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    but hostile to the Church of England. The fact that ................... are evident in his poetry‚ especially these two poems. Nature The Echoing Green (innocence) This poem depicts a conventional village in which a whole day’s cycle is portrayed. Within it youth and age all have their parts to play alongside the birds and other creatures of spring. Blake begins the poem with personification of the “skies”‚ and imagery of the birds which creates a natural idyllic setting. The welcoming of

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    blue-collar jobs they had before the war to join the white collared work-force instead. Men were expected to be masculine‚ strong and the bread winners of the family. Ginger Voit wrote an article for synonym.com where she discussed that in the 1950’s men were expected to be the sole provider for the family‚ yet had little interaction with the children‚ other than for punishment and to provide life lessons. Men were the head of the household‚ expected to come home to a

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    they found a diary that Alex wrote over the whole time. But they have to use flashbacks because Alex died so there is know why he can sit down and tell what happened to him. In a way flashbacks can be bad because in this case it is someone else telling Alex’s stories from his diary and often people will dramatize the story. But over all I really like the book and I am excited to see where Jon will take it next.

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    Wood’ (page 36) and in one other poem from Conflict. In Mametz Wood‚ by Owen Sheers and Futility‚ by Wilfred Owen‚ their separate perspectives of conflict and war are shown throughout‚ with the use of imagery‚ and personification to show the poets’ changes in emotion. Owen Sheers wrote his poem in the perspective of what happened in the past‚ with the poem being influenced by Sheers seeing a picture of a mass grave‚ provoking gruesome images. Futility is written in the present tense‚ as Owen

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    Chicago by Carl Sandburg The poem being reviewed in this paper is “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg. The poem addresses the progress and problems present in the city‚ but asserts that Chicago is powerful‚ vibrant‚ and a city to be proud of. “Chicago” also personifies the city and gives it a very specific character. The first two lines of the first stanza‚ “Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker‚ Stacker of Wheat” are referring to the industry of Chicago and it’s place in the economy. Around the time of

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    The World’s Most Famous Photograph Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve McCurry which appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of a young woman with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera. It has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa and has been called "the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa". The image became "emblematic" of "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp" deserving of the compassion

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    The Catcher In The Rye is set on a weekend in December during the 1950’s. It takes place in several different locations in and around NewYork City. The story begins at Holden Caulfield’s prep school in Argerstown‚ Pennsylvania and then follows Holden’s travels to Manhattan where he spends three days wondering around to different places such as Penn station where he gets off the train from his school‚ the Edmont hotel‚ the lavender room‚ Ernies bar‚ the museum of natural history‚ the lagoon central

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    playing and there was a big snake right in front of me. childhood memories were a lot of them too many to write. important invents in my life right now are school and home no girls anymore because their a pain in the neck. previous pets were all dogs i have two right now one is a guy pit bull his name is Champzilla and a girl chamerian her name is Luna. Ive taken trips to california and alberqurqe. former friends are some from elementary but some of them went to heights with me. former teachers are

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    Claudia Garces In the poem “Richard Cory”‚ Edwin Arlington Robinson argues that ones outer shell can be deceiving‚ never envy your neighbors fortune. Richard Cory glides through town glowing looking “richer than a king”(9) pretending to have all the happiness anyone ever imagined. This alone causes the envy of the entire town. They probably will never know if he is truly happy or if all this is just another front. “We people”(2) who are never satisfied with our own goals and achievements

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    In the poem Richard Cory ‚by edwin is about a guy that seems to have everything‚the author shows ‚that even if someone has everything it doesn’t mean you are actually happy.This is shown through formal diction‚symbolism‚ and assonance in the poem. Throughout the entire poem‚ the author upholds Richard Cory in a positive pedestal‚But in reality it does not turn out that way As reading the poem further and analyzing it the author describes richard as a admirable person that other people wish to

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