"If I Could Tell You" Analysis In "If I Could Tell You" W.H. Auden uses personification‚ repetition and imagery in order to prove the point; you must live your life like you do not have time left. Auden gives a vast setting over all. There are two main characters; Auden and time. The dialogue is in first person and he is speaking to some one he cares about. Auden uses personification to give life to time. This shows how time is the keeper of our destiny. He personifies time because he does not
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expensive doll of my friend. I liked it and hope I would have one but my mother had no money to buy it. She said sorry while I cried loudly and said that:" I hate mom." You can imagine that my suddenly sentence made my mother really sad and she felt she couldn’t give me everything I need. I really regret about this until now. If I could turn back time I would fix my biggest fault in my childhood and say that:" I love mom". Going back time is an unreal dream but we have rights to imagine and wish. If
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What could you live without? Walking down the hallway‚ I was thinking about the topic “What could you live without” and I couldn’t think of many things. Things that we used in our life basically charge an important role of a human society. For example‚ foods‚ water‚ shelter‚ smart phone‚ clothes‚ computers and etc. As I was reading “What could you live without?” by Nicholas Kristof‚ it prompted a lot of ideas. I looked around my house and all the stuffs that I have is the stuff that we need it
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We travel‚ initially‚ to lose ourselves; and we travel‚ next‚ to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can‚ in our ignorance and knowledge‚ to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel‚ in essence‚ to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in‚ and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was best described
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and tomorrow is not guaranteed. If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden is a villanelle much like others using rhyme‚ repetition‚ and meter‚ that revolve around the main idea of the continuity time and its unforeseeable nature. The rhyming of the alternating ending lines‚ “Time will say nothing but I told you so” (1) and “If I could tell you I would let you know” (3) keep the rhyme scheme which stays on the central themes. “Time will say nothing but i told you so” shows that time keeps going‚ because
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If I could do anything in the world Just imagine. Gazing up in the sky‚ looking at the stars‚ and you make a wish. All you have to do is make one wish that could change your life forever. I didn’t even see it coming. I hear the camp horn. I wake up drowsily‚ knowing if I arrive late‚ I’ll get in trouble for the millionth time. It’s night. I look up at the sky‚ and there it is. Right above me is the most beautiful thing I ever saw‚ a meteor shower. I lay on the grass as a dozen lights fly across
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20 amendment Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Twentieth Amendment (Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the President and Vice President from March 4 to January 20‚ and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. It also has provisions that determine what is to be done when there is no President-elect. The Twentieth Amendment was ratified on January 23‚ 1933.
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05/27/2013 What invention would the world be better off without‚ and why? One major substance in the world can change your life forever. The most popular invention that I feel the world can go without is Cocaine. This drug can cause much turmoil in your life. Just one try and you can become an addict. An addiction is a habit that can’t be broken unless you have assistance. Cocaine can cause you to have health issues‚ family issues and cause you to illhusinate. Cocaine is a white substance
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If I get an opportunity to replace myself with any one in the world then I would like to replace myself with Mr. Bush‚ the president of America. Mr. Bush is responsible for portraying negative image of America as an enemy of humanity by doing wars against Muslims only on the basis of religious discrimination. Mr. Bush is the murderer of nearly one hundred thousand innocent citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq while trying to fight against only two persons Usama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein on one side
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02.02 Travel Journal What is unique about the development of the Nile River compared to the development of Mesopotamia Be sure to include notes from the video. They created an accurate calender with 365 days instead of 360 like the Sumerians. The calendar helped predicted the floods. They also created the Nilometer to measure the floods. The floods helped crops grow‚ but it had to be just right. What major event happened that was considered the real beginning of ancient Egypt? It was when
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