Social Commentary Project: Poems Values ’68 By Spike Milligan The Price is dying ‘Give him air.’ Headlines! Crisis! Kennedy Shot! The assassin captured Too late! Kennedy dies! The telegrams flow And bury the body in- Arlington. Somewhere in Meekong A prince of battle is blown into bloody meat. No headlines No crisis And only One telegram. (Written on the day of Robert Kennedy’s assassination) Explanation: In this poem‚ the speaker discusses how people will
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IB SL English 2 Commentary on The Comfort of Strangers In one part of the novel‚ The Comfort of Strangers‚ the English writer Ian McEwan describes the admiration with which his male character‚ Robert‚ contemplates his sisters playing dress up. Though the speaker’s age is never divulged‚ we readily jump to the conclusion that he is around ten years old because of the childish and rudimentary language. The structure of the sentences is also very reflective of the child’s young age‚ as well as
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Michael Abushacra English SL Commentary: The Nine Tailors In this passage from The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers‚ Wimsey‚ the main character‚ climbs up a bell-‐tower and endures the deafening vexatious shrills of the bells. The clangor from the bells causes him
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we knew‚ we learned‚ we discovered that the pentagon knew‚ the State Department knew.” Elie Wiesel also allows the people to feel the indifference he felt by speak in the previous quote and shows that the indifference in the world is the greatest punishment of all. Elie Wiesel wants to try to change the views of the world on indifference‚ but he realizes that in the current mind state the world is in‚ that that is impossible. Wiesel’s use of his own story allows people to feel the... really?
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There is a thin line between good and evil. “Great men smash laws‚ smash old ways‚ in order to create new ones‚ great men are not afraid to by criminals‚”( Raskolnikov). In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s legendary Russian novel Crime and Punishment‚ Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov (Rodya‚ Rodenka‚ or Rodka)‚ commits murder for the idea that great men can break laws and get away with it. Never afraid to tackle the complex topics of humanity‚ Dostoyevsky plays the role of “Devil’s Advocate” and directs the reader
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R. K. Narayan PROFILE: * NAME: R.K. Narayan * OCCUPATION: Journalist‚ Author * BIRTH DATE: October 10‚ 1906 * DEATH DATE: May 13‚ 2001 * EDUCATION: Maharaja College of Mysore * PLACE OF BIRTH: Chennai‚ India * PLACE OF DEATH: Chennai‚ India * ORIGINALLY: Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami Indian author R.K. Narayan is widely considered to be one of India’s greatest English language novelists known for his simple
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Araby: An Outline Commentary ‘The Sisters’ and ‘An Encounter’ are about the same length. ‘Araby’ is roughly a hundred lines shorter than these. There is a progression in the three stories. The boy in ‘The Sisters’ is a passive witness‚ limited in his capacity to act by the weight of the adults about him. The boy of ‘An Encounter’ rebels against this oppression but his reward is the menace of a bizarre and abnormal adult. The boy in ‘Araby’ strives both to act and to realize an actual affective
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‘Death of a Naturalist’ by Seamus Heaney and ‘Field Mouse’ by Gillian Clarke both explore the theme of nature. Compare both poems and their treatment of this them and then compare them to two poems in the pre- 1914 collection. (‘The Eagle’‚ Tennyson and ‘Patrolling Barnegat’‚ Whitman) ‘Death of a naturalist’ is a poem about the views‚ of a little boy‚ on nature. It begins positive as he likes the frogspawn; ‘best of all was the warm thick slobber of frogspawn’. However as he grows he believes that
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Compare and Contrast Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12 and Seamus Heaney’s Blackberry-Picking By Sally‚ Kuok Si Nok‚ School of Translation and Interpreting‚ Beijing Language and Cultural University Human in all ages races through lives in an everlasting fight against time. Men’s struggle against nature has been a timeless theme in the literary world. From the early 17th century Sonnet 12‚ Shakespeare’s "When I do count the clock that tells the time"‚ to Seamus Heaney’s "Blackberry-picking"‚ written in late
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by Seamus Heaney. How do the poets deal with the experience of death and grief in two very different circumstances and culture? In this essay I am going to compare and contrast two poems. One is ‘The Day The Lady Died’ by Frank O’ Hara and ‘Mid – Term Break’ by Seamus Heaney. Frank O ‘Hara was an American intellectual who wrote poems about understanding living and how to cope when a famous icon has a tragic death. He was used to the fast paced city life of New York. Where as Seamus Heaney was
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