Destruction only happens when a person refuses to admit defeat. With their refusal‚ they may never learn anything new that could actually lead them to victory. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ Santiago‚ the old man‚ says‚“a man can be destroyed but never defeated”(103). The words destroyed and defeat go hand and hand‚ but victory and pride are also part of Santiago’s struggle. Even after defeat‚ victory is still possible. While pride can lead to success‚ it can also lead to the
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dammed are often words that come to mind when I look at how the human race manages their water. It is through ironies like this‚ which show the true extent of damage the Earth faces. Brenda Hillman in her work Practical Water echoes this through her poems concerning the environment and its downfall. In poetry we dwell‚ but it is impossible to dwell on something whose base is crumbling. Like the polar bear on the lone ice float in the Arctic Ocean‚ we too now find ourselves desperately
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This harsh shift from a preconceived impression to a reality at which Gay forces the reader to look is found in some of Gay’s other poems as well‚ such as “The Heaven‚” where the narrator describes Heaven as not shaping up to be everything one may expect. Specific to this poem‚ however‚ is the fear of the narrator: an African-American man who is taunted by the prospect of violence. While any driver stopped by a police officer would feel a normal amount
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On Tuesday April 4 in the Atkinson Recital hall located in the music center at New Mexico State University. I went to go see Java Love. It’s a kind of a play where they san poetry‚ the did act singing‚ opera. It was a musical that located in a coffee shop. And the actors on the stage each sang a song about love. The first song they sang called “love in the dictionary “which the name speaking for itself. The only instrument who played throughout was the piano. The piano started off in softly then
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dehydration‚ infection‚ etc… Being that most women of that time spent most of their adult lives pregnant and having multiple births‚ this increased the likelihood of their demise. Bradstreet’s poem was soft and personal. It would seem that she was contemplating the likelihood of her dying while giving birth. The poem was addressed to her husband‚ which makes since as if she were to die‚ she would want him to know her final words and not to mention he would be raising the child alone. Being that Bradstreet
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use different techniques and writing stiles to convey the message. The Song uses a first person narrative stile to convey the traumatic experiences of the soldiers‚ the poem‚ however‚ does not refer to experiences‚ instead it uses strong‚ passionate words that directly refer to the effect of trauma. The beginning sentence of the poem clearly shows the authors stile of writing‚ bringing the audience straight to the point. “War drags men to the very edge‚” . The Song expresses the same message several
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renowned Tulsa native Rock and Roll Hall of Fame superstar Leon Russell‚ for his music achievements as a master songwriter‚ performer‚ and session player‚ who appeared in Tulsa recently to promote his eccentric‚ neo-Gospel hippie-country documentary‚ “A Poem is a Naked Person” mostly shot at his Grand Lake recording studio. The doc screened at a local vintage theater‚ the Circle Cinema‚ and Leon held court performing at a subsequent sold-out gig at the Hard Rock casino at “The Joint” amphitheater in the
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FELIK’S SKRZYNECKI The poem FELIKS SKRZYNECKI‚ by Peter Skrzynecki effectively portrays his childhood reminiscence as an adult. In the first stanza‚ he demonstrated his admiration for his father as a child and described him with respect‚ knowing that Felik’s Skrzynecki was his adopted father. Immediately‚ we can gain Peter Skrzynecki’s strong respect he has towards his father‚ fiercely emphasized by re-telling what Felik’s Skrzynecki had done for his family. “ Alert‚ brisk and silent
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Packaged‚ Formulated‚ and Filtered In “The Loss of the Creature‚” Walker Percy describes how the modern society presents packaged experience to people and how the true values of experience via confrontation is being ruined because of that “preformed complex” (460). The travelers these days in the Grand Canyon will not see the same values and beauty that Garcia López de Cárdenas did‚ because they already pre-experienced the values of the Grand Canyon via “appropriated symbolic complex”; Percy describes
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The performances of the poems from fellow classmates were very good they all did very well. Saw seven people perform their Poetry Out Loud poems even though they were just videos. The people that perform their Poetry Out Loud and the poems that they read out was Juan Salinas “Fire And Ice” By: Robert Frost‚ Haley Williams “Let It Be Forgotten” By: Sara Teasdale‚ Alex Turner “Ebb” By: Edna St Vincent Millay‚Mason Swearingen “Fire And Ice” By: Robert Frost‚ McKenzie Bucher “ Let Evening Come” By: Jane
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