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    written by Sharon Olds. Using descriptive language‚ the poem determines the speaker’s perception. The speaker’s fears of the stranger sitting across from her become the reader’s also by her comments and use of descriptive language. The speaker communicates the stranger’s capabilities over her life more than once in the poem. “...he looks at my fur coat‚ and I don’t know if I am in his power--he could take my coat so easily‚ my briefcase‚ my life--” Here the speaker expresses a fear of possible

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    Name: Sajid Aziz‚ Roll no: AU515926 MA TEFL‚ Course Code: 5666 Assignment no: 2‚ Spring‚ 2013 Research Project A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” By: William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chickens Introduction           Oppose practicing the learned rhetoric in poetry writing‚ Williams finds his subjects in such homely items as wheelbarrows. He believes that

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    To Create A Poem About Jair Jair Farciert It all begins with a blank canvas‚ copious amounts of emotion and insight‚ and a sixth sense. These are the elements needed to get started on Jair’s philosophy of life and to better comprehend his ideology you will feel what he feels and know what he knows‚ I am deprecating and collecting dust like furniture left out for too long; jaded certain to crash into the refulgence of your eyes. Jair’s personality plays a significant role in his philosophy

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    Rebekah Frost LAL 153: Online Summer 2015 Unit 14: Poetry Analysis Assignment Poetry Analysis Essay Due: 7-20-15 “Having a Mind to Change the World” By Howard Nemerov The poem is about daylight saving time. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is an age-old practice where people would advance time by one hour to extend daylight time into the night. In effect‚ they would sacrifice sunrise time‚ also by one hour. People in the regions affected would adjust their clocks around the start of spring. They would

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    Samantha Brenton ENC1102 Steinke In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight” author Dylan Thomas writes about how people should not so willingly accept the inevitability of death but rather rage and fight against it. The poem was written for Thomas’s dying father and shows how anguished Thomas is at his fathers acceptance of death. Thomas seems to think that it is not honorable or befitting for a great or interesting man to die quietly in old age. In the poem nighttime is used as a metaphor for

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    Analysis by N. Mohsin Autobiography‚ by Louis MacNeice In my childhood trees were green And there was plenty to be seen. Come back early or never come. My father made the walls resound‚ He wore his collar the wrong way round. Come back early or never come. My mother wore a yellow dress; Gentle‚ gently‚ gentleness. Come back early or never come. When I was five the black dreams came; Nothing after was quite the same. Come back early or never come. The dark was talking

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    On my first reading of this story‚ I initially felt the fear frequently seen in grandmothers in confronting danger and how they try to convince us to stay away from it: "The Misfit is a loose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to this people…."‚ the grandmother said. As I have experienced in the past‚ once a Mom and Dad have made a decision to do something‚ it’s difficult to change plans‚ and least from an elderly mother wish. The story continues

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    triplet-against-eight note pattern‚ would simply not stay in my brain. Late nights lying in bed‚ in between classes‚ tapping on my desk‚ that rhythm always slipped through my fingers just as I thought I had it. I even asked a few drummers from marching band to help me‚ who would spend their lunch time with their practice pads and drumsticks on top of ritzy school pianos‚ drilling me while I practiced that elusive rhythm. My metronome became my best friend and my worst enemy‚ and secondary source of frustration

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    Introduction The narrator of the poem “To be of use” is inspired by people who he states “Jump into work head first without dallying in the shadows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.” The narrator who is never given a name in the poem is talking about how he loves people who work hard‚ give it their all‚ and have a passion for what they do. The poem also talks about how these people not only have a strong motivation to work‚ but they also feel connected to the task they are completing

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    54461332 Assignment 01 Unique number: 859786 Ozymandias Question 1: Pharaoh Ozymandias was a cruel tyrant‚ who thought himself to be the most mighty person on earth; almost as mighty as a god. The statue is described as having “two vast and trunkless legs” (line 2) inspiring the reader to comprehend Ozymandias’ power; he was so mighty that no-one could even measure his “vast” power. The reader is led to understand that Ozymandias was an arrogant‚ cruel leader with the words: “frown” (line

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