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    hooked onto the poem and want to read it. One of my favorite poems is “poetry.” Poetry is a poem about poets using poetry to express themselves and not to impress anybody. She uses metaphors to show what poetry is‚ she says “A poem is pure energy.” These types of metaphors help the reader picture what the poems trying to say. She also uses personification to also have a better understanding. Another one of Nikki Giovanni’s poems is “women.” I think that this poem talks about a woman

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    T.S Eliot’s ‘ The Journey of the Magi ’ and Seamus Heaney’s ‘ A Found Poem’ both details a man questioning the role of belief. In ‘Magi’‚ the speaker is one of the three wise men experiencing an arduous journey. In the ‘ Found Poem‚’ the speaker questions his own loss of faith during the mass. Therefore‚ both poems display divinity and hardships. Both T.S Eliot’s ‘The Magi’ and Seamus Heaney’s ‘A Found Poem’ both explore the journeys physically and mentally of men who are struggling with faith.

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    -Judith Wright Hunting snake is the poem written by Judith Wright‚ an Australian environmentalist‚ who shares her amazing encounter with a great black snake. The main theme of the poem is nature. Here‚ the description that the poet gives about “the great black snake” is pretty much similar to the red bellied black snake which was found in the writer’s hometown in New South Wales. In this poem‚ the persona or the voice is that of the poet herself. The poem is written in a quatrain‚ i.e four stanzas

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    Separation of Sadness Sadness is a predator that can lurk in the minds of the emotionally injured. It can be inconspicuous and swift‚ or it can consume an individual and be the most prominent aspect of their life. It is complex and differs in severity. A person will generally feel three types of an emotional drag: a sort of nonchalant‚ short-lived sadness‚ a dwelling and despairing sadness‚ and an overwhelming sadness that takes over a person’s mind and being. Being upset is a temporary emotion that

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    Comparing Two War Poems

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    Wars inspired many writers to write poems during and after the wars. Some poets fought during World War I and World War II. We can define a war poet as person who participates in war and writes about his experiences. The war poems I read from WWI and WWII are kind of related. In this essay I will do a comparison of two different poems from each world war. "Wirers” is a World War I poem about a soldier that was going to fight at WWI. The soldier had to overcome many obstacles to get to a barbed wire

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    above with reference to two poems you have studied on the theme "Relationship." There are several important issues that teenagers need to consider seriously when being involved in a relationship. Issues such as having honest open communication and dialogue‚ understanding one another‚ not being judgemental‚ knowing and loving each other are important elements in any successful relationship. These issues are highlighted in the poem that I will write on. These two poems are "Quiet Pain" and "Silly

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    Both Okita’s poem and Cisneros’s short story show the cultural heritage and physical heritage and physical appearances do not determine what it means to be an American. They are American according to where they live‚ but the way they look they are either Mexican or Japanese. We cannot assume we know where someone is from based on their looks because most times‚ we’re wrong. In the poem “Mericans‚” it is about a Mexican girl who moves to America with her grandmother. Micaela’s grandmother does not

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    Log book: The particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Chapters 1 – 5‚ pp. 3 – 36 Characters Maincharacter‚ Rose Edelstein friendly open-minded mature sensible honest worried about her family when she discovers her gift and knows the feelings of her mother describes her mother’s emotions as hollowness‚ emptiness and sadness her grandma says she is clingy Brother‚ Joseph Edelstein individual person keeps kind of a distance to his family and everybody else „Keep Out“-Sign on his door

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    mistrewatment of slaves either. Another example is the slowly decreasing of hierarchy in Africa. Kurtz is to be in charge of finding ivory‚ but instead‚ he abandons his job and in the mean time loses his civil traits. Another example of the futility of the Europeans is that they’re not good they’re not good at navigating and end up taking longer. Marlow has difficulty trying to complete his task because of the stupidity in navigating. Framework story structure: Heart of Darkness‚frame

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    is no less absurd” We cannot find any value over the monotonous and cyclic tasks we are used to. The worst of it is that when we become aware of the futility and we make such decisions to confront it either by ending our lives or accepting everything that’s happening. The author commended Sisyphus for this instance that he is conscious of the futility of his task but he keeps on pushing “I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the

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