Meditation on Yellow Olive Senior is a Jamaican poet who explores Caribbean history. Her poetry often conveys her displeasure of colonization and the suffering Caribbean people endured. Meditation on Yellow explores the colonization and exploitation process carried out by the Europeans. This poem strong conveys Senior discontentment as it relates to the exploitation of the land and the Amerindian tribe. It through the use of symbolism‚ language and repetition the brutality of colonization
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“anyone lived in a pretty how town” analysis This poem by e.e. Cummings is one of the rear pieces of his work that resembles a typical‚ ordinary poem. At least that’s what its structure reveals – the poem consists of 9 quatrains written with no particular meter and a rhyming scheme of a a b c. Regardless of the poem’s fairly common structure‚ we can easily notice some irregularities in the writing. The one that is most striking at a first glance is the use of lower case letters both in the title
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The text I’m going to analyze is headlined “Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King‚ Jr”. It is the speech of Robert F. Kennedy‚ a prominent democratic senator from New York‚ and it was delivered on the 4th of April in 1968. The opening sentences of the speech show that the author is going to present sad news – that the man who dedicated his life to struggling for the justice – Martin Luther King is killed. The author stresses that it will be difficult times filled with bitterness
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“A Noiseless Patient Spider‚” By Walt Whitman Biography: Born on May 31‚ 1819‚ in West Hills‚ Long Island‚ New York‚ Walt Whitman was a poet whose verse collection Leaves of Grass is a landmark in American literature. Whitman’s aim was to transcend traditional epics‚ eschew normal aesthetic form‚ and reflect American society to enable the poet and his readers to realize themselves and the nature of their American experience. Whitman’s greatest theme is a symbolic identification of the regenerative
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bombs‚ missing people‚ or even helping the blind and disabled. Dogs can be controlled easily because training them is very easy compared to cats. Dogs can be trained to cause less destruction around the house and they can be kept in dog crates (Anaphora). Training a cat is not easy and it can feel impossible sometimes because when you are trying to tell them something you will probably hear a small sound of kitty laughter (Personification). Therefore‚ did you ever hear the saying that a dog is
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you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago‚" (Kennedy). Kennedy uses that line to show his sincerity and honesty of swearing on the oath just like the past presidents did. His use of anaphora in lines "to those old allies‚" "to those people‚" "to our sister‚" and "to those new states‚" helps show his great character because he is able to discuss all issues of the situation. Kennedy gives an emotional appeal by displaying patriotism
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example he use is Walt Whitman’s ‘city of orgies‚ walks and joys ‘proud and passionate city – mettlesome mad extravagant city. He also uses an example from a worker saying what did we do to deserve this sir. He use a lot of rhetorical questions. Anaphora repetitions as ‘we’ and ‘our’ ‘it’s’ are used a lot in this text. The logos he uses by referring to similar written documentation or parallels so he can get his point across. A lot of generalization is used and overall this article expresses fear
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In the poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”‚ by Walt Whitman‚ the speaker “[becomes] tired and sick” of the learned astronomer’s “proofs‚ [and] figures” used to observe the stars. While the others attending the lecture applaud the astronomer for his approach to the stars‚ the speaker‚ however‚ exits the lecture hall to enjoy the stars in his preferred method of going outside in the “perfect silence”. These contrasting scenes expose the dichotomous relationship of the speaker’s and the astronomer’s
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President elect‚ John Kennedy‚ in his inauguration address‚ expounds the country to an option for world peace. Kennedy’s purpose is to persuade the people of America and the rest of the world to follow his instructions of uniting to help accomplish peace worldwide. He procures an optimistic tone in order to convince the people of the world that world peace is possible with enough effort. Kennedy opens his inauguration address by establishing an effort to have everyone take what he is saying into
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Richard III Essay The story of Richard III tells the tale of one of history’s most tyrannous kings who stopped at nothing to claim the throne. Set in colonial England‚ it’s a powerful story that is still relevant today of betrayal‚ honor‚ and the nature of man. It is also masterfully written‚ as Shakespeare uses language to depict imagery and provoke thoughts. Shakespeare uses literary devices to illustrate Richard’s tyrannous character in act 4 when Elizabeth and Margaret are grieving over their
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