The two poems that I chose by Langston Hughes where “Mother to Son” and “I Dream a World”. These two poems really stood out to me because they had a powerful message. The poems actually made me feel something‚ it moved me in a way no poem or story has ever. Both poems made me realize that you should not give up in life‚ just keep pushing toward success‚ and to go down the right path to succeed in life. The poem “Mother to Son” is a poem where the mother who is also the speaker of the poem is trying
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CSR 3/13/13 Going Green The company Clarke is a family company that has grown‚ since 1946‚ and is now the largest Mosquito Abatement firm out of all the districts in the US. They have been involved in the industry since 1927 when John Clark Sr. wrote the legislation that established the Mosquito Abatement District in the state of Illinois. The main goal was to produce a full‚ high-quality selection of products for the Mosquito Abatement Districts‚ taxpayer-funded municipal regions; individual
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the Poem "Variations on the Word Love"_ The writer of the poem Margaret Atwood was born in November 18‚ 1939 in Ottawa‚ Ontario‚ Canada. She is not only a poet‚ but also a novelist‚ a literary critic‚ an essayist and an environmental activist. And she is an excellent writer‚ a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature. Her genres of writing include historical fiction‚ speculative fiction‚ science fiction‚ and dystopian fiction. The theme of the poem "Variations
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language in his love and religious poetry that make him stand out as a distinguished poet compared with his contemporaries. John Donne’s poetry does not portray the unchanging view of love but express the poet’s genuine and deep emotions and attitudes of different circumstances and experiences. Donne tries to define his experience of love through his own poetry; these experiences are personally felt by the reader as they are part of common human experiences. Donne brings out love as an experience
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someone or something that we decide to call it love. Love is an emotion felt by all people to some degree. We love things‚ animals‚ people; each of us has experienced love in some form. What do we do when the thing we love is no longer ours? We shut the world out‚ act like we don’t care‚ yet‚ these are all just faces we wear to hide the pain. While there are many ways to combat heartbreak‚ Lang Leav does a remarkable job connecting to the reader through her poems. She can relate to the reader‚ they understand
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CATRIN-GILLIAN CLARKE Gillian Clarke’s ‘Catrin’ deals with the often tense but loving relationship of a mother and daughter the conflict that can arise. It explores this idea through two separate confrontations: one is the birth; the other is as a teenager who wants to play out after dark. She uses very simple language‚ which indicates the simple‚ intense feelings that the poem conveys. The title simply tells us the name of the child involved in the poem. Her name is not mentions again in the poem‚ which
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Stand up and try to be heard.Try to help the others instead of giving them what they want.If everyone just come together than maybe they could have beat them.In the poem and the two text it explain different parts of what happened.They explain it in different ways.They give you different views of what happened. In the text terrible things it talks about how terrible things came one by one.In the text terrible things they came to take the creatures from their home.They all had a chance to stand up
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John Donne (1572-1631) is considered the most prominent of all metaphysical poets‚ especially in the seventeenth century. Donne also spent some years as a lawyer‚ and as a preacher‚ earned a reputation for delivering enchanting sermons. Donne‚ as a love poet‚ wrote from personal experience‚ which fact made his poetry more accessible and compelling. His independent spirit was evident in his poems‚ to the point of him being called rebellious. His love poems were a remarkable conglomerate of divinity
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The main theme of "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke deals with faith. Clarke defines faith as having belief and trust in God with strong conviction. Clarke believes that one must have faith not only during blissful times‚ such as during the time of creation‚ but also during time of anguish‚ such as when destruction occurs. God "created" when a star flew over Bethlehem‚ just as God destroyed a star‚ the Phoenix Nebula‚ and its surrounding planets including any life that may have lived there. God does
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North Coast evinces the idea that an individual belief and perceptions can be challenged when viewed from a different perspective due to the changing values of Australian society. This is evident in the beginning of the poem through the use of metaphorical implication of “ First thing in the morning” which presents an insight of new beginnings and positive ideas but instead the persona is associated with despair and infertility. The tone of disappointment in this quote evokes a sense of alienation
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