unsettling imagery that carries throughout the poem. The detached third-party speaker looks on a “dead body” with “bare feet” “perfected” and wearing the “smile of accomplishment” under a white “toga.” This raw‚ pure and positive diction in the presence of suicide creates a sense of wrongness in the reader because people usually portray death as a harsh and bitter end instead of as a fulfilled and flawless one. The speaker finds the body in a restful‚ natural state‚ like a “rose” with its “petals”
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boy in uniform” (425)‚ the photograph above the table is of the boss’s son. Mansfield writes; “‘My son’ groaned the boss. But no tears came yet” (page 427)‚ she shows the boss is struggling with memories of the death of his son. Owen presents his speaker as one who was in the war and faces trauma physically: “He sat in a wheeled chair….Legless‚ sewn short at elbow” (line 1-3)‚ the former soldier lost his limbs at war. He loses the feeling of being with a woman: “Now he will never feel again how slim
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In the beginning of the passage‚ the speaker says‚ "To go into solitude‚ a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write‚ though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone‚ let him look at the stars." By starting out the passage with this statement‚ I believe the man is content with his solitude. He tells the reader that he does not feel alone while he reads and writes even though he is all alone‚ and then he states that if a person feels
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3rd Speaker Good afternoon Chairman and panel‚ ladies and gentlemen. The topic for discussion is “Science drives Technology”‚ clearly my team is here to today to negate that statement to indicate to you that it is not science which drives technology but the other way around. People often confuse science and technology. Briefly‚ scientists (science) discover new aspects of Nature. Engineers and inventors (technology) use scientific discoveries to design and build new things. Scientific endeavors
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‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy Pupil Unit Includes Formative Assessment Strategies Critical Essay: Poetry ‘Valentine’ by Carol Anne Duffy By the end of this Unit you will be able to write Critical Essays on the poem ‘Valentine’. You will be able to write relevantly about the central concern(s)/theme(s) of the poem and be able to support your views by reference to appropriate poetic techniques. You will learn about/revise the following techniques: Imagery
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Cummings’‚ the speaker seems to emote uncertainty in his actions and decision about the future. Cummings’s poem is a lot about deciding withholds a decision of what type of person and what type of life one wants to live. To the speaker this life is one of spontaneity that follows the movement of nature. In the physical structure of the poem the lines are indented in and out like the waves of the ocean. This water represents nature‚ though the flowers are being burning and killed. The speaker wants to
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“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by ADRIENNE RICH. When I saw the title of the poem‚ the first thing we can know is the speaker had an aunt named Jennifer. Also‚ I thought real tigers would be describing in the poem‚ and I wondered how could a woman rear some tigers. But after I saw the first line of the poem‚ I found out the tigers in the poem were not real. In the first stanza‚ we can see the speaker used the word “prance” to describe the move of the tigers‚ it made me imagine some happy and chill tigers. In
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things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster” ( lines 2-3). The speaker attempts to persuade the readers that losing is not so hard because there are things that are meant to be lost. Therefore‚ losing is not a “disaster” because it is only a natural process. In stanza 2 she tells the readers to “lose something everyday. Accept the fluster of lost door keys‚ the hour
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the poem. Weigl’s strong diction doesn’t stop there‚ though. He uses his vocabulary‚ even the smallest words‚ to twist and turn the reader’s thoughts into this mass that doubles back on itself and produces a hatred for the war and a sadness for the speaker. In lines three through five‚ Weigl says “eventually/ You had to do something/Because it just kept piling up.” Not only does his use of the word “had” imply that the action necessary was more forceful than voluntary‚ but his vagueness with the words
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“Because I could not stop for death‚” Dickinson’s impressive uses of imagery clearly illustrate every aspect of the things around the speaker as she leaves
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