Poetic Sound Devices Practice “Poetry is old‚ ancient‚ goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.” Confound the cats! All cats--away— Cats of all colors‚ black‚ white‚ gray; By night a nuisance and by day— Confound the cats! All cats‚ always. I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week‚ Beneath the apple-trees; I thought my eyes were big pork-pies‚ And my nose was Stilton cheese. Big Balloons Bounce into the
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Spider” (pp. 74‚ 74 b to b-2 in Rhet II); Whitman #2: read aloud “Song of Myself‚” sect. 1-6‚ 24 (pp. 74 c to 74 c-5 in Rhet II); select favorite passage and explain how it is Idealist; e-mail to WPE Term paper poems: Sylvia Plath‚ “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” (Google) Due: Final Draft of PAPER (3-5 pp.‚ typed) on Thoreau’s imagery (due at lights out Tues‚ 4 Dec; e-mail to WPE) W 5 Dec Wed Tour
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Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature
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and being like this person engages how one feels about themselves. “Now I am a lake. A women bends over me‚ searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turned to those liars‚ candles or the moon" this problem introduced in Mirror by Sylvia Plath is that humans tend to mask their true identity and strive to be a "perfect" person due to the pressures of society. In Emerson’s self-reliance‚ an essay consisting of problems and remedies to conformity. Reading through to this essay Emerson states
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The applicant is a poem from Sylvia Plath’s collection of poems entitled Ariel. The applicant was written in the 1960s‚ and it outlines society’s expectations of not only women‚ but also men‚ back in the time.‚ although the poem focuses more on the stereotypes of a woman. In this poem‚ Plath attacks the forces in society‚ which believed that everyone is to conform to marriage. She also challenges the roles of men and women in society in the 1960s. Symbols in this poem include symbols of women
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In the text Rocking Horse Winner there is presented a very unstable boy who is constantly vying for his mothers attention. He actually drives himself insane just trying to be loved and accepted by his mother. His mother‚ meanwhile kept the image of being a perfect woman and mom‚ but her behavior took a very twisted turn. In reality she did not love anyone except herself. In the title it mentions a rocking horse‚ this was a type of metaphor throughout the story. Paul uncle would take him to the races
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born in Mytholmroyd‚ Yorkshire in 1930. After serving as in the Royal Air Force‚ Hughes attended Cambridge‚ where he studied archeology and anthropology‚ taking a special interest in myths and legends. In 1956 he met and married the American poet Sylvia Plath‚ who encouraged him to submit his manuscript to a first book contest run by The Poetry Center. Ted Hughes was very passionate by animals‚ nature‚ myths and he used them in drawing different types human behavior. In 1970‚ he published Crow‚ a
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Cited: Plath‚ Sylvia. The Bell Jar. New York: Harper & Row‚ 1971. Print. Black Swan. Dir. Darren Aronofsky. Pheonix Pictures‚ 2010. DVD.
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In life‚ everyone is destined to make decisions‚ whether it is as inconsequential as picking out an outfit or it is as life changing as deciding where to go to college. While making these decisions‚ the most unexpected influences can help with guidance towards the right direction and make everything seem clear. These influences can be something small‚ like someone saying a sentence‚ or something big‚ like a political crisis in the world. This is shown in the short stories‚ “Initiation”‚ “Divergent
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historical facts in fiction‚ the piece gains a cohesive quality that unifies the work. Throughout this piece Anne Carson references many historical figures. She mentions many famous people‚ including Frans Kafka‚ Gertrude Stein‚ Prokofiev‚ and Sylvia Plath‚ and by referencing these people she borrows from the authority they hold in the readers mind to strengthen her own work. She even references Frans Kafka multiple times‚ which acts to reinforce her authority. She references him first in the short
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