It seemed somewhat difficult to read through a poem and try to “get” how a poem got a tone from its diction and imagery. It sounded easy to think about‚ but the hard part got to be articulating how it worked and what made me actually feel a certain way over a poem. For that battle‚ I read “Common Ground” by Judith Ortiz Cofer. At first‚ I read the title and thought it’d be something for pro-equality and how people are essentially created equal. By the second stanza‚ with the line‚ “when I look
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Book review By: trent dial The book I read was body in the woods by April Henry.This is a book about teens that are in a group called (SAR) search and rescue. They are looking for an autistic kid named bobby that has gone missing‚ the teens find the body of a missing girl named miranda. The police are asking the teens if they would like to come in and help investigate to find clues of the murder and who the murderer may be.They think miranda may of just been a homeless girl. Alexises mom has
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Higher 2006- Unseen Poetry Practice ‘In the Can’ In the poem‚ a prisoner describes life in a prison. Every second is a fishbone that sticks In the throat. Every hour another slow Step towards freedom. We’re geriatrics Waiting for release‚ bribing time to go. I’ve given up trying to make anything Different happen. Mornings: tabloids‚ page three. Afternoons: videos or Stephen King‚ Answering letters from relatives who bore me. We’re told not to count‚ but the days mount here Like
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by the moon‚ one’s mine the other’s an adversary‚ which may depend on the wind‚ or something. A long moment stretches‚ the next one is not on time. Not unaccountably the chill of the planking underfoot rises. in the throat‚ for it’s part the night sky empties the whole of it’s contents down. Turn on a bare heel‚ close the door behind on the author‚ cringing demiurge‚ who picks up his litter and his tools and paces me back to bed‚ stealthily in step. Continuum: anything that goes through
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painting‚ it’s important to realize the extent to which Grant Wood had designed and interpreted American Gothic. At first glance‚ many believe the painting as realism‚ and this is true. The painting is modeled after the house‚ which Wood had realistically rendered in which he created a scene—a man and a woman posing in front of the house. The models for the artwork never posed together when they were drawn prior to the painting. Although Wood had intended for a portrait‚ he painted the house in Iowa
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February 2013 Song Lyrics as Poetry I chose the song “Started from the bottom” by Drake as an example of poetic language in song. In the lyrics there is a reoccurring theme of how Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham) is implying how he came up with nothing‚ but now is living the dream. Being a young successful‚ rich‚ and popular young artist. The theme of the song is if you work hard for your dreams they will come true. Drake mentions in several lines about the late nights he would work as a teen and then
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For my third day‚ Agent Wood and I started with email updates from the weekend. JL took and passed all SoberLink testings. CP lost her housing and went to live with a relative in a different county. Therefore‚ Agent Wood will put this case in for a transfer. DH had an office visit at 9:00 am but had to reschedule due to an emergency surgery. One of her parolees waived their rights to a revocation hearing in March. LW was arrested for on prostitution and other felony charges. Supervisor Clemmons overrode
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Society’s focus on materialism and consumerism has lead to the shift in our value system‚ which in result has lead to the degradation and neglect of the environment. In his poems‚ Robert gray forces us to consider and reflect upon our involvement on the issues presented- being our priority of material and superficial value which in result has implicated on the natural world‚ provoking its decline and also the degradation of Australian society itself. Furthermore‚ we have lost the values that make
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Personally for me ‚ I felt more similarly to the Langston Hughes essay. The era the essay is written from might be another reason since it is more modern and easier to relate. Compared to the Gates essay it was easier to wrap my head around it. I was able to dissect the essay and see the true meaning you could say. The wording Huge used was also more modern and easier to understand. From my point of view I felt Hughes put more of his focus on the importance of culture. He wanted the present day
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love’s storm-tossed seas. The next allusion when he mentions A famous sonnet writer named Petrarch in line 12‚ as well as the final last allusion motioned towards the end of the sonnet in line 13‚ where he mentions shake spears act called Twelfth night. The first allusion in bill Collins sonnet is in the beginning of the poem. In this allusion he writes; launch a little ship on love’s storm-tossed seas. (Collins‚ sonnet line 3) Researching this line of the sonnet you find the phase to be the story
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