Heartbreak From Alfalfa’s letter in The Little Rascals‚ “Dear Darla‚ I hate your stinking’ guts. You make me vomit. You are scum between my toes. Love‚ Alfalfa‚” to the song Love Stinks by the J. Geils Band‚ it is apparent that heartache is felt by everyone. It can be experienced and dealt with in countless ways‚ but its universally-felt agony is what allows poets‚ singers‚ and writers to connect with their audiences in such a personal manner. In the poem “Getting Through‚” Deborah Pope
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This poem by A.E Houseman is an eight-stanza poem with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. It is about a man struggling with his uneasy conscience. The narrator/speaker has a conversation with his dead friend‚ where he imagines what his friend would ask him‚ and then gives his response. The punctuation of the poem indicates who’s speaking. In every odd stanza‚ which are surrounded by quotation marks‚ his deceased friend is asking him questions. Conversely‚ In every even stanza‚ which do not have quotation marks
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Everybody has‚ had‚ or is going to have someone die in their life‚ but it’s the worst thing in the world. Just like I am close to my grandmother I wouldn’t know what to do if I didn’t have her in my life. Would I survive? Is the question I always ask myself‚ the girl and I have similarities only thing different about us is that her father died. You never know who it’s going to be it could be your sister‚ mother‚ grandmother‚ and so on. That’s how I think Sylvia Plath “Daddy” is about how she lost
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<center><b>Assignment 1: Explication from Hamlet (1.3.111-137) ("My lord‚ he hath importuned me with love" [end of scene].</b></center> <br> <br>Ophelia and Polonius have a father-daughter discussion toward the end of Act 1 where Polonius‚ concerned father that he is‚ warns his daughter Ophelia of becoming too involved with Hamlet. This warning comes just as Laertes‚ brother and son‚ has bid farewell. Laertes has just warned Ophelia himself of getting involved with Hamletthis is the first time
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In the play ’Macbeth’ we notice that the roles of Lady Macbeth and Macduff are very different. In the one scene that Lady Macduff is in we see that she is portrayed as a stereotypical woman of the Jacobean era. She was defined principally as a mother‚ was reliant on her husband and helpless when he is absent. At the beginning of the play we see these properties in Lady Macbeth. However she specifically called on the ’spirits’ to repress her femininity thus taking away these properties to make her
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Mr The Classroom and the Wider Culture Fan Shen in the article “ The Classroom and the Wider Culture”‚ goes over his experience in learning English composition and how... Premium798 Words4 Pages My Experience in English Composition My experiences in this six-week English Composition-I class have been challenging and rewarding‚ as well as educating and developing. As far as challenging‚ I have only been... Premium1142 Words5 Pages Verbage Paper Catherine Eisenberger ID 20788678 Exam 05085904
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1 In “Living Tree”‚ by Robert Morgan‚ the author describes the practice of burying the dead under a tree‚ which in turn nourishes it and continues the cycle of life. Memory and the passing of a legacy are concepts that can be observed throughout the poem. Life‚ death and rebirth is the theme of this poem‚ the idea that a person is more than a body‚ and can transcend the material realm and continue to live in the memory of future generations. This point is stated in lines 8‚9‚ and 10‚ where
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Whoso list to hunt is a fourteen line poem which follows a strict rhythmic pattern of “abba abba cddc ee”‚ has an iambic pentameter and therefore is known as a sonnet. It is not just any type of sonnet‚ but actually a Petrarchan sonnet. The sonnet is constructed by an octave‚ which are two quatrains combined then a sestet following after that. It was one of the thirty sonnets written by Sir Thomas Wyatt‚ and was believed to be written for Anne Boleyn‚ the second wife of King Henry VIII and the woman
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Protagoras‚ an Ancient Greek sophist‚ was a self-proclaimed teacher of virtue. In ancient Greek times the term ‘sophist’ described men who claimed the ability to teach the art of politics‚ and the art of being a good citizen. In his conversation with Socrates‚ Protagoras claimed to have an ability to teach sound deliberation - to better manage one’s household and public affairs. According to Socrates‚ Protagoras was a teacher of the art of citizenship. The art of citizenship involved sound deliberation
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“If” by Rudyard Kipling Born to a British family‚ Joseph Rudyard Kipling‚ author of the Jungle Books‚ was born on December 30‚ 1865 in Bombay‚ India. The feeling of abandonment and confusion after his pampered life as a colonial influenced Kipling’s work. Kipling wrote the poem‚ “If”‚ that can be found online at http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm‚ a Carpe Diem poem meaning seize the day‚ which suggests and gives warning about what one may encounter in life and what they can
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