if you let your dreams be set free. The metaphors used in the poem conveys the message by describing how your life is filled with uncertainties but you are the one to make your own path along the way like your dreams. Langston also uses personification to explain how somedreams can die but it’s your choice to let them die. If you let your dreams die‚ you will be missing out on something special the can change your
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I still remember the day‚ December 6‚ 1999. My Best friend had called me crying‚ asking for my help. I expected the worst‚ but it wasn’t so bad. She asked if I could go with her to the doctor because she thought she was pregnant. My thoughts immediately went to the baby because my friend had been drinking and doing drugs for the past two months. The next day‚ I told my mom I was walking to the bus stop‚ but really I was going to skip school so I could accompany my friend to the doctor. That day
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In the essay “I Want a Wife”‚ Judy Brady discusses all the duties that a wife would have to do for the husband and the family to express her frustration in her marriage. She lists a lot of examples in her life to show us the job as a wife is burdensome and difficult. She also uses a sarcastic tone to describe the selfish attitude of men wanting a wife to take care of everything in his life while he can do whatever he want. She started to carefully think about the unfair treatment between men and
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In the poem "After Auschwitz" by Anne Sexton‚ the speaker talks about her feelings after touring a concentration camp. The speaker writes about what humans are able to do to other humans and how horrible this specific time was. The speakers tone is mostly angry. During the poem‚ the speaker’s tone becomes more and more angry and dark but at the end of the poem in the last two lines it also turns into a sad tone. These tones are created to confirm the bad things that happened in the concentration
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The poem Nothing Without My Mother is a poem written about my own family. The characters referred to in the poem were: my mother‚ my father‚ and my baby brother. The poem‚ in summary‚ is an inside view on my mother‚ and it shows how she acts as the glue for the family and brings everyone closer. First in the poem‚ my mother is being complimented as to say I was already thinking about her and appreciating her‚ then it keys in on what she is doing in real life and still notices and acknowledges the
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and help tell their stories of their life struggles. In the poem "I‚ too" I believe is being told from an African- American slave who one day believes that he will become a free man. This poem is using more of a patriotic tone. Because the speaker implies‚ " I‚too‚ sing America"(line1). He is saying that he is worthy of sitting at the same table as the caucasian people. Even though the Caucasian people mistreat this man‚ Langston was still able to employ this man’s faith and hope that one day he will
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We Wear The Mask My reaction to the poem “ We Wear the Mask” is a feeling of truthfulness. It tells about what people see and what others hide. People that I have met don’t really act like themselves. Like when it says “We smile‚ but‚ O great Christ‚ our cries to thee from tortured souls arise” those are the people who have hid themselves from others. They are people we wouldn’t know that are at home cutting themselves are even attempt to do suicide that only the lord knows. They can talk like
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first order of business in a poem is to establish situation and mood‚ and Roethke selects the father’s drinking as the foremost fact to be conveyed. The tone is slightly comic‚ as the speaker suggests that there was enough alcohol on the father’s breath to inebriate a child. This observation implies that the father had consumed a substantial amount of whiskey‚ since the smell of it was very potent. These lines also establish a closeness between the two figures. The poem is a direct address from the
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The poem‚ “Why I am Not a Painter”‚ by Frank O’Hara contains the various terminology that is used by Bartholomae‚ Petrosky‚ and Waite. The specific language that is used by O’Hara contains a tone that can be described as prosaic or conversational. For example‚ instead of the narrator “visiting” Mike Goldberg‚ the narrator just drops in to see the progress of Goldberg’s painting. The author also says that Sardines is removed due to the fact that “it was too much.” O’Hara’s word usage is very similar
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As humans‚ we often think about power‚ but never think about how lonely you will be with it. The poem Ozymandias‚ written by Percy Shelley‚ is a poem about political power. Shelly uses a mocking tone to describe the desire of achievement of morality while criticizing the arrogance of Ozymandias for wanting dominance and demand praise. The setting is complex in this poem; despite that‚ there is a two people point of view illustrated in the situation. The traveler describes an antique land while Ozymandias
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