you think you have game "It must be Jelly‚ ’cause jam don’t shake”‚ A Story in Harlem Slang‚ by Zora Neale Hurston. Sweet Back and Jelly are two wanna-be pimps that are lost in a world full of wants just struggling to get by. Though Jelly and Sweet Back claim they have game‚ the woman that walks by‚ schools them both‚ yet she is not the one with the most game. Jelly and Sweet Back do have some game they both assume that they are better than one another. When Jelly comments about a woman he was
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I’m one of the lucky ones who had one. So‚ I was tasked to stand in front of you guys and deliver a speech about how great a person my great grandmother was. But to tell you the truth‚ I really don’t have much to say. Yes‚ I was lucky to have such a sweet and loving granny like her. The problem is‚ I didn’t quite take advantage of it. My brother and I were always dropped off at her house from school back when we were little kids. I hated it because after lunch‚ we were given an hour to do whatever
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by his makers side. The speaker is having a conversation with himself. This poem is very personal because the reader is getting in his head and taking his opinion about life and death. This creates trust between the reader and the speaker. He is talking in first person to a general public‚ not speaking to god directly. It can seem that he is speaking to ‘He’ the god but he uses ‘his’ many times. He talks to god in a prayer asking him if he denied his light and then answers himself. Kennedy ’s poem
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Well‚ its funny how a girl like me could fall in love‚ you know. But I found something special (or more like weird) in him. And then we started talking and talking and talking and then it happened – We fell in love. I was actually afraid to fall in love ‘cause when it all gets over there won’t be anyone to catch you.Aw.Lol. He was so different‚ so sweet dammit.Compared to him‚ I was nothing‚ you see. And I was so lucky‚ fucking lucky‚ to have him. It was the first ever time I was seeing so much
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innocent and shell-shocked soldier. It is told through a WWI veteran’s point of view in second person. By examining this “war” poem and Wilfred Owen’s background‚ it is reasonable to believe that Own is talking about his experience during war. Therefore making the speaker‚ he himself. Owen is talking to everyone that does not know the realistic feeling of war up in the frontlines. He painfully expresses all the horrific scenes he had to go through. Through remembering it‚ his description of the mood
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During the Antebellum period in American history‚Slaves were molded by both oppression and agency‚ they were mistreated and had a lack of education but slaves also had hope in religion‚ songs and education‚ they thought this would lead them to freedom. Historians have made the argument that slavery stripped away all of the slaves African identities‚ stopped them from forming strong relationships and made them workers that couldn’t think on their own. However historians recently have argued that people
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Kelsey Renoe Kathy kvinge ENG 1102 20703 September 17‚ 2014 "My Son‚ My Executioner" by Donald Hall "My Son‚ My Executioner" My son‚ my executioner I take you in my arms Quiet and small and just astir and whom my body warms Sweet death‚ small son‚ our instrument of immortality‚ your cries and hunger document our bodily decay. We twenty two and twenty five‚ who seemed to live forever‚ observe enduring life in you and start to die together. In "My Son‚ My Executioner
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Zach Dolenar Professor English English 1102 19 September 2012 Ode to a Cherry What’s better to chill out a hot summer’s day than something sweet and cool? No‚ I am not talking about a Popsicle. I am not talking about an ice cream cone‚ either. I am not even talking about iced tea or lemonade. It is something better than all of those‚ and it doesn’t even have all the sneaky calories of those other tasty treats! The answer to the question is simple. Have you guessed it? It is a cherry. Upon first
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NAME: NEELAM KHALID CLASS: M.A(PREV) SUBJECT: PRACTICAL CRITICISM ANALYSIS OF THE POEM SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY CROUSE CODE# 510 SUBMITTED TO: MAM SAMINA DATE: 30‚ OCT‚ 2012 Byron wrote this poem SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY about Mrs.Wilmot‚ his cousin Robert Wilmot’s wife. It echos Wordsworth’s earlier " The Solitary Reaper"(1807) in its conceit‚ the speaker’s awe upon seeing a woman
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starring night is‚ too. This is the first time that the theme of darkness appears (in night)‚ contrary to the light which is expressed by the stars of the sky. That opposition is repeated along the three stanzas of the poem‚ because the author is talking about the beauty and that opposition is used to express it‚ to compare the opposition with beauty. In that sense‚ Byron feels that beauty is something which is dark and light‚ something apparent and at the same time‚ something occult. Furthermore
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