“Ignorance is bliss.” In life it’s better to continue everyday without acknowledging the struggles faced everyday by others‚ yet as we stay ignorant we cannot help those who need it. Bliss does not create necessary changes within our world for those to live comfortably. When I visited my family in the Philippines‚ I grasped the struggle they face everyday. As a child‚ I remember sorting through piles of old toys being packaged away in a box to be sent to my cousins. Yet I could not wrap my head around
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Love Poem Analysis: Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. She was born in New York on May 27‚ 1932. Today‚ she lives in Potomac‚ Maryland with her husband Ira Pastan‚ an accomplished physician and researcher. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life‚ domesticity‚ motherhood‚ the female experience‚ aging‚ death‚ loss and the fear of loss‚ as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Love poem is a very simple poem yet it has a deep
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all of the other sonnets‚ and like Shakespeare’s plays‚ is written in iambic pentameter. Rhyme Scheme: The rhyme scheme can be described as a-b-a-b‚ c-d-c-d‚ e-f-e-f‚ g-g. This predictability and use of a regular pattern is frequently found in older poetry as writers tended to stick to the restrictions of a set format. Meaning: Overall Meaning: Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form. The poet praises the glories of lovers who have come to each other freely‚ and enter into a relationship
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“Charles” and “The Open Window” book center around mystery and `dishonesty‚ but “Charles” is a more relatable story. “Charles” and “The Open Window” are short stories filled with youthful imagination. Both short stories have interesting endings that you wouldn’t expect. The ending in “Charles”‚ you could expect to happen. “We don’t have any Charles in the kindergarten” (Jackson 232). Meanwhile‚ the ending in “The Open Window” was clear as you continued to read. These short stories have different
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Larkin: Wild oats Talking in bed Broadcast Love songs in age Faith healing Sunny prestatyn For Sidney bechet Abse: St valentines night A scene from married life The Malian bird Blond bys The silence of tudor evans Focus on ideas of love Wild Oats BY PHILIP LARKIN About twenty years ago Two girls came in where I worked— A bosomy English rose And her friend in specs I could talk to. Faces in those days sparked The whole shooting-match off‚ and I doubt If ever one had
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David Holsinger’s “On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss” is a moving piece for concert band that is based off text whose history dates back to 1873 when the lyricist Horatio G. Spafford wrote them in response to the sinking of the S.S. Ville du Havre and subsequent deaths of his four daughters who were on the ship with their mother heading to England. Supposedly‚ when going to meet his wife‚ Spafford stopped near where his daughters drowned and began to create the text for “It is Well With My Soul” (Holsinger
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questions about their past and they will gladly answer. It’s almost as if it is kind of testing the speaker‚ like will or she actually answer the question? And the answer is most definitely yes. As for the meaning‚ I am not too sure. I guess some poetry cannot always be explained so well but that’s okay because I still enjoy reading it and trying to figure out what it is about. But I can pretty much understand the gist of the poem. It is just the last line that gets me‚ "What the river says‚ that
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Is Ignorance Bliss? Truman’s point of view I Truman Burbank think that Ignorance is not bliss. Recently‚ I have just found out that I was trapped in a dome and was a television show. First‚ I feel like that imprisoning me was inhumane. I think from keeping reality from me is wrong because I was born like any other normal human being but I wasn’t given the same things. Even though I was brought and raised in this dome. Having my wife‚ my friends‚ and my parents are wrong because they
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One Art This poem trains to develop the spirit of resignation on the loss of persons‚ places and things however valuable they may be. It arouses casual relationship with the material things failing which people usually get abnormal on the loss of their cherished objects. You can see the example of the poetess’ mother who had been mentally retarted and spent her life in asylum. The poem is simple but the message is everlasting. Look with Muslims‚ they are religiously bound to say Inna Lillahe Wa
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WW1 poetry 1) The first poem‚ “Who’s for the game”‚ is written in 1915. 1915 was the second year in world war one‚ and thereby the beginning. Therefore‚ England needed as many young men as possible. At least Jessie Pope meant that. Around 5 million soldiers was the total number of the British army during the whole war. At the beginning of the war‚ the British army consisted entirely of volunteers‚ and they had quite a smaller army than France and Germany. This might be why Pope wants to get
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