Ciela Aunica C. Lelis III-9 AB/BSE Literature An Analysis of the Poem Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) Using Feminism Anne Sexton’s Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) is a poem which does not only challenges the conventions of the original and traditional fairy tale but also serves as an exposure of a problem which causes a lot of women’s lifelong sufferings. Briar Rose’s courageous revelation of her father’s sexual abuses on her ironically shows reality using a fairy tale‚ opening the eyes
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Rodman Philbrick‚ and the poem‚ “Ability‚” by Selina E. Matis. There are several lines in the poem‚ “Ability‚” that relate to the novel‚ Freak the Mighty. For example‚ one of the lines in the poem was‚ “Ability is to look at a blank page‚ and create a poem.” An example from Freak the Mighty that relates to that line is that Max didn’t know how to write‚ even when Freak gave him the empty book. However‚ in the end‚ Max ended up writing a whole book. Another line from the poem was‚ “For many‚ ability
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South‚ the turn of the century saw blacks reestablishing their identity in America. On the other hand‚ Cullen is marveling about why a God who is good could be so cruel to give a black poet the ability to “sing” in a world that ignores them. In this poem Cullen has
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In this poem‚ the writer is making a bold and clear statement to the reader. The main element portrayed throughout the poem is repetition‚ which is used as a way to convey a message to the reader and make a statement as to why the speaker is painting their nails red. However‚ under the surface to why the reader is painting her nails red‚ lies a significant message to the reader that can be reinforced by the use of repetition. Using the word “Because” as the first word of every line‚ puts an
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dammed are often words that come to mind when I look at how the human race manages their water. It is through ironies like this‚ which show the true extent of damage the Earth faces. Brenda Hillman in her work Practical Water echoes this through her poems concerning the environment and its downfall. In poetry we dwell‚ but it is impossible to dwell on something whose base is crumbling. Like the polar bear on the lone ice float in the Arctic Ocean‚ we too now find ourselves desperately
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Brooklyn Cop‚ by Norman MacCaig is a poem about an American policeman and the daily dangers he faces. The cop appears to be a savage yet we are later made aware of his underlying vulnerability. New York’s reputation of violence and crime leads to our awareness of the cop’s fear of not returning home to his wife. ... We are first made aware of the cop’s intimidating appearance in the first line‚ of the first stanza when MacCaig uses the simile "built like gorilla." This gives us a very negative and
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This harsh shift from a preconceived impression to a reality at which Gay forces the reader to look is found in some of Gay’s other poems as well‚ such as “The Heaven‚” where the narrator describes Heaven as not shaping up to be everything one may expect. Specific to this poem‚ however‚ is the fear of the narrator: an African-American man who is taunted by the prospect of violence. While any driver stopped by a police officer would feel a normal amount
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like least. But I do have some prefer poems‚ based on the plot of the poem. Jimmy Santiago Baca Green Chile that I prefer more‚ at the page 818 of The Norton Introduction to literature.‚ and the poem that I prefer least is Philip Larkin This be the Verse at the page 817 of The Norton Introduction to literature. First of all‚ the speaker of Green Chile‚ express his relationship with his grandmother by describing his feeling of green Chile. The theme of this poem is the love to Chile and the love to
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use different techniques and writing stiles to convey the message. The Song uses a first person narrative stile to convey the traumatic experiences of the soldiers‚ the poem‚ however‚ does not refer to experiences‚ instead it uses strong‚ passionate words that directly refer to the effect of trauma. The beginning sentence of the poem clearly shows the authors stile of writing‚ bringing the audience straight to the point. “War drags men to the very edge‚” . The Song expresses the same message several
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dehydration‚ infection‚ etc… Being that most women of that time spent most of their adult lives pregnant and having multiple births‚ this increased the likelihood of their demise. Bradstreet’s poem was soft and personal. It would seem that she was contemplating the likelihood of her dying while giving birth. The poem was addressed to her husband‚ which makes since as if she were to die‚ she would want him to know her final words and not to mention he would be raising the child alone. Being that Bradstreet
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