Jeremy Nable Sara Stephens 31 January 2013 Poem Explication The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Robert Frost is an excellent poet and will be remembered for his works for as long as they exist. Personally Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets‚ so when I saw this poem‚ I had to use it to write my explication. When I read The Road Not Taken‚ it really hit close to home to me. I get the sense from Frost that he is implying that he doesn’t want people to conform to society. Basically he
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9/12/2015 I‚ Too‚ Sing America I too sing america was written by Langston Hughes in 1925‚ a time when there was an outburst of cultural‚ ethnical and literary creativity. The poem I too sing america was very famous not only because of when it was written but also to whom it was made for. In 1891‚ Walt Whitman wrote a poem called I Hear America Singing‚ In order to explain Hughes poem‚ I need to explain Whitman’s poem. As well as W.E.B du bois theory of double consciousness. Whitman wrote this poem to
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My Mother My mother is the most important person in my life. She is an inspiration to everything I do. I would not call her a friend‚ but she is an extraordinary person. She has been in my life since I was born and she will always be in my life no matter what happens. She is the one who has suffered to bring me into this world. I have learnt to love her from the day I was born. My mother was the first person to teach me to draw and walk‚ and she was with me when I took my first step ever! She
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While I was growing up‚ I watched my mother suffer pain and depression form multiple breakups with my dad. For 16 years she was always unhappy. Though she was unhappy‚ I did my best to help out. We grew closer as time passed. I admire my mom the most out of anyone in my life because she is a strong women; she has always been there for me during tick and thin‚ she is a wonderful mother. When my mother officially split up with my dad‚ she had to take care of three children. She had to be strong
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Sharon Olds’ poem "Late Poem to My Father" exposes the profound effect that childhood trauma can have on someone‚ even in adulthood. The speaker of the poem invokes sadness and pity in the reader by reflecting on the traumatic childhood of her father‚ and establishes a cause and effect relationship between the abuse he endured as a child and the dependence he develops on alcohol as an adult. The idea of emotional retardation caused by childhood experiences is not uncommon‚ especially in our
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Dr. Ruleman E102 11/13/13 Explication of Richard Cory The poem “Richard Cory‚” written by Edwin Arlington Robinson‚ is a very detail-oriented poem designed to make the reader think very thoroughly about the words and phrases that Robinson uses in his work. Robinson’s poem has many different aspects to it that make you question the work to really try and understand what is happening. Edwin Arlington Robinson uses imagery to describe the character‚ questioning of the characters life and irony
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The poem also paints the pool players as revolutionaries by its use of ambiguous meaning. The term “strike” has various meanings including violence and pool playing‚ but it also denotes a strike‚ a demonstration against something. Since the poem was written during the height of the Civil Rights Movement‚ such acts would not have been uncommon. Brooks’ own writings say that she wanted to bring attention to the plight or urban African Americans‚ and the Civil Rights Movement was a significant step
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“I‚ Too” by Langston Hughes is a lyric poem. He wrote this poem in free verse. Hughes repeats the words “and”‚ “when” and “I” in his poem. When writing‚ Hughes uses simple words so that it is easier for the illiterate to understand what he is saying. The title of “I‚ too‚ sing America” is an allusion to Walt Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing” His poem focuses on the dream of making it to the next step in life and hope that equality in America will come one day. It is written to reflect on the
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In‚ “i sing of Olaf glad and big” Cummings once again calls attention to the unusual syntax and uses many of the writing tools available to him. For instance‚ in the very first line of the selected text of the poem‚ Cummings writes “his wellbelovéd colonel(trig/westpointer most succinctly bred)” (1-2). In this sentence alone‚ one sees several examples of Cumming’s ability to manipulate syntax to better represent the flow and other needs of his poems. When cummings writes “wellbelovéd” he purposely
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An Explication of Langston Hughes ’ "Mother to Son" Langston Hughes once stated in his own words that his whole purpose for writing was‚ "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." In the poem "Mother to Son"‚ he denotes his belief on racism in America. In "Mother to Son"‚ a mother is giving advice to her son about life from her perspective and experiences. She wants her son to keep striving on what he believes and to have a more prosperous life than what she had. Langston Hughes
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