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    never forgot this experience. His work was strongly influenced by a poet Siegfried Sassoon. War had got a lot of effects on the people who got in it. Disability was one of them‚ and so was death of course. These were used as themes for many of the poems he had produced. ‘Miners’ and ‘Disabled’ were both written during the period of WW1. They share the reality of war and the effects of it on humans‚ both psychological and physical. ‘Miners’ is Owen’s respond on a colliery disaster‚ which caused a

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    Sanchez English 6th hour 9/26/12 Poem analysis Mending Wall Stone. Hunter. Wall. Savage. These are all words that are used to describe the speaker and his neighbor. Are these words that you would use to describe your neighbor? To describe yourself? Robert Frost is bringing up the subject of two neighbors talking in the springtime. In his poem‚ “Mending Wall‚” Robert Frost writes: “Good fences make good neighbors”. There are two tones in this poem. One tone is the narrator’s view

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    "Hitcher" By Simon Armitage‚ "Education For Leisure" By Carol Anne Duffy‚ "My Last Duchess" and "The Lab" by Robert Browning are all poems that deal with violence or the prospect of violence. ‘The Laboratory’ is a dramatic monologue about a woman who has discovered her husband is having an affair with two other women. She is plotting to poison both of the mistresses. My Last Duchess’ is also a dramatic monologue in which the Duke is telling his new bride father’s representative about a portrait of

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    because people have to make difficult choices every day. People choose to do something to fit in with other people. This reason convinces them to choose a specific decision so they can feel better about themselves. In “Abuela Invents the Zero”‚ by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ it is portrayed that Constancia made her decision so she would fit in and wouldn’t be made fun of. For example‚ when Constancia knew that her friends saw her with her Abuela in the church‚ she thought‚ "I just know that on Monday my friends

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    2010 The Memory of the Waltz After reading the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke (807)‚ I realized that there are many different opinions about this poem. Some people think that this poem is about parental abuse‚ the other also think that it is about the happy memory of the relationship between father and son. In my point of view‚ the speaker in the poem is expressing his joyful time when he’s dancing with his father. The whole poem is talking about the memory of the author about waltzing

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    Comparing and contrasting Text A and B In the poem To Autumn‚ it celebrates the rebounding nature. The symbolic aspects of life‚ in preparation for death; Keats was devoted to poetry due to personal problems. In contrast of the extract‚ it’s about celebrating and sharing with people about the markets in Italy about the exotic vegetables; he’s excited and wants to communicate with the reader. Both texts are describing what they see like e.g. plumps‚ hazel shells‚ vegetables‚ and a sense of bountifulness

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    In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “First Love”‚ the speaker is opportunistic and infatuated. The narrator is opportunistic because she did not let a sense of morality stop her from taking advantage of whatever opportunity she had to get what she wants. Simply because the narrator wanted a mere glimpse of her crush who worked at a grocery store‚ she hoped her mother “[smoking] with so little enthusiasm”(Cofer 1) did not mean that she’d have to stop going to the store to pick up cigarettes. The narrator did

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    having a poem read to me is more powerful then reading a poem off of a page. When I close my eyes I can see the words that the reader is speaking‚ instead of trying to understand what the author is attempting to write to me; so it is easier for me to understand what the author is communicating without decoding the words. When I close my eyes as someone is reading‚ the reader paints a picture in my head of what the author has written and I can also see the words that are being spoken. The poem being

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    surface‚ it does not seem as though “Crossing the Bar” is about death. It appears to be a jolly story about a sailor waiting for high tide so he can safely cross the sandbar and leave the harbor. After further examination‚ the true meaning of the poem becomes apparent and can be somewhat upsetting. Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” captures an old man’s acceptance of death through Tennyson’s edgy writing style‚ strong poetic devices‚ and clear understanding of death. “Crossing the Bar” is about an

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    November 1‚ 2013 Lap 4 Reflection Essays 1. What is redemptive love? How was Jesus’ suffering and death an act of redemptive love? Redemptive love is the act of redeeming. It is the ultimate kind of love. Jesus’ suffering and death is an act of redemptive love because he redeemed us from our sins. 2. How do we know the Resurrection of Jesus was a real historical event? In what ways does Jesus’ Resurrection also transcend history? The Resurrection is in all four Gospels‚ so it is cited by four

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