The Facebook Sonnet” clearly shows that the smallest thing can become the biggest part of life. The first stanza introduces you to Sherman Alexie’s description of Facebook in “The Facebook Sonnet.” It talks about reuniting with old high school friends and how it keeps you connected to them for as long you all shall live in the "endless high-school/Reunion" (lines 1-2). The middle of the first stanza says‚ "Welcome to past friends / And lovers‚ however kind or cruel" (lines 2-3)‚ this shows that
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of how vile he is compared to how magnificent the tree is. In spite of this‚ he occurs to him that among the beautiful stones it is tainted with blood. In section two‚ the Cross shares its account of Jesus’ death. The Crucifixion story is told from the perspective of the Cross. It begins with the enemy coming to cut the tree down and carrying it away. The tree learns that it is to be the bearer of a criminal‚ but instead the Christ comes to be crucified. The Lord and the Cross become one‚ and
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William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love Is Not All” both attempt to define love‚ by telling what love is and what it is not. Shakespeare’s sonnet praises love and speaks of love in its most ideal form‚ while Millay’s poem begins by giving the impression that the speaker feels that love is not all‚ but during the unfolding of the poem we find the ironic truth that love is all. Shakespeare‚ on the other hand‚ depicts love as perfect and necessary from the beginning to the
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Sonnet Summary line by line Do not stand at my grave and weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye 1. Do not stand at my grave and weep 2. I am not there; 3. I do not sleep. It is like the persona is someone who has passed away and is speaking to her loved ones. She doesn’t feel it is right for them to stand and weep at her grave because it is just a body and not her anymore and even though she is dead and buried her spirit lives on. She hasn’t left completely 4. I am a thousand winds that blow‚ 5. I am the
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where they would have blonde silky hair. On the second critic‚ "He loves to hear her speak" even though he knows of more pleasing things to listen to. Her voice might not sound like a harp but its not raspy or hoarse. He acknowledges "the breathe that from my mistress reeks" is not the sweetest smelling flower in the bouquet‚’ but it’s not rotten eggs or rotting flesh‚ so he’s pretty well off. He uses the truth of a woman’s beauty and graces to show women wait a lot of poets are lying about in their
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Appendix Sonnet 18 Shakespeare 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ 6 And often is his gold complexion dimmed‚ 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ 8 By chance‚ or nature’s changing course untrimmed: 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest‚
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Dear incoming freshmen‚ coming into 9th grade is the scariest experience one will have. Unless you have an older sibling‚ you do not know what to expect. These will be some of the best of times‚ and some of the worst of times. you will meet people you will like‚ and people you just can not avoid. You will form relationships with people and become really close to them. You will have to overcome many obstacles during these years of high school. There will be subjects you like‚ and some that you will
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He was immobile‚ couldn’t even flinch. She slowly came close to him and whispered: ‘‘Good luck!’’ Saying this she went down to his dry‚ lifeless lips and kissed him. Immediately afterwards he was brought to the ground. Black smoke started rising from his mouth and within a few seconds it all went black. Now he heard. ‘‘I’ve sent you to a dying world‚ a sick twisted world‚ full of war. You will now fight as a soldier with a little twist. I’ll let you find out what it is’’ And indeed he was transported
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were British‚ had to parachute out of their burning plane. Young people in Holland are being forced to join the Germans or do hard labor in Germany. The guns sounds are terrifyingly loud at night. Anne finally turns 14 and receives a birthday poem from Pim and a big Greek and mythology book. One of the protectors‚ Mr. Voskuijl‚ has terminal cancer. Everyone in the Secret Annex misses him dearly. Everybody in Holland has to turn in their radios to the officials. The Annex group‚ however‚ is getting
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Throughout The Road‚ Cormac McCarthy draws a very heavy line in the sand between giving up and persevering. Very often‚ this line in the sand adheres to strict gender lines: while women are shown to "give up" in one form or another‚ the father and son who struggle down the post-Apocalyptic road tell themselves‚ "This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up" (). After closer reading of the text‚ reveals that "not giving up" is not always the lesser of two evils. McCarthy
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