First Last Teacher World Literature I January 15‚ 2009 “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz” The two poems‚ “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke‚ seem to have a very similar theme. Both of them tell a story‚ from an inside point of view‚ of a child who is looking back on the lives of their father’s by recalling and telling of certain events that occurred in their past. In “Those Winter Sundays” the narrator‚ obviously a female‚ “and
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This story starts in a murky alleyway focused on a hidden bundle. A boy just out of infancy‚ buried in rags‚ breathing in the thick mist alone. No soul around to feed or care for him. An adult’s mind he must obtain. Though short his thread to life is as lung-deep coughs emerge. Slipping into slumber‚ ghost smoke fills his mind. Fear-filled screams draw our story to this past. We watch as he crawls trading this horror for another. He enters a world of lost love. Gentle hands a fading memory as bruises
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game just because of the love of the game and the will to win that is imbedded in them. The way that hockey players compete is exciting to watch‚ and when you see the game at full speed‚ people recognize that the players gave it their all to be triumphant so fans cannot be disappointed with their team. In other sports they can say there is another day or another game‚ but not hockey players. They play every game as it is their very last‚ and that is what distinguishes them from other competitors
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of the most important issues for Charles was trying to create a stable financial and stable settlement after the long period without a Monarch‚ and to an extent‚ ’success’‚ can be defined to whether a stable settlement was established. Charles’ triumphant‚ Anglican‚ State Church was arguably successful as it formed a stable religious settlement‚ yet on the other hand‚ it was not what Charles initially wanted. In this way it could be argued that ’success’ can be measured to what extent Charles got
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has fought in such darkness‚ endured more misery or been harder pressed? Yet I survived…” (575-577). Beowulf’s diction makes it seem as if he has undergone far worse battles and situations than any man “under Heaven’s high arch” and still remained triumphant. Beowulf’s pride in himself is clearly displayed here and obviously forgets that he must remain humble even though he is a highly prized warrior. Hand in hand with pride comes cowardice. During Beowulf’s last battle with the revengeful dragon‚ he
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Sonnet 33 by William Shakespeare‚ expresses the love that poet has for his lover or son. The poem follows the conventional English sonnet format with a rhyme scheme of abab‚ cdcd‚ efef‚ gg. The poem contains three quatrains and one couplet. How does the poet’s image of alchemy contribute to love and the motif of gold coinage and valuation? The poet begins by talking about his experiences of many beautiful sun rises. The sun could be looked at in two different ways. The “sun” in the poem suggests
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The lottery shows this physiological phenomenon through a lottery. The setting starts in a sunny and joyful tone‚ this later is shown to be ironic due to the horrific event that unfolds once the lottery happens. Blinded by tradition and no one willing to stand up and challenge this tradition‚ someone has to pay the ultimate price. The author doesn’t‚ however
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The Second Sheppards’ Play in essence sets out to provide audiences with a deeper understanding of religious content‚ specifically the birth of Christ in this case; however‚ it de-familiarizes the understandably common story with bouts of humor and unusual character sketches. The opening lines of the drama in particular immediately makes this clear‚ as the Sheppards are portrayed as bitter‚ cold men quick to complain. These opening lines do more than just give audiences a quick view of the three
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Since she got to see Persephone in the spring‚ she was very joyful. She would be seen wearing an arrangement of flowers and other accessories in her rich‚ long flowing hair. As a fair-skinned goddess‚ Demeter wears a jade-jeweled crown‚ earrings‚ and necklace. During the autumn season‚ while her daughter was with
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Essay Question : Her First Ball Themes “Her First Ball” is a short story written by Katherine Mansfield’s‚ Mansfield’s mainly focuses with the shortness of happiness and joyful moments in human life. In this story‚ the protagonist is a young girl called Leila who with her cousins attends her first ball‚ a large formal ball with dancing. The main themes of this story are very dramatically described throughout the short story. The story tells us the idea of a girl’s first experience of a ball dance
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