In Colonization in Reverse by Louise Bennet‚ Patois resonated with me because the poem was written in Patois. In Louise Bennett’s poem‚ a fence side conversation written to the poet’s friend Miss Mattie‚ the poet is giving Miss Mattie her take on Jamaican migration to the Motherland. Bennett’s poem emphasizes the idea of leaving one’s home country to start a new life somewhere else. Moving to Britain could provide Jamaicans with opportunities that they could not be afforded in Jamaica. However‚ if
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Go Set a Watchman details the return of Jean Louise Finch to her hometown of Maycomb‚ Alabama. The novel opens with the train ride to the smalltown and Jean Louiseś description of what it meant to go home. She conveys her thoughts on returning and shares what exactly coming home does to her: it morphs her into a different person. She arrives at her destination and is greeted by a familiar face‚ Henry Clinton‚ a boy whom she’s known all of her life. The two share in each other’s embrace and the reader
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Mariah Lindsey AP Literature & Composition Poetry Essay Final Draft December 16‚ 2012 As you begin to pay attention to your own stories and what they say about you‚ you will enter into the exciting process of becoming‚ as you should be‚ the author of your own life‚ the creator of your own possibilities. The theme of William Shakespeare sonnet # 18 “Shall I Compare Thee to a summer’s day” is eternal love. Shakespeare compares his lover to summer‚ the most beautiful season of the year.
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Modern History Sourcebook: World War I Poetry: Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967):"How to Die" Link to Collected Poems [At Columbia] Wilfred Owen (1893-1918):"Anthem for a Doomed Youth" Link to Collected Poems [At Toronto] Wilfred Owen: "Dulce et Decorum Est" Herbert Read (1893-1968): "The Happy Warrior" W.N.Hodgson (1893-1916): "Before Action" Wilfred Gibson (1878-1962) "Back" Link to Collected Poems [At Columbia] Philip Larkin (1922-1985): "MCMXIV" Link to Poems [At Hooked.net] Siegfried
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An Explication of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost constructed this poem with four stanzas in iambic tetrameter. Frost’s rhyme scheme is intriguing; the first‚ second‚ and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme‚ where as the third rhymes with the next set of first‚ second‚ and fourth lines. Although‚ this pattern is broken in the fourth and final stanza‚ where Frost rhymes all the lines with the third line in the third stanza. To finish off the poem‚ the fifteenth line is repeated as
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Poetic Devices Alliteration - The repetition of initial consonant sounds. “Doubting‚ dreaming dreams no mortal ever…” Poe‚ “The Raven” Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds. “Poetry is old‚ ancient‚ goes back far...So old it is that no man knows...” Sandburg‚ “Early Moon” Hyperbole – An overstatement or extreme exaggeration. Example: I nearly died laughing. Imagery - Words or phrases that appeal to any sense (sight‚ taste‚ touch‚ hearing‚ and smell) or any combination
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The Round House The Round House by Louise Erdrich has many characters that all play a significant part in this novel. The character that stood out to me the most is the mother of the main character Joe‚ Geraldine. It is obvious that the book is based off the attack that happened to Geraldine‚ but I feel that her character as an individual plays a very important role in this novel. Some may wonder why Louise Erdrich started the novel with this beginning sentence: "Small trees had attacked my parents’
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see how he employs the depiction of beauty in women throughout his poetry to portray it as mainly a poetry of the body. In his collection we come across two different visions of the woman’s body: the glorification and blissful memory of her‚ seen in “Le Balcon” or the absolute disgust and repulsion seen in “Une Charogne.” To Baudelaire interpreting and writing about women and their body is clearly the primary inspiration to his poetry. Similarly though‚ his poems suggest multiple themes open to interpretation;
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underrepresented voice within society and history; however‚ their stories are not invisible. There have been many notable transgender pioneers whose work and determined existence in society defied the gender constraints and societal attitudes of their time. Louise Lawrence‚ a trans woman born in 1912‚ was a critical educator of medical authorities and scientists about transvestites and transsexuals. Her writings were vital to breaking down barriers for trans* individuals to get medical access for their various
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The Red Convertible Because Louise Erdrich‚ uses the brothers and convertible to show how this relationship can bring readers together. Ann Charter’s in her definition of “Allegory‚” states that interaction are meant to reveal a general or abstract truth (1787). “The Red Convertible‚” author Louise Erdrich’s‚ portrays the drowning of sorrows‚ hurts and frustrations‚ brought home by Henry after serving on the battlefield of Vietnam. Both brother have emotional and traumatic experience that
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