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    utilized more than 100 times by author Kurt Vonnegut in the anti-war novel: Slaughterhouse Five. Now you must be wondering‚ why does the book keep this phrase so redundant? There is a reason this quote practically repeats itself in the entire book; because it summarizes the obstacles and hardships that we encounter in our daily‚ human lives. This saying from Vonnegut neatly packs the sorrows‚ struggles‚ and suffering in our lives in three simple words. So Kurt Vonnegut wants to portray or say‚ “Stuff

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    Response to Literature Poem Analysis Writing Guidelines Subject: Poem Form: Analysis Purpose: To explore meaning Audience: Instructor Sample Poem Read the poem below and think about its content‚ theme‚ organization‚ and use of poetic techniques. Then read student writer Stefano Giagregorio’s analysis. I AM THE PEOPLE‚ THE MOB By Carl Sandburg I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman‚

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    author of the poem. He is black and grew up in Little Rock‚ Arkansas. He is a poet and has published 24 books. The poem is about white people coming to Africa to invade the African tribes with modern technology. When you read the poem you get the feeling that the white people are the bad guys. The writer only describes the negative things about the white people‚ and therefore the poem seems very dark. 3)The language in the poem is not very hard to understand‚ but the meaning in the poem is difficult

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    Poems: Piano‚ Poem at thirty-nine & Once Upon a time Paragraph 1 - Introduction Nostalgia is the desire of things from the past‚ feeling homesick or remembering a person. This is the central Idea of the three poems; D.H.Lawrence’s ‘Piano’‚ Alice Walker’s ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ & Gabriel Okara’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ convey that they miss their earlier life or wish for a better past. Paragraph 2 - Write the theme of the first poem. D.H. Lawrences ‘Piano’ is a representation of longing of his past

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    It’s A Woman’s World “It’s A Woman’s World” written by Eavan Boland is a poem about how woman should embrace their strengths. It’s a Woman’s World” focuses on issues of female identity and how the contributions of women have been overlooked. The speaker of Eavan Boland’s poem‚ seems to intend irony with the title of this poem‚ she is not saying this is a woman’s world‚ but rather speaks of the world from the woman’s point of view. Boland shows her views that women‚ who are placed in less harsh

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    Waking” by Theodore Roethke are two poems that relate directly to the speaker. Although both poems share this similarity‚ the way in which both works or literature are constructed are vastly different. Plath uses visual imagery and poetical tercets to show the pain and suffering of the speaker in her poem‚ while Roethke uses the musical Villanelle and synesthesia to create his picture of the speaker’s inner thoughts and a sense of awakening. When reading the poem “Lady Lazarus” for the first time

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    that has never stopped flowing. From cave paintings to online articles‚ humankind has never lost the basic desire to create art. However‚ as long as art has been created‚ there has also been an opposing side ready to firmly challenge the work. Author Kurt Vonnegut is an artist who spent the majority of his career battling limitations on his creative expression‚ especially in his most popular and most notorious work: Slaughterhouse-Five. The story is partially based on Vonnegut’s own life‚ telling the

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    Born Yesterday | Point | Example | Effect | F | 2 stanzas of irregular length * First stanza talks about positive wishes made by the rest of society which are wished for every child * Second stanza echoes the structure of a sonnet (14 lines long and ends with a rhyming couplet) | In the first stanza‚ the poet talks about wishes of ‘being beautiful’ and ‘of innocence and love’ made by the rest of society‚ whilst the second stanza he wishes for her to be ‘ordinary’ and ‘dull’. | By presenting

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    ICCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE POETRY COURSEWORK In the poems you have studied a recurring theme is that of ‘loss’. This can take many forms: death; identity; hope or loss of innocence Discuss the poets’ treatment of any aspect of the theme of loss in at least 6 of the poems you have studied. A minimum of 3 poems should be taken from the anthology. Poems for discussion: In detail - Prayer Before Birth (Louis MacNeice) - Do not go gentle into that good night (Dylan Thomas) -

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    and Satire What is religion? There is no one correct answer‚ however‚ one definition that seems to cover every aspect of most established religions is‚ "…the most comprehensive and intensive manner of valuing known to human beings" (Pecorino). In Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle‚ Vonnegut takes this definition and creates his own religion in order to satirize all others. Bokononism‚ Vonnegut’s contrived religion‚ is built on foma‚ or harmless untruths. Bokononists believe that good societies can only

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