My father died last two Tuesdays ago. As odd as it sounds from someone who keeps a poetry blog‚ I don’t immediately look to poetry for inspiration or comfort. The morning after the Boston Marathon bombings‚ for example‚ the news on television kept bringing up images for me of the science fiction show “Fringe”. Popular movies and television offer‚ to me‚ images and immediate visceral emotional connections. This is our age. So when my father died‚ I did not rattle off a poem. Even as we put together
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The shrill screech of the alarm clock fills the air in my room. I slam the alarm and the sound makes way for my first thought: “This is not how a relaxing Sunday starts.” I emerge from the house on to the back veranda; which is basking in the sun. It bakes my weary bones as I awaken. Despite the sun‚ there is a cool breeze that is just shy of cold. I step on the grass and the icy dew creeps between my toes sending chills up to my legs. The breeze is trying desperately to dislodge the leaves that
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Love fuels actions What is real love? Do you show it by doing things for them? In his poem “These Winter Sundays” Robert Hayden uses imagery‚ poetic diction‚ and repetition to explore the theme of you do things for the ones you love because you love them. He uses imagery describing the cold tells the reader what his father has to face to warm the house‚ he follows up the description of the cold with talking about his father’s hands- “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold‚ / then with cracked
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Summary: A Sound of Thunder is about a man that decides to go on a hunting trip to the past to shoot the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex. Characters: Eckels - Man that decides to go on a hunting trip to the past Keith - President of the current reality Deutscher - Man that lost current presidency to Keith‚ known as the anti everything man in the current reality Mr. Travis - The safari guide in to the past Lesperance - the assistant safari guide to the past Section One: Eckels remarks how lucky
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ASSIGNMENT TITLE: The Sound and Music Industry Reference No: Dennis Tuckerman Tutor: Adam Morris Assessor: Date Set: 10/09/07 Completion Date: 18/11/07 Learning Hours: 60 Unit no Unit Title(s): This project assesses the following module Outcome(s)/Assessment Criteria: 39 The Sound and Music Industry 1 Assignment BRIEF: This assignment will introduce different areas of the music industry and should on completion‚ provide an overview of the bigger picture ’ of the industry as a
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Early Sunday Morning Early Sunday Morning is a quintessential Edward Hopper painting. Looking at the painting you see a stretch of street with no street signs and completely void of any human activity‚ nothing is happening.The point of view of the painting is from across the street‚ looking at the two story properties. The shadows‚ pavement‚ and the building create an interesting series of horizontal lines. The only objects to break the horizontal line of the buildings are a barber’s shop pole
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In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden‚ Robert Hayden shows the speaker’s regrets for not recognizing his father’s love during his childhood. In the first stanza‚ the speaker introduces his father. Beginning with “Sundays too my father got up early‚” “Sundays too” suggests that the father woke up early even on Sundays to help his family (line 1). Then‚ the words the speaker use to describe his father makes an imagery of the father having a harsh life. The speaker describes his father’s
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In their song “Sunday Bloody Sunday”‚ U2‚ a rock and roll band from Dublin‚ reflect on the tragedy that occurred one Sunday in Derry‚ Northern Ireland. Although several events in Irish history have been termed ‘Bloody Sunday‚’ Bono sings about the events in Ireland/Northern Ireland in the late 20th century. During this time‚ the Catholic people of Northern Ireland wanted Northern Ireland to reunite with the Republic of Ireland while the Protestant people wanted to remain apart of the United Kingdom
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Billy Sunday once said “Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.” This wasn’t Billy Sunday’s mindset his whole life‚ he wasn’t even a christian until his older adult life. Billy Sunday is an extraordinary muckraker and christian evangelists‚ even best know as one of the best evangelists of all time. Before Billy Sunday turned into an evangelist he was an even greater baseball player. It may not seem like Billy Sunday did much to greater the world but he actually
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The poem “Those Winter Sundays” was written by Robert Hayden. The poem ’s theme is centralized around the love and commitment of Hayden’s father. The poem expresses how Hayden seen his father as a strict‚ responsible‚ and sometimes angered man. Although his father was strict in his ways‚ he did show his love in his own ways. Hayden wrote this poem in open form. This form allowed his poem to come to life as it moves along. The poem contains fourteen lines and there is no rhythm or rhyming pattern
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