Dickinson’s poem “510: It was not Death‚ for I stood up‚” explores the uncertainties of Death. The speaker attempts to define or understand her own condition to unwrap the cause of her suffering. The use of extended metaphor is utilized as the speaker uses the term “death” and that her life and state of mind‚ to her‚ resembles nothing other than death itself. The dominant effect would be the feeling of despair as the speaker represents this by saying “As if my life were shaven‚ / and fitted to a
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CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these Notes The poems: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sujata Bhatt‚ A Different History Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ Pied Beauty Allen Curnow‚ Continuum Edwin Muir‚ Horses Judith Wright‚ Hunting Snake Ted Hughes‚ Pike Christina Rossetti‚ A Birthday Dante Gabriel Rossetti‚ The Woodspurge Kevin Halligan‚ The Cockroach Margaret Atwood‚ The City Planners Boey Kim Cheng‚ The Planners Norman MacCaig‚ Summer Farm Elizabeth Brewster‚ Where I Come From 1 14 William Wordsworth
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and silver light‚ The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light‚ I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I‚ being poor‚ have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. main William B Yeats (1865-1939) From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood‚ Because a fire was in my head‚ And cut and peeled a hazel wand‚ And hooked a berry to a thread;
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Summary of the Poem Stanza 1 .......Old men feel out of place in a land where everything heralds new life: young men with their nubile women‚ singing and cooing birds‚ spawning salmon and mackerel. Throughout the summer‚ animals and fish bring forth new generations. When life is busy reproducing itself‚ it neglects old men‚ whose bodies are nothing but monuments of what used to be--although their intellects do not age. Stanza 2 .......An old man is little more than wrinkled‚ drooping skin hanging
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North Korea is far from being a prosperous country. In fact they are a starving country‚ desperate to get food for their families every day. Their leader Kim-Jong-Un‚ was born January 8‚ 1983‚ and took command in 2012. Kim-Jong-Un was the heir to the leadership of their nation. After his father‚ Kim Jong-Il‚ he was announced as the “great leader” of North Korea. Almost immediately he attempted an economic make over‚ this worked to some extent‚ but not enough to fix North Koreas poor
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No‚ I don’t completely agree with this statement. In the first text‚ the weather was described to be quite violent because the wind outside was very strong such that the occurrence of ‘snails being blown across the patio like sailboats’ was to happen. Similarly‚ the weather in the second text is described to be powerful in the terms of the wind (‘shrieking wind’; ‘Wind slung Quoyle’). Although I do believe that in the second text the wind is more forceful and dangerous as the winds has direct contact
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invest heavily in sugar refineries‚ controlled 80% of the Malaysian sugar market with production of 1.5 million tonnes‚ equivalent to 10% of world production‚ and so earned his nickname "Sugar King of Asia". In 1971‚ he built the first Shangri-La Hotel‚ in Singapore. His first foray into Hong Kong property was in 1977‚ when he acquired a plot of land on the newly reclaimed Tsim Sha Tsui East waterfront‚ where he built the second hotel‚ the Kowloon Shangri-La. In 1993‚ his Kerry Group acquired a 34.9%
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What do you find most striking about the poem Kubla Khan?’’Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.’’ - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this essay I am going to discuss one of the most famous and very striking poem Kubla Khan which was written by Coleridge. The poem is about the nature of creativity. Coleridge describes the dome of pleasure which he sees in his dream while he is opium- induced. While he
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As we live in this new era‚ Internet is being used by many people nowadays for different reasons and for different situations. let us define first what is Internet‚ Internet is the single worldwide computer network that interconnects other computer networks‚ on which end-user services‚ such as World Wide Web sites or data archives‚ are located‚ enabling data and other information to be exchanged according to thefreedictionary.com . We truthfully use the Internet daily for different reasons‚ it can
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Hersh Patel AP English 14 September 2003 Commentary on Stanley Fish Article "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One" Stanley Fish‚ in his inductive essay "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One"‚ argues that the process of "distinguishing" certain "features" of an object follows "the act of recognition". Fish offers such conclusions from a short anecdote‚ which illustrates an analytical response of a group of students to five names he writes on a board. The students‚ who focus on Christian
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