight with flashlights. Evil expands contaminated. The cinema of Michael Haneke’s disturbing‚ I tide slowly. Nothing happens in these films‚ everything is enclosed in a insistent rhythm‚ slow staves‚ elongated to exasperation like a diseased heart beat. And an impressively unique quality: everything happens off screen and
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another leaflet? You can’t fucking move-pardon my French-but you can’t move for leaflets in Norf London these days" (373). Leaflets‚ brochures‚ letters‚ and other forms of publication and circulation are recurrent motifs in White Teeth (much to the annoyance of people like Abdul-Mickey) and Zadie Smith explores the humorous and poignant results of her characters’ struggles to communicate. Smith characters have causes‚ and throughout her narrative they fruitlessly and comically attempt to press their
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Sarah Orne Jewett’s “White Heron”: Reader’s Response “A White Heron”‚ by Sarah Orne Jewett is about a young city girl named Sylvia. She came to live with her grandma in the countryside. She met a young hunter who was trying to find a rare bird. This girl found that she loves the country life and the animals that live in the woods. I agree with Sylvia who keeps the heron’s secret and who enjoys her life in the countryside. First of all‚ in this story‚ the main character Sylvia was born and grew
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During the time of imperialistic rule‚ rich empires were able to take over those of lesser value and benefit from their resources. This is the exact situation going on in Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell; the British had taken over the Burmese. Through Orwell’s use of stylistic and rhetorical strategies‚ he conveys the inferior attitude he has towards himself and the trapped‚ conflicted attitude he feels towards his position in Burma‚ which both stem from the negative aspects of imperialism
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