Poetry Explication of Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” The first thing one can notice in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” (rpt. In Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 9th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth‚ 2006] 680) is that the speaker in the poem is the mirror and the woman in the poem is Sylvia Plath. As you read through the poem‚ the lake is relevant because of the famous mythological story of narcissus. He was extremely beautiful and one day while drinking from a lake
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Comparison of a Theme Death can be written in many ways throughout poetry. Authors may sometimes use their own experience to write about what death means to them. Their words and writing styles are different than others who have the same theme in their poetry. This is what makes poetry so unique and beautiful. To be able to determine what each author’s difference is‚ you must analyze and compare their poems. This will help see how one theme can be written in multiple ways. In the poems‚ “Funeral
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In the poem‚ “We Wear the Mask’‚ the narrator‚ Paul Lawrence Dunbar‚ expresses the pain African American experienced during the slave trade and how the slaves learned to suppress their emotions. The poem shows a contrast between African American’s social faces and their “bleeding hearts”. The tone of the poem is not a corrective tone‚ but rather an explanatory one. In considering the time period‚ it would make sense that the narrator would be careful about insulting the white community. In the
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Released in 1983 Became the first personal computer sold to the public with a GUI. Aimed at large businesses Commercial failure due to high price tag (almost $10‚000) and limited software it could run Transition: Now let’s go to the generation that we might know more about I. 3rd main point: Various other Apple efforts A. Support: In 1987 – 2001 Macintosh (desktops) PowerBooks (laptops) Servers B. Support: 1997 – Steve Jobs announced that Apple would join Microsoft to release new
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becoming common practice to note how gender is presented in the media. Nowadays media is so much more accessible than it has been in the past because more people are being exposed to it. In lecture‚ Dr. Lovas spoke about how we learn gender roles through experience and what we witness; and in turn influence our gender role norms. In their study of gender in Disney movies‚ Towbin‚ Haddock‚ Zimmerman‚ Lund‚ and Tanner (2004) said‚ “The accumulated experience [of media exposure] contributes to the cultivation
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Executioner" by Donald Hall "My Son‚ My Executioner" My son‚ my executioner I take you in my arms Quiet and small and just astir and whom my body warms Sweet death‚ small son‚ our instrument of immortality‚ your cries and hunger document our bodily decay. We twenty two and twenty five‚ who seemed to live forever‚ observe enduring life in you and start to die together. In "My Son‚ My Executioner‚" Donald Hall uses connotative meaning‚ imagery and figures of speech to create the overall contrasting
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Many people would find shocking because George killed his best friend Lennie. I think it was selfless the thought that life without Lennie would be easy might have crossed Georges mind but I think he kills Lennie mainly because he dont want Lennie to suffer from Curley. First reason why George killed Lennie is George wants to prevent Lennie from suffering a long and painful death“Shoot im in the guts” Curley wants to make sure that Lennie suffers a long and painful death for killing his wife
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Kiara Houston Ms. Stopka English 1H‚ per 5 1/21/14 Poem Analysis/ “The Road Not Taken” In “The Road Not Taken‚” Robert Frost gives his readers a speaker standing at a “fork” in the road- or having to make a decision. Robert Frost uses extended metaphor‚ irony‚ and an unreliable narrator to show his reader’s that‚ when choosing life courses‚ one must consider where the path is actually going verses from how it may appear. Decisions fill the lives of human beings‚ and this speaker faces the
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poem shows what her beliefs were about death. Dickinson did not title any of her poems so the title given to this poem is just the first line. The reason she never titled her work was because she never meant to publish any of her poetry. In the poem‚ she repeats the phrase‚ “We passed‚” and this might be a clue to the reader that she has passed away. This repetition allows the readers to infer that the speaker of the poem is a spirit or ghost reminiscing of her past. Undoubtedly‚ the speaker of the
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In this chapter‚ about photosynthesis‚ we vaguely learned about organisms that lived deep down in the ocean and they get their energy from earth. They make their own food‚ which makes them autotrophs‚ though they do this without the help of light (light independent process). Being fascinated about this process I did some research and tried to find out more about how they were discovered and what kind of environment they lived in; so I found a ted talk on this topic. In this Ted talk‚ Mike deGruy
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