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    As a Modern Poem

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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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    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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    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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    calling. Instead of of marriage‚ Nightingale chose to pursue her dreams and learn the nursing profession. Nightingale attended the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth‚ Germany for three months gaining knowledge to become one of the most excellent nurses in history. Nightingale worked at Middlesex hospital‚ there was an outbreak of cholera‚ and Nightingale managed to boost the hygiene at the hospital and rapidly reduce the sickness. Florence Nightingale helped others to understand that

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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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    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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    always making her point. Despite being a master of satire and form‚ rarely does the reader feel as though their intelligence is being challenged or disrespected. Her work is very political but never disrespectful. A brilliant example of this is in her poem that is referred to as “XV”‚

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    Poem Comparison

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    Poems: Piano‚ Poem at thirty-nine & Once Upon a time Paragraph 1 - Introduction Nostalgia is the desire of things from the past‚ feeling homesick or remembering a person. This is the central Idea of the three poems; D.H.Lawrence’s ‘Piano’‚ Alice Walker’s ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ & Gabriel Okara’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ convey that they miss their earlier life or wish for a better past. Paragraph 2 - Write the theme of the first poem. D.H. Lawrences ‘Piano’ is a representation of longing of his past

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    In the poem‚ To This Day‚ by Shane Koyczan‚ 1:28 into the video‚ the author says‚ "I Used to hear that rhyme about sticks and stones. As if broken bones hurt more than the names that we got called." (Shane Koyczan)‚ as the author says this there is a boy standing in a dark hallway alone with these dark‚ creepy‚ vines grabbing him. What the author is trying to say is that he could not escape from the names that he had been called‚ nobody was there to help when he was being called names‚ and

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