Saying Hughes represents animals as alien and opposed to the civilised human consciousness is not a satisfactory answer or complete analysis of the seventeen poems that have been studied. It is only a generalisation. It is true that most of the poems do have animals represented as opposed to this human outlook in that the animals are shown to display cannibalism‚ extreme brutality‚ no remorse‚ a total lack of maternal grief as in Ravens‚ and‚ as in The Hen‚ the repeated killing of weak hens by the
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Song of the Whale About whaling in Japan 1st- metaphor describing the whale as a heaving mountain /the lines describing the whale getting killed/ describe the whale crying out/heard whale singing‚ describes it as grieving 2nd – singing to all the other whales and describes it as crying for its life/ the whale body would used for- lipstick for ‘painted’ faces‚ meaning makeup‚ and for shoe polish. 3rd- ‘tumbling - mountain’- vivid imagery of a massive‚ moving mound in the sea. 4th- ultrasonic-high
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The Great Water Giant The Great Water Giant Has finished his bath. He pulls the huge plug Out of the clouds. He roars his thunderous laugh And a wet slippery waterfall Spills out of a squelchy sky. ‘Look out below’ he seems to shout as the water Splooshes‚ splashes‚ plishes‚ ploshes‚ gushes‚siushes‚ And soaks deep into the thirsty earth. by Ian Souter Jack Frost Look out! Look out! Jack Frost is about!| He’s after our fingers and toes; And all through the night‚ The gay
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H/w Compare the ways that Checking out Me History explores the importance of identity and culture with one other poem of your choice. Agard in Checking Out Me History show is strong belief in the importance of our identity. Whereas Nagra in Singh Song doesn’t see the importance of his identity. In both poems‚ the use of language has been used to show their culture and identity. In Checking Out Me History‚ Agard writes “Dem tell me/wha dem want to tell me”. The use of non-standard english of ‘dem’
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The first poem ‘Sonnet 130’ by William Shakespeare has a humorous view on the traditional ideas of beauty. The poem is a five duplet metre with the stressed sounds starting on the second word of each line. Each line has the same amount of stressed and unstressed patterns which is very common for sonnets to make it quick and easy to read. The five duplet pattern never mimics human speech in the way a four duplet pattern does. The end of each alternating line has a distinct rhyming pattern
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Danah Bakir “Same Song” By: Pat Mora * Predictions: Based on the picture surrounding this poem‚ which is a mirror‚ I predict this poem will be about external beauty and the concept of beauty only being skin deep. Based on the title of this poem‚ I predict this poem will be about similar people’s stories and how they handle their situations in similar manners. The type of poem I think it’ll be is an observational and descriptive poem. I predict this because I think the author is going to use
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Rupp Eng 101 October 16‚ 2013 The story “The Lesson‚” by Toni Cade Bambara‚ is about a young girl named Sylvia who is accompanied by a group of her friends from her neighborhood and her elderly neighbor named Ms. Moore‚ who tries to teach all of them a lesson about life. “The Lesson” is a realistic story that takes place in the mid-20th century that exemplifies the true difference between upper and lower classes during that time period. Although Sylvia might come off as a mean and cocky little
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In Toni Bambara’s‚ The Lesson‚ she tells the reader a story of one summer day from a young African American girl’s perspective named Sylvia‚ who discovers at the very end that there’s a heavily weighted lesson to learn from Miss Moore‚ though Sylvia might not know the meaning of the lesson yet. This story takes place in the 1960’s‚ the beginning of the civil rights era. Bambara shows the reader that equality still does not exist in America‚ even a century after the Emancipation Proclamation. She
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Introduction Poetry has been a special genre and it is one of the many genres that remain consistent (structural means) even after being exploited for years. Looking back at the British poems in the late 80s‚ the stanzas and lines have not changed much‚ at least not the structure of it. Even until today‚ these shapes remained the same‚ although altered in position such as the use of indentation or tabulation in each line‚ alternatively. Besides‚ poetry has become a medium of communication in various
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Jimmy Shantcheat - A lesson for life When we are born‚ we know nothing and therefore everything we do‚ we do from scratch. We are bound to have a first time experience with everything. Whether we like it or not. Some of these first times will be memorable. A lot of them will not‚ but those we do remember have marked us for life. It is not important whether it is your first A grade in school‚ seeing your mother mourn or realizing that everybody at some point are going to die. It will affect you
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