A Poor Cousin of the Middle Class Reflection 1 A Poor Cousin the Middle Class David K. Shipler A Poor Cousin of the Middle Class Reflection 2 In “A Poor Cousin of the Middle Class‚” it is about a woman named Caroline Payne who was a hard worker and had a lot of motivation to work and better herself. She was not viewed from a whole person perspective. She was a typical American citizen‚ fifty year-old‚ Caucasian woman. She has a two-year associate’s degree‚ who works at the local Wal-Mart
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Christina Rossetti was born at 38 Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street)‚ London to Gabriele Rossetti‚ a poet and a political exile from Vasto‚ Abruzzo‚ and Frances Polidori‚ the sister of Lord Byron’s friend and physician‚ John William Polidori.[1] She had two brothers and a sister: Dante became an influential artist and poet‚ and William and Maria both became writers.[1] Christina‚ the youngest‚ was a lively child. She dictated her first story to her mother before she had learned to write.[2]
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In “After Death‚” Christina Rossetti portrays that life has no value until it is taken away: The curtains were half drawn‚ the floor was swept And strewn with rushes‚ rosemary and may Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay‚ Where thro’ the lattice ivy-shadows crept. He leaned above me‚ thinking that I slept And could not hear him; but I heard him say: “Poor child‚ poor child”: and as he turned away Came a deep silence‚ and I knew he wept. He did not touch the shroud‚ or raise the fold That hid my
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devices to steadily increase tension in the reader. Significantly‚ this allows one to reflect on the association between words and their meaning. As pre-Raphaelite visual artists asked themselves what is actually seen—instead of what is imagined—Rossetti asks what is actually written. As a poet‚ she accomplishes this through her EXCESS detail created with the use of repetition‚ alliteration‚ consonance‚ the rhyme scheme‚ and association of words and phrases. However‚ for brevity‚ I will focus on
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My Eldest Cousin Many people admire singers‚ movie stars‚ who make so much money that they could do everything they want and are famous. However‚ they don’t even know the person or their personality whom they admire. To me‚ admiration is a kind of respect. But there aren’t a lot of people who deserve this sort of respect from me in this world. Respecting my parents who raised me is the important thing that I have to do for the rest of my life. Besides my parents‚ my eldest cousin is the only person
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At the heart of‚ Cousin Kate and Havisham the theme is loss. The speaker clearly feels a sense of loss throughout this poem because she loses her maiden hood and the community’s respect. Victorians were bought up by a strict moral code and they believe that happy marriage was the centre of a stable society. Christina Rossetti focuses on a love affair between a high society wealthy lord and a ’low born’ country women. Furthermore‚ the main focus of the poem is transgressive relationship and sexual
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In the movie‚ my cousin Vinny‚ Billy and his friend Stan were driving through a town. Accidentally neglect to pay for a can of tuna after shopping at a convenience store. After they leave the store the clerk is shot and killed and Billy and Stan‚ who match the descriptions of the murderers given by witness‚ they got pulled over and detained in connection with the murder. Billy ends up being charged with murder and Stan is charged with as an accessory. Someone calls Billy mother‚ who tells her son
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Christina Rosetti was born in London in 1830. She was one of four children‚ her parents were Italian. Her father‚ Gabriele Rosetti was a poet. One of her brothers‚ Dante Gabriele Rosetti was a poet and a painter. She is best represented in poetry by her ballads and mythical religious lyrics. (www.poets.com) In the 1880s‚ She contracted Grave’s disease‚ a thyroid disorder and in 1891‚ Rosetti developed cancer‚ from which she died in London on December 29th‚ 1894. (www.poets.com) The poem‚
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How does Rossetti use language‚ form and structure to convey the speaker’s anger towards Sister Maude? At the start of the poem‚ a rhetorical question is used. ‘Who told my mother of my shame‚ who told my father of my dear?’ implies that the poem is written to a specific person and it gives the poem an accusing tone. This suggests that the speaker blames Sister Maude for what has happened. The use of a caesura in the first stanza also demonstrates the speaker’s anger. ‘Who but Maude‚ my sister
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by KATE CHOPIN By contrasting the room’s "deep shadow" with the daylight that still exists outside the house‚ the first paragraph of "The Kiss" establishes a dark‚ intimate atmosphere while implying the presence of secrets and illicit emotions. This imagery thus foreshadows the revelation that Nathalie is plotting to marry the good-natured but unattractive and rather foolish Brantain while maintaining an affair with Mr. Harvy. Brantain’s character is reminiscent of several other men in Kate Chopin’s
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