Hello everyone‚ today I’m going to talk about the poem Bluebird by Charles Bukowski. First I would like to start with vocabulary. to inhale is to breathe air‚ smoke or gas into you lungs. A clerk is someone who sells thing in a store or grocery A pact is an agreement between two people To weep is to cry Before we start analyzing the poem we need to know what the bluebird stands for; bluebird is a wildly accepted symbol of cheerfulness‚ happiness the good one in the soul and good health.
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What is the fundamental difference between receiving praise and being praiseworthy? If we could only achieve one‚ which should we prefer? Praise means to say or write good things about‚ to express approval. Praiseworthy means deserving praise‚ worthy of praise. With that being said‚ you should strive to be praiseworthy. “We must at least believe ourselves to be admirable for what they are admirable. But‚ in order to attain this satisfaction‚ we must become the impartial spectators of our own
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“Dear Boy” Analysis Lord Chesterfield’s seems to have a condescending and almost ironic tone in a letter to his son. Starting out his letter‚ Lord Chesterfield writes‚ “Dear Boy” (pre-line 1). This phrase gives the vibe that he is trying to stay superior to his son by calling him “boy” instead of son. He may feel as if he does not have enough power over his son‚ and this may improve his feelings about the matter. Later on in the letter he tries to put the burden of how kind his father will
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Module A Sometimes Gladness x 3 Poems + Additional Texts - Road to Paradise + The Gruen Transfer MUST DO 3 POEMS!! ONLY DO 2ND ADDITONAL TEXT IF YOU HAVE TIME!!! Introduction • Answer the question • State poems I am using Dialogue can be defined as an attempt by the writers to mimic spoken language‚ by using written language features to represent verbal language features. Dialogue can be direct‚ which is verbal‚ or indirect‚ which is shown through thoughts‚ non spoken‚ in novels
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C.S Lewis Prose Commentary This passage from c.c lewis conforms to the style of fictional writing. The protagonist portrays a stressed atmosphere‚ using strong diction which subsequently catches the readers attention‚ drawing their attention further into the story. In this extract‚ lewis uses rhetorical devices such as questioning himself‚ imagery and in which person the author conveys his message. "at last i came to the crossroads by ... I ought to be seeing the lights... My watch had stopped
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In the poem “Ballard of the Landlord”‚ Hughes uses the literary device tone. At the beginning of the poem‚ the character’s tone was calm and a little bit sarcastic while trying to tell his landlord his home needed to be fixed up. He says‚ “when you come up yourself / It’s a wonder you don’t fall down” (7-8). The tone of this is being sarcastic but he is not being aggressive; he is just trying to get his point across to his landlord. After the landlord says he still has to pay the rent money‚ he then
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Louis MacNeice’s empowering poem “Meeting Point” successfully reveals how drastically a romantic relationship can change when two individuals grow apart. Throughout the poem‚ a couple that seems happy suddenly becomes distant which gives the woman a chance to gather her inner courage to let go of the dull relationship and become independent. MacNeice’s use of repetition at the beginning and end of each stanza represents the boundaries that the two partners were stuck between as they continue
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1. Colloquial Language: pg. 73 paragraph 5 “Shuddup‚ shuddup‚” Sherman shouted. It is spelled the way a southern man would say it. Pg. 72 paragraph 3 “No‚ I never tasted caviar‚ nor champagne either.” The grammar is not correct‚ which is the way most people talk in casual conversation. 2. Comic Relief: pg. 240-241 Paragraph 6 “I said‚ quit poking me‚” the Judge shouted again. … “Please don’t cut me off.” In the midst of Malone dying the Judge is making a fool of himself on the radio. Pg
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In a previous letter‚ William Wordsworth invited Charles Lamb to come out to his home in the country. Lamb‚ knowing full well that he would never set foot in the countryside‚ wrote a letter of response to Wordsworth. With his skillfully placed uses of tone‚ compare and contrast‚ and imagery‚ he rejects Wordworth’s invitation to visit the hellacious countryside. Throughout his letter‚ Lamb’s tone deviates. When he is describing the country that he finds so distasteful‚ his tone is negative
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In the poem "Since I couldn’t stop for death" uncovered a wide range of connotations. kindly initially intends to play out a demonstration in a kind way. In this sonnet "he kindly stopped for me"‚ you can imagine a man might lift somebody up or ceasing for somebody. Relating how the word is being utilized with the nature and tone of the poem. The past line states "since I couldn’t stop for death". Dying as we probably are aware it is a miserable event. Amusingly the word benevolently recommend
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