Poetry Explication of Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” The first thing one can notice in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” (rpt. In Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 9th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth‚ 2006] 680) is that the speaker in the poem is the mirror and the woman in the poem is Sylvia Plath. As you read through the poem‚ the lake is relevant because of the famous mythological story of narcissus. He was extremely beautiful and one day while drinking from a lake
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The short story “One Friday Morning” by Langston Hughes is about a young black girl‚ Nancy Lee‚ who recently moved out of the South with her parents so they may provide her with a better life and schooling. Very talented in watercolor painting‚ she wanted to make that her major in college. Regrettably‚ there are some people in the world that are just blinded by race and forget how America was supposed to be a place for equal rights without tyranny. Nancy Lee may be a colored girl‚ but at times
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conspiracy theory revolving around 4 AM (Rives). Before the TED Talk‚ while researching a Polish poet named Wislawa Szymborska‚ a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1996‚ Rives came across an eerily familiar poem entitled “Four in the Morning”. Because he was unsure why this poem‚ which he’d never read before‚ felt familiar‚ he became fixated on the concept of 4 AM‚ hearing references to the time over and over in his daily life‚ inspiring him to create the 2007 TED Talk conspiracy. During
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How to Structure an I.B. Commentary (Oral or Written) I. Introduction A. Set the context 1. for a poem‚ some generalizations about the poet’s work and this poem’s relation to the poet’s work as a whole‚ as well as a summary of what happens in the poem 2. for a passage from a play or novel‚ a brief summary of the action leading up to the passage‚ as well as a summary of what occurs in the passage itself B. Identify the speaker/narrator 1. for a poem
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yourself and frightened because the rest of the world expects something completely different from you - something you cannot give them. Something you don’t want to give them‚ if it were your choice. This is a highly auto-biographical account by Plath of a young girl finding that when she should be most excited about her life‚ she instead finds that things aren’t what she expected‚ and that the culture of the 1950’s doesn’t seem to allow for all that she wants‚ which begins her descent into depression
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is an extremist who is trying to make a difference in media manipulation. Body paragraph 1: • Concrete detail: “…I felt that if I could just get everyone’s attention and expose the problems in the right way‚ it could make a difference” (xvi) • Commentary: Ryan Holiday is using his own way to expose media manipulation. Instead of being nice about it‚ to him the only way to make a difference is to go in extreme lengths. He wants people to truly open their eyes about media manipulation and by exposing
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and spirit”. This quasi reference to St Paul’s conception of human dualism goes far towards explaining the nature of Jude’s tragedy. This dualism appears also in the book. Jude The Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy’s novels published in 1895: its critical reception was so negative that Hardy resolved never to write another novel. The passage under analysis is situated towards the beginning of the novel‚ at the arrival of Jude at Christminster (the fictional name of Oxford). He found a job at a stonesman’s
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Sylvia Plath’s‚ The Bell Jar takes readers deep into the chaotic minds of not only Esther Greenwood‚ but also Plath herself. Many people believe that The Bell Jar is intended to be an autobiography with Plath using Esther to portray some of the issues that happen in her life. In 1953‚ Plath gets invited to be a guest editor and during this time she endures a mental breakdown. This parallel reveals the sources of the madness for Plath‚ Esther and women all over. According to Esther‚ this madness comes
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Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s‚ I rarely went to bed before midnight‚ and I’d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon. But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early‚ even in my own life. On those rare occasions where I did get up early‚ I noticed that my productivity was almost always higher‚ not just in the morning but all throughout the day
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The first extract is from a novel called “Chocolat” by Joanne Harris which was published in 1999‚ whereas the second extract is from a website of the “From Bean to Bar” chocolate company which was published in 2006. Both extracts concern themselves with chocolate and the way it is manufactured‚ although they both have different intentions. The first extract is from a novel and describes the delightful pleasure of creating chocolate‚ whereas the second extract is used to promote and advertise the
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