to spend one-third of the year in the Underworld as Hades’ bride because she ate pomegranate seeds. This myth‚ along with many others appear frequently in literature as metaphors. In both “The Pomegranate” by Eavan Boland and “The Bistro Styx” by Rita Dove‚ the myth of Persephone is used to symbolize the mother/daughter relationships that are presented. In “The Pomegranate”‚ the speaker says‚ “she could have come home and been safe/ and ended the story and all/ our heartbroken searching but she reached/
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Memories are not real. Although we try to cling to memories‚ they will never be revived. Both the themes in My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke‚ and Grape Sherbet by Rita Dove‚ share a similar idea along with the tone. However the poems are differ greatly in structural aspects. The theme of a poem creates the general moral or idea‚ poems may have themes with deeper meaning than that of the surface of the poem. The themes are similar in the aspect that they both are reflections of the past. Grape
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Lyndsay Woolridge Mr. J. Godbout ENG3UY March 7‚ 2010. Falling Short of Perfection “From the House of Yemanjà” by Audre Lorde and “The Bistro Styx” by Rita Dove share the common theme of daughters falling short of their mother’s expectations. Though the poems have obvious differences‚ both successfully convey the theme from two opposing perspectives. Each perspective expresses the theme using a first person point of view‚ though in “The Bistro Styx‚” the poem is narrated by a mother. It communicates
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protagonists always gain their Snow Whites in the end and they all live happily ever after. In fact‚ all protagonists’ fate is decided by the narrator’s hand. Just like the literary works we have recently read‚ including the poems “Sunday Greens” by Rita Dove‚ “Sinful City” by Jaroslav Seifert and the excerpt from Like Water for Chocolate from Laura Esquivel‚ the characters’ fate was sealed from that moment. Therefore‚ the most relevant theme through three works is that fate is for those too weak to determine
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It may be hard to admit‚ but television has become an intricate part of our everyday lives. People often find themselves sitting in front of the television screen for a longer period of time than ever before and this is due to the fact that television has evolved immensely over the past few years. Society is so addicted to television that it has become an issue. People are not aware of the dangers that television can inflict on the human mind and because of this people are becoming socially unproductive
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“ Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” - Rita Dove. Poems are like fingerprints. All poems are completely unique and different‚ but yet they are all the same. All poems consist of something their writers are passionate about‚ much like how fingerprints are completely unique‚ but the entire human race has one. Most poems could also have double meanings. For instance‚ the poem “ Fire - Caught ” by Langston Hughes could have multiple meanings‚ like someone giving into temptation
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Parks was thankfully not one of these people. Admittedly‚ she was arrested but she never gave in to the idea that the white man was better than her. Rita Dove states‚ “When she remained seated‚ that simple decision eventually led to the disintegration of institutionalized segregation in the South‚ ushering in a new era of the civil rights movement.” (Dove) That one choice to stay in her seat‚ created a landslide of events that propelled newfound respect for African Americans. She showed the government
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Beautifully Flawed In today’s society‚ media is focusing more on healthy examples of body image‚ whereas in the past it was focused on the “bikini ready” body. This is because men and women are placing more importance on their overall health rather than maintaining a low body weight‚ and the media is finally catching on. Everyone is adopting a new health regime due to the “healthy living” craze. People see it as if they are part of a new trend. Ad companies are starting to use more realistic looking
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Austere Vs. Daystar Mothers are portrayed as kind‚ giving‚ and the ones making sacrifices for their children. In the poem Austere by Roland Flint the mother helps to portray what a mother should be. One example in first line of the poem‚ “How she left kettles of water; On the kitchen stove for baths”‚ this shows her love and kindness by heating up each kettle of water for the bathtub. Back in 1950’s when he was a boy they didn’t have showers with running hot water like in our modern day and age
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The fight for equality and justice has been credited to various men and women that have sacrificed many aspects of their life. Most traditional societies see changes to the status quo as a threat and often oppose them. When sacrificial actions are made for justice and equality‚ society is more susceptible to change. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and the events that took place during the civil rights movement‚ demonstrate the sacrifice of one’s well-being in order to advocate for what is just
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