Hi my name is saeed abuhadi‚ I am student in prince mohammed bin fahad university majoring finance. As most of Saudi students in the university I am able to speak two languages which is Arabic as a mother language and English. I started to learn Arabic in my first years by my parents or brothers which keep repeating on me some easy word as beging such papa or mama and those was my first words in Arabic. As the time passing I joined to school to get nartive in my language not just by speaking also
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Whitman’s first poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” reflects transcendentalist beliefs of nature. In this poem an average person is politely listening to an renowned astronomer lecture about stars as the astronomer expounds through equations and number and odd pictures that seem to have little to do with stars. The listener becomes confused and nauseous. He promptly leaves the class where he looks up and experience actual stars. This poem explicates that while scientific calculations can quantify
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Walt Whitman’s poem "When I heard the learn’d astronomer" is composed of two quatrains that stand as one stanza. The poem has a sense of separation between the first quatrain‚ that presents a passive view of the poem‚ and the second quatrain‚ that presents the active view of the poem. The active view of the poem are the verbs that appear in the second quatrain such as: "rising"‚ "gliding"‚ "wander’d"‚(7) "Look’d" (9). All of this verbs display an active action‚ by that it contradicts the first quatrain
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The Day I Nearly Died Year after year our family takes a trip to Colorado for spring break. It’s an exhilarating trip because I get to see all my wild and wacky relatives as well as spend some quality time on the slopes. Something funny or embarrassing always happens. This time was different. This time‚ I could have died! Generally when we go out on the slopes‚ falling down is one of my specialties. Putting an extremely clumsy person on skis and sending them down the hill‚ I found‚
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The poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman depicts the situation where the narrator is in a class learning about the stars‚ then the narrator left the class in order to enjoy the stars outside. This situation follows the theme which is to enjoy nature instead of learning about nature in a room or place. The author exhibits this by stating‚”How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick‚ Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself.”(Lines 5-6) This suggests that the narrator
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The poem “When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer‚” is a very smooth and beautiful poem addressing the irony of the professional astronomer. Who is stuck in a room encompassed by algorithms and diagrams‚ never to look up and enjoy the very things he has dedicated his life to. The narrator is mocking this astronomer with the usage of incorrect English‚ in an almost southern drawl‚ when repeatedly calling him a learn’d astronomer instead of educated‚ professional‚ or any other positive and sophisticated
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I Died for Beauty‚ but was Scarce Emily Dickinson I died for Beauty -- but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth‚ was lain In an adjoining room -- He questioned softly "Why I failed"? "For Beauty"‚ I replied -- "And I -- for Truth -- Themself are One -- We Brethren‚ are"‚ He said -- And so‚ as Kinsmen‚ met a Night -- We talked between the Rooms -- Until the Moss had reached our lips -- And covered up -- our names -- Emily Dickerson’s poetry often has similar
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Danya P. Ms. Q English 1302 April 2013 New Criticism and the Poem “When I Heard a Learn’d Astronomer” During the early half of the 20th century‚ a new style of criticism emerged allowing literary texts to be examined as “independent and complete works of art” as defined by Linda Pavlovski (1). It is evident that literary works were and still are interpreted with aid from historical‚ biological‚ and even cultural perspectives but New Criticism advocates each work of literary can stand with its
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In “When I heard Learn’d Astronomer‚” Walt Whitman uses figurative language and techniques in order to take us through his experience‚ while at the same time using sentence structure to explain the theme how learning on your own is better than learning through a self proclaimed teacher. Walt Whitman uses syntax in the beginning of the poem to take us through the poem with him and put us in his shoes. Repeating the first four lines with “when‚” it causes us to watch his experience with the astronomer
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afterlife awaiting “Because I could not stop for Death” and “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” are two related poems Dickinson wrote‚ on the other hand‚ they are also very different in the perspective and attitudes towards Death and afterlife‚ therefore‚ death is gentle and not an end but nevertheless‚ a cycle. Both poems revolve around one central theme‚ which is death. This is effortlessly identified mainly by glancing at the first line of each of the poems‚ “because I could not stop for death” (Dickinson
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