A Birthday – Christina Rossetti STRUCTURE: 2 stanzas of equal length (8 verses). Presented in the same manner: indentations. In the first stanza‚ each pair of verses constitutes mini-stanzas that are marked by the indentation of the second line. This makes the anaphora of “My heart” more visible to the eye. The author wants to make it clear that the subject is love. It has a structure that reminds love hymns‚ with its regular ABCB rhyme scheme. The anaphora of “My heart” and repetition of “my love
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remember is the day when I celebrated my tenth birthday. All my friends and relatives were invited to the birthday party. When the time drew near for me to be ready for the party‚ I put on my birthday dress which I was specially sewn for me. Then I went into the hall where everyone was waiting for me. I saw a lot of lovely presents on a table. They had been bought for me by all those who came to the party. A few minutes later‚ my parents bought my birthday cake with ten candles on it. It was a large
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A Birthday - Christina Rossetti Context Christina Rossetti - Born in 1830‚ known for acerbic (sharp direct and outspoken) love poetry‚ vivacious (attractively lively) ballads (poem in short stanzas) and nursery rhymes. Became a devout Anglo-Catholic when she was about 14. Poem - Written when Rossetti was 27yrs old in 1857 and expresses the tremendous joy and excitement you feel when you meet the one you love. Title - A Birthday; celebration‚ spiritual rebirth‚ ambiguous misleading title
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While I was standing inside the kitchen of my home‚ preparing the food for my daughter’s twelfth birthday party‚ I heard the terrible screams of my daughter crying out for help. Without any hesitation at all‚ I dropped everything in my hands and ran to the back yard where all the guests of the party were at. I found my daughter sitting on the concrete floor next to our hot tub‚ holding her foot and sobbing in horrible pain. As soon as I sat next to her‚ she ripped a three prong gardening rake out
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Rossetti‚ vivid descriptions of happiness fill the verse. Some such descriptions are ’a singing bird‚’ ’an apple-tree’ filled with fruit‚ and ’a rainbow shell in a halcyon sea.’ On this birthday‚ love is first experienced. Ms. Rossetti uses lots of description from nature to convey her feelings toward a birthday. She expresses happiness as fullness and as a well-watered tree that sustains life by harbouring a nest in its branches and a tree ready for harvest. A raised platform made of down and silk
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Гушан Елена 3 курс 304 группа Analysis of the text: The happy man William Somerset Maugham (1974 - 1966)‚ a well-known English novelist‚ short-story writer‚ playwright and essayist‚ was the son of a British diplomat. He was educated at King’s School in Canterbury‚ studied painting in Paris‚ went to Heidelberg University in Germany and studied to be a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in England. Although Somerset Maugham did not denounce the contemporary social order‚ he was critical of the morals
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something that you create. In a person’s life if you are waiting on something to change in order to be happy‚ then you’re not living life. When you adopt a positive attitude‚ life becomes a rewarding instead of something to get through. If you wish to be happy‚ you have to be less involved in your own happiness and more involved in the happiness of others. "Make others happy and you become happy as a result. Involve yourself totally‚ throw yourself into what you are doing in life‚ and happiness will
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My 5th birthday My 5th birthday is one of my earliest memories and is the first birthday I can remember. I don’t know why it has stuck in my memory so much but I can remember it like it was yesterday. It started very early in the morning around 5:00 am‚ which is ridiculously early to be getting up and you wouldn’t catch me getting up that
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Not the Ordinary Birthday Celebration It was the morning of February 20th‚ 2007‚ my great grandmother’s birthday! The agenda for the day was to first finish packing up the house because move in day for our new home was just hours away. Once that was all done and the truck was locked and loaded us as a family would head to TGI Fridays to celebrate my great grandmother’s birthday as we did every year since her passing. TGI Fridays was where we had her last birthday dinner before she passed;
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I am sending an attachment. Its my request to read with patience. A person by name Mr. Laxmaiah is a teacher‚ working in Zilla Parishad School in a village called Karepally‚ near Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. Laxmaiah garu stays with wife‚ mother‚ two kids‚ and with 50 HIV orphaned children. He is spending all his salary of Rs 25‚000 /- per month by taking care of these HIV affected orphaned children. His wife Kalpana Rani‚ an Aeronautical Engineer‚ sacrificed her career and is doing a tremendous
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