Where I Come From - By Elizabeth Brewster The poem ‘Where I Come From’ by Elizabeth Brewster is about how a person is influenced by the environment he is brought up in‚ and how urban life and rural life differ from each other. The poet has used a very critical tone in this poem to convey how people are influenced by the places they have come from rural or urban. She has used a lot of visual imageries and metaphors to convey the busy lifestyle of the city. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem
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Where I come from Student: Valentin Turri The poem is divided in two stanzas and two extra lines. The poet is an old woman that talks about her present and her old past. In the first stanza the poet starts like introducing us in the text‚ explaining us the meaning of ‘’people are made of places’’‚ this means that all we are made of memories‚ places where we come from‚ we carry
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Done By: Http://www.livetvee4u.blogspot.com/ Where I Come From‚ Elizabeth Brewster The main idea in the poem is that a person’s character is always formed‚ at least in part‚ by the place where he or she is born: “People are made of places.” Wherever you go in life you will carry with you memories and echoes of your birthplace‚ whether it is a city‚ as in the first stanza‚ or the quiet Canadian countryside where Elizabeth Brewster herself was born in 1922. We are‚ however‚ also influenced
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where i come from - elizabeth brewster Discuss the way brewster uses language to convey her ideas about the link between identity and place. The main subject of the poem is the contrast between the city and the countryside where the speaker came from. Although there is no straight forward judgment made‚ the poet very cleverly‚ leaves subtle hints by showing a big difference in the tone of the two stanzas‚ which leads us to believe that she speaks in favour of the countryside‚ yet at the same
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English H 9 P.2 1/30/15 “Where I’m from” I am from the old chair in the lonely corner who nobody pays attention to‚ From family pictures and the rich smell of coffee. I am from the bird that flies free and without worries‚ Sea breeze and cinnamon. I am from the tulip that blossoms whenever it wants. The deformed tree that grew up along with me in my porch‚ Whose long limbs I remember As if it they were my own. I’m from celebrations and really long nights‚ From my cousin who nobody takes seriously
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In his talk "I Leaped from the Stratosphere‚" Alan Eustace describes his experience of flying the stratosphere and falling back down to Earth. When his project to accomplish this first began‚ his question was if someone could linger in and explore the stratosphere. Usually‚ when the stratosphere was visited‚ it was by astronauts flying through it in a rocker. To accomplish his goal‚ Eustace contacted the Paragon Space Development program and asked if it was possible to have a human linger in the
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Where I Come From – Elizabeth Brewster From the title of the poem‚ we can assume that Elizabeth Brewster’s “Where I Come From” is about the place or places where the writer was born in or where she spent her whole childhood. We also assume that she is going to describe‚ tell memories and her opinion about the completely different places. Although the opening line “People are made of places” can be loosely described as form of alliteration‚ the repetition of the “p” sound is particularly effective
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existence into a message which promotes reader based reflection. His strongest works are debatable‚ but his poems with the strongest messages remain clear. "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer‚" "A noiseless patient spider‚" and "A Clear Midnight" each present a fascinating insight into the nature of human existence. "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer" describes a speaker who is unaccountably disgusted by an astronomy lecture‚ but feels better once he leaves to look at the stars. This discontent
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To Kill a Mockingbird “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around it” says Atticus.(Lee‚ 30) In Harper Lee’s‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ racism is shown as a big part through the eyes of a modest little girl named Scout. Scout learns numerous things by trying to learn something from another person’s perspective. She tries to think of things that could have happened if racism didn’t exists and how people would
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Barbara Lazear Ascher On Compassion The man’s grin is less the result of circumstance than dreams or madness. His buttonless shirt‚ with one sleeve missing‚ hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers. Carefully plaited dreadlocks bespeak a better time‚ long ago. As he crosses Manhattan’s Seventy-Ninth Street‚ his gait is the shuffle of the forgotten ones held in place by gravity rather than plans. On the corner of Madison Avenue‚ he stops before a blond baby in an Aprica stroller. The baby’s
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