All the provided poems portrays many facets of love within the human experience. These facet explores various elements of love that many can resonate with. In the poem "Ode to my Socks" the poet express his utmost apprecaitation of his handmade and much needed gift of wool socks for the winter weather. To the point of feeling unworthy and honored at the same time. "my feet were honored in this way by these heavenly socks"and "my feet seemed to me unacceptable like two decrepit firemen‚ firemen unworthy
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In life today‚ people tend to over exaggerate the phrases “happy as a clam” and “living the dream.” Dean Young‚ the author of “Clam Ode”‚ expresses how he relates to every other American struggling to find happiness in their life but in the end wishing to be comparable to a clam who is content with where he is in life. As humans we have the natural reaction to want more than we already have. We often focus on what is ahead of us or what we could have‚ rather than appreciating and accepting the pleasantness
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Wrestling; when most people hear the word‚ they imagine a hefty man with bulging muscles in a skimpy singlet‚ throwing other men across the mat. In reality‚ this is not the case for all wrestlers. They don’t all have hulk like physiques. No one could have imagined a small‚ lean 5’3 girl like myself be a wrestler. Barely weighing over 100 pounds‚ I struggle with the dirty looks and glares I get. The news spread like wildfire around my gossip-loving-school that there was a girl on the wrestling team
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1102 October 1‚ 2013 Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is an easy to read‚ relaxing‚ dream-like poem. It evokes the vision of a quiet‚ dark night and the peacefulness that is experienced while simply sitting quietly in the country woods and watching the winter snow fall. The poem conveys the difference between the peaceful solitude and quietness of the country and the more hectic city filled with people and the obligations that need to be tended to in town. Frost describes
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In Ode to a Nightingale Keats introduces the reader to his discontent with the void of feeling he is experiencing. In the first line Keats says how his‚ “heart aches” which the reader would interpret as pain; however the second half of the first line he describes‚ “A drowsy numbness”. This tells me that Keats is uncomfortable with the “numbness” he experiences. In the second line Keats says‚ “as though of hemlock I had drunk”. Norton foot notes tell us that hemlock is a poison that acts
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"Ode to an Orange" by Larry Woiwode took place in the winter of 1940s. It was "the winters of the forties" which I felt was very important in setting the background. It was a time of war‚ rationing of food‚ limited transportation‚ a difficult time to import items from other states and then adjustment from war of peace. Winter did not just represent cold‚ snow‚ wind‚ gray sky‚ limited sunshine‚ but a limiting of the senses. With this in mind it have also been difficult to obtain an orange that would
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‘When they woke it was evening.’ evening has symbolic meaning of end‚ ending or finish. Which is represent as John Grady and Alejandra’s situation. Also ‘she sat on the bed and took his hand and looked down at him.’ The word ‘looked down’ sound like negative tone and has symbolic meaning that pitiful‚ pathetic which are probably Alejandra’s feeling to john Grady. There are repetition of ‘tearstained face’ or ‘ her face all wet’. These words created vivid imagery thus reader can more understand character’s
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The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats depicts the images and stories on a Grecian urn. Keats has the reader think about the difference between changeable real life and the immortal and permanent life on the urn. Also‚ the reader becomes mixed between observation of the art and participation in the art. The first stanza depicts the urn as an "unravish’d bride" and a "foster child" (1-2). These words describe the urn as unaffected by time and immortal. Keats also seems unable to distinguish
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Summary For the news assignment‚ I viewed the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. This aired on Tuesday‚ March 28‚ 2017 at 5:30 p.m. I am going to describe the top news story presented at the beginning of the segment. This story is about sexually abused female Olympic gymnasts. Two female gymnasts come forward to Congress and plead their story about their coach in the Olympics sexually abusing them in their hotel rooms when they were just teens. The women are much older now‚ but still come forth
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Ode to Browsing the Web By definition‚ ode is an expressive‚ complex poem‚ typically filled with joy‚ excitement‚ and happiness (Merriam-Webster). When I read Marcus Wicker’s “Ode to Browsing the Web”‚ I see an excited young man‚ sitting in a room all by himself‚ filled with excitement and anticipation of what today’s surfing the web will bring. At the comfort of his favorite sitting area in the console of his home‚ the young man can go on exotic journeys all over the world and not have to deal
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