Yu Yan (Helen) Chen W2-19 4/21/2014 Reading Response #5: Fuwas are mascots of Beijing Olympic. They integrate into the shape of fish‚ panda‚ Tibetan antelope‚ swallow and the Olympic Flame. They deliver the message of friendship and peace‚ positive spirit and a desire to have harmony between man and nature. Mascots are good representatives of something‚ however‚ sport mascots symbolize racism toward American Indian. In Kimberly Roppolo’s article‚ she concludes the struggles American Indian
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Love Poem: Linda Pastan Have you ever been in love? Do you even know what love is? Love is a feeling that at times can feel indescribable. It makes you do crazy things. Love makes you blind and no matter your circumstances with that person‚ if you love them you will go that extra mile for them. In this essay I will talk about the “Love Poem” by Linda Pastan. In the following paragraphs I will go in depth and break down the poems to help understand the
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“Love Poem‚” written by John Frederick illustrates true love in a realistic way. He expresses to the reader that there is more to love that what is usually written about in poems. To get this theme across‚ he plays with the reader’s expectations about what he is going to read. The title gives the reader the assumption that this poem is about a beautiful sonnet to an unattainable love. The reader envisions the same lofty depiction of a beloved woman he has heard in numerous traditional poems. In
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Reading Responses to a Poem ACI1250A January 21‚ 2013 Reading Responses to a Poem The poem “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver was a very inspirational poem. Oliver creatively uses imaginative language‚ emotion‚ symbolism‚ and romanticism which led to a very positive and upbeat tone in her poem. Throughout this poem‚ the one thing that I focused on was the positive and upbeat tones that this poem contained. By her use of symbolic and imaginative language in “Wild Geese”‚ the reader is opened
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Close Reading of a Poem Maria Clinton ENG 125 May 31‚ 2011 Tiffany Griffin-Minor Close Reading of a Poem ON THE AMTRAK FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK CITY: BY SHERMAN ALEXIE On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City is an emotionally provocative poem by the Native American Indian writer‚ Sherman Alexie. It describes a train journey from Boston to New York City in which an elderly white woman excitedly points out historical sites to her fellow passenger‚ a younger Native American Indian. The poem
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near for it was the passion and desire for the both of us that opened up the world for our eyes to see for our love for each other will grow and grow and our needs and desires will be more everyday for a friend you once were and will always be has turned into love as it should have been so i want you to know as a friend and lover that in my heart you’ll always stay for our love will never fade. Your lips so soft and red‚ the thought of kissing you is stuck in my head. Your beauty so
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I Love…Hate…love Reading! Reading‚ if you’d asked me what came to mind when I heard that word three years ago I would have to you I hated it. Yes I know it’s typical to hear a teenager say they hated to read but I had a perfectly good. So sit back relax and get conferrable while I rant about hoe reading affected my school career. Looking back‚ I can see what a long roller coaster ride I went on before realizing how fun reading could be. At my private school
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letting the ending to the story sink in. I didn’t always love reading. As a child I found reading to be very boring. I felt as if there were more important things to do than read. I’d rather spend my time outside running in the lush green grass‚ feeling the individual blades between my tiny toes. Life was small back then. In elementary school being able to read was important. Actually enjoying reading wasn’t; I guess that’s where my dislike for reading formed.
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Poems Themes: Love The poems “A Red‚ Red Rose‚” “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love‚” and “Come‚ My Celia” are all romance and love themes. The authors in these three poems symbolize compassion and honesty and portray powerful feelings for the reader to reading all their poems. Many people are able to relate easier with poems and ballets that relate with love and the fairytale that comes along with it. Each of these poems represent one theme but are all expressed very differently. The first one
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English II Honors 28 March 2013 Tones of Love Poems Pablo Neruda and Billy Collins both wrote poems about love; however‚ they each create individual tones through literary devices and relations. Neruda employs imagery and uses similarities between the speaker and his lover to create a serious tone‚ while Collins instead creates a satirical tone using metaphors and separating the narrator from his beloved. In “XVII‚” Neruda employs imagery such as words like “dark‚” “secret‚” “soul‚” and “shadow”
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