------------------------------------------------- Example: ------------------------------------------------- Discuss how the theme of ‘childhood’ or ‘war’ is expressed in two of the works you have studied. (You might discuss the theme of childhood in a poem and a novel you have studied this year) 1. Think about important themes that appear in each of the texts that you have studied this year. 2. Consider significant characters and their role in the texts you have
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collections of prose‚ ’Wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now’ and ’Even the stars look lonesome’. Angelou has written several famous poems‚ including ’Still I rise’ and ’On the pulse of the morning’ for the inaugeration of President Clinton. Maya Angelou now has a lifetime appointment as Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. The poem is about the man that Maya Angelou loves‚ and she uses a variety of metaphors and images to describe him to the reader. Maya Angelou
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Homophobia in Media In the article "Identity Sedition and Pornography" by Pat Califia‚ she talks about‚ how as a female-feminist-leather-dike when she writes‚ she is more inclined to write gay sex stories. She states that even within the queer community people try to limit themselves to the things that should classify their identity‚ so she challenges the idea of getting out of our own gender boxes and cross the "boundaries of identity that challenge those limitations" (105). For Califia‚ her erotic
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The attitude of eurocentrism is best displayed when evidence shows that this poem focuses on the worldview of Western civilization. The source creator likely supports eugenics because it selects only the best genetics to breed so that all “poor” and undesirable traits are eliminated in the process‚ which can perhaps help “take up
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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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Nostalgia is conveyed through images of home such as family and vanity according to Warsan Shire’s poem‚ “ Maymuun’s Mouth.” Shire communicates a sense of homesickness when she speaks about Maymuun’s “front teeth stain from the fluoride in the water back home.” Shire emphasizes the stains on the teeth because it is the first thing people see‚ it is a way to differentiate immigrants from the native citizens. Physical appearance reminds her of her life back home. Additionally‚ memory is articulated
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The Troll’s Nosegay by Robert Graves A simple nosegay! was that much to ask? (Winter still irked‚ with scarce a bud yet showing). He loved her ill‚ if he resigned the task. “Somewhere‚” she cried‚ “there must be blossom blowing.” It seems my lady wept and the troll swore By Heaven he hated tears: he’d cure her spleen – Where she had begged one flower he’d shower fourscore‚ A bunch fit to amaze a China Queen. Cold fog-drawn Lily‚ pale mist-magic Rose He conjured‚ and in a glassy cauldron
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How does Pat Barker use symbolism in the novel Regeneration to explore the theme of emasculation? The theme emasculation appears several times throughout the novel Regeneration in variety of forms. Barker’s exploration of emasculation in the novel challenges traditional notions of manliness‚ showing war as a possible “feminine” experience. Pat Barker is bringing to attention that the atrocities suffered at war are making the soldiers unmanly as they’re facing shell shock and trauma. There are many
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Pat Conroy: The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy is a New York Times bestselling author that has written many renowned novels and memoirs. “He’s not much of a stylist‚ and his sense of humor needs work‚ but Pat Conroy has a nice wry perspective and a wholehearted commitment to his job.” (CLC 45). One of his best selling novels is The Prince of Tides. This novel depicts the life of Tom Wingo a southern boy and all the problems he faces with his family. Pat Conroy has won many awards for his writings and
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everyone is a traveler and choosing the roads to follow on the map of life is never a straight path that leaves someone with one single direction in which to head. The poet’s point of view in this poem is his belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. From the tone of this poem‚ he has an inspiring and thoughtful mood. "I shall be telling this with a sigh‚ somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood‚ and I took the one less traveled by‚" in this passage
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