Imagine being in love with someone so deeply that you want to spend the rest of your life with that person‚ and ask for his or her hand in marriage. But you aren’t able to because you and your lover are of same sex‚ and live in a state like Texas where gay marriage is prohibited. There is a loophole though‚ you do have the option of traveling one thousand miles to the closest state that allows you to wed. Initially‚ some people may think that’s okay‚ it’s just another adventure in your life right
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| | our Casuarina Tree is a poem published in 1881 by Toru Dutt‚ an Indian poet. Its a perfect example of craftsmanship.In this poemToru Dutt celebrates the majesty of the Casuarina Tree and remembers her happy childhood days spent under it and revives her memories with her beloved siblings. ------------------------------------------------- Summary The poem begins with the description of the tree. The poet says that the creeper has wound itself round the rugged trunk of the Casuarina Tree‚ like
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The water-lilies spring‚ like snow enmassed. | | | | But not because of its magnificence | | Dear is the Casuarina to my soul: | | Beneath it we have played; though years may roll‚ | 25 | O sweet companions‚ loved with love intense‚ | | For your sakes‚ shall the tree be ever dear. | | Blent with your images‚ it shall arise | | In memory‚ till the hot tears blind mine eyes! | | What is that dirge-like murmur that I hear | 30 | Like the sea breaking
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AESTHETIC READING: READING FOR APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT Aesthetic reading is for entertainment. * Reading to explore one. * In Aesthetic reading‚ the reader’s attention is centered directly on what he likes through during his relationship with that particular text.” * Non-academicals purposes of reading. Aesthetic Stance is for experience * Recreational reading. * Fulfills an important function in lives. * Reading for pleasure or aesthetic reading‚ been described as “the
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Dictatorship Red H 40 News from Judea Red H 177 The Cornflake Red H 170 A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love Yellow M 79 When First the Land Was Ours Yellow M 260 The Family Man Yellow M 61 Life-Cycle Blue L 86 Doctor to Patient Blue L 231 Prison Alphabet Blue L 150 Reflections on a Benevolent Dictatorship 1. What opinion is Dawe expressing through this poem? That dictatorship is bad 2. What is the character reflecting about? The character is reflecting about a benevolent
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Interpretation of poems Dulce et decorum est are the first words of a Latin saying taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words‚ it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country. The opening of the poem suggests Owen pities the state to
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life. I have always had many opportunities to read and they have all been positive experiences. These experiences include my teachers and my parents and how they have always showed and encouraged me to read and XXXXXXX. My earliest memory of reading was when I was in kindergarten and I would pretend to play school and I would sit my dolls around me while I read them a story by looking at the pictures because I was unable to read the words. My mom would also take me to the library and check out
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Here is an anti bullying poem written by Jon Evans: Identity–The Bully They all try to look the same all try to give themselves a name pick on the boy who is all alone just because his identity is his own what has this world come to? all this wrong that people do just for the image they want to show down the evil path they seem to go The next person you go to hurt or try to make feel like dirt instead of trying to look cool feel for the guy you make look a fool A cool identity isn’t a need let
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Discuss the theme of love and longing in the poems you have studied. ………………………………………………………………………………………….. Poetry enables a writer to express his or her feelings. Like painting or music it is an art‚ an art that supplies the reader with an insight to the poet’s mind. Poetry is a response and an evaluation of the author’s world and life. A poem can represent sorrow‚ joy‚ love‚ anger‚ despair‚ or it can simply be a reflection of an event or memory. Poems frequently have hidden meanings‚ but many are
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is a poem about the end and break down of a relationship. Specifically an argument between the speaker and their other half and the feelings felt by the speaker in the poem. It has many similarities and differences with In Paris with You a poem about a very negative relationship with the speaker who is desperately in love with someone who is just using them. The poem uses a play on words and anytime the words Paris and love are mentioned you have to switch them‚ so Paris means love and love means
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