Poetry Analysis #4 – 2/15/13 Title: The Secretary Chant Author: Marge Piercy‚ 1973 “The Secretary Chant‚” by Marge Piercy is about a female creating a vision of how she has lost her personal identity to her job. She uses metaphors to allow the reader to envision a woman who is living her life through her career. Piercy also uses paradox‚ personification‚ and the pun to bring the character alive. With the use of metaphors‚ both implied and explicit‚ the reader can deeply empathize the central
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Women are constantly demoralized and portrayed stereotypically as simple beings specifically secretaries. Though do not fret for Marge Piercy has felt the same and has written “The Secretary Chant” to help women relate and to help empower them and to be their own person. In this one stanza free verse poem Ms. Piercy uses a variety of poetic devices to convey her theme of the being overworked. The majority of the poem uses metaphors to explain how a secretary carries all her paperwork and files with
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In the poem “The Secretary Chant” by Margie Piercy‚ a woman working as a secretary is depicted as undervalued and unappreciated by her employer. With this poem being written in 1936‚ the idea of women in the workplace was fairly new. Women were not given equal treatment as employees and were in the beginning stages of their fight for equality. The year the poem was written most certainly plays an integral role in the poem’s tone‚ structure‚ diction‚ and theme. Throughout the poem‚ it is obvious that
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Guardian of Truth and SanityBig Brother is the sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies. Big Brother is watching you and brings victory for us all. When men are different from one another and do not live alone. To a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone. From the age of uniformity‚ from the age of solitude‚ from the age of Big Brother‚ from the age of double think greetings! War is peace We shall conquer our enemies Eastasia and Eurasia Ground them to ash Great
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Premarital Sex Graham 1 Whitley Graham 25 March 2013 Ms. H. Hubbard Have you ever had a time when you talked to your siblings about sex? I remember the time when I talked to my older siblings about intercourse. I walked open minded to my siblings with thoughts coming from each and every direction. I would then ask my siblings why did they have sex before marriage before marriage. My brother responded saying the girls looked good and he couldn’t resist. My sister responded saying it was a
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In my poem or “The Secretary Chant” was written by a poet named Marge Piercy‚ who was a whose family have gone through The Depression and also written 17 novels. The poem was at 1970s office‚ which a single woman‚ became her job. This is being led to see that she is a robot and was very old. I got this by interpreting the metaphors and connotation like onomatopoeia which is used to best describe the woman in the office as a job or a robot. Also the tone of the poem‚ which the stanzas did sound sad
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Marge Piercy and John Updike write different types of literature‚ “The Secretary Chant” and “A&P” share similarities. The use of figures of speech in both pieces of literature allows the narrators to describe their job and workspace. The use of metaphors in “The Secretary Chant”‚ by Marge Piercy‚ and “A&P”‚ by John Updike‚ illustrate the monotonous environment and work the narrators dread. The poem “The Secretary Chant” uses metaphors to describe how inhuman a secretary feels in the workplace. By
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Calendars and Time Erica L. Montgomery HIS/458 August 26‚ 2013 Ms. Mary L. Cluff Introduction The sky remains the most unexplained portion of our ordinary experience. Knowledge might make the astonishing measures successful on a ground equal level seems nearly normal. Plant life and creature’s produce and die‚ stream falls‚ streams flow. Individuals sense that understanding. However‚ the atmosphere is past understanding. Two great substances travel around it‚ one warm and continuous‚ the
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The purpose of the Mayan‚ Egyptian‚ and Gregorian calendars was to explain how the world moves since the moon’s change and days and days pass. These calendar developments changed the qualities of their cultures since the Mayan‚ Egyptian‚ and Gregorians had to work around the new things they were learning from what they were normally used to. Believing things after having experience could also have been the reason as to why the Mayans‚ Egyptians‚ and Gregorians put things down onto their calendars.
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label years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The calendar era to which they refer is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus‚ with AD denoting years after the start of this epoch‚ and BC denoting years before the start of this epoch. There is no year zero in this scheme‚ so the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC. This dating system was devised in AD 525‚ but was not widely used until after AD 800.[1] The Gregorian calendar‚ and the year numbering
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