1.10 Response to text Divergent Title: Divergent Author: Veronica Roth Date Read: 10/01/14 - 16/01/14 Cultural Perspective: American Critical Reputation: Winner of the Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Book Of 2011 Text Type: Novel _____________________________________________________________________ The novel “Divergent” written by author Veronica Roth is a thrilling story about the love and sacrifice of two teenagers (Tris and Four) living in dystopian America. This novel follows the hardship
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Last Night that She Lived After evaluating my perception of The Last Night that She Lived‚ by Emily Dickinson. The message in this poem is we take life for granted and we don’t appreciate it until we are threatened with losing it. Emily used what seems to me as free verse with no apparent rhyme but alliteration at times. This is a Narrative poem that tells a story about a death of a young woman. In the first verse Dickinson was saying when she wrote‚ "The last Night that She lived
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| | our Casuarina Tree is a poem published in 1881 by Toru Dutt‚ an Indian poet. Its a perfect example of craftsmanship.In this poemToru Dutt celebrates the majesty of the Casuarina Tree and remembers her happy childhood days spent under it and revives her memories with her beloved siblings. ------------------------------------------------- Summary The poem begins with the description of the tree. The poet says that the creeper has wound itself round the rugged trunk of the Casuarina Tree‚ like
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The two poems‚ “Slam‚ Dunk & Hook” and “Fast Break” both capture the attention of the audience by describing basketball as a game of imagery versus a game of athleticism. In‚ “Fast Break” by Edward Hirsch‚ the author uses vivid diction. Hirsch states‚ “to see an orange blur” (Hirsch). This describes the basketball as a flowing object. His tone is very easy going at this point in the poem. He uses vivid imagery to show that basketball is an art and it isn’t always about the fans and the players but
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Poem Analysis Shakespeare’s Th’expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame Where most poetry since Petrarch had been based on the unavailability of the love object‚ Shakespeare in sonnet 129 writes about exactly what happens when you get what you think you want. But contrary to expectations it is not an achievement devoutly to be wished‚ but rather an inevitable nightmare. It’s quite hard to pin down Sonnet 129 to one specific speech situation. Neither is there any “I” – a clear reference to a particular
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The theme of this poem by Krista Wheeler is it is never too late to change and turn your life around. The poem is about a student that is currently making poor choices when it comes to his academic success. The speaker is explaining to the child that what they are doing is wrong and that there is still time to change and make things better. Firstly‚ the poem states “work‚ work so that you will one day become glad”‚ this passage shows that if the child does not give up and continues to work hard he
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When reading this poem‚ I found out how meaningful the narrator is with her father. Even though she only speak Spanish in front of the presence of her father‚ she still spoke English aside since her father made the English language sound unnecessary for him to hear from her. That was a symbolism of respect for her showing father of the boundaries on what type of language she speaks when she is around him. So that’s why she said “My father likes them separate‚ one there‚ one here” because that’s is
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[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/scrap-paper] The poem I chose is called “A Scrap of Paper”. I believe that this poem is one of the world’s best and most interesting poems I’ve ever read‚ and even though it’s short‚ it leaves a lot for the reader to think about. The poem was written around the time of the First World War‚ and that is what I think it is about: a person who has received a letter saying that they have lost a loved one in war. Although the poem is short‚ there is not a lack
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who was born and raised in Philadelphia joined the Dark Room Collective in the early 1990’s to help give exposure to writers of colour and their struggles (“Major Jackson”). His poem “Mighty Pawns” was published in 2015‚ and can be found in the award-winning book “Roll Deep” (“Major Jackson”). “Mighty Pawn” is an informal poem‚ shown through the lack of punctuation‚ and stanzas; questioning the contemporary literary theme of traditional beliefs in crisis. With the use of symbols and imagery poet Major
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The poem where the sidewalk ends is a really intriguing poem that influences its readers to be more optimistic and imaginative in life like a child. The poem can be interpreted in different ways making its meaning dependent on how the reader interprets it. Regardless of this point the poet uses various poetic devices in his poem to effectively get the meaning across. The major poetic devices that made this poem effective were Connotation‚ Imagery and symbolism as well as various sound devices. First
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