Poem for my Mother – Jennifer Davids Notes Outline It is an afternoon and the mom is washing clothes in a tub. The child has written a poem for her mother and gives it to her as she is washing. The mother scans the poem but rejects it as not being ‘all there is to life’. She feels that there is much more to life than reading or writing poetry. Despite her protest‚ the mother glances at the poem while she continues to wash clothes. Stanza 1 The mother obviously has given her life to hard
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Why My Mother can’t Speak English Garry Engkent was born in 1948 in China‚ he came to Canada in the 1950”s. He completed a PH.D in English at the University of Toronto‚ and has teached at a number of Community Colleges and Universities. Why My Mother can’t Speak English‚ was first published in the Anthology of Chinese-Canadian writing in 1991. This short story has shown differences in culture‚ with different languages. There are parts where Garry’s mother feared of losing her home‚ and being sent
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people in my life who have had an influence on me. Though there are many‚ there is one particular person who has had the most influential impact in my life and that is my mother Debbie Lyn Garrido Cruz. I admire my mom for the kindness in her heart‚ her strength and independence‚ for pushing me to be different and to not be someone I’m not. She is the hard working mother of six‚ who has raised all of them on her own‚ trying and managing to get by on a day to day basis. My mother actually is
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In the poem‚ “My Arrival”‚ James Berry provides a warm and personal narrative of his birth. His speech is deliberate throughout‚ with each word spoken clearly and in a measured tone‚ reflecting deep thought as he reflects upon the anticipation and excitement of those closest and dearest to him as they welcome his arrival. He is matter-of-fact in describing his birth‚ speaking in short phrases with pauses in between. But as he talks about the eagerness of his father awaiting his arrival‚ his tone
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Promise – a creative response to ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ Teaching notes The aim of this task is to encourage students to write creatively using some of the ideas from ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ before reading the poem as a way of helping sensitising students to its ideas and language. The task could be developed by asking students to give feedback to one another on their work‚ and the most able or creative could be asked to redraft‚ then analyse and explain aspects of their work.
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Even through the worst‚ a mother is supposed to love her child unconditionally. This is the theme of the emotional rollercoaster that is the film‚ Mommy. Mommy follows a widowed mother as she manages the harsh reality of life whilst dealing with her well-meaning‚ however emotionally disturbed‚ teenaged son. Mommy is a heartbreakingly tragic film that grips the viewer from start to finish. Director Xavier Dolan (Winner of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival) draws thematic parallels between Mommy and his
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Adi Radia The Exploration of Womanhood in All About My Mother In his critically acclaimed 1999 character-driven drama film All About My Mother (1999); writer-director Pedro Almodovar cements his reputation as an expert on the complexities and intricacies of womanhood. The film features several complex and multi-layered female characters that are portrayed with great emotional depth. Throughout the course of the film‚ these characters are forced to struggle with impediments such as loss‚ betrayal
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"MOTHER TO SON" OF LANGSTON HUGHES "Mother to Son" of Langston Hughes is my favorite. What the mother in the poem tries to tell her son is that there will be many rough roads that he has to go by in his life but she hopes that he will not give and complete it like his mother. Through the dialect that Hughes used in his poem‚ we can see that the mother was not a well educated woman by the way she talks "there ain’t" (13) and some grammar mistakes. She was living a poor area with "boards torn up"
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Analysis Of William Blake’s Poems Infant Joy Notes This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme‚ a contrast to most of Blake’s other poetic patterns. The rhyming words are always framed by the repetition of "thee" at the end of the fourth and sixth lines‚ drawing the reader’s attention to the parent‚ who speaks‚ and his or her concern with the baby. The infant’s words‚ or those imagined by the parent to be spoken by the infant‚ are set
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Poems 2/HS305 The Harp Of India Why hang’st thou lonely on yon withered bough? Unstrung for ever‚ must thou there remain; Thy music once was sweet - who hears it now? Why doth the breeze sigh over thee in vain? Silence hath bound thee with her fatal chain; Neglected‚ mute‚ and desolate art thou‚ Like ruined monument on desert plain: O! many a hand more worthy far than mine Once thy harmonious chords to sweetness gave‚ And many a wreath for them did Fame entwine Of flowers still blooming on the
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