Gonzalez 1 Angel Gonzalez Prof. Warshauer English 102 Fall 2010 The Church for Teenagers: Explication Essay “The restaurant was shaped like a big bottle‚ though squatter than a real bottle‚ and on its cap was a revolving figure of a grinning boy who held a hamburger aloft. One night in mid-summer they ran across‚ breathless with daring‚ and right away someone leaned out a car window and invited them over‚ but it was just a boy from high school they didn’t like. It made them feel good
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By Symbolism: An Explication of a passage in Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” “They all know it is there‚ all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it‚ others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why‚ and some do not‚ but they all understand that their happiness‚ the beauty of their city‚ the tenderness of their friendships‚ the health of their children‚ the wisdom of their scholars‚ the skill of their
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An effective short poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ What Lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why‚ portrays the dissonance between ideal young love and aged heartbreak. Millay starts this theme by looking back on the affairs she has had and realizes she has aged‚ "What lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why‚ I have forgotten " (1-2). Then Millay explains how her past lovers continue to haunt her‚ " but the rain is full of ghosts tonight‚ that tap and sigh upon the glass and listen for
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“If it were done when ‘tis done‚ then ‘twere well it were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence‚ and catch‚ With his surcease‚ success‚ that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here‚ But here‚ upon this bank and shoal of time‚ We’ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgement here‚ that we but teach Bloody instructions‚ which‚ being taught‚ return To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice Commends the ingredience of
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Any poem respected by Edgar Allan Poe to the extent that he would include it in his personal explanation of poetry should be exceptional‚ but ’Bridge of Sighs’ by Thomas Hood is with certainty the best poem I have ever read. A reflective work‚ it tells the story of a young woman without a love in the world‚ but suggests there was a passion behind her dramatic suicide. The narrator blames the girl’s self-destruction on her being a fickle woman‚ ’One of Eve’s family’ (l. 27)and implies that her death
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Lady Macbeth is a central figure in Shakespeare’s play “ The Tragedy of Macbeth.” She is a controversial character of deep mystery and great ambition. In the essay‚ “Lady Macbeth: Infirm of Purpose” Joan Larsen Klein analyzes what was the role of woman during the Shakespearian times and how Lady Macbeth portrays or defies it. I think that Klein thesis is illustrated when she notes‚ “ Lady Macbeth‚ despite her attempt to unsex herself‚ is never able to separate herself completely from womankind-unlike
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1.Home ’s the place we head for in our sleep. 2. Boxcars stumbling north in dreams 3. don ’t wait for us. We catch them on the run. 4. The rails‚ old lacerations that we love‚ 5. shoot parallel across the face and break 6. just under Turtle Mountains. Riding scars 7. you can ’t get lost. Home is the place they cross. 8. The lame guard strikes a match and makes the dark 9. less tolerant. We watch through cracks in boards 10. as the land starts rolling‚ rolling till it hurts 11. to be here
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Within the conclusions of his Poetry analysis of Emily Dickenson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died‚” Kerry Michael Wood asserts that‚ “If ever a poem invited individual interpretation‚ this one does. It poses questions. It gives no answers… Is the fly invoked because flies tend to feast on dead flesh‚ or is it merely an ironical opposition to some glorious manifestation of Divinity…I hazard no opinions of my own.” Wood is correct in his stating that the poem provides many questions without offering
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Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” and Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” both are written in Puritan plain style‚ however Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” displays a more puritanical message. These poets use apostrophe and metaphors to thoroughly describe the subject in which they were writing. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is a poem that portrays Anne Bradstreet’s thoughts on her marriage. While Bradstreet writes about her love for her husband‚ Edward Taylor writes indirectly about his love
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interprets this sentence to a deeper meaning‚ this is saying that if humans are saved‚ they will live with God forever in heaven. After all‚ Anne Bradstreet is trying to express the relationship between God and humans. Similarly‚ in Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery‚” he also infers the same idea. Edward Taylor begins with‚ “Make me‚ O Lord‚ thy Spinning Wheele‚”
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