Comparing poems: “Cousin Kate” and “Catrin” Conflict is presented in the poems “Cousin Kate” and “Catrin”. In the poems the conflict is based on the relationships between families. However‚ in “Cousin Kate”‚ the conflict is also in the class divide of a powerful lord and a poor maiden who I s controlled and abused by the lord. “Catrin” focuses on the bond between a mother and daughter and the conflict that relationship brings. The imagery in “Cousin Kate” conveys how the love between the lord
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Love has a variety of effects on people. When it is pure it can change people for the better and heal their pain. “Catch the Moon” was written by a Puerto Rican American woman and is set in the Caribbean Hispanic Barrio. “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” is written by a Caucasian man from New Hampshire and is set in a New England summer home waterfront community. In “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” The main character a teenage boy‚ believes himself to be in love with
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The poems Sympathy and We Wear the Mask are very similar to one another‚ they both express the pain and sorrow that the author is trying to hide. Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first African-American poets to be truly noticed; his parents were once slaves but escaped. Most of Paul Dunbar’s poems are known to be based off his parent’s experiences on plantations and other locations as slaves. We Wear the Mask is about how slavery can break you emotionally and physically‚ therefore the slaves are
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Wilfred Owen’s poetry usually describes the grotesque reality of the frontline of WWI; however‚ this poem concentrates on the meaning of existence‚ and the futility (pointlessness) of war and inevitability of death. The narrator of this poem is having an existential crisis; what is the point of being born if you are just going to die a few years later? It is common for people to question death and what comes after death‚ especially if that person is surrounded by death or on the verge of death themselves
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Sadness in Kate Chopin’s “The Locket” Kate Chopin’s “The Locket” is a short story only four pages long and broken into two sections‚ but filled with sadness. There are many factors in the story‚ from beginning to end‚ that display sad and sorrow that Kate Choplin‚ again and again‚ nailed home with imagery of the setting and personal experiences of the main characters Edmond and Octavie. Sadness appears right from the start in the first section with a gloomy setting of a war being waged and
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Suffrage‚ Spirituality‚ and Sadness in “Dover Beach” In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach”‚ Arnold allows reader’s to enter a whole new world of wisdom. Arnold sets his poem on Dover‚ a cliff in South England. Arnold uses imagery to help readers perceive a sense of darkness‚ and horror. He also uses smooth and rhythmic words to set up the scene more effectively. Arnold creates a more powerful poem and conveys his message more efficiently by using themes found in Fahrenheit 451 such as suffrage
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The Matilija Poppy also known as‚ the Romneya couteri‚ is an erect flower growing up to eight feet tall that is heavy branched and woody at the base. The white flowers are the largest of any plant native to California‚ and resemble fried eggs. There are five to eight crinkled petals per stem with many yellow stamens and a single large pistil. The unique flower was discovered in California in 1831 by an Irish surgeon-botanist‚ Thomas Coulter and the first seeds reached England in 1875 and by late
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upon Christian conversion‚ and specifically the conversion of a culture or empire which is pre-Christian‚ suggested in the poem to be barbaric; a culture or force that has got by on instinct alone and suggestively is ignorant of its destructive nature. The image of enlightenment‚ the discovery of knowledge and the losing of ones innocence also tie in with the Christian theme. A large and powerful force‚ ignorant of its own destructive nature‚ is the first image we perceive from reading the first
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Museum report on Poppy by Georgia O’Keeffe Written by Lauren Harmon 1. I visited the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg‚ Florida. My visit took place on Sunday‚ November 16th‚ at around noon. 2. I’m going to highlight Poppy. 3. Painted by Georgia O’Keeffe 4. Painted in 1927 5. It seems as though her intended audience for this painting (and the others in the series) was the general masses‚ people who live busy lives. She wanted people to stop and really see the flowers and notice their beauty
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Theme of Stopping by the wood s on a snowy evening The poem “stopping by the woods on a snowy evening” is written by Robert Frost. The poem is set in the woods and the speaker here is the stranger who stopped there‚ admiring what his eyes saw‚ the beautiful view. In the opening stanza‚ the poet wonders about owner of the woods and thinks he knows him. The stranger is in the woods and has a horse who thinks its weird that its owner has stopped in a place that does not have a farmhouse ‚ but
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