Literature and a respected American critic known especially for work on Romanticism‚ lists three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry: 1. A single person‚ who is clearly not the poet‚ utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem‚ in a specific situation at a critical moment. 2. This person addresses and interacts with one or more people; but we know of the auditors’ presence‚ and what they say or do‚ only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker. 3. The main principle
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mother. As a young black teenage mother‚ I have learned to grow up quick. The things that I have learned the fastest were to nurture‚ care‚ and to protect my son‚ Jaylen. These were the three basic instincts that I have had since the day I first saw him. As far as I am concerned these instincts will not go away until my soul is resting. Nurturing my son is very important. To me‚ nurturing is more than just feeding him. Nurturing is also educating him and training him to be all that he can be. I do the
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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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"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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In “Letter to My Son”‚ Ta-Nehisi Coates utilization of metaphors assists him in conveying the idea from slavery to segregation to police brutality today‚ black bodies have always been used and abused by the U.S. Coates refers to the soul as the “body that fed the tobacco” and the spirit as “the blood that watered the cotton” (33). Coates compares the soul‚ spirit‚ and body to vital components of gardening‚ suggesting that without the exploitation of black bodies‚ America wouldn’t have been successful
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something the speaker’s group did. The others that are “not” are described that way because whiteness was created. These word and words contribute to the poem’s meaning because they exemplify the separation of people due to a standard “whiteness”. 2. In “My Papa’s Waltz”‚ there is a significance in the syntax of the line
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fathers have had sons the bond has been a strong and awesome one. Its no wonder two authors from totally different periods of time have chosen this bond as their topic. After reading “Father and Son‚” by both Homer and Mary Nagy the reader would be able to pick out a lot of differences and some similarities. The two stories tell about a father and son’s relationship towards each other. The stories are very different from one another yet some what similar. Overall that both poems were about the bond
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with those words as they revolve around the noble death of God’s one and only son‚ who is one of the cornerstones of the Christian faith. This man and his sacrifice are frequently referred to by poets and there are several poems whose entire message is all about Jesus Christ. One such poem is a satire written by poet A. E. Housman‚ titled “The Carpenter’s Son”. Housman’s work is not your conventional religious poem as it offers a very negative view on mankind and Jesus himself‚ which is considered
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My son Alexander Terminiello is starting his 10th month of living home with me and only me 24/7 without his self-hire services that we have been trying unsuccessfully to obtain. Alex is nonverbal. He has autism‚ epilepsy‚ OCD‚ ADD and Tourette’s Syndrome is almost making it impossible to leave the house with him‚ but I can’t leave him alone either. We now have him on a regimen of Seroquel and Zoloft that will keep him calm and make him sleepy for 4 to 6 hours per day because I simply cannot cope
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South of my days’ circle‚ part of my blood’s country‚ rises that tableland‚ high delicate outline of bony slopes wincing under the winter‚ low trees‚ blue-leaved and olive‚ outcropping granite- clean‚ lean‚ hungry country. The creek’s leaf-silenced‚ willow choked‚ the slope a tangle of medlar and crabapple branching over and under‚ blotched with a green lichen; and the old cottage lurches in for shelter. O cold the black-frost night. The walls draw in to the warmth and the old roof cracks
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