Stallings poem "Ajar" is about two people who are not speaking to each other after a fight. The poem has a very calm almost passive tone even though the couple is fighting. To tell the story of the couple the speaker uses rhymes. Each line rhymes with the next such as " Whatever the gods forbid‚ it’s sure someone will do‚ And so Pandora did and made the worst come true." In these two lines‚ there are two rhymes‚ the poem maintains that same rhythm throughout the whole poem. In line one the poem begins
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The Ecstasy : John Donne - Summary and Critical Analysis The poem "The Ecstasy" is one of John Donne’s most popular poems‚ which expresses his unique and unconventional ideas about love. It expounds the theme that pure‚ spiritual or real love can exist only in the bond of souls established by the bodies. For Donne‚ true love only exists when both bodies and souls are inextricably united. Donne criticizes the platonic lover who excludes the body and emphasizes the soul. The fusion of body
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1. The exposition of this poem is about a person who seems very unhappy in their life at the moment. Almost unsatisfied with their life and the way it is going. They are thinking about ending their life. The thoughts in their head at the beginning of the poem are more negative and sad. 2. I believe the speaker decided to sink because of the thoughts In their head. I think the speaker is severely depressed. They are thinking of ending their life in the river. The speaker tried to drown. The only
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This poem is made up of four stanzas of five lines‚ each with a rhyme arrangement of ABAAB. In the first stanza‚ start of the poem‚ the two roads symbolize‚ the difficult choices that the narrator faces in life. He cannot take both‚ as much as he would want to‚ so he spends time in thoughts and observation. He can’t see far‚ not as far as necessary to make a confident choice as to the better nature of one over the other. The fact that it is a "yellow wood" possibly implies that‚ as fall is often
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The poem “Daddy” was written in 1962. Sylvia Plath discusses her love/hate for father and others using imagery from the Holocaust‚ Nazis‚ and vampires. The title of the poem suggests that it is loving and intimate‚ more so than if it were titled “Father”. That is where love is present. Hate and anger are present everywhere else in the poem. Sylvia Plath’s father died when she was eight years old due to complications of diabetes (Steinberg 2007). He is already dead; Sylvia Plath wrote this poem
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Haiku The shinning hot sun Was right on us all day long We had sunburn skin Fish in a big bowl Swimming around and around Do not jump out please It is time for sun Swimming in the pool is fun Splash in the water Splish‚ splash rain is here Something to bring life to all It is needed soon. Limerick There was a boy named Mike‚ Who loved to go on long hikes. He could jog along‚ Singing a jolly song‚ With his big dog named Ike. There once was a
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Jim Steven’s poem “Schizophrenia” depicts a story of immense loss and hopelessness that overcomes many homes. It is all too ordinary to hear about a father abandoning his family‚ a mother who is broken and feels defeated‚ and the children who have suffer through it all in fear and the overwhelming feeling of abandonment. Feelings such as those found in the preceding sentence are found throughout Jim Steven’s poem “Schizophrenia”. The poem reflects the conflicts that occur within the house. However
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study three competitors (Dubuque‚ Ball Park‚ Oscar Mayer) in the market of the hot dog. We want to know the impact of the variation of the price of one competitor (Ball Park) on the market share of another competitor (Dubuque). Origin of the dataset The dataset comes from "a scanner study conducted at grocery stores located in the western suburbs of Chicago". So we know that the data don’t represent the entire hot dog market. There is uncertainty about the persons who collect the data‚ thus
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As I’m sitting there‚ watching a hot potato – a literal hot potato‚ fly towards me‚ I’m wondering what I got myself into. Rewind a couple of days and I’m in school talking to the new girl named Jocelyn. She wore converse and had these cool long side bangs that everyone in the eighth grade was jealous of and had come from some far off place called Falls City. As the new kid with the cool hair‚ everyone was competing to lure her into their posses’. I‚ a typically quiet‚ reserved person‚ tended to stick
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Into The Great Wide Open “Rebel Without a Clue.” This is a quote taken from the poem “Into The Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty. Tom Petty’s narrative poem‚ “Into The Great Wide Open‚” tells the story of a man with very big aspirations‚ using a shifting tone‚ and in an unrealistic fashion. “Into the Great Wide Open” details the rise and fall of Eddie a young man with dreams of fame. Eddie waited till he finished highschool to move out to hollywood. He met a girl and they moved
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