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    grey planes pregnant with bombs.” – Dorianne Laux Singing Back The World 4. “I spoke to friends who recognized the language of our relm.” – Leanne O’Sullivan The Cord 5. “eight dancers dressed as swans.” – Mary Cornish Numbers 6. “Always wants a hug and never gets enough”- Ronald Koertge Sidekicks 7. “whose perfume swayed in the air‚ turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from beneath the stones to fuse into a single… light

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    in a simple hut. I wonder where I will die‚since I am neither white nor a black man? Question 1 What different denotations does the title have? What connotations are linked to each of them? The title of the poem contains several meanings‚ all of which underscore the main theme. This poem relates to the speaker’s inner turmoil because if his mixed racial ancestry.First of all‚“crossˮcan mean“angry.ˮThe speaker was angry‚ or “cross‚”with his father and mother for their passing on to him an amalgam

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    English A1 HL Stanza Analyses Sir B September 30‚ 2010 T.S Eliot’s “The Waste Land” Madame Sosostris‚ famous clairvoyante‚ |   | Had a bad cold‚ nevertheless |   | Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe‚ |   45 | With a wicked pack of cards. Here‚ said she‚ |   | Is your card‚ the drowned Phoenician Sailor‚ |   | (Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!) |   | Here is Belladonna‚ the Lady of the Rocks‚ |   | The lady of situations. |   50 | Here is the man with three

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    Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ "Medallion" is about a snake she finds dead‚ and the details of its body that she notices. Written in 1959‚ its form was strictly "controlled." Plath uses imagery‚ literary devices‚ and sensory details‚ especially colors. First‚ we "see" the image of a snake‚ bronze‚ lying in the sun near a gate with a "star and moon" design. By the gate with star and moon Worked into the peeled orange wood The bronze snake lay in the sun Next‚ Plath uses a metaphor

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    Week 4 assignment 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous learning in an online class with students from different professions living all over the United States – just like Ashford? I think that some advantages of synchronous learning in online classes are that all students get to meet up and talk to the professor and discuss class at the same time. They are from different time zones but they learn the same information due to they are taking the same class

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    Dull voices drone lethargically from the old TV set‚ lulling dazed victims into a psychedelic slumber‚ their lifeless bodies languorously melting into the furniture. This is the place where time dies. I didn’t know it yet‚ but I soon would. I watch you drag your numb limbs across the dusty white floors and slump into the seat furthest in the corner‚ isolated‚ alone. You mumble words which spill out your mouth in a disjointed mess; wasted words for only the silence to prey upon. Your eyes

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    In Shelley’s poem "Ode to the West Wind" His call of revolution and change is very strong. He portrays the deterioration of humanity and he invokes individuals to wake up. He also hopes for a millennial future‚ of a major transformation to the better. The poet believes that the society declined to its "grave". He describes the people as dead leaves. He uses the colors of dead flesh to describe the leaves "Yellow‚ and black‚ and pale‚ and hectic red". He also describes the society as "ghosts…fleeing"

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    Our Casuarina Tree |   | Toru Dutt (1856–77) |   |   | LIKE a huge Python‚ winding round and round | |   The rugged trunk‚ indented deep with scars‚ | |   Up to its very summit near the stars‚ | | A creeper climbs‚ in whose embraces bound | |   No other tree could live. But gallantly |         5 | The giant wears the scarf‚ and flowers are hung | | In crimson clusters all the boughs among‚ | |   Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee; | | And oft at nights the

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    Poems: Piano‚ Poem at thirty-nine & Once Upon a time Paragraph 1 - Introduction Nostalgia is the desire of things from the past‚ feeling homesick or remembering a person. This is the central Idea of the three poems; D.H.Lawrence’s ‘Piano’‚ Alice Walker’s ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ & Gabriel Okara’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ convey that they miss their earlier life or wish for a better past. Paragraph 2 - Write the theme of the first poem. D.H. Lawrences ‘Piano’ is a representation of longing of his past

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    Sample ‘short answer’ questions for Lecture Exam 4 (Final Exam) (1) Briefly describe the meninges and spaces that surround the spinal cord. Meningeal Branch: Tiny‚ reenters vertebral canal‚ innervates meninges and blood vessels (2) Distinguish among exteroceptors‚ interoceptors and proprioceptors. Exteroceptors: Respond to stimuli arising outside body Receptors in the skin for touch‚ pressure‚ pain‚ and temperature Most special sense organs (vision‚ hearing‚ equilibrium‚ taste‚ smell) Interoceptors:

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