Peter Marsden Professor Canipe English 113 Sep 4‚ 2013 Reaction Paper 6: Small Avalanches Small Avalanches is narrated by a 13 year old girl who you find out is named Nancy. She lives in a small town in the early 1900’s I would guess. Nancy goes to her uncles shop where he repairs cars‚ and gets a soda pop. She describes how she loves it when the soda man comes to collect the change from the machines. While she is at the shot with her uncle she asks if her cousin Georgia is around
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War Poetry First World War Poetry. Pre-1914 Prose Assignment. “Choose two patriotic poems and two poems that reveal the reality of war. Write about the four poems in as much detail as possible‚ comparing the different attitudes of the poets.” In English‚ we have read four World War One poems: ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’‚ ‘Disabled’‚ ‘The Call’ and ‘Who’s For The Game?’ Two different authors have wrote these four poems‚ Wilfred Owen‚ who had served his country in the Great War and Jessie Pope‚ who had
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Read “Steal Small” by Caitlin Horrocks‚ paying attention to how specific details are used to establish style and voice and to define the plot. In your initial post‚ identify elements of the plot for what actions drive the story. How does Horrocks keep the plot moving? What are the actions and consequences? In responding to your peers‚ compare and contrast how you viewed details of the plot differently from your peers. As a writer‚ would you have approached the theme differently compared to the
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“The Study of Two Pears” Poetry Analysis It takes tremendous skill to master Imagist/Modernism poetry‚ yet many authors succeeded with this type of writing. Wallace Stevens‚ Robert Frost‚ and Amy Lowell are three Imagist/Modernism poets that were extremely successful during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Wallace Stevens was by far one of the greatest poets of this time period. His purpose of writing was to‚ “become a light in the mind of others”. Stevens desperately wanted people to use their
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Along the Lines of Poetry In the poems Introduction to Poetry and Marginalia‚ the author Billy Collins uses figurative language to lead the readers through his perspective as he delivers different tones throughout both poems. Although the two poems have many similarities‚ Collin’s tone in the two pieces create two very different pieces of writing. Collins directs two very different tones in the poems to draw the reader in‚ and then connect with them personally though figurative language. In Introduction
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“Placing a $2 Bet” Poetry Analysis “Placing a $2 Bet for a Man Who Will Never Go to the Horse Races Any More” by Diane Wakoski is an expression of animosity she feels toward her father after meeting him for the first time in 14 years. It is an exploration of her philosophy of life and how her unhappy childhood has impacted her. Wakoski writes about her painful relationship with her father and explores the distant and miniscule relationship between father and daughter. “Placing a $2 Bet” is a
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My Poetry Anthology by Michaela Miedziolka 8m Contents Page Prologue Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë 2 4 5 7 9 11 Contents Page xxx xx 3 Prologue I have enjoyed reading these poems and getting some understanding of the language used and the meanings often hidden amongst the words. I would like to thank my mum and dad for giving me
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Higher 2006- Unseen Poetry Practice ‘In the Can’ In the poem‚ a prisoner describes life in a prison. Every second is a fishbone that sticks In the throat. Every hour another slow Step towards freedom. We’re geriatrics Waiting for release‚ bribing time to go. I’ve given up trying to make anything Different happen. Mornings: tabloids‚ page three. Afternoons: videos or Stephen King‚ Answering letters from relatives who bore me. We’re told not to count‚ but the days mount here Like
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A Poison Tree By William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not‚ my wrath did grow. And I waterd it in fears Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles‚ And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night‚ Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine‚ And he knew that it was mine‚ And into my garden stole‚ When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning glad I see My foe outstretchd beneath
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It seemed somewhat difficult to read through a poem and try to “get” how a poem got a tone from its diction and imagery. It sounded easy to think about‚ but the hard part got to be articulating how it worked and what made me actually feel a certain way over a poem. For that battle‚ I read “Common Ground” by Judith Ortiz Cofer. At first‚ I read the title and thought it’d be something for pro-equality and how people are essentially created equal. By the second stanza‚ with the line‚ “when I look
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