Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth‚ both show the beauty of life and the world around us. The only difference is that the petrarchan Sonnet written by Wordsworth is thanking God for the beauty of nature’s landscapes and talking about the beautiful morning in London during the industrial revolution. The reduced version of a petrarchan Sonnet by Hopkins praises God for all the odd and strange things within nature. Both of the poems are written in a very peaceful tone and
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CLEANING YOURSELF Luz said‚ “I am clean and pretty. I wash my face. I put on a clean dress. I trim my nails. I comb my hair. Look at me. Am I not pretty?” Comprehension Question: 1.Who is talking? A. Mother B. Luz C. A boy 2. What does she do with her face? A. She washes it. B. She combs it. C. She cuts it. 3.What does she do with her nails? A. She cleans them. B. She trims them. C. She washes them. 4. What does she do with
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evil‚ and man overpowering woman. Connie seems like an innocent fifteen year old girl when Arnold Friend shows up at her house. She is easily persuaded to talk to Arnold and gives in to the temptation to go for a ride with him. Arnold says a lot of sweet things to Connie to try and make her fall for his words. He tells Connie how beautiful she is and calls her names such as “sweetheart” and “honey.” Connie‚ being the naïve teenager that she is‚ believes him. Although he scared her‚ she gave in to his
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can then understand success. First the poem talks about how success is a sweet nectar and such a good thing everybody needs to find. Then it talks about how everybody can’t take the flag and know what success is‚ and taste that sweet nectar. And this is the first sign the poet is talking about war with mentioning a flag. In the third paragraph it talks about people dying and loud screams which really gives away she is talking about a war. The main point of the poem is that people need to taste victory
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lot to him. Since he was the holy medicine man everyone meant a lot to him. “They had a dog with them‚and started back up the road for the soldiers’ town‚ howling as he ran. He was the only one left. I did not shoot at him because he looked to sweet.” He is using a lot of of emotion about
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poet‚ Wilfred Owen talks about War he shows the horror of it all and he writes with such detail because He was there and witnessed such horror. When he talks about lies he is Talking about "Dulce et Decorum est" - It is sweet and proper to die
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By this walk around the neighborhood‚ Kozol learns about how the South Bronx is polluted‚ where people take drugs‚ and the teddy bears on the trees. The message that Kozol is trying to tell us through this story is that there is always something sweet‚ even in the most miserable places. One humid afternoon‚ Kozol for the first time saw a woman carrying a newborn baby in the St. ann’s Church with three little girls around her‚ “Carrying a newborn baby… surrounded by three lively
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Innocence Innocence is a part of a humans life and it is up to the persons decisions to find out whether or not its going to affect there future. In some people views in innocence is freedom from sin‚ moral wrong‚ or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil. At some point in everyone’s life they will eventually lose there innocence‚ it just depends on the choices they have made. In Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been.” She uses characterization and imagery to show how Connie
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it. So he walked up and grabbed it and the girl tries to run but he holds on because when he gets scared he holds on. Another way is all the men think she is trouble. They think this because she is a big flirt and she tries to sweet-talk everyone. If Curley saw the men talking
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poem centers around memories of his childhood‚ growing up on a farm in the Irish countryside. Here‚ he recalls the yearly experience of picking wild blackberries in late summer. The "lust" for blackberries is that of blood lust. Their "flesh was sweet"‚ like "blood". The children are ready to suffer a great deal of pain to satisfy "that hunger". At this point‚ Heaney’s tone becomes distinctly ominous - the blackberries are "like a plate of eyes"‚ their palms are stained with the juice‚ as "Bluebeard’s"
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