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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really interesting to see their true meanings. Love poems are challenging to figure out if they truly are love poems‚ and once I figured out how they were‚ it was neat to see the true meaning of that poem. The poems “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” and “Shall I Compare thee to a summer’s day?” by William Shakespeare have a common theme but are very different in their approaches. The first thing that I noticed with these two poems was that they are both sonnets‚ they both have fourteen
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people go through life contemplating on if they really know their true sexuality. Many people know right off the bat they are heterosexual. Other people have questions about whether they like one sex or the other. In the story‚ “Better Be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight‚” written by Alison Baker‚ Zach had spent a lot of years knowing that he wanted to be a woman. Byron‚ a friend from work‚ was not ready to see his friend have a sex change or accept that he was a homosexual. Through the story‚ Byron goes through
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Half-full or Half-empty? How many of us grew up believing in Peter Pan philosophies that thinking happy thoughts would make everything better? Or at “every clouds has a silver lining”‚ “the glass is always half-full?” and that no matter how awful life is has been “there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” Otherwise‚ you were at varied enormous principle‚ raised on the belief that by thinking the worst of everything and everyone‚ you’d be better prepared for disappointment… Psychologists
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1. This poem is a confessional one‚ involving the recollection of past times of happiness and present times of memory and sadness. The concluding image‚ of the wood waiting somewhere to be burnt‚ is especially strong and jarring‚ for it shows a note of bitterness amidst the speaker’s sadness. The visual imagery of the poem combines the manufactured (the two different sets of steps‚ the wood of the first) and the natural (dew‚ quiet‚ the absence of birds‚ crickets‚ falling leaves‚ a breeze). A tactile
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Half Caste Girl - Judith Wright Half Caste Girl Little Josie buried under the bright moon Is tired of being dead‚ death lasts too long. She would like to push death aside‚ and stand on the hill And beat with a waddy on the bright moon like a gong Across the hills‚ the hills that belong to no people And so to none are foreign‚ Once she climbed high to find the native cherry; The lithe darkhearted lubra Who in her beads like blood Dressed delicately for love Moves her long hands among the
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“The Past” “The Past” by Oodgeroo portrays both the author’s resentment for the mistreatment of aboriginals in the past and also depicts her desires. Oodgeroo Conical her aboriginal name also knows as Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska was the first Aborigine women to have her works published in which she used to promote aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo’s has a variety of poems which all are very direct‚ uses accessible rhyme schemes and allusion. Poems such as “Dark unmarried mothers‚ “Time is running out” and
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Half and Half Thought Paper In Amy Tan’s “Half and half” She writes of two different cultures merging: eastern and western culture. She also writes of faith‚ supposed loss of faith and superstition. She continues to write of her mother’s secret hope that her lost child‚ Bing‚ will someday return. Finally‚ she addresses the archetype of water and the concept of baptism through the death of the narrator’s younger Brother. As the title suggests‚ Tan’s life is full of halves. A predominant aspect
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I grew up on a ship. Not a cruise ship‚ and not a houseboat or a yacht; the MV Logos II was a converted car ferry that sold books and did aid work around the world. My family moved aboard for four years when I was ten. It’s a singular experience; very few people can say they spent four years living on a ship‚ particularly from the ages of ten to fourteen. Those four years have been incredibly influential on me as a person and for years I’ve toyed with the idea of translating it into some written
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AND ETERNITY IN EMILY DICKINSON ’S POEMS 906 and 624. Once we endeavor to examine the concept of time we have to do it close enough to the concept of eternity. When speaking of eternity Dickinson often uses the circumference the circle image. Time flees so vast that were it not For an Eternity- I fear me this circumference Engross my finity (poem 802) The relationship between time
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