The poem Despot by Edith Nesbitt is about how the gardener is like a ruler. A ruler decides what is fair and unfair. A ruler also decides the fate of others. "since he had not set them there‚ He hated them for being fair." The speaker of the poem is the poet explaining how the gardener favors the flowers over the weeds. "he coldly loved the flowers that lived as he approved." The weeds and the flowers are symbols for two different kinds of people. How there are two different types of people one that
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The book What If?‚ written by Randall Munroe‚ is exactly what it says on the cover‚ “Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions”. The purpose of the book is to explain in detail answers to crazy questions that aren’t necessary possible on Earth. The book is set up where it provides a questions and then the next few pages are dedicated to explaining the answer. There are also pages every once in awhile with weird and worrying questions that he doesn’t answer but provides a funny cartoon
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The book What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe is a book that includes a series of hypothetical questions that the author‚ a famous American cartoonist‚ tries to explain or answer in a scientific and clear way. However‚ this book is not a good book because it has no plot‚ doesn’t involve developed characters and also has no chronological sequence. To begin‚ the book does not have a plot. This can be seen in the text‚ it states‚ “A brief story the official
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William Gibson has a quote which says "Time moves in one direction‚ memory in another". This quote is especially evident in "Once More to the Lake" by E.B White and "On Going Home" by Joan Didion. In both of these personal narratives‚ the authors struggle with the overwhelming sensation of yearning for the past. In an effort to conquer the nostalgic sensation‚ they both visit a place that is very dear to their hearts. However‚ as the authors soon figured out‚ nothing stays the same forever.
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Moments within our lives have been utilised for multiple purposes throughout our existence. These moments have given rise to inspiration for numerous historical figures‚ such as poets. W. H. Auden‚ Bruce Dawe‚ Sylvia Plath‚ Carol Ann Duffy and S. K. Kelen‚ have all used various brief moments of human experience to explore emotions and ideas. Refugee Blues‚ Homecoming‚ The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes‚ Funeral Blues‚ Daddy and Little Red-Cap‚ have through tone‚ stylistic features‚ language devices and
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The popularity of poetry has declined drastically as new generations come to make new art “In 1992‚ 17 percent of Americans had read a work of poetry at least once in the past year. 20 years later that number had fallen by more than half‚ to 6.7 percent” (Ingraham). Poetry readers have begun to abandon it. Songs are becoming the modern poetry. Happiness brought by love is a common theme in the poem and song. In the poem‚ the speaker is using life examples to show the joy that her husband brings to
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Poetry is a literary work that expresses feelings and ideas‚ the purpose of this poetry comparison essay is to discuss the setting and situation‚ the tone‚ and the speaker and how they relate to the poems “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “On My First Daughter” by Ben Jonson. These poems differ in many ways and they are the same in many ways. The purpose of the two poems is to discuss the setting and situation. In “The Mother” the setting takes place in 1945 and talks about the feeling of abortions
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1. THEORETICAL PART 1.1 Major Anglo-American fantasy sagas and their factual aspects Similarly‚ as George R. R. Martin also other authors of fantasy sagas drew inspiration from real life historical events or used literary devices such as allegory. Two of the major authors are J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis‚ whose most significant works respectively are The Lord of the Rings trilogy along with Hobit and The Chronicles of Narnia. 1.1.1 Classis Anglo-American fantasy sagas and their alleged factographic
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Poets all have diverse writing styles‚ they strive to express their ideas in an innovative way. There are a great number of prodigious poets‚ two of them are Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes. These two poets produced remarkable poems‚ their writing styles have various similarities and minimal differences. One very interesting fact about these poets is that they both wrote during times of segregation and race problems. Personally‚ I believe that all these problems influenced their writing‚ they wanted
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Throughout the late 20th century there was a boom of liberation. The LGBT community had been established‚ religious diversity was common‚ and women had gained more respect. Everyone was bringing attention to more diverse communities. Speculative fiction describes the fear that society had that could have potentially ruined the beautiful freedom we have to express our opinions‚ beliefs‚ and gender. During the late 1900s speculative fiction displayed the privileges of gender equality and freedom that
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