The Loss of a Loved One The poem “A Song of Despair” by Pablo Neruda and the song “Over You” written by Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton are two works of literature that show how one feels and how one laments after losing someone he or she deeply loves. In the case of “A Song of Despair”‚ the persona Pablo Neruda had created is lamenting over the loss of his woman‚ while “Over You” is about Blake Shelton’s (one of the song’s composers) personal loss of his brother. Although the two works of art
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WRITTEN TEXT ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT BY: JAMES GRASSO MRS RODRIGUEZ Acquainted with the Night 1928‚ Poem‚ Robert Frost‚ United States of America A) What ideas about Belonging does this text relay to the responder? The poem Acquainted with the night by Robert Frost centres on a man who does not belong to society despite being in a city which paradoxically is an overcrowded place. Traditionally a sense of belonging is experienced by interacting with other people
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death once again showing the welcoming arms towards death and the meaninglessness of life. Similarly the concern of meaningless life and anticipation to the end of life is symbolised in ‘Preludes’ through the use of death motifs. Eliot’s use of metonymy in “You heard the sparrows in the gutters‚” link us back to the modernist concern of meaningless life through death as sparrows were always associated with death therefore is an object correlative and a motif to death. Eliot incorporates death into
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an evident source of inspiration – Sardines for the painting and the color orange for the poem – the creative process appears to veer off in its own direction‚ almost having a volition of its own‚ as seen in “The painting is going on” (11) –also a metonymy for Goldberg –‚ and “I write a line (…) Pretty soon it is a whole page of words” (19-21). This idea of unconscious artistic creation not only overlaps with O’Hara’s philosophy as a student of the New York School artistry‚ but also justifies the structural
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affluence arising from [his] trade‚ that [the Disabled Man is] able to associate with people who have means to spend‚” (Lysias 4-5). Wohl argues Disabled Man’s speech “is both about an adunatos‚ a Disabled Man‚ and about an adunaton‚ an impossible metonymy that threatens to expose impossibilities within the metonymic structures of democracy‚” (173). In a way‚ Wohls describes the Disabled Man as someone who lives outside Greece’s citizen protection because of his disability. The man does not have oikos
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AP Language and Composition—Skills: | | | |RHETORIC (1) The study and practice of effective communication. |Style: Diction‚ Syntax‚ Tone | |(2) The art of persuasion. "Acting on another through words." |Tone (DIDLS + attitude + organization) (DIDLS = diction‚ | |(James Moffet) (3) An insincere eloquence intended to win
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1. Alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound. is a term that describes a literary stylistic device. Alliteration occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. For example‚ “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-short” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” are both alliterative phrases. In the former‚ all the words start with the “s” sound‚ while in the later‚ the “p’s” take precedence. Aside from tongue twisters‚ alliteration
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unity among the audience. This is effective because it gets the audience on his side; if he used exclusive pronouns such as ‘you’‚ it would make the audience feel less united. He also says ‘America can change’‚ by doing this he personifies and metonymies ‘America’. This is effective as it makes the people think about what he means by ‘America’ in that context‚ he could have easily said the ‘people of America’ but that would be very dull. We also see here again that he uses ‘America’ in a united
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Critical appreciation ‘One art’ Elizabeth Bishop’s six-stanza villanelle ‘one art’ is a misleading poem dealing with the struggle of mastering the issue of loss and how to interpret it. Through the use of a rather casual tone and understatement‚ as well as crescendo stanzas‚ Bishop succeeds to mislead the reader and bring the dramatic last stanza as an unexpected outcome‚ quite in contrast with the rest of the poem. My analysis will try to show how through the use of language‚ tone and poetic devices
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December 21‚ 2012 The Whipping 1. Who is the speaker? What kind of person is the speaker? a. The speaker could be a neighbor or passenger who observes a domestic scene that reminds him of one similar to his own.. The speaker has a strong sympathy about the boy but also is a coward because the speaker did not stop the woman. 2. Is there an identifiable audience for the speaker? What can we know about it? a. There is no identifiable audience. The speaker is just noticing the woman beating
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