A Contemplation Upon Flowers - Literature Notes The physical structure of this poem has beenaltered from the original layout in the text. Brave flowers‚ 1.that I could 5.gallant it likeyou‚ and be as little vain;You come abroad and make a 6.harmless show‚And to your beds of earth again;You are not proud‚ you know your birth‚For your embroidered garments are from earth.You do obey your months and times‚ but Iwould have it ever spring;My fate would know no winter‚ never die‚ nor think of such a
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Whitman uses a poem about a spider as a metaphor for the soul. By describing the spider as “patient” within the first line‚ the speaker utilizes personification to make the spider more relatable for later in the poem. The words “isolated”‚ “vacant”‚ and “vast” brings a separated‚ lonely‚ and depressed tone to the poem. Also‚ the alliteration of the “v” sound makes these words more prominent to grab the reader’s attention. Repetition is the key to understand the works of this spider‚ so the speaker represents
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A mask is an item that is used to hide emotion. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ the boys stuck on the island use masks to hide their emotions. They all go through a rollercoaster of emotions but they all fear that showing the emotions will destroy them. Golding uses the masks to symbolize that the boys are hiding behind something to show that they are truly good and no evil can become of them. A mask is used on all of the boys to hide their primitive stage that they are feeling. The
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A Contemplation Upon Flowers: In the poem A Contemplation Upon Flowers by Henry King the comparison of the life of a simple flower is made to the life of a human‚ in the sense that we both are born‚ we both live‚ and we both must die. Majority of people fear death‚ but the flowers accept death with open arms and a smile. This poem by Henry King praises flowers for not only their humble lifestyles but also for their acceptance of death. Henry King uses the literary device of personification
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Reflections Upon Marriage 1. According to Mary Astell the women’s customary status in society is that men are superior to women and it is the Wife’s duty to suffer without complaint. She reported that every man by nature is superior to woman and it would be a sin for women to have dominion over men (even the Queen) because of laws of nature. As she said on the third page “if they mean that some men are superior to some women‚ this is no great discovery.” This obviously indicates that the norm
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Spiders can be very annoying aspects of life. They may make you scream or make you run. For some reasons spiders can cause many accidents in everyday life. They are very bad if you have young children and you they are in a place where you go a lot. You probably want to find a non harmful way to get rid of these pesky everyday creatures. In this essay you find out the best ways to get rid of these very pesky creatures in a few steps that will help you get rid of them without harming yourself. After
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"Once Upon a Mattress" is a modern version of the story "Princess and the Pea". In the story Prince Dauntless is a mama’s boy whose mother‚ Queen Aggravain has ruled that no one else is allowed to marry until her son does. In spite of the Queens wishes for her son to be married‚ she seemingly manages to sabotage the town’s hopes of ever marrying. By testing and failing every applicable princess who comes along‚ the mother destroys her son’s desires of being with a woman. When another character
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1. Painting portrait: An experiment Instruction: The main idea of this experiment is to find the different expression from friends and strangers which have similar backgrounds and under the same communication context – which formed a “tradition” in our society. To paint “me and the feeling you caught up from me” as the theme‚ which the whole process will be recorded as the test result. Methodology: On the day that the experiment was performed‚ four friends were invited. Two of them were familiar
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man’s greed."-Mahatma Gandhi. Everything man needs is right in front of them‚ but human nature drives them to be evil. Savagery and civilization is what the humans conscience battles. William Golding addresses this argument in the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ through an island of lost boys. They are strive to live civilized however‚ the evil inside begins to seep out‚ transforming them into savage hunters. When the boys crash land onto a deserted island‚they come together to form a civilization
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The venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant. That means that it gets some of its nutrients from eating living things like insects and spiders. If you’ve never seen a venus flytrap before‚ they look like a flower with mouths at the ends of some of the leaves. The “mouths” look like they have teeth all the way around them and they are opened wide until they are ready to eat. The venus fly trap isn’t going to try to eat until its prey lands on it or moves across it two times. It waits because it doesn’t
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