Child and Father Relationships In "Those Winter Sundays" and "My Papa’s Waltz" "Sundays too my father got up early and / And put his clothes on in the blueback cold" comes from Robert Hayden’s "Those Winter Sundays" and describes the life of the speaker who reminisces of the childhood experiences that were spent with the speaker’s father (1-2). "At every step you missed / My right ear scraped a buckle" comes from Theodore Roethke’s "My Papa’s Waltz and also exemplifies a past relationship between
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youth‚ the speaker is too excited by duty and too tempted by the wealth that nature holds to control his desire to destroy it. His defilement of nature’s innocence‚ however‚ immediately disturbs him‚ causing him to question the value of material wealth and to realize the importance of nature‚ something that the speaker in the present now recognizes and shows in his interjections throughout the poem. Told to collect hazelnuts in the forest by the woman he works for‚ the young speaker enthusiastically
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about a powerful dislike for sex on the part of the speaker. The author’s negative perception and bitterness towards sex sets the tone and introduces other issues. Looking closer at the images reveals the deeper issue to be with being loved by another. Gluck portrays the light of the night‚ the act of sex‚ and the lasting disgust after sex‚ by quickly getting to the point. The first five lines are about the Mock Orange plant and how the speaker feels about it: It is not the moon‚ I tell you
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that’s something I can’t afford to forget. Q26. What does the speaker say about customers’ entering the grocery store? Q27. Which customers are supposed to be in the express line? Q28. What does the speaker say some customers do when they arrive at the check-out counter? Q29. What does the speaker say about his job at the end of the talk? Passage 2 The speech delivery style of Europeans and Asians tends to be very formal. Speakers of these cultures often read oral presentations from carefully
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this poem develop the situation in which the speaker has found himself. He has led a long and successful life and is still on track for going to heaven upon his death. Apples are used as a metaphor for his wealth‚ not just monetary wealth‚ but rather everything that he has accumulated during his life. "And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill" implies there are a few more things that he would have liked to have had accomplished in his lifetime. The speaker follows this recognition of his own mortality
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also reveals quite a bit about the speaker’s past. The speaker is referring to her inner self as the “bitch” and her hurt condition is clearly present throughout the poem. She uses words such as “bark‚ growling‚ slobbers and whimper” to drive this meaning across to the reader. It is in the speaker’s own representation of her inner self as a “bitch‚” one that not only “bark[s] hysterically‚” but also may “whimper‚” and even “cringe". The speaker is easily inclined to remember past memories from the
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By now‚ the magnitude of loss has grown almost too great to bear—the speaker has lost cities‚ realms‚ rivers‚ and a continent. These are literally huge things—huger than watches or keys in terms of matter alone—but the speaker is able to wave them off by claiming that “it wasn’t a disaster” to lose these‚ either. Whether we believe the speaker or not is subjective. Some may read the last line as jovially dismissive as the rest of the speaker’s dismissals to this point—a “whatever‚” to use modern
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wanted the American public to know that he had their best interest at heart and that he would live by that code. He referred to the constitution. Was the speaker fully prepared? How do you know? Yes‚ he was well prepared. He made very good contact with the audience. His speech was fluent and every point flowed well into each other. Was the speaker honest in what was said? How do you know? Yes. He had knowledge. He knew the law and
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that faith will guide you down your path. The beginning starts by depicting the tone and its word refrain. The speaker highlights some quixotic ideas in their current behavior. The tone is both capricious and visionary because the speaker imagines setting out down the path without any concrete ideas of what lies ahead. In the line‚ “My eyes—I rest my mind on them” it shows that the speaker is visionary because they rely on faith; their views aren’t realistic‚ there unpredictable and imaginative. In
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In Elizabeth Bishop’s two poems The Fish and The Moose the speakers detail an encounter with two very different animals‚ due to circumstances that could be considered mundane. However‚ due to Bishop’s masterful use of descriptive and careful imagery‚ these chance meetings are elevated and transformed into poetic experiences. The Fish and The Moose additionally achieve a level of surreality through their imagery‚ one by paying careful attention to the animal itself‚ and the other commits to developing
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