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    Done By: http://www.livetvee4u.blogspot.com/ Below is some additional information on the two poems written by Margaret Atwood and Kim Boey Cheng respectively‚ found on the internet: “The City Planners” by Margaret Atwood and “The Planners” by Boey Kim Cheng Many poets lament humanity’s soulless march toward technology and industrialization. Both “TCP” and “TP” reflect this sentiment. The poems are similar in ideas and tone‚ although Atwood’s is considerably more skilled and Cheng’s themes

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    the Ways in Which the City Planners & the Planners Powerfully Convey the Negative Impact of the City Planning Upon the Environment? In‚ both‚ City Planners and Planners‚ the concept of the redesigning of personality‚ past‚ and environment as a whole‚ is very much a theme – ‘so history is new again’ – and‚ indeed‚ thought of in a negative light. Through this idea‚ both Kim Cheng and Atwood explore whether nature will‚ conclusively‚ be a stronger force than the planners and‚ essentially‚ an artificial

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    In ‘The City Planners’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng‚ both poet uses the structure of the poem and language techniques to form the difference between the place itself and its identity. The uniformity between these two poems is the feelings of the poet expresses for this place. In ‘The City planners’ Atwood describes the place as “dry August sunlight”‚ this portrays an imagery of no lighting‚ dark and negative and also suggests to the readers that she do not like where

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    The City Planners

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    THE CITY PLANNERS By Margaret Atwood Background Born in Canada in 1939‚ Margaret Atwood is an author‚ poet‚ critic‚ and essayist‚ feminist and social campaigner. Best known as a novelist‚ she is also an award-winning poetess. "The City-Planners” is critical of the monotony and false beauty of modern cities‚ suburbs and its architecture. The poem views modern life as empty‚ artificial‚ and its inhabitants as robotic and lacking in spirit. Analysis i. Main Subject The main theme is the poet’s

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    The City Planners‚ Margaret Atwood In this poem‚ the poet attacks the sterile uniformity of residential suburbs. Notice that she never mentions people. ‘What offends us is the sanities’ Sanity is defined as being reasonable and of sound mind; she is referring to ‘pedantic houses’‚ sanitary trees’ and things that she considers to be overly controlled or constructed. She does not approve. In stanza 2‚ she lists ‘certain things’ that give momentary access to the landscape…’ The images

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    The City Planners - Margaret Atwood Summary: The Canadian author/poet Margaret Atwood creates this piece of poetry‚ addressing the perfection‚ robotic‚ bland and uniform structure of the city as she takes a cruise through it on a relaxing Sunday weekend‚ something that she finds completely sickening. Throughout the poem‚ she addresses the sickening sense of conformity that she finds in the city as well as the hidden hand behind all of this – the ‘evil’ politicians of this world‚ she says.

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    The city planners * Magaret Atwood - Canadian poet * Purpose: question the planners about the fake perfection * Criticism of the system * Emotion tone: emotionless‚ calm (beginning)‚ materialistic‚ depressing‚ fear‚ sorrow‚ monotonous‚ disillusion‚ sarcastic‚ mocking‚ anger * Theme: man vs nature * images about human hand in nature. – even nature is controlled by humans * society is blinded by this perfect order. * Nature will assert its dominance over man again

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    SCI 362: Energy Simulation

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    Simulation Jeneal Clegg 04/02/2013 Jonathan Neville SCI 362 In this simulation we were to review the pros and cons of allowing a foreign pharmaceutical company‚ Colney & Pitts located in California‚ to be able to harvest the rainforests tree’s bark‚ and build a manufacturing plant in the Kenyan highlands‚ to help in finding medication or herbal remedies for patients‚ by using the harvested bark to create synthetic medication. This particular simulation was going to affect the rainforest

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    How does Margaret Atwood communicate her ideas to the readers? Consider: Atwood opens the poem by painting a picture-perfect and rather unrealistic and pretentiously beautiful Canadian suburbia. It was obvious‚ as readers can tell‚ that Atwood was irritated by the unnatural uniformness of the suburbia. Atwood collectively refers to the suburbia as “the sanities”. While many may think being sane is a good thing (as opposed to being insane)‚ the writer may have opined otherwise. Being sane does

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    The Poems analysed are: The City Planners‚ Margaret Atwood and The Planners‚ Boey Kim Cheng. These are taken from the IGCSE Cambridge Poetry Anthology‚ but may be interesting for unseen poetry too. Question Set How do these poets use language and structure to get across their theme? I wrote this in about half an hour. Both poems are very similar‚ and have the same topic - City Planning - as shown in their titles. Structurally‚ they are different though‚ and the tone differs in places. I’ve

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