The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence) Summary The speaker of this poem is a small boy who was sold into the chimney-sweeping business when his mother died. He recounts the story of a fellow chimney sweeper‚ Tom Dacre‚ who cried when his hair was shaved to prevent vermin and soot from infesting it. The speaker comforts Tom‚ who falls asleep and has a dream or vision of several chimney sweepers all locked in black coffins. An angel arrives with a special key that opens the locks on the coffins
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Roland is not depicted as a hero in every way. In what particular way does his heroism cause him to fail himself and others‚ and what does that tell us about the culture out of which the poem emerges? The Song of Roland is a heroic epic that depicts the tragic defeat of Roland‚ the courageous leader of Charlemagne’s army. Within the epic Roland is not depicted as a hero in every way. I believe that Roland’s pride eventually becomes the root cause of his failure to himself and to others. It is this
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rest is up to the reader. How much imagination one contributes to the poem is infinitely unrestricted. The study of poetry has and will always be a valuable part of history; especially when dealing with an emotion as universal as love. Interpretation “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” by T.S. Eliot takes the reader on a depressing‚ timid‚ overcautious‚ middle-aged man. It could be said that he is afraid of his own shadow. Eliot begins the poem with a short excerpt from Dante’s epic poem;
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Men’s repeated abandonment of women in Song of Solomon shows that the novel’s female characters suffer a double burden. Not only are women oppressed by racism‚ but they must also pay the price for men’s freedom. Guitar tells Milkman that black men are the unacknowledged workhorses of humanity‚ but the novel’s events imply that black women more correctly fit this description. The scenes that describe women’s abandonment show that in the novel‚ men bear responsibility only for themselves‚ but women
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CROOKED: English Translation: Nothing ever lasts forever In the end‚ you changed There is no reason‚ no sincerity Take away such a thing as love Tonight‚ I’ll be crooked Leave me alone I was alone anyway I have no one‚ everything is meaningless Take away the sugar-coated comfort Tonight‚ I’ll be crooked I scream and get dizzy I vent out of boredom to other couples I start fights for no reason like a town gangster Sometimes‚ I purposely shake my leg‚ crookedly The main characters of
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This passage is taken from the book Songs of Ourselves. This poem written by Sujata Bhatt is written post the British colonisation of India and importance of religions and culture in India. It is a poem written about the social and political concern of the lost of cultural identical renunciation of Indian identity. The poem is based on Religion and a bit of Greek Mythology. All the lines are not of the same length. This shows us that the poem is meant to be read slowly with understanding. The effect
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1. Tina attributes her poor performance on the quiz to her teacher’s inability to teach the material. However‚ she believes that other students who did not do well on the quiz failed because they did not study hard enough. Tina’s reasoning illustrates: a. the actor/observer discrepancy. b. the fundamental attribution error. c. self-fulfilling prophecy. d. ingroup favoritism. 2. Adriana was assigned to do a class project with Jim. Jim rarely spoke in class‚ and Adriana didn’t
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The SONG OF THE WHALE -Kit Wright TEXTUAL QUESTIONS: 1) What words in the first verse show that the whale is huge? ‘Heaving mountain in the sea’ in the first verse show that the whale is huge. 2) How does the poet give the impression he is talking to the whale? By the impression ‘Whale I heard you’ the poet makes us feel that he is talking to the whale. 3) ‘Crying for your kind’. What is the whale doing? The whale is crying for all the whales that are dead and also for the whales
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Frankenstein is simply taking a break from his studies to enjoy what nature has to offer him. In the beginning stages of the passage‚ valuable insight is present to support the setting‚ describing the place that Frankenstein resides as “two rooms‚ and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury” (Shelly 119). The unpleasant appearance of his shelter was also expressed through visual imagery as Shelley writes “the thatch had fallen in‚ the walls were unplastered‚ and
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became an important influence for him. He was a film actor and singer born in Tupelo‚ Ms. Artie Glenn wrote the song “Crying in the Chapel” for his son to sing. According to a review by William Ruhimann‚ “On the night of October 30-31‚ 1960‚ Elvis Presley held a recording session to cut the inspirational album His Hand in Mine. Though ”Crying in the Chapel” was not one of the scheduled songs‚ after midnight Presley began on it with his vocal backup group the Jordanaires and the modest instrumentation
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