I first read the poem “Lost Sisters‚” by Cathy Song‚ I was under the impression it was about a Chinese women who held great pride for her Chinese culture and who was frowning on the choice of her sister‚ who made the decision to move to America from China. After further investigation‚ I discovered that Song’s poem “Lost Sisters‚” explains the story of a woman who is facing the difficult realities of being a Chinese immigrant. The poem describes how Song feels psychologically lost between two different
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Vu Ngoc Giang Poem for my sister “Poem for my sister” is another opus of Liz Lochhead about the relationship between a big sister and her younger sister. Furthermore‚ it’s her feelings towards her sister’s process of growing up. In stanza one‚ Liz tells us of an everyday occurrence – her sister trying on her shoes‚ she uses heeled shoes as a metaphor for life and how her sister is experimenting with it : My little sister likes to try my shoes‚ to strut in them‚ admire her spindle-thin twelve-year-old
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“Lost Sister‚” by Cathy Song presents the universal struggle that women face in finding who they are in society as observed in two different environments. The difference in environments helps Song’s initial sense of helplessness created by using China and the inclusive term they as what is familiar and safe‚ and juxtaposes it with the use of you that creates a loneliness in the unfamiliarity that America represents in order to focus on lost and sister in correlation to these environments; however
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This poem has a literal side and mythical side to it meaning. The literal side would just be that it is about two sisters with different aspects. The mythical side could be referring to the two sides of Persephone to show the connections between "shade and light". In the first stanza‚ it introduces the two sisters‚ different as dark and light. One sister is very happy while the other is awfully depressed. In the second‚ third‚ and last stanza‚ it talks about the aspects of the sister of the shade
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“Lost Ones” and Gendered Stereotypes Even though it is more inclusive than most hip-hop narratives‚ the portrayal of women in “Lost Ones” is still problematic. While the boyfriend begins his verse committed to collaborating with his girlfriend‚ as shown by the lines “Now I ain’t tryna pick a fight with you‚ I’m tryna talk‚” and the use of “we” in lines like “I feel like we ain’t ready for this…we still kids ourself/ How we gonna raise a kid by ourself?/ Handle biz by ourself?” A significant change
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Student number: 12056010 A Stylistic Analysis of « the lost baby poem » by Lucille Clifton In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself. In this poem Lucille Clifton is telling the experience she had when she had an
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In the poem “Lost Poem” written by Stanley Moss is explaining a tragic time he had with his brother. He goes on to explain how he it had sadden him and hurt him on the inside. The many different events that he stated in the poem makes him remember all the good times that they have had. He tells us that they shared the same mom and when he died it pained him. In line 5 “His death pained me” stood out to be the theme of the poem because it shows the writers emotion for his brother. There were hard
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BOY Lost” vs. “The Little Girl Lost” A belief of envisioning a future to seek your creator is a task many people‚ young or old‚ continue to accomplish today. William Blake’s two poems from Songs of Experience: “The Little BOY Lost” and “The Little Girl Lost” recognizes two children of different genders living through a time of need. The narrator in these two poems lecture through an era of mixed emotions and opinions the little boy and girl witnessed. The setting of “The Little BOY Lost” takes
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literary Analysis of the poem " My Sister ‚My Friend " when your sister became your friend ‚ that is the most beautiful thing you can ever feel . The Poet Leann Steinman is expressing her deep passion towards her sister in her Poem My Sister ‚ My Friend . Steinman can not express how much she is grateful for her sister who is always supporting her in the bad and good days as a friend. She wishes all happiness and welfare for her sister as she is always the reason for her felicity
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1818 in Yorkshire‚ England. At the young age of thirty‚ Emily developed tuberculosis and died on December 19‚ 1848 (Magill 56). Her potential had yet to be reached. C.D. Merriman from The Literature Network said‚ “Many early works from her past were lost – only 3 personal letters exist from her possessions.” Emily was influenced by many people including her mother and father. Her father‚ Reverend Patrick Bronte‚ was a school teacher (Magill 56). Patrick Bronte had a humble beginning; he went to Cambridge
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