short story by Langston Hughes. It is about Cora Jenkins‚ a black woman living in Melton with her parents. Cora works as a maid for a rich white family‚ the Studevants. Cora has a special bond with the family’s youngest daughter‚ Jessie. Jessie gets pregnant and her mother‚ Mrs. Art Studevant‚ forces her to get an abortion. Jessie then dies sick. The story is mainly about hypocrisy and discrimination‚ two elements of Hughes’ life which are also found in many of his poems. First‚ we see the white
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The exposition of this poem written by Langston Hughes is about life and death. Langston talks about committing suicide and how he attempted to kill himself many times. The narrator faces many challenges in his life such as a failed relationship .As I continued reading the poem the author renews his intentions on living‚ and finds out he is here on this earth for a reason. The speaker used the cold water as an excuse. He says he may sink if the water was not cold therefore‚ he might sink and die
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Ted Hughes is one of the most famous names in the contemporary world of poetry. He is called the animal poet‚ because many of his poems describe animals and represent human beings by using animal imagery. Animal kingdom is his private mythology. He has an extraordinary way of looking into life. He exposes human follies‚ anger‚ and hatred through the animal kingdom. His themes are explored by means of image‚ myth and symbol. The Jaguar is a poem about a fierce animal from the image of which Ted Hughes
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This poem was published in 1978 by Joyce Carol Oates. I chose this poem because it very much speaks about the traditional roles of men and women‚ specifically towards married men and women. We can use Gender lens to further analyze the poem. In the 70’s‚ that was the time where women are fighting for their equal rights similar to men. Now if we compare women today from the 70’s‚ we can really see a very big difference of our roles nowadays. Before‚ women who are married are expected to just stay
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Poetry Explication Fill-in 1. Title of Poem: “Evening Hawk” eveni 2. Poet: Robert Penn Warren 3. Important background information on poet relevant to poem: Warren was seventy years old when “Evening Hawk” was published in 1975. He lies at the twilight of his life and thus contemplates the death which he knows will arrive soon enough. This allows Warren to inject his own thoughts into the psyche of the poem’s narrator‚ who is also in this position. 4. Who/what is the speaker? What kind of
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Practical Criticism on the Tamer and Hawk poem Tom Gunn’s Tamer and Hawk is an extended metaphor depicting a powerful‚ strong‚ almighty‚ wild bird of prey (a metaphor for Gunn) being controlled by a seemingly inferior body (a human) – his true love. It depicts an image of a bird and its master (with the use of indirect personification). It tells a story of Gunn’s adoration of his ‘Tamer’ and his strong desire to entice his love. It is an effective metaphor because as the poem continues the danger and violence
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is crucial in the social hierarchy. Harold Witt’s ‘The Hawk’ depicts the vitality of power in a natural hierarchy that sees the world through black and white‚ dominance and inferiority through the use of symbolism of the hawk‚ an extended metaphor‚ and the structural features. A combination of concrete and abstract ideas portrayed the incident in ‘The Hawk’ through the use of descriptive language. The concrete of the poem is that the hawk is simply flying through the sky above everything else searching
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The poem Evening Hawk may appear to be about a hawk going about during the night‚ yet it is more than that. It is a poem in which Robert Penn Warren illustrates the transition from day to night and compares it to human flaws. As the hawk is being introduced‚ Warren describes the scene using geometric terms such as "angularity‚" "plane‚" and "geometries." These words pinpoint on what is being emphasized and which the author is trying to direct our attention to. The shapes created help us to
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The Black Hawk Helicopter The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter has played an evolutionary role in the United States military‚ specifically the Army‚ but is also used in many other American government organizations. The Black Hawk is four bladed twin-engine utility helicopter with an amazing history and multiple capabilities. To begin‚ the UH-60 Black Hawk has an extraordinary history in our military. It all started in 1972 when Sikorsky Aircraft submitted the S-70 design to the United States
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One has PTSD and faces problems every day. The other is in a wheelchair and deals with his disabilities daily. One who has PTSD from the vietnam war. One who lives with being paralized. The father from the short story “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen and Christopher Reeve from the the auto biographical narrative “Still me” that both face and overcome obstacles that develop the theme or central ideas. The father from “Stop the sun” faced and overcame PTSD by talking to his son. “‘This thing that you
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