business in a poem is to establish situation and mood‚ and Roethke selects the father’s drinking as the foremost fact to be conveyed. The tone is slightly comic‚ as the speaker suggests that there was enough alcohol on the father’s breath to inebriate a child. This observation implies that the father had consumed a substantial amount of whiskey‚ since the smell of it was very potent. These lines also establish a closeness between the two figures. The poem is a direct address from the son to the father
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The poem “Father To Son” speaks about a father‚ the speaker‚ who complains about how he does not understand his own child despite living together since the time of his son’s birth. As the title might suggest‚ the poem encompasses the feelings the father has towards his son‚ hence the title makes it look like the poem is a letter from father to son‚ conveying the father’s feelings. The purpose of this poem is to inform readers that it is indeed a tragic thing to be unable to have a close relationship
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The Matilija Poppy also known as‚ the Romneya couteri‚ is an erect flower growing up to eight feet tall that is heavy branched and woody at the base. The white flowers are the largest of any plant native to California‚ and resemble fried eggs. There are five to eight crinkled petals per stem with many yellow stamens and a single large pistil. The unique flower was discovered in California in 1831 by an Irish surgeon-botanist‚ Thomas Coulter and the first seeds reached England in 1875 and by late
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Museum report on Poppy by Georgia O’Keeffe Written by Lauren Harmon 1. I visited the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg‚ Florida. My visit took place on Sunday‚ November 16th‚ at around noon. 2. I’m going to highlight Poppy. 3. Painted by Georgia O’Keeffe 4. Painted in 1927 5. It seems as though her intended audience for this painting (and the others in the series) was the general masses‚ people who live busy lives. She wanted people to stop and really see the flowers and notice their beauty
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experiences; everybody’s got their own story. In a poem entitled “Mother to Son” and a short story entitled “Thank you Ma’am “ which is both by Langston Hughes‚ it it illustrated to the readers that a person’s past can greatly influence the person’s future. The experiences in the past of both Mrs. Jones and the speaker in the poem had given to them that all-too-important insight and allowed them to share the knowledge to the young people. In the poem “Mother to Son‚” the speaker is telling the boy her story
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amongst adversity in many of his works‚ however‚ it predominantly resonates in his poem‚ “Mother to Son”. Hughes displays this lesson through showcasing the mother’s hardships‚ and her desire for her son to acquire resilience amongst a life of struggle. The speaker is a mother‚ a woman with a young son. This mother has endured many hardships which have made her the person she currently is. When reflecting on her life mother states‚ “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it‚ And
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important long-term effect was to create a Communist state with the size and power to stand as a rival to the Soviet Union within the Communist world. The Soviets and Chinese were initially allies‚ but eventually split apart‚ and fought bloody border conflicts in the 1960s. The Sino-Soviet split forced many Communist states to choose sides‚ with China even invading pro-Soviet Vietnam in 1979. 2. Early Sino Soviet cooperation in the 1950’s The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship‚ Alliance and Mutual Assistance
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In the opening lines of her poem‚ Wheatley emphasizes the theme of freedom of the colonies against the oppressing tyranny of mother country. She utilizes personification of "Columbia" as America and enhances the several "glorious victories" that this goddess has accomplished (Wheatley 2). Because Washington was a slave owner before their possible and surprising encounter he "had heretofore seemed no different from the typical Virginia slave owner" (Basker). However‚ after knowing about the marvelous
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2015/03625Veronica Youssef 20th Century Course Split In the 20th century‚ it was crystal clear that in this age uniqueness was the key. It was the age of change. They started to tackle taboo topics with no worries‚ even though the plot at most of the time was untraditional‚ it could be without "Exposition‚ Rising Action‚ Climax‚ Falling Action or even the Resolution" the plot may be missing any point of them. It was the age of rebelliousness or they only want the change for the sake of change. In
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In the short poem “Mother to Son”‚ by Langston Hughes‚ the mother is revealed to have many unique traits about her that maker her a diligent person. The poem has many metaphors that show the mother is a hard-working‚ persistent‚ determined‚ and strong person who endures her troubles she faces in her lifetime. The mother is stated to be an insistent woman that went through many hard struggles and teaches her son to be assiduous to get through the struggles he might encounter just like how she did
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