Courtney Claassen Mrs. Kerr Block 1 27 September‚ 2010 Love I can’t see you….but I know you’re there. Somewhere‚ someday I will find you. I’ve heard things about you. The way you surprise people when their least expecting it‚ or jump at them when they want it the most. You are happy. But you have your days‚ where you can be down. Oh love‚ how I wish to feel the warmth of your wrath that others have felt. I wait. And wait. But nothing seems to come. You link two people‚ in ways unimaginable
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Sylvia Plath: Dying to be Young As Emily Dickinson once said‚ “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” Sylvia Plath foreshadowed many different things in her poetry that reflect the difficult experiences she endured in life. Her father’s death and her husband’s abandonment influenced her writing in several different of her poems. Plath’s suicidal tendencies and the deep depressions she suffered also led to some of her darkest and more cynical poems. Her work is known
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The works of both Atwood and Plath explore the subjugation of women through a second-wave feminist lens. Both use confessional narrative; however‚ Plath uses her own personal experiences of feeling trapped in the home only to be a wife and a mother‚ while Atwood takes us to an extreme theocratic dystopia where women are only useful for their bodies‚ their treatment justified through a religious framework. So whereas Plath examines control over women through controversial metaphors in her poetry‚
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Chantal Chau Analysis of a Key Passage‚ Initiation by Sylvia Plath In Initiation by Sylvia Plath‚ the author suggests that conformity and having friends is a wonderful idea‚ yet the idea of having an individual identity and being an individual is stronger. In the excerpt‚ Millicent is slowly realizing that conforming and being a part of a sorority is not as exciting as it sounds‚ and being an individual offers more opportunities to become a unique person. Millicent is an average girl who no
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society is influenced by advanced technology. In the thrilling‚ short story‚ There Will Come Soft Rains written by Ray Bradbury‚ the author uses personification‚ setting‚ and theme‚ with the help of advanced technology‚ to develop this story into the aforementioned genre‚ Science fiction. In There Will Come Soft Rains‚ Ray Bradbury continuously uses personification to place the story into the genre‚ Science fiction. In the commencement of the story‚ it states‚ “[i]n the kitchen the breakfast stove gave
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trees unloosen there soft arms from around the spectator and whisper that they do not own anything. They are seen as the visitor and not as someone who discovered these new lands. Atwood uses personification and imagery to fully explain the meaning of ownership of land throughout the poem. Personification‚ as a literary device‚ is used in “The Moment” to guide the reader into understanding what ownership means. Throughout the second verse of the
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Rudyard Kipling uses personification (in paragraph fifteen) he makes Rikki Tikki seem curious. He uses personification to help people understand the story better. Personification helps the theme because he couldn’t of told Nagaina to turn around. In addition (in paragraph eighty six ) Rikki Tikki says” Turn round‚ Nagaina; turn and fight!” This is an example of personification because animals can speak English or any other languages but animal. It
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Ralph‚ gazes at the ocean and contemplates their deteriorating civilization. Golding expresses the idea that the boys will not be rescued from the island because of their savage nature through the use of personification‚ syntax‚ and juxtaposition. Through the combined use of personification and animal imagery Golding expresses the progression of the boy’s savagery‚ which prevents them from being rescued. For example‚ at one point Ralph observes‚ “…[the waves] gather with a roar‚ irresistibly swelling
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rise and set‚ and the bees will still buzz even without the presence of people. Humans are evil‚ they murder kill and pillage‚ while nature is peaceful and graceful Teasdale’s messages proved portrayed by imagery‚ alliteration‚ and personification. The personification shows many times in the poem.“Spring herself‚ when woke at dawn. Would scarcely know that humankind were gone”. (11) This portrays that spring would remain the same and would not change if humans were extinct. Another example written
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ne’s Holy Sonnet 10: Death Be Not Proud Donne’s Holy Sonnet 10‚ “Death‚ be not proud” expresses the speaker feelings towards death. He uses personification by addressing death as if it was a human. In the first stanza the author says: Death‚ be not proud‚ though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful‚ for thou art not so; For those‚ whom thou think’s thou dost overthrow‚ Die not‚ poor Death‚ nor yet canst thou kill me. (1-4) From the tone of the stanza it may seem like the speaker is talking
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