The Caged bird in”The long Walk Home” In the poem “I know why the caged bird sings‚”by Maya Angelou‚ is about when she lived during the civil rights movement.She uses this poem as a metaphor to relate it to people who had less freedom at her time.Her poem talks about how African Americans had no freedom and couldn’t have that many opportunities as whites did.She refers the caged bird to to African Americans because the caged bird couldn’t fly around like a free bird.Such as how African Americans
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He Had Such Quiet Eyes By: Bibsy Soenharjo 3.1 SYNOPSIS OF THE POEM The poem is about a woman who has been deceived to think that she was loved by a man with ‘quiet eyes’. She suffers for this and only learns on hindsight not to trust or give in to men who seek women only for pleasure. The poet gives an advice on being able to recognise what is true and what is not‚ when a person is truly friendly and when he is not. You may lose in the game of love and give your heart away‚ but knowing the truth
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Jesús Ibáñez Sagasti Year 11 Visual analysis of the poem “Lament” by Gillian Clarke In the poem ‘Lament’ the poet is talking about war and other disasters‚ created by man‚ which destroys the world. “Lament” is an elegy‚ an expression of grief. It can be a sad‚ military tune played on a bugle. She is talking about how the animals are affected and she uses them as a device for empathy from the reader. Even in the title she is starting with a gloomy picture. “Lament” means the expression of pain
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The story What You Pawn I Will Redeem is about a homeless Native American Man named Jackson who goes on a metaphorical quest to get back his grandmother’s regalia which he has stumbled upon in a pawn shop. The pawn shop owner says he can sell Jackson the $1000 regalia at a discounted price of $999. This is representative of how America treats Native American. This regalia was your grandmothers and was stolen. Well I bought is for $1000. Here’s what I can do for you. I’ll give you a discount of one
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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he shared with the sans-culottes. His poem "London" is a rare example of a violent‚ revolutionary indictment of both the Establishment and the Industrial revolution. This poem is an indictment and a battle cry. Not only does it present images of human suffering observed on a stroll around London‚ but it also suggests a certain vision of humanity as Blake defended it‚ for example in his Songs of Innocence a few years before (1789). The analysis of the poem will revolve around two aspects. First
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Why did I survive? . . . Scriscratch. Star. Scriscratch. Star. Scratchstatchscratchsratch. Bar. Why write “bar” on the bar symbol? It’s obvious: Shaped like a bar. Scriscratch. Itchy neck. What lottery to play next? So many themes! Tropical? Had potential. Gold? Too broad. Fourth of July? No longer relevant. So many tickets. No end in sight. Must keep out of sight. No end. But end of days. Keep on playing. Scriscratch. Itchy stomach. Underwater theme. Been a long time since water. Can’t remember
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and even discover what we can learn from them. In the poem Your World we come to learn about an emotional journey and the the excerpt of Wild we learn of a woman’s physical and emotional journey. I was able to learn from both of these pieces and relate to them through my journey from the beginning of highschool to now. Throughout everyday life we discover and uncover who we truly are. In the poem Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson‚ the author equates herself to a bird. “But I sighted the distant
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love so strong that even angels in heaven are envious. This is how a man felt about his beloved Annabel Lee. They fell deeply in love at a very young age. This great love had complications when Annabel was abruptly taken away from the man and eventually passing away. She his darling‚ his wife‚ and his bride and now she was gone. They say true love conquers that the love they shared is eternal‚ and regardless of her death‚ their love will last forever. This poem was described with many elements that
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When you read the poem “Acquainted with The Night” by Robert Frost‚ you can feel the sad state of the author by repeating the phrase “Acquainted with The Night.” It is in the title‚ the first line and the last line of the poem‚ and it makes people realize the loneliness of the author is increasing over time. The author of this poem is a pretty lonely man. In the poem‚ the author uses the word “night” to portray the man correctly. The character in the poem is suffering pain and learning to accept
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