changing attitude of the speaker towards the fish. First‚ the fish is described as ancient and grizzled‚ showing signs of death and decay. However‚ upon closer inspection‚ the fish is made out to be a survivor of many battles. Through the use of figurative language‚ the poet shows the speaker’s shift from noting only the fish’s dejection to admiring him for his past glories. Bishop begins with the personification of the fish into a figure of defeat and age. The speaker mentions that the fish had
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dramatic monologue – a poem in which the impression the speaker unwittingly gives is rather different from the picture they intend to present. Initially‚ the poem appears to be built around a contrast between the storm outside and the cosy domestic scene within the cottage that Porphyria and her lover share. But there are unsettling notes from the very start –the storm is strangely personified in terms of sullenness‚ ‘spite’ and anger‚ and the speaker is for some reason so moved by it that his heart is
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expressed in various ways‚ for instance the speaker reads‚ “… The monsters/ thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws:/ He slipped through the door and there in the silence/ snatched up thirty men…” (lines 34-37). The speaker symbolizes his thoughts to be quick and fast moving like his claws are when he feeds on all the other humans. Snatching his men and feeding himself with their bodies. Another example used throughout the poem is when the speaker states‚ “Then the sword/ melted‚ blood-soaked
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Why is it difficult to decide how many speakers of English there are around the world today? Introduction A language is a socio-cultural aspect of any given society. It is important to note that languages tend to evolve thereby making it impossible to establish their evolutionary paths and developments. As a result‚ there have been enormous challenges in the attempt to establish the historical path of such languages. With English language‚ the situation becomes even worse simply because it is widely
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unsettling imagery that carries throughout the poem. The detached third-party speaker looks on a “dead body” with “bare feet” “perfected” and wearing the “smile of accomplishment” under a white “toga.” This raw‚ pure and positive diction in the presence of suicide creates a sense of wrongness in the reader because people usually portray death as a harsh and bitter end instead of as a fulfilled and flawless one. The speaker finds the body in a restful‚ natural state‚ like a “rose” with its “petals”
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I wanna talk about beating stress Introduction This support pack accompanies the audio file ’I wanna talk about beating stress’. To listen to the audio file‚ go to: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/i-wanna-talk-about/beating-stress This support pack contains the following materials: • • • a pre-listening vocabulary activity the transcript of the audio file a comprehension activity Before you listen Exercise 01 Match the words and phrases in the table to their definitions. a. bunch of
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boy in uniform” (425)‚ the photograph above the table is of the boss’s son. Mansfield writes; “‘My son’ groaned the boss. But no tears came yet” (page 427)‚ she shows the boss is struggling with memories of the death of his son. Owen presents his speaker as one who was in the war and faces trauma physically: “He sat in a wheeled chair….Legless‚ sewn short at elbow” (line 1-3)‚ the former soldier lost his limbs at war. He loses the feeling of being with a woman: “Now he will never feel again how slim
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Coleridge finds this ultimate joyfulness watching nature as well. He writes of a man watching nature do its daily chores‚ bees buzzing around‚ Birds flapping their wings. While watching nature for a split second the speaker sees a glimpse of ultimate joyfulness. The speaker finds nature to be so beautiful that he actually questions what beauty is. Wordsworth appreciates the beauty of nature so much that when he is feeling lonely he instantly is uplifted when he remembers the majestic daffodils
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“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by ADRIENNE RICH. When I saw the title of the poem‚ the first thing we can know is the speaker had an aunt named Jennifer. Also‚ I thought real tigers would be describing in the poem‚ and I wondered how could a woman rear some tigers. But after I saw the first line of the poem‚ I found out the tigers in the poem were not real. In the first stanza‚ we can see the speaker used the word “prance” to describe the move of the tigers‚ it made me imagine some happy and chill tigers. In
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