seeming contradiction in two words put together personification attribution of human motives or behaviors to impersonal agencies rhyme repetition of same sounds tone‚ mood feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem WOODCHUCKS Gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn out right. The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful‚ quick at the bone and the case we had against them was airtight‚ both exits shoehorned shut with puddingstone‚ but they had a sub-sub-basement
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annoying‚ especially if a driver is in a rush. “Woodchucks‚” a poem by Maxine Kumin‚ is directly about a person killing off the woodchucks in his/her yard. William Stafford’s poem‚ “Traveling through the dark” is about a driver who came upon a dead pregnant doe in the road‚ who’s fawn is still alive‚ and whether or not to make the decision about whether to push the doe off the cliff with the fawn inside or to save the unborn fawn’s life. Both poets‚ Kumin and Stafford‚ contrast the theme of inhumane
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Poetry is a very powerful mechanism through which writers can tell their readers something about themselves or the world around them. The language within “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin display the speakers’ psychology and what sort of relationships they have with the animals and their deaths in their respective works. Despite being similar in a few aspects‚ these two works are very different. The most obvious similarity between the two works is
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animals. In both “Traveling through the Dark‚” written by William Stafford‚ and “Woodchucks”‚ written by Maxin Kumin‚ the authors discuss about interventions of human beings to animals. Even though the two poems are different in the use of irony‚ the tone and the sentence structure‚ they illustrate similar relationships between humans and animals that humans are superior to animals. “Traveling through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” use different irony to represent their relationships
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Wish List for MDS Library Feb. 20/2012 Ranger’s Apprentice books 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5 (all by John Flanagan) 1. The Ruins of Gorlan 2. The Burning Bridge 3. The Icebound Land 4. The Battle for Skandia Little Red Hen and Passover Matza by Leslie Kimmelman The Lemonade War The Bell Bandit All by Jacqueline Davis The Lemonade Crime A World Without Heros (Beyonders series) by Brandon Mull Seeds of Rebellion (Beyonders series) by Brandon Mull The Hardest Word
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two separate occasions she met Dr. Martin Orne‚ who encouraged her to take up poetry. Within twelve years of writing her first sonnet‚ she was one of the most honored poets in America. On October 4th‚1974‚ Anne Sexton had lunch with good friend Maxine Kumin to revise galleys for Sexton’s manuscript of “The Awful Rowing Toward God”‚ scheduled for publication in March 1975. On returning home‚ she put on her mother’s fur coat‚ removed all of her rings‚ poured herself a glass of vodka‚ locked herself
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1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers‚ Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? 2. How many boards Could the Mongols hoard If the Mongol hordes got bored? 3. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines‚ and where she shines she sits. 4. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? 5. Send toast to ten
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up and walks out. I think it’s safe to say that Abe was a little too honest. Number one on my list is: "Do woodchucks chuck wood?" in which the camera cuts to a jolly pair of woodchucks throwing chopped logs into a pond and being scolded by the farmer who chopped them. “You darn woodchucks‚ quit chuckin’ my wood!” yells the farmer. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? I haven’t figured out the answer to this question‚ but I bet the farmer wishes the answer was
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Robert Frost’s Use of Animals and Insects in His Works Robert Frost was born on March 26‚ 1874 in California and moved to New Hampshire when he was eleven years old‚ after his father died. In his poems about familiar objects and characters of New England give his readers a sense of being there no matter where it was read. Frost’s transcendentalist view of nature and the descriptions of the way nature made him feel pulls the reader in and makes them feel like he is a part of the story. In a number
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In the original text‚ an article in The Boston Globe titled‚ “No One Was Surprised When Anne Sexton Chose to Die”‚ published shortly after Sexton’s suicide discussing her relationship with death‚ there was a commemorating and nostalgic tone I wanted to keep. I thought these specific tones were important to replicate because so much of what is written about Sexton tends to be very dry and academic‚ not giving insight to how creative and human she was. The article ends with describing the timeline
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