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    Response to Schoolsville

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    Response to Schoolsville My first thoughts after reading Schoolsville‚ by Billy Collins‚ as a whole‚ were of the movie {proof}. {proof} is about a mathematician who‚ as he grew older‚ slowly lost his mind. After reading the first few stanzas I thought either the person in the poem is Schizophrenic or simply reminiscing. However‚ when I came upon the second to last stanza‚ I understood the story. The second to last stanza reads; Needless to say‚ I am the mayor. I live in the white colonial

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    Bredon Hill

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    In the poem "Bredon Hill"‚ the author described life on and around Bredon Hill in the early 20th century. He explains how he and his lover spend many of their Sunday mornings on Bredon Hill listening to the church bells ring through the valleys. As the poem progresses‚ we find out that his lover died and the later part of the poem describes the sorrow and loss of his lover. In the first two stanzas‚ the author introduces of his lover and how happy they are being together as they spend their Sunday

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    This poem represents the poet‚ Thomas Hardy as the persona and his grief over his wife’s death using imagery and emotive language. The poem is set at the moment in time after the persona’s partner’s death‚ where the persona is at her grave. The poem reflects on the persona’s guilt of mistreating his late wife while she was alive and his yearning to be with her now ‘Would I lay there – And she were housed there! – Or better‚ together… We both‚ - who would stray there’ Hardy wrote this poem as a way

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    Rape by Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich’s blatant poem‚ Rape‚ speaks a strong theme of a distrust of male authority. She establishes a male audience in the first stanza (the phrase "brothers" indicates male bonds)‚ in order to show them what one of their brethren – a cop‚ a figure of authority perverted to one of death ("machinery to kill you") – has a sexist attitude‚ not in despite of his morals‚ but because of them. Rich’s portrait of the cop is one that shifts from a physical

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    Analysis- The Hero Brief Summary of Content-In the Poem The Hero Sassoon has presented the hardships that a soldier goes through in the war through the use of the soldier’s death. He also shows the pain of the families left behind by showing the mother’s pain after she finds out that her son as died on the battle fields. The first stanza is introducing the mother at the moment that she finds out her son has died. The mother reads a letter that a Colonel wrote for her and she hides her true feelings

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    Critical Analysis The poem ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ was written by William Wordsworth in 1804 and published in 1807. The poem is set up in nature around us where it covered a wide issues related to appreciating nature. The beauty of the landscape surrounded him deeply affected Wordsworth’s imagination and gave him a love of nature. Wordsworth uses many literary devices in the poem. One of the literary devices that he uses is simile. ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ (line 1) is the first simile

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    The Chimney Sweeper

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    “The Chimney Sweeper” In Williams Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Innocence the boy sees his situation through the eyes of innocence and does not understand the social injustice in his situation. “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Experience the speaker sees his injustice of the child and speaks against the people that left him behind. The different views in one poem enlighten the different views in the other poem. The thoughts that are expressed in Innocence contrast the thoughts expressed

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    Death. It’s something that is always lurking in the corner of our minds. It comes on its own time‚ no forewarning‚ no schedules‚ no planning. In in some morbidly ironic way it’s the only thing that is completely guaranteed‚ no additional fees‚ no extra shipping cost and of course it’s always on time. Humans however seem to have mixed views on it. In the poems Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas and After a Time by Catherine Davis death is examined and thoughts on the ways we should

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    TP-CASTT Poetry Analysis Title: What predictions can you make from the title? What might be the theme of the poem? The poem might have to do with plastic surgery. It might depict what women immediately pursue once they’ve reached the old stage in their life. Women tend to seek for youth all the time‚ because society has made women think that in order to get what they want in life they must look young and radiant. Paraphrase: In your own words‚ describe what happens in

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    What do you think are the feelings about marriage in this poem and how does the poet present those feelings to the reader? (18 marks) The poem ‘A marriage’‚ by Michael Blumenthal presents feelings about marriage in many different ways‚ A feeling that the poet clearly outlines about marriage is that it provides help and support‚ this is shown when he says “You are holding up a ceiling” and “to the ceiling beside you”‚ this reference to foundations suggests that marriage is a support mechanism and

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