would now never be alone. “Its glass diamonds are turning yellow; in the night his hand (Mr. Schaeffer) sometimes searches it out‚ and his fingers drift across the strings; then‚ the world.” As the second to last paragraph begins on page 154‚ the words “Since then three winters have gone by…” signify the beginning of the resolution. The wording of this phrase is extremely important. If the author had just stated that three years have gone by‚ we the reader would not have had the cold lonely feeling
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Poem Explication Poetry is one of the oldest arts. Poems come in many forms from songs‚ ballads‚ and epics‚ to haikus. Many poets use elements like similes‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ rhymes‚ and imagery to get their themes or meanings across to the reader. In the poem “Schizophrenia”‚ Jim Stevens uses personification of the house to give the poem its overall meaning. Personification and symbolism are the most important poetic elements to “Schizophrenia” because they are used to describe how the
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close to each other but entirely unalike. Gray has used poetic techniques such as punctuation‚ asides and a careful choice of words to convey meaning to the reader in his poem‚ ‘Diptych’. The portrait of his mother explores her strengths in the family‚ she is able to hold off a bull in her garden‚ ‘…she forced it‚ through the broken fence‚ it bellowing…’. The use of words like ‘forced’
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the wind’s incomplete unrest Builds and disperses clouds in the sky‚ And dark towns heap up on the horizon. None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why At this unique distance from isolation It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind‚ Or not untrue and not unkind. Broadcast BY PHILIP LARKIN Giant whispering and coughing from Vast Sunday-full and organ-frowned-on spaces Precede a sudden scuttle on the drum‚ ’The Queen’‚ and huge resettling. Then
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to be like a traditional clean British shop from a typical stereotype of an unclean Indian corner shop. Structure is used in Checking Out Me History to emphasise certain words . Agard narrates “Toussaint/ With Vision/ Lick back/ Napoleon/ First black/ De thorn/ De beacon/ De Haitian revolution”. The emphasis on the words ‘vision‚ thorn‚ beacon’ connotes hope and proudness in Black history. Also the half rhyme in ‘vision‚ beacon and revolution’ gives it a short snappy‚ slow rhythmic flow to it
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Hannah Risidore ENG4U June 2‚ 2013 Ms. Martin Poem Analysis Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come.Let aeroplanes circle moaning overheadScribbling on the sky the message ’He is Dead’.Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.He was my North‚ my South‚ my East and West‚My working week and my
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600–1450 Time Period – 22% of the Exam Cram Packet Nature and causes of changes in the world history framework leading up to 600–1450 as a period: Major events which caused change: Islam emerges; Islamic empire emerges Industrial Revolution in China (Sung dynasty) Spread of Neo-Confucianism (in China) – mixture of Confucianism with some Buddhism Schism in Christianity (when the east and the west churches divided into Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity; they divided over the
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Explication of “Piers Plowman” by William Langland ENG/306 April 9‚ 2012 Shannon Loerch Explication of “Piers Plowman” by William Langland In the 14th century William Langland penned a poem entitled “Piers Plowman”. He used 111 lines of metered rhythm to illustrate a man’s quest for a stereotypical Christian life. Classified as a dramatic poem the manner in which the author describes this quest invokes an imaginative fever in the mind of the reader. The language used requires
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Roman Fever Edith Wharton Meaning holding a grudge is bad jealousy Point of View third person omniscient Ms. Slade’s thoughts are jealous Characterization jealousy clouds judgement Plot reasons Slade does things is because of Jealousy and throughout the story this reason becomes more of a factor for each action. Setting Colosseum: Slade waging war with Ansley Steps: Show Ms. Ansley going higher/ahead Looking down on Rome’s past as they look down on their past. Symbolism Moon:
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symbolizes external beauty and no internal beauty at all‚ since a mirror obviously cannot see what a person is like on the inside. A third literary technique is allusion. A reference was made to Snow White within the poem and that is with the use of the words “mirror‚ mirror”. The author wants to show how the evil witch in the story Snow White wants to mold herself into
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