know very well that in my past‚ I am also a person who expressed male chauvinism in many part of my life. In family as well as work place i have exposed the same when i got a chance to do so. But‚ Later‚ i realized and felt shame on that. As the realization and correction of thoughts may be my qualification of writing this article. The first feminist‚ i have seen in my life is my mother‚ in between the two male kids‚ she is always ensured the opportunities and rights for my sister. i was wondering
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“Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes `The poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes is a poem about persevering. As the title suggests‚ this poem is a monologue in which a mother is divulging her heartfelt advice to her son. The tone‚ therefore is loving‚ yet serious and determined. The mother in the poem is giving her son advice about how he should never give up. She tells him‚ in essence‚ to “Keep on Keeping on” throughout the hardships of life. She does this through the telling of her own struggles
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war poetry is the transformation that war brings about in a person. Many poems reveal boys going into war and becoming young men after the experience. Another dominant theme in war poems is about the forgotten soldiers who lost their lives and weren’t remembered. Many poems have been written about war and the feelings evoked by war. Even though a lot of war poetry was written before World War 1‚ the defining war poems were written during or about World War 1. Possibly the main reason for this
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relationships. Robert Browining‚ a great Victorian poet‚ wrote two pre-1940 poems‚ ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘Prophyrias lover’‚ they are both examples of domineering me or individuals who end up killing their former lovers. The main theme which the poems are centred around is madness. ‘The Ballad’ on the other hand has an unknown poet‚ this could be as a result of it being passed down from one generation to another. All the three poems deal with the distorted image and status of women‚ and how this had an
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It’s A Woman’s World “It’s A Woman’s World” written by Eavan Boland is a poem about how woman should embrace their strengths. It’s a Woman’s World” focuses on issues of female identity and how the contributions of women have been overlooked. The speaker of Eavan Boland’s poem‚ seems to intend irony with the title of this poem‚ she is not saying this is a woman’s world‚ but rather speaks of the world from the woman’s point of view. Boland shows her views that women‚ who are placed in less harsh
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penning. There are four main plot conflicts that authors have to choose from: man versus nature‚ man versus society‚ man versus man‚ and finally‚ man versus self. Authors‚ many times‚ will use only one or two of these conflicts but in the novel‚ Native Son‚ all four conflicts are used to some extent. In this novel‚ Richard Wright‚ does a superb job of meticulously blending all four conflicts together to form a well-rounded novel about a black man in 1920 ’s Chicago. "The icy water clutched again at
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Songs as Poems It ’s My Life Bon Jovi This ain ’t a song for the brokenhearted No silent prayer for the faith departed And I ain ’t gonna be just a face in the crowd You ’re gonna hear my voice when I shout it out loud [Chorus] It ’s my life It ’s now or never I ain ’t gonna live forever I just wanna live while I ’m alive (It ’s my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said‚ "I did it my way" I just wanna live while I ’m alive ’Cause it ’s my life This is for the ones who
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can be represented in various ways and can be spotted in a range of Australian poems. These poems are written by Australian poets who try to portray the Australian lifestyle and depiction of Aussie culture and experiences. Good morning/afternoon fellow audience members‚ I have selected two poems titled “My Country” and “Australia” to deconstruct and explain how they reflect on the Australian representation. The poem "My Country" was written by Dorothea Mackellar in 1908. She first wrote this literary
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The poem “Lament”‚ written by Gillian Clarke‚ is an elegy‚ an expression of grief that appeals to the reader for them to react to human mistakes which are damaging our planet. The poem is lay out in seven stanzas of 3-line each (triplets)‚ each of them very well defined and concentrated in a different complaint. The rhyme is quick due to the constant repetition of the word ‘for’ in the beginning of each stanza. The sentences in the poem lack of subject‚ so we can consider that these are written
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Poem Reflection Poems‚ they are interesting‚ attractive and most of the people enjoy them too. We had a poem contest in our school between grades. So‚ our contest between grades 8 went well and I had fun doing it. Something’s went well and something’s didn’t go that well‚ but overall it was a fun thing to do. I learned a lot of things by this poem competition. My role was to make posters. In the beginning I really liked my role because it was something I wanted to do and something that I was interesting
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