in a simple hut. I wonder where I will die‚since I am neither white nor a black man? Question 1 What different denotations does the title have? What connotations are linked to each of them? The title of the poem contains several meanings‚ all of which underscore the main theme. This poem relates to the speaker’s inner turmoil because if his mixed racial ancestry.First of all‚“crossˮcan mean“angry.ˮThe speaker was angry‚ or “cross‚”with his father and mother for their passing on to him an amalgam
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Interpretation of poems Dulce et decorum est are the first words of a Latin saying taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words‚ it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country. The opening of the poem suggests Owen pities the state to
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Analysis Of William Blake’s Poems Infant Joy Notes This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme‚ a contrast to most of Blake’s other poetic patterns. The rhyming words are always framed by the repetition of "thee" at the end of the fourth and sixth lines‚ drawing the reader’s attention to the parent‚ who speaks‚ and his or her concern with the baby. The infant’s words‚ or those imagined by the parent to be spoken by the infant‚ are set
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Annotated Bibliography Scholes‚ Robert. “Hope in Memory in My Ántonia.” Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: My Ántonia‚ Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase Publishing‚ 1987. 31-35. (#18 a selection from an anthropology) In this article by Robert Scholes‚ it talks about the hope and memory in My Antonia. He says the characters find themselves by looking back at the past. He said “we are reminded of this past constantly: by the Bohemian customs and culinary practices of the Shimerdas;
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Death of the Author In his story Sarrasine‚ Balzac‚ speaking of a castrato disguised as a woman‚ writes this sentence: "It was Woman‚ with her sudden fears‚ her irrational whims‚ her instinctive fears‚ her unprovoked bravado‚ her daring and her delicious delicacy of feeling" Who is speaking in this way? Is it the story’s hero‚ concerned to ignore the castrato concealed beneath the woman? Is it the man Balzac‚ endowed by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? Is it the author Balzac‚ professing
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19th Century Women Authors Some of the most influential women authors of all time lived in the 19th century. These women expressed their inner most thoughts and ideas through their writings. They helped to change society‚ perhaps without knowing it‚ through poetry‚ novels‚ and articles. Emily Dickinson‚ Harriet Jacobs‚ Kate Chopin‚ Louisa May Alcott‚ and Elizabeth Oakes Smith are the best-known controversial and expressive women authors of their time. On December 10‚ 1830 a poet was born
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Our Casuarina Tree | | Toru Dutt (1856–77) | | | LIKE a huge Python‚ winding round and round | | The rugged trunk‚ indented deep with scars‚ | | Up to its very summit near the stars‚ | | A creeper climbs‚ in whose embraces bound | | No other tree could live. But gallantly | 5 | The giant wears the scarf‚ and flowers are hung | | In crimson clusters all the boughs among‚ | | Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee; | | And oft at nights the
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Poems 2/HS305 The Harp Of India Why hang’st thou lonely on yon withered bough? Unstrung for ever‚ must thou there remain; Thy music once was sweet - who hears it now? Why doth the breeze sigh over thee in vain? Silence hath bound thee with her fatal chain; Neglected‚ mute‚ and desolate art thou‚ Like ruined monument on desert plain: O! many a hand more worthy far than mine Once thy harmonious chords to sweetness gave‚ And many a wreath for them did Fame entwine Of flowers still blooming on the
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Mike Dougherty Phelps English 12 12/4/12 Comparison essay Pacifistic Views of Two Authors “War is hell‚ but that’s not the half of it‚ because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” (O’Brien 180) This is quoted by Tim O’Brien and it basically states the horrors of war and the emotional
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Greece in the Imagination of Western Authors The Island Fantasy The male fantasy of being deserted on an island inhabited predominantly by women‚ old men and children is explored thoroughly in both Mediterraneo and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. The gendered roles assigned to the invading soldiers as the strong male occupiers of a surprisingly feminized portrayal of the subjugated island are the crux of both the narratives. In both Mediterraneo and Corelli’s Mandolin the respective Greek Islands
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