A precursor to the intellectual history that Spahn’s Thomas Jefferson‚ Time‚ and History presented‚ was Gilbert Chinard’s Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanism. Published in 1929‚ Chinard’s text is a tome at nearly 550 pages and it attempts to study the mind of Jefferson rather than his actions. Although it is nearly 200 pages longer than Spahn’s text‚ it is actually a much lighter read and does not get bogged down in terminology and prose the way Spahn’s work does. Chinard’s work is a biography
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Edward Thomas wrote “Rain” during World War I. His use of the image of rain and his word choices create a mood which is somber and dark. All alone in a house‚ the speaker listens to the rain is confronted with thoughts of death. To Thomas‚ death would be a welcome relief from the misery in which he is living. Thomas says “Remembering again that I shall die / And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks / For washing me cleaner that I have been” (Thomas 3-5). To the reader it makes mood clear
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Poetry Essay ENGL 102: Literature and Composition Fall B 2014 Erin P. Klemm ID# 25520975 Writing Style Used - MLA Through the voice of innocence in “The Chimney Sweeper”‚ William Blake uses irony to shine a light on the treatment and horrid conditions of child chimney sweepers. The poem serves as a public commentary on the ills of society as Blake sees the use of children as chimney sweepers to be. This makes the overall tone of the poem one of sadness and conveys the compassion Blake feels
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Princess" to discuss the relationship between the sexes and to provide an argument for women’s rights in higher education. However‚ the work as a whole does not present a single argument or tell a coherent story. Rather‚ like so much of Tennyson’s poetry‚ it evokes complex emotions and moods through a mastery of language. "Tears‚ Idle Tears‚" a particularly evocative section‚ is one of several interludes of song in the midst of the poem. In the opening
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Thomas Cole‚ The Oxbow Usually when I flip through my art book I come across many beautiful pieces‚ but when my eyes landed on Thomas Cole’s painting I was blown away. The first thing I did when I came across it was touch the paper because you would believe that you can feel the leaves by the way they are painted‚ and don’t get me started on the values of green that he used to make the piece one harmonious view of nature. I love everything about this landscape piece because it tells a story and the
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the San Joaquin Valley and in factories‚ so a lot of his poetry is based on everyday experiences for Mexican-Americans like racism‚ identity and poverty. Soto’s poetry has a narrative quality and usually feels like a story. Many of Soto’s poems are a recreation of his own past that can transcend down to any generation. One characteristic of Soto’s poem’s is the use of Chicano words which
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Anne Sexton’s poem titled “Her Kind” is a popular poem filled with powerful imagery‚ diction‚ and syntax. Her particular use of these elements in different ways contributes to the robotic and non-human tone of the poem. Her use of syntax in the poem is done in a very clever manner. The lines of the poem are short and almost all contain commas. These commas are a part of the syntax because they contribute to the sentence structure. They split up each line into two halves‚ and it almost
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were intensely real and stuck with me long after I studied the poem. The tone of “University of Iowa Hospital‚ 1976” is dark and painful. Mayes wants the readers to not only feel the way the speaker felt when entering the hospital‚ but also how the patients in the hospital suffered. He uses literary tropes to make reader’s emotions react to the tone of the poem. A metaphor is a literary trope often used in poetry to make a comparison between two objects to give the audience a deeper sense
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Rachel Williams Richard Hutchison History 1302 18 July 2012 Industrial Revolution: Thomas Edison The industrial revolution marked a time of great change from a rural nation to an urban-industrial society. Thomas Alva Edison was a very influential inventor of the Industrial revolution. In the 1970’s there are records of only 276 patented inventions‚ by the 1890’s there were 234‚956 on record. Thomas Edison was responsible for some of the most revolutionary products of all time‚ the light bulb
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Thomas Nagel brought up the big question. Can we know what it is like to be a bat? Nagel’s question is asking can we truly know what it is like to someone or something else rather than ourselves. Is our mind limited by our experiences that we have had personally? Not everyone shares the same experiences as everybody else. If a group of people were to witness a tragedy. Every single one of them might all show the same emotion‚ but not everyone would handle that emotion the same as everyone else around
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