WU1 Essay – Writing About Short Fiction and Poetry Your first major essay will be a literary analysis of 2 ½ to 4 pages (plus Works Cited page) on one of the following topics: ● An analysis of the poem “The Last Mojave Indian Barbie‚” in which you discuss the author’s satire of gender and ethnic stereotypes ● An analysis of the short story “Cruising Paradise‚” in which you discuss the author’s portrayal of the West (and the irony of the title) ● An analysis/comparison of the short story “Ranch Girl” and the essay “Chasing the Lamb
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Animal spirits are said to be able to change into human form. He continues the poem by:Here he is implying that within him is an animal‚ and this animal is Coyote. The animal and Ortiz are one in the same‚ which makes Coyote and Ortiz one in the same as well. The closeness of the two described here shows Ortiz’s familiarity with
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In the poem “frustration” the author’s point is to not judge anyone by who they are. The author is saying to have an open heart while talking to someone or first meeting someone. She also explains how people should be who they want to be and to not limit themselves. Another view she shows is to listen to what others have to say and to not shut them down. I agree with the author completely. People should be able to be who they wanna be and be able to say what they want to say. Others should not judge
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"America" also known as "They’re Coming to America" is the name of a patriotic song and poem written by Neil Diamond in 1980. The song was a tribute to the immigration in America‚ where people from all over the world were welcome to come and seek opportunity. “America” is the title of the poem and is an extensive term with both great importance denotations and connotations. The title “America” does not only speak of the country which is the denotation‚ but it does also refer to a semantic meaning
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this poem‚ the poet‚ Markus Natten wonders when and where he lost his childhood. In this quest to find the moment he grew up‚ Markus highlights the innocence and faith he lost even as he gained rational individuality. Adolescence is usually a confusing time for a child who is unable to immediately come to terms with the physical‚ hormonal and psychological changes in his or her personality. He no longer feels like a child but is not quite ready to call himself an adult either. In the poem‚ ’The
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English Literature Carol Ann Duffy: Hour Context Carol Ann Duffy is the first female Poet Laureate (2009)‚ and probably the best known female poet working in Britain today. She was born in 1955 in Glasgow. Duffy is well known for poems that give a voice to the dispossessed (people excluded from society); she encourages the reader to put themselves in the shoes of people they might normally dismiss. Her poetry often engages with the grittier and more disturbing side of life‚ using black humor
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There’s poems online that are about roller coasters. Weird right? My Puente teacher‚ Mr. Shank‚ asked the class to compare any poem we like‚ to our experience in Puente and type it out; maximum 2 pages long. That’s our final. I thought it was going to be something else‚ like difficult‚ but apparently not. I thought about what kind of poem I want to look up online‚ till it hit me. When he asked about our experience‚ my mind played a movie of all the things I went through in Puente. There was lots
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by Seamus Heaney and “Stop All The Clocks” by W. H. Auden are beautifully opposite poems about family and love. By using two opposite themes‚ imageries and rhymes‚ both poems bring to reader different feeling. The first similar thing between “Digging” and “Stop all clocks” is their theme. Both of them talk about their personal experience. However‚ the reader still can find the difference when they read these poems. In “Digging” by Seamus Heaney‚ the readers can see the multiple themes. The first
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was I to judge? Then one night I discovered a poem about hands‚ not how hands symbolize some greater meaning in life‚ just about hands. Hands and love. That night I learned to love poetry‚ learned to understand how it can convey feeling in ways the verbal descriptions can’t. That somehow you can learn all of life’s lessons from a
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by Philip’s farm I flow-The brook flows by a farm probably owned by a man named Philip. To join the brimming river‚-After the farm he flows to join a overflowing river. For men may come and men may go‚ But I go on forever. Men/people have a short life spam but the brook is immortal so it has a longer life spam and hence goes on ’forever’. I chatter over stony ways‚ In little sharps and trebles‚ -As the brook flows it chatters (makes a interesting and musical sound) over a stony creek bed
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