should be ninety-seven this year (year 2000). From what I know‚ his other books include " Malgudi Days"‚ where " An Astrologer’s Day" is taken from. Narayan is a very observant man‚ sharp and sarcastic at the same time. His sarcasm become humour and it is not very obvious sometimes. We have to read between the lines to catch the joke. He is very descriptive in his writing and his world comes alive with the mood through the informative and colourful description‚ the characteristics
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The poem the unknown citizen written by w.h Auden portrays from the point of view of the government what or how an ideal citizen should look like. This piece is written in third person omniscient to project a non-bias perspective and that way transmit the “truth” without being affected by feelings or personal point of views. Moreover at the end of the poem the author makes a relevant turn which effect is making the reader question himself if what was depicted before is the right thing‚ if that ideal
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his breast‚ gulped‚ and died.” How can Crane make it any clearer? Death is cruel and careless. Gwendolyn Brooks and Stephen Crane also put irony to work in their poems. When you read Cranes title for the poem you automatically have a feeling of sarcasm and irony. “Do Not Weep Maiden for War is Kind.” This is an incredible use of irony by the writer Stephen Crane. If we were to ask a million people‚ I believe very high numbers of people would say war is not a kind thing. Crane uses this technique
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“Good Country People” Questions 1) My initial response to the story’s title is that the short story was going to be about a happy family that lived in the country and drama to make the story interesting. At the start‚ it seemed as if anybody that was from the country were “good” and never did anything wrong throughout their entire life. The story basically begins right after Mrs. Hopewell says‚ “the reason for her keeping them so long was that they were not trash. They were good country people”
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Olive Senior is a Jamaican poet of high repute and is the author of Gardening in the Tropics. In this poetry volume Senior seeks to tackle history‚ moral issues‚ travel and environmental crises. Senior’s poems are pervaded with irony‚ humour and sarcasm and her tone is conversational and calm. Senior’s style of writing aids in creating a diacritic voice which is evident in the poems “Seeing the Light”‚ “Meditation on Yellow” and “Stowaway”. Senior in an interview with Kwame Dawes entitled “Talk
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Param Patel Mrs. Karen Vann Period C6-7 IB SL English 6 January 2015 Commentary on Hitler’s First Photograph by Wisława Szymborska The poet is Wisława Szymborska and the poem is written in third person omniscient. The literal meaning of the poem is that Hitler is just an ordinary child that is yet to become anything he wants to be. Keeping in mind that his impending future is not the brightest‚ Szymborska ironically represents Hitler as just another ordinary child. The title‚ Hitler’s first photograph
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The Literal and Interpreted Meaning of “Spunk” The Literal and Interpreted Meaning of “Spunk” The word “spunk” is literally defined as a noun used to describe someone who has “informal courage or spirit” (****). The story “Spunk” by Zora Neale Hurston is about a disagreement between two men over a woman. The woman is married to a man named Joe Kanty and is adulterating with the town bully‚ Spunk. Ironically‚ Spunk’s attitude reflects the definition of the literal word. He is feared by everyone
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Analysis of “Ballad of Birmingham” In the “Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall conjures one of the most vivid and vicious chapters from the civil rights movement: the bombing of a church in 1963 that wounded twenty-one and cost four girls their lives. This poem is a dialogue between mother and daughter during which ironically the mother forbids the daughter to march for freedom‚ fearing violence will erupt. Instead she gives her daughter permission to sing in the choir at their church. Dudley
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Mighty Despair: Power and Irony in “Ozymandias” “Ozymandias‚” Shelley’s famous poem‚ reveals the impermanence of human achievement. The poem describes a crumbling statue‚ a “colossal wreck” in the form of a long-lost king. The reader of the poem is thrice-removed from Ozymandias‚ as the speaker relates a story he heard from a traveller who encountered the statue in the desert. A plate beneath the statue reads “Look on my works‚ ye Mighty‚ and despair!” Though Ozymandias presumably means that other
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The Irony of “The Necklace” “The Necklace” has a few different examples of irony in it. Of course it is ironic how the necklace ended up being fake‚ but it is also ironic that Mme. Forestier lied about the necklace being real. Many people think the theme to be to not tells lies and to just be honest‚ and then this would not have happened to Mathilde‚ but Mathilde was not the only one who lied. There is great irony in the fact that the necklace ended up being fake‚ and also that both women lied
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