MICHAEL ARLEN: ODE TO THANKSGIVING It is time‚ at last‚ to speak the truth about Thanksgiving‚ and the truth is this. Thanksgiving is really not such a terrific holiday. Consider the traditional symbols of the event: Dried corn husks hanging on the door! Terrible wine! Cranberry jelly in little bowls of extremely doubtful provenance which everyone is required to handle with the greatest of care! Consider the participants‚ the merrymakers: men and women (also children) who have survived
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“Thanksgiving Day” In September 1620‚ a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth‚ England‚ carrying on board 102 passengers. Of those were assortments of religious secessionists venturing to a new home to freely practice their faith and others lured in by the false promises of prosperity and land ownership of the New World. After an uncomfortable crossing from England‚ the ship dropped anchor near the edge of Cape Cod‚ far north from the initial destination at the mouth of the Hudson River
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THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in much of North America‚ generally observed as an expression of gratitude‚ usually to God. The most common view of its origin is that it was to give thanks to God for the bounty of the autumn harvest. In the United States‚ the holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. In Canada‚ where the harvest generally ends earlier in the year‚ the holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October‚ which is observed as Columbus Day or protested
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Lucie Samarkova Professor Wing English 105 Feb. 16th 2014 Essay #1 Friedrich Schiller: Ode to joy In this essay I will be examining “Ode to Joy” by Schiller‚ the part which was used by Beethoven as lyrics for his famous Ninth symphony. Definition of “ode’ is a poem in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for something‚ in this case for joy. In his fairly straightforward poem‚ Schiller wants to create a feeling and appreciation for
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3. CRITICAL APPRECIATION Its Faultless Construction This is the most faultless of Keats’s odes in point of construction. The first stanza gives us the bounty of Autumn‚ the second describes the occupations of the season‚ and the last dwells upon its sounds. Indeed‚ the poem is a complete and concrete picture of Autumn‚ “the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”. Its Sensuousness The bounty of Autumn has been described with all its sensuous appeal. The vines suggesting grapes‚ the apples‚ the
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When it comes the time of Thanksgiving I begin to wonder what I am thankful for. There are billions of things I’m thankful for‚ but I came up with three very important things. I am thankful for my parents‚ my dog‚ and the lake. The first thing I’m thankful for is my parents.I am thankful for my parents because they provide a roof over my head. Another reason why I am thankful for my parents is because they also provide food for me when I’m hungry. The last reason why I am thankful for my parents
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Ode to a Nightingale In Ode to a Nightingale‚ John Keats‚ the author and narrator‚ used descript terminology to express the deep-rooted pain he was suffering during his battle with tuberculosis. This poem has eight paragraphs or verses of ten lines each and doesn’t follow any specific rhyme scheme. In the first paragraph‚ Keats gave away the mood of the whole poem with his metaphors for his emotional and physical sufferings‚ for example: My heart aches‚ and drowsy numbness pains My
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In poetry‚ there are several factors that help connect the meaning given out by the author. For this to happen the author must let these factors go hand and hand. In “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats‚ the tone‚ mood‚ and setting are directly affected by one another to help establish the deeper meaning of the poem. The overall tone throughout the poem is of resignation toward death. At first‚ Keats describes the agonizing death of his brother by saying that he had “fever” and “fret” along with
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sensory ode in a lyrical form‚ glorifying Autumn. In John Keats’s ode‚ ‘To Autumn’‚ the theme of abundance and fruitfulness on Autumn is portrayed. During the Romanticism period‚ the Romantics had a keen appreciation of nature’s beauty. As Keats’s believed that the deepest meaning of life lay in the appreciation of material beauty‚ as his poems convey a strong evocation of human senses experiencing what he perceived‚ as the sensuous wonder of the physical world. In stanza one of the ode‚ Keats’s
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Ode to a Nightingale (Critical Appreciation) Written in May 1819‚ many believe Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” to have been written at the home of Charles Brown‚ when Keats sat and listened to the bird in the garden for some hours. In form this poem is a “regular ode”. There is a uniformity of the number of lines and of the rhyme-scheme in all the stanzas. Anyway this is more complex poem than "Ode to Autumn‚" consisting of eight stanzas and is a little more irregular in structure. Each stanza
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