following subjects like English‚ Civics and History. The author she recommended to read are Shakespeare‚ Milton‚ Voltaire‚ Booker T. Washington‚ Shakespeare and Thoreau‚ Samuel Pepys‚ William Cullen Bryant‚ Brontës‚ Byron‚ Coleridge‚ Keats‚ Tennyson‚ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other classical authors. Another impressive thing Ms. Bessie did is she smuggled books from the while library because black Americans were not allowed inside the library except to mop floors or dust tables. Ms. Bessie always
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ENGLISH-A CLASS XI Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P) Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence
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Everyone leaves a mark. It could be anywhere on anything on anyone. These marks can be big or small. They can affect anyone in a different way. And so‚ they make an impression‚ an impression that does not go away. For many people these “marks” were in the arts‚ because the culture was so embedded into the arts. And from these arts‚ whether it was a painting or a book‚ there were a so-called glow that engulfed the people of this time. They were left‚ intentional or not‚ for the people who desperately
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AP Literature Poetry Essay Prompts (1970–2011) 1970 Poem: “Elegy for Jane” (Theodore Roethke) Prompt: Write an essay in which you describe the speaker’s attitude toward his former student‚ Jane. 1971 Poem: “The Unknown Citizen” (W.H. Auden) Prompt: In a brief essay‚ identify at least two of the implications implicit in the society reflected in the poem. Support your statements by specific references to the poem. 1972 NO POEM 1973 (exam not available) 1974 Poem: “I wonder whether one expects
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something real and living. Whereas‚ Coleridge seeks to transform the given world through imagination. To Wordsworth visionary world is more real than the world of sense. For Keats imagination which leads to beauty is not a simple way but a power by which he has made imagination more powerful and acceptable than reality. Keats in a letter to Benjamin Baily says: “I am certain of nothing but of the
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including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "One of the real American Poets of yesterday" (Montiero‚ Preface)‚ Longfellow elaborates on man ’s perpetual struggle with life and nature in his poetry. In "A Psalm of Life‚" "The Village Blacksmith‚" and "The Rainy Day‚" Longfellow explores many facets of man ’s unyielding will. Born into a prominent family on February 27‚ 1807‚ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow grew up in the bustling town of Portland‚ Maine. His parents Stephen and Zilpah Longfellow provided a strong‚
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everything around him. Longfellow then goes on to talk about how him counting is compared to God when he says. “ I count‚ as God of avenues and gates‚ The years that through my petals come and go.” (Longfellow’s lines 1-4) Following that Longfellow talks about the hazards snow can bring. I block the roads‚ and drift the fields with snow; I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen.” This is describing how harsh snow can be by blocking off the roads. However with snow cones ice and the ice spreads
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a psalm of life A Psalm of Life | | by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist Tell me not‚ in mournful numbers‚ "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers‚ And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; "Dust thou art‚ to dust returnest‚"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses certain devices in his poems to convey a certain theme. In his poems‚ A Psalm of Life and The Tide Rises‚ The Tide Falls‚ Longfellow uses the mood to accomplish the different theme of each work. Each poem‚ written at a different point in Longfellow’s life‚ displays a different view on life. In A Psalm of Life‚ Longfellow shows that life is something important and something to make the best of. His theme in this poem is that it’s essential to lead a productive life
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Born on February 27th in 1807‚ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent much of his life teaching lessons through poetry. In his poem “The Arrow and the Song‚” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow conveys the message that every action has a consequence. Through symbolism‚ Longfellow describes how positive and negative actions affect the people around you. Through the story he creates in “The Arrow and the Song‚” Longfellow expresses how like an arrow‚ hatred will leave an everlasting scar‚ while kindness and compassion
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