Discuss how effective the two poems are in showing a sense of cultural understanding and/or assimilation. Personally‚ I find Assimilation by Eugene Gloria is more effective than Returning in depicting cultural understanding as a state of recognising and appreciating the culture. In the former‚ the poet focuses on the presence of the “scattered rice beneath the red-painted bench”. Although those rice grains are left-overs from his previous meal‚ the poet still attachs some significance to them‚
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Descriptive and comparing ( using examples Joseph wright) Lyrical ( Rejoice Rejoice) . The language is also emotive as the poet is speaking about his personal feelings towards the ocean „ i never tire of the oceans quarelling“. The overall tone of the poem is melancholic and mysterious‚ especially as they are dealing with the ocean and its beauty. Content : This particular verse focuses on comparing the oceans quarelling to different things: the first few lines are example of what the quarelling ocean
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Narrative Poem #1 A girl in the woods was very hungry She went to the store but her coupons were expired She went down the produce aisle To get something healthy She could get what she wanted Because she was so wealthy Before she purchased her items She went to the side of the street To get the New York times With a couple of left over dimes Now she had no more expired coupons She went back to the store to buy her fruit That’s the end of my poem wasn’t that a hoot.
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A Colorado Memory "O beautiful for spacious skies‚ For amber waves of grain‚" Love shining from Patricia’s eyes As she starts to explain: Katherine Lee Bates was inspired here To write that lovely song. The reason why becomes quite clear The more we drive along. With mother seated by her side‚ Patricia starts to sing‚ Softly‚ sweetly‚ as we ride‚ In awe of everything. "For purple mountain majesties". We’re riding right along Toward those mountains joyously While Patricia sings the song. We’re
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Madonna and Child Just until now‚ some Latin American cultures are learning to be more accepting of open sexual inclinations. I argue that for Campo’s mother‚ her religious beliefs are stronger than her love for her son‚ although she still loves him. “She hears much better than she sees”. Religion is important for Cuban people‚ and for the church being gay is something wrong‚ it is bad‚ it is sinful. His mom hears bad comments that priest and religious persons make. How sinful is a gay in front of
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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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American writer and artist‚ Flavia Weedn‚ once wrote in her poem‚ “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same”. One of my teachers told me something during my junior year that stood out to me and touched me dearly. She said‚ “Lift your problems up to Him‚ and He will take care of the rest”. Transitioning from a Catholic grade school to a public school high school was not an easy task‚ especially after recovering from a concussion. Upon entering
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Analytical Essay Have you ever wondered what it feels like to experience euphoria? In the song “The Calling”‚ The Fat Rat explains the feeling of euphoria. The connotation of the song uses lots of imagery to convey the tone/attitude and the theme of the poem. The connotation of “The Calling” has to do with the imagery used in the writing by the writer‚ The Fat Rat. “Reason and rhyme--Grand and glorious.” This is a great example of alliteration in the song that repeats the consonant r and g. “Gold and
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The most explicit theme of the reading that stood out to me was racism in the form of slavery in the southern United States. Throughout the narrative‚ Douglass included excellent examples of how slaves are dehumanized‚ mentally and physically‚ by the slave system. In many ways‚ slavery and segregation were the main obstacles in his personality growth. One of the most powerful lines in the narrative was in chapter ten‚ when Douglass directly addresses the relationship between slavery and the denial
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