Launy Schweiger Response to Gu Cheng’s poems Gu Cheng was part of the misty poets group‚ who rebelled against the Chinese Cultural Revolution mandate to form a “cultural army”‚ that was trying to instill revolutionary values and obedience in the communist party. The name misty came from the fact that the poetry was considered by the powers in charge to be obscure. This restriction was lifted after the death of Mao and the opening to the west. Gu Cheng’s poem “A generation” Is a short free verse
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Moreover‚ Soto uses onomatopoeia in his biographical narrative in order to show his audience that he was given many opportunities to realise that he’s making a great error in judgement but‚ by the time he realised it the deed was done. To elaborate‚ before Soto went to the German Market‚ he had been listening to the howling of the plumbing underneath his house but‚ he had completely forgot about it and because of that fact he ended up committing a sin. This is shown when in the text it states‚“Forgetting
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Shady Brook Elementary School. He began to shoot students and staff. After killing 15 students and two teachers in the first classroom‚ he entered the classroom of 27 year old Victoria Soto. Soto‚ knowing that their life was in danger‚ had already hidden her sixteen students in a closet. When the gunman burst in‚ Soto lied and told him that her students were in the gymnasium. As a result‚ she lost her life to protect the lives of her kids. Vicki is the named that she was called by the many people who
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English 122 Wednesday‚ October 2‚ 2013 Personal Response- Thumbprint Each of us imprints our own mark into the world‚ and no one is quite like us. In the poem‚ "Thumbprint" by Eve Merriam‚ she discusses the theme of how each of us is unique‚ and that no one will ever be exactly like us. She uses alliteration and metaphors to demonstrate her theme. I have reached a part in my life where I accepted my uniqueness. The poem "Thumbprint" reveals the celebration of being a unique individual. Merriam
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one’s life. In Gary Soto’s autobiographical narrative‚ he steals a pie from a German market‚ and then feels guilty about the whole incident. Gary Soto recreates the experience of his guilty six year-old self with the use of religious imagery and language‚ the description of his paranoia that everyone knows‚ and the use of the fact that he attempts to escape his guilt‚ but is haunted and unable to escape it. Soto uses religious imagery to relive the time when he stole the pie. Gary Soto “[knows] enough
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I chose the poem "Possum Crossing" by Nikki Giovanni and I feel that the poem has meaning to life in the fact that we mistake some things for what they’re really not. The thesis of this poem is that things can be confusing and hard to understand‚ and sometimes easy to mistake something for something else. The poem starts off as a woman is driving her car down the road and she sees what she believes to be a possum. The woman thinks about all the times that she has come close to hitting something
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A personal response to the poetry of W.B Yeats In my opinion W.B Yeats is one of Ireland’s greatest poets. His work is saturated with descriptive imagery‚ deep personal feelings and political opinions. This patriotic poet also gives us an insight into life during the 1900’s as well as his own personal life. The poetry of W.B Yeats contains powerful metaphors and imagery that have a very memorable quality to them. There are also dynamic contrasts in every poem which makes him stand out amongst
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My Passion Project Poetry Response This two poems both summarize one’s passion that they may have for a sport. I know this because the first poem states “skill and heart and desire to win aren’t things that you can fake.”And the second poem‚ “Medals‚ Numbers‚ and Jerseys” states‚ “It’s all in the strength of your dream.”These two poems talk about passion‚ my passion. Meanwhile these two poems are alike because they both discuss passion for a sport‚ they also contrast in many ways.For example‚ the
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Nadine Gordimer‚ South African writer and Nobel Prize winner‚ said that penetrating fiction doesn’t give answers‚ it invites questions. This quote is accurately reflected in Anthony Burgess’ novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ in which many questions and moral values are explored. Burgess strongly believed that humans’ ability of choice is the only factor distinguishing us between animals or machines. The two most predominant recurring themes of and questions relating to the novel involve ‘good vs evil’
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In his address Education by Poetry given at Amherst College in 1930‚ Robert Frost introduces the two roles of poetry in education. The first role is that through poetry we cultivate our taste. The second role‚ which is said to be more crucial‚ is that poetry teaches us how to discern and understand metaphor in our life. Having read that poetry helps us with our handling metaphor‚ I naturally reached one simple question. Why is it important to have an ability to identify and comprehend metaphor in
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