home; however most people wouldn’t kill a domesticated animal because it is taking up too much room or eating too much food. In fact‚ killing a domesticated animal‚ such as a dog or cat‚ today could result in jail. In the poems‚ “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin‚ and “The Early Purges” by Seamus Heaney‚ two drastic examples of killing an animal is discussed. Although both of these poems discuss the killing of animals; one is about the extermination of “pests” and the other is the killing of a family pet
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"Eliminating the Pest" In the poem "Woodchucks" by Maxine Kumin‚ the speaker is in her garden and is annoyed with some woodchucks that are eating and destroying the produce in the garden. The speaker in turn tries to remove the woodchucks by using humane gas to kill them and when that is unsuccessful‚ she resorts to more violent means. This poem uses the annoying woodchucks to signify the Jewish people during the Holocaust by the Nazi Party. In the first stanza of the poem‚ the speaker clearly
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In both poems “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford‚ and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin are comparing humans to different things. “Traveling Through the Dark” compares the doe‚ car‚ and man and how they each conflict with each other. In “Woodchucks” it is comparing the conflicts between man and man with the allusion of a woodchuck. Both poems use strong imagery‚ and state a shift in the tone‚ revealing their change of mind‚ and have similar conflicts showing the different relationships with
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two separate occasions she met Dr. Martin Orne‚ who encouraged her to take up poetry. Within twelve years of writing her first sonnet‚ she was one of the most honored poets in America. On October 4th‚1974‚ Anne Sexton had lunch with good friend Maxine Kumin to revise galleys for Sexton’s manuscript of “The Awful Rowing Toward God”‚ scheduled for publication in March 1975. On returning home‚ she put on her mother’s fur coat‚ removed all of her rings‚ poured herself a glass of vodka‚ locked herself
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Both the poems “Traveling through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” portray different types of diction‚ attitude‚ and metaphors to depict the different contrast towards the animals; while in “Traveling through the Dark”‚ the attitude towards the animals are reverent and humble‚ “Woodchucks” portray an attitude towards the animals are acerbic and resentful. In Stafford’s selection‚ the type of contrast between the human being and the animals are regretful due to the fact of his concern of the baby
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animals. However‚ in recent years‚ as the morality and ethics become more comprehensive‚ humans begin to reconsider their relationship with animals. In both “Traveling through the Dark‚” written by William Stafford‚ and “Woodchucks”‚ written by Maxin Kumin‚ the authors discuss about interventions of human beings to animals. Even though the two poems are different in the use of irony‚ the tone and the sentence structure‚ they illustrate similar relationships between humans and animals that humans are
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In the original text‚ an article in The Boston Globe titled‚ “No One Was Surprised When Anne Sexton Chose to Die”‚ published shortly after Sexton’s suicide discussing her relationship with death‚ there was a commemorating and nostalgic tone I wanted to keep. I thought these specific tones were important to replicate because so much of what is written about Sexton tends to be very dry and academic‚ not giving insight to how creative and human she was. The article ends with describing the timeline
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the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America”(5). Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior tells the story of Maxine’s childhood as the first American-born child in her Chinese family. In her transition from her Chinese household to the American culture and world around her‚ Maxine finds it difficult to fit in with both cultures. In Woman Warrior‚ Kingston uses
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This essay discusses the extent to which Europe was a patriarchal society during the early modern period. It will restrict its commentary to a definition of patriarchy and the impact this had on the social structure within a communities’ marital households. These households typically consisted of a husband‚ wife and servants largely living within rural and urban communities. The essay will take account of exceptions to the patriarchal model and will support its arguments with analysis of Primary
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