Carl Sandburg makes a profuse amount of points about his city in his poem‚ “Chicago”. He shows that although his city is known for being a rough city‚ there are still positive aspects of Chicago. He brings to mind the murders‚ and prostitution‚ and poverty of the city‚ but he also reminds his readers of the arts and the sports and how strong his city is. Carl Sandburg’s city is “alive and coarse and strong and cunning” (line 10). Carl Sandburg shows different aspects about his city and he uses literary
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This quote is important‚ as it establishes in the reader’s mind that this was once Lizabeth’s naïve attitude towards both the marigolds and Miss Lottie. Perhaps it was prompted by envy or bitterness during the Great Depression‚ whereas she had nothing while the marigolds stood representing determination to survive the harsh reality of the poverty that gripped their lives‚ something of which they could not escape from. It reveals a number of indications directed towards Lizabeth’s childish personality
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“Ozymandia” is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ who is known to be one of the most famous and respected poets of the 19th century. Shelley has written many great poems in his lifetime‚ and “Ozymandia” is one of his best works. This poem is a sonnet‚ meaning that it is a fourteen-line poem. The narrator of this poem encounters a traveller who tells him about the fallen statue of Ozymandias‚ or Ramesses II. He was “the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty (1292-1186 BCE) who claimed to have won
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“Ozymandias”‚ is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley to tell its readers that wealth and materialistic pursuits are fleeting. The storyteller in the poem is a “traveller from an antique land”. This is a nameless traveler talking about the sights he is seeing. This produces a sense of mystery. Shelley is recounting something heard from another person. The statue is a manifestation of the artist who created it for Ozymandias. This poem celebrates the perpetual ability of nature and longstanding
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In To a Skylark‚ the speaker‚ or in this case a man a in love hears the song of a skylark‚ and cannot begin to wonder of the birds vast beauty. He continues on in his poem about how this skylark is greater than all things‚ and how the speaker cannot fathom all of the birds features. In stanza one he starts by saying “Hail to the blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert‚ That from Heaven‚ or near it.” this is really when the speaker begins to shout and express about how the bird is more than a bird. He
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Poe’s "The Raven" is a poem of 108 lines divided into eighteen six-line stanzas. If you were to look just at the ends of the lines‚ you would notice only one or two unusual features: not only is there only one rhyme sound per stanza—lines 2‚ 4‚ 5‚ and 6 rhyming—but one rhyme sound is the same in all eighteen stanzas‚ so that seventy-two lines end with the sound "ore." In addition‚ the fourth and fifth lines of each stanza end with an identical word; in six of the stanzas that word is "door" and in
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Although Charlotte Bronte has long perished‚ her emotions and thoughts still live. As clichéd as it sounds‚ poetry has the power to surpass it’s mortal creator and become an eternal glimpse into the poet’s soul. Although this observation is no secret‚ it should not be overlooked. It is such a potent and remarkable concept that when one reads a poem they are literally getting the condensed and encrypted emotions left behind to be interpreted. While not tangible‚ poetry has the power to communicate
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World War one can be classified as a highly literary war. Some of the greatest pieces of poetry and prose are a direct result of this horrific catastrophe. Larkin returned to the war‚ fifty years after it had concluded to convey his sentiments on the subject. Larkin entitled the poem‚ MCMXIV. These are the roman numerals used to represent 1914; the year the war was initiated. Our attention is captivated through the use of roman numerals as they are a foreign concept to the imperial numbers that
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Fresh Foods vs. Canned Foods As children we often have no say in what we choose to eat. We were always taught to eat the food that was given to us on our plates. It’s not until we reach adulthood that we make conscious decisions on what we choose to consume. As adults we seem to indulge in the foods that make us happy‚ as well as the foods that will take the least amount of time out of our day to day schedule. Eating is an activity that we as humans do at least two times a day. We live in a world
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Ethel Wilsons Mood in "Hurry Hurry" Ethel Wilson’s "Hurry Hurry" is about a man who murdered a woman on a what used to be peaceful‚ quiet and innocent island. The mood she starts with in "Hurry Hurry" is peaceful at first‚ to help the reader picture the island as Miriam sees it‚ then it gradually turns into a tense and scary mood. Ethel shows this through the structure of her sentances such as the the point of veiw and the repitition of words or descriptions ‚ the imagery of her writing‚ and the
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