If it’s an uncomfortable topic‚ Jackie Kay can make it sound beautiful. She builds up her poems with meters almost like music‚ only to make the twist at the end more dramatic. Her heritage and orphan past are incorporated in her work – they are personal experiences but Kay describes her images so well‚ it’s universal. She’s the speaker and uses her feelings and experiences to teach lessons on acceptance and pain. “Even the Trees” is a stanzaic poem made up of non-rhyming couplets. The steady flow
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Årsprøve i skriftlig engelsk – delprøve 2 A - Jackie Kay ”Owl” The faint‚ almost invisible‚ line between child and adult‚ carefree and responsible‚ becomes more and more blurry and grey the closer you get to it. First‚ it is said that you reach adulthood and step into the real world‚ when you confirm your faith in God‚ but thrusting that threshold yourself‚ you just know you are not yet an adult. So then‚ you postpone it until the age of 18. By then you should be starting your career‚ or at least
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The Adoption Papers The story of Jackie Kay’s life is as fascinating and complex as her literary works. The comparison is significant because several of Kay’s pieces spring from her biography and they are all concerned with the intricate nature of identity. Kay’s father was a black Nigerian visiting Edinburgh when he met Kay’s white Scottish mother. After he returned to Nigeria‚ the mother discovered she was pregnant and decided to give up the child. Kay was then adopted by a white Glaswegian couple
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perceived by others and the way they perceive themselves. Kay composed the structure of Trumpet to be ‘very close to Jazz’ using two central melodies surrounded by syncopating rhythms and harmonies. Millie and Colman are two counterpointing voices telling the same story of grief but with different emotional rhythms.1 Kay’s poetic background radiates through her figurative language which serves to intensify the emotional impact of the novel. Kay alters between first and third person narrative voice giving
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Explore the way Kay presents Colman and his struggle for identity. Jackie Kay reveals in ‘trumpet’ Colman’s battle and inner conflict to identify himself as an individual rather than the son of a famous trumpeter. Nevertheless‚ Jackie Kay conveys Colman’s most bitter struggle and his anguish at being unable to relate to himself when the intricate lie of his father Joss Moody is revealed. In the beginning of the novel‚ in the third chapter‚ Colman’s voice is portrayed to the readers almost literally
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land of Shiva and Krishna‚ the dream of the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi‚ the nursery of temple and mosques is inside my country. She is first and foremost in my thoughts. I love India‚ my motherland. India‚ the biggest democracy and one of the oldest civilsations of the world is the second most populous country into the world‚ after chain. Indians are courteous people. My country has produced warrior like Puru‚ Ran Pratap and Shivaji and leasers like Jawaharlal Nehru‚ Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar
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It is very descriptive and aims to inform the reader of the vivid and unique Australian landscape. The theme of “My Country “is one of loyalty. Mackellar is almost romantic in her descriptions of the various natural wonders of the country; she acknowledges the beauty of England in the first verse but goes on to brag at the wonder of the contrasting beauty of her land. “My Country” is a deeply emotional poem with feelings of great pride in the reader. Mackellar speaks of rural Australia‚ where
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In my country‚ unfortunately‚ teachers receive a small salary for their hard work. Of course‚ I would like that those people who teach us for many years will get a decent salary. However‚ I believe that it should not pay for how well a student has learned the subject for several reasons. First of all‚ all students studying in different ways and each students has their results so‚ in my opinion‚ teachers should not get extra paid according to how much their students learn. In the class the teacher
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Our Country Our Country‚ the Union of Myanmar‚ is known as the land of golden pagodas. Myanmar is surrounded by big countries like China in the north and India and Bengladish to the west. Thailand and laos lie to the east of Myanmar and the south is the east of Myanmar and the south is the sea. Its area is about 676553 square kilometers‚ and it is the second largest country in Southeast Asia after Indonesia. Although it is still a developing country‚ we can say it has good neighbours‚ great
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The word ‘MALAYSIA’ automatically remains us that a country with multi-ethnic society. Multi-ethnic society means what? It is made up with different ethnic background people. Why it referring to Malaysia? This is because in Malaysia people with different ethnic and various races were living together in peaceful manner. One of the major point tourist were attract strongly to visit Malaysia is because of this multi-ethnic society. This multi-ethnic society brings up their multicultural and their
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