How does Carol Ann Duffy use language and imagery to explore love. Throughout the poem ‘Valentine’ love is explored in different ways for example in the first stanza ‘careful undressing of love’ has various meanings‚ one being the comparison of the onion which is supposed to mirror her heart‚ the core of her love; to get to her heart you have to take time to remove each layer of emotion in contrast to an onion where to get to the core you have to remove the layers of skin. You must be careful with
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rolling stone gathers no moss. -- A person who never settles in one place or who often changes his job will not succeed in life; one who is always changing his mind will never get anything done. A rolling stone gathers no moss‚ but it gains a certain polish. People say this to mean that an ambitious person is more successful than a person not trying to achieve anything. Originally it meant the opposite and was critical of people trying to get ahead What is the meaning of ’A rolling stone gathers
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The hockey stick was introduced in the early 1800s. The first stick was created of wood with a flat blade. In the 1920s‚ hockey players began to tape their sticks to increase the hold and strengthen the blade. The banana curve or the bend in the blade which we see today was developed during the phase between the years 1957-1980. A certain player named Bobby Hull broke a stick at a practice and began to play around with the “bent” stick and found to his amazement that there was far more accuracy in
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Conclusion of Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy Duffy uses an onion in her poem as she shows how this object can represent the positive aspect of love. In this poem she is saying that her love is different and unique. The first stanza tells us she is not giving what would be typically labelled as love like ’a red rose’. Instead‚ she gives an onion. An onion is very unusual gift to give to someone you care about. Although onions are acidic‚ smelly and not very appealing‚ she makes connection by comparing
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The poem ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy portrays a realistic and honest view on love. Duffy has a unique perspective of love contrasting to the stereotypical way love is often thought about. She compares love to an onion‚ which is odd because an onion is neither visually appealing nor valued but Duffy’s insight on love and unconventional way of perceiving love is what makes the poem Valentine interesting. She presents her ideas by using a range of different poetic devices such as‚ choosing a distinct
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The “Climate Change Debate Overheated after Sceptic Grasped ‘Hockey Stick’” article‚ written by Fred Pearce‚ demonstrates how the hockey stick graph constructed by Michael Mann‚ introduced many disagreements. Fred Pearce notes many individuals such as Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick (both referred to as M&M) that believed Michael Mann’s hockey stick graph was created using faulty methods‚ and were considered imprecise. According to Pearce‚ M&M publicized a paper arguing that Mann’s smoothing of
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Ann Hopkins worked at Price Waterhouse ’s Office of Government Services in Washington‚ D.C.‚ for five years before she was proposed candidacy for partnership in 1982. She was neither offered nor denied admission to the partnership that year; instead‚ her candidacy was held for reconsideration the following year. When the partners in her office later refused her proposed partnership‚ she quit and sued Price Waterhouse under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 charging that the firm had discriminated
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Analysis of Novel “Harry Potter and the Philosophers’ Stone” by JK.Rowling Background Joanne Kathleen Rowling as known as JK.Rowling is novelist that was born on July 31‚ 1965‚ in Yate‚ England. She became an international literary when she launches her fantasy novel first sequels of “Harry Potter”‚ in 1999 and that novel has 7 sequels. I would like to analyze the first sequels of Harry Potter‚ titled “Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone” because this novel is the one of the best-seller novel
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Jenetta Robinson Ms. Tami Davis Eng. III-DP 13 November 2012 Originally In the poem “Originally‚” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ she is writing from a point of view of a child to adult for the reader to understand how she felt when she was a young girl moving to how she feels now. This poem is from the “The Other Country” collection‚ they all have a central theme of growing up with literary devices of imagery‚ diction‚ and alliteration threaded through the poem to help grab the reader’s attention. Duffy
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Sticking it to the Man The great mind of American literary author Robert Coover creates a twisted‚ peculiar‚ perplexing world though the short story “Stick Man”. The world presented to readers is one in which many seem to be unfamiliar and uncomfortable with‚ but in reality the world presented to them is the well known idea of The Civil Rights Movement as well as the concepts of one superior race and unjustly powers. When African Americans first began their so-called normal lives‚ it was widely
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