Adan Lotridge Ms. Cox English 10 27 September 2024. Beware: Do Not Read This Essay. In "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem" by Ishmael Reed‚ the speaker’s unknown intention attracts the reader because it creates tension. The speaker first begins talking about a lady shrouded in mirrors: "It got so bad that she finally locked herself indoors & her whole life became the mirrors. One day‚ villagers broke into her house‚ but she was too swift for them" (Reed 5-11). Mirrors became the woman’s life; it was
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beginning of Joanna Diaz’s poem “On My Father’s Loss of Hearing‚” she has an epigram. An epigram is a brief and memorable statement about the poem. Her epigram states that deaf people are not disabled‚ but only abled differently. In Joanne Diaz’ poem‚ “On My Father’s Loss of Hearing‚” she contradicts her epigram and goes back and forth between depicting her father as abled and disabled. Joanne Diaz states all of the things her father has lost in the second stanza of her poem which contradicts her epigram
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The title of the poem ‘Whatif’ refers to the fears and paranoia questions we have at night‚ as we are more vulnerable. The poet combines the words ‘what’ and ‘if’ in a childlike manner. The main theme of the poem is ‘fears of a child’. In almost every line the poet adds a new fear. He mentions numerous childish fears like the feel of failing at school‚ being bullied‚ growing green chest hair and teeth not growing straight. He also mentions fears that a human at any age can relate to such as the fear
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As a modern poem”The Wasteland” “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement‚’ of our modern experiment‚ since 1900‚” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation
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significantly impacted the field of science‚ and Florence Nightingale is an excellent example. Florence Nightingale not only altered the face of nursing‚ but she changed how men perceive women as nurses. Nightingale was born on May 12‚ 1820‚ in Florence‚ Italy. This beautiful city inspired her mother to name her Florence. Nightingale grew up in a wealthy‚ upper-class family with her mother‚ father‚ and older sister. Her mother was Frances Nightingale‚ a controlling and outspoken woman who‚ at times‚ drove
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Wide-open spaces like the prairies provide room for opportunities. The speaker in Don Kerr’s poem “Editing the Prairie” believes in opportunity for the prairie‚ not in the regard that there is currently opportunity‚ but rather in the potential opportunity through “editing.” Often people don’t even comprehend what they don’t know about the prairies. Through the elementary‚ stereotypical focus of the prairie the speaker is unaware of the simply beauty that is neglected by the proposal of all the suggested
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Florence Nightingale Research Paper By Zoee Robinson “If a patient is cold‚ if a patient is feverish‚ if a patient is faint‚ if a patient is sick after taking food‚ if he has a bedsore‚ it is generally the fault not of the disease‚ but of the nursing.”(Nightingale‚1).Florence Nightingale said this as a way to express the faults in the teaching of the nurses before her. These faults were the causes of more deaths than wounds of war
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As he lies dying in Chapter 9‚ Johnny Cade speaks these words to Ponyboy. “Stay gold” is a reference to the Robert Frost poem that Ponyboy recites to Johnny when the two hide out in the Windrixville Church. One line in the poem reads‚ “Nothing gold can stay‚” meaning that all good things must come to an end. By the end of the novel‚ the boys apply this idea to youthful innocence‚ believing that they cannot remain forever unsullied by the harsh realities of life. Here‚ Johnny urges Ponyboy to remain
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Lit – Poems What Thing Is Love? (George Peele) George Peele was an English dramatist‚ born in 1556. He led a reckless life and died of small pox. The poem ‘What thing is love’ was written in 1580’s and is in some ways against love. According to him love is more of a sting then hurt but yet a pretty thing. He says that one should not love as women can hurt you with love – Love’s dwelling is in ladies’ eyes‚ From whence do glance love’s piercing darts (Cupid’s arrows i.e. Roman God of love)‚ That
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Comparing and contrasting Text A and B In the poem To Autumn‚ it celebrates the rebounding nature. The symbolic aspects of life‚ in preparation for death; Keats was devoted to poetry due to personal problems. In contrast of the extract‚ it’s about celebrating and sharing with people about the markets in Italy about the exotic vegetables; he’s excited and wants to communicate with the reader. Both texts are describing what they see like e.g. plumps‚ hazel shells‚ vegetables‚ and a sense of bountifulness
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