What metaphors does Holmes use to describe the ship in stanzas one and two of "Old Ironsides"? “The meteor of the ocean air” in stanza 1 and “The eagle of the sea!” In stanza 2. 2. In 1830‚ the 44-gun American warship Constitution‚ the inspiration for "Old Ironsides‚" was scheduled to be scrapped - that is‚ stripped of everything valuable or reasonable. What proposal is put forth by Holmes‚ in the last stanza of his poem? In the last stanza he states that if the ship should “die” in a sense then
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------------------------------------------------- Short Mothers Day Poems for Cards Looking for short mothers day poems to write in a card? Tell your mom how much you love her with one of these cute happy mothers day poems. Your mom is special‚ so look through these poems for mothers day and find one that’s just right for her! ------------------------------------------------- Free Short Mothers Day Poems A Mother’s Love ~Anon Of all the special joys in life‚ The big ones and the
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Background of the poem: Emily Bronte spends last days of her life at home. She didn’t have any outdoor activities. Her life was full of miseries and gloomy incidents. There is not any light of hope and couragment in her life. She was fed up with her life. She wrote this poem in those days when she was bound at home. This poem is the true representative of her disappointed feelings. She wanted to sleep but sleep brings no rest to her. She wanted to sleep eternally
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Shefsky ENG 4UZ Ms. Eldridge Thursday‚ March 11‚ 2010 Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ Nor lose possession
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Charlotte Dymond and John Lomas. Charlotte Dymond and John Lomas‚ are two poems which share several techniques. They also‚ however are different in many ways. This essay will explore their similarities and their differences and explain reasons why the two ballads are different or similar. For example‚ both poems have a theme of murder. Ballads normally have a sad or shocking story‚ so this is very common. In both poems the murderer is always hanged after murdering another person. In Charlotte Dymond
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to his own ends. Each of the secular poems "The Flea"‚ "The Sunne Rising" and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" shows Donne’s verbal dexterity‚ manipulation of the conventional form and the use of a variety of textual features. For the secular love poem "The Flea" the conventional form is that the flea is to be used as a symbolism of love. Donne subverts this form and uses the flea for the key point to his argument and to symbolise sex/marriage. In the poem Donne conveys meaning through the rhyming
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of the Requirements in FFP Submitted by: Ms. Paler‚ Crystal Ace F. Section XA Submitted to: Prof. Ruth Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan September 27‚ 2012 Thursday To live with God forever A synthesis paper of FFP I. Short Introduction Our lives have been a spontaneity predicament to somewhere pessimistically nowhere. I have been wandering and wondering for years and decades of what life has to offer and what it has brought upon me. I think I am legally old enough to
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Kamala Das) | Born | March 31‚ 1934 Punnayurkulam‚ Malabar District‚ Madras Presidency‚ British India | Died | May 31‚ 2009 (aged 75) Pune‚ Maharashtra‚ India | Pen name | Madhavikkutty | Occupation | Poet‚ short story writer | Nationality | Indian | Genres | Poetry‚ Short story | Notable award(s) | Ezhuthachchan Puraskaram‚ Vayalar Award‚ Sahitya Akademi Award‚ Asan World Prize‚ Asian Poetry Prize‚ Kent Award | Spouse(s) | Madhava Das | Kamala Suraiyya (b. Kamala Madhavikutty) (Malayalam
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Student Name Teacher Name School System Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program Achievement Test ~ Grade 4 Item Sampler Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What is the TCAP Achievement Test? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What are the questions testing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Who will be tested
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This poem by A.E Houseman is an eight-stanza poem with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. It is about a man struggling with his uneasy conscience. The narrator/speaker has a conversation with his dead friend‚ where he imagines what his friend would ask him‚ and then gives his response. The punctuation of the poem indicates who’s speaking. In every odd stanza‚ which are surrounded by quotation marks‚ his deceased friend is asking him questions. Conversely‚ In every even stanza‚ which do not have quotation marks
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