stair”. Mother to Son‚ written by Langston Hughes is a poem of a mother trying to give her child a heads up on life‚ and how hard it may get at times. Life has been difficult for her and she wants to make sure that her son will have a better life than the one that was given to her. She teaches him to have perseverance and make the right choices. Her words of wisdom are surely of an uneducated woman that has plenty of advice to offer. In this poem‚ the mother is trying to inspire her son to keep going
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My favourite poem is: Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson I’ve never really had a favourite poem but this one connected with me. This is my favourite poem as it describes hope by using a powerful array of metaphors to enhance its effect. While it is true that many people all over the world live in extremely challenging and life threatening situations‚ leading hard lives in appalling conditions. What keeps people going in such circumstances is the glimmer of hope that
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The Odyssey A LETTER TO MY SON 12th March 2041 Dear Son‚ Happy 13th birthday‚ my dear son! Congratulations on becoming a teenager. Both your mother and I cannot believe how fast you have grown. I have chosen this book‚ The Odyssey‚ to guide you as you grow into a man. My English teacher‚ Mrs Jones‚ FORCED us to read it when I was your age ( and although it was VERY boring at first (especially the complicated timeline)‚ we were soon engrossed in Odysseus’s swashbuckling adventures
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J Parvez:Parvez is the protagonist of the story "My son the fanatic" by Hanif Kureishi. He is a Pakistani immigrant and lives with his wife and his son Ali in Britain. He was born in Lahore‚ the son of Pakistani parents. Parvez is very open-minded and has assimilated into Western society. As a taxi-driver‚ drunkard‚ pork-eater and friend of prostitutes‚ he´s totally disinterested in the Koran or in any Islamic beliefs. His attitude to Islam is also affected by negative experiences as a child (".
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When I give birth to my son Jeremy: Giving birth is a very joyous occasion. I never knew how great it would feel until I gave birth myself for the first time. At Lady of Lourdes Hospital‚ in October 24‚ 2011. It was such a special time in my life and I will never forget it. There are many phases you go through giving birth. During my personal experience there are three things that I remember the most about childbirth and they
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“Letter to My Son‚” written by Ta-Nehisi Coates in 2015‚ was in all essentiality advice. The article begins with the author describing his own sadness at the distance between a country built on a dream‚ and the sobering reality he saw. He continues on to talk about how his body‚ his son’s body‚ and the bodies of many of their peers around them‚ are very often going to be at the mercy of people around them. Coates then speaks of escaping the danger of having his own body at the mercy of another‚ and
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Analysis of My son the Marine By: Frank Schaeffer My son the Marine gives the audience a journey of all sorts of feelings a parent could go through when a child decides to enlist in the service. Frank Schaeffer is the author who starts his story about his son‚ John who sees the Marine recruiters showing up at their home. Frank describes how he couldn’t comprehend on how John could relate to these stern‚ clean men with such flawless uniforms. This uneasy feeling made his wife feel uncertain about
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Death of a young son by drowning” by Margaret Atwood conveys the story of the emotions of a parent losing a child and not being able to help them. “...on a voyage of discovery into the land I floated on but could not touch to claim‚” in this poem Atwood takes the reader on an emotional journey using literary devices such as imagery‚ personification and metaphors to express the depth of her feelings and give a larger sense of what its like for the reader to understand roughly what the speaker must
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Vu Ngoc Giang Poem for my sister “Poem for my sister” is another opus of Liz Lochhead about the relationship between a big sister and her younger sister. Furthermore‚ it’s her feelings towards her sister’s process of growing up. In stanza one‚ Liz tells us of an everyday occurrence – her sister trying on her shoes‚ she uses heeled shoes as a metaphor for life and how her sister is experimenting with it : My little sister likes to try my shoes‚ to strut in them‚ admire her spindle-thin twelve-year-old
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Point – The human mind is a complicated thing to understand. The poem speaks philosophically to describe how the human mind has a conscience and how our conscience helps us distinguish right from wrong. Main Point – Death is cold‚ lovely‚ and dark. The winter season is harsh and so is life. Death is an escape from “winter”‚ death is “easy wind and downy flake”. Concluding Statement – Many interpretations can be created with this poem and the only limit to the interpretations is the creativity of
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